Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition

 PlayStation 4
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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 599 Ratings

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  1. CoreGamer1408
    May 21, 2020
    4
    I would say I am a casual fan of the turn based party CRPG genre. So something like the accessible Wasteland 2 and Shadow Run series is more my thing. I heard great things about this DOS series. So I decided to pick up both DOS1 and DOS2 enhanced editions.

    The game looks, sounds and plays ok. After several hours of adventuring I kind of drifted off. I just felt like I was in another    I would say I am a casual fan of the turn based party CRPG genre. So something like the accessible Wasteland 2 and Shadow Run series is more my thing. I heard great things about this DOS series. So I decided to pick up both DOS1 and DOS2 enhanced editions.

    The game looks, sounds and plays ok. After several hours of adventuring I kind of drifted off. I just felt like I was in another generic fantasy land that I didn't care or even give a crap about.

    Not saying games need a great story or great characters. Spent way to much time in Skyrim/Fallout 3/4 to prove that statement true. The exploration factor and loot hooks was enough with those games.

    Nothing really pulled me in with DOS. Not the story, characters, loot, exploration, combat. I really wanted to like this one and still have DOS2 to try.

    Pandemic retry and the PS4 version has a annoying audio bug with missing combats sounds. Changing the one of the three audio options in the PS4 dashboard does nothing. Restarting the game was supposed to be the next fix and that is a totally RNG outcome, wtf!? The lack of audio really breaks the gameplay experience. Maybe 6/10 if they ever fix the audio.    … Expand
  2. star777
    Feb 16, 2017
    0
    The saving system is an embarrassment and a disgrace. The autosave feature is pathetic. It will only save in certain locations. You could go hours without an autosave kicking in. The first time I died I lost an hour of gameplay because the autosave was that far back. That was really annoying. The second time was just now, where I lost 2 hours of gameplay. I accidentally shot my party withThe saving system is an embarrassment and a disgrace. The autosave feature is pathetic. It will only save in certain locations. You could go hours without an autosave kicking in. The first time I died I lost an hour of gameplay because the autosave was that far back. That was really annoying. The second time was just now, where I lost 2 hours of gameplay. I accidentally shot my party with a fireball and Madora got angry and left the party. Expect things like that on a regular basis too, all these weird situations coming up that leave you wondering what kind of drugs the game designers were on when making this game.

    The autosave is inexcusable though. In modern days you can set autosave on a timer that goes off according to what you set it at - 5 mins, 10, 15, 30, whatever you like. Is there some drugged up expectation on the part of the game designers for players to lose hours of progress, then have to repeat what they just did as if it'd be fun the second time, simply because the autosave system is utterly useless?

    I don't feel like running the same dungeon I just ran for 2 hours just to get back to where I was. Is that unreasonable of me? No. Its boring and a waste of time. Tip to game developers. Don't waste peoples' time please.

    I don't think I'm going to play this game again. I don't think this game deserves anything other than a 0 for botching something so basic - effective autosaving.    … Expand
  3. Ikshot
    Jun 18, 2016
    0
    Games supposed to be fun. Maybe in 1980-90 from when i think this game from it supposed to be some other way, but it is 2016 now. I was a fan of Baldur's Gate yada yada yada, That was primarily the reason i waste my money on this one. The problem is not in that Divinity isn't like old times, the problem is that it is exactly like the old times - in one word: UNFORGIVING, even on moderateGames supposed to be fun. Maybe in 1980-90 from when i think this game from it supposed to be some other way, but it is 2016 now. I was a fan of Baldur's Gate yada yada yada, That was primarily the reason i waste my money on this one. The problem is not in that Divinity isn't like old times, the problem is that it is exactly like the old times - in one word: UNFORGIVING, even on moderate level of difficulty + it has some unique rules. Trust me, if you liked Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and so on when you were younger 20 years ago it is questionable at best that you will like it now. I can force myself not to notice computer cheating in dialog challenges (same choice of 1 answer 5 times in a row have actually 0.03125 probability and it happened multiple times). I dont understand why characters moving like they are in slow mo, but ok. I can face unlimited number of explosive mines placed and other traps that are put in this game everywhere for god knows what reason. But when after hard fight and 30 seconds after the win the stage erupted and killed everyone in party.... NO WAY! I quit and not because i cant continue, but because i literally dont want to give another second of my life to this stupid torment (also it wasn't the first time it happened ether). It really was my worst experience on PS4, hell - one of the worst and frustrating experience ever and i played games from age of 7 - for 31 year. From the book "1001 game you must play before you die", i played about 850 of those on ZX Spectrum, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, PC, PS 1 2 3 and 4, Sega Genesis, PSP, Vita and so on.… Expand
  4. jordanmckell
    Sep 17, 2017
    0
    I really was excited about this game. The world is interesting, the gameplay fun, the story enjoyable. I started my first game and made it into town despite not knowing what I was doing, but I couldn't move on with the main quest because despite doing everything I found in the walkthrough, I never got the option to make the arrest required for the story. Ok, fine. I'll start over, maybe II really was excited about this game. The world is interesting, the gameplay fun, the story enjoyable. I started my first game and made it into town despite not knowing what I was doing, but I couldn't move on with the main quest because despite doing everything I found in the walkthrough, I never got the option to make the arrest required for the story. Ok, fine. I'll start over, maybe I did something wrong, even though I looked up every guide I could find... This time I'll start with the right skills and it will be awesome!! Fast forward to the big orc battle outside town, I win and... wait, what? I can't even get inside the town this time?!? Ok, forget this game.… Expand
  5. JeffGodBiscuits
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    After 15 hours of play I can safely say this is one of the most boring games I have ever played. I had high hopes for this turn based game (and needed something to play while waiting for Fallout 4). It has been a severe let down for the following reasons:

