Interview Riftrunner chit chat at RPG Vault

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Beyond Divinity

<a href="http://rpgvault.ign.com/">RPG Vault</a> has posted <a href="http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/428/428215p2.html">an interview</a> with <a href="http://www.larian.com">Larian</a> guy <b>Swen Vincke</b> about <a href="http://www.larian.com/riftrunner/index.php">Riftrunner</a>, their follow up CRPG to the world in <a href="http://www.divinedivinity.com">Divine Divinity</a>. Here's a bit on the combat:
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<blockquote><b>Jonric: What kind of combat system will Riftrunner have? In particular, what aspects have you changed from before?
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Swen Vincke:</b> It's the same real-time combat system you had in Divine Divinity but there are some important changes. First of all, you now control a party of at least two characters, so that makes things a lot difference. It basically means that in the challenging combats, the pause button gets used a lot more as you give commands. Second, we changed the stats systems and combat equations quite drastically, so you'll notice that it isn't a hack fest anymore. I'll not get into too much detail now as we're still fine-tuning this, but it's very different.</blockquote>
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I'm not sure it's the combat equations that made <A href="Http://www.divinedivinity.com">Divine Divinity</a> a <i>hack fest</i>. I'd say it had more to do with the hordes of monsters everywhere.
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Spotted this at <A href="http://www.bluesnews.com">Blue's News</a>.

 

[Volourn]

I surely do hope they imrpove that as beause of it I had to stop playing the game despite enjoying other aspects of it.

 

[Crazy Tuvok]

Yeah that was my biggest problem and, like Volourn, made me quit playing. It just felt like a game that had potential that was realized too sporadically for it to be truly enjoyable. I never know whether to recommend it or not as a result.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

All the blasted combat is why I quit playing as well. I enjoyed most of the quests and things, and the humor, but I really got sick of the combat and the fact you couldn't turn a corner anywhere without running in to it.

 

[Flarnet]

Saying that DD has hordes of monsters is an insult to those comparatively scarcely populated rpgs that have previously been said to have hordes of monsters.
The southwest part of the final desert area was the worst. An entire area populated as densely as the orc camp...

In an ideal world the developers would have been given all the time and resources they need to take the (sometimes coconut sized) seeds of greatness in DD and cultivate them into a masterpiece. In an ideal world.
Too bad we live in a world where they instead are stuck with a publisher that for instance forces a name-change to "Divine Divinity"...

 

[Astromarine]

huh? now I'm curious, what was the name before?

 

[DrattedTin]

Divinity: Sword of Lies, I believe.

 

[Flarnet]

What he/she said.

 

[Volourn]

that's just as bad; if not worst. :shock:

 

[DrattedTin]

Well, I suppose you have the right to have no taste...