I disagree here. The side quests and atmosphere are great. FemV nailed the voice acting. It has a lot of fun, bitingly memorable characters I still think of, sometumes.

The gameplay is satisfying... if, and only if, you mod it to not be bullet spongey and so grindy.

I'm not a 2077 apologist.

Does it run well? Nope.

Was it absolutely unacceptable at launch, and years after? An understatement.

But (in 2025/2026), it deserves the praise it gets, IMO. With a few mods, it's a good game now, not just "a good game somewhere in there."

Seems easy to see why it sold well - The Witcher 3 was very successful and then they attached Keanu Reeves to it.

As for the game itself, it told some petty good stories, had some excellent characters, and managed to do this while still feeling like a game, not an interactive movie. It delivered well enough on the setting as well.

Fantastic setting (I could spend days just playing tourist around Night City), great story and characters (and the characters don't just stand there talking to you like in Bethesda's games, there's actual acting in there), enjoyable gameplay, beautiful graphics...

Sure, it got a bit of flak when it released due to the console cartels forcing it to run on highly inadequate ancient hardware, but I've been playing it from day one on an even older but properly specced PC and I could count the bugs I've experienced on the fingers of one hand, with fingers to spare.

And CD Projekt kept improving and expanding it for years after release, so it's even better now.