Divinity 2: Developer's Cut

I really can't decide if this is a 4 star game, or deserves 5 stars. It follows pretty much in the general direction of Gothic, minus, unfortunately, the day/night cycle and a few neat details. The statistics are a bit too complex for my taste, but the sheer number of skills allows a much more customized char, and an Diablo-style loot system allows for treasure hunting galore. Just... Enemies do not respawn, and the content of treasure chests depend on your level instead of your location. Which reduces the opportunity for treasure hunting, and makes a daring raid in high level areas moot. So Divinity kind of sits between two chairs. Can't make Pit/Pindle runs like in Diablo, yet the world is not quite as deep as Gothic I. Still.. beats G II and III, has worthwile quests a notch above "kill 20 goblins", feels very polished, has lots of good voice acting... no.. I guess it deserves 5 stars... add a sixt one for the current Chinese new year sales price

I read that when the original Divinity II Ego Dragonis came out, it had a lot of problems: excessive difficulty, poor combat, an abrupt ending, bugs, etc. I am happy to report the Dev's Cut does not suffer the same problems. I played a warrior mage, and on medium difficulty the game ranged from slightly challenging early game to a breeze at the end. I died a few times on a few of the bosses, but only one or two felt unfair. The combat is nothing to brag about but not annoying. The controls are responsive. The movement is fluid. Although the combat gets repetitive after a while, it usually doesn't feel like a slog, except one act in the game where you have to fight through several very similar enemy fortresses populated by the same enemies. At least you get a lot of exp and loot. I only encountered two noticeable bugs playing through the game. The quest log sometimes cannot scroll down until you open one of the entries. The music cut out during my first reload of the dragon sequence in Flames of Vengeance. I promptly reloaded again, and the problem stayed away. I did not run into a single crash or bugged quest. Now the good. The game feels very balanced for the casual player. It has just the right amount of freedom to give the impression of an open world without intimating you with miles and miles of open terrain and dozens and dozens of NPC. It has enough skills and gear to give you choices in several play styles, but not so much that you need a couple of skill bars in a fight or have to labor over choosing one from a dozen similar swords. Once you choose a direction, you will know exactly what you need and can manage your needs easily. The original ending of Ego Draconis is now only a slightly abrupt plot twist. I found this version much better, indeed much needed. The story and characters were interesting enough to motivate me to finish the game. The epic music and god voice acting contributed a lot. Divinity II Dev's Cut is a very comfortable game to play.

After tweaking every graphical setting I can not get any result that is not full of so much flickering and stuttering that it hurts my eyes. I have enough gpu and cpu to launch this old game into orbit. Pathetic that it still runs like a broken down Chevy.

I tried to change the compatibility mode and so on and so forth, but I still cannot launch the game on my computer. There is no error message when I try to launch the game so I don't know what the problem is. I really wanted to play this game but never mind.

It runs on Gamebryo and suffers from a particularly bad case of microstutter. Tried everything but couldn't get it to run smooth.