Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

In combat, I really dislike the camera controls, the cluttered screen that makes targeting hard and the unclear of feedback when using abilities. A simple example is when I try to teleport the enemy healer in front of one of my melee. You can bet that what'll actually happen is that I end up teleporting my melee to, well, where it already was. But still, the camera controls is in the long run what I dislike the most. I move the camera (through clunky controls) so I can (somewhat) get the view I want. Then I use an ability and the camera switches back to the active character. I'd like the same view again for my second attack and so I have to reposition the thing all over again. When it's the enemy's turn, I'd like to hover my mouse to get information while I wait for them to do their boring 30 second routine, but alas, this is all but impossible, because the camera centers on the active enemy, which, of course, runs all around the combat area. Camera controls are annoying when exploring too or when moving into uncharted parts of the map. I want to look ahead and that turns the camera auto-follow feature off. I have to manually turn it back on by moving a hand to the "Home" key. Then there's the last thing. I read dialogue. It's a very important part of my immersion. The following example is the straw that broke the camel's back. There were several similar conversations before this one. So, I get three options to answer a question from an NPC. I do not want to reveal the information asked for. So I choose the rude option three and ask the NPC to, well, to be silent and leave me alone. The NPC laughs it off, and I can try again. Now I can chose only from the other two options. Still, option two lets me avoid the question. The same thing happens again and I am now left with only one dialogue option, the one that reveals the information I do not wish to reveal. This is like bad parenting! I seriously had expected better from this game, my immersion completely ruined.

This is how a CRPG should made. From great story, to unique and very fun combat system, great dialogue and lots of replayability, I think that this game is deserving of the prestigious GOTY award

I hoped so long for a game, that has the freedom, a divine divinity had. I hoped that Larian, when they have the right amount of ressources (including time to polish theyre game), would make the best game they can do. They delivered. Beyond Divinity, Ego Draconis, Original Sin 1, all good games that i liked, but i always knew they could do more. This game has the magic, just try it out and it will suck you in hard! Dont forget to sleep btw :)

As most players of this genre of games i have several problems with this one : - Impossible to highlight interactables, Alt key just shows junk on the ground and is useless, i lose a lot of times probing with my mouse the screen to search what i can or cannot click, is this game advertised as a Point and Click ? No... So please offer option to do like in POE/Tyrany. - Impossible to toggle view cones, what this games consider being a toggle is a constant key press... A real toggle would be to press once to activate and press again to deactivate ! - The key configuration looks promising at first but i just tried to simply invert left click and right click, because i prefer to move with a right click like in all the other games in the last 30 years... The result ended in an unplayable state because they are some actions on the mouse buttons that cannot be remapped. So i have to play with an awkward default mouse setup. - In dialogs there are no indications on the chances of success of any choices, so i have to waste a vast amount of time to do trials and retry doing F5/F8. We are in 2018 please help players in their choices with some form of stats, POE/Tyrany are much better in this aspects, make it activatable so people that like old school trial and error can lose as many time as they want. In any case doing F5/F8 ruin the game immersion. - They are too many unforeseen consequences to the dialog choices, reasonable choices often yield to fight encounters i didn't asked for. Only solution is doing F5/F8 that ruin the game immersion. - In the same vicinity some fights are easy and others are undoable, often this means i have to come back later. The problem is that some dialogs seemingly peaceful end in fights that are too hard at current level. This means that even some dialogs cannot be taken until some minimal level and its a huge design flaw. Again F5/F8 saves the day but normal players souldn't have to do it so often. - The rendering is very beautiful but it raises a very huge problem of readability, there is no way to know where i can go and where i cannot, so again i have to probe the screen and click everywhere in hope it leads somewhere, its again a huge design flaw. Only the minimap indicates slightly the walkable areas and the minimap cannot be clicked... I have just started the game so i cannot say if the RPG part is decent but i can already say that the basics for the user experience comfort are hugely lacking. This explains my somewhat mitigated review, i might come back to write more about the mechanics on fights and story building but we already know they are good.

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