I played Divine Divinity at at stage of my life that i was much younger and had loads of free time and it's still my top #3 games of my life.
Unfortunately i'm quite sure that if I played it only now for the first time, i wasn't going to like it as much because of lack of time and patience for a lot of problems it had in balance, some boring repetitive combat, etc.
In that aspect, D:OS is MUCHHHHHHH more polished (as expected ofc), has way more "eye-candy", way more music variety, much better sounds, way more voice-acting, better text dialog and thus even tough i have way less patience the game just hooks you up more. I find myself sometimes after a hard work day playing for 30 minutes before bedtime just to have some quick fun and discover a little bit more.
DD would be less "thrilling" now that my life is way harder than before.
But one thing DD was better than D:OS wich was the Story. I believe that D:OS has a weak spot wich is the main story is kinda bland, fortunately the richness of sidequests and the interesting dialog more than make up for it.
In fact the parts of the main quest i was in the other dimension listening to the imps and "figures of time" are the least interesting for me, some of the time i was rolling my eyes saying "wha?? that doesnt make no sense at all", on the contrary many sidequests on the main world also didn't make much sense but were either goofy or interesting and fun to make up for it, the main ones were... "okish".
So... D:OS better in everything except main quest wich feels disconnected from the rest and bland. DD main quest was more "immersive" and connected much better to what everything you were doing in the world.
Last edited by KnightPT; 08/07/14 06:30 PM.