and i'm not going to since reviews say that its far from being as serious in roleplaying as Bioware games.
Ah, another one jumping on the wagon of Bioware's "dark & gritty" role-playing experience ?
Another fan of "the darker the fantasy setting, the better" games ?
No, I doubt that Div2 will be
either like Drakensang OR Dragon age - personally, I position it in the middle, so to say.
From my standpoint of view, you're asking the wrong question.
And since i'm Neutral Evil in DnD terms I find it really hard to play a RPG in such strictly good alignment like Drakensang offered. This is general European cliche actually, only CD Project with Witcher managed to break it, German, Russian and other European RPG-makers usually stick to holy crusade theme which is annoying.
Well, I have read several comments at RPGWatch, whoch calöled Drakensang "refreshing" BECAUSE of so many "dark & grotty" RPGs nowadays ... I have serious difficulties remembering ANY "good alignment" RPGs in recent times - EVERYTHING tends to be "the darker, the better" nowadays.
In fact, we are getting flooded by dark fantasy settings, and even TDE was influenced so much by dark settings (which you can't see in Drakensang, by the way), that there have been erupted serious discussions whether the current, dark-influenced TDE is still the original, "real" TDE setting ! (TDE = The Dark eye).
Me, I have gained the impression that there are currently 2 groups of people trying to push and influence games into their directions, no mstter whatr other people say :
- gamers who want MP above everything else
- gamers who want a "dark & gritty" game above everything else.
Nowadays, I find myself as being in the minority, because I want SP-only games with a fairy-tale like setting. EVERYINE believes that this is complete crap and must be thrown out immediately !
"The darker, the better" is the current fashion in gaming, and if you manage to tell me 5 role playing games with "good alignment" fairy-tale like settings, you'll get 10 virtual rubber points from me ...
