Game News Divinity: Original Sin, Larian's Turn- and Party-Based RPG

[villain of the story]

Yeah, because non-gamers just love turn-based, CoD MW4 is going to be turn-based co-op, did you know? Don't try too hard, man.

I understand you are not very intelligent and have trouble with reading comprehension but stop to think about it for a moment before giving in to your first impulse to post crap: NON-GAMER. Non-gamers don't play COD or anything that requires anything more than a mouse or just a couple of keys. At most, non-gamers play shit like visual novels or shit like FarmVille.

And when you hear it right from the source that they wanted to make a game that people can sit and play with their girlfriends... think about it: what does that even mean? Is a girlfriend an alien organism that requires special catering? A different type of game? Is there nothing you can't play with your girlfriend? The only sensible conclusion is that the girlfriends in question are non-gamer folks.

Welcome to ConsoleCodex. Posters can't even comprehend what they are reading without a fucking quest compass.

 

[Infinitron]

Whatever you do, do go read the Larian forums thread on this game. I've seen several mentions of disappointment over how it's isometric and turn-based. Post them in the BTE.

Fixed

 

[General Maxson]

Yeah, because non-gamers just love turn-based, CoD MW4 is going to be turn-based co-op, did you know? Don't try too hard, man.

I understand you are not very intelligent and have trouble with reading comprehension but stop to think about it for a moment before giving in to your first impulse to post crap: NON-GAMER. Non-gamers don't play COD or anything that requires anything more than a mouse or just a couple of keys. At most, non-gamers play shit like visual novels or shit like FarmVille.

And when you hear it right from the source that they wanted to make a game that people can sit and play with their girlfriends... think about it: what does that even mean? Is a girlfriend an alien organism that requires special catering? A different type of game? Is there nothing you can't play with your girlfriend? The only sensible conclusion is that the girlfriends in question are non-gamer folks.

Welcome to ConsoleCodex. Posters can't even comprehend what they are reading without a fucking quest compass.

I don't know, it does sound a bit fishy, but why would he make an isometric, turn-based game if he wants to make a shitty little game for non-gamers? There are plenty of other choices to make the game more appealing to his non gaming girlfriend...

 

[Roguey]

Turn based! Turn based! Turn based!

 

[Infinitron]

Yeah, because non-gamers just love turn-based, CoD MW4 is going to be turn-based co-op, did you know? Don't try too hard, man.

I understand you are not very intelligent and have trouble with reading comprehension but stop to think about it for a moment before giving in to your first impulse to post crap: NON-GAMER. Non-gamers don't play COD or anything that requires anything more than a mouse or just a couple of keys. At most, non-gamers play shit like visual novels or shit like FarmVille.

And when you hear it right from the source that they wanted to make a game that people can sit and play with their girlfriends... think about it: what does that even mean? Is a girlfriend an alien organism that requires special catering? A different type of game? Is there nothing you can't play with your girlfriend? The only sensible conclusion is that the girlfriends in question are non-gamer folks.

Welcome to ConsoleCodex. Posters can't even comprehend what they are reading without a fucking quest compass.

Ah, but Swen didn't say he's making a game to play with any random girlfriend. He's making a game he wants to play with his girlfriend. Maybe she's ! Maybe she's Crooked Bee!

 

[thesoup]

The gf part was a fucking obvious joke.

 

[dr. one]

Quote for that?

Not really, but the RPGWatch preview states "Original Sin will be released on PC and Mac only".
No reason to believe otherwise for now, I think.

 

[PorkaMorka]

Sounds terrible.

The party mechanic sounds completely gimmicky, designed for co-op sounds completely gimmicky and it seems to be targeted at casual gamers.

You guys lack taste, you shouldn't get excited about every game that just so happens to be turned based and have more than one unit controlled at a time.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Obvious VotS trolling is obvious

Man, this place. I can't tell who's trolling and who's just plain autistic anymore

 

[kaizoku]

I'm a bit confused about this one. It's as if he's firing at all directions.
On one side you have: turn based, party based, top level view.
On the other one you have xbox port, co-op, bloom. These ones don't necessarily affect gameplay, but yeah...

 

[Haraldur]

Excited Troll

To be fair, most of the stuff the codex is excited about wont be out until 2013.

2013 will be like this:

 

[Jaesun]

I LOVE YOU LARIAN!!!!! <3 <3 <3

 

[Metro]

Going to need more info/see how the game actually turns out.

