I gave it a chance, but just couldn't get into it. The gameplay, particularly the combat, just didn't click with me. And I'm the kind of person who doesn't care how good the story, characters, setting, art style, etc., are, if I can't enjoy the gameplay, I can't enjoy the game. And I'm not going to slog through it because "It gets really good 10-20 hours in." It's the same problem I had with Mass Effect. A friend kept telling me how it was a GOAT-tier game. I finally gave it a chance, and I just couldn't enjoy the combat, which I felt was very clunky. I ditched the game after a couple of hours. I also didn't like Starfield's combat and opaque inventory system, or Far Cry 2 constantly forcing you to pick up new guns and search for malaria medication. Those are just examples I could think of off the top of my head. If a game's mechanics don't grab me in short order, I'm not going to bother sinking tens of hours into it.

Maybe the Remastered version will sort your combat wants and needs. 

Lmao. A remaster is releasing in a month, for free. My save will probably break but screw it, I'll just load a hearts of Stone pre build or something.

Ah fuck. There's an update and it automatically downloaded the DLC packs when I paused it so it wouldn't break my save so it went and broke my save. :( I can't use the disc either cause I'm on the Next Gen updated PS5 Version digitally. Lol, that's a blow, I was 30 hours in. I thought I'd have a month left to get my progress to Hearts of Stone and then just load a pre build if this happened. This is exactly why I don't want an all digital future, there are games I can settle to loose the 1.0 version of but there are games where I need that 1.0 version... not that it matters anymore cause you can't actually stop auto updates on PS5 cause the setting doesn't work, the only solution is to pause them and they eventually just restart. 

So I can't play the game now for one month. Lmao, incase the remaster update wrecks it lmao. I'll just do Hearts of Stone and blood and wine pre built so, work on the clean up trophies for the platinum and then start from scratch in the remaster. Oh this hurts cause it was one of the few things in life keeping my sould warmed.

Nvm about my above post. The update, cheekily called 04.040.200 only breaks your save while it is downloading cause it takes away the licence for the DLC.

It was like late last generation that I played it. Got a used copy for like $20. I might give it a try again. I was talking about this with a friend of mine and he said they have refined the combat since then and that it plays better.

I don't care. This game is a damn RPG and it deserves the title. In the last half hours I've made choice after choice, it's just that these choices are stretched out and often very well hidden and I love these little montages and reflections on what has happened when you run into a particularly big choices like Corrine Tily and the Godling or the Barran. People had me convinced since my last playthrough in 2020 that this was open world with a sprinkle of RPG, bollach to that. I'm playing now and it clearly meets the standard of RPG
People will call Cyberpunk an RPG and this an open world game. My arsen that's the case.

I’m going to do a new full replay when the next DLC comes out. And it’s just on time to do Velen for Halloween season.

I’ve been on the Switch 1 version the whole time, for me this is a bigger upgrade than others since this doubles as the Switch 2 Edition which will bring a lot of the older cosmetic upgrades on other versions that didn’t make it through (Switch 1 did get all the gameplay, content, and feature updates when the last remaster came out, just none of the cosmetics).

@LegitHyperbole

It's an action-adventure mixed with action-RPG in, give or take, 50/50 ratio - whether it's open world or not is quite irrelevant.

That said, you are free to believe whatever you choose to, but you should really dig deeper into what makes a game an RPG.