Like everyone else, I wrote this off as a hilariously buggy mess, a cautionary tale of mismanagement and promising more than you know how to deliver. So imagine my surprise when, 3 years later I start to hear a murmur that this game is actually now worth playing. And honestly that was not inaccurate, essentially a first person, futuristic dystopian GTA with RPG elements, I did very much get invested in the stories I encountered as well as my characters journey to be rid of Johnny Silverhand.Visually it's very pretty and the core gameplay loop absolutely grabbed me, Ultimately though this doesn't get more points from me because it isn't really doing anything you can't get eslewhere: you drive from point to point and shoot bad guys to advance the story. There are some pretty effective plot beats, acting and writing here, but it does also throw in random YouTuber cameos and... Portal references?? And despite playing the 2.0 version, I still encountered some truly inexplicable bugs (a car began floating away during a cutscene!!) one which nearly locked me out of making progress in the story. This combined with outdated Gamer References and YouTuber cameos leave the game feeling a lot like Night City itself, its spectacle draws you in, but ultimately leaves you wanting once you leave.