Divinity 2 is a piece of shit

[DraQ]

You mean, like PST?

Oh.

 

[Sceptic]

The game's combination of humour, atmosphere, distance to itself, awesome music and art direction (plus not being an actual cRPG) reminds me of Anachronox.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

Are you serious?

Bear in mind I never played any of the Divinities but if there's any way you can associate these 2 games I'm dropping everything and getting Divinity 2 RIGHT NOW.

Come to think of it, doesn't

the art direction, the writing and the superb voice acting (...), the beautiful soundtrack, but there's so many things wrong with this game.

happens to perfectly describe PST we all know and love?

The first game I think of when I see this is Anachronox actually. I RAGED so hard at the game yet all the good things were so good that I couldn't stop playing (and raging). I guess this confirms your earlier association...

Should I try and get Divinity 1 first or skip it and start with the 2nd?

 

[Droog White Smile]

PS:T is a CYOA book, not a game.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^No. PST is a jrpg, like Anachronox.

 

[DraQ]

The game's combination of humour, atmosphere, distance to itself, awesome music and art direction (plus not being an actual cRPG) reminds me of Anachronox.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

Are you serious?

The way you ask it?
No.

It's not nearly in the same league, and the association is quite distant (mind you, Anox was pure Douglas Adams grade stuff). Still, it has pretty similar overall vibe, thanks to it's mixture of the aforementioned elements - this game doesn't take itself seriously, and doesn't feel forced. It has the kind of distance Anox (or Wizardry 8, for that matter) had, which gives it very specific charm.

If you liked the common part of Anox and Wiz8 (distance), like humour in games that doesn't consist of endless running gags, but nevertheless its presence is distinctly palpable all the time, can just sit back and enjoy beautiful music and art direction and don't mind playing something that is insufficiently diverse Diablo clone mixed with a TPP game in the meantime, you are bound to enjoy it.
Otherwise, you may find it unenjoyable.

It's not some kind of Anox's spiritual successor of HnS land, far from it, you won't get another "drifting in space" cutscene or Rho Bowman going "Well that sucks." or Detta's thug brutalizing Boots, but Anox's specific vibe, a combination of humour and distance to itself, is nevertheless present in it.

Mind the performance issues, shitty DRM and visual inconsistency in form of floaty loot bags.

 

[Monocause]

Gameplay isn't shit, it's bearable. I guess less patient people can be annoyed by the tower-shooting minigame, but if that's the case you can just lower the difficulty or use cheats and stroll through it.

How about Arcanum? I stomached the flying fortresses better than the BMC mines, you know. Actually, Div2 combat is miles better and more enjoyable than what Arcanum has to offer. How come you don't consider Arcanum shit, eh?

 

[relootz]

^No. PST is a jrpg, like Anachronox.

IT IS NOT A JRPG.

 

[Felix]

The major problem I has with Divinity is even at high framerate, it's never feel smooth and make my head dizzy after a while.

Gamebryo is such a shitty engine.

 

[DraQ]

The major problem I has with Divinity is even at high framerate, it's never feel smooth and make my head dizzy after a while.

Tried turning off this whole "time slicing" mistake?
Granted, I'm not getting high framerate in the first place, but animations and everything update as smoothly as the framerate allows in my case.

Any way to disable motion blur, BTW? I imagine it would kick the framerate up a notch or ten, plus improved visual clarity would be a plus.

Also, have anyone hacked some solution to center the camera on the character properly, especially in dragon mode?

Finally, is there any way to make screenshots natively in the game and does some music ripper for it exist?

Gamebryo is such a shitty engine.

Yes, at least Div2 uses it to actually look impressive, rather than just bloomy, blurry and specular.

 

[Lesifoere]

Gameplay isn't shit, it's bearable. I guess less patient people can be annoyed by the tower-shooting minigame, but if that's the case you can just lower the difficulty or use cheats and stroll through it.

I beg to differ. I busted out cheats in the hope that it would get me through those sections with minimal pain, but even cheats don't help mask the shitty control scheme or the sheer tedium of it all.

 

[DraQ]

Wait, how was cracking the fortresses difficult? Repetitive, yes, but difficult enough for cheats to actually quicken up things?

