opium fiend
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The thing that catches my eye the most about the game is the retarded title, so I always assumed it was a crappy diablo clone. Why is it called Divine Divinity?
Lesifoere said:I understand it was meant to be titled simply "Divinity," but Larian said the publisher thought that was too plain. Mind you, "Divinity" alone is pretty... vague and pointless.
ghostdog said:I think the player eventually becomes one of the "divine" or something [...]
ghostdog said:I found the game far better than diablo though and it's not a diablo clone.
Zomg said:My initial mild dislike of Diablo mousefightin' was intensified by years of it being the default RPG interface to the point that I hated Div Div for that first dungeon thing and I never played it past that.
Lesifoere said:Mind you, "Divinity" alone is pretty... vague and pointless.
Dark Individual said:And having some starting spell I pwnd absolutely everything with ease
Yeah, LMK: the Lady, the Mage and the Knight. Was based on Das Schwarze Auge I think. Unfortunately it was cancelled due to problems with the publisher. They re-used much of that game's assets in DD though, there is even an easter egg about LMK in it.DoppelG said:Wasn't the title supposed to be "the warrior, the lady and the mage", or something similar? Can't remember it exactly.
bezimek said:IMHO DD is very good crpg game with interesting story, dialogue system, fine world and quests.
thesheeep said:When I played it, it felt and played exactly like a somehow better Diablo clone.
Should I replay... seems like I got something wrong, when so many people say something different...
Saxon1974 said:And I agree with those that say that Divine Divinity is a horrible name, and the cover art for the game isn't very good either. It's strange because the manual art and the game art is very well done.
Gragt said:The George murder quest is solved much later. If you restored Mardaneus' sanity (and I guess you did), he'll ask you to find the murderer and that's it for now. Much later you'll recognize someone who will put you back on tracks.
Phantasmal said:Note: These are legal links, lifted straight from Kirill's (DD's music composer) website.
Divine Divinity soundtrack part 1
Part 2
One of the only video game soundtracks outside of the Silent Hill series I have on a Winamp list to just chill and listen to. Great stuff.
Ogg said:
Mikayel said:The music is beyond comparison - the song you hear in the elf village is very magical, i feel gay for saying that but it's seriously good and bears a lot of influence from actual folk music and was obviously made by someone with great skill, understanding, and talent.
The combat is pretty broken - if for whatever reason you're having problems with combat here's your solution -
poison a bow and shoot the enemy with one arrow till they get poisoned, now run around until the poison damages them and wears off, now shoot another arrow, repeat
if you feel that's too lame but still need some cheese to get through - get a frost weapon, it stuns enemies for a second or two per hit
the orc wardrummer that spawns outside of aleroth at the little gold cache is impossible to defeat at your level when you first get out without one of those stupid shenanigans
rogue skills are important, but know that often enough you can learn skills for free from NPCs, and magic tomes teach you spells as well