An hour into it and your hooked
When you start you choose who you were before adventuring and choose your face, stats, etc.Then, your placed on a random spot in Calradia.Then, you begin adventuring and it's up to you where you wanna go and wanna be (a brave knight protecting the innocent,an infamous bandit,etc)
Now here's the problem, the game is very open ended, so open ended that it has no base story at all, sure you make up your own story as you go along and the npcs have some stories of their own.
But a good base story,main quest thing sure can make it better imo.
And the first few quest is very boring (sending letters and what not) but after that something just makes you want to play more of it.You level up, gain companions, raise an army, siege a castle/city, become vassals of some kingdom,etc.
Bottom line, it's a really great game to past time, but it could be better