I did not really enjoy any Larian game so far, because I do not like their writing. I do love (isometric) CRPGs tho and have played almost every major title and then some. I did not finish Original Sin 1, because the gameplay became boring when the only thing that could hurt my party was "random lava miss clicking" and the story and dialogues were just not good and silly. So now I caved and finally bought what apparently the whole world prizes at the "best CRPG ever" and i do not like it all: - No "origin" for origin characters. What am I supposed to roleplay here? - constant breaking of character needed to progress - still a ton of sill 3year old jokes breaking immersion every two sentences - horrible UI and Inventory - It gets dull pretty fast to slug your way through thrash mobs in round based combat - main cause of death and strife still is the UI, because you accidently walked into a deathzone / stole something / drew your weapons / took someones chair and no one is accepting "Sorry, I just wanted to move by and get the tooltip for that npc" as an excuse.
One of the best games I have ever played. I played through this game 5 times. I discovered new things and missions everytime. It has an incredibly immersive and good atmosphere and the mission design is superb. Joystick recommened. If you can get over the (back than amazing) graphics, this game will give you an overwhelmingly good experience. I played the game in german and the writing and voice acting is superb, i cant vouch for the english translation.
