The slow pace is a common complaint, along with the telepathic cops and the bounty system, the rigidity of missions, and the player model in the epilogue.

The detail and beauty of the world, the richness of the interactions, the depth of the story, the music, the sound design, the writing, the voice acting, the performance capture, and the uniqueness of the quests is what makes it one of the best games of all time.

Players with hundreds of hours in the game are still surprised with a random encounter, an unexpected animal behavior, a funny bit of dialogue, or an interesting bit of lore in an unexplored corner of the world.

And that’s all on top of an already excellent gameplay loop with a ton of replay-ability.

It’s not a perfect game, but it is one of the deepest experiences in modern gaming and there are hundreds of systems that it gets exactly right when lesser games have trouble with only a handful.