 

[Lesifoere]

Repetitive, long, tedious, shitty. Not difficult. Cheats sped things up a bit, but not enough to keep me from uninstalling the turd.

 

[Monocause]

Well, you still could get killed. Cheats would allow you to go straight for the generators and then to proper teleporters. I reckon that with cheats the three fortresses I did would be doable in about 3-4 minutes depending on the loading times :D Without cheats you have to avoid fire, take out defences and work for XP.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^No. PST is a jrpg, like Anachronox.

IT IS NOT A JRPG.

Denying reality won't make it go away

 

[Lesifoere]

Well, you still could get killed. Cheats would allow you to go straight for the generators and then to proper teleporters. I reckon that with cheats the three fortresses I did would be doable in about 3-4 minutes depending on the loading times :D Without cheats you have to avoid fire, take out defences and work for XP.

Oh, shit, don't remind me. Fucking shit engine; fucking Larian with their incompetence.

 

[DraQ]

The fortresses weren't long. You could just fly around flashing the towers and gens, then go beat the main bad. If you kept moving and went for things like lighting towers first, it was a breeze.

Was dragon combat good? No, but it didn't require much time.

After getting fucked up in the beginning and with the exception of Laiken and Barnabus, I hardly had any problems with not dying in this game, so loading times were mostly irrelevant (with the exception of having to reload to flush the leaky engine and make game run properly again after it started grinding).

The thing it could really use is a good manual, though, I still don't know what's the difference between normal and magic damage, some skill development tables would also help, as the skills develop in highly non-linear manner.

 

[Zeus]

^No. PST is a jrpg, like Anachronox.

IT IS NOT A JRPG.

Sure it is.

JRPG

WRPG

There's just no flaw in this logic.

 

[DraQ]

I completed the game and got caught on the pretty well played sequel/expansion hook.



Also

Maxos!

 

[Droog White Smile]

That was a very informative post, DraQ.

 

[DraQ]

 

[relootz]

Drog can post in this forum it seems.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

So true, Divinity 2 was fucking fantastic. I didn't mind its rough edges one bit. As for the original post, well it mostly worked the same way in DivDiv. Divinity 2 is a 3D iteration of DivDiv's mechanics, no more, no less. I enjoyed it more than Risen. I haven't played such a game teeming with personality and color in ages.

I'm sooo hyped for the expansion pack!

 

[DraQ]

So true, Divinity 2 was fucking fantastic. I didn't mind its rough edges one bit. As for the original post, well it mostly worked the same way in DivDiv. Divinity 2 is a 3D iteration of DivDiv's mechanics, no more, no less. I enjoyed it more than Risen. I haven't played such a game teeming with personality and color in ages.

I'm sooo hyped for the expansion pack!

Keyword in red.

It takes more than shadurz and bloom to make a good game.

I thoroughly enjoyed Div2 despite it's rather glaring shortcomings, like dragon flight and combat being not nearly cool enough*, or most of the skills being 'meh' if useful (an exception would be the ridiculously over the top ability that let you close the distance with ludicrous speed, which felt very cool).
This game just oozed personality and atmosphere and I will be happy to buy the expansion to let it unfold further.

(ASMD CDA, once gaming rag.)

*) Obviously, the game that did the whole dragon might thing extremely right was The I of The Dragon, while Drakan allowed for greater freedom of movement. It would also be useful if some game would allow us, apart from using breath arsenal and array of powerful spells, to tear shit up physically. Some minor aerodynamics would also be cool - not for realism (duh), but to emphasize the feeling of flight and enrich the tactics. For example diving to gain speed, gliding, banking, not being able to stop instantly, etc.

 

[Saxon1974]

Had a gift card and didnt see anything else I wanted to I picked this game up for free.

Definitely like the art direction, it has a fairy tale\folk tale look to it that makes it unique to so many of the 3D Action RPG's coming out now.

Haven't played very much yet, but my god could combat in games get any worse? Its just a damn click fest, doesn't appear you can even block. I dont have a shield yet but Im going to assume you cannot activitely block with one?

Also, anyone know how to do a screen shot in game? Doesn't appear that you can.

 

[relootz]

Print screen and paste into paint?

 

[Konjad]

Writing in this game is at the level of Oblivion. World is retarded, sotry is retarded, graphic is overbloomified.

Shit.