Im gonna glaze here. This game is setting an unreachable bar. Spoilers.
So there is some general clunkiness. The only time it slightly annoyed me was fixing the blown up furnace.
Now that the cons are out of the way:
Holy shit?
The open world RPG we all envisioned Skyrim could be when it was 2011 and felt like you could do anything.
Except in this, you CAN do anything.
I am riding a wolf with a pirate hat on, with a cannon spear.. earlier I took on pirates wearing catfish Helms and having naval warfare with their vessel.
I made an investment at the bank while my fully armored dog Rex sat there and barked around. I RKOd about 200 bandits while my white wolf chewed some poor bastards face off.
I flew around in a mech outfitted with machine guns . You can have dogfights with a fucking dragon.
I could sit here and write paragraphs.
I say "what the fuck is that" at least 40 times a session with this game. A year from now, these absolute monster devs are going to have added so much shit that it wont be the same game.
There is a bar that is being set here, and im not sure AAA devs are capable of reaching it. If I wonder "can I do this?" The answer is almost always yes.
The story is a gripe I see a lot but that legitimately is not the fucking point at all. You have more freedom here than in any open world RPG that exists on the face of the earth, and if thats an exaggeration now, it wont be after the next 30 updates.
I am floored. I didnt expect the side quests to be perfect. They arent. But im finding it hard to care when I have complete and total control over when and how I do them.
There is some new shit to do around every corner . AAA devs like Bethesda take this long to make games that are not even half as competent as this . This is up there with behemoths like BG3.
If you quit early , I urge you to keep going.