Roleplaying wise it's better than 2, but it's worse than the previous games in most ways. The story is interesting at certain points and most of the characters are decent (except Sera fuck Sera), but the antagonist is pretty weak. Exploration is now based on a bunch of big open worlds, which makes it a slog to get through. It's made even worse by most sidequests being boring fetchquests. It feels like a single player MMO, which makes it the worst in the series. Yes I like 2 more than this, fight me.