You may be all very disappointed with <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> but I love it and all Larian games. No matter what I will always stick with there games. So I think you should all spend more time enjoying the game then dissin it. Or if you can't think of anything else, mail Larian and give them some helpful tips for there next game.
Actually, Nightmare, if you'd bothered attending this forum before, you would have discovered that I'd been a relatively strong supporter of the game since it first appeared in the US. I've acknowleged both its good points and its failings, and my remarks upon the latter aren't out of line with those that many other players and some reviewers have noted. You may think I should "spend more time enjoying the game then dissin it," but I think you should spend more time reading the background of remarks here, before you jump in and make assumptions that are palpably inaccurate. Feel free to read back over the last 60 days if you want my positive take on things, my more optimistic assessment of the state-of-the-game, and my 100+ posts in the Help area to assist newbie players. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Had you bothered to check earlier posts, you would realize that Larian has made some claims on these boards--such as stating that they would deal with the balance issues in order to get a higher rating, promised in an IGN review (if and when they accomplished this). Nothing's been done on that front, despite the words. I think it's fairly apparent after two months on the market that while the patches will deal bugs, they won't fix or balance the skills. If Larian can't even be bothered to separate out skill points from monster hit points (so that we can have more skill points without finding monsters too easy), then they're hardly going to take on the more time-consuming task of realigning the skills themselves.
I'm glad you enjoy Beyond Divinity that much. Only give some thought, next time you post on the subject, to the fact that the views of others may go beyond simply black and white, and may have put a fair amount of thought into the game before posting.
