DISCLAIMER: I've had the ending explained to me, I have not reached the ending in my 42 hours as I'm trying to fully experience the game. All side missions, all gigs, exploring the city, doing the random crimes, etc. Plenty of people have talked about most of the issues with this game, like bugs and glitches, so i'll leave them out of this review. My main problems are the levels tied to equipment, the empty world, and the story. From what I have experienced from the game and had explained to me, the weakest part of the story involves Johnny Silverhand. It feels like he wanted to come in as the main attraction and they had to redo the story to fit him in, and it suffers so much if that is true. A bland character with bland missions. The police detective, Judy, Panam, their stories are the best ones in the game and honestly make me want to play them when i see them pop up with another mission. The main story and any story involving Silverhand feels like i'm being forced to follow this cause they had to have an over arching plot for their game. Even the side quests with random characters are more enthralling and fun to play and stress over choices then anything in the main story. And as others have said, the life paths are useless additions, they don't change your character, just what you have an option to say, no actual changes to your character's demeanor or attitude. Levels are attached to items and they are kind of just there. It is really stupid to specialize into lmgs and shotguns, and have random pistols and rifles you pick up be higher damage. And a lot of the perks for the level system are just there pad out the perk tree. I also hate the fact that you can't even explore the city as you want, certain zones have certain levels. I explored the starting area after a few missions and all the enemies were low risk, dying to one shot of my weapons which honestly was the most fun i've had in the game. Honestly, I'd just say wait till the sequel.
