This game is not a true RPG all of the promo material would lead you to believe. It's a looter-shooter at it's core. Even backstories are just flavor text more or less, for example the Corpo backstory is more or less done in an hour and never mentioned until the very end and even then doesn't feel like an actual choice you made just more flavor text. The V character you supposed to identify with is a vechile for devs to tell the story the want to tell not the one you create through interactions. There are no real factions you can join in any meaningful way, just merc footwork. Want to join a gang or corpo? Can't do that. None of the dialogue option in the main story line actually change all that much until the very end which is more or less Mass Effect 3 or Deus Ex choose-your-ending affair. Lines you choose is not what V says which annoys me to no end. And V has this "cool" voice that he/she has which breaks the immersion for me a little. Actors did a good job but it's the direction that was used in kinda wonky. And also the plot has so many holes, like for example a NPC that was angry with you is no longer angry with after a cutscene because you told him that you didn't do something really bad. Which would be fine - but either I missed it or the game never mentions/show where or when V did say that. Sometimes V would say - oh yeah that NPC was sleazy and a bad dude. But I never had any interactions with the NPC, I just shot him. Also, none of the journal entries or whatever you collect modify or change what V says in the dialogue. You come up to an NPC and talk to him like you didn't just read his diary or whatever. Or times where I can see through the cameras what is going on but V is oblivious and only you the player acknowledge what you just saw. Gameplay wise - it really bummed me out that you can't join factions. Also the whole aesthetic of 'cool' is thrown out of the window because you always dressed like a bum. Also had minimal bugs.
