Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General Battlefeilds.......

Yeah, I agree, the Battlefields are odd... It would have been so much nicer if they would have tied it into the actual game in some manner, perhaps make it some sort of proving ground/trials/training camp that you can travel to and participate in. It's just weird to find a key lying around, touch it, and suddenly have the ability to teleport at will to some alternate universe where a bunch of skeletons are standing around waiting for you to kill them. (Also, of course, merchants hang out there...how convenient)

When this Battlefields idea was first mentioned/introduced, a lot of people claimed it would make the game more replayable. I argue that it makes the game less replayable. Here is why: serious players of a game like this want to visit everywhere, do everything. The Battlefields is super-boring, so the idea of going through them yet again is pretty painful. As a result, people are less likely to re-play the game than they would be otherwise. I know this is true for me. So far I have restarted the game twice, playing almost all of Act I a total of 3 times. Both my 2nd and 3rd game I had plenty of fun replaying through the parts of the main story that I'd already done, but going through the Battlefields again was pretty bad...

... The Battlefields is super-boring, so the idea of going through them yet again is pretty painful. As a result, people are less likely to re-play the game than they would be otherwise. I know this is true for me. So far I have restarted the game twice, playing almost all of Act I a total of 3 times. Both my 2nd and 3rd game I had plenty of fun replaying through the parts of the main story that I'd already done, but going through the Battlefields again was pretty bad...

Well I was disapointed when I first heard that this game was going to have randomly genereated quests (or should I say generic) ,well after generating moved only to Battlefields, the game started too look good again. Right now, am at the begining of act 2, and while the game for the most part is quite good , I made a mistake of going into a Battlefield because the game seems to be a bit on the difficult side. Well, I will not go again, it's inclusion was a complite mistake in my mind, here's why:

1)It's obius, that the games increased difficulty is there because of the extra items/exp Battlefields offer. Am playing on tactical ,and I made it so far without too much frustration, but as I will not go into Battlefields any more ,am guesing I might have a tough time compliting the game (will see).

2)There is no explenation what so ever about the existance of Battlefields. "Randomly generated universe" just doesn't cut it for me, and it takes the main game out of contex. Once I got back from the Battlefield, the mood was complitly ruined for me, as was the bolivability of the world.

3)I don't understand what entertainment do people get from such quests as "Legend has it ,there is a powerfull belt around here" ,and clicking on skeletons in generic huge dungeons.

Good RPGs are about interesting and detailed worlds, and hopefully Larian will stay away from genericnes in <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> 2,I just hope I don't have to visit another Battlefield untill the end of the game.

That about sums it up for me as well. The battlefields are readily available merchants who have good loot on occassion, and there's some easily available loot to scrounge if you like butchering monsters.

I'd argue that it's a cheesy way to avoid game balance, but the monsters level with you on and off the battlefields, so it really doesn't make *that* much of a difference if you go and thump monsters or not. I did religiously in Act 1, I haven't bothered at all in Act 2, and probably won't. Really, it's a boring place to blow off quest steam and kill stuff for bucks.

The big advantage it has, to me, is that it's immediately available merchants, unlike in Divine Divinity, where good merchants were only avalible in Ars Magicana. I had to park one of my teleporter stones in Geoff the Blacksmith's shop so that I could conveniently dump off goodies to him; now I can use the teleporter stones as I want to, and use the battlefields to throw loot around and store gear.

I'm glad they're there, I just never see myself actually PLAYING in them any more.

Well, as I stated previously, Battlefields are optional (same with the Summoning Dolls). I think the more choices gamers have, the better off they are. BD and DD are 2 games that offer a great game to many types of players. As we can see here on the forums, there are a lot of people who prefer the action elements of BD and DD whereas, others prefer the quest solving abilities.

Larian did a great job at getting these two opposite ends of the market and putting them together in one game. Do you realize how difficult a task that is?


Faralas <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" />

As I said, IMO, for a "serious player" of a game like this, no one wants to skip anything, even if it is a giant repetitive area like the Battlefields. Saying the Battlefields are optional is like saying side quests are optional, yes they are, but someone who's really into the game is going to want to do them all anyway.

Actually, I like the battlefields a lot. Sometimes I'm in the mood to follow the story and have fun with quests - sometimes I'm in the mood to hack/slash/and advance my characters.
It's nice being able to choose which one I want to do at the time.
As for the story - they have done a great job with the story as it is - I don't need it to carry over to the battlefields.