Game News Divinity: Original Sin 2 Kickstarter Update #4: Meet the Lizards

[Haba]

Humans are humans, dwarves are a whole race of Gimli clones, lizards are a group of animals with over 6000 fucking species and would it kill you to come up with a better name you fucking eurotrash

In Divinity setting, "Lizard" refers to the descendants of the great wyrm Lizardus. Get your ignorant ass out of this thread, shitlord.

 

[Lambinou]

This is true, but not always. Example:
Slavs is derived from slovo (word) or perhaps slava (glory). (This is a self given name.)
While the poles derive their name from polanie, which is a name given for their agriculture fields. (This is perhaps a name given by franks or saxons or later by "the" germans or latin speaking prists to the tribe of polanie.)
The germans on the other hand derive their name from either gealic word for neighbors or other possibility is the "ger" spear. (This name is given by romans.)
The germans living in germany call them self "Deutsche" which is derived from "theodisk", which means speaker of the nations language / or belonging to the nation or simply nation / people of the nation. (This is a self given name.)

Also "Franc" (or Frank for you non French) meant "free"

And Burkina Faso means "land of the honest men"

 

[Crescent Hawk]

Honestly I kind of feel like the "we're DRAGUNZ LOL" angle is pretty uninteresting, and rather silly. They build up this story of it being unclear whether they are actually descended from dragons, then have skills that turn them into dragons. Oh, okay, that mystery lasted for about 2 seconds. They would also be way more intriguing as a race if they didn't have the dragon aspect, I think, genetically obsessed lizards with a politically powerful empire sounds more interesting than any dragon I've ever heard of. But that boat has sailed, every fantasy game has to have a dragon, it's in the contract or something.

You do know you are asking for originality on a setting like Rivellon.
To me its the worst part of Larian, I dont even care about the light hearted tone. Its needs less WoW aesthetics and a more interesting universe.

 

[Zeriel]

You do know you are asking for originality on a setting like Rivellon.
To me its the worst part of Larian, I dont even care about the light hearted tone. Its needs less WoW aesthetics and a more interesting universe.

It's just a logistics complaint mostly. Presenting a spoiler that they are canonically dragons a second after suggesting there is some mystery about it being unclear what their origins are strikes me as incredibly silly. It would be like if in the same update they told us about the Divine Alexander guy they then one sentence later told us how the game ends with him turning into a demon or whatever. Like what in the actual fuck?

 

[Roguey]

It can be a point of contention within the setting while not a mystery to us.

 

[Tigranes]

Calling lizards lwre r'apa wouldnt change the fact that they will be utterly Disney. And then youd have the other half of the codex complain they arent just called lizards.

 

[Irenaeus II]

The setting is childish, but Dragon Command dialogues were well written. D:OS dialogues not so much (sorry, Sarah (or whatever your name *wink*)). WoW aesthetics are childish/girly too. Hope they do something about it. Not pledging so far.

 

[Roguey]

Fantasy y. Lyzyrdz.

Lyzyrdz from the south are called Lyzyrd Skynyrd. This would be the kind of joke Larian would make.

 

[Crescent Hawk]

The setting is childish, but Dragon Command dialogues were well written. D:OS dialogues not so much (sorry, Sarah (or whatever your name *wink*)). WoW aesthetics are childish/girly too. Hope they do something about it. Not pledging so far.

I actually kinda looks better, especially concept art, but its still dumb.

 

[Irenaeus II]

I actually kinda looks better, especially concept art, but its still dumb.

Concept art does look better, also the gameplay is less brightly colorful. Still kinda WoWy, but I'm more concerned about the single player writing and gameplay (will never play coop, didn't with D:OS 1).

 

[DeepOcean]

Lol, better to have lizards, plain and simple, than some kind of 'original'.

Wot? You don't like lizärduxuls? Where is the linguistic diversity you philistine?

 

[Grokalibre]

I propose these for the sake of good taste:
humans ->Uhmans
dwarves ->Gnarves
elves ->Sylviliphillis
lizards ->Draconosaurs
undeads ->Fampyrs

No I didn't work on PoE.

 

[Mustawd]

I propose these for the sake of good taste:
humans ->Uhmans
dwarves ->Gnarves
elves ->Sylviliphillis
lizards ->Draconosaurs
undeads ->Fampyrs

No I didn't work on PoE.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Even I loled at that one

 

[Infinitron]

I propose these for the sake of good taste:
humans ->Uhmans
dwarves ->Gnarves
elves ->Sylviliphillis
lizards ->Draconosaurs
undeads ->Fampyrs

No I didn't work on PoE.

PoE doesn't typically use weird names for any of those things except the undead.

The typical compromise here is having two names, a commonly used name identical to standard fantasy nomenclature and an in-universe "academic" name for the nerds and lorefags.

Although the Elder Scrolls seems to have eventually gotten everybody used to using Bosmer and Altmer instead of Wood Elf and High Elf.