im liking it quite a bit so far, level 9 and havent started the main quest yet. Just roaming around, exploring, hunting stuff and doing odd quests. Making money hand over fist. One of those rare games where it's cash in and spend spend spend asap for the good stuff right away, instead of waiting for stuff to drop in the first ten levels that will be better than/ equal to the shops. I'm not clunking around w/ Grom equipment playing scavenger hoping for a good quest reward. Screw taking 10 hits to kill a wolf when I can do it in 2 w/ the right gear, right now. It's life and death out there!
Going to start main quest at lv 10.
Right now, going 1h melee and shield, archery, dabbling in lockpicking. Dumped a few points in the ol' fire magic, think I may sink some in there occasionally just to have it around, there's some fun fire spells to tinker with. Have had some fun w/ the complimentary firebolt thing they give you from the beginning. Every level pretty much doing 2 in str, 2 in dex, 1 in vit. I did buck that system once and sank like 4 in str jsut to get some better armor on my back right then and there.
I like the graphics in the game, the environments are cool and the weapons look good. Using the "Toothed Terror" right now, Ive put like 58 points of fire dmg of gems into it. The enemies are kinda retarded at times, and some like the bears are laughably easy. That said, I've died horribly a few times, going on a good run killing all kinds of shit and then suddenly "ARGGH, WHEN WAS MY LAST SAAAAVE…."
Case in point - my first encounter w/ the Reapers. Lost about a half hour of play on that one. Some of the big packs of things will start getting some lucky hits, or I'll get turned around and accidentally "jump back" right into them and get clocked by about 5 things at once, or be on a hill going upward. Then, I accidentally threw a fire bolt instead of initiating dialogue w/ a merchant. That didnt go over very well, and again, I had saved a while ago. After bolting town, I could either pay 1K gold or go to a save game about 15 mins earlier. Awful choice, especially when it was a productive 15 mins. Sooo, I'll be keeping my healing spell up when in town from now on…
I like it. The combat's kinda clunky, the enemies are retarded, the dialogue is hilarious, but it's totally open and looks great and has a good feel to it. Stuff left and right to gather, lots of loot, lots of good exploration, and I can climb all over stuff. I like the game models too, was happy when i armed the Toothed Terror and it wasnt just another sword, the thing's badass looking. Even has the marking along the beveled edges from sharpening. The armor is cool looking. Means alot to a vain player like me.
I guess I'm going to be getting into the story soon, we'll see how that all pans out..