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Honestly, I found Cyberpunk really underwhelming and basically stopped playing. Apart from 1 or 2 moments (spider bot is cool,hotel theft job alright.)

It's just very run and gun. And uniteresting. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I'd love it to be a mix of syndicate (if you know that game), Detroit, and something like a point and click game. Something with a ton of interaction and only a bit of fighting.

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I barely ever run and gun. I squat and hack. But no matter what method you use, it seems you will quickly overpower everything due to AI/balancing issues. still enjoying it immensely though.

I've been in very few fights so far, and most of my "gameplay" has been hiding and slowly netrunning my way through buildings, taking out enemies via hacks.

Of course, I occasionally screw up and end up lobbing grenades until I stop getting shot at, but so it goes.

The only reason I was interested in this game was immersion of a rich world. I'm not sure what that means, but I think it was something like, sit at an ultra cool street cafe, and watch what happens in night city. To let the world come to me if I was only willing to listen and watch. A world where there is mystery and intrigue, but not fed to you. A world where you buy a coffee, later look at your bank statement, find that he's copied your bank credentials, and stealing from his customers in small withdrawals. Only to learn he's a small time side hustler with a thing for nutcracker dolls.

Netrunner (the card game) is what drew me to it. I don't think the interactions in the game are interesting. The AI awful. I don't find the game play interesting - but I like 'old man' games (Detroit I loved for examples). Just an opinion

The best quests in the game are the ones that are mostly dialog with characters. Many of those were quite fantastic, in my opinion. The shooting missions were definitely the dominant ones and underwhelming, but the dialogue-centric ones are what made me play to the end and ultimately I was not disappointed.

> I'm sure I'm in the minority

Nah, that sounds pretty cool. I'd play something like that. Especially since as I said above, the interaction-heavy quests were the best ones.

I’d love a modern day syndicate. I’d be afraid though, that they’d ruin it like they did Dungeon Keeper ... better of trying to pick it up on GoG or something ...

The modern-day "Syndicate" was pretty underwhelming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(2012_video_game)

Such a shame

I think it was an above-average FPS but not a Syndicate game.

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