Jeesh, and I thought I was hard to please <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I will have to admit that during my first time through the game I got really frustrated by a few things, mostly self-imposed by my fondness for DD, and the myriad of bugs in the initial release. There are still some things that I do not care for in the game (skill system, Insta-Deaths early in the game, lack of information about skills / charms / etc.), but the game now is stable (still a few problems that need to be fixed) and I am enjoying it much more the second time through.
IMHO, most of the criticisms that I read now are just personal preferences:
Voice acting? Who cares. If you want to hear really bad voice acting (and infantile dialogue)just load up Might & Magic IX.
Battlefields? you have a choice - use them or don't.
Quests and puzzles too hard / too easy? It can't be both, but complaints go both ways.
Personally I still like the feel of DD much better, but I will be playing this game for years to come.
The one thing that I think would have been enormous fun in this game is the option for TCP/IP support so you could replace the DK with another real life person. But then we can't have everything now can we?
I think there were times when I was too harsh in my criticism of BD, but now I see it as a great RPG that will give me many hours of fun in many future replays.
Think back to those long dry months when there was not a single decent RPG released. That is what I hated. I try to look for the fun in a game, and fun is very easy to find in BD.
