Codex Review RPG Codex Review: Divinity: Original Sin 2

[Darth Roxor]

Anyway, I'll play one lone wolf only, so initiative changes and HORRIBLE itemisation affct my playstyle the least.

actually, only now have i realised that the tardo initiative only makes lone wolf more hilariously broken than ever (because you will always, no matter what, act before the entirety of the enemy mob, except perhaps for 1 munster that has higher init than you)

 

[Perkel]

I tried rpgwatch a bit but it seems kinda "dead" to me. This is by far the most active forum on the genre.
Also criticism is one thing and presenting each game apart from the 1-2 "codex favorites" as complete shit is something different.

Because it is very hard to make good RPG. On other hand it is very easy to make shit RPG.

Take for example DOS2 and compare it to DOS1.

DOS1: Shit story, shit characters, shit dialogs, amazing combat, meh stats, few ways to finish quest (good)
DOS2: Meh story, meh characters, meh dialogs, meh combat, shit stats, a lot of ways to finish quest(great)

In case of DOS1 while a lot of game is shit, combat which is major part of game is excellent and drives whole game to status of excellent much like Torment C&C and story drives game to ecellent status despite shit combat.

In case of DOS2 there is nothing to drive game as combat regressed to meh status while everything else seems to improve (though change of tone also killed a lot about that)

 

[ColonelTeacup]

I tried rpgwatch a bit but it seems kinda "dead" to me. This is by far the most active forum on the genre.
Also criticism is one thing and presenting each game apart from the 1-2 "codex favorites" as complete shit is something different.

Because it is very hard to make good RPG. On other hand it is very easy to make shit RPG.

Take for example DOS2 and compare it to DOS1.

DOS1: Shit story, shit characters, shit dialogs, amazing combat, meh stats, few ways to finish quest (good)
DOS2: Meh story, meh characters, meh dialogs, meh combat, shit stats, a lot of ways to finish quest(great)

In case of DOS1 while a lot of game is shit, combat which is major part of game is excellent and drives whole game to status of excellent much like Torment C&C and story drives game to ecellent status despite shit combat.

In case of DOS2 there is nothing to drive game as combat regressed to meh status while everything else seems to improve (though change of tone also killed a lot about that)

Isn't that just for the first act? I've heard that after the 1st act, the game becomes very linear.

 

[Perkel]

Isn't that just for the first act? I've heard that after the 1st act, the game becomes very linear.

I dropped it mid-act2 so idk. Beggining at least give me more than 4 ways to move past Fort joy. Though later on i had to fucking fight Alexander for no fucking reason (instead of sneaking out toward the ship or something with mates or providing alternate route to get into act2)

 

[Tacgnol]

It's not butthurt, it's the realization that Codex ruins games for its members. I've lost the will to play a couple just because people in here focus on every possible negative aspect

Or maybe I just played long enough to realise the game has a fuckton of horrible mechanics?

A lot of DOS2 problems become much more evident the longer you play.

 

[unfairlight]

It's not butthurt, it's the realization that Codex ruins games for its members. I've lost the will to play a couple just because people in here focus on every possible negative aspect

Maybe you should stop being a retarded?

 

[Sacred82]

It's not butthurt, it's the realization that Codex ruins games for its members. I've lost the will to play a couple just because people in here focus on every possible negative aspect

Maybe you should stop being a retarded?

get a brain morans

 

[Jimmious]

Perkel I'm not talking only about D:OS2 , that's just the "initiative".
For example reading this forum you might get the impression that PoE is a terrible shit game (it is not), that WL2 DC is unplayable and crap (it also is not) and simultaneously Grimoire is a terrific RPG (also not).

And because there are people that will repeat complaints for 10 pages, they easily get imprinted in your brain if you read them often enough.
For example I own Shadowrun: HK but there was so much anger in here about it that I lost my "mood", even though I really enjoyed both its predecessors.

That's more or less what I mean

 

[unfairlight]

"i'm retarded and I take what others say about vidya jaems to heart"

 

[Jimmious]

*I'm a retarded

 

[unfairlight]

It was due to autocorrect and I found it too funny to edit out.
Seriously though, stop caring for what people say about electronic games so much, how can you even care for what some aspergers on a shitty little forum say about games you might possibly like?

 

[Diggfinger]

Shields Up Swen has read the review and disagrees with its assessment.

Proud of D:OS 2 so I disagree with most of it. But you can’t create without making mistakes/compromises so there’s room for improvement.

Larian's games aren't going to cost less to make any time soon so this is what they're doing now.

Kevin Van Ord's reply was more...'balanced'

 

[Sacred82]

if you really care about a game, first rule is to never read a Kodex review, the fuckers sperg the shit out of the numbers and vulnerabilities, and you'll never look at your lovely perfect game the same way, but only as a collection of overpowered must haves and gimped no-no's.

 

[Jimmious]

It's not about caring, I don't "cherish the opinions of all members of the Codex".. It's just that if I read pages on pages about specific flaws repeatedly, I notice them even more often. It's just how my brain works.

 

[Roguey]

It's not butthurt, it's the realization that Codex ruins games for its members. I've lost the will to play a couple just because people in here focus on every possible negative aspect

The opposite with me. I take all the negative assessments at face value and then wind up playing something that surpasses my expectations.

 

[abnaxus]

Van Ord is at Larian? lel

 

[hivemind]

I knew larian was shit ever since the torrent of the dragon knight game refused to work

 

[Blaine]

It's just that if I read pages on pages about specific flaws repeatedly, I notice them even more often. It's just how my brain works.

You are now aware that you breathe mostly through just one nostril at all times. The "dominant" nostril alternates from left to right and vice versa every so often.

You're welcome.

 

[Jimmious]

It's just that if I read pages on pages about specific flaws repeatedly, I notice them even more often. It's just how my brain works.

You are now aware that you breathe mostly through just one nostril at all times. The "dominant" nostril alternates from left to right and vice versa every so often.

You're welcome.

Would be awesome if your psychic powers made my right nostril breathe normally again but alas, only surgery will solve that

 

[Blaine]

That's cheating.

 

[Diggfinger]

Van Ord is at Larian? lel

Indeed, he joined Larian as a writer in May 2016!

https://twitter.com/larianstudios/status/735439822060412928?lang=en

 

[AwesomeButton]

Proof that all, and the only thing you need to become an RPG writer is connections.

 

[Kem0sabe]

I keep saying this, but they really should just license a better setting, make a game with established lore, characters, world.

A lot of their shit writing seems tied to the retarded world they cobbled together and the fucking horrible humor and cleverness that they think they are good at.

 

[Prime Junta]

The only game the Codex has ruined for me is DOS1. It was SO HYPED!!!! that my expectations were sky-high. The subsequent disappointment was nasty.

(Maybe I should thoroughly roll in this review and then give DOS2 another whirl. It's at least conceivable I'll find it marginally less meh.)

 

[Drowed]

You need to use the Codex the same way you use pepper: enough to accentuate the flavor of what you're enjoying, but not too much to the point of destroying all flavor, burning your tongue, and having a raging/burning (verbal) diarrhea that can destroy your anus (or brain).