What is Divinity Original Sin 2, and WHY is it making reviewers CRAZY!? 

i think this game is awesome

Only critique I have is about the camera control, I have found it a little clunky in combat. That said I have enjoyed this game so much, the music (character creation give a musical instrument type during the game), story lines for party members, and so much voice acting. It has been a real treat so far after...except for underestimating a certain troll on a bridge.

It's a great CRPG that doesn't compromise on quality or complexity and comes with a genuinely innovative and exciting elemental system which makes its combat stand out from most games. It's rather satisfying beating tough enemies by using your spells smartly and manipulating the terrain to your advantage rather then gauging spell effectiveness purely by how much raw damage they inflict. Graphics are also amazing which is rare for an rpg overall and production values feel top notch, with voice acting for everything, and then there's tons of little details and interactivity with the game world that it makes it feel super immersive. Then there's the whole coop and dm system, which harkers back to nwn modules and the whole ethos of translating a rl d n d game into videogame format, a tradition started by games like baldurs gate. Really loving the game so far but that said.. I wouldn't call it perfect. For example i find interaction with npc party members a bit barebones (though it's nice they have their own motivations in regard to the main plotline), bioware rpgs still are the masters when it comes to chatty npc party members and having a lively party, in D:OS 2 they have something to say every once in a while at plot critical moments but overall there isn't much opportunity to interact with them and have massive branching dialogues. This is likely a side effect of every recruitable npc possibly also being a protagonist if you choose them, something which admittedly isn't to my own taste or interests. But really things like this are down to my own personal preferences as to what id like my ideal perfect rpg to be, rather then a fault in the games design itself. I ain't the type to go 10/10 best game evar and all that hyperbolic bs. For me it's just a really great rpg and between games like this, age of decadence and tyranny (not PoE or wasteland 2 though, both those games are massive letdowns as far as im concerned), it feels like rpgs have been getting a resurgence recently and can finally give competition to decades old games like baldurs gate 2 in debates about amazing rpgs.

it's simple, the game is great, it's well done, the devs respected the players and listened to what could make it better, kickstarter patrons even had a portrait made as a thanks and those portraits can be found in the game, literally, all those random paintings you find in boats and houses? those are real people, the kickstarter backers. there's also the fact that the devs understand gamers and doesnt try desperately to attract the mass of casual players by making the game easy to beat. when was the last time you had to actually concentrate on a game because of its high difficulty and beating a particularly difficult enemy makes your brain shoot endorfins into your bloostream as a reward? did any ubi, ea, konami game make you feel like that in the past decade? me neither

I have no clue way. It's a good game but it does nothing new. But I guess a game that did not got fucked up by the publisher is something to be amazed about this days.

A god attacked me, I made him a chicken and teleported him into lava. Instant death! xD

Gold Lick The shark was eaten by the monsters he told you ahout when you have petpal.

and then you talked to its ghost. 11/10

and consume it. 12/10

OMG

That's right, friend. You're right though, it is very suspicious. How the hell could anyone pull that off?

Final Fantasy XV made money without microtransactions and with a development hell. It needed to sell 6 million copies to break even, it doubled that amount in like 2 months. It is possible yeah, but never heard of Vivendi? Search them up, then you will understand why EA, Ubisoft, etc NEED that money. Vivendi is like an evil cloud that nowadays consumes the gaming industry.

Dan D. And doesn't cost 60$

Lars2Lars9Lars I feel bad for you.

FF 15 doesn't have microtransactions as far as I know, (I don't own it, not my cup of tea, personally) but it does seem segmented and was clearly rushed out of the gate. The one universal criticism I saw about it was that the quality drops off like a rock in the last chapter, which is unfortunate. However, I think FF 15 is getting multiplayer in the future, which means microtransactions are basically inevitable.

That sounds glorious

I started laughing as soon as I saw "Of course not!" in anticipation of the setup haha love this game

Games need better al, glad to see this game have fantastic al, especially in a rpg.

I hope you recorded it...thats gold

+Andrew gibson Honestly both divinity: original sin games have a pretty cruel and smart AI. Granted this one took it to a whole new level. You better think things through of it'll screw you in ways you didn't even consider. It's great xD

All he needs is a bucket of blizzard 'n' gizzard casting and he is set.

