Cyberpunk is a great open world RPG once you get past the 2-3 hours of mandatory railroaded story missions. Seriously I don't know how they fucked that part up so badly. It's like they saw the platinum chip storyline from New Vegas and said "You know that's cool, but what if instead of letting the player choose we make them watch a feature length movie about this plot?"

CDPR releasing Phantom Liberty after Starfield is a genius move. I immediately bought Phantom Liberty after finishing a Starfield run.

Okay, I just want to clear up that bugs were not the only reason people were upset. They literally were hyping things up prerelease that weren't even in the game. That's why they spent so much time being sued in the EU for it.

The writing is also amateurish, and there's a lot of 'cyber' but not a lot of 'punk'. People were right to be upset, and personally I think they still should be. The only reason their PR got turned around was because of an anime that released based in the world, and now suddenly the game's being handed 'labor of love' awards—they hadn't even done much to fix up the game at that point!

So yeah. Not just bugs. I'm sure I'm even missing things.

There’s also some choices in the relationships V can take, but they don’t change everything much. That said, I think I makes sense that what V does wouldn’t really have much of an effect on Night City.

The lack of rpg choices makes it less bethesda to me

You mean the games where the dialogue choices are:

• Yes
• Sarcastic yes
• More info/persuasion
• No for now (but yes later)

That seems to be more choices than any other Bethesda RP game. They got ahold of TES and Fallout and completely stripped out the idea of RPG "choices." Gone are the days in TES and Fallout that one could role play as someone other than "the chosen one." I'll never defend Arena or Daggerfall for their graphics, but no game studio has put out a game since those two that literally allows the player to totally ignore the main quest line, with in game consequences for that. Nope. Time doesn't matter, you're the chosen one, and will "get around to it." As far as I can tell, there is basically only one ending to any of these Bethesda "RPGs," and no matter what choices you make, you'll find that ending if you slog through enough "quests."

Admittedly, I've never played fallout 1 or 2, though I own them, so I don't actually know if the world building was as detailed as it was in Arena and Daggerfall.

Bethesda has always relied on modders to fix their platforms for them. They don't make games. They make platforms that other people can mod to make the games that they wanted to make.

I'm only watching someone play through but it's just poorly written too. Every single person you meet knows you're the main character and begs for your help.