I'm absolutely loving this game, but what gets me the most is that they clearly saved costs by having an intro that is nothing more than a grey screen and some words, and cut scenes that are nothing but the actual game just kind of recorded, for lack of a better term. Now, I love a great intro of course, but other than a few memorable ones, most games I don't give a shit and this accomplished what it needed to. It was actually kind of shocking to just be thrown into the game with very little in the way of a tutorial, and I could see a lot of the teens of today thinking it was a shitty game because it didn't hold their hand for 30 minutes at the beginning. I'm glad it is stripped down to the basics, because hopefully they squeezed as much game into it for the money as they could, and left out unnecessary crap.
That being said, I'd pay double this price for a truly epic Planescape-type story with this system. I'm only to the part where the cannon guy shows up (died to the second wave and had to go to bed so I didn't retry it), so maybe the story gets a little more in-depth, but right now it is just sort of there to make me keep clicking in a particular direction and get into more fights. I'd love to have more decisions than just which guys I'm going to have in my party.
The other thing I love about this game is the totally fresh outlook on skills. A tank that has to spend health to use abilities, a healer that has to steal health from someone else to cast more spells, a dps machine that doesn't gain any more hps (I figured out that ae bleed isn't always as awesome as it sounds on paper), etc. While I clearly like some skills more than others, every one of them has made me go "wow, that's neat" when reading what options I have further down the line. I grew up on D&D and would still play the shit out of a Pool of Radiance gold box type modern game with classes I've known for 30+ years, but having a game turn a bunch of those ideas on their head is incredibly refreshing.
I greatly look forward to expansions, DLC, sequels, copy-cats, whatever of this game. We need more like it.