hmmm I hate to say this but...
im not too pleased with the demo.
1.) The voice actors are not very well done. They all sound like there reading it off a book in front of a class. They dont seem to have any emotion or feeling to them. As if im talking to robots or somthing. A demon knight is suppost to be of pure evil. He dosnt sound that way he sounds like a human being with a male voice like darth vader.
2.) In combat the attack is way to slow. Also the character continually runs there is no walk button. The stamina bar also goes down very fast. 8 times as fast as it did in divine divinity. There is no potion icon at the bottom left so i can drink health potions.
1: I have to agree , the voice acting done in Divine Divinity was better . I think the reason may be that everything is spoken now and only a small percentage of Divine Divinity .
This might cut back on the ability to take the time to explain how the intonation and speed of the voice should be to the actors, because of the bulk of text to be done . . . but still . . .
Also it seems that not all the voices are on an equal level (not normalized ?) or of the same recording quality (talking skull's voice is distorted) , they also seem really DRY (except the Death Knight) , no Reverb effect or something to attenuate this is a dungeon . . .
2: The Combat is OK , not great , although i would like the EXP / HIT / MISS to show a little longer or , even better , have a hideable text bar in the bottom of the screen that keeps a short history of what was HIT/MISS and how much EXP you got for a killing a char or solving a quest (like in Neverwinter Nights , not the one from Baldur's Gate II , that was too bulky ) That would be great.
And indeed , the fighting is still faster than in the Baldur's Gate Series , although i don't get that a rat can almost kick my [nocando] ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Visuals are great , i love 2D ! You just can't get that level of detail with texture mapped 3D environments . And also the interaction with the environment is great .
BTW : About the length of the DEMO ...i wouldn't worry , i did a BETA testing session(don't know if i may say this , had to sign a voucher <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />) of ACT III at larain a few weeks ago , and let me assure you i played for about 8 hours , and i hadn't solved a 1/4 of my quests . . . so . . .it's BIG !
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