I've got an even hotter take. I hate both Divinity OS games and Baldurs Gate 3.

Only one problem with all these games that I can't get past and thats the combat. I easily get rolled in enemy encounters and the elemental stuff + the dice rolls just takes the fun out of it all for me. Everything else is great, the music, characters, dialogue choices, story. Its all great but I hate the combat so much. Ruins it all.

Yeah I know, git gud scrub and all that shit. Whatever. I tried both divinity games 30 hours each. I gave up. I suck at these games and I dont care about trying anymore.

@Pedro: im gonna go out on a limb and guess those same ppl probably played other games in the meantime rather than just sit and wait for 3 years for it to hopefully become good.

But I get your point. This thing was a trainwreck in 2020, and I played it recently and perhaps things have changed and bugs were fixed but it still comes off as a borderlands clone to me. The AI still just sits around and trades bullets with you, so its not improved to me.

Whatever. I guess the internet needed to hear a comeback story. This ain't it, chief.

@hardwenzen: yep, looks like budget souls to me as well. I'm pretty picky about these games.

My main issue is the slow enemy AI. This was a problem in that Code Vein and its a problem here in this game as well. Most enemies just do this slow ass wind up before they hit you. It makes the game super boring and easy if they all have a slow animation like that because then you can get in several hits and they all are made short work of.

Souls games and the Niohs and Wo Long know this and so each enemy type is different. You have slow wind ups, fast aggressive types, lots of enemies that change things up between slow and fast attacks. It keeps you on your toes and makes the difficulty....well, soulslike.

I don't even care anymore. Bethesda has lost their touch with quality games since Fallout 4. That, 76, ESO, Starfield all garbage.

Now the Skywind and Skyblivion mods, those look like the real deal!

Been here off and on since 2005. I miss those old days when it felt like gamespot had more hardass critics. Now it feels like so many stupid games get 10s or 9s no problem. Kevin van Ord saved me a lot of money in my teens.

Now i've hardly got time for this place. Finally got a new job where im actually doing something. Last job i had i was working from home but hardly had any work to do and after repeatedly asking my boss then for more work and being ignored, I abused the job and played video games and commented here all day.

@SolidGame_basic: it is shocking to me that ff16 is getting the high praise that it is because even the characters aren't that interesting. My main issue with the story is how these dominants have these god powers that turn the game into dragonball Z, yet several of them are treated as lesser beings and slaves to the different armies...uh what? Why dont they just kill any that defy them? They are dominants with amazing abilities to do whatever they please. It just comes across ridiculous to me. Then lets just insert a typical revenge story as well. Masterful story this is not.

@SolidGame_basic: yes, i gave up after 11 hours. Then i checked this thing called youtube like the other dude above me did and found out the amount because while i was doing my 11 hours, i couldnt believe how frequent these things were.

Not that hard to figure out but i hope that helped clarify it for ya. No shit i didnt play the whole game and see all cutscenes. **** that. Movie games dont respect my time, so i wont give it mine.

@SolidGame_basic: sure but i dont think thats gonna solve the frequent cutscenes coming in every 5 to 10 minutes. Walk a little, cutscene. Go across bridge, cutscene. Walk to this door, cutscene. Theres over 17 hours of these things and so many are so boring. Very linear game world too.

@hardwenzen: well, thats a bit tricky. Like i said, ragnarok doesnt take forever for me to finally kill enemies for the most part. However, i do like the faster movement and dodging of ff16. Both are not great but i guess ragnarok wins because again i really get bored to death by the sheer amount of hits all of ff16's enemies take. Its like a damn mmo. Super spongey and thus dull.

@hardwenzen: ugh....i hate both but i guess ragnarok because it is much more of a game that respects my time at least a little more than ff16. I dont have to spend 5 minutes wacking away at a mid-level enemy in ragnarok unlike this game.

I at least beat ragnarok. But both of these have been buyers remorse for me.