Mid playthrough of this game, having not touched it in eons since being a wee young lad, must say, holds up ok. The Steam version is pretty neutered, missing the Legends of Aranna DLC, and multiplayer removed (I can understand due to the master servers no longer being up for easy internet play, but why remove local and direct IP connection as well?), and of course, runs a little bit poorly. Now there are fixes for all of that to remedy this issue, and whilst a hassle, definitely brings this game back in a much better light.
All in all, a fun title, but a bit dated for it's time. It's "pick a starting point" system can work against playing for short sessions, as to make progress you need to go on a long trek to reach the next town/settlement, which can be a couple hours. Only other complaint is that some locales overstay their welcome, some enemies, like the Shards, are a right pain in the backside, and with how the games levelling system works, you are somewhat punished for sticking to one class, as levelling up your attributes in another class means having to re-do the same grind, which is quite long. Understandably to encourage making different characters and playing differently each run of the game, but sometimes I wish I could just buy a skillbook or something to boost my ranged attack attribute.
All in all, still a fun game, just a fair chunk of setup needed beforehand. Runs great on Linux as well, installed all of the patches and fixes through Protontricks (those that needed a .bat or ,exe to be ran).
