God DAMN Divinity II is addictive

[MicoSelva]

how many critters can you charm at the same time with charm lvl 7, dawg?

Charm level of 7 lets you charm three bros of up to level... 49.

Regarding my problem with goblins, it has solved itself when I found a better weapon. Now they drop like flies, mwahahahaha.

 

[Aothan]

Another skillbook is in the Inn, find Strange Volume I, read it. Next one is by the bar. Third on 1F near Sir Robin. Final one is in the fireplace and gives you one skill point.

is this certain ? Or would there be any circumstances that somehow prevent the fourth book from being recovered ? I remember that quest, recall the '...where no book can remain' that would suggest the fireplace as a naturally unlikely location to search. Yet I could not find the fourth book there and was curious where it might be. Also, I'm sure this is spoiler content in any other thread.

 

[Padre]

Certain, found it on two separate chars.

Also, I'm sure this is spoiler content in any other thread.

I would call them gameplay tips, not spoilers.

Even if, your point being ?

 

[Aothan]

I wonder why fate denied my character.

my point would amount to restating a tautology. I cannot really say what the practice is concerning spoiler material, if there is any convention or guidelines for the Codex forums. Having started with your post at the top of the last page (from where I began reading) I thought a neutral comment would not be entirely out of place. Assuming the thread contains a number of similar suggestions it might as well be used for those purposes.

 

[Padre]

Truth be told, I use quick reply feature and don't bother with spoiler tags.

Conventions and guidelines ? This is Codex mate. We have tranny porn threads here. We have polls which always contain KC option. We have trolls who ask questions so stupid and inane I'm afraid to even click some topic links.

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I'm terribly sorry if I ruined your Div2 experience though.

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[DraQ]

Another skillbook is in the Inn, find Strange Volume I, read it. Next one is by the bar. Third on 1F near Sir Robin. Final one is in the fireplace and gives you one skill point.

is this certain ? Or would there be any circumstances that somehow prevent the fourth book from being recovered ? I remember that quest, recall the '...where no book can remain' that would suggest the fireplace as a naturally unlikely location to search. Yet I could not find the fourth book there and was curious where it might be. Also, I'm sure this is spoiler content in any other thread.

You did follow the complete trail of books with this character on this save, right?

 

[dr. one]

Finished the game yesterday.
A really great package of a game.

A bit of criticism (I´ll divide the game into chapters for that):

Some of it may be too *SPOILER*-y.

Chapter 1 (before the dragon):
This part was just perfect for me. A great mix of exploration, questing, puzzles, combat, humor, char/gear developing. A lot of memorable characters, some superb art direction, music and world design.
Ridiculing stat descriptions!

Chapter 2 (rest of the ED portion):
Most of the staples from the first "chapter" were still present, tower provided boost to character customization and exploration got strongly augmented with vertical aspect.
I was not too keen on two aspects here:
a) Flying fortresses - somewhat optional and majority of them could be bypassed, but it still hurt the pacing of my game and gave the "chapter 2" more disjointed feeling. I also didn´t like the development in

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Broken Valley

I´d prefer a sole, more fleshed out fortress to this.
b) Main quest segments - most felt rushed and uninspired. Ending was good.

Chapter 3 (the expansion):
Well, this was a rather radical change of pace.
I liked exploring the town and its dwellings, doing quests and discovering secrets but few aspects made it a bit too one dimensional when compared to the original game, namely:
a) Lack of combat challenge - even on nightmare combat was easy mode, thus I never felt the need for better gear (though I´ve changed it for the endgame just for the heck of it) or adjusting my tactics.
Speaking of combat, I didn´t like the amount of experience gains from it - FoV is pretty much a quest driven game, thus I´d prefer to gain proportionately a lot more experience from quests.
b) Itemization - due to my previous point this is moot anyway, but I almost never found anything better than what I´ve already brought from ED, thus looting got less exciting in FoV.
c) Battle tower - a pity it got redundant and wasn´t somehow integrated into the main story.
d) A wow! factor - ok, this is a minor and sorta silly thing, but, final mission aside, this "chapter" lacked the larger-than-life moments from the previous two. Given the environmental prerequisites, I´d like some huge, impressively structured cavern system included!
Anyway, overall the FoV part provided a fun city adventure, yet another kind of exploration, good amount of interesting quests and puzzles and some good throwbacks to previous parts.


All chapters together make DKS a truly expansive, absorbing, often unique and multifaceted aRPG, certainly one of the best (if not the best) of its kind in my book. And what bears repeated mention is the lack of hand holding.

Finished at level 46, with bonuses from gear my char had three stats at 100 (vit, str, int), rest at 50, 1350 hit points, 1100 mana and base weapon damage (without WotBM buff) was 650 - 900 + (780 - 900).
I think I´ll replay this quite soon with a more spell oriented dude.

Divinity 3 can´t come soon enough.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Finished it five minutes ago, just short of 40 hours (39.8, according to Steam. I WANT MY MONEY BACK). Very good game. Ending was a bit shite, I thought, could've done with at least

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having the chance to talk to the Divine for a bit. I also would've liked to fight Damian, even if not conclusively; it feels like a bit of a gyp to build up to a final grudge match with the guy from the first couple of hours of the game, only for his boring girlfriend to go "oh, he ran away lol" and everyone to just shrug and forget about it.

