1. Poor looting system.Enemies do not drop weapons and armor the are wearing
2. Poor character creation with little options and Forced to play pre-generated characters or accept a gimp
3. Level scaling makes your progression feel useless.
4. No night and day cycles.
Before i played Divinity 2, I played the first part. While the story in both were written well, the combat system was better in the first one. In Divinity 1 effects had a random chance to trigger, even on the first shot. That allows you to make choices completely free wich skills you take and how you want to combine characters. In Divinity 2 you have two armor systems: Physical and magic armor. They act like extra hitpoints that absorb damage from the equal type. If one of them is down, all affects, that are apply to the destroyed armor type, will work and none if the applied armortype is over 0 (a few exceptions exist). Because both armor types have often half as much hitpoints as the caracter has lifepoints it more or less FORCES THE PLAYER TO GO FULL PHYSICAL OR MAGIC. This means you end up combining only physical or magic teams because you want to focus fire and if you focus fire you dont want to do 25 percent more damage because you have a mixed team. Its sad, that Divinity 2 won't give you the chance to combine caracters as you want, if you dont want getting punished in damage output. This leads into cutting of half of your options in team creation.
Amazing game, love story, visuals are great, the soundtrack is decent, voice acting is good.
If you are looking for an RPG that will fill up your free time, look no further.
I played this game for 100 hours (planning to play it a lot more) and I have had only a few glitches, nothing game-breaking.
This game is not for me. Combat feels really clunky, its way to easy to make stupid mistakes such as accidently targetting scenery with attacks. Next to Solasta and Baldurs Gate 3 this feels like a substandard game.
DOS 2 is simply a sequel to the first, brilliant entry that does everything just a little bit better. It feels more polished, fleshed out and expands upon a well designed game world with great lore and memorable moments.
If you're an RPG fan, this simply needs to be on your bucket list.