Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General General Impressions of BD

I have not Played Divine Divinity,which was the Game A Friend had suggested was Good.I read on some Website a Review of BD which was a negative Review but also stated that since BD also Contained the Full DD game it was worth Picking up.
Which is what I did--I purchased the Game from Best Buy and I was a bit Miffed to Discover that Divine Divinity Was NOT included-just a Copy of a Novella which was of absolutely no interest to me at all. But since I could Not return the Game I decided to give it a try.
After the First Act I felt like I was playing a Game from the Early 1980's,
When Games for the PC were first emerging and the Developer/s felt that they just had to rely on Levers,Traps,Puzzles,Mazes and the "Postal" type Quests-- (Run all over the Map from point A to B to C to D to E,ad Nauseum, and Return items to Point Z to Complete the "Quest"). It was Incomprehensible to me Why any Developer in the year 2004 would even THINK of Resorting to such
OUTDATED Tactics. But,this Continued to be so all through the Game.
Back in 1982 I MIGHT Have Enjoyed this Game,but in 2004 it is Simply too
OUTDATED to be RELEVENT!

I Have Ordered Divine Divinity and it should be here By Friday. I'm Hoping its
as good as I have heard it is. We will See.

I have not played that game for more then a couple of hours, but I do know (from reading more then a dozen reviews on the web. AND YES I do have a lot of time at work since I sit at the computer all day) that this BD is like DD with a lot of changes. If you think that that was not a good game then you probably won't like the first one either. Especially since not only did you apparently not like BD,I could even say you come across as actually hating it, you will probably think the same thing. I can't think of a more ironic thing to say about RPGs now that I think about it. If I may ask, what is that you enjoy about RPGs if it's not questing? That is what I love about RPGs, the go and collect this and decide if I should give it back or keep it or even kill the person I got the quest from in first place with their own quest sword or whatever I had to find for them. I don't know, to each their own. My other question to you is What do you think could have been done better with the quests? Perhaps you have some more modern ideas as to how these matters should be carried out on a computer monitor. Maybe you are too ahead of the times these days. However, I believe that Larian has made two awesome products and I'm looking so forward to anything else they put out. I now have to favorite developers and Larian is quickly catching up to if not going to surpass Bioware soon in my mind. I hope you enjoy DD because I know that it's probably my number 1 or 2 favorite RPG. Planescape: Torment was for a while until this came out. I have never seen a game combine so many elements together to create such a diverse world. But, maybe BD does suck and I guess I'll just have to play more to find out. But, more likely, I think I will enjoy it just as much as the first game. Oh yeah, you were supposed to go to Electronics Boutique for the DD game in the box. That's where I do all my shopping for PC games. Screw BEST BUY!!! PEACE! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />

Or to keep it short: RPG aren't you genre. So don't buy any RPG's (We have lost this guy, haven't we? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />)