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Originally Posted by htismaqe
After the initial reviews, I had kind of written it off. I have so many other games in my backlog now (because of ****ing Dragon Age) I don't know if I will ever get to it.
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If you like an actual open world with real choices and consequences grounded in realism, it doesn't get better than this game.
Even in the very opening stages, the character development is so strong in this game. There's already a major character who ends up being so much more complex than it initially seems. You progress from despising this individual to liking them during what seemingly is slowly becoming a real friendship. That is not something I expected.
This game is so far away from black and white, it puts other games with grey choices to shame. The role-playing is SUPERB. The craziest thing is that I haven't even scratched the surface.
There are just so many small things that add up to create this awesome environment and the game really succeeds in sucking you in completely.
Succeeding is so satisfying because it's not a given at all. You can organically approach things in different ways. It's hard to describe, really.
I was doing a quest last night and a part of it was hunting hares with your bow. The game made me feel so pumped every time I managed to successfully sink an arrow into one of those. Like Frazod mentioned earlier, there is no reticule so you have to do it by feel and get better with practice. Just even something as small like that felt so rewarding.
I can't recommend it enough.