Recent reviews by jjmitch87

Amazing, beautiful game so far. About 10 hours in and only a few are past the intro/tutorial.

Here's the problem- it is abundantly clear this game was developed to be played with a controller and NOT a keyboard and mouse.

Melee combat is very difficult on keyboard and mouse, but I've got it figured out. HOWEVER, lockpicking and pickpocketing is a completely different story. It's not the same as your typical Skyrim lockpicking or pickpocketing. For lockpicking, you find the sweet spot with the mouse, and push D on keyboard to rotate the lock, while moving the mouse to keep it in the area of the sweet spot. But, you have to go smoothly and rotate slowly, but keyboards arent pressure sensitive, so good luck with that. I spent one hour on the lockpick tutorial, never actually got to open the lock, you have unlimited picks, but you dont (bug?) as it will glitch and say you dont have any, causing a reload of the save file. ON TO PICKPOCKETING: sneak behind the target, hold a key down for X amount of seconds (the longer the better chance of getting caught) then you get a radial wheel, move the cursor with WASD to the item you want, when it tells you to locate, push a key, then move cursor back to the top 12 o'clock position with WASD and exit, all withing the time frame of how long you held the key at the beginning, and knowing that you can exit pickpocketing and try again, but the item(s) are in random spots each time. Spent another hour on the tutorial for this, failed every single time. NPC says that he caught you and you are lucky its practice because he would normally call a guard. Well, after enough tries, he cries thief and runs up the road to call a guard anyway.
I prefer playing night time sneaky stealy in RPGs like this, but I cant progress unless lockpicking and pickpocketing are both drastically changed, or a mod comes out to change them. I'm at a wall, that doesnt appear to be a glitch, at 10hours into the game. Kinda feels like I wasted my money, because I have a bad feeling these 2 game mechanics will not be changed, the developers want it difficult and thats fine, but its impossible with keyboard and mouse.

Overall, its a fun game, but seeing as how I cant go any further, $60 for 10hours of gameplay is 50hours short or $50 overpriced; if I could get a refund I would.