    The Good: I don't really have any good things to say. The Neutral: Visuals are okay/acceptable for PS4 i.e. nothing    After 15 hours of play I can safely say this is one of the most boring games I have ever played. I had high hopes for this turn based game (and needed something to play while waiting for Fallout 4). It has been a severe let down for the following reasons:

    The Good:
    I don't really have any good things to say.

    The Neutral:
    Visuals are okay/acceptable for PS4 i.e. nothing groundbreaking
    Storyline is very strange (at least it is original) but I found it to be more of a distraction than something that engaged me

    The Bad:
    1) The inventory system in this game is HORRENDOUS. Ripping off another game's inventory system would have been more acceptable than this. Constantly transferring items is painful and performing basic RPG functions like comparing stats on items is too time consuming.

    2) The leveling system probably has some type of logic applied to it i.e. why I can apply points to some categories some times and not others but it is nebulous at best.

    3) The characters traverse the screen too SLOWLY. This may sound like an odd complaint but if you are a new player then you know the issue to which I am referring. Running around Cyseal isn't a quest...it's a burden. It made me feel like I was playing an 8 bit game like Dragon Warrior. I fear this may be a way to overcome a small game map but will never know.

    4) Combat is almost non-existent where I am in the game (this may improve but not willing to find out) and I AM NOT playing the "I like adventure but not combat" mode.

    5) Dialogue is forced, painful and contrived in many cases see also: Madora.

    Overall: I'd say the positive reviews are very overblown. I was hoping for a new generation of Final Fantasy Tactics. What I bought is the RPG version of Superman 64.    … Expand
  6. ablaise82
    Oct 6, 2016
    0
    my god this game is terrible. There is a good kind of "hard" and this is not it. This has got to be the most hyper specific, nit picky, obnoxious game I have ever played. Micro management is annoying as hell, game is linear to the point of boredom. Very little actual choice making, terrible story. Impossible to level grind and incredibly easy to get stuck, even perma-stuck. I'm a huge fanmy god this game is terrible. There is a good kind of "hard" and this is not it. This has got to be the most hyper specific, nit picky, obnoxious game I have ever played. Micro management is annoying as hell, game is linear to the point of boredom. Very little actual choice making, terrible story. Impossible to level grind and incredibly easy to get stuck, even perma-stuck. I'm a huge fan of RPGS and hard games but I would not reccommend this to anyone besides those who love old school hyper difficult and cryptic games. Truly one of the most aggravating games Iv'e ever played. Dark souls veterans, Tactics fans and old Diablo heads will find themselves in hell playing this game. If you enjoy this game, you are a sick person, and I'm shocked it has such good reviews.… Expand
  7. Nightlistic
    Mar 6, 2016
    0
    I bought this game first on PS4 Digitally during the Flash sale during Valentines. Played fine for a week before it started to crash using Quick Save, then auto-saves started to make it crash, and eventually manual saves caused it to crash. I ended up getting a refund from PSN because it became unplayable. Made the mistake of going out and buying a hard copy of the game, and just like theI bought this game first on PS4 Digitally during the Flash sale during Valentines. Played fine for a week before it started to crash using Quick Save, then auto-saves started to make it crash, and eventually manual saves caused it to crash. I ended up getting a refund from PSN because it became unplayable. Made the mistake of going out and buying a hard copy of the game, and just like the Digital version it played fine for about 5 hours before it began crashing anytime the game saved. Its a really fun game with wonderful graphic but wasn't quality tested enough when it was converted to PS4. There is absolutely no excuse for a game to crash during of all things when saving. Saving the game is the thing you to do not loose your progression not being the main cause of it. In addition to that getting absolutely no response by the games developer in regards to these issues made it even worse. So I ended up dropping around a 100 bucks on two copies of the game that both became unplayable do to game breaking crashes focused around the games saving mechanic. Not exactly the quality you'd expect from a game that claims to have won 150 awards. Sadly even if they do eventually patch the issue the game has left a traumatic affect on me that cause me to never support this game developer again in the future.… Expand
  8. CainenEX
    Dec 13, 2019
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Left my full review on steam so i'll edit this one here. This review is for the PC version of the game.

