It's your rationalization that's dumb. You're trying to convince yourself that it's some kind of failure because you can find other games that do certain aspects better. Using that logic, every game is a failure.
Personally, it is some kind of failure to me. Now I'm just explaining why I think that is. I was hyped for years, counted down the days to launch, downloaded it…. So far, so good.
Then it crashes on launch. I try again, it crashes. Try again and it gets through character creation then crashes after 10 seconds. And again. So, I go update my video drivers and it doesn't crash, but it doesn't run great. It also just uses 50% GPU which irritates me. Then it was only a few seconds before I saw bugs with strippers in windows standing inside eachother, guns not appearing in my hand, etc. I go for a drive, hit a car and it goes flying for a mile. I run over someone and see cops instantly spawn in front of my eyes. I mean, even in GTA 1 there was some delay between when you commit a crime and when the cop CARS arrive.
Lots of games aren't failures, but, yeah, this game, for me, at least, is kind of trash. Yes, every aspect of the game is done better by another game. For example, Sekiro has better gameplay with blades. Maybe one of the Need for Speed games does cars better. Maybe GTAV does most things better. You look at the player count on Steam and watch the 2077 numbers fall. It's only been a week or so and its gone from over 1million peak to 300k peak. GTAV has been out since 2013 and its still peaking over 100k. Bet you 2077 doesn't have 100k in 7 years time.
Like, for 90 bucks you could totally get more entertainment from 90$ worth of Steam sales. Hell, just get the original Syndicate that I ran on a 1MB ram machine and you might have a better time than 2077. Get Shadowrun:Hong Kong. Get Deus Ex on sale for 5 bucks.
It's really not that dumb.
