Divinity: Original Sin

[Beskar]

You go to...

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Source Cathedral, get the Vial of Blood.

and when in the mine, you...

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Run Away. Go north by breaking the stone, destroy the guarded gem, then get your stealth character (if you got one), and sneak all the way by-passing the Death Knights and you end up in a confrontation and your party is teleported to you. In that situation, you just run away along the pathway till you get to a mirror, jump through. In the Wardens High Office, looking for a special spell book or note, you combine that with the blood, tada. Make Death Knight vulnerable spell, and it is a re-usable skill book.

[LeftEyeNine]

I've read a very favorable Turkish review on that one claiming pretty much what you've expressed. It mentioned a few glitches and bugs as cons which could easily be ironed via updates to follow.

Will grab it for sure as soon as a deal comes around. It's not easy even reminding of Baldur's Gate.

[easytarget]

Funny thing about those glitches and bugs, often what is reported as such in the steam forum ultimately are revealed as simply game design. Namely the game giving you the ability to suffer the consequences of your decisions. Get really tired of talking to the town mayor and kill the guy, guess what then, you've killed off whatever quests involved him as a central character.

Modern gamers have been led around with big neon signs telling them where to go, who to talk to, etc - they spend a of time gnashing teeth over how this one doesn't, in fact it'll let you leave town and promptly get wiped w/o so much as an apology or by your leave. Make a bad build that can't get you past something, tough.

For those of us old schoolers who actually played DND when it came out originally, well, let's just say we're enjoying ourselves and amused by the consternation.

[Major Robert Dump]

played the last divinity . loved it

[easytarget]

Finished it today, best 100 hours I've spent in a game in quite some time.

[easytarget]

I typically don't go in for full price either, especially with SP games as the content doesn't change and usually the passage of time only leads to patch improvements, so the game not only gets cheaper but also better over time. But when a game receives near universal praise from both critics and players like this one did, and it happens to be a genre and game play style I really like I don't hesitate.

If I could find anything else in life that even came close to the value of entertainment provided by a game such as this even when paying full price like I did here I'd jump at it, turns out though there's nothing else that even comes close to less than 50 cents per hour (and that doesn't even factor in that I plan to play through it again co-op which would push the cost down to like 20 cents or less).

I spent more on the coffee beans I just ground for my morning coffee than I did for an hour's worth of Divinity.

[HopAlongBunny]

Took the plunge today; still waiting for download to complete.
The more I read about the game, the more interested I became; finally I just hit "purchase".
Yes, I'm weak!
Looks like mage warrior for my 2 controlled toons, although other options look viable.
Wish me 'luck