    After some odd 94 hours of play time, some some of that being my computer on idle, I cannot recommend this game. I have played many other RPGs including Dragon Age origins. I originally got bored after act 1 and some of it's tedious combat mechanics and stupid levels of fake difficulty but decided to try playing again. Internet guides certainly helped fix some issues.

    Game expects you to die a lot to "learn" it's mechanics which were never explained well in the first place. It's got a pretty terrible autosave system to boot so make sure that the second key you are familiar with after mouse clicking is the damn quicksave key. Forget this and you'l sometimes have to recouperate hours of progress, especially when most of the party is dead, and you have no gold to revive them with out a scroll, and the only magical free revive spell is occuping a master slot in witchcraft with a lv 15 requirement. **** ewwww. Other games had better systems than this.

    The story gets bogged down pretty fast and you'll probably lose interest by act 2. The writting varies at times from good to comically questionable. Most of the voice actors do a decent job. However the town markets criers are ear gratingly annoying when you are at a shop screen in the area for SEVERAL MINUTES. Sometimes voices get bugged and do not play.

    The game initially teaches you some basics and while some quests are straight forward while others you will never complete. For example if you find Sam's collar then a quest opens up about him. HOWEVER if you do not have the talent to talk to animals (which is a useless talent anyways and takes up a slot for something better) then you will never be able to complete the quest and the game does not tell you this (you need to look it up online like a majority of things for this game). Quests sometimes range from straight forward to inanely obtuse.

    Combat is obtuse and difficult. Higher difficulties don't make the enemy smart but instead pad health. Regular enemies have a lot of crowd control abilites which you will need to revive. Multiclassing is mandidtory on anythign but the easiest difficulty.

    Blacksmitting, crafting, and loremaster were annoying and often resulted in me cheking online tables.

    I absolutely hate the RPS minigame and charisma does nothing for you. Get the mod that removes it and make charisma worth something. all guides agree it does **** for you.

    Without going into too much detail the straw for me that broke the camel's back was finishing Bairdotr's quest and the character not recognizing any change storywise. Depending on what traits you have you can permanently lose Bairdotr in a dialogue exchange with Jareth. In order to not lose her you need to kill the bastard before dialogue ends or skip the dialogue entirelyThe game mocked you for caring. I have better things to do with my time than finishing this **** of an experience.

    Had I done more research at the time I would have skipped this entry. Divinity original Sin 2 is grades better than this. I will probably be picking up the 2nd game shortly as they have resolved many off the issues with the first that I have listed. If you insist on playing this entry beyond the issues I mentioned do yourself a favor and get some guides that will help you build your characters and complete the game. You might want to also look up some exp and/or respawning enemies mods. Maybe a mod to alleviate the terrible crafting system too.    … Expand
  9. Dibalin
    Oct 24, 2021
    0
    Отсутствует полная русская локализация. Нет озвучки!
  10. Godudu
    Aug 16, 2022
    0
    Puzzles are annoying af. Suddenly you interact with something and all of your party dies with no previous warning. You need specific spells and/or skills that are mandatory to complete the game, such as levitate. Which you dont get by the main quest. There is a puzzle that you need to read a book on a bookshelf that is titled "book". I dont like the need of playing the game with myPuzzles are annoying af. Suddenly you interact with something and all of your party dies with no previous warning. You need specific spells and/or skills that are mandatory to complete the game, such as levitate. Which you dont get by the main quest. There is a puzzle that you need to read a book on a bookshelf that is titled "book". I dont like the need of playing the game with my cellphone on google 24/7. Game also dont have autosave, so you need to save from minute to minute, otherwise your entire party will die and youll need to play 1 hour of game again.… Expand

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#9 Best PS4 Game of 2015
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#17 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2015

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 39 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. RPG Fan
    Jan 14, 2016
    92
    Brings the incredibly fun PC-style RPG experience to your console: co-op, physics, and bugs intact.
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  2. CD-Action
    Jan 12, 2016
    90
    A real feast for RPG-loving console owners and one of the best games to play in co-op. [13/2015, p.47]
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Dec 16, 2015
    80
    One of the most exciting PC RPGs of recent years effortlessly makes the transition to PlayStation without losing a drop of its tactical depth in the process. [Christmas 2015, p.82]
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