Divinity Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

[Onholyservicebound]

Depends on who u ask

Are puzzle solving quests supposed to be a good thing?

 

[Excidium]

Yes if it makes sense.

 

[Ivan]

Does the game need smore' patches or is it cool to jump in now? I was hoping they would have added the 2 companions and shit by now.

 

[Excidium]

I'd play now if I were you.

 

[Onholyservicebound]

Spoiler

Puzzles: Check
Non-bland artstyle(No stupid realistic proportions, gear or landscapes: Check
No action points: Check
Brown third worlder that you can relate to: Check
Focused on player skill over character skill: Check
Scaled to your level: Check

Excidium
Boy oh boy have I got the game for you!

 

[Excidium]

;^)

 

[Shadenuat]

Killed Braccus with melee party. Had to raise one of characters fire resistance to ~110%, since someone has to tank the shit in a straight fight. It was my two-hander witch-zombie. Someone really really has to eat all the CC. I don't like that every character has at least some means of CC. When even a fighter has a no-los CC (that Braccus and Baron both use I believe) the fights are resolved around who has more CC artillery and whos artillery shoots first.
And the tanks can't do shit in beginning of the game. See your tank run trying to protect party, then get an anus_pounder on her head, knockdown, poison, burn - all in one round. Say bye bye to your tank. Blocking ain't useless but most damage doesn't come from shit you can block, it's the elements usually.
Also someone MUST make a mod that adds AOO for shooting, casting and potioning while in the melee. I would even make them standard for fighters (or an activated stance) and give a boost to damage for AOOs.
Good thing I at least had a Ranger to throw CC arrow after CC arrow onto everything he could see. Really versatile and powerful character, not a caster, but between low end (fighters) and godlike (casters). Without any casters in party he becomes the brain center as you need to think what arrow you really need right now - stun? slow the fucker? put a smokescreen maybe? heal zombie with poison arrow?
My tactic wasn't really anything special. I left 3 chars in a right far corner close to ghoul and lured Braccus there. That way Baron and Fireheads had to make a turn or two to reach me. First turn is fire arrow into ghoul and a few hits on him. My FR immune guy then tries to lure fire spells on herself while party first finished Firehead, then Baron (who was blinded/CCed by scoundrel all the time). Then we slowly kill Braccus while shooting every CC on him and healing all the time because when you hit the motherfucker you die yourself, 40-60 fire damage from burn lololo - you hit boss you die, you don't hit boss you die.

After that cheesed fire church. It was like that thing Roguey was talking about, but seriously, I can't believe this - all enemies in that location do 100% fire damage. Yeah, even when they stab you with spears or shoot with arrows, fire skellies do only fire damage. I didn't know that.

So my zombie witch soloed the place with her uber FR. Should have been at least 50/50 split there. Larian plz fix.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Larian should do another Kickstarter for redoing Divine Divinity in DOS Engine after they wrap this up (perhaps with an enhanced re release like DKS )

Fair way to judge interest in it... and a possible candidate for a good side project on the toolset while dreaming up another attempt at a very big RPG to dwarf them all.

They would surely get my money!!

Paging ForkTong and lar_q (know you guys are super busy, and there is probably some unreslved publisher butthurt...but I am sure many share my ocd to see dd in this engine... minus the trash mobs)

 

[Markman]

Died 3 times already at the season changing boss. Motherfucker. Spent like an hour or so till I Alt-F4'd the game.

 

[Shadenuat]

Died 3 times already at the season changing boss. Motherfucker. Spent like an hour or so till I Alt-F4'd the game.

Did you use/break statues? Depending on party it's a good idea to break them instead of using.

I guess the idea there is kinda WoWish as party has to run to right statue every time he changes season, but concidering you'll have to run through sea of lava or poison it might prove to be difficult. Although you could probably place a pyramid near one of them.
Tornado is a very useful spell in that fight.
Heh, it was probably the most used spell by me in the game. Can't believe I will have to go through all the shit without it. Gotta pump those magic resistances.

 

[Black_Willow]

Guys, check out this shit:
http://www.cheatcc.com/pc/rev/divinityoriginalsinreview.html

 

[Cyberarmy]

Died 3 times already at the season changing boss. Motherfucker. Spent like an hour or so till I Alt-F4'd the game.

Destroy them statues with a mobile character, use tornado/rain to clean shit up, use nail on your boats against ice.

 

[Kattze]

What's the barest minimum crafting needed to make elemental arrows?

