Divinity Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

[Desiderius]

Hi guys, I've finally decided to play this game. Any suggested mod?

Magic Bags + free Pet Pall trait for all characters (technically cheating, but otherwise you'd either be missing out on fun stuff or forced to pick it ASAP).
There is also a mod that places a cooldown on NPC barks, so that you don't get spammed with FREE CHEESE from the vendor every second, but I haven't used it.

Thank you for the suggestions but I was actually looking for something to make the game "harder" (since I suppose it is quite easy, looking at how easy is Bg3 too).

Game is reasonably hard already for first half and Larian mails in the second half of their games anyway.

 

[Reality]

Tactician will be fine for level 1-11. Once you start giving your charsthers expert skills at level 12-15 you're in victory lap territory.

If I wanted to replay this I'd probably play enhanced because even though original is better - getting it over quicker (load time) matters to me either way.

I've accepted that hard CC, easily boost able saving throw penalties (every excess point of INT/STR or the blatantly low level obtainable version of (Baldur Gate 2 style)greater malision. And so on are part of this game. Despite all being contributors to its rather flat difficulty - any guilt I felt vanished in the area with enemies who teleport you into lava if not stunned turn 1.

 

[Litmanen]

Tactician will be fine for level 1-11. Once you start giving your charsthers expert skills at level 12-15 you're in victory lap territory.

If I wanted to replay this I'd probably play enhanced because even though original is better - getting it over quicker (load time) matters to me either way.

I've accepted that hard CC, easily boost able saving throw penalties (every excess point of INT/STR or the blatantly low level obtainable version of (Baldur Gate 2 style)greater malision. And so on are part of this game. Despite all being contributors to its rather flat difficulty - any guilt I felt vanished in the area with enemies who teleport you into lava if not stunned turn 1.

In the end I've installed both this and Knights of the Chalice 2 (because I'm also playing BG3 online with a friend and I don't want to play too much with the same system BG3-DOS).

I've started with tactician difficulty and a Battlemage+Rogue (obviously, before I've read it has been nerfed). First big battle (with the orcs on the beach) I had the legionaries (and fire barrels) to do the biggest part of the job. Melee I would be dead in 2 rounds (and I did several times, indeed).

Even if the game will be easy, luckily I'm shit at games so it stays hard until the end.

 

[whydoibother]

I've accepted that hard CC, easily boost able saving throw penalties (every excess point of INT/STR or the blatantly low level obtainable version of (Baldur Gate 2 style)greater malision. And so on are part of this game. Despite all being contributors to its rather flat difficulty - any guilt I felt vanished in the area with enemies who teleport you into lava if not stunned turn 1.

Its actually fascinating how such things in Morrowind are good design, power fantasy, true gamer game for gamers (such as myself), while in Larian games they are casual layman sissy easy broken game, etc.
Codex ratings of games and review of their mechanics are 90% virtue signalling to the black mass, and 10% actually having played the game and formed an opinion.

 

[Average Manatee]

Its actually fascinating how such things in Morrowind are good design, power fantasy, true gamer game for gamers (such as myself), while in Larian games they are casual layman sissy easy broken game, etc.
Codex ratings of games and review of their mechanics are 90% virtue signalling to the black mass, and 10% actually having played the game and formed an opinion.

Morrowind is not supposed to be a tactical game. A turn based party game has the possibility to have more complex and better combat than a real time single character game, but along with that comes different standards to judge it by. Whether Morrowind is difficult has very little bearing on whether its an overall good game. Compare to Oblivion, it's not like Oblivion was disliked because it was either too hard or too easy.

 

[whydoibother]

Morrowind is not supposed to be a tactical game.

Neither is Divinity OS. Its a wacky cursed fire+ holywater=?? game.

 

[Average Manatee]

Morrowind is not supposed to be a tactical game.

Neither is Divinity OS. Its a wacky cursed fire+ holywater=?? game.

It has turn based combat, it is slowing the game down with needing to control multiple characters in a turn based environment, if it isn't delivering good combat that is decently balanced then its wasting the player's time.

 

[whydoibother]

Morrowind is not supposed to be a tactical game.

Neither is Divinity OS. Its a wacky cursed fire+ holywater=?? game.

It has turn based combat, it is slowing the game down with needing to control multiple characters in a turn based environment, if it isn't delivering good combat that is decently balanced then its wasting the player's time.

You mistakenly assume that turn based == tactics, and real time == action, and that any turn based game must be judged on how tactics it is. DOS isn't and never attempted to be a game focused on tactics. Its focused on outrageous set pieces, as you can almost immideately see by moving the camera to the fire puzzle iirc east of the first city. Its tactical enough for you to feel smart about using teleports and throwing items to gain advantage, and not more than that, and its not trying for more than that.
I won't even talk about balance, given how most turn based games are full of RNG, from Civilization map generator to card game deck order. This is just a silly claim.

 

[Zlaja]

Crafting your own gear is OP in this game. Would advise not doing that if you don't like games becoming too easy. Granted, it's still gonna get easy, but even more so with weapon/armor crafting.