Can anyone identify this game?

[Ser Clegane]

Could be Divine Divinityor Beyond Divinity

[frogbeastegg]

I think it may have been Beyond Divinity. I have Divine Divinity, which I got halfway through and liked.

:downloads demo to see ...:

[LeftEyeNine]

That's Planescape Torment. (Did I sound too sure?)

[frogbeastegg]

Nah, PT is the one where you're in a morgue with a talking skull. Fine game; I got it when it first came out. Never managed to finish it, and not for wont of trying. It always slows to a perminant unplayable crawl (I mean sub 1FPS here) when I enter UnderSigil, a crawl which then applies to every location in the game and continues once the game is saved and exited. It's done it on several PC incarnations, yet I've never heard of anyone else encountering the same issue. Gah! I would love to finish the game! I want to know how it all ends I'm reluctant to try it on my shiny new PC; I don't want to play for 30 hours to be left hanging a fourth time.


Looking on metacritic's overview page BD, like DD, has very varying reviews. Review scores aren't everything; I don't take much notice of them. Plenty of games I like have been rated at around 70%, usually because they aren't the new GTA or because they get slated for something which entirely misses the point. Shall have to see what the demo is like, and take a look at the forums and reviews on the more useful sites. The Gamespot review Ser Clegane linked to has it as good, though a bit conventional and with some interface issues.

[frogbeastegg]

Yes, Beyond Divinity was definitely the one. The demo isn't particularly edifying, yet it seems general opinion agrees that the beginning of the game is a great deal more Diablo-esque than the rest of the game. Once out from the opening areas (and after the end of the demo) it reverts to the same kind of style as Divine Divinity and becomes a worthy enough sequel. Think I may pick it up if I can find a cheap copy, as I did like Divine Divinity.

[Lehesu]

I heard it uses StarForce, though.

[frogbeastegg]

Actually, that probably had some bearing in my decision to pass it over before.

The latest patch removes the Starforce protection. Although I do wonder ... Starforce will be installed as I install the game; there's no avoiding that, it seems. Will the patch then remove it completely, or just cut the links to the game's .exe? And could Starforce work its potentially malicious magic even if I don't launch the game before patching it?

I've got a nice, shiny new PC here, not yet two months old. I don't want my DVD drive slagged, or something.

[econ21]

I am pretty sure it was Beyond Divinity.

It did not get great reviews though.