Well ...
If "as we know it" means that we are promised during marketing that our choices will matter, and there will be tons and tons possible outcomes, and that we will get several options to reach our goal, and that it will be important who our character is.

And in the end what we get is game, where our character is shoved into generic railroaded story (looking at you Dragon Age: Origins), our choices will be negated in sequels bcs developers need big names (looking at you SW:ToR), outcomes will differ only in collor of final firework (looking at you Mass Effect 3), and options to reach our goal will be either Sneak around, or try anything else and find out you need to sneak around (looking at you VtM:Bloodlines) ...

Then i f**king hope so!

I still dont understand why cant we change Race for our hirelings. frown
Lets us play Githyanki as racist as they trully are! frown