The game is fun as hell, well mostly the combat is. They drag out every little thing though which makes it such a huge pain. I guess I'm use to all the easy QoL changes in MMOs like WoW. It's totally the opposite of that. No quick traveling, or AOE looting, and you have to feed your mount and pet, and they nickel and dime you with all the tiny things like dye. Graphics wise all they need to do is fix all the crazy amount of pop in geometry and shadows. I enjoy the combat so much...
The many trash opinion pieces on N4G reminds me of the many trash games on Steam Greenlight. I think some sort of allow / rejection process is needed. This one should definitely have been rejected.
Use to work at a PC repair place when I was in my early twenties. This one PC had so much nasty crap in it we just refused to even work on it. Was full of dirt, ants, roaches, spiders with plenty of spider webs and even rat shit. Also quite a lot of the roaches and spiders were still very much alive. Yeah... I surely wasn't getting paid enough to fuck with all that.