Hi there...

Well I think you should get the game, but before you play patch to 1.41, or by the time you get it maybe a later patch will be out again.

People are having problems with the patch but that's because of save game compataiblity. If you start a new game with the latest patch most (if not all) problems should have been solved.

Secondly, and it's not normally my nature to say this, but some people on the forum have taken the fact that Larian people try to implement fixes and game changes according to complaints on the forum MUCH too far. Reporting bugs is fine, but demanding a game restructure isn't...

For example - attempts to bully the developers into changing the game to suit their own specific wants or needs with posts like, 'I'm not buying this game until you implement [this or that]. Or, 'Here's how it should function - fix it now!'

If I encounter a problem, I'll check it out, but I'm not bothered reading the 'bug list' forum as it is now as everyone appears to be experiencing different types of bugs with different machines. But again, most of this is old save game related (probably)!!! I may be proved wrong though if some one has started a whole new game with the latest patch and still has serious problems. Will have to wait and see.

In short I'm really enjoying the game, mostly from act 2 onwards as that's when you get more freedom, not much freedom to do what you want in act 1.

My only gripe with the game from a design point would be the skill points system...you don’t have enough points to make secondary skills useful as you'll need to keep your combat skills up to survive.

But it's starting to play much more like the old Divinity, and I hope it continues that way. Maybe someone who's further than I will explain.

Even before patching the game I only had one problem and that's because I use Win98.

I do recommend it, but it has it's flaws like any game anywhere. With a tweak to the skill system in a patch (which could happen) it could work out to be nearly as good as Divinity. Unfortunately, I don't think it can surpass the greatness of that first game and the sheer freedom of play it offered.

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