#divine divinity

Divine Divinity is an old school RPG from the early 2000's that looks and plays like good ol' Diablo 2, but really puts the R in RPG. Honestly I never knew just how much I wanted a game like this, and what would I do for a modern take on it. It's a top down action game a la Diablo, but has deeper RPG elements like a good CRPG. Side quests are more fleshed out, there's several way to do quests, you can move objects around the world, you can join guilds (although not quite as involved as in Elder Scrolls games) and there are many ways to build your character.

I love the games style, it's both serious and filled with humor and gags. It teeters a fine line and I think it works. In one early dungeon I found a note that describes a lord who tortured a suspected traitor in various horrific ways, and once a confession was made the "traitor" was boiled alive in oil. However turned out that guy wasn't a traitor and only confessed under extreme pain. The lord however exclaimed, whoever falsely confesses under physical pain deserves whatever fate they got for being weak. Brutal stuff. Then for contrast there's stuff like skeletons having an existential crisis because they shouldn't be moving around, or a human merchant bickering with a dwarf by the side of the road.

There's a bit of voice acting and it's really cheesy, but has charm. Side quests are quite interesting as well and involve more than just killing things and talking to folk. Although those kind of quests are around. Some quests are quite difficult to figure out, especially since so many side quests are prone to breaking. I wasn't able to get the dragon armor, because I returned a note to some NPC and was unable to get it back.

Being an older game before the day of patches Divine Divinity has a fair share of bugs. Quests breaking for the dumbest reason, or glitches that allow you to get infinite money. Sometimes enemies remain after death especially if you kill them frozen etc... There's also some questionable design decisions. Like you cannot get one of the holy relics without joining the thieves guild. I was playing a warrior, so I had no choice but to put points into useless skills like pick pocket and lock picking just so I can join and get a cool sword.

I also felt like the games end dungeon dragged on for way too long. It must have taken me 2-3 hours of gameplay and all you do is walk around long stretches and mindlessly kill hordes of enemies. You gotta take out 5 mini bosses to get to the actual final boss. Which was alright, was a bit of challenge even though my character was way too OP by that point. Honestly the whole end of the game is kind of a drag, everything after getting the council members together, hitting the gong and reforming again in the desert.

Українську локалізацію для гри Divine Divinity створив користувач із нікнеймом - MadGuy. За основу було взято німецьку та частково російську версії, хоча встановлювати українізатор потрібно на німецьку версію гри. Перекладено було увесь текст, за виключенням назв декількох унікальних предметів.

Back on its release date g*mers and gamesjournospros were talking about this game, very impressed by its binary political decisions not tied to any red\blue morality. And one of the points to the depth of this game was the choice where your elf wife tells you that the customs of her people is to sleep with your whole crew, which improves the morale significantly but you, the g*mer, is made a…

started playing Beyond Divinity because I found out that the next game WASNT divinity 2: ego draconis.

hee hee~ whoops! Anyways, I'm still in the dungeons but I'm already coming up with my current character, Larke.

He got brain damage when he was caught during his first escape attempt, so now he's very lovey dovey with the death knight he's been soul-bound to.

Also imo the deathknight has the personality of a league of legends player / call of duty player, and is constantly calling Larke slurs. He's a demon from hell, what did you expect?