Divinity Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

Well, the testers were random people that wanted to test for peanuts. It's unclear what they were supposed to test, or if they tested Tactician at all. It's also unclear how good their feedback was or how much Larian listened to them if it was good.

 

What was the DOS2 budget?

 

Too much it seems.

 

A core team of over 130, massive.

 

90% voice actors
9% Kickstarter gifts
1% everything else

 

I want a serious answer, right now they've sold 245-275 thousand copies, that's around 11 mil revenue.

 

Whaaaaat you have to be joking. The game could be made by a team of third the size.

 

Speaking of budget, this situation reminds me a bit of VD's interview with RPS nearly a decade ago.

Look at those graphics.

 

It is a serious answer, lol. It seems overproduced and wasteful. If you want raw numbers, then what Roguey said.

 

Yes, the graphics, looks the same like DOS. They could've refurbished so many assets, and really graphics arent that important, its the meaty, satisfying combat that is important. As long as its mechanically sound, and as the icing on the top -it looks good, then im all good with other aspect of the game, not being graphically impressive.

 

Apocalypse didn't suck though, it was just too ambitious.

 

Combat was more chaotic and more simplistic then orig. XCOM, so therefore it sucked. The faction mechanics was only addition that could potentially make the game good.

 

Today on RPG Codex: GAM IS TU HARRD ON HARDESD DIFICULT! LARIAN INSULT ME!

The skill curve is ruthless and very brutal at the beginning of the game in tactician mode. If you don't level up a bit and get some good gear and skills, then the game will hand you your ass.

Also:


67K concurrent players. D:OS 1 never got anywhere near those numbers. It looks like Larian might have produced a HUGE hit.

 

wat

 

Game is pretty awesome, it's D:OS on steroids. I don't know what more you fuckers were expecting?

 

You're not looking close enough or perhaps playing on lower settings. D:OS was 8.7 gigabytes uncompressed (the EE added another gig). D:OS 2 is over 26

 

ftfy

 

Enhanced edition.

 

The graphics still look the same as Dragon Knight Saga Eco Draconis Developers Cut Divinity 2 or whatever ridiculous name the second game was called, as I said. It's not bad, just a little disappointing that it hasn't really improved in all these years. Apart form losing the excessive bloom, which is

 

I also highly dislike the neutered character system and all the neutered 100% deterministic mechanics that come with it.

Sure, the one in dos1 wasn't by any means particularly good, but for fuck's sake, at least it was something. It had saving throws, spell penetration, casting failure chances, etc, now all that is there for you to raise is damage in hurr durr +5% increments, and nothing else. Ridiculous.

 

Kieron Gillen did some good interviews back in the day. Shame RPS is what it is now.

Damn. I'd forgotten about Purgatorio. Tried to find some info on what happened to it, and it brought me back to the Codex:

 

Not a fan of the new armor system either. Also summoner feels boring to play even when paired with necro. On the other hand having fun with polymorph!

 

The same interactive world, with the same ability to exploit it in combat, without magic Star Trek shields cockblocking you even for a level 2 cockroach thing?

The same cheesy voice acting, but with accents from more than 1km2 of England?

Better itemization?

Better writing?

Better graphics?

Yeah, fuck us, right?