Cyberpunk 2077 VS Baldur's Gate 3
Verdict BUY IT BUY IT
The Reality The December 2020 launch was a real, well-documented disaster on last-gen consoles: severe bugs and performance issues led Sony to take the unprecedented step of pulling the game entirely from the PlayStation Store and offering refunds — a real event confirmed directly by Sony's own statement, not just user complaints. The game has since gone through a genuinely substantial real recovery: CD Projekt Red shipped years of patches and a major 2.0 update alongside the Phantom Liberty expansion, and review scores/player sentiment improved significantly by 2023. The critical acclaim is real and independently verified — actual Game of the Year wins at multiple major real award shows, not just marketing claims. A real, separate controversy emerged afterward: when Black Myth: Wukong lost Game of the Year to BG3, some Chinese players review-bombed Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam in response — a genuine fan-reaction controversy, but one about audience behavior toward the award outcome, not a flaw in the game itself. Larian's own founder has also publicly and repeatedly said the industry shouldn't treat BG3's success as the new baseline expectation for scope and budget, a real and unusually honest statement from a studio downplaying its own win.
SHORT ANSWER
Cyberpunk 2077: Yes, today — but the game had a genuinely disastrous 2020 launch severe enough that Sony delisted it from the PlayStation Store entirely. CD Projekt Red's multi-year patch and expansion effort since then is a real, substantial turnaround, not just marketing.
Baldur's Gate 3: Yes — Baldur's Gate 3's critical acclaim is real and independently verified through actual Game of the Year wins at multiple major award shows, not just marketing. A real but separate controversy involved some players review-bombing it on Steam after a different game lost to it for GOTY.