What a fantastic ride. Despite all the jank (even now in v1.6) it's still so great. The story and characters are so strong in this. I love Panam to death and Jackie's my boy for life.

I don't think I've ever had so much fun in an open-world game as this one. I built all-in on Tech Shotguns and Gorilla Arms/Blunt Weapons; was basically unkillable, but the best moments were ones where I thought I was gonna flatline like fighting big groups when they have turrets and such or when I decided to go "cyber psycho" and had to contend with Arasaka's turrets in the corpo areas of the city.

Gotta say though, it's kind of a shame Adam Smasher is so nearly-non-existent in this game because they characterized him so well in the Edgerunners anime. And I was so overpowered by the time I reached his boss fight that it was a total joke; he got crumpled like a tin can. I wish they'd scale his fight with your level/gear specifically so that he's still a challenge no matter how you've built yourself.

Another issue is that some of the "sidequests" are so one-note, I wish some of them had at least another stage or two to them. The sidequests that were proper chains though, I really enjoyed those.

Pretty fantastic game overall. This was 100% worth building a $1700 PC set up for.