Larian Studios Forums Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga / Flames of Vengeance (English) Divinity II - The Dragon Knight Saga Did you HONESTLY read all the stuff?

Well I like to read anyway. I read every day, it's one of life's greatest pleasures. I couldn't imagine not reading everything in a game, especially one as good as D2 DKS. I also thought the( English ) voice acting was very good, quite similar to the Fable games.

i beat risen and gothic 4 and almost ready with dragon age and all dlc's but ill say this DKS did a far better job then any of those games.risen and gothic 4 came up short on gametime but ill admit was fun and adicting. dragon age is fun but not that addicting..cant jump! i like jumping! anygame that removes this feature i loose interest fairly fast. as well jumping is a big part of rpgs and adventures to reach the place u wanna become rich!. So in the END risen took 30 hours and gothic 4 took 22 hours to beat but DKS and the built in expanson took my 67 hours. So yea DKS wins the title for best RPG of 2010!.

Read/Listened dialogues, but never read books/notes (unless asked to by the game).

Have you tried Gothic 3 (NOT the piece of excrement which was G3 Forgotten Gods which was NOT made by PB) with the latest Community Patch? Turns out it was a pretty good game after all, and should keep you busy for 60+ hours.

If it takes a comunity patch to be good then it was not good.

I read most of the ingame books. It is part of the experience.

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On the above:

The combat in Gothic 3 was very buggy, because of missing animations. This was very problematic, because even at highest level a wolf can instant kill you.

Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 are excellent. Gothic 3, with patch, doesn't remove the fighting bug, but most other bugs are solved, making it a nice game.

I read every book i could find. In most games where there are books i also collect them, so i can get as much backstory as i can. I think they are an awesome feature to have. Makes all the backstory to factions, characters, settlements etc. in the game optional and adds realism to the gameworld. Now about the voicing in the game. The cast was obviously small, i could recognize many voice actors after a while, but i think they did a very good job mostly, giving different characters different personalities. Never did this game feel a hackjob in the sound department like Oblivion for example. The only flaw with the voice acting aside from obvious lack of personnel in my opinion were a few weird accents and a few obvious wrongly pronounced words. Aside from that really impressive job. Kudos to your voice acting director (if you have one that is).

The game was pushed out by the publisher (JoWood) too early due to greed and then they and the dev Piranha Bytes had a divorce from that debacle. From that split JoWood had the legal rights to the Gothic name, damn it all, and also PB could not fix what was broken with any more patches. However the community has stepped up and because of their patches they have pulled out most of the diamond that was in there behind all the rough (bugs). Some engine problems remain, but all in all it has turned out to be a very good game. IMHO the graphics are even better than in Spellbounds Arcania, even after all these years.

Have you used the Alternative Balancing & A.I. features in C.P. 1.74? I don't have any problem with the combat or wolves, unless there is a pack of em, then you just lure 'em one at a time to you.

On-topic - I read EVERY book in Div 2, some books have significant clues on how to complete some quests.

Sure I read everything. 20 years of education (school, university, grad school) kinda made me love books, you know. It is sad that some teens have problems with reading in games.

Some people find it harder to read anything from monitor than from paper. Me for example. I even print some long texts, because I can't stand reading long stories on screen. No idea why so, but it always was with me.

It is the opposite for me.
20 years of forced education made me hate reading.
Even though I still read books because I like stories.

I read everything i could find, books, notes etc.
Talked and Listened to every person in the game, and i don't understand you ppl that keep on complaining about the voice over, I though they were great.