The game does not even have a volume option, not to mention proper resolution support. The controls of this game are obnoxious. I am played it with a controller, because of course mouse-control is garbage, turning with the controller is inaccurate. Playing the game made my hand hurt after a few minutes. The game is beautiful, if you like a magical but ultimately pointless and borderline unplayable game, buy it, otherwise avoid it like the pest!
I "grew" up on The Longest Journey (the first one, not the rubbish sequel). Secret Files: Tunguska is the only game that comes close to The Longest Journey for me. Great game, worth every penny!
The options menu is indie as well, first person look without FOV is one thing, but non-rebindable keys is a sin these days. I was excited to play this game, too bad nobody warned me of the lack of rebindable controls! Still think it is worth 15-20 quids.
In terms of writing it's the best 3D Fallout, because it was not written by Bethesda, but by the original developers of the Fallout-series. Game mechanics is a whole different thing, it's more of a question of taste. I like Fallout 1 and 2 more in terms of writing, Fallout 4 in terms of mechanics. If you didn't play Fallout 1 or Fallout 2, and you don't like Fallout 4, but you want Fallout in 3D, Fallout New Vegas is the Fallout-game for you.
Divinity Original Sin has a really great story. The writing is very good, feels very rich, there is a lot of quality content there. Until you realize you have to plow through Diablo-esque booooring, annoying, sometimes mind-numbing action-rpg bullshit to get to it. Most of the loot is random, which means you get 90% rubbish, and sometimes one good item. The level of the items is a virtually useless statistic, more often than not low level items have much more use than the high level ones you find later. There are really great mechanics in the game, like the talent-system, or the traits. And there are annoying bullshit, like the inconsistent lava-, or poison/acid-traps, which sometimes have instant-kill effect, sometimes they don't, or the shitloads of worthless loot to plow through to find the 101st item, that might be actually useful for you. Larian tried to mix two completely different genres: the classic crpg, and the mouse-button-mashing Diablo-esque boring action-rpg. What happened is a strange mixture with billowy pace, and useless busywork thanks to piles of useless rubbish of loot. The crafting seems surprisingly uninteresting, once you know enough about it, you feel it to be flat. The Journal is absolutely worthless. I love rpgs, I grew up with rpgs like Planescape: Torment, or Fallout 2. If you looking for an rpg that you want to play multiple times, this might not be the one for you. It is definitely not the one for me. It's more like Diablo - with admittedly a better story - than it is a classic crpg. It might be worth to watch a let's play of this game, but in my opinion it doesn't worth buying it. I own and played both the Classic and the Enhanced version of the game, although I only finished the Classic version.
Holy sh*t I love this game way more than I imagined! I have watched a walk-through on YouTube, after which I decided to buy this game. It doesn't worth £15, I bought it during the summer sale. Although I usually despise teen-drama, the writing is really good, the dialogues sound authentic, as much as I can remember of my youth... It's more of a mystery game rather than a "true" horror, but this doesn't take away from the experience. It's about 6-8 hours, but it is worth at least one replay, especially with the new update! My only problem was that the dialogue-bubbles are disappearing a bit too fast for my taste. Finally I have found a game which I am able to have a positive emotional response to!
