I wonder if someone's gonna make a topic? This is pretty much its own game, what little I've played of it feels like a cross between Oblivion and almost like Baldur's Gate 1.
You have places to wander, a clear narrative hook, and a lot of mini-adventures to plot out. The combat is still ass but it always feels nice to "find" something out in the wilderness. The world really is hand crafted and in many places denser and prettier than even Skyrim, just less snow and more grass and rocks. A bit too many rocks in my opinion.
Also has plenty of glitches. Disappearing NPCs, invisible models, missing textures in books and an infinite gold glitch in the first town.