Divinity: Original Sin

[dortmunder]

Amazing game, if you were into Baldur's Gate, or similar games.

The first couple hours is really slow. It's mostly running around the starter town talking to everyone(at least for me, I like to talk to everyone) and gathering quests.

There's no quest pointers telling you where to go, so you have to pay attention.

I've restarted a couple times. The first time I kinda gimped my characters a bit, the second time I didn't like the archer type guy I made So now I've got 50+ hours on it, and I'm still in the first town. Apparently there's 4 areas similar to the first town/quest area. You'll probably be able to rack up 60-80 hours easily on your first playthrough.

[Morreion]

I enjoyed Baldur's Gate- keep us informed on how the game goes!

[Laethaka]

how's the coop? Looking forward to binging this with a friend over Christmas break when I'm back.

[dortmunder]

The co-op is 'meh' in my opinion. There's not a whole lot of action, and I think only one person views the dialogue when talking to NPC's. You do get to interact in a way, as you and your partner can try to convince each other of a different decision if you don't agree. If you don't agree, you end up playing Rock, Paper, Scissors vs them to decide the winner, lol.

I did enjoy the co-op combat though, you have to decide what you're each going to do, set up combo's etc. Just there's massive gaps between combat sometimes. So you're just following the person doing the quest lines around.