with years removed from the initial furore, time to digest it and play through with all the DLC i think this has honestly stood the test of time and the general outrage. there's some missteps in the pacing here and there and a lot of the previous choices might only amount to cosmetic changes in this edition but i still felt like what i did mattered or had an impact because the characters that you could drag through were great and made the moments in this impact even harder plus most of the conclusions to individual character and story arcs were nicely done.