Well I have put in over 30 hours so far and am actually enjoying the game fully. Yeah it took a full day of faffing around trying different settings, letting the RTX novelty period wear off then turning it off to favour framerates with only a small drop in graphical fidelity but thems the ways.
Tonight I encountered my first majorly obvious glitch:
Essentially backing into a store room cubicle resulted in the world vanishing in front of me but walking out brought it back. NPCs were still outside and would shoot me etc so just a visual bug rather than a mechanics breaking one.
The only one big complaint form me is the lack of NPC AI whether enemy or civilian.
The cops will literally shoot you where you stand for merely walking past them too slowly and that's just not legit. The civilian AI is light a bunch of flies, say the word boo and they will scatter or crawl into a ball on the ground.
Other than that the world is expansive and immersive at the same time. For me GTA was similar but the lack of "grit" in the city made it constantly feel like a computer game whereas this on the other hand is visually realistic, even with RTX off and the lighting, weather, debris, smoke coming out of extractor fans and manhole covers etc are just authentic. Then add the sound system which when set to studio has full range and stereo positional imaging which is great.
I enjoy just exploring Night City than I do Los Santos/Vice City etc because it just feels like a more detail rich environment. Glitches aside of course.
According to STEAM, the only other SP games
I have played for over 20 hours since launch are:
GTA IV: 44 hours
GTA V: In Rockstar Launcher but IIRC around 50 hours
Dying Light: 50 hours
Metro Exodus: 34 hours
Rise of the Tomb Raider: 29 hours
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: 23 hours
So the fact that 2077 has kept me interested for over 30 hours and it's not even been out a full week is for me unprecedented as I will essentially give up on a game from boredom if it's not keeping my interest going. I can only imagine what the hours tally will be by the time I have finished the game through all 3 life paths too.
And let's not forget we have the free DLCs to come a well as the 2 big patches coming Jan/Feb which I imagine will fix all the problems people have been having.
Thankfully for me the game has not crashed once and both CPU and GPU are overclocked so I feared the worst but now and confident in its stability on my system at least.
For reference, my video I posted earlier shows the settings I am using and it truly does look stunning. DLSS is needed of course so an RTX card is a must to maintain that 60 fps nominal average at 3440x1440.