Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pre-Release Thread

[LESS T_T]

 

[Lacrymas]

Oh, fuck. Campbell. Oh, fuck. Terry Pratchett. Oh, fuck. Stephen King. This is gonna be bad. Also a lot of Russian/Russian-themed literature. That's weird.

 

[Kaivokz]

Oh, fuck. Campbell. Oh, fuck. Terry Pratchett. Oh, fuck. Stephen King. This is gonna be bad. Also a lot of Russian/Russian-themed literature. That's weird.

Holy shit we got an art snob over here. How big of a stick do you have to have up your ass to hate on Pratchett? Not everything has to be a revolutionary masterpiece to be an entertaining piece of writing. If D:OS2 kept the mechanics of the first game mostly in tact and read like a Pratchett novel, it would be a great game.

 

[Fry]

Let's face it, any third rate novel is better than 85% of video game stories.

 

[Lacrymas]

Holy shit we got an art snob over here. How big of a stick do you have to have up your ass to hate on Pratchett? Not everything has to be a revolutionary masterpiece to be an entertaining piece of writing. If D:OS2 kept the mechanics of the first game mostly in tact and read like a Pratchett novel, it would be a great game.

Not snobbery, he just became very banal at this point. Everyone is citing him for "inspiration", It's like citing Tolkien. I don't hate him at all, nor Tolkien. Not to mention that we have a bajillion games based on him (and Tolkien) already. Campbell is the biggest offender in the whole list tbh.

 

[Zombra]

Frankly I'm far more concerned about How to Write for Children (and get published).

 

[Lacrymas]

Frankly I'm far more concerned about How to Write for Children (and get published).

Loool, I completely missed that. I was too outraged at the other things. Larian's writing finally explained?

 

[Gauldur's Bait]

Thumbs up for them having Strunk&White.

 

[Konjad]

Let's face it, any third rate novel is better than 85% of video game stories.

So? Most games do not rely on stories, whereas there's nothing else in a novel than a story.

But 85% of games are complete turds anyway (and I'm not just talking about what codex likes, most games are just objectively shit and you don't even hear about them0. Replace it with 95% and you might be be on something, then, again, games usually do not rely on stories. There is only a very limited amount of games that are about stories and it matters in them (Adventures and RPGs).

If you just meant RPGs, then yeah, I can agree to that. Unfortunately there are few skilled writers working on games, probably because good writers don't need to shill for a company which tells them what and how to write, but instead write books or whatever by themselves. There are some unique games where story is quite exceptional, but so very few of them and usually it turns out they are some kind of a genius struck to a guy who loses it afterwards and goes back to being an average writer.

 

[LESS T_T]

http://www.pcgamer.com/larian-studios-sent-us-a-trophy-for-beating-their-ceo-at-their-own-game/

 

[Bubbles]

Say what you want about Tom Marks, but his unyielding commitment to the bow tie/dress shirt/multi-colored hoodie combo makes him one of the few game journalists I can actually remember.

 

[Zeriel]

Oh, fuck. Campbell. Oh, fuck. Terry Pratchett. Oh, fuck. Stephen King. This is gonna be bad. Also a lot of Russian/Russian-themed literature. That's weird.

It's the go-to for pretentious writers who want to look "sophisticated".

At least the guy who threw in "Writing for Children" was honest about his RPG aspirations.

 

[Lacrymas]

The problem is that everyone keeps reading popular literature and being "inspired by" it. That means they can't have an original thought because everyone is doing that and it's just going to be derivative, like everything else.

 

[Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

Any suggested release dates so far?

 

[Zombra]

Any suggested release dates so far?

Way too early in the game for that I think.

 

[Lacrymas]

Didn't they mention something like end of 2016? Don't quote me on that :p

 

[Bubbles]

December 2016 is the projected delivery date for the Kickstarter.

 

[Jedi Exile]

I find the lack of news disturbing.

 

[vortex]

I find the lack of news disturbing.

Devs are saying there will be KS update soon.
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=583106&page=1

by norD

Yeah, we are working hard on DoS2.
Really hard.
Lots of stuff made us "post-pone" updates.

 

[SniperHF]

Also this is around the time their entire Belgium office takes vacation for like 3 weeks.

 

[vortex]

 

[norolim]

Huh.

He was an editor of GameSpot and...

a prominent SJW. Sounds promising. I guess we don't need to worry about Larian's writing anymore. It just can't be bad, now.

 

[Alienman]

Any examples of his SJWism?

 

[norolim]

I don't keep an archive of these things. Search "kevin vanord sjw" in google. There should be plenty.

 

[Lacrymas]

I don't have any expectations about the writing of this game. I know it's not going to be a serious attempt at narrative and it's going to be full of trivial chit-chat that nobody cares about. Them being "SJWs" will hardly matter.

 

[Trodat]

Why do they need so many writers? Older games had loads of text with half of the writers they have already hired.