I'm now finally playing Divinity 2 The Dragon Knight Saga. I originally bought the German CE of Ego Draconis in July 2009 and played a bit of that back in the day but then it quickly became clear that Larian was planning on more than just bug-fixing with their patches so I put the game aside to wait for the feature-filled patches to arrive.
I also didn't really want to play the German version. I prefer playing the original version and so I decided to wait for an opportunity to get my hands on a patch that makes the game multilingual. That never happened unfortunately because of dtp's strict region locking policy (those assholes
) and so I had to wait even longer for an English retail release. No, couldn't buy the game on Steam either. - Steam was/is only selling a region-locked German version to customers with a German IP address (those fuckers
).
Anyway, all of those sob stories apart, here we are, finally playing an English retail of DKS, and I have just finished the Ego Draconis part of the saga, playing on "hard", after ~46 hours.
This game is really good action RPG stuff and I was positively surprised -after some negative comments on here and other places- by the enjoyment I got out of the dragon gameplay. It wasn't perfect by far but it was a nice change of pace from ye olde exploring by foot.
The battle tower also proved to be a nice, rather fresh feature.
The game has the usual (for Larian) quirky characters (the necromancer Jonelath anyone? WTF is up with that dude?
), funny humor and a HUGE, surprisingly diverse world to explore. Almost a little too huge maybe. I kind of prefer shorter games these days but it's all good.
My list of negatives is very short. I think they should have maybe worked on a better game balance. I don't know if I did something "wrong" but the last third/fourth of the game I was more or less one-shotting (battle mage type of character) everyone (including bosses) and getting very little XP with a level 36 character when everyone else was level ~30.
I think I might have done the fortresses too early. I was climbing up the level ladder like crazy when I first went to one and kept at it (did two fortresses in a row in the early level 20ies).
Dunno... but it really got pretty boring towards the end with almost no challenge. The beginning (especially) and some of the mid game was definitely "hard" as advertised though.
Anyway, really looking forward to diving into Flames of Vengeance now. Should be fun...