It's a hard game to pick up now if you don't have experience playing when it was new. There have been so many things about RPGs that have come to be expected: evenly distributed fast travel, objective indicators, a compass, a quest menu, favorite item hotkeys, etc.

To pick it up now, the early levels are such a slog: constant stamina drain, slow leveling, etc that unless you really want to dig in, you'll never get to the "good part".