Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General Is this game going to get better???

I often have to ignore some feeble insulting attempts from particulary weak minds.


I realise I might get unnecessarily flamed, few people enjoy reading capitals since it's the equivalent of shouting.

Hahaha, looks like someone pushed a few people's buttons. My copy only arrived a couple of days ago, but I'm having a ball with it so far. Sure there's things I'd prefer to be otherwise, but so what. I'm enjoying the game for what it is; a lot of fun.

When I was a newbie, I didn't realize that CAPITAL LETTERS were the aequivalent to shouting. I simply realized them as means of stressing something, like putting stars around a word, like *this way* .

internet has in some details a different culture of writing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Especially smilesy - I don't know any Novel that incorporates smileys. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Actually I still use capitals to stress words or parts of a sentance.


Except for some fanfiction, yes, I haven't seen smilies in novels <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />.

@ Alrik and Deathatthedoor
Be the first ones to write novels with smilies in them.
Death could create his own smilies with Photoshop <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kitty.gif" alt="" />

Barta

Well to be back on topic, I agree with the original poster of this thread that the game is IMHO way to linear.

I was very dissappointed with Beyond Divinity in the first place because I loved Divine Divinity, I enjoyed the vastness and the non-linearity of that game and Beyond Divinity is really nothing compared to it.

I had high hopes for beyond Divinity but somehow they weren`t fullfilled. I just finished the 2nd Chapter, and don`t get me wrong it isn`t such a bad game, but it is way " beyond Divine Divinity" ( what a neat little phrase :_) )


just my two cents anyway,
L.

I coulnd't agree more or write a better statement than what LANNISTER said in his post.

So I'll just do that: I agree with you, way too linear !

@ Lannister


You have just finished Act 1 and Act 2 and you can say that the whole game is too linear. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
It is pretty good.

I am playing Act 2 and i can't say how linear is the game.
Too bad <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />

Please remember the beginning of Divine Divinity : you had to solve the quest about Mardaneus.
This huge dungeon in the catacombs, with a lot of hack and slash and no quest to solve was really linear and boring.

Come back when you will have completely finished the game to tell us how linear is Beyond divinity. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kitty.gif" alt="" />
Thank you.

Barta

Well of course you in DD you had to solve this whole Village-thing, but that made up well lets`s say 1/25th of the game !

In Beyond Divinity you have complete linearity in act one, and not that much of a game-world to explore in Act 2, so I believe I can make a jugdgement myself. If one half of a game is too linear for my tastes, and the other half is not ( which I do not know yet !) I can however say that there is too much linearity for me in the first place, because i would have preferred it different.

L.

With Act I that was intended - as a kind of "getting into the game", especially for newbies. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Down with Lannisters! Long live the great Stark! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Hear me roar !!!

(Off-Topic:)

are you also hungering for the fourth book "A feast for crows" ? Man, I need this book. No Fantasy series has ever gripped me like A song of ice and fire .



L.

That's because smileys are considered, in formal writing, to be juvenile and unprofessional. Even in fanfiction, most discerning readers and writers will scoff at the use of smileys. If someone can't write prose and have to use emoticons to show emotions, then the person is likely to fall into the category of "Can't write to save own life."

On-topic: I see no need to jump on the thread starter for not liking the game. I'm near to giving up on BD myself; the endless dungeons of the first act are extremely off-putting and repetitive. I'll grit my teeth and force myself to go on until I have come to a point where I think I can give an educated opinion on this game, though.

I agree to that. In our recent own roleplaying topic here, the use of smiles was more or less "banned".

When I read "A Storm of Swords" I was mesmerized and couldn't wait for AFFC. Now, after six months, I am not so overexcited but I have no doubt I will be when I read the first lines of the next book. Martin is an excellent writter. I have one of his short stories about werewolves, written in pure "Noir-Hardboiled" style. Simply extraordinary.
Good to meet a fellow AOIAF fan.