Divinity: Original Sin 2 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Kem0sabe]

These origin stories are cliche as fuck, the writing and voice are also quite bad.

 

[Lacrymas]

The guy should've used a falsetto voice for the undead, like I mentioned previously. He has a higher voice so it wouldn't have been a problem for him. Just something to stand out.

 

[Mojobeard]

Imagine if the voice acting quality was Infinity Engine level. Veteran Disney actors everywhere. Never ever gonna happen again unless it's a PS5 launch title though.

 

[Lacrymas]

That requires good direction, it's not only on the voice actors' side. Even the best voice actor in world will have trouble with a shitty character or insufficient direction. The best work in the video game sphere I've encountered is Sara Kestelman as Kreia, obviously. I haven't read up on what direction they gave her, but the character is strong enough, with real convictions and a valid worldview, that she would've done marvelously even without extended direction. What voice acting do you expect from "grizzled mercenary out for revenge" or "slave out for revenge", or "rebel out fighting the Evul Empire"?

 

[Infinitron]

I don't see the problem with the voice actors. They sound like they're from the same prim and proper British voice acting school that provides the voice acting in Daedalic adventure games (which is good)

 

[Jimmious]

I'm hyped to the extreme, JUST GIVE IT ALREADY

 

[Makabb]

What are these 'origin' characters? Do I miss out on anything if I will make a custom character?

 

[dragonul09]

What are these 'origin' characters? Do I miss out on anything if I will make a custom character?

They have certain quests related to them and some npc's react different to your origin and they will affect the ending in some ways.It seems that they really want you to play as an origin rather than a custom char.

 

[Haba]

I have to say I am not very impressed by the companion motivations. I mean surely there are other things in life that can drive you than revenge and revenge?

Especially if we are talking about fantasy setting where very much anything should be possible. Why settle for the most mundane option there is?

 

[Mojobeard]

Well I mean the voice acting is serviceable, from what we've heard so far at least. But isn't it every time that you open one of these videos, that the voice just doesn't match with what you had in mind? In a bad way, where you go "Oh this kind of voice then. Uh. Okay".

The quality is just high enough where it's not a matter of "this would be better as just text". But that's about it.

And I understand the budget limitations and such, but I still like to unfairly compare all voicework to Baldur's Gates.

 

[JasonNH]

What are these 'origin' characters? Do I miss out on anything if I will make a custom character?

You can then pick them up as companions instead. So it's matter of whether you prefer to explore their origins in the first person or third.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Give me the game already.

 

[Grunker]

Even though it's pretty stock I kindda like the pompousness + corruption angle of The Red Prince, but ye the rest are abysmal

 

[Lahey]

Why settle for the most mundane option there is?

It's Larian, masters of the mundane.

I don't see the problem with the voice actors. They sound like they're from the same prim and proper British voice acting school that provides the voice acting in Daedalic adventure games (which is good)

http://pitstopproductions.co.uk/what-we-do/game-audio/
Same production company that did OS1:EE. I'm not impressed with what we've heard so far but expectations were low to begin with.

 

[Trodat]

4 months is not much for a game of this size. TW3 voice recordings lasted for over a year.

 

[Iznaliu]

4 months is not much for a game of this size. TW3 voice recordings lasted for over a year.

You've got to multiply that by the number of studios they've using.

 

[Lahey]

4 months is not much for a game of this size. TW3 voice recordings lasted for over a year.

2 according to the company that did the english VA: http://side.com/projects/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/

The team at Side cast and directed actors to play over 950 characters, recording a script of 450,000+ words over a two year period.

Side has 3 studios alone, and CDPR also hired a dozen other companies for localizations. Twitch3r budget of 80m dwarfs even the most generous estimates of OS2's budget though, so we're comparing apples and oranges.

 

[Jezal_k23]

Wouldn't mind it if they released it early.

 

[Sentinel]

4 months is not much for a game of this size. TW3 voice recordings lasted for over a year.

Witcher 3 voice recordings actually took 2+ years according to the voice actor of Geralt.

 

[Quillon]

4 months is not much for a game of this size. TW3 voice recordings lasted for over a year.

Witcher 3 voice recordings actually took 2+ years according to the voice actor of Geralt.

Prolly cos they started when every line weren't ready/hasn't written yet to be VO'd.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Witcher three is voiced in how many languages though? Eight? D:OS2 is nowhere near that.

 

[Lacrymas]

Spoiler

They NEED YOU to become their next Divinity? What? Did they just spoil the plot? The main plot is you becoming the next divine? Why?

EDIT: Also, I KNEW IT! I was thinking today that Fane's storyline will probably be trying to impersonate Lucius with the mask and get more power. Now I'm 99% certain that's what's going to happen, but I wasn't expecting for the main plot to be like that.

EDIT2: The trailer is super spoilery, I suggest not watching it if you don't want anything like that.

 

[Ivan]

They NEED YOU to become their next Divinity? What? Did they just spoil the plot? The main plot is you becoming the next divine? Why?

thanks

 

[Starwars]

I really can't stand the whole "silly and zany!" angle they've got going. It's pretty much what keeps me from being superhyped about this game and what kinda stopped me from enjoying the first one.

Humor is great but... ugh.

 

[Daedalos]

What a shitty trailer... ugh. I'm starting to get less hyped now..

I hope they didn't just spoil the entire fucking plot. Nice Job Larian, spoiling the game, u fucking momos