Divinity: Original Sin Pre-Release Thread

[hoverdog]

To be more precise, it's several hundred years after Dragon Cockmonger and a few years before DD.

 

[Machocruz]

Realsim filters won't eradicate retarded asymmetrical armor and chest buckles which plague fantasy art the world over.

 

[hoverdog]

Initially you start with two predefined characters. As you level up you can assign points into the four standard elemental magic schools + thievery and fighting. So 6 skills in total. There are also 4 attributes: str, dex, int and cha, if I recall.You can recruit up to 2 extra mercs to fight along side you, although at this point we don't know how much control you have over them when it comes to leveling up.

 

[catfood]

Sounds good. Hope you won't get blasted with skill points left and right and you're going to have to specialize.

 

[Horus]

I like the cover concept art, don't recall seeing a pair of heroes hand-in-hand on a cover or a concept since ever. Maybe in Witcher? Not quite sure. In any case, looks good. And there's the white cat there!

Not that i'm implying anything but doesn't that looks like a dragon age cover a bit too much?

 

[Infinitron]

I like the cover concept art, don't recall seeing a pair of heroes hand-in-hand on a cover or a concept since ever. Maybe in Witcher? Not quite sure. In any case, looks good. And there's the white cat there!

Not that i'm implying anything but doesn't that looks like a dragon age cover a bit too much?

Red, black and white color scheme is a bit reminiscent, yes.

 

[Angthoron]

I had that feeling as well but then I googled the actual cover and... No. It doesn't really look like DA cover much. Unless we go with colour usage (bright red & black), but then this scheme has been fairly popular last couple of years it seems.

The title part is rather reminiscent of a fair few projects though.

 

[Infinitron]

I had that feeling as well but then I googled the actual cover and... No. It doesn't really look like DA cover much. Unless we go with colour usage (bright red & black), but then this scheme has been fairly popular last couple of years it seems.

The title part is rather reminiscent of a fair few projects though.

There's also the "tough looking armored dude walking towards the camera" design, which is reminiscent of DA2.

 

[Ulminati]

Best part is the Editor. Turnbased NWN = win.

Turnbased NWN

 

[Morgoth]

Dragon Commander probably skipping console version

+ Day 1 purchase.


Wouldn't have sold on consoles anyway.

 

[felipepepe]

The indie turn-based strategy/non-linear adventure/real-time strategy/jetpack dragon action game Dragon Commander was always intended for consoles as well as PC, but unfortunately developer/publisher Larian Studios is losing faith that the game will make it onto televisions any time soon.

INDIE? Say "indie" again! I dare you! I double-dare you, motherfucker!

 

[Karmapowered]

Wishing Larian the best for this game.

The editor, turn-based and supposedly "rich" story/character development interests me the most. I couldn't care less about voice acting and last-gen graphics.

Keep it at least to that, and it's day 1 purchase for me, like DD1, DD2/DKS.

 

[made]

Guis, have u seen Larian's PCs?

Hey folks... this definitely isn't the way we wanted to kick off Gamescom!

Two PCs were stolen from Larian's booth in the business hall at Gamescom, containing early builds of Divinity: Dragon Commander and Divinity: Original Sin.

Larian is offering a $5000 reward for information leading to the identification of the culprit and return of the PCs. We're asking the game community to band together to track these criminals down and to get the games back!

The team is using backup PCs, so no issues there — and if you have an appointment with Larian, there's no change — but if you have any information about the culprits, head to Business Hall 4.2, Booth A-16 to let the team know. Oh, and you might as well stay for a demo.

 

[Black]

What the fuck, how do you get your PCs stolen like that?

 

[Angthoron]

What kind of shit security is that?

 

[Darth Roxor]

And Gamescom doesn't even take place in Potato

 

[Black]

What kind of shit security is that?

They didn't have blizzard's authenticators, that's fo so

 

[Cosmo]

Don't be naive guys, it happens all the time when computers are involved ; a video director friend of mine said to me that wherever he's working at, be it a cinema, a theater or an art gallery, if he turns his back for too long he's guaranteed to have something stolen.

 

[made]

And Gamescom doesn't even take place in Potato

But Potatoes are at Gamescom. ;D

 

[Angthoron]

Don't be naive guys, it happens all the time when computers are involved ; a video director friend of mine said to me that wherever he's working at, be it a cinema, a theater or an art gallery, if he turns his back for too long he's guaranteed to have something stolen.

An acquaintance of mine had his band's guitars all stolen right after a gig.

What kind of shit security is that?

They didn't have blizzard's authenticators, that's fo so

Not even a secret question.

 

[villain of the story]

Red, black and white color scheme is a bit reminiscent, yes.

I thought of Assassin's Creed. White clothing, red straps.

It's a nice concept, two people holding hands, a cat in the background it but looks shit because of the ridiculous kiddie stylisation.

 

[MetalCraze]

This can easily be a PR stunt.

Somebody just totally came and stole PCs with Larian's games only 3.5 people care about on Day 1 of Gamescon when only trade partners are allowed in. Not random joe like you and me. Not even journos. Must've been evil publishers stealing Larian's games, hurting them poor devs again.

Not CoD. Not MoH. Not some other big blockbuster. Two obscure games running on most likely crappy PCs.
Clearly since they couldn't just carry those PCs through the entrance where only certain people were allowed in - they must've used the sewer level to escape.

 

[bonescraper]

This takes software piracy to a whole new level. I hope they'll upload those early builds to PB.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

This doesn't matter, the people who stole them probably don't read gaming sites and don't even know or care that this game exists and just want to make money ASAP from the hardware like 99,5% of thieves do. Thieves are rarely that high brow.

Also it will generate goodwill and publicity, so in a worst case scenario it will help make the games more notorious, just like it did with Deus Ex : HR.

Anyway, reasons like these are why I always use full disc encryption with my computers. With SSD drives the performance hit isn't noticeable at alll.

 

[catfood]

Could've been these guys