Larian for a first timer

[Goldschmidt]

Divinity 2 Developer's Cut for the lulz (and hot female pixels in sexy bikini armour). Be a man and play it!

https://af.gog.com/game/divinity_2_developers_cut?as=1649904300

 

[jackofshadows]

Judging by the question you rather wanna know what they're represent than enjoy, right? So go with D:OS 2; complete first location, take your time, mess around etc. Don't bother playing after that.

If that's not the case - try Divine Divinity, it's a fine game.

 

[Thac0]

Can I just jump into Divinity II while ignoring Divinity I? I want to see what Larians highpoints were before BG III hits.
Original Sin is kinda meh. OS II is twice as good as OS I, but that is not saying much. Better than Pillars of Eternity but that isnt saying much either. A little bit worse than Dragon Age Origins maybe?

 

[pomenitul]

Just don't.

 

[Dodo1610]

You can play every single one of those games without playing the others, though there is a continued timeline:

Divinity Dragon Commander (2013) -> Divinity Original Sin (2014) -> Divine Divinity (2002) -> Beyond Divinity (2004) -> Divinity Original Sin 2 (2017) -> Divinity Fallen Heroes (cancelled) -> Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis + Addon (2009/10)
And no I do not recommend playing them in that order

 

[fantadomat]

Divine Divinity,Beyond Divinity and Dragon commander are their most interesting games. Divine DIvinity is open world with a lot of side content and insometric action gameplay,pretty good skill trees and decent story. Beyond Divinity have the same gameplay as the DD but the setting is one of the best that you could find out there,very unique,especially for its time. The dragon commander has some pretty generic strategy gameplay,but the court and politics part is really well done,also really good looking wifus! DOS ones are pretty generic TB gameplay and have nothing special about them,pretty generic but decent if you have nothing else to play.

 

[Thonius]

Uninstal.exe

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Start with the best one

Spoiler

On sale right now for $4
https://store.steampowered.com/app/243950/Divinity_Dragon_Commander/

 

[Monkeyfinger]

Don't let anyone meme you into playing Dragon Commander. It's like a 3/10.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Ask Ontopoly, he's the biggest fan of Larian games here.

 

[Sarathiour]

Can I just jump into Divinity II while ignoring Divinity I?

Yes, it's different gameplay-wise, and nobody really care about the story in 2, including larian, because it does not even have a proper ending.


I played dragon commander last month, and rate it "at least you tried"/10. Lot of different gameplay element, result is very clunky.

the court and politics part is really well done,also really good looking wifus!

It is indeed the better part of the game.

 

[catfood]

Divine Divinity and Divinity 2 The Dragon Knight Saga are the best games Larian has made. DOS 1 is alright, and DOS 2 requires you to install mods to be ok.

 

[DraQ]

Divine Divinity and Divinity 2 The Dragon Knight Saga are the best games Larian has made. DOS 1 is alright, and DOS 2 requires you to install mods to be ok.

DOS1 is NOT alright. It has pretty fun combat, great soundtrack and that's the game where Larian's innovative environmental interactivity thing made its debut, but the writing and overall banality of it is guaranteed to wear you down and then out. Then it has awful WoW-esque visual style, although it works better than expected, TBH.

DOS2 is just much fresher and better game, also mechanically, despite some deeply misguided shit in there.

DOS1 is only not fixed by mods because stuff wrong in it is exactly the stuff that mods cannot fix.

I played dragon commander last month, and rate it "at least you tried"/10. Lot of different gameplay element, result is very clunky.

Dragon Commander has a lot of good stuff in it put together in such way that everything hobbles everything else and the resulting game is much less than sum of its parts. For example doing well in simplistic Risk-style strategic layer allows you to all but ignore RTS gameplay (which is the meat of the game's mechanics), doing well in RTS part doesn't allow you to experience game's unique selling point - transforming into a dragon with motherfucking jetpack.
The RTS maps are small and recycled, while lack of proper base building and (jarringly inconsistent) interplay with strategic layer rewards blitzzerging the map, so you don't even get to derg out (because timer).

Which is a shame, because mechanically there is a lot of stuff done well in the RTS layer.