DS 3 was just too bad of a game (didn't finish it, though). TOW was offensively mediocre, yes but not that bad, really.
I just don't get that really. There were flaws, sure (Keyboard controls and Online Multiplayer were garbage, as well as several other missteps due to inexperience,). But, imo combat was fun, lore books were great, story wasn't great but inoffensive and at times fun at least and there was clearly some passion in it, especially noticeable if you were a fan of the genre containing even some small details like the swamp bugs using Secret of Evermore like animations.
I'd prefer that a million times over the boring-bad passages in certain other Obsidian titles.
That's me though, and I will admit I'm probably
heavily biased towards it, one because I played through it in couch co-op (though I have beaten it in SP also) and the other because I do enjoy these console action-*rpgs* (though rpg is saying much here, and as I already said, if viewed under the lens of an rpg, it's certainly Obsidian's *worst* one.)
It's good for what it is.