Mailanka: I see a lot of complaining on this forum and, you know, I'm not going to begrudge anyone their experience. I have no doubt that people are experiencing very real technical issues, or had hoped for more, or it didn't mesh with them. Given the sheer hype, I was pretty sure a lot of people would be disappointed, and that turned out to be true. But for me, I'm loving this game.

I have some complaints. I'm playing at normal and I'm playing with a katana, and I find I can just sort of charge everyone swinging my sword like a madman and win 9 times out of ten. I can apply more finesse, but it's more out of a sense of elegance than real need. But I suspect if I ramp up the difficulty, my choices and tactics will matter more (I always treat the first run as a learning experience). I also notice a lot of "press F to continue" which is not my favorite sort of storytelling. For example, when you're messing with that spider during the heist, it amounts to finding the next glowing thing, clicking it, until you can move forward. Not what I would consider great. And I've seen two crashes and some minor clipping issues, but beyond that, no problems.

The rest, though, it haunts me. I find myself spinning theories about the reasons behind what's going on in the world. I set out to play as a smug corpo-bastard, and I found that what I actually got was a smug corpo-bastard with deep insights into the higher level politics of the world. My background matters in a lot of very subtle ways that I really enjoy. The story has been gripping, both in an immediate, cinematic sense (the Arasaka heist) and in a broader sense (such as hearing Johnny critique a street musician). When I don't bother with the katana-blender-of-death approach (my fixers have Opinions when I do that), I find the game has a rich variety of options that reward exploration and stealth (and hacking, not that my character is a hacker, but I see the bits I could be messing with, but are blocked due to my choices, which doesn't prevent me from moving on so much as shaping my choices).

I find myself wanting to work out the details to a variety of builds. I'm frustrated by the lack of character/tech info on the wiki, because I'd love to dig through what cyberware is available and work out what combination of gear and perks will make precisely the playstyle I'd like to try, and what some other builds might be (and what the hell Cold Blood is). The one thing keeping me from playing it all the time is that I'm pretty sure it would consume all of my spare time, and I've got a family, man!

Yeah, I get it. It has problems. It does! But I play a lot of jank, so my standards on "smooth game" are actually pretty low, thus I suspect I have a lot more tolerance for the problems than most. I'm also not experiencing some of the worst bugs that other people are (my game starts, it never stutters, nothing disappears, no T-poses, etc) Thus, I'm only speaking from my experience here, but I'm really having a lot of fun with this game.

Archonsod: It's the best digital version of Cyberpunk 2020 I've ever seen.

Admittedly, it's the only digital version of Cyberpunk 2020 I've seen, but that shouldn't put a damper on things :P

Funnily enough the thing it most reminds me of is V:TM Bloodlines. Slightly janky on release, attempting to interpret a P&P game into a digital format, manages to nail the source material without being a slave to it. Both excellent games to boot.

waltc: Yes, after, oh, ~15 years or so of relentless amateur patching, V:TM Bloodlines has turned out well. I just hope we don't have to wait until 2035 to play CP 2077 properly...;)

EchoOfMidgar: Nobody has never said something bad about quests in the game. The problem is, at least for me, that the design of the game is focused just on markers. There is nothing explained in the quest screen, you cannot talk to the questgiver to ask where you can find this or that, you just have to look at the map and find the correct marker. It's just stupid and lazy and boring as if this was a free to play MMORPG ...Also the map is absolutely badly designed. Also the world is not as vertical as CD Projekt claimed that it would be. There is a little to none interactivity with the world. Everything feels so haflbaked.

Void Eclipse: But markers are justified by setting. You have GPS and detailed city map. Even now in 2020 when I visited a city unknown to me, I asked nobody how to get to the places I need, I figured out the route and suitable public transport by using google maps.

For medieval/fantasy setting - yes, your suggested explanation makes sense, but here - not really.

Skiiwa: I've been having a blast. Definitly glitches, but nothing gamebreaking for me so far.{Crosses Fingers}

ToveriJuri: Come on give the community patchers some credit. While they still keep patching and tweaking things, the game has been in a very good state for over a decade thanks to the unofficial patches.

FallenHeroX1: I think anyone who doesn't want to admit that this game is deeply flawed is taking massive amounts of copium.