I hate this game with all the loathing I can dredge from my black heart.
The game is stunning. The world is fun. There is so much character and life to everything. The possibility opened up before you as you begin is overwhelming. But then you finish feeling completely underwhelmed. Sure, you can buy property, and get a family and everything affects your character and how you develop. The world changes around you, yadda yadda...
What does it matter when you're dropped in a tiny little linear world. On top of that many of the quests haven't even been finished.
You start off just giggling with the thought of all the possibilities before you. You finish bored and angry that the world is so small and unfinished. Add into that that the save system is HORRID and by the end you'll want to commit sepukku by swallowing the CD rather than play it for another minute.
My favorite moment was when I played for hours early into the morning to finish the arena. I aced it and put a lot of work into it to do it. So, I'm exhausted, I have class in the morning, I save and go to sleep.
I come back the next day, and guess what. MY GAME IS NOT F@#$ING SAVED!!! That's right, because I didn't go talk to some dips@#t somewhere the quest was not "completed", so I have to do it again. From the beginning.
I hate this game with all the loathing I can dredge from my black heart.