Yea, greatest potential of any game out their and at the same time the most potential ever not realised by any game.
I fell in love with the narrative the game was going for; just look at the concept art, the in game intel, the pre-launch trailers for what I mean.
The grim, the dark, the adult content, tragic stories of survival, the larger mystery, humanity's lows, the moral greys, the focus on the world.
That existed a little bit when you were finding the echos and recordings, and that's it.