Baldur's Gate with more fighting adn less talk. Better than any new woke game!
The game that got me playing PC games. Still love it.
In addition to what others have said about this game I get a feeling from Divinity 2 that I have not felt since EverQuest and Diablo 2. I want to play it. When not playing, I think about it, what quest did I miss, what to do next, should I go back to a chest I skipped earlier and try to open it now. Some great epic RPGs are out now but often they can start to feel like a grind. When I come home from work, I want a game that is somewhat simple and fun. This game is both, not too many things to remember, not too many keystrokes to memorize, and lots of things to stumble upon. Five stars for recapturing the feeling I once had playing games.
I had only played Ultima Online so I did not know much of the Ultima background; hence, this game did not hold the level of expectation that others voice here. U9 remains one of the few games I played to completion multiple times. I enjoyed the game and had fun exploiting areas such as stacking items to climb a mountain, then remove the bottom item and place it on top to keep climbing even though the stack now rested in mid-air. Warning, this can break quests, since you may bypass triggers. I remember having over 2,000 saved games because the game could crash to desktop at any minute and it often did. In spite of this I enjoyed the puzzles and talking to each NPC. I was often surprised to venture into an area, thinking it would be barren, to find it had not just plants but other items to interact with, such as a sunken ship. While these were not part of any quest it was fun to explore. Even at the very beginning of the game you could use the stacking exploit to climb a gate and end up outside of the world looking in. Flawed – yes, but fun, as though you found something secret that no one else knew existed and the developers did not intend. I understand why so many people hated this game; I wish they could see why others enjoy it. If you rate it on its adherence to the Ultima series then it fails miserably, otherwise it can be fun if played without preconceived expectations. Maybe “What’s a paladin?” was the Avatar testing the NPC’s knowledge?
