Well, first of all I really enjoyed Divine Divinity and have been looking forward to Beyond Divinity for quite some time, however now that I played BD for bout 8 hours I'm sad to say that I'm a bit dissapointed. Main reason is the DK...I can't wait to get rid of him (I'm afraid I'm stuck with him for a while though..prolly all game). Cause of the DK the battles are a bit less fun imo, especially at higher difficulty I find myself pausing the game a lot more to survive the battles cause one of my chars is getting hurt bad or is just acting stupid. This takes the pace out of the game. It's not that I hate rpg's where you have to control several characters, it can be very good fun, but I liked the setup in DD
Second thing is the story at the beginning, Divine Div got me sucked in from the beginning, in BD however I still hardly have a clue what i'm doing...I only just entered chapter 2 so it might get better, but the first chapter bored me a bit storywise
Third thing is the insane amount of chests, barrels etc, almost all containing a bit loot, DD had loads of them, but BD even beats it here and you better check em all...
Neverthetheless I wanna continue playing and experiment more with the endless list of skills, hoping the story will catch me a bit more. Besides the things above, BD plays a lot like DD and is an okay game, but so far I liked DD better.
It's prolly just cause after DD a lot of new rpg's arrived and I got spoiled a bit, where these new rpg's were new, BD is the same as DD with some changes which aren't always an improvement.
