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Yep, there isnt much depth to the story and particularly the NPCs compared to the predecessors.
Liberating cities only seems to cause problems if you try to talk to Orc or Hashishin leaders afterwards, so you can get away with it if you dont enter their buildings (the leaders in two of the smaller desert cities are hard to avoid though). I had crappy reputation with the orcs and liberated tons of cities towards the end, but never got attacked on sight as others have reported.
I think G3 creates a reasonable sense of freedom in that:
a) most quests are optional
b) unlike in the predecessors you dont really need to max out your level. Thus quest whoring and killing every single piece of wildlife on the continent feels less necessary. As much as I love Gothic 2 NoTR I stopped playign after doing the expansion, as I couldnt stand the vacuum cleaning of maps. Save, fight a group of dragon snappers, rest, repeat...
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