I donno, my character in Skyrim wields an axe in one hand and lightning bolts in the other while stealthily sneaking up on jerks while wearing heavy armor. It's pretty flexible there in that sense. Ive also got a heavy armor wearing sneaking archery sniper, a dual casting mage shield wearing berserker mage and a good old straight up 'I wear heavy armor and have a sword, rar' guy too.

Kingdoms of Amalur's gameplay did look kind of ridiculously fun from watching Day9 and Felicia Day dinking around in it though.

Right now my rogue/mage has a pair of faeblades, which are like illidan's warglaives. AND he's also using something called chakram, which looks like a clone of Maiev Shadowsong's circular spiked weapon, except in Amalur that weapon is a medium-ranged thrown weapon (~15-20 yards). One button attacks with the blades, the other with the thrown weapon. And I can use a shield at the same time. And cast all sorts of spells. And dodge and run... basically it's insanely fun.

The story, even on my first play through, I'm kind of skipping a lot of it, there's not too many that are all that great, but the combat is saweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

I am, and I'm definitely enjoying it. It's got some bugs to iron out and you can tell there were some "questionable decisions" that were made for the developers in order to get the game published, but it's not stopping me. The FoV and photosensitivity problems are slowing me down, though.

Not gonna lie; mods/addons can't come soon enough. WoW's and Skyrim's spoiled the hell out of me. XP But then we'll probably hit that "questionable decisions from the publisher" wall again. >:(