When I played Divine Divinity, the only similarities I found between it and Diablo 2 was the combat, and Divine Divinity had actually *improved* on the combat just by the simple addition of allowing you to hold down the CTRL key to attack the nearest enemy instead of having to specifically target an enemy. I certainly don't remember it being clunky and to this day, wish Diablo 2 had a similar "attack nearest enemy" function.
I am currently playing Sacred and it is a very enjoyable game. I wish it also had the same "attack nearest enemy" function of Divine Divinity for that matter. It has a lot of similarities to Diablo 2, but there are many differences as well, some for bad and some for good.
Sometimes I get the impression that some want us to decide which of these games is the "best" and that we can only like that one "best" game and have to hate all of the others. Not so for me! I like all three of the above mentioned games very much! (And many many others as well...PS:T, BG series, Fallout series, Morrowind, Ultima series, IWD, The Sims, etc. etc.)
Since we don't have to pick out only one and only one game to like, why not enjoy *both* Sacred and Beyond Divinity? That's what I'm planning to do anyway. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
