I feel as though I have to leave a review, given the amount of hours I've sunk into this title and how much I enjoyed it.
This is my second playthrough, the first being when I originally beat it back in 2012.

The long end short of it: A classic story where the protagonist is kept in the dark about their identity until the very end where it all comes together. An easy to follow narrative, nothing overly complicated about the themes within, and though many of the NPCs feel re-skinned and copy-pasted, a consistent quality can be felt.

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Things I enjoyed:
+ The art style (The HD textures they've included in this re-release do their job at looking pretty most of the time)
+ Functional combat (that is easy to master and somewhat varied allowing the player to choose their preferred style)
+ Level progression/Play style (easy to adjust points when leveling Skills and Abilities with plenty of options. Sometimes you just feel like trying out a different spell or ability to tweak your build. It happens.
+ Decent overall RPG experience (easy to get into with the player determining the difficulty of play. I've read someone in the discussions mention the term "balance" and how it shouldn't apply to singleplayer RPGs.. at least not to the degree some people think it should. I have to agree. The focus of these games are exploration and storytelling, and in my opinion this game does a solid job of it)

Things I didn't care much for:
- Inventory management (very simplistic and forces you to rely on backpack upgrades to actually be able to carry items without worry of running out of room. On this note, when picking up items that you already have a number of [let's say lockpicks] at a time when you are at full capacity, you are not able to add it to the others until you make at least one unit of space. Something that irked me in particular)
- Character pathing (can sometimes be annoying as there are invisible walls in some spots where there shouldn't be. For example, when casting a spell, or sneaking along edges to manoeuvre around enemies and you get blocked by aforementioned walls.. Although NPC pathing has improved as I haven't had any becoming stuck at any point)
- Typical quest types (fetch quests, simply kill that and come back etc. A lazy type of filler gameplay that I've come to expect from most RPGs. Not all quests are like this, but there are plenty that operate on the premise of fetch and return with nothing else involved. Just something I've become fairly critical of.
- Pricing (this title is overpriced, plain and simple. Given that the re-release was brought out with zero patches to begin with, and offered little to nothing new other than HD textures, makes it seem like an obvious marketing play. Game-breaking bugs need to be squashed, glitches fixed, and new content brought out before such a price hike can be justified over the original title. I'm glad that some of the bugs have been dealt with, but more needs to be done)

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In saying all of that, bug fixes have recently been released, fixing some exploits and glitches present in the original game. Yet, many reviewers state that "a ton of bugs" are still present. I can't comment on this as I experienced very few bugs if at all. I've only really experienced glitches which were largely purely visual (Stash containers spaced too far from their base, disappearing NPC bodies with just floating armor appearing, floating NPCs in sitting position etc.)
These should have been released with this title to justify actually selling a re-release, along with perhaps fixing the grammatical errors I've encountered in the text. Spit and polish maybe, but would make a difference overall.

And that's it for my armchair review. Hope it's worth a read.

Pete

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Update 23/04/2022:

I've finally played through the Fatesworn DLC, Completed all side quests as well as the main. I can say that I did enjoy it and that my opinion of the game hasn't really changed.

My gripes = The main story didn't really grab me, and certain side quests really just felt like they were there to prolong gameplay for the sake of it without offering anything. I definitely didn't enjoy grinding to close all chaos portals to 100% the game.
My likes = I did like the new items added (armor sets and weapons). There are some new punchy weaps that helped me through the boss battles.
The level cap was extended to 50. Players will easily reach this through normal play.
The end boss was quite challenging, even though he was mainly just a bullet sponge spell-spammer.

Overall, the DLC is not a bad addition to the game, though I'm still unsure of the pricing. Though if you're like me, then you do get a decent amount of bang for your buck. Get it during a sale!