Game is made for fun
I have played dragon age, fallout 3, two worlds, baldurs gate 2, and those games were great fun, but i have yet to complete those games it would always be something that would start to bore me and I would go on to another game, I have put more hours into this game then any otheer game wilth possible exception of Final Fantasy 10. I have been playing computer gamees for about 10 years and imo this is the best one i have played-WHY?
yes it does have glitches espesically in the first few hours (maybe i just got used to them) and you have to save often-make sure you look to see if your save has taken-one time i did not and shut down only to come back and my save was not there thus losing about 3 hours game time - and i still love this game. the graphics while n ot as polished as DA or AOC or perhaps even fallout 3 are good none the less. Lets face it graphics never stopped us from playing baldurs gate or ice wind dale. Like many new games this one is going to need a patch which I imagine will be out soon.
a s game spot says the converstions are not as in depth as DA but they are not as boring as some of them are in DA also, lets face it as good as game DA is some of those conversations will drive you to comit suicide or at least to drink heavily ( whch actually may not be a bad idea, think I will mix myself up a bloody mary right now) Div 2 conversations are right to the point and can be fun also.
Game spot give raves to the Dragon, the dragon is ok but more utilitarian to get from one place to another and a bit of fun shooting nests and such. they are 100% correct that it is silly that you cannot see ground troops from the air but i think Div did this in order to keep the game from being to easy.
This game is not easy as game spot says you might run into enemies that are more powefull then you, but that is what Oblivions problem was, that enemies would scale with you and make the game boring, it took some creative modders (obscuro and others) to make that game alot better. If in enemy is to powerfull you back off and go beat on another enemy. game spot also says that enemies dont re spawn , instead of that being bad i will say that is great, hey ive just faced a tough battle those enemies they dont deserve to come back and it gives me a chance to go through the area again without having to go through another tough battle, excellent game choice Div.
I like the fact that just as the game is becoming somewhat predictable you get the battle tower and that makes it into a whole new game with dragon and npc's at your bidding, it does not make the game any easier but adds more options.
Game spot also disses the limited platforming that you do. While I sucked at Prince of Persia but have no problem with div 2 platforming which as i say is a small part of the game anyway. I stopped playing some games because they were either to complicated with not enough fun factor or too dexterious with not enough fun factor. To me this game mixes enough thinking with very good rpg elements, with just a bit of things like platforming , dragons and funny dialogue to forgive its quirks (just save often)
One other thing the game lets you choose whichever skills you want it does not pigeon hole you into one set as so many games do another example of letting you the player choose instead of the developer.
you do neeed a decent not great computer to play , I have a e8500 with a ati 4870 512gb and it plays jut fine on high settings.
I had to drop my score be a point because I noticed tht on the flying fortress the performance would suffer so much you had to reboot your computer, so they need to fix that