 

[Markman]

Thx for the tips, bros. I noticed statues when I came into the room, but was trying to go manly mode on him.
Some funny unpredictable shit happening in all fights, but did got him to like 30% in the last fight. Fucker is immune to blind, slow, knockdown, mute, who knows what else and elemental damage heals him.

 

[Thane Solus]

there should be a test for possible reviewers for this game:

1) Do you own a next gen console? Correct answer: No, i am not a filthy brainwashed peasant.
2) Did you played Fallout 1 and 2? Correct answer: Finished the games several times (7 times for skyway ^^)
3) Is Dragon Age the best rpg evaaa? Correct answer: What is Dragon Age?
4) What SWJ stands for? Correct answer: No, go fuck yourself!

Based on the answers shoot the journalist or let him review the game ... Hmm, this should be applied to codex too lol.

 

[Cadmus]

there should be a test for possible reviewers for this game:

1) Do you own a next gen console?
2) Did you played Fallout 1 and 2?
3) Is Dragon Age the best rpg evaaa?
4) What SWJ stands for?

Based on the answers shoot the journalist or let him review the game ... Hmm, this should be applied to codex too lol.

Do you realize this is how every fanboy retard forum goes?
MAN IF YOU DONT LIKE OUR GAME DONT PLAY IT WHY ARE YOU WHINING

I'd let those idiots review whatever they like. Chances are, if you take IGN and such reviews seriously, you really wouldn't have enjoyed a game like Divinity.

 

[krist2]

Guys, check out this shit:
http://www.cheatcc.com/pc/rev/divinityoriginalsinreview.html

Bastard, he is using alpha/beta screenshots (edit: it's pre-alpha screenshots from last year..), and the release date is said to have been 20th of june... And the clearly hasn't played more than the first map, if that. Maybe just watched
youtube videos.

 

[Cadmus]

Guys, check out this shit:
http://www.cheatcc.com/pc/rev/divinityoriginalsinreview.html

Bastard, he is using alpha/beta screenshots (edit: it's pre-alpha screenshots from last year..), and the release date is said to have been 20th of june... And the clearly hasn't played more than the first map, if that. Maybe just watched
youtube videos.

I read the review and it was really vague so I can totally believe he hasnt even played the game.

 

[Perkel]

I present you "mages bane" If something can be muted... it will be muted.

 

[Watser]

Atleast the review was accepted by metacritic while almost all the 90+ aren't

 

[krist2]

Atleast the review was accepted by metacritic while almost all the 90+ aren't

I reported the "review" to metacritic, actually got an answer from the quickly asking about what repsonse I have gotten from CCC

 

[Cadmus]

Shit, you can report shitty reviews on metacritic? I gotta make an account there then

 

[Thane Solus]

in the end i am sure Larian are pretty chill and dont care about metabullshit.com , they produced enough sales based on quality, so props to them. While its not flawless, Bri

there should be a test for possible reviewers for this game:

1) Do you own a next gen console?
2) Did you played Fallout 1 and 2?
3) Is Dragon Age the best rpg evaaa?
4) What SWJ stands for?

Based on the answers shoot the journalist or let him review the game ... Hmm, this should be applied to codex too lol.

Do you realize this is how every fanboy retard forum goes?
MAN IF YOU DONT LIKE OUR GAME DONT PLAY IT WHY ARE YOU WHINING

I'd let those idiots review whatever they like. Chances are, if you take IGN and such reviews seriously, you really wouldn't have enjoyed a game like Divinity.

I was trolling and i dont care about reviews, at best maybe metacritic user score, but not even that is always good, and i dont think Larian gives a shit too, they made a good game and it sells well without doritos.

 

[Zewp]

there were too many moments where I could only proceed by asking people on the forums what to do (where the game simply didn't give enough important info)

Yeah, he panned it for one basic reason. The idiot couldn't figure out how to play the game and so blamed the game for his own incompetence. Why the hell do they have these incompetent people reviewing games? If you aren't a gamer, don't review games. Note... none of the gamers had problems figuring out what to do in the game.

Also note how his review doesn't discuss anything that happens past Cyseal and doesn't include any screenshots past that area.

 

[Arkeus]

Also note how his review doesn't discuss anything that happens past Cyseal and doesn't include any screenshots past that area.

That's because the screenshots he got are from a pre-alpha build from over a year ago, and he hasn't touched the game at all himself....