Pros
- Personalized cities, the first thing I love about these kinds of games. Mistpeak Valley in the Dweller's Camp is filled with the poor who ask you for food; the conditions are cold and resources of any kind are scarce. This really gives off a realistic atmosphere.
- Being able to rent/buy houses and shops is awesome.
- The humor in the game is genuinely funny; I love it.
- Reaver and Elliot.
- Has multiple saves for one person. Sadly, I mean multiple saves as in multiple versions of the same save, not the ability to create a new one.
- As an aside, my favorite gauntlet combinations are: Fireball + Shock, Force Push + Blades, Ice Storm + Blades, and Ice Storm + Fireball.
Cons
- The game is extremely buggy in quests, in having children, in movement, and with your dog. Really, there are bugs -everywhere-. It won't even let me have sex to have a child sometimes, a tiny added bit that usually gives the Fable series character.
- The game often warps you to very inconvenient locations in each place you choose to go (e.g. warp to Bowerstone Industrial for a quest in front of the orphanage and the game puts you at...the beginning of Bowerstone Industrial?). The glowing trail also frequently bugs out and tries to direct you through walls.
- The townspeople all have the same voices, the same names. There aren't many rare people you can find/befriend/marry except for a total jerkwad. :p
- The game is quite short, as in easily less than 10 hours, even if you stop to explore some. Exploring a lot can make the game last for a decent bit longer (maybe 30 hours if you stretch it), but still not long in terms of actually fighting people or doing quests.
- Autosaving. I hate autosaving. Especially when you can't turn it off. It can easily cause lost progress if you try to look through your past saved games and travel anywhere or do anything.
- The interface is extremely awkward and bloated. Having to go to the sanctuary first to exit the game, modify the volume, or any other settings is fairly annoying, especially since it's just artificial elongation. When I press Esc, I want to see a menu, not go to some other part of the game and then walk to a spot on the wall to then get to the menu.