I'd been meaning to play this game for almost 15 years, and finally I got my way through it.
This game is everything you hear it is: high fantasy, heavily role playing, and buggy of course
In terms of bugginess, the game crashing every hour on average was very frustrating. It meant that by the end I was saving every 2 minutes - not fun.
The game itself I felt had a curve of "fun". At the beginning you have the excitedness of creating a new character (I went with Breton Battlemage), then you can start exploring the world but with a lack of understanding of how everything works. Then you start hitting a low point when you realise that you picked half your major skills wrong, meaning you won't level fast. However from here things start to go upwards as you know how to level efficiently with what you've got, suddenly you're a lot more powerful. Then the game becomes a wave of very similar enemies over and over with little to no actual puzzles (which when they appear are very cool!). Towards the end I got bored and rushed the final few missions which took about 2 hours in total, pretty lacklustre.
However this game has a magic to it that is undeniable. The side quests are fun and encourage you to explore the world, the music is beautifully composed, the characters are unintentionally the funniest people ever. You can really choose what kind of character you're role playing, having choices from several factions whether you're a heroic do-gooder or a mischievous vampire thief or somewhere in between, there are many options for you!
Would recommend this to any big fans of RPGs, however I wouldn't necessarily recommend this to any casual audience - I would probably recommend Skyrim instead.
This game is everything you hear it is: high fantasy, heavily role playing, and buggy of course
In terms of bugginess, the game crashing every hour on average was very frustrating. It meant that by the end I was saving every 2 minutes - not fun.
The game itself I felt had a curve of "fun". At the beginning you have the excitedness of creating a new character (I went with Breton Battlemage), then you can start exploring the world but with a lack of understanding of how everything works. Then you start hitting a low point when you realise that you picked half your major skills wrong, meaning you won't level fast. However from here things start to go upwards as you know how to level efficiently with what you've got, suddenly you're a lot more powerful. Then the game becomes a wave of very similar enemies over and over with little to no actual puzzles (which when they appear are very cool!). Towards the end I got bored and rushed the final few missions which took about 2 hours in total, pretty lacklustre.
However this game has a magic to it that is undeniable. The side quests are fun and encourage you to explore the world, the music is beautifully composed, the characters are unintentionally the funniest people ever. You can really choose what kind of character you're role playing, having choices from several factions whether you're a heroic do-gooder or a mischievous vampire thief or somewhere in between, there are many options for you!
Would recommend this to any big fans of RPGs, however I wouldn't necessarily recommend this to any casual audience - I would probably recommend Skyrim instead.