 

[Angthoron]

Yeah, because non-gamers just love turn-based, CoD MW4 is going to be turn-based co-op, did you know? Don't try too hard, man.

I understand you are not very intelligent and have trouble with reading comprehension but stop to think about it for a moment before giving in to your first impulse to post crap: NON-GAMER. Non-gamers don't play COD or anything that requires anything more than a mouse or just a couple of keys. At most, non-gamers play shit like visual novels or shit like FarmVille.

Ah right, so that's why Larian isn't making this for Facebook or iPad, because that's how small independent developers maximize their non-gamer exposure.

YOU MADE ME ALMOST FALL FOR YOUR TROLL YESTERDAY BECAUSE I HADN'T SLEPT BUT NOW I SLEPT SO YOUR MAGIC HAS NO EFFECT.

Ah, but Swen didn't say he's making a game to play with any random girlfriend. He's making a game he wants to play with his girlfriend. Maybe she's !

EDIT: Maybe she's Crooked Bee!

As long as it isn't Coco or whatever that thing's name was. Also, poor Crooked Bee, seems she's being the girlfriend of just about any worthwhile dev these days.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

Turn based? Oh, God, yes. Borrowed the first Divinity from a friend, not long ago. Loved graphics, atmosphere, voice acting, but FUCK, as soon as I saw it was a hack 'n' slash my boner immediately faded into nothingness. If this one has anything to do with the first one, but with turns... it shall be decent! Yes!

 

[ghostdog]

 

[Humanity has risen!]

The promotional video clearly shows one or two Xbox 360s when they're demonstrating the game, guys. It's coming to 360.

 

[Alex_Steel]

The promotional video clearly shows one or two Xbox 360s when they're demonstrating the game, guys. It's coming to 360.

It clearly shows two screens, two thin keyboards on the tables and the guys are probably using gamepads. For all I know, these may be two small PCs for the living room. I've seen cases that look like an X-box or other living room devices.
Not that I'm sure of course, I just go by the RPGWatch preview.

Example

 

[catfood]

Nevermind the XBOX, I think I saw some croissants!

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Sven has also been on record to say that most people at Larian played games on consoles and they couldn't be ignored. It would be extremely surprising.

 

[Black]

games on consoles

couldn't be ignored.

WATCH ME

 

[Dexter]

Internet sez PC & Mac: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-29-divinity-original-sin-announced-for-pc-and-mac

 

[Humanity has risen!]

It's probably harder for them to get someone to distribute the 360 version in stores, while on the PC (and Mac), they already have a fairly big fanbase in Europe, and the game can be distributed digitally. They did have a different distributor for the 360 version of Divinity 2 Dragon Knight Saga at least.

Once they find it, an announcement of the 360 port will surely follow.

 

[Stabwound]

After watching the video, I'm a lot more excited about the game. It looks a lot better in motion compared to the bloomy screenshots, and hell, the combat looks pretty good. Then again, Divine Divinity is one of my favorite games, and Divinity 2 was pretty enjoyable too.

On the downside, I'm pretty concerned about the 2 character system. The multi-character dialogue is unique, but it sounds like it could suck. We'll see. Beyond Divinity had the 2-player thing and wasn't well-recieved and I guess they're hell bent on the 2-character idea.

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

On the downside, I'm pretty concerned about the 2 character system. The multi-character dialogue is unique, but it sounds like it could suck. We'll see. Beyond Divinity had the 2-player thing and wasn't well-recieved and I guess they're hell bent on the 2-character idea.

I was wondering about how they want to handle the dialogue between the two main characters in single player mode, too:

Swen, one thing I am curious about that I haven't seen confirmed explicitly about the dialogue system so far: playing in single player mode, is the player given control over both of the main characters' dialogue choices or do they get to control only one of them, with some sort of AI planned for the other character that might occasionally contradict you (much like another player would in co-op mode)?

@Marquess - so the idea is that in single player you can select a character type for the AI in which case the AI will answer in line with his character. Alternatively, you can opt to always have it your way, in which case the AI will not interfere. It's really up to you personal preference, though putting the AI on random will give you the most fun imho.

I'm not all that sure about the unpredictable personality setting being the most fun (it could be, in a Bloodlines Malkavian playthrough sort of way), but I guess that's mostly up to personal preference. Other than that the system sounds good, especially given what they said elsewhere about the decision making mechanics.