I never played the first one as just the base game, but I have to imagine that with so much DLC, it’s probably a fairly different game. Mods also helped to fill in a lot of the gaps. I had a feeling this would happen. I wasn’t wowed by any of the early gameplay that I saw. I’m just hoping that it will evolve into a good game in a year or two.

Or maybe it’s just high expectations of the early adopters and it is a good game. I would pick it up just to try, but I’ve heard the performance is pretty abysmal and my computer is well past due for an upgrade.