Can you explain briefly what makes this game great? I will play the game eventually, but I'm just curious.
1. You like wandering around an gettin lost in a gameworld, then Kingdom o Isles is right up your alley, secrets behind every other hill, puzzle chests, buried caches, ambushes that you can spot an avoid, skills that interact wi your explorations, villages an locales along path, strangers to meet on the road, traps an puzzles to negotiate, and mysteries to ponder.
2. Inventory is a lesson to every new game that prioritises selling crap to create busywork, every item in BaK is useful or valuable, to the point where you'll face srategic choices on what you want to carry. You ave to juggle stuff, ditch some stuff an make choices, rather than whining that you want everything an dev givin in to babbys crying wi an infinite stash.
3. Characters, they literally (get it) spring to life off o computer screen, Gorath an Owyn more so than any others. In any other game Owyn'd be a whiny git who you wunt stand for long, in Krondor he's a good lad, bit wet behind ears and inexperienced, but theres an honest charm to him. Gorath is one o few Elves that I like, an considerin I hate most of those fantasy gits thats sayin someat. Hes a bro, dangerous, rough, an a warrior born but also at times philosophical an full of surprises.
4. Writing, it draws you in, its just right length to do so and theres always something to read, examine or interact wi on road that rewards you wi some damn fine prose. This game, Torment an some parts o Witcher 3 are what i'd say were some o best writing in games. Matches or exceeds source material.
5. Intuitive an easy to play, takes a bit of gettin use to like most old games, but within an hour or two everythin'll become second nature and playing game is as simple as left or right clicking, an using movement keys.
6. Depth, this game bares out old maxim, easy to play, difficult to master. You'll want to change your specialisations on fly, get good at repair, learn how to heal an rest your wounds, practise your barding, be wary of some places an opponents, take advantage of any opportunity to learn and explore an backtrack.
7. Plot, one o best in gaming, no other way to say it. Everything makes sense, everything draws together perfectly and its so bloody engaging. As a GM i've shamelessly nicked bits an pieces from BaK over years, an thats highest praise I can gi it.
Go to GOG, buy it, play it.
Weren't really brief were it.
we beat the Watch. AGAIN. 
