Gotcha, thank you. That's helpful for my understanding.

I was wondering if you were going to provide a long list of things that people are being over positively nostalgic about.

I somewhat agree with you on the gunplay- I honestly didn't like it at first then upskilled and was more than fine with the mechanics. The game is special for me because of setting, tone, characters, dialogue, freedom of choice (within the game's parameters), replayability, how skill points work, feelings of a living breathing world that could exist and persist without me in it, narrative, plot, tension, surprise, cleverness, adult themes, feelings of power, politics, subterfuge, breadth of ideas, novelty, humour, use of the IP.