What makes the game fun for me is the tremendous amount of things to do and the comedy they randomly throw in throughout the world. May it be funny quest scripts or a random drunken NPC fishing and ranting to himself.

My advice would be to simply enjoy the game the way you want to play it. Don't feel pressured to level quickly, or to get gear because people say so. Just play the game, enjoy the stories and have fun! Oh and mess around with game UI settings because there is a lot to customize to fit you play style.

The only negative is I remember the map and getting around to be SUPER confusing when first starting out. So learning to navigate that may or may not be tricky at first but it gets better.

Good luck!