Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

the games starts off by trapping you in a town for 10 hours, where you have to complete meandering fetch quests trying to solve a murder mystery. it's like the developers wanted the player to memorize every tiny detail of this little crapburg before they'd be gracious enough to allow the player to actually play the game. would get a refund on this, if i could.

Usually a great fan of these types of games, but this one is just sooooo boring and bland... In the first few hours its funny with the humor and its cool how it does little handholding. But after a while, and I'd guess I'm not even a third through it, it just gets incredibly lame... Story is not exciting and the dialogs are so bad all you want to do is skip them. I really cannot recommend this game at all.

This could have been really good game, but there are things that make Divinity:OS EE broken for me and not worth wasting time. First thing that got me triggered is how hard it is to change language. It's impossible ingame, one have to look for specific files or change system settings. Who thought it was a good idea, I have absolutely no clue. But that's not the worst thing. Targeting and misclicking is worse (using mouse or touchpad - yes, macbook touchpad is perfectly usable for playing turn based games). All the time you have to check if you are not clicking through the game UI. You may think that you are targeting an item in your backpack, but no - that's the ground under the backpack. That is infuriating while in combat. Similar problems exist with choosing skills when you want to level up or just check what is one skill doing or when you want to just move stuff. Also happens with some objects that are big enough. Optimalization is bad. I played Witcher 3 on Paralel Desktops and while choppy on ultra, on high it was perfectly playable and smooth. With D:OS EE I find it silly, how it can randomly drop to ab. 25 fps. Just because. The textwriting is too often childlish and overstylized. The jokes are dry, like someone trying too hard to be funny and failing miserably. Just sad. I did not finish the game, but the plot doesn't look like it's on par with games like Pillars of Eternity or even Icewind Dale. And another thing about which I felt soo let down. Nasty deeds are redundant. There is entire tree of skills you won't use 'cos they are plain useless. Who designed this game? Srsly, if you want the game to look "old-school" and put some skills that are traditionally present in those old-school crpgs, then make them at least of little importance. For now there is absolutely no reason to invest any points in nasty deeds. There are also minor flaws like ugly portraits, predictable AI and so on. That is sad, because game had such potential and it feels wasted.

The graphics are great, the music is enjoyable and all of the little gimmicks (like talking to animals or crafting) are a nice distraction from the fact that the story is a rickety shambles held upright only by the sheer mass of its own pomp. If you can ignore the story, you will have a blast. I did my best to try, but could not manage.

Back in the day I enjoyed the D&D RPGs, but with time micromanaging every aspect of a party of 4 has lost its appeal, I tried going with the lone wolf talent because I thought I could do a neverwinter kind of run with only me and my pal complementing each other (more skills mean a stronger characters, right?) weell, not exactly, there are so many skills that you have to spread yourself thin, I found myself struggling in every battle, barely making it out alive, and for the boss battles I always found some way to turn the scales in my favor using the enviroment, but I gave up after encountering Baraxxus (I think that's his name), the guy is incredibly powerful, he strikes first and takes 75% of my health in the first turn, and to make things worse he summons 3 of the bosses you previously fought to aid him. I could start a new game, but I cannot be bothered to spend another 20 hours dragging myself though this slow paced piece of frustration just to get pulverized again