@jackal If you are refurring to running from town to town you could of just bought up your map and fast traveled. as for the glitching, i agree there were way too many glitches in the game, some good (for example the dorien glitch) and some bad (example the vampire qure quest).
But if you are playing on PC you could of downloaded a patch which wiped most if not all the glitches in the game, as for xbox, XBL wipes them automatically.
The game is huge, with a nice 500 hours at least if you get in to it of game time, with lots of weapons armour and people to meet and find. And i would have to agree it will be in the top RPG catagory this year and maybe even next yoear, we will have to see.
True, it should be at the top...at least of all the recent RPG's. And I did use the map to get around but I was trying to experience the entire game as a whole (aside from the main quest) and I kept running into mine after mine, fortress after fortress, and temple after temple...most times nothing really good was inside anyhow.
One thing I did love about the game is the being able to buy and ride your own horse. Sometimes I'd just ride one for the hell of it in third person