And, honestly, outside of the main story the setting is absolutely dripping with theme and care - buggy the game may be, but poorly written it is not (in most cases - there were definitely some misses).

Hell, cyberpsychosis, a pretty plot-minor series of encounters, delves into one of the more interesting considerations in the game. That a fair number of people are unable to handle the implant tech at all and lose their ability to function in a balanced way - each encounter has a harrowing series of notes about the person degrading into insanity and each is just sort of... ignored by most of the people around it and accepted as a cost of technological advancement.

I know the devs get a lot of hate, but I think that there is a whole lot of heart and soul poured into that game.

I picked it up on sale after the recent 1.5 big huge update and after something like 75 hours, I haven't really encountered any glaring bugs and have loved it. Glad I didn't pick it up at launch otherwise my opinion may have been soured.

I picked it up at launch and still shoved 120 hours into it, finishing it, before taking a break. I never experienced much more than two or three quest-breaking bugs requiring a reload; lucky I guess. Doing a replay now after 1.5 and the new stuff is good

still lotta T-poses though

I remember seeing people complain that CP2077 wasn't punk because you could do jobs for the police and get paid for it... Which to me is actually incredibly punk in message. Sure the character might not be punk, but the suggestion that in the future we will have people basically getting hit jobs from the cops via an app like they were uber drivers is incredibly dystopian and punk in message to me