I must say that i LOVED DD, i also enjoyed BD, and true to my nature i have played and finished it about 3 times in hardcore mode..... I have found other really fun things to do with the game.... making it hilarious to play, like replacing the traditional books with your own story... (the first thing to go was all the recipies... they got replaced with various jokes and gossips), but i know thats really got nothing to do with the game... thats just me fooling around... and my battle field monsters now all have names of people around me.... (they werent impressed when i killed them)...
Back to the subject.....
I am agreeing with the fact that BD wasnt as much fun as DD. But here is a few suggestions on what they should use from BD and DD in DD2 (tell me if i missed something)
I liked the alchemy skill in BD... BUT what i will find brilliant.... (yes the basics of the alchemy skill stays as is (the different colour plants), I would though put back the idea of a bowl or flask... instead of right click and having the option to make health/man/etc, pick up a recipe book that tells you for health, add 1 red, 1 grey, 1 etc. then put those three in the flash and right click on the flask and SHAKE.. (or something similar) that gives you that feeling of "I MADE THIS!!!"(so in reality is a mixture of BD and DD and something new)
I liked the warior skills of bd, one handed, two handed etc... cant think of much to change... as for the rest of the skills.... i wanna say too much to include them now... will open a new thread for ideas on that...
Larian: in DD2 PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE [color:"red"] DONT [/color] include battlefields... rather give the hero a gem of teleportation that will allow the hero to teleport to and from town (lets say 5 times per gem), so the hero constantly have to search for new ones. I think MOST people started to avoid the battlefields because it was just long and boring.... rather let the town people give similar quests but in your main map. What most people did like about the BF, was the fact that if your inventory was overloaded, you could go sell. At least if all the quests are on the same map, you cover it at the same time, you dont need to dread doing the sideline quests. And also please with DD2 please make the shopkeep friendly/helpful when you completed his/her quest.
Pshycologically BD made people more depressed... the dark scenery with WAY too much grey and dull colours... i like green grass, most people feel happy in a nice forest scenery...
In BD you also lost the feeling of i am becomming a HERO, cause face it, you were taken for a ride by uncle DK... since i am only a normal person in real life... i wanna be the HERO in my games... ( a VERY important point to remember in a game, is the fact that the player must feel important and good).
I dont care about the open ended quests where you can choose your ending... although choosing to kill the pimp rather than obey him and kill the poor bugga that stole 5 minutes of mary's time to tell her something i like too... it gives you that sense of good morals...
I found that BD was too short... ok thats partly my fault, cause i avoided the BF... i dont think anyone blames me... i suppose if i did religiously finish all of them, the game would have been the same lenght... but fact it, people will rather cover a HUGE map and do everything in the same go, than jump between a couple of slightly smaller ones...
hmmm what am i missing?
AAAAH very important point to Larian again.... I like your little neutral critters running around... but PLEASE dont give them a vengeful overmind again.... if i stand on one, i will pray for forgiveness and give it a proper burial if that is required, but i DONT wanna kill the entire race just because mike und tom und joe und sam accidentally hid underneath the fire elemental when i killed it and my sword sliced right through to hit him (for those who didnt know my slang... und refers to "son of").. if you HAVE to take revenge on the poor son of a frog, then rather put a proper burial ritual in, where they will attack me until i did a proper respectful burial or something....
AS for the bugs in the game.... I didnt run into too many.... but just as a interest matter, i thought i killed all the bugs in DD with that secret area (special armor quest where i as a matter of fact saved you guys from the computer dungeon).
These are just some things i would keep/change in DD2. i am sure you guys have LOADS more ideas.... but mainly i think Larian should use BD as a test subject for DD2.... use what the people liked and go back tot he old style on things that people didnt like... or combine/change it to something fun for DD2.
