Gaming

I agree with pretty much everything you said. I will say though that I was (and still am) disappointed by how remarkably dead the city felt. While GTA 4's traffic density slider did prove that it's really really frustrating driving through traffic jams, even when I turned up the ped and traffic density as high as I could manage, it still felt like I was traversing a city of like 200 thousand instead of over 6 million which was kinda frustrating.

I also disliked the lack of things to do in a lot of the areas outside of the city. I felt like I'd get rewarded for exploring but it was really just more desert / oil fields / protein farms / solar farms. I know those areas are used for some of the main quests and a couple side quests, but it just was annoying not being rewarded for exploring when you are rewarded in the inner city for doing just that. There are a lot of unmarked goodies though, but the density of them really tapers out once you leave city limits.

Also I don't wanna spoil anything but there are a couple cybernetic upgrades that straight up break the game. IDK if they've changed anything since I last played about 6 months ago... but some of them making missions incredibly easy and others allow you to just go out of bounds which I thought was funny.