Divine Divinity

An interesting story, a very large game world to explore and multiple side quests make this one a gem of RPG's. You can also pretty much design your character to your liking and with three different path to follow it bode well for replay ability. However the story is so linear that the only reason to replay it would be to try a different approach, like a Mage or a Thief instead of a Warrior but otherwise, once you know the ending and how the quests are resolved, there's little if any interest left. An other issue is that you may accidentally uncover an item needed to complete a quest and get rid of it one way or an other and thus, later on, find that you can't complete it. Quite frustrating and could have been easily prevented. Progression of your character through higher levels of competence, direly required if one expects to survive and win the game, is painfully slow and it gets worst as you go up in levels as you will need to kill many more and powerful adversaries to achieve the same meager results: five points to distribute between four possible traits (Although, depending on the path chosen, one of the four is much less relevant). I also found the interface quite imprecise making it very difficult to do certain critical tasks and making your character do unexpected things leading to certain death. Lots of frustration but such an otherwise good game that you'll be more than happy to have played it. Specially at GOG's low prices, a must game to have.

My own experience with D.Divinity was: I installed the game maybe two or three months ago, played for maybe about five minutes and said, "This looks like Diablo with down-syndrome". How foolish I was. The game is incredibly rich; the voice-acting is superb, the quests are mature, the skill system is surprisingly robust, the music is great, the lore items are well written and it's just an all around great game. Do yourself a favor and play for 2-3 hours and you'll never look back.

Bought this for my Asus Eee 900 netbook and it works great.(running a faster SSD than standard) Theres abit of slowdown if running in battery mode, but if you change the battery settings to MAX battery its fine. Well I had this game "back in the day" but never really got into it (too many games and not enough time). I have been playing this for about 3 hours and Im really liking it! Its done in the traditional top down view, has alot of speech and is generally ok. I think the devs are German (if I remember rightly) and there are a couple of typos in the text bits, but nothing that spoils the overall enjoyment of the game. One thing I did notice is there doesnt seem to be the intro included (the man wandering through the woods and finding the white cat, then inside a temple where some Goddess pops out) So not sure yet if any other cut scenes are, well, cut!

I gotta tell you, this was a surprise. I had heard this game being compared to Diablo and Ultima 7. Really didn't think this game had a chance at being that good. But I was wrong, It starts off kind of slow. If you can get past that first town you'll discovery how amazing this game really is. It's so easy to get into and play once you are past that first stupid town. I wouldn't put it above Ultima 7, it does lack any kind of close interaction with items, it also is missing the cool side quests that get you lost in the game. That also makes it easier to follow and keep track of where you are at in the game, like Diablo 2. This certainly is a must play game and easily the top 5 best RPG titles that I've played.

The gaming industry is lacking RPGs like DD. Big, deep and enthralling. The last game I remember spending so much time just to complete the story was Fallout 1. There's no much to say, I enjoy every bit of my time playing DD.