Let me get this out of the way straight up, the game has some bugs and some parts of it are subpar *ahem kingdom management. But the meat of the game - the roleplaying and adventuring, is superb. The char creation is fantastic, your companions are interesting and they all have unique personalities and the story is written quite well - far better than any other modern RPG I've played. Most of these types of games have me just auto clicking the good choices everytime they appear but in this game, I actually picked evil choices every now and then because the game actually got me emotionally invested and dammit I need revenge. So 5 stars for a game thats broken me out of my comfort zone and actually made me think and feel something