Hear about cool game.
Put it on your steam wishlist.
When it goes on sale for 50% off, then you check the recent reviews. If it's mostly positive still, pick it up.
That's my rule for almost every game and it hasn't failed me yet.
Sure for the most part, but Steam reviews aren't always the most credible
I'm sure we both know plenty of games where their user rating doesn't quite reflect the game (personal experience or objectively)
The reason noone seems to remember how bad CDPR games run at launch is that they actually invest time to fix them. Yes, they shouldn't release them in this state, but after a while they are fine and age well.
not really tho, especially with their recent game, c2077 never became what it was advertised at, they even changed its descriptions of what it actually is openly at some point
thank you for being a good example of what i meant that nobody seems to remember.
Witcher 3 ran like absolute crap, a flipping slideshow in especially bad cases, 20+ patches with 1.07 being infamous for how long it was
witcher 2, ubersampling alone made the game struggle to keep as much as 60fps
lest we forget witcher 1, its english translation and voiceover was so dogshit the definitive update was free