Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

Just wrapped up the game on normal mode, had a fun 90-ish hours with it. Great game, throwback to old baldur's gate and icewind dale titles. Im a big turn-based isometric fan, and this did not disappoint. Great sound, great graphics, story good but a little hokey at times (what RPG isnt, really?) and TONS of loot. Crafting system is immense and wonderfully easy. You will not regret picking this title up.

Only rating this game deserves is 5 stars. Rock paper shit is annoying, though, recommend saving you get two character to customize. That alone makes game worthy of 5 stars.

I'm a lover of RPG's from the original Fallouts to Baldur's gate 1 and 2 ,Dragon age , and more recently Pathfinder. This game however is the most disappointing game I've played in a long time. Going by the average score I thought I was in for a real treat. From the moment I entered the city the game came to an absolute stand still. It's literally the slowest uninteresting Slog of a first chapter, I can't believe it made it out of the testing phase. You are forced to do it because if you leave the city you get cremated in seconds. Combat is fun but it's only the smallest percentage of the game. Be prepared to steal everything in sight and talk to every named npc. So boring and tedious. Worst RPG I've played in years. To bad I waited so long to install or I'd have gotten a refund. It's so sad this is the company doing BG#3. What a disappointment.

I find this game so god damn frustrating. It feel totally elietist at every stage and just kicks you in the balls every chance it gets. This game seems to be designed around the player already knowing all the slimy tactics required in D&D. If you are a new player like me who never played D&D in the past it's basically saying "Go play something else you f*cking peasant.". I'll give you an example, I am playing on the easiest difficulty and yet I die in pretty much every encounter. What is the god damn point in that? I would say I just need to get better but that clearly isn't it. I just had an encounter where a "mysterious person" comes out of a trap door. They immediately throw a poison bomb and a molotov before your party has even had a chance to move. That removed about 3/4 of the health of every single player in my party......on the EASIEST difficulty?!?! Really? 3/4 of everyone's health instantly? So basically if I had played on the hardest difficulty every person would have died instantly? Is that what you are saying? Total BS. Then you've got the hideous dialogue. Which sounds like a jumped up school play. Every character has a painfully slow and overacted accent. Everything takes five times longer to say than it needs to and I switch off and get bored of everything they are saying. The mission design is pretty terrible as well. With there being almost no feedback from the game about what is happening. Missions will just hit dead ends for absolutely no reason and the game will not tell you. I wandered around town for HOURS wondering why the mission wasn't progressing only for me to find out that actually I had done everything correctly and there was nothing more to do!!! Thanks for wasting my life! All I want to do is explore and learn the mechanics of this game (without a walkthrough!) but you need to already know what the mechanics are to enjoy it. You need to know what's OP and which items to spam. Then you might survive basic encounter.

I want to like the game, I really do. Unfortunately, I expected to have some kind of quest log and forgiving experience when I chose the difficulty level to reflect that. I don't have time to play it often and therefore got totally lost what I have to do and where. It also does the same mistake Divinity 2 does: Resurrection scrolls are way to expensive to be the only option to resurrect your characters while always having not enough money, if you intend not to steal from everywhere. The area surrounding the starting town is also about 3-2 level higher, which makes it impossible for my group to advance. I have no idea where to get the missing levels and no idea how to continue with the main quest. I could search everywhere for the character I need, but again, I don't have the time. A quest log is the bar minimum an RPG with this complexity should have, and it doesn't. As in Divnity 2, they failed me to guide me where I need to be and what to do. Freedom and exploration is great but not if a mistep from that unknown path kills your group.