Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

I just decided to uninstall it after 99 hours, I had enough. Why? Here are my thoughts: The GOOD: • Fantastic atmosphere • Detailed world • Beautiful hand-drawn graphics, excellent voice acting • Wide variety of available gameplay style and characters The not-so-good • Incredibly tedious gameplay. Lore is (verbatim) all over the place. Everything must be searched and read. • Can't zoom out enough (camera angle choices are limited) • Spell & fight animations can not be skipped, accelerated or shortened. Skirmishes dreadfully long, let alone major battles (sometimes I literally went on a coffee break while all enemies had their moves, and returned with a mug of freshly brewed coffe in hand, with time to spare) • Difficulty level settings are "interesting". Example: enemy on "normal" ~400/500/1000, on "explorer" (next setting down) it is ~150/200/350. • Getting proper gear is deliberately hindered, which is not very nice for such a heavily gear-dependent game (usable traders are far and few in between, crafting was practically useless for me, drops are seriously filtered, and you can't effectively use higher level gear even if you accidentally have a lucky drop) My advise? 1) Feel free starting on Explorer straight away, there is no shame in it. Spare your nerves, the "challenges" are really not worth it. 2) Save on every corner. The game LOVES to drop uneseen/hidden/burrowed/teleporting enemies on you (but maybe not so much of a problem in Explorer mode) 3) Search the forums on the net if you stuck, straight away. Some of the mechanics/puzzles/choices are really just plain stupid, and there is no point wrecking your mind with some twisted "logic". If you follow that, maybe you will have a wonderful experience. Clearly lots of love went into creating this game, which is now completely lost on me: I can't bear the sight of it anymore after nearly a hundred hours of misery. Learn from my mistake, ignore the "challengers" on forums, and enjoy the ride :)

Best RPG I played ever, In my opinion slightly better than BG3

The gameplay is okay, but it's weird on controller. I have to quit the game and restart with the controller if I want to switch between keyboard and controller.

As my first experience in CRPG, DoS2 was amazing. Art, music, gameplay, story, truly a masterpiece of a video game.

One of the most spectacular spell casting games and enjoyable ambiances during game. Really nice to play coop.