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Just finished it and have to say I was quite unimpressed by the end. The setting is of course superb and the first few hours of it are really amazing. Then it just becomes another boring slugfest with extremely tedious fetch quests and the storyline and how it's wrapped up is beyond cliche. By the end of it I really did not care at all, it was just too slow and uninteresting. Certainly there were some unique design innovations and I did enjoy a substantial part of it, but there was just so much squandered potential here. Makes me deeply disappointed actually, considering how well the game begins. I'd say it does not compare to the greats like Morrowind at all.

Also Googol, this game is extremely unfair. The controls just barely work and everything is very awkward to handle. It is especially unfair when it comes to combat, because it isn't possible to individually target enemies in a straightforward manner. If the enemies circle strafe around you and you have to slowly spin to target something, you are pretty much dead against the tougher opponents. Also I found the block feature often was unresponsive which got me killed quite a few times, disregarding entirely that the block feature is entirely broken (your player stops blocking momentarily every few seconds giving enemies an opening - I never understood that). How can you seriously enjoy that and praise it on grounds that is hardcore and uncompromising? It's just broken.