Other than that, good game, will definitely replay it sometime if only to try out other builds. Charming, summoning archer, maybe...

 

[Crispy]

Another just sort of random awesome moment description, will try to keep it spoiler-free:

The sinister cave that you enter as soon as you get a little further into the fjords.

I really didn't expect this at all. I thought at first it was just another side cave with some loot to be plundered. Little did I know the majestic and rather intricate nature of the place. Having never played the original and therefore never really knowing what to expect, little things like

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realizing you could morph into your dragon form once inside the main cavern

just make you go, "Wow." I enjoyed the puzzles you have to find and its final fight wasn't too difficult but kind of "just right".

Completely off-the-cuff, but worth sharing. Just an amazing little game and I'm barely into it!

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

I bought the DKS today. I really wish it had save game compatibility with its own demo.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I bought the DKS today. I really wish it had save game compatibility with its own demo.

I torrented it to try it out just in case it wouldn't be compatible... then, when I bought it on Steam, the Steam version automatically picked up on and used my saves from the torrented version. That was convenient.

 

[DraQ]

RPGCodex: "What can change the nature of a Hack-n-Slash?"

Larian: ""

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

I bought the DKS today. I really wish it had save game compatibility with its own demo.

I torrented it to try it out just in case it wouldn't be compatible... then, when I bought it on Steam, the Steam version automatically picked up on and used my saves from the torrented version. That was convenient.

That hurt, Admiral. (Also, this is doubly hilarious when you consider that an earlier version of the demo apparently removed all your full game saves permanently when uninstalled.)

 

[DraQ]

100% demos are just better.


But for me 3/10 rating, backed up by rather incoherent whining, mostly about "gaem being teh hard", in Poland's biggest gaming rag (which earlier gave oblivious 10/10) was enough, I thought "I'm so fucking buying this game".

And buy I did.
And it was* heavan.




*) Is, actually, I still have to finish the expansion as I write this.

 

[Black]

*) Is, actually, I still have to finish the expansion as I write this.

Alvin is the grandmaster.

 

[Darth Roxor]

But for me 3/10 rating, backed up by rather incoherent whining, mostly about "gaem being teh hard", in Poland's biggest gaming rag

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me how retarded that review sounded.

 

[DraQ]

*) Is, actually, I still have to finish the expansion as I write this.

Alvin is the grandmaster.

FFFFFUUUUUU-
...wait, wrong game :/
-UUUUNAFFECTED!

But for me 3/10 rating, backed up by rather incoherent whining, mostly about "gaem being teh hard", in Poland's biggest gaming rag

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me how retarded that review sounded.

Who was the moron responsible for it, BTW?

Still, I feel a weird kind of pride thinking about how I bought a good game based on a shit review score asspulled by some clueless pleb.
Truly, pearls before swine.

 

[Padre]

Out of curiosity, which magazine are we talking about? Cd-Action ?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Who was the moron responsible for it, BTW?

Gem. The same guy who gave Unreal 10/10 back in the days.

He also gave Dungeon Siege 10/10.

R00fles!

Out of curiosity, which magazine are we talking about? Cd-Action ?

Obviously.

 

[Padre]

Found the review and a forum shitstorm that followed.

I'm speechless actually. I know you can be a cock gobbling sellout like most game magazines but this is just retardo on full speed.

warning ! potatoes only http://forum.cdaction.pl/index.php?s=&showtopic=22524&view=findpost&p=1133591

Those things he wrote. Small world, linear progression. He is bitching about not being able to max every stat. That there is no way to reset skill points. Stupid plot. Shitty gfx. Couldn't handle the boss encounter in Maxos temple with two separate chars.



The game has its flaws, that goes without saying. But WHAT THE FUCK

 

[Darth Roxor]

Honestly, every month I wonder why do I keep bothering to buy this IGN-lite. Probably because it's grown to be a habit of sorts now (not to mention when they go defunct I'll sell all their issues (well, I lack two) to some nutjob collector for much $$$). There's almost nothing worthwhile in this mag anymore. Most of the reviews are spineless, bought out cockgobblings which list dumb things as pros and even dumber things as cons (+ 10/10).

The last good thing about that magazine were EGM's reviews of adventure games.

But EGM's not onboard for quite some time now, so...

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Was everyone at least angry about it

 

[Crispy]

One could argue that he grew a spine in criticizing DKS but unfortunately that spine would be comprised of 100% dumbfuck.

All gaming magazines are basically worthness now, though. I'm actually surprised any of them are still holding on.

 

[Padre]

Their forum is quite different from Codex so they generally acted surprised and deeply saddened by the review.

@Roxor

CD-Action is a walking decline mate. SS, Gambler were where it was at. God I miss my Secret Service. Those reviews of Mortal Kombat 1&2 were just brilliant. Made my hometown famous too, we had the first MK3 arcade in Poland.

 

[Sceptic]

The same guy who gave Unreal 10/10 back in the days.

He also gave Dungeon Siege 10/10.

Seriously?

Four years later? That's all it took?

Jesus.