Finally DRM free, arguably the best 3D Fallout game. It has a great worldbuilding, great story. Also when Steam/Bethesda decided to move all Eastern European versions of the game to the Russian, it showed how bad DRM can be even on DRM Lite games like this. So what if I live in Eastern Europe, I don't speak Russian, but I do speak English and German, so let me play that version if I want to. So kudos to GOG for getting it here and I've instarebought here as soon as it showed up.
Finally finished the game the first time. I will probably go for another play-through in a couple of months from now with a different faction and different choices. The game works great, I've encountered very few bugs, none game-breaking, so kudos for Obsidian for delivering a great game from the start. Now to the details, story is great, has good writing, though sometimes (rarely) your choices are narrowed down by the previous choices. I would've wished that sometimes I could have the freedom to go in a different direction (a more chaotic approach). But in 80-90% of the cases you can do just that. You can betray alliances, re-shuffle alegiances etc. Combat is good, in the style of Pillars of Eternity, lots of spells and abilities, however I played on Normal mostly to enjoy the story so it can be different on higher difficulties. Character development is great, you can start out as a fighter and develop into a mage if you want, you're not limited in any way in what type of weapons/spells you can use. I also love the way you can create new spells with different effects. Too bad other games don't have this anymore (looking at you Bethesda, for removing this great feature post-Morrowind). Crafting is ok, the selection of armor/weapons is a bit limited, for example I haven't found a way to get/craft any unique leather armor (maybe different choices would've unlocked one though). Still I think it's decent enough especially since you can upgrade any type of armor/weapon to masterwork which is the highest level. As for those who say that it's to short, I disagree, it has a decent length, not Baldur's Gate -like, but about Fallout -like. Though a better comparison would be The Witcher 2. It has enormous replay value since choices can alter your path entirely, with entire areas locking/unlocking depending on the faction you choose to side with. All in all it's a great delivery from Obsidian. I just hope it won't be ruined in the future with Paradox style DLCs.
The game shouldn't been released in the sorry state as it was. But now with 4.0 I feel I can really enjoy it. No issues, runs on Ultra with 4x FSAA on my GTX980m. The controls feel much better than the last time I tried the game. Yes, you can fly only one ship, but at least the game doesn't feels unpolished and unusable. What I still don't like is the walking around on stations part. The models are still ugly and the minigames mostly annoy me.
