I got ED over Gamefly last week and I TRIED playing it because I loved low budget high value RPGs from when I was kid. Games like Sirtech, TSR games etc. so when I saw Divinity 2 I thought of those type of games, made by a team of dedicated people with not a lot of money.
But seriously, it was too buggy and flawed, controls too awkward.  I saw so much potential, but it was so frustrating I had to give up.  Then I saw DKS on Steam and saw that it was a remastered ED.  I downloaded and started a new game in ED.  
OMG it is so much better.  I'm not sure if it's the improvements between the remaster and original ED, or if it's from playing on a PC instead of the 360 but I haven't been able to put the game down.  It's very hard relatively compared to other mainstream titles and I like that a lot.  Though now I am in the mid-20s level wise and it's starting to get pretty easy.
I am looking forward to beating ED so I can move onto FoV.  I think if I had played ED when it originally came out, I probably would have been turned off. I'm glad the remaster was available to me to try first. 
My reaction was
-The budget was to tight for the vision.
That why the bad review.A lot of option . Big world etc.
But has you playthrough.You notice it.
The game was lacking polish.It's felt like a Korean MMORPG.
Had it cut the game in half and polished the other half . The review would be much higher.