PEAK
PEAK GAMING
This is not a "RPG" in the typical sense, the better term is Fantasy World Simulator. The world does not cater to you, and in fact, reminds you constantly of your mortality and you must improvise in a world that adapts and generates around you. I HIGHLY recommend curating a good mod list and make it unity, which typically in most games is a pain in the ***, but once you do you cannot stop creating new characters and exploring new avenues and career choices. Be a simple hunter and sell meat to local markets, go camping and have random events guide your way? Hell yea
Be a linguist and learn all the languages but dog**** at fighting or magic, hardest career path, but you can convince almost any creature to fight for you instead of kill you while you book it outta there.
By far PEAK career path is getting the archaeologist guild mod and scavenge the desert for ruins for relics and sell that for a high price, TURN THAT AROUND buying property, and using the tenants mod to make money for you in realestate. Wanna join an army as a soldier? hell yea theres a war mod, fleshed out political systems that not only determine your dialogue with locals but how expensive even a night at a tavern is or how prejudice someone can be towards you. Become a dimi-god talos progenitor? Hell yes, you can acquire real deep lore elderscrolls relics that make you feel like a power to not cross, with much grinding of course. The dungeon crawling is very elaborate, and you can spend irl days clearing a whole dungeon, or if you prep accordingly: in and out 20 minute adventure with a wagon full of gear and relics to sell for DAYZ. Best friend of the game: Pawnshops, know where the local pawnshops are and not every town or capitol will have one, it makes you learn and talk with locals, even if dry dialogue sometimes, its a planned out goal and adventure. Mods to add lots of new quest types to be generated because default there can be a point its repetitive but there are so many quest packs to make you spend HOURS if you finally learn how this game treats you.

I can have fun with it, so long as I play the unity version, but honestly it just isnt good. Its free so w/e no harm done and I'll probably still jump on to do the msq. Reading a bit about the game I was led to believe the fun about the game wasnt really the msq but all the side quests to do however I find the side quests to be dull. They all boil down to either find a person, find an item, deliver something, or kill something. Pretty standard for an rpg but there are multiple problems here.
One finding anything is a pain because townsfolk dont want to tell you and since you have no quest marker you run around to every random basically nameless npc until you find one that will talk. Then you spam that npc until they mark the location. Then you spend 2-5 minutes walking in a strait line to the destination, if its a house, to find this basically nameless npc that will no longer exist after this quest is complete. There is no reason to care about any npc in this game, other then msq, since they dont have anything to do with anything other then that one specific random quest that meant nothing.
Problem number two the dungeons. I have never gotten lost in any game ever and if I ever did it was for maybe 5 minutes. In this game I get lost every dungeon I enter and not in the good "its so immersive" way either. I have multiple times full cleared a dungeon save a single room that holds the quest item/npc and tried to look at spaghetti map like how your "supposed" to play and wasted a literal hour unable to see the super small gap in a wall that you can only see from a specific angle before saying screw it and console commanding it. Looking at a terrible map is not fun, anyone wanting to experience this game I recommend using the command tele2qmarker for ever dungeon and walking back to the exit instead of the other way around. So much less bs trying to find the item/npc that is hidden behind mandatory secret walls or interactable items that you would never even think of touching because the game teaches you that nothing in the dungeon is interactable early on.
Third problem is disease and poison. So these are usually a permanent debuff that slowly kills you unless you cure it. Disease is easy enough as any temple can do it however since the game does not give a warning, save maybe a second of text during combat that you wont see, you likely wont notice you have a disease until its to late making it impossible to reach a temple. As for poison, maybe its just unity, but temples do not cure it. This leaves you with potions of cure x, problem is shops are spread out between 2-5 minute walk and they likely wont even carry the potion. This makes curing poison nearly impossible and curing disease a pain. Spending hours resetting shops and walking mindlessly to each one is not fun.
Game quickly starts feeling like a job instead of fun.

play the dos version it is actually pretty good and how gamers played it back in the day, it's the original way. otherwise just use unity df if you don't like the intended way, as it can be hard for some people to adapt i understand there's nothing wrong with playing it your way