I was an Infinity Engine nut. I played, and replayed every Infinity Engine game, and also later non-IE gems like Hordes of the Underdark and Mask of the Betrayer. So, naturally I was hyped for this game. Worse spent money ever! The mechanics is bad, the gameplay is tedious and boring, and story is utter nonsense.
With Torment (the real one, not this garbage) and BG2 being my favorite games, I was expecting much out of this title. But, disappointments abound! Where writing in [real] Torment was smart and interesting, here it is pretentious and self-congratulatory thinking it is good because it is long. However, since writing in this game is atrocious, the length of writing only makes it that much worse.