Divinity 1 was great and still the combat system was very similar to blizzard's diablo hack & slash you are talking about that is making the doom of pure breed RPGs (like Divinity), so you are in a sense contradicting yourselfs, but nvm.


Dont get me wrong, i understand perfectly what the old-school RPG fans are saying, i still consider games like Lands of Lore 1 or Baldurs Gate the best RPGs around, but i also understand that times change. We live in the era of 3D and fancy visual effects that cost millions to make and the development budgets get more oriented to this part of the games, leaving perhaps less times to give features that less people will apreaciate (unfortunately Old-school RPG fans included) like more fine-tuned text in quests, or more objects to manipulate that most ppl will ignore like a pan to use as a helmet,etc.


For the people who say that D2 is not a "real RPG", are you comparing it to a recent game or a 10 year old game? because honestly there's been a LONGGGGGG time that no real RPG gone out, and i wasnt realy expecting D2 to be old-school aswell.