Ratlle snek, ratlle snek, ratlle snek, ratlles me, ratlle snek, ratlle snek, ratlle snek, ratlles me, ratlle snek, ratlle snek, ratlle snek, ratlles me.

while eating custard.

Fo shizzard.

...just don't get him started on the art of vomiting.

Exactly. RPG's are supposed to have meaningfull choices and not be Yes or no, or just have some attributes and slap RPG to it.

except that my character is a jester and i keep insulting people with jokes about serious things...i..get attacked a lot. luckily the game is turn-based so i have time to stop laughing before combat 10/10

Other companies can't see you mate, they are rolling out their monies from the microtransactions.

i remember a time when this used to be the norm ... i must be old.

I mean… these devs can do anything. Real time strategy, Turm based RPG…

Man, I think a lot of people who are really passionate about games as an artform are pissed and are starting their own studios and teams to show those suit-wearing old timers how it's really done.

None of this $60 online multiplayer only bullshit. X-D

Well video games are fast becoming an established industry. And with every industry you will have its reliable juggernauts who churn out safe products (EA, Warner, Ubisoft) who keep the industry running and visionnaries that may or may not burn out after a few masterpieces who keep the Craft fresh (CD Projekt RED, Larian Studios, Obsidian Entertainment, Harebrained Schemes, etc). Both have their places, even if the former's is less palatable.

Exactly! It is the new way of doing things: With passion not with just money in mind. The new paradigm is arriving! And it shows itself nicely in the success of such games like DOS2 or other great indie developers. The "grinding gear games" studio with path of exile are a shining example as well. their game is even free 2 play without being pay 2 win and they pump out one huge expansion after another. Funded just by donations and ingame purchases like a bigger stash or cosmetic items and pets.

Absolutely man, thank god some of these studios exist. Most game developers nowadays just want to make millions from the least amount of effort possible. The gaming industry needs more developers like Larian, otherwise shit will just keep getting worse.

+AxaFin Area? I have counted at least 4 so far

I know right?! I couldn't believe I spent 40hrs in act 1 alone. When I seen act 2 size I was like wtf did I just get myself into. Social life will not exist for the next year playing this...

Probably more, gotta try all the other possible routes, right? ;) So, what would happen if I killed everyone in Fort Joy?

Johny Shadow games are not that in depth. In theory you just really kill everyone in that area and have some huge fine and people just simply hate you. That's really how far it ever goes. But no one every going to bring up you wiping out all these people and having all these different paths up for different directions.

well because one wrong move will make the whole magister group hates u and hunt u like a dog though, good thing all the other prisoners did not get aggro'ed

is it turned base combat?

@@WeAsOneRise it is

Hector Tio Salamanca yea took me a while just to find my way out. And it felt so good.

LoL! I was worried to finish it thinking I was nearing the end!

40 hour tutorial area basically

William Robb If you do the first act in 30 minutes you are avoiding every quest. What a dumb ass. There is easily 30-40 hours of content in fort joy. You just are a boring fuck.

I havent played other divinity games so i had no idea abt larian's work ethic. So i thought fort joy was the main location and the game would end when we get away, since i had around 30 hours in it. Oh how wrong i was

Dominion he he ...Blown 😏

Is your name a Star Trek DS9 reference?

Wait, which docks? The major end of act 1 dock, the dock outside the fort, or the one inside the fort with the boy? Probably the major end, but then you basically entered a new (even bigger) map.

I was trying to be vague for spoilers. But **SPOILERS** when you kill Bishop Alexander for the first time and get on the Mary Sue boat or Merry Weather whatever the fuck it was called with the talking dragon. The Fort Joy part + swamps took me 40 hours to complete. If not more.

*SPOILERS* so yeah, the "major act 1 end fight". I myself astonished when I reached the rest of the island after Fort Joy, I heard it was just some small ending part to close act 1 out, but apparently not. I heard act 2 was huge but 3 was small in comparison as well, but now I doubt it~ I thought Malady was a kind of fun mary sue, but Lady Vengeance the Kancolle Dragon is more so I guess XD

FarSolar been there

I swear i accidentally fortified the enemy and he ended up with 72 armor and i was like shit how come i did not get any armor aw fuck i gave to the giant knight.

