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.