I find it just very funny, when I play a game, I don't know before whitch kind of gear I would find! The "surprize" of this is fun, my opinion!
I can imagine that "save-reload-save-reload until you get what you want" is very boring!! But why do you something like this if you find that boring???? Boring yourself and why? I play like a game comes or don't play it if you hatred loot games or whatever! But on the other hand : do what you want, you're free!
I found many good loot and never "save-reload-save-reload" ! I'm happy with the gear I can nibble ...
In that case: you can better play DA:O and have fun with the game you realy love more to play without "boring acts" Enjoy & have a lot of fun, that's, what I believe, the most important thing for me to play a game!! And the only thing why I not play DA:O (or any other game) is simply like this: because for the moment, D II: ED asks my full attention
if you play dragon age origins you won't know what kind of gear you will get either but if you want to know where the strongest weapon in the game is or whatever you can be confident that someone can tell you exactly where it is.
you don't see how saving before you open a chest and if you don't get what you want you reload to the previous save is boring? what? and the reason why i DO that is because the combat is extremely fun and i want some good gear so i do the save-reload thing. the only time when you are sure your gonna get some good gear is those armor sets in those flying forts and even they are not as good as the stuff you get when you do the save-reload unless there is some really really good stat bonus for wearing all of the gear at once.
im not saying divinity 2 is not fun or is a bad game, quite the contrary. im just stating that there are aspects of this game which dragon age origins is better and vice versa. the whole loot system that this game(and many many others) have is just absurd and extremely boring.
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