If you want to heal your undead companion, you actually need to poison them XD healing will kill them. That's why they allow you to heal your enemies because you never know when it will be useful. I just wonder if it can turn an enemy into an ally at some point

no they allow it to make mistakes. Armour is always useful. Stats are always useful still you can give them to enemy.

Try playing this game on console...... You’ll fortify and heal countless enemies thinking you’re selecting an ally incorrectly. Very frustrating

But i still dont understand,why do you go in one way if you can get more xp from trying all solution? For example in fort joy i can escape from the fort easily after i freed the elf in the kitchen,why should i escape so early if i can slaughter the entire magister in the fort and escape with the kid and his boat below the dungeon? It will get me more xp right? its kinda kill the immersion for me

@@rafisqiadhaputra6136 i mean that's the point, it really is a 'do what you want' game. So exactly why should you escape so early when you can make your own choice to kill the entire camp

YBN Samoa that’s just it. Who are you and what drives you? Are you a prisoner who’s only desire is to leave and survive, a vengeful prisoner who wants to make his captors pay for what they’ve done to you, or an opportunist who sees the profit to made on the island before you leave. It’s fantastic

Nice, man. Glad you like it!

Kane Jeffries this my friend is what actuall difficulty feels like. Crpgs really aren't in a good because of this but I am glad you enjoy it.

"This is a game / 10"

@One Thou Wou The game is very fun to play by yourself also :) Would highly recommend the game regardless! And i don't know who hurt you, but i hope things gets better =)

Witcher 3 sucks

Jaimin Parmar Why. I was thinking about getting it unless you can ward me not to do so.

Zach Brackett he can’t

Im even considering buying the eternal pack for it.

Or splooshed.

Im chubbed

The best thing though is when you get the gloves of teleporting, which lets you drop the ladder next to the hut of the diseased lady and get the premade Blood Rain tome in the desk. My Lone Wolf summoner couldn't be happier with his 1st turn Blood Rain+Incarnate+Encourage+Infusion, followed by buffs and totems.

*publishers.

+Michael Hoang thanks! It's from the soundtrack to the game!

Pretty Good Gaming which track is it? Thanks

8bit Legend Im not a turn based fan at all( apart from Planescape and Tyranny) and this is an excellent start. Combat is Easily one of the best requiring intense tactics.And You can match environment to make unique effects..Poison+ fire.. ultimate distruction And the story, world, characters are all great so Try it ;)

If you like to use your head and learn, yeah.

Just don't try to start on Tactician (hard) mode. You would get destroyed. If you are very new to the genre, don't even start on normal.

Can vouch for that, Tactician is brutal for new players. Normal mode is doable but it's more for those experienced with the genre. My first playthrough on DOS was on normal, and one boss keeps beating my ass in. (fans of DOS know what this boss is)

Mr. Zalgo The one that has a few sub bosses protecting him? That meteor rain attack is devastating.

after reading this comment..my hand just wanna click the game now haha but sadly i have to sleep :(

The Witcher was EASILY my favorite game of all time when I played that, now this is 10 times better than that somehow. And I thought it was hard to enjoy rpgs after I'd played The Witcher...

Toby White this

Why is that?

Yep

I disagree, in my opinion, Dos 1 story was horrible

LaPiN yeah tbh honest I couldn't get into it but this looks a lot more enjoyable to me

Yeah, that's why I'm actually finishing the first one and then buy the second one since it seems that the story is wayyy better

Aman Pathak yep tottally different kinds of RPGs. Don't know much about persona, never had a chance to try it but consodering The Witcher and Divinity: one is a story of a certain character with very lore-heavy universe, dark atmosphere and action combat while the other is much lighter, play-how-you-want, do-what-you-want D&D-esque adventure with deep tactical combat and many puzzles. Both great RPGs yet so different. One feels like a great book, the other like a fun tabletop session.

>D:OS better than PoE Any semblance of storytelling or narrative is practically non-existent in D:OS.

Just read my mind and you know what I think about it

Divinity 2 is the first divinity game I played. I don't think that game was really into that "best" category, because I have a lot of problem with, but I just loved the atmosphere and the game:) I safe to say, nowdays Rivellon is one of my favorite fantasy world and I really glad the Original Sin is that of a succes:) especially because we talk about a crpg.

