Game News Divinity: Original Sin has sold 160,000 copies, already approaching profitability

[twincast]

As has been said before, Swen's too much of an Ultima (VII) fan to do it without LB, and DOS is already too similar, so I'd rather they stick with Divinity for that kind of game. And EA being EA, that point is moot, anyway.

I'm quite sure Swen would never willingly touch The Dark Eye again. (Although I'd love them to tackle the Myranor continent, come to think about it.)

Gothic? LOL Not at all the right sort of game for them, and I'm quite sure Piranha Bytes won't let go of that IP ever again as long as they can help it - not even for licensing.

Fallout? ROFLMAO

Any official D&D setting? Maybe, but Hasbro suddenly not being a bitch would surprise me a great deal.

Don't see Pathfinder happening, either.

The Bard's Tale, Wizardry or Might & Magic? All firmly in other hands. For whatever good that does them.

Any other successful original CRPG franchise of the 80's and/or 90's? Not enough "weight" to bother. Plus (mostly) EA.

Arcanum? Possibly, since DDC showed a love for steampunk, but that's apparently evilsauce in Rivellon. However, they'd probably need influx from some different sorts of writing muscles, and a spiritual successor would easily suffice to begin with.

Obviously neither Warhammer Fantasy nor Warhammer 40.000 - for a myriad of reasons.

Shadowrun and Cyberpunk are "taken" as well.

ASoIaF is taken (in its GoT incarnation ) and not a good fit in any conceivable way.

Wheel of Time? Nah.

I'd love to see a Traveller CRPG, but I really, really doubt that Larian would want it, let alone be the right fit for that.

A super-hero IP? Yeah, because those sell oh so well without any of the Big Two characters... (And both those universes are firmly off-limits, especially because of their recent F2P games with RPG elements.)

Still, I see something that isn't traditional fantasy as being the most likely, simply so Larian can branch out some creatively.

I guess WoD is indeed the most likely candidate. Would still need a much less funny approach than what they're used to, though. We'll see.

 

[Fryjar]

So how is the implementation of the Codex and RPGWatch in the game?

 

[Watser]

So about 76 hrs after released it's been dethroned for the number 1 seller spot at Steam. The start of the decline.

Surpassed only by a weapon DLC for payday 2 which only adds shotgun... Fucking decline indeed

 

[deuxhero]

Only real complaint so far has been the art style. It's too "generic MMO" for me.

 

[codexian reject]

Nice to see success, I hope it will sell at least a million before the year's end. I want them to have a lot of money so they can make a game as detailed and awesome as Divinity OS, but in first or third person with matching production values.

 

[tuluse]

Only real complaint so far has been the art style. It's too "generic MMO" for me.

The game looks good. The art style matches it's tone.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Dragonlance...loved it as a teen, DM`d a long running campaign with AD&D 2E, so I could go for that.

I did make the mistake of starting to re-read the original trilogy recently. My God, I wish I hadn't, fucking laughably bad writing. Even Raistlin, who my younger, naive self thought was total badass.

Don't ruin the nostalgia for yourself like I did bros

Once I stumbled onto Moorcock, Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance and Gene Wolf it's absolutely impossible to finish any of those terribad D&D licensed novels.

Funny to think there was a time when I considered R.A. Salvatore a competent writer.

have never read jack vance, I started to and I recall really liking what I read but can't remember why I did not finish reading it. I know the D&D magic system is somehoow based on his writings, are there specific books that people prefer or that should be read in some order? Are they good?

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I've gone and bought this fucking game. Goddammit.

 

[Jaesun]

A Pathfinder game would be cool.

You know, I'd actually like to see Larian's take on maybe a Steampunk setting.

 

[Excidium]

You know, I'd actually like to see Larian's take on maybe a Steampunk setting.

You mean like in Dragon Commander?

 

[Trash]

Biggest reason I did not support their kickstarter was my disappointment in Dragon Commander. Very nice to see this apparently turned out pretty damn well.

The D:OS campaign was before the Dragon Commander fiasco.

It's ok to be cheap but don't try to lie about it.

Ouch. Memory is a funny thing.

And that setting should be something special for them to even contemplate using it when they've already made their own. SF? Steampunk? Cyberpunk?

 

[Excidium]

I seriously hope they fail to get any license, a company that is doing so well by its own should know better than to get tangled with third parties

 

[quasimodo]

Dragonlance...loved it as a teen, DM`d a long running campaign with AD&D 2E, so I could go for that.

I did make the mistake of starting to re-read the original trilogy recently. My God, I wish I hadn't, fucking laughably bad writing. Even Raistlin, who my younger, naive self thought was total badass.

Don't ruin the nostalgia for yourself like I did bros

Once I stumbled onto Moorcock, Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance and Gene Wolf it's absolutely impossible to finish any of those terribad D&D licensed novels.

