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On 5/15/2014 2:52 PM, Werner Punz wrote:
> Am 15.05.14 20:35, schrieb Ross Ridge:
>> Werner Punz  <we...@gmx.at> wrote:
>>> Yes indeed, only the beginning was more like Ultima 7, then it suddenly
>>> became a diablo clone. (According to the devs this was wanted by the
>>> publisher who wanted to jump onto the Diablo bandwagon)
>>> I have higher hopes for Divinity Original Sin to be more Ultimaish
>>> though, due to the fact that Lariam Studios has their hands free to
>>> do the game they want to do.
>>
>> I actually liked the original Divine Divinity.  It wasn't perfect, but
>> it wasn't just a mindless Diablo-clone.  It had more varied abilities
>> and much more open world.  A new game like that would great.
>>
>> On the other hand Ultima VII doesn't really hold up well.  It may have
>> been fairly ground breaking at the time, but an RPG with as deep a
>> story is given today.  I really hope Lairam Studios is setting their
>> sights higher.
>>
> Actually I still regard U7 as one of the best RPGs ever made, the only
> thing they could have done
> better at that time was the combat, which was non existent (hit c and
> watch the computer doing the fight)

There's something about that perspective that doesn't agree with my 
brain - it's not really isometric, it looks similar to that but the 
angle of vision is different. I think it's called oblique or something. 
DD made it even worse because of the horrid color palette - everything 
looks brown, green and grey and I couldn't tell what the f was what.

Aside from that I don't see much in common between the two games, even 
though I did not finished either one. I liked the sequel better, 
Divinity 2, a very good game that no one played due to a poorly timed 
release - the first Dragon Age came out within a very short time IIRC.