Older Divinity games. Are they good?

[LESS T_T]

Divine Divinity is a good game except for the endgame (like Scrooge said), which is boring and repetitive : no quests and a bunch of monsters to kill in a boring dungeon

IIRC, Swen said in Matt Chat that DivDiv's uninteresting endgame was the result of publisher CDV's whim. They insisted him to include orange-colored environment at the later stage of development.

 

[Jaesun]

Yes. That is what happened.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

What an...oddly specific demand.

 

[Excidium]

After that Titan Quest report nothing surprises me

 

[Volourn]

"IIRC, Swen said in Matt Chat that DivDiv's uninteresting endgame was the result of publisher CDV's whim. They insisted him to include orange-colored environment at the later stage of development."

What a cowardly liar. Just own your fukkin' shit.

 

[jdinatale]

"IIRC, Swen said in Matt Chat that DivDiv's uninteresting endgame was the result of publisher CDV's whim. They insisted him to include orange-colored environment at the later stage of development."

What a cowardly liar. Just own your fukkin' shit.

The fuck you just say about Swen? Say that to his mug and not the wiggy wire and see what happens, he'll hook you right in the gabber m8, I swear on me mum's life.

 

[Jaesun]

"IIRC, Swen said in Matt Chat that DivDiv's uninteresting endgame was the result of publisher CDV's whim. They insisted him to include orange-colored environment at the later stage of development."

What a cowardly liar. Just own your fukkin' shit.

I think Volo should win dumbfuck of the Year™ award...

 

[Volourn]

"The fuck you just say about Swen? Say that to his mug and not the wiggy wire and see what happens, he'll hook you right in the gabber m8, I swear on me mum's life."

Truth hurts more than a punch.


"I think Volo should win dumbfuck of the Year™ award..."

I win it every year just by thinking your posts *mighT* contain somehing worth reading.

 

[PowerTorment]

What an...oddly specific demand.

I recall I read it was because of screenshots. CDV asked for screenshots and they got all green ones. Marketing did not like that and wanted more colors. They got an orange on from desert - and suddenly they had committed to do a desert area - but they never got time to do it so it was rushed. Fucking publishers - at least they could avoid publishers this time around.

 

[A600]

IIRC, Swen said in Matt Chat that DivDiv's uninteresting endgame was the result of publisher CDV's whim. They insisted him to include orange-colored environment at the later stage of development.

From the Developer's Journal (a must read) included with the Divinity Anthology:

The feature list cited here comes from an internal document that gave
a development status to the publisher’s producer. In hindsight, reading
through it showed that at that moment in time, it should have already
been clear that the last part of the game world, the Wastelands (or map4
as the team called it), should have been removed: for lack of time, it was
never going to receive the love and attention the first part received.

 

[Elfberserker]

After that Titan Quest report nothing surprises me

What just happened with Titan quest?

 

[Excidium]

What just happened with Titan quest?

Publisher interference

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

DivDiv was interesting...it rose above the Diablo clone I was expecting. DKS was somewhat disappointing - mostly due to the constant filler combat and linear plot. I couldn't finish it. D:OS is pretty great combat-wise though, so I'm thinking they should stick to turn-based as they are clearly awesome at it and forget about that real-time nonsense.

 

[Elfberserker]

Publisher interference

Well, yes I gathered as much, but how derp it made the game in certain areas?
I have like just played the game little past tutorial couple of years ago.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Marketing

Suddenly all is clear.

What just happened with Titan quest?

You thought the above was retarded? You don't know retarded, son

 

[Excidium]

Thanks CK, couldn't find it

 

[Metro]

Titan Quest is mediocre by developer design.

 

[Elfberserker]

Suddenly all is clear.



You thought the above was retarded? You don't know retarded, son

I-What..Just wh...Dafug!?
That's truly retarded.
I mean as literally mindblowining retarded.

 

[Exar Kun]

I'm in the middle of playing Divine Divinity for the first time and its very fun. The first area was really challenging though and I had to start a new game to get through it.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Divine Divinity was a nice action rpg with a lot of detailed world building that for the most part was a fun experience, the sequel was all kinds of horrible and is not even worth mentioning.

The dragon knight saga has some innovative mechanics, like the huge maps, the ability to turn into a dragon and reading the minds of npc's, but i found it to be a chore to go through the massive amount of content due to the floaty combat, the writing and general tone of the game and characters and those awful voice overs.

 

[Multidirectional]

Dragon Knight Saga is great, played 3 times. Will probably play again. Haven't played first Divinity yet, I imagine DOS is gonna take up so much of my time I may never get around to it.

 

[:Flash:]

The funniest bit about this is that in the demo the Death Knight had another voice, and people bitched about it so much in the forums that Swen actually scraped together the last money he had and paid to redo the entire voice acting of the Death Knight.
The result is in the final game.

 

[Metro]

Dragon Knight Saga is great, played 3 times. Will probably play again. Haven't played first Divinity yet, I imagine DOS is gonna take up so much of my time I may never get around to it.

You have shit taste in games, though. How anyone could tolerate that shit combat is beyond me. Gamebryo is a fucking horribly engine for action games.

 

[Darth Roxor]

You haven't seen many shit combat engines if you think DKS's is intolerable.

 

[adddeed]

You have shit taste in games, though. How anyone could tolerate that shit combat is beyond me. Gamebryo is a fucking horribly engine for action games.

Comat is fine. Fast paced and with responsive control.