Game News Larian to Kickstart Divinity: Original Sin 2 on August 26th

[tyrannosaurus rex]

It's not just graphics it's also awful story, bad writing and irrelevant dialogue choices with a minigame attached to it? Those qualities are what this place was founded to appreciate?

But wait it's turn based, so suddenly these crucial RPG qualities are irrelevant. It's the closest thing to a JRPG made by a western studio passing it as a WRPG. Maybe that's what this place likes now.

 

[Zeriel]

There is MASSIVE butthurt in comments section on every site that reported this news. Why? THERE PLAN TO USE SHITSTARTER AGAIN? HOW DARE THEY.
Reading comments on mainstream sites makes me wish for the next mass extinction.

These are always the same ones who didn't contribute the first time around, too. Probably never touched a single Kickstarter. People love to bitch from the sidelines.

 

[Infinitron]

It's not just graphics it's also awful story, bad writing and irrelevant dialogue choices with a minigame attached to it? Those qualities are what this place was founded to appreciate?

But wait it's turn based, so suddenly these crucial RPG qualities are irrelevant. It's the closest thing to a JRPG made by a western studio passing it as a WRPG. Maybe that's what this place likes now.

You could have just said "D:OS is shit, why does everybody like it?" instead of wasting our time with accusations of hypocrisy

 

[Gremius]

To back or not to back. I really don't like to be a beta-tester again who payed for game and tested it for console players who will get Definitive Edition.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Why should I pass on the opportunity to call you hypocrites when you are for disregarding the lack of all the major RPG tenet that this place decries for being lacking in other RPGs.

But it's turn based. Just like final fantasy 7 everyone's favorite RPG.

 

[Abu Antar]

Why should I pass on the opportunity to call you hypocrites when you are for disregarding the lack of all the major RPG tenet that this place decries for being lacking in other RPGs.

But it's turn based. Just like final fantasy 7 everyone's favorite RPG.

Final Fantasy 6 is better.

 

[likaq]

Speaking of hypocrites and double standards... How does combat in D:OS compare to combat in Jagged Alliance 2? Is it at the VERY LEAST on par with JA2?

 

[Bumvelcrow]

Dear Swen, bearing in mind the impending console release of D:OS and the fact that the developers are understandably currently focussed on consoles and making things palatable for consoletards, please don't fuck this up.

Hugs and kisses, B.

 

[Perkel]

The art style will likely stay because it sells.

doubtful. That artstyle is in every shovelware game.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

^ because it sells

 

[Excidium II]

Speaking of hypocrites and double standards... How does combat in D:OS compare to combat in Jagged Alliance 2? Is it at the VERY LEAST on par with JA2?

w0t

 

[Excidium II]

To back or not to back. I really don't like to be a beta-tester again who payed for game and tested it for console players who will get Definitive Edition.

It's worth backing for the lower price since it's in dollars, you know you'll buy this anyway.

 

[likaq]

Here's the truth - nobody actually cares that much about "awful art style"

Yep.
Oh wait.
Diablo 3 thread is full of " fuck you blizzard fuck you in the face for making diablo 3 with wow-like art design" butthurt.
But when it comes to D:OS , codex is suddenly perfectly okay with wow-like art design.
Totaly not hypocrisy.

 

[J_C]

Speaking of hypocrites and double standards... How does combat in D:OS compare to combat in Jagged Alliance 2? Is it at the VERY LEAST on par with JA2?

Nothing compares to JA2. But DOS is still pretty good.

 

[likaq]

w0t

So, is combat in D:OS on par with JA2 or not?

 

[Excidium II]

So, is combat in D:OS on par with JA2 or not?

I'm not sure it can even compare. It's very different, more arcadey with everyone having magical powers and a lot of focus on combo interactions and elemental stuff.

It's not as tacticool mostly because it suffered from poorly tuned encounters and shitty balance. EE supposedly address that

 

[Zed]

I hope the single player campaign is void of any traces of co-op.

 

[Bubbles]

Co-op is probably the biggest marketing asset Larian has. If anything, the single player campaign will be called "solo co-op" in the menu.

 

[murloc_gypsy]

EE is coming out after the Kickstarter, so be prepared to pay more.

Hm, for a moment there I was of the impression EE was coming out in late August as well.
In this case, I guess it's up to them to convince me that they are doing solid enough work to warrant backing a sequel.
Will probably back it anyway. DOS was one of the most enjoyable (if not the most) games to come out of the kickstarter wave

 

[Bonerbill]

You could have just said "D:OS is shit, why does everybody like it?" instead of wasting our time with accusations of hypocrisy

At least his opinion actually has truth in it, unlike the PoE haters on this board. I love D:OS, and even I can't deny some his claims.

FWIW I suggested the Chris Avellone stretch goal: http://larian.uservoice.com/forums/...ggestions/9290247-stretch-goal-chris-avellone

Feel free to vote on it.

Oh god, I hope this gets a lot of votes.

 

[AstroZombie]

I’m hopeful though — there’s a small scene in D:OS 2, right at the beginning of the demo that we’ll be showing to press and players at Pax Prime. It’s a small detail, but every time I see it, my heart starts beating faster because of the enormous implications it has for the entire game. It was when I saw this that I felt sure about taking it to Kickstarter. I think other RPG players will recognize what it means for the game and their hearts will start beating faster also.

My heart already goes doki doki for you, Sven-senpai~

 

[LeStryfe79]

So, what does everyone think the "heartbeat raising feature is" ? Gotta be something simulationist or maybe more than 2 players.

 

[CRD]

Well, I hope the tiers looks something like this

1- Extra writer for better main plot
2- Another writer for better character development
3- More writers for better subquest plots
4- A new writer join the team to help to develop non stupid dialogs
5- X writer will write npcs interactions

and 4 or 5 more kickstarter tiers regarding the writing, because the first one was atrocious.

 

[vonAchdorf]

I wonder if announcing a sequel right before the EE will reduce sales (mostly console) for the EE? On the other hand, they probably want to use the visibility of the EE for the Kickstarter push.

 

[Bubbles]

I wonder if announcing a sequel right before the EE will reduce sales (mostly console) for the EE? On the other hand, they probably want to use the visibility of the EE for the Kickstarter push.

My impression from Gamescom was that 90% of the people interested in D:OS:EE were unfamiliar with the franchise and were intrigued by the combination of consoles + co-op. That crowd isn't going to wait 2 years for a hypothetically better sequel.