Divinity 2: Developer's Cut

You can play as a dragon, put together your own creature and read the minds of NPCs! This alone should be reason enough to check out this game. Overall it's a standard RPG: skills, quests, dialogs.. But it has a very unique feel to it. It simplifies certain aspects of the genre (for example you are not bound to the skills of one particular class anymore) and adds a lot of its own ideas to the mix. I personally loved most of the design choices, but I can also see others hating these same choices.

One of the best 3rd person rpgs i've ever played. This game with it's expansion has hours upon hours of content. It does have some cut n paste caves which look very similar but the rest of the world is very unique and rewarding, as there's tons of loot and weapon choices with a good branching skill tree. The combat is decent and the music and world are fantastic, you can also turn into a dragon. I love it.

Let me start by saying that your mileage may vary with this game, there are flaws and your enjoyment will very much depend on whether you can ignore the problems, or they don't bother you. There are a few bugs in the multiple different versions of the game, although most of them have been ironed out in this particular version; there are still some oddities like a map having an area that doesn't exist in one particular cave. The NPCs also look pretty generic and plasticky. But if you can look past those things (which I easily could) you are in for a real treat. This is a really imaginative world with an extensive lore if you are willing to read all of the books and talk to all of the NPCs (or delve into larian's older games like Divine Divinity, which have a completely different story, but share some lore). The dialogue and quests really stand out for me, personally. Nealry all of the quests are imaginative with multiple ways to complete them, I've gone through this game multiple times and I'm still astonished at how by talking to an NPC at a different point in a quest can yield wildly different results, even if I'm aiming for the same outcome (this depends on the quest, of course, some have only a couple different ways to complete). The characters are all well-written and Larian's signature sense of humour is found in droves. The music is absolutely amazing and is still one of my favourite soundtracks in a game to date. Turning into a dragon (the reason I even picked this game up in the first place) is very fun, and not overpowered, as you are faced with large constructions like ballistas and anti-dragon shields requiring you find a way around - sometimes on foot. The overall storyline is a little hit-and miss, in my opinion, but this didn't really bother me as the actual world itself was very rich, and the moment-to-moment character interactions were incredibly entertaining and interesting. If you do decide to purchase this game, I recommend playing as an archer or mage, as those 'classes' are most fun; although the combat system is very flexible and allows for a character to be played multiple ways.

I don't know if it's only in the French version, but this game is genuinely funny. In a rather seriously genre, it's dialogues and situations have all the goofy silly nonsense absurd jokes you ever wanted to say in a RPG dialogue. And they are very well written, especially in Flames of Vengeance.

If you like RPG's stop reading and purchase this. Not sure why this game isn't more popular, but you can read minds as a dialouge option, run multiple different builds at the same time, and turn into a fucking dragon at will. It is also possible to play with a controller if you launch the game through Steam's Big Picture Mode and configure for WASD movement; your camera will be a little wonky but it is very comfortable and playable.