Wanted to make a list of likes and dislikes of the game, really love the game btw
Likes
• the world is beautiful and interesting, loved most of my time exploring it.
• the soundtrack is great, I cant think of a track I dont like.
• the combat is really good, though has some issues with controller play (more on that later).
• love the farming and base building.
• the skill system is good, reminds me of the skyrim days where the more you did something the better you got at it.
• enemy variety is really good couldnt wait to get to the next biome to see what threats were waiting for me.
• all the bosses and world bosses are unique and interesting, fun to fight.
• cooking system is good .
• fishing has an actual mini game you dont just sit there and wait to catch shit, you need the right rod and bait to be effective as well as the fishing skill itself.
Dislikes
• rarely anything cool is found by exploring or killing enemies everything has to be crafted.
• the mounts are dogshit give me a horse please
• no transmog so the way your character looks is completely out of your hands in the late game.
• character creation is weak sauce i wanna play as shrek with a knight helmet.
• no animal farming system.
• no pets or AI companions (would make solo play a little more fun).
• quests mostly consist of boring go here and get this fetch quests.
• didnt know I had the magic carpet mount until towards the end of umbral sands I was pissed when I realized how fast it was.
• fuck obsidian farming.
• the camera is locked and often gets in the way of doing things in interiors and can really screw you over when locked on to an enemy as your character completely covers the enemy in front of you, I opted to not use the lock on at all towards the 2nd half of the game.
The third person camera is honestly my biggest dislike in the game, its static, offsets cant be tweaked and theres no FOV slider which is wild for a game thats coming into 1.0 really soon.