Why is the obvious comparison GTA? It's a game from an RPG studio focusing on stories and that's what CP2077 also is and does best.
Why do you keep comparing it to another genre?
>Why do you keep comparing it to another genre?
because pre-release the developers made the GTA comparison, every video game media outlet made the comparison, and every press piece regarding the game pre-release focused on the 'open-world' elements, while promising post-release multiplayer.
let's not pretend this was billed as a single-player RPG fantasy; it wasn't. It was toted as a GTA competitor in nearly every single way.
The post release narrative shift of "well it's a story-driven game from a well known story-driven 'RPG studio', it was YOUR expectations that were wrong! " was totally drawn hastily after release to try to assuage angry and disappointed fans during a rocky release.
aside : "rpg studio" is a thing now?
Because I never really got the impression I was playing an RPG ever since I made a choice but was then immediately funnelled into the same path as everyone else
This how all their RPGs (and most others) work.
You really would not want to compare it to Skyrim/Fallout either. The atmosphere ... is just not there.
Keanu also can't act which is a shame.
Visually the game is definitely astonishing, but I could never tell what the game is actually trying to be. If they'd made a very pretty game mulling over (say) the kind of deep sci-fi you get in something like blade runner 2049, then I'd probably still be playing to this day, whereas what they actually ended up with felt a bit incidental.
It's kind of unfair, so I don't hold it too much against the game, but even though the visuals are very good, the overall world doesn't feel as real as it could do IMO. The obvious comparison is with GTA V (which is why I say it's slightly unfair because GTA V is based on LA in ~2013), which just feels so much more real to me. The radio stations are a good example, they're such heavy handed satire, but that satire lets your brain fill in the detail about Los Santos whereas in Night City I was mostly being shown things that would never happen again or being made to pick choices that would have no effect etc.