Divinity Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

[Zeriel]

That one guy had to rewrite the entire thing in the last minute, so I'm not excessively harsh.

It's definitely one of those games where you gotta REALLY like gameplay. If you always require the impetus of story to drive you to finish a game, I can see it being pretty bad.

The gameplay is great... until Luculla where it's too easy and it devolves into grinding, so you can't be motivated by that either.

It wasn't 100% even throughout, but playing it on the iron-man mode (I forget what they called it, the one above Tactician or whatever) kept the tension pretty good for me to the end. It wasn't super hard or anything, but the possibility of wiping helps.

 

[Lacrymas]

It wasn't 100% even throughout, but playing it on the iron-man mode (I forget what they called it, the one above Tactician or whatever) kept the tension pretty good for me to the end. It wasn't super hard or anything, but the possibility of wiping helps.

That is kinda artificial though, isn't it? It's not that the game can provide a challenge but only psychologically trick you into thinking it's tense by threatening you with a save wipe (which you can trick in turn by alt-f4). Barbie's Dress-up can do that if it wipes your save when you make a fashion faux-pas or something.

 

[Lhynn]

About writing, i think Belgian humor simply doesnt translate well. Heard it got a good reception there.

 

[DDZ]

This is the funniest Belgian right now;

And quite possibly the funniest person on earth.

 

[Black]

Belgians can never be funny.

 

[Lios]

It's definitely one of those games where you gotta REALLY like gameplay. If you always require the impetus of story to drive you to finish a game, I can see it being pretty bad.

Yes.
I didn't care bout anyone or nothing and didn't care bout the story either, writing is srvicable at best
but I had s a great time throwing barrels arounf like donkey kong anfd explodfing em with spells.
(and many other things)
I consider DOS a wonderful game and like Grim Dawn a game to be remembered not as an all time classicv but as a cornerstone fgor things to be done and could be done better and should be done better,m which is to say better than 90% of modern games now. not "all time classics" but "urgent".

 

[Orobis]

Can't push myself to finish this either, the writing is legendary cringe, don't give 2 fucks about anyone or anything except the gameplay which is solid but it just isn't enough to push/motivate me to the end. Some of the worst ham-fisted voice acting i ever heard does nothing but magnify the awfulness of the writing. D:OS vanilla i made it to the dark forest or w/e the fuck it's called 40 hours in before quitting, enhanced version i made it to the pirate cove.

The NPC's yammer on and on about too much inane bullshit that no one cares about, well maybe people would give a shit if the world was actually interesting, filled with at least a couple of interesting characters. So much wasted money on garbage voice acting that could have been better spent on other areas of the game, namely the writing.

D:OS Vanilla > Enhanced Edition

 

[Ninjerk]

Kill them all.

 

[Lilura]

I can't get into this.

I also tried Banner Saga 2.

These games have no soul.

 

[Lacrymas]

These games have no soul.

It depends on what you mean. D:OS was clearly made with "love" and "passion", but that has fuck to do with how you make a good anything. The game isn't intelligently made, it's simply a patchwork of ideas that Larian (maybe Swen) had at the time with no coherent interaction between them. It also lacks creativity in the art and writing. D:OS is just that - patchwork banality. I dread the release of D:OS2.

 

[DDZ]

I quite like the setting of the game, it's lighthearted and looks nice, I like how you can be creative with the world and not just for combat purposes. I put almost 60 hours into it and haven't finished it, but enjoyed it all those hours.

Might give the EE a spin.

 

[Hyperion]

These games have no soul.

Eh, I wouldn't say it's soulless. It's well made, but that doesn't mean it's INCREDIBLE. Unfortunately the Codex holds it on a bit of a pedestal, especially when compared to PoE. I hate to bring up the comparison, but unfortunately I've seen it a lot on random threads. Even worse, it has a lot more apologists intent on thinking they're giving PoE a bad name while somehow bolstering D:OS than people who are capable of liking both.

I would also argue that the Enhanced Edition pulled more balancing bullshit than PoE did, with the way they completely overhauled the skill system.

PoE's writing was fucking Shakespeare (alright....maybe Stephen King) compared to this. I would even say the C&C was better implemented through dispositions. Most of the choices in D:OS weren't even a choice - immunity to fear and charm? C'mon, you can do better than that. Meanwhile PoE gets mercilessly torn to bits by the apologists. Maybe it's the fact the kickstarter didn't deliver what their expectations were? Because it didn't manage to skip being a new and improved BG1 instead of managing to just magically be another BG2?

At least Obsidian learned from their mistakes with vanilla and made their expansions better, can't say the same of Larian. But hey, it has turn-based combat!

You'd think Larian were conservatives, and Obsidian the liberals on a political board with the way this place responds to them

 

[CryptRat]

So much nonsense in this thread...The game is great.

 

[Alienman]

Game is great... in co-op. Makes it easier to go through the insane rambling of characters when you have someone beside you to joke about it. Reason I'm looking forward to the second one.

 

[V_K]

DOS is one game that would really benefit from streamlining. If they dropped all the unnecessary stuff (persuasion, traits, random loot, crafting) and just focused on combat encounters and environmental puzzles, it would be a gem. Unfortunately, it seems like DOS2 will have even more feature creep, thus being even less coherent.

 

[Orobis]

random loot

Oh and i really fucking hate randomly generated loot in cRPG's, keep that shit in the hack & slash genre where it belongs.

 

[Crooked Bee]

So much nonsense in this thread...The game is great.

 

[Zewp]

Hmm, picked up the EE this Steam sale and I'm really not digging the new voice-overs for some of the NPCs. They've lost a lot of their personality and charm, such as the cheese vendor in Cyseal.

 

[Irenaeus]

Hmm, picked up the EE this Steam sale and I'm really not digging the new voice-overs for some of the NPCs. They've lost a lot of their personality and charm, such as the cheese vendor in Cyseal.

What they did to the cheese vendor was brutal.

-2 right there.

 

[Crospy]

Tried to get into replaying it with the EE but, nah, they still couldn't be arsed to add a combat animation speed slider, so I can't be arsed to go through the motions again. Maybe they fear the game would be too short if we didn't have to look at the same, repetitive, long dumb animation all day.

That would have done a lot more to make the game palatable than any of the changes they made in the EE.

 

[Doktor Best]

Hmm, picked up the EE this Steam sale and I'm really not digging the new voice-overs for some of the NPCs. They've lost a lot of their personality and charm, such as the cheese vendor in Cyseal.

The cheese vendor was probably the best thing in the game besides the combat system. Whoever swapped him deserves to be forced to eat cheap lowquality cheese for the rest of his life.

 

[Jaesun]

Is there some way to mod him back into the game. I cannot believe they cut him. Seriously Larian...

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Is there some way to mod him back into the game. I cannot believe they cut him. Seriously Larian...

They didn't cut him out, that would have been more kind.

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[SniperHF]

Is there some way to mod him back into the game. I cannot believe they cut him. Seriously Larian...

If someone knows how to open up, modify, and repackage wwise files; yeah probably. I looked into it awhile back to bring back the "greeting" sounds from classic but didn't think it was worth the time to learn how to use the program.

You can't import new sounds in Divinity but you can replace existing ones.

 

[LESS T_T]

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