| Just took my first few steps into the third act and so far I've been enjoying it. The main story's generally good but it's mainly the setting that keeps pulling me back to the game.
The combat took a while to get used to but after fiddling around with the different camera modes for some time I ended up with the Over-The-Shoulder view and now I've found the combat system to be rather enjoyable. There has been a few hiccups where the character stopped responding to attack commands but switching combat styles back and forth has always fixed that problem so far. Running around in the game was a bit of a hassle pre-patched and the character would come to a complete halt if he got even near certain obstacles but now these movement stops are almost completely gone.
I really don't have much to say about the intereface, 'cept that it gets its job done. The inventory screen could use some kind of auto-categorizing/arrangement function though, separating ingredients, beverages&food, books&scrolls and miscellaneous items from each other.
It wouldn't hurt if the icons were a bit bigger either.
Also, not being able to merrily run around with a plethora of weapons in your backpack is a plus in my book.
Moving on to the dialogue. I've found it to be... :cue drumroll: ...
Decent. There's times when it's really good and there's times when it gets pretty bad. And I'm one of those who's gotten the feeling that there are some odd conversations that look like they've got either missing dialogue or have had bits of them really badly translated.
As for stability and performance, I really don't have any complaints. So far, I've only had one crash and that one was most likely my own fault for alt-tabbing out of the game for a while. The game's running smoothly on this two year old single-core with almost everything at max, only the shadows are disabled and AA is at 2x. Oh, and the loading times are indeed looong. Just keep a book nearby.
Anyway, I'm heading back to the game. From the looks of it, I'll be starting a second run the moment I finish it the first time, just to see how things will play out when I start doing things differently from the very beginning.  |