I've only bought it recently but it's the same story here, I should be loving this but I have to force myself to boot it up again in the hope that it'll eventually click. These are the two main issues for me personally:
- The game seems to non-stop bombard me with new contacts, jobs, gigs, side quests and whatever else. In a couple of hours of trying to make some progress, I must've been contacted by at least 10 people trying to get me to do shit. I don't know who they are, why they know me, why I should know them or why I should care. I'm trying to go against my gamer instinct and just straight up ignore all of them, but the game isn't making that easy for me. I feel like this leads me to a playstyle where I have to open my journal, mindlessly pick a job from the ever growing list without having any context and just go perform whatever task it wants me to. I feel completely detached from the world and characters.
- This might just be me, but this is one of the least intuitive games I've ever played. I constantly feel lost, both in the game's systems and in the dialogues. Someone told me to do police missions. I don't even know what this means, but I see these icons on the map, so I try to help the police. I take out some hostiles and now I've got the police on me. Great. Someone tells me to go and neutralize cyberpsychos in a non-lethal way. I honestly don't even know what my non-lethal options are, but sure, I'll go there. Try to sneak up on the cyberpsycho but they always magically know I'm coming and obliterate me in seconds. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong or what I'm supposed to be doing. Person A gives me a job and tells me to talk to person B first. I do that, and after that conversation, my imaginary friend suddenly tells me I'm dumb for going ahead with the mission behind person A's back. What?? I did what they asked, where did I mess up this time? I feel so fecking dumb and lost the whole time.
Anyway, this turned into a bit of a rant but the game just frustrates me. The main story missions are actually pretty good so I keep telling myself if I just focus on that and ignore all the noise, maybe I'll love it. But it's not easy when the game keeps trying to distract me.