Divine Divinity

I'm not sure why all the reviews are so good. This game keeps being compared to Baldur's Gate and Diablo II, but it fails miserably compared to either one. It's not a hybrid or a 2D Morrowind, it's a bad game. You want hack 'n slash, go buy Torchlight or D2. Wish I could get a refund.

This game is a mess that likes to throw OP enemies at you without any warning, where half of the quests are badly explained in terms of where you're supposed to go, and where you're not allowed to assign spells and items to hotkeys for quick-casting/quick-use. Sure, you can assign spells and skills to F buttons, but 1) that still forces you to manually cast the spell after you select it with an F key, and 2) the F keys are supposed to be for quick saving/loading, not spells and skills. I have never gotten used to this and I constantly mixed keys (#2) throughout God knows how money hours I've wasted on this. Have fun trying to restore your health or mana with potions from the inventory while being pounded by enemies. And don't let me even get started about bugs that others are complaining about. Apparently, it's possible to break several quests just by solving them out of order. This is beyond ridiculous for a game that's supposed to be a sandbox RPG like Skyrim or Oblivion, where you're supposed to be able to solve quests in any order you want. I didn't personally have any problems with this, but that's probably because I rage-quit the game before any problems even had a chance to manifest in the first place. This really should have been a straightforward clone of Diablo 2 instead of trying to be inventive and unique by adding sandbox RPG elements as well. I have a strong suspicion that would have solved at least half the problems I have with it.

Boring, uninspired me-too mishmash knockoff of Baldur's Gate and Diablo (both shit games).