I find that I am really loving Divine Divinity...it has it all. Great storyline, fun quests, easy to figure out navigation and controls. I never played the game when it first came out, so for me it's a whole new experience. For me, the sign of a good game is one that allows for complete and total procrastination when it comes to everything else I should be doing. Divine Divinity does that, in spades. All in all, just a good, fun game.
This is definitely a game for nostalgia's sake. If you played it in the past, you will most likely enjoy the trip down memory lane into a realm of simplistic controls, pixelated graphics (which don't translate well at all on widescreen and a windowed version is so small you can hardly see what is happening). The storyline might be interesting but the gameplay is so subpar that it's not enjoyable. I'm all for nostalgia, but it works best when you have the foundation that allows you to be nostalgic in the first place. I should have dug deeper to realize it was a DOS-based game before I purchased it. Thankfully, it cost less than a paperback does these days so I can chalk it up as a reminder to go beyond the 5 star nostalgia reviews and determine if it really would be a game I can get into.
