Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

I actually liked the puzzles and more puzzle-style quests in the game, but the story and characters were not interesting enough to maintain my interest, and the combat is just a slog every. single. time. Yes, I was able to figure out most fights eventually, but the time and mental investment is not worth the payoff in my experience (especially when RNG plays such a huge part in pretty much every facet of each encounter). The game has lots of "gotcha" moments via enemies and encounter triggers, so it's not like tactical failings were the primary reason for combat failures much of the time. That's a pretty big "yikes" from me in a game that has the tactical combat as its primary focus. If you're the type of person who likes to play RPGs for the bookkeeping and the number-crunching, and the juggling of stat boosts and status effects while busting out the ruler to measure movement and line of sight in combat heavy campaigns, I think you would actually adore Divinity: Original Sin. I like to play RPGs for the character development and player expression in emergent story situations, and so this game does not do it for me.

I beat DOS:EE on the hardest difficulty, and that took me 175 hours. They were great fun! Many other reviewers for this game give it a bad rating primarily because its design philosophy contradicts their wishes for it to play fast & dumb. Their complaints say things like "solving the initial mystery takes too long." Or "the battles are too slow." Or "the game doesn't tell me where I need to go." Those complaints are missing this point: each moment of DOS:EE is designed to be slowly savored. You are supposed to take your sweet time to smell each flower, have long fireside chats with every character, indulge in leisurely country strolls across the vast, beautiful & highly varied landscapes, and carefully inspect every barrel, bookshelf, seashell, cavern, dungeon, town, lair, and temple. Most players who do not like this game were expecting a cheap fast-food style of meal, and instead it gave them a gourmet dinner at the Queen's palace. It does not have any mindless button-mashing or arcadey action like in Diablo or GTA types of games. Instead, DOS:EE is for the connoisseur who wants to luxuriate in every nuance of the fantasy world. The critics are correct that DOS:EE does not hold your hand or solve your problems for you. But 99% of the problems they cite would have resolved themselves automatically if they had only explored the world longer before complaining. You are *meant* to *discover* the mysteries of the world on your own. That's a brilliant design decision, not a flaw! DOS:EE features a wonderful story, (mostly) excellent voice-acting which covers every word of dialogue (there is tons!), fascinating characters, satisfying turn-based combat, and an enormous, lovely fantasy world. This game is not perfect. It's full of environmental traps that are immensely aggravating. But its exceptional qualities far outweigh its flaws. DOS:EE is infinitely better than most other modern RPGs (i.e. it trounces *anything* made by Bethesda).

I'm not a hardcore RPG player, but I like Fallout series and turn based RPG's in general. Bought Divinity on sale, and waited for some time to install it. That was a mistake, and I should've tried it earlier. It absolutely sucked me in and kept entertained for ~70hours, this is how long it took me to complete the game without all the quests on standard difficulty. Divinity is fun, interesting, has some tricky puzzles (but then I'm no hardcore player) and looks very good. If you haven't got it yet, you should. I'm waiting for D:OS 2 going on sale to get my hands on it, and pull an all-nighter...again :)

Hier geht’s zu meinem Waetsch's Play: https://youtu.be/p4xsssOeNk8 Wir schlüpfen hier in die Haut von gleich zwei Helden, wahlweise auch mit einem Freund an unserer Seite und machen uns auf, einen Mord aufzuklären. Der Grafik sieht man die acht Jahre mittlerweile schon an ganz kleines bisschen an, ist dem Auge aber immer noch recht wohlgefällig. Die Soundkulisse passt und die englischen Sprecher machen einen guten Job (Untertitel und Texte sind allesamt in Deutsch). Die Steuerung per Gamepad ist exzellent gelöst, auch wenn es ein bisschen Eingewöhnung bei den Rundenkämpfen benötigt. Hier wird saubere und unterhaltsame Rollenspielkost abgeliefert.

I like this game, but Gog asks everytime for a review.