It's a pretty good game, I really like it.
Could be a Goty for me but with the caveat that I have not played many of the 2020 releases and that I am not through the story.
It's definitely not an RPG more of a Stylish GTA with a nice RPG addition, I really like how the dialogues are done, very impressive not super excited about the actual dialogues though.
The main missions are pretty fun and varied, gunplay is great. I am going through enemies like they are butter with a SMG INT/TECH build, mass vulnerability is just to strong, having my weapons always at level cap is probably the other deciding factor no bullet sponge enemies for me, on Hard.
The game looks amazing, but I have high end hardware and thus far have not encountered many bad bugs, two crashes, twice stuck somewhere temporarily nothing that cost me more than 20 secs of my play time. Loads of minor visual bugs that are pretty ugly but do not really impact the enjoyment for me but are annoying.
The story hook is a bit wierd, feels a bit like babies fist Cyberpunk run at the start and is a bit weak. Even though a classical story (beginning) does not break a game if the story is expertedly told which they are through the graphical systems they have used.
Male Vs Voice is kinda shit, so are the menus. I have not bothered changing my armor at all, as enemies die so fast I am barely getting hit and thats a good thing as I hate the mix and match system of the tiered clothing. I just bought something halway not retarded looking and stuck with it. Now as a techie I am disassembling everything anyways so I am not bothering much with Inventory management. And honestly that aspects looks pretty Ass. Driving of which you do much is also pretty ass.
Side content is not really great, so it's sanbox standard fare, most of the time, which is bad but nothing to harmful as the gameplay remains fun thus far.
So the game excels in many places, and I am sure will Impact a lot going forward, for good reason. I am really interested in how impactful decisions are as well, some decisions seem to be *extremely* impactful if they are actually there and not just well faked, I need to replay the game for that.
Now, though.
I said it may be Goty for me, but at the same time, this is not an RPG its a very well executed take on the GTA 5 formula when it comes to character differentiation, therefore it will not be my pick for RPG of the year that would be just not be right compared to the other games I have played this year (of which Wasteland 3, was a actually positive surprise)
Hype was worth it, but I am biased by being a SR player for decades, the game looks absolutely amazing in some places when it comes to the dark and gritty style of the Cyberpunk genre. I believe one of the areas you can fight a Cyberpsycho battle in is modelled after the first combat scene of Ghost in the shell and fucking amazingly so.