Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General Thinking About Getting Beyond Divinity

I've been reading reviews and stuff, so I figured I'd come to the official place to gather more about this game.

I been thinking about getting it. Now, I've never ever played Divine, actually. So, I'd like to try that first. Now, I heard that Beyond Divinity actually comes w/ Divine Divinity inside. Does this happen w/ every copy of BD? Or was this just a Limited Edition type of thing?

Do the Divinity games offer multiple solutions for solving quests? Like dealing w/ morality issues of good and evil? Are there multiple endings???

Anything else you'd like to add about your likes and dislikes of the game are?
(I wonder how many will flame the voice acting....)

There is a demo available. It consists of the first level of the first act, which was designed to be linear. Later acts are more open.
There are party selection hotkeys in the full game, as well as screen movement and re-centre hotkeys, which were added after the demo was released. Voices in the game were re-done after the demo, particularly the Death Knight's; opinions on both vary widely (in any case the DK's voice gets better as the game progresses).

There are multiple ways to solve quests, and some conflicting quests where you must choose one path over another. Unfortunately these to not have an impact on the main plot, and there is only one ending.

The version of Beyond Divinity that includes Divine Divinity have a sticker/graphic on the box saying so. See;
North American copies! (Greetings from Hip Games)


Welcome to the forum. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

In many countries and outlets you only get Beyond Divinity. The double issue was only in a limited number of places.

Many fans of Divine Divinity (including me) felt that it was a much better game than Beyond Divinity, which seemed rushed and buggy in comparison. However, most of the bugs don't seem to be 'game breakers' and many (but not all) have been addressed in current patches (they're apparently still working on another patch).

If you don't have high expectations from playing DD then you might wonder why some people complained about BD. Or you might still like it anyway. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My recommendation would be to try and find a copy of DD though, either with BD or on its own. Good luck, whichever way you go. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My personal opinion is, that both are good - in their own right(s). Both are different from one another.

Anyway, I'd suggest playing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> first, because thden you might understand <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> better, and why it was formerly called <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/riftrunner.gif" alt="" /> .

Another thing would be to look out for the novella by Rhianna Pratchett - to me it's like "background information" of <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> and the "Riftrunnery". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

There was once such a "background story" for <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> as well, but I don't know where you can access it via the web. Has anybody a link to it ?

For those who got Beyond Divinity packaged w/ Divine Divinity, does the manual for Divine come w/ it in the box? Or is digitally packaged on the CD?

BTW, how many CD's is BD? And DD?

1)I bought the double package in Belgium (don't now if it differs in other places), and both games had a manual.

2)Divine Divinity are 3 cd's, Beyond Divinity are 2 cd's.

I think the <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> manual (for the US double box) is included on the CD.
But you can also download the manual at this page.

Nice. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Though, it would be nicer if they both were on ONE DVD -- but, of course, DVD-only games are barely starting to be supported these days by publishers in the US.




Wow. That's convenient. I just DL'ed the DD manual so I can see the manual before I actually get this game. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

*looks it over*

It doesn't matter much actually, since you still only need one cd for each game after installing.

I played Beyond Divinity before DD. BD is more linear, and I didn't like it as much as DD. You may want to play Divine Divinity first if you like to play single characters. With Beyond D. you're teamed up with a death knight; although, toward the end of the game he kinda-sorta grows on you and hate to see him leave.

I bought BD and the DD discs were enclosed as a package deal. Two games for price of one was pretty good indeed.

Mainly an on-line EverQuest player, these games were a good vacation break.

True, but still, I prefer games on ONE disc as opposed to multiple.

Less margin for error on installs. I've had a few games fail on multi-CD installs -- like Dead To Rights & The Suffering. Though, I got The Suffering installed on a second try.

DTR, I just had to do a minimum install b/c it wouldn't do a Full Install on Win 98, according to their Support; unless I installed it manually.

"Dead To Rights & The Suffering" Is this a game ? Or two ?

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Yes, <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> is *very* hard at the beginning, like PS:T somehow.

I do NOT recommend it to let children or Teenagers play with <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/exclamation.gif" alt="" />

It are 2 different games Alrik <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> , especially the latter is way more aggresive then BD, at least of what I seen about it.

Why wouldn't you recommend teenagers to play BD?

it was my fault... post i have suppressed merendrious...

edit: though i have suppressed my post i can't help to think that "more agressive" is an euphemism...

Well, I thought that the game "Death of Rights and the Suffering" was a single game. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Aggressive ? Like Doom or so ? That's not what I ever would buy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

For its violence, it got an M-rating in the USA.
I bet that's why.

The Suffering is extremely violent -- one of the most violent & graphic games I've played.

Though, I ain't played yet Manhunt....

I See. I think, before we got our own rating system here in Germany, it would be completely banned ... and not sold to people over 18 anyway. "Banned" means that most hops wouldn't sell it at all - less monnkey to make.

Now, we have our own ranking system, which basically says that anyone who buys a game that is labelled over 18 should show his or her passport - I don't know how it's actually handeled by / in the shops.