Posted on: July 29, 2020

Elyseon

Games: 219 Reviews: 3

Massively overrated

An exercise in frustration. It starts out simple enough, but it heaps on annoyance after annoyance. The map interface is annoying to navigate. The world itself is nothing extraordinary, rather boring and forgettable. The main quest is standard fare, but hindered by the aforementioned annoyances. Combat is ridiculous, with even the most basic of mooks usually packing unlimited supplies of poison/fire/shock arrows and spells above what would be reasonable to expect, like random cultist mooks in a low level area packing petrification spells. Basically, crap that either shuts down at least one of your characters for several turns or piles ticking damage upon them with very limited ways of countering those effects. The game is also overly fond of throwing you into battles where you are outnumbered and where enemies pelt you with the aforementioned afflictions from beyond your reach. Enemies have way too many action points and for every move you make you can expect each of them to attack or fling spells at you twice. This brings us to the other major annoyance - the barrels. Someone at Larian must have some sort of fetish with barrels or spent an ungodly number of hours playing Donkey Kong because you will find barrels containing flammable oil or poison in the most ludicrous of places. Between this and the aforementioned arrows issue, you can expect battlegrounds to turn into burning infernos or poison swamps. This would not be so bad if you were able to properly exploit the elemental system, except for the fact that you don't have fire spells that early on and your supplies of arrows and grenades are limited. Boss fights are also extremely annoying. There is one fairly early in the game that has an attack that is basically a one hit kill and can chain, hitting more than one character at once. The one not long after that starts the fight by summoning more annoying mooks and flinging more burning crap right off the bat, before you even get to do anything.

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Posted on: September 4, 2023

johnb4467

Verified owner

Games: 260 Reviews: 7

As fun as D:OS2...and holds up GREAT!

I had played through D:OS 2 on Steam...and ended up with 127.8 hours. It was one of the best RPG's I had played. A week or two before BG3 released, I decided I should play through D:OS 1 (which I already owned on GOG) before considering BG3. 127 hours and 55 minutes later -- I just finished D:OS 1 EE tonight. It was every bit as fun as 2, and I thought the game held up remarkably well: Art style is great, music is FANTASTIC, and the story I enjoyed. If you're wondering if this game is as good as the second... ...overall I enjoyed myself every bit as much -- and got almost EXACTLY the same amount of playtime out of the two! Definitely enjoy this one. :)

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Posted on: November 27, 2023

escapist23

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 17

good Gog!

I tried several newer rpgs, Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder, I liked none of them. I kind of like this one better. It looks pretty on my Imac, it's turn based combat, none of that dumb press pause every 3 seconds thing. The tutorials are numerous. The other two games either had not enough tutorials, or the combat was the crap pause thing. Pillars had no humour whatsoever. This game has none of these faults. However some things about it are stupid, this has been mentioned by others, for example the Jake thing. They refer as a 'councillor' named Jake. Ahru the wizard, and Jake the councillor? Lol. And Jake who? Oh, THAT Jake, the guy who lived down the street. However the rest of the game seems well made, the music is beautiful, the humour is there but not overdone. One other thing I don't like is that the characters never shut up, even when you read what you say faster than they say it, they still voice the whole thing word by word. But all in all it seems a good game. That's all I can say about it, I only played it for 10 minutes.

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Posted on: November 7, 2020

Time4Tea

Verified owner

Games: 129 Reviews: 12

Good game, but not a classic

This is the first Larian game I have played, although I have played many other isometric CRPGs. I think the game is good and worth playing, but imo it falls short of the genre greats. It seems like a good example of the difference between a game engine and the game that is made on the engine. I think the engine is absolutely fantastic. The graphics are great and I love the turn-based combat, which is tactical and interesting. I also really like the interactivity with the game world, which is similar to Ultima 7 or Elder Scrolls in the sense that you can pick up every cup and candlestick, if you want to. The game also has an interesting and extensive crafting system - with a high enough crafting skill, you can craft pretty much any usable item. Character progression is also very well done and flexible. It is probably the closest thing to a tabletop RPG that I have seen in a video game. However, I think the game they have built on the engine is 'ok', but leaves quite a bit to be desired. Shortcomings in my opinion are: - The writing is not particularly strong. The plot isn't very imaginative or inspiring and the character development tends to be a bit shallow, with few truly memorable characters. I am also not a big fan of the overall tone of the game, which is full of cheap gags and silly, over-the-top characters. - There is a huge over-abundance of magic loot, to the extent that you will spend a significant amount of time managing your inventory and struggling to offload piles of magic items you will never use. This somewhat cheapens magic equipment and makes the crafting system pointless for magic weapons and armor. - The game world is very generic and not very open. The player is steered quite strongly along a path that is not easy to deviate from. Overall, it is a fun experience with room for improvement. The game itself is a bit on the mediocre side and doesn't fulfill the potential of the awesome engine.

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Posted on: October 8, 2023

icesquish

Verified owner

Games: 231 Reviews: 1

Lots of Flaws, but Great Combat

This is the first CRPG I finished, after 93 hours. Overall I enjoyed it, but it has many flaws. I'd still recommend it, but go in with realistic expectations, as it's far from perfect. The Good: * Combat. Especially if you have casters in your party, you can do a lot of fun things, so combat isn't simply "hit enemy until it dies". * Character progression. I was under-leveled for certain parts of the game, but by the end I felt over-powered. It was satisfying to see how my characters had grown. * Build variety. I barely scratched the surface here, playing with 2 melee characters (one tanky, one DPS) and two casters (buffs/debuffs, elemental magic). Since the game doesn't lock you into classes, there are plenty of interesting builds you can go for. * The magic system. I love that the spells in this game aren't "per rest", and only the strongest ones are "per encounter". This made it fun to actually use magic, rather than saving casts for the next tough encounter. This freedom is balanced by most spells being fairly weak damage-wise. You have to get creative to be effective as a caster, and IMO that's a good thing. The Bad: * Inventory management. You can sort by type, but everything is still contained in a single messy window. * The plot. I had heard praise for the ending, but it felt underwhelming. * The tone. Practically no characters in the game take things seriously. Instead they crack jokes, speak in alliteration, sound like they're auditioning for a play, etc. * The quest log. Having no quest markers can be a good thing, but sometimes I had no idea where to go next. * The puzzles. They're either way too easy, or way too obtuse. It almost never felt satisfying to "solve" one. Half the time, I couldn't tell whether I was solving them as intended, or if I had exploited a bug. * Crafting is a mess, and not clearly explained. * Companion plots are extremely lackluster. I finished one's quest without ever having him in my party. * Choices barely matter.

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