Divinity Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

[Kitchen Utensil]

So this thing is even worse than the first?

 

[Matador]

At what levels you receive new talents? I think I didn't select the ones I want in Character creation, and I wonder if you receive new ones or you are stuck with the initial ones.

 

[imweasel]

The edgelords are out in full force today.

D:OS 2 isn't perfect and could use some improvement in many areas, but it is still a good game.

Tactician mode is great too. I love it when a game hands my ass to me, forcing me to use good tactics and well thought out strategies. I am currently grinding monks in the basement of fort joy for that much needed XP.

 

[Antigoon]

I tried to avoid as much news/threads about dos2 as possible to go in there completly unbiased. So probably it has been said before but my concers after 10h
1) Its much easier than the first one right?
2) Its not that reactive than it was advertised. I play the undead, and even though I am getting told at the beginning to hide my face, boney fingers etc. humans touch me, shake hand with me without any response. Didnt really expect that early on.

its still great though so far...

 

[Prime Junta]

I am currently grinding monks in the basement of fort joy for that much needed XP.

Why don't you give Dragon Age: Inquisition a shot? If you like grinding, you'll love it.

 

[imweasel]

I am currently grinding monks in the basement of fort joy for that much needed XP.

Why don't you give Dragon Age: Inquisition a shot? If you like grinding, you'll love it.

There are like 4 monks in the basement, you raging retard.

 

[HoboForEternity]

also one thing that bother me is how the quest is built around quest marker. the game is good. physical / magic armor is brilliant, game mechanics is fun, but my only real complaint is "let me mark on your map" bullcrap.

i dunno how to turn it off too

 

[Antigoon]

also one thing that bother me is how the quest is built around quest marker. the game is good. physical / magic armor is brilliant, game mechanics is fun, but my only real complaint is "let me mark on your map" bullcrap.

i dunno how to turn it off too

This and also some fake choices. Some dialogs are almost telltale level.

 

[Jezal_k23]

Do surfaces (like fire) seem a lot less damaging than in DOS1 to anyone else?

 

[Kitchen Utensil]

The edgelords are out in full force today.

D:OS 2 isn't perfect and could use some improvement in many areas, but it is still a good game.

Tactician mode is great too. I love it when a game hands my ass to me, forcing me to use good tactics and well thought out strategies. I am currently grinding monks in the basement of fort joy for that much needed XP.

D:OS was almost complete shit, with the combat standing out because it povided at least a bit of fun. For a couple of hours that is.

Lame story, bad VA, the worst kind of humour imaginable, campy dialogs, trash-loot everywhere, over-saturated colours, mediocre soundtrack. The first map was okay-ish, but Cyseal overstayed its welcome by many many hours etc. After the novelty of the gimmicky combat wore off, what was left was a thoroughly mediocre game.

Reading this thread everything bad stayed bad, and some things have even gotten worse. Why would anyone play this? It's shit.

 

[Antigoon]

Do surfaces (like fire) seem a lot less damaging than in DOS1 to anyone else?

Yeah thats one example. I dont have a high fire res but I can comfortably fight in fire. Just playing on tac though, not the highest.

 

[Antigoon]

I really hate the way they decided to do dialogue choices. Just clunky as all hell.

Why not write actual lines? Each option contains a snippet of dialogue anyways.

Because they wanted to advertise that as fully voiced. Wouldnt be possible with vo for all origin chars at least.

 

[Infinitron]

Third person dialogues were in long before they decided to go fully voiced (only happened after March 2017)

It's an interesting question that we need to ask in a future interview.

 

[Antigoon]

And yet quite some players are complaining about that. They feel betrayed.

 

[cvv]

Lol Larian really did fuck up with the conversations. A year in beta and everyone was fine with this? Looks exactly like Vincke's brilliant idea noone dared to trash.

 

[Lacrymas]

I don't think anybody was fine with this, but they stuck to it because Swen is more stubborn than a mule. I'm 99% certain they justify it to themselves with "we couldn't write 7 different manners of speech for every origin + custom char". I don't think the origins were a good idea in the first place, at least not playing as them, they should've been only companions. The origins would've been a good idea if they fundamentally changed the game, alla AoD, not just have flavor text for no reason. As it stands now they only distract and actively interfere with the game.

 

[Antigoon]

exactly. It just becomes really problematic if some dude asks on steam on release date if really everything is vo incl. pc and some larian guy says yes....I dont care about vo, but from that little I followed they really tried hard to suggest you dont have to read at all.

 

[pomenitul]

I haven't started it yet but reading through these replies I can't help but wonder… why the fuck did I even back this? D:OS 1's campiness was already unbearable the first time around and it's not like I've ever shared the TB zealot's willingness to disregard all other gameplay elements. Feels like I'm due for a flogging. On the bright side: I'll take it as irrefutable proof that I've got money to burn – a comforting feeling.

 

[Antigoon]

Sure it has its problems, but I dont think your money was better invested in any of the other high profile kickstarters.

 

[Quillon]

Do surfaces (like fire) seem a lot less damaging than in DOS1 to anyone else?

Yeah thats one example. I dont have a high fire res but I can comfortably fight in fire. Just playing on tac though, not the highest.

Cos there is no fight without everywhere in flames, they have to balance it.

Pyromancy: Original Spark 2

 

[Antigoon]

Maybe. Really wonder on which level all these steam guys complaining about the difficulty play. I wouldnt expect that you have to consider anything on classic mode anyway. At least not in the beginning and judging from the first it wont get any more challenging

 

[Infinitron]

A significant number of people (100,000+) played the Early Access (though perhaps not enough Codexers?). The complaints about obvious things like the third person dialogue choices must have been known to Larian. Maybe you should have complained harder.

Another thing is that conversations don't feel like conversations.

Maybe the reason dialogue is this way is because in fact they weren't written as "conversations" but instead as a kind of description of ways each NPC reacts to the player. Imagine a script written like this: "NPC greets player. If player is X, say this. If player asks for Y, say this."

 

[Lacrymas]

Yes, why have dialogue at all? Let's just have concepts of a conversation, a theoretical framework of how interaction should/could operate. That won't backfire at all. Maybe Larian's writers are even more antisocial and lacking in conversation skills than we thought.

 

[Kitchen Utensil]

Yes, why have dialogue at all? Let's just have concepts of a conversation, a theoretical framework of how interaction should/could be. That won't backfire at all. Maybe Larian's writers are even more antisocial and lacking in conversation skills than we thought.

I'd suggest replacing text with geometric shapes.

 

[Roguey]

Maybe you should have complained harder.

Didn't work for "item fever."