Divine Divinity

Divine Divinity is a really great experience overall despite some flaws that generally doesn't stop you from enjoying the game. STORY is your typical RPG story to save the world from evil type of thing with your typical races like human, elves, dwarves, orcs, imps etc. It contains interesting characters and some generally well placed cheeky humour. QUESTS are generally well done if you read and observe you surrouding without the need to be a detective. Side-quests are 50/50 I'd say some are interesting and others are pretty flat but it's still worth doing them all if you ask me for the extra rewards. The world is basically big maps that will be accessible for pretty much the entire game so while some quests will get resolved on their own if you progress too far you do have a reasonable timeframe to do them. WORLD is well built and fun to explore while you will meet a lot of the same enemies it's not that bad as fights are fast and you got to fill that big world with something after all. GAMEPLAY is like you would expect from an ARPG, however some controls aren't perfect and moving around can be a little funky also aiming a specific target in a group can be a little frustating. ATTRIBUTES and SKILLS are the 2 things that are not really well done in this game, like CONS and INT only offer HP and MP respectively but they offer so little that you don't want to invest much into them since you can enchant your gear with charm and the best ones offer 100 HP or 100 mana later on which is about 17-25 attribute points. So you are stuck investing most of you points in STR and/or DEX in most builds. While skills the more you progress the less skills you'll enjoy using since past a point enemies have so much resitance that it becomes tedious to be able to cast most spells and do well with them. The gameplay is just average with it's problems that you need to understand but it shouldn't spoil the fun, the meat is the story and the world around it with it's witty writing.

Simply a must play for anyone interested in this genre (Diablo, Diablo II, Nox, Titan Quest, et.al.). Larian studios created a winner. Great story, fun to play, the graphics are decent. What else could you want. Get it. Give it a few hours to get going and learn some nuances, you wont regret it. One of my all time favorites. GOG just needs to work on getting Beyond Divinity. I started playing it a while back but stopped, and now I can't find my CD anymore.

To me, it was always a game that blurred the lines between a lot of RPG subgenres. Sometimes its Diablo (aRPG), sometimes its Ultima (cRPG). Some people hate it for that, but to me, it makes for a very unique experience that i have returned to many times over the years. Far from perfect, but unique and satisfying. Should be played through at least once by any (c,a)RPG fan, if only to be a sleight diversion before playing through PS:T or BG2 for the 800th time.

This is a true sequel to Diablo 2. Same good gameplay but expanded RPG features.

or Baldurs gate without the D&D legchains - this is a lovely games to play even so many years after it's launch...