Funny to think there was a time when I considered R.A. Salvatore a competent writer.

have never read jack vance, I started to and I recall really liking what I read but can't remember why I did not finish reading it. I know the D&D magic system is somehoow based on his writings, are there specific books that people prefer or that should be read in some order? Are they good?

Read the "Lyonesse" Trilogy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonesse_Trilogy

 

[crawlkill]

I haven't bought it yet, but I wish em well. a friend of mine who never spends money on anything I want him to has already gotten it, and I guess it's got co-op? sounds worth doing. anyone played it multiplayer? is it fluent?

 

[Morality Games]

I seriously hope they fail to get any license, a company that is doing so well by its own should know better than to get tangled with third parties

Yeah, I don't really get it either. Now isn't the time to branch out, its time to take what they've made here and make a "flawless" version of it.

Then branch out.

 

[Jaesun]

You know, I'd actually like to see Larian's take on maybe a Steampunk setting.

You mean like in Dragon Commander?

I have not played that. I thought it was just in the regular Divinity setting?

 

[Excidium]

You know, I'd actually like to see Larian's take on maybe a Steampunk setting.

You mean like in Dragon Commander?

I have not played that. I thought it was just in the regular Divinity setting?

Yes but in the future. Or past? I don't remember. Either way it's all steampunk technology. All units are steam-powered contraptions and stuff

 

[Jaesun]

Oh ok haha that sounds hilarious!

 

[Metro]

They leapfrog time periods quite a bit in the Divinity setting and DC does sort of have a steampunk/limited tech setting. That said, the game is awful other than the Biowarian dialogue segments.

 

[Irenaeus]

But wives!

 

[Excidium]

Yeah I tried to like it but that ant herding type of RTS is not my thing

 

[Dagobert]

I seriously hope they fail to get any license, a company that is doing so well by its own should know better than to get tangled with third parties

Yeah, I don't really get it either. Now isn't the time to branch out, its time to take what they've made here and make a "flawless" version of it.

Then branch out.

Yep, they should continue with Divinity series, making some expansion packs and sequel to Original Sin. Of course it would still be awesome for them to create more "serious" setting preferably some SciFi or Cyberpunk. .

 

[Roguey]

Really, the sudden absence of Roguey in the D:OS threads is the best indication that the game was a success

There have been a few (rather forlorn) attempts.... at this stage I don't think his heart is really in it though....

By the by I looked up detailed ability descriptions since I'm still waiting for my box (as well for them to patch it to a decent state since I am not downloading 1.2 gigs every other day) and, as I suspected, anything that isn't in a spell tree is junk. Nice mage-playing-game you have there, Larian.

I have to play it first.

I disappeared from the M&MX and Blackguards threads too when those were released since I had no intention of playing them, and taking further potshots would be a crazy waste of time. It's called moving on. Though I've enjoyed the times I've been called Rogueway, I'm not the kind of person who sticks around to slam something I have no interest in playing.

Sorry, but stuff like the Gnome conspiracy and the twin skull mystery are some of the best written quests out there.

It's actually fucking awful writing.
http://www.bigorrin.org/arc2c.htm

My first time through the game, I missed several of the quests; among them the Siamese Twins/Halfogre Island conspiracy. On my second play-through, the one I used to write this guide, I discovered that quest, and became quickly caught up in it. I really wanted to find and punish the wicked gnomes. I wanted to rescue or at least avenge the sexually abused human women, and I wanted to do something about the enslavement of the unfortunate halfogres. Unfortunately, the game gives you no option to do anything about any of these things ever. What you get to do is listen to a smug gnome give a very poor X-filesish summary of why you can't do anything about any of it, and then nothing. No option to outwit the gnomes, betray the gnomes, anything. Despite having the ear of two or three of the most powerful men on the gameworld, you don't have the option of mentioning it to any of them. The programmers just assume you're going to be satisfied with "Ha ha, can't do anything about it! Those wily gnomes. Wasn't that a funny plot about kidnapping, rape, and racial enslavement?"

The 'conclusion' to this plot came at a time that I was starting to get frustrated with the slow and tedious movement interface of Arcanum. When I killed the gnome conspirator and the game penalized me because his alignment was 'good,' that was really the final straw for me. Folks, it isn't good to engage in slavery, rape, breeding humans as farm animals, and political sabotage. It's not even funny. It's a pretty darn serious plot, deserving of a resolution. If you're going to allow room in the game for evil characters to kill innocent people, you're going to have to allow room in the game for good characters to care about pursuing things like this.

So I stopped playing. Not in protest or anything; it just wasn't worth slogging through the awful movement screens, tedious combats, and ugly graphics anymore.

Yeah I know Throgg ends up taking care of the problem but lol good-aligned systematic rapist.

 

[Perkel]

Frankly i never player RTS side of game. I used just TB and autoresolve with my companions. It's much better game that way.

 

[Irenaeus]

Maybe I'll try it with autoresolve in the future.