I'm just approaching Act 3 now, over 100 hours in, and... It is still flooring me.
Every hour I play. The next hour. The next. The next again.
Every single hour a new place, person or quest development overjoys me and draws me further into the world. I finish a great conversation, fully brain-deep in the story, turn around, and there is a magnificent, majestic landscape stretching off into the distance... Which I can ride out into and explore on horseback to my heart's content. All the way to the end of the world, finding new people, places and conversations.
And I'm past the 'combat hump' so now combat is broadly easy, probably a 4/10 challenge, but it still feels like I'm doing something, so it's now the best of both worlds.
Every hour I play. The next hour. The next. The next again.
Every single hour a new place, person or quest development overjoys me and draws me further into the world. I finish a great conversation, fully brain-deep in the story, turn around, and there is a magnificent, majestic landscape stretching off into the distance... Which I can ride out into and explore on horseback to my heart's content. All the way to the end of the world, finding new people, places and conversations.
And I'm past the 'combat hump' so now combat is broadly easy, probably a 4/10 challenge, but it still feels like I'm doing something, so it's now the best of both worlds.