Loved the game i did had a feeling it was missing something but i laughed my ass off when i saw the ending bamboozled again.

For some reason i didnt like that game. I dont know why even

I think they ended up calling it the "Wheel of Actually Only One Choice".

Probably true.

You skipped the worse part: Look at Larian size. Look at Bethesda, Bioware and EA size. Realize Larian is like 10000 times smaller than those. Realize Larian developed AND published their game. Realize Larian pulled out, as you mention, fully voiced game with about 100 thousands lines, superb graphics, superb sound, superb gameplay, superb (up to now, just started ACT2) story. Bethesda, EA, Ubi were all on my blacklist, now that I read your comment, they'll stay there even longer...

Sad thing is that those companies became big in first place because they were making good games once.

@@DarkThagan Or they bought developers that made good games and destroyed them (cough, BioWare, cough)

I know how you feel.

It's extremely fun with friends, I finished the game and then convinced my mate to buy it, he stopped playing it with me after the first act but it was fun as hell. Hope you get a friend to play with you!

POTIONS TO BEMUSCLE YOU! SCROLLS TO ENTUSSLE YOU!

The fact that the journalists highly recommend will boost their sales tremendously. I agree that they are some of the worst reviewers out there, but since they are mainstream with a big audience, the fact that a unique type of game like DOS2 got a 9.6 score from someone like IGN is pretty much guaranteed to have it noticed.

well it does deserve it id just rather it was noticed by some reputable reviewers

Understandable, it'll just take a while since those respectable reviewers tend to take their time with their games. DOS2 is a long game (I have yet to see a popular video showing late game bosses.) so it's sure to take them a while to beat it and put up a good review on it.

They are just too busy playing the game haha

People want recommendations right away, so a lot of quick good first impressions are being given. Most sites are holding off on a full "review" until a good portion of the game is done... and it's a huge and in depth game, so yeah we're just now starting to see actual reviews. The feedback has been there though.

Its from the soundtrack of the game, i think u can get it from the steam page.

chomerly I think that 'Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' will get GOTY, and not Destiny 2. Just look how much praise 'LOZ' is getting, while Destiny 2 is not getting as much praise. Destiny 2 is also getting criticized for its lack of innovation.

Nestrus That may be true but I'm looking at it from the perspective of how the big games corps. either directly fund, or bribe for us normal folk, and directly influence the decisions of the awards in the first place. We need to remember that there is massive conflict of interest in the gaming reviews sector right now and it's the independents like PGG, Jim sterling and Angry Joe etc that don't sell out in order to line their pockets. What I'm saying is, don't be surprised if the game you think should get the GOTY award doesn't.

I'm from the future and it's much worse than you said it would

Don't bother. PoE is better in every aspect. The new PoE will be coming in a few months anyway. I believed the hype and am severely disappointed.

Not really sure how that's helping me? Doesn't show me what the song name is anywhere?

Same lol

Do you mind to elaborate a bit more?

A big-dick move is doing something that is both ballsy and admirable. For instance, them repeatedly standing up for their beliefs against the sort of bullshit that a large part of the AAA games companies are stuffing their games with, or like now they're speaking up about a game that I personally backed back when the prequel was on kickstarter, and promoting it for actually doing the shit they want other companies to do. That right there is a big-dick move.

I'm a big dick.

Me too, thanks.

It's a Sourcery! :)

Same

bebemax95 no. This game is better in almost evry way to the first one. Start with this one.

I put fallout 2 at the top but every list is subjective

Maybe for the time but shit I do think now id defoes rather play divinity original sin 2 given the choice

🤣🤣🤣

Which would y'all recommend I get first, The Witcher 3 or Divinity 2

TheRedTen It seems like it explains well. I know absolutely nothing about the first game and I can understand it all. Plus, the game takes place 1000 years later. Of course, there's bound to be some nods to it for fans of the old game, but not anything important.

wantsome480 I just started the first game this week on PS4. It's great.

They've said they're considering other platforms now that the PC version's been a hit. The original is on PS4.

OS1 got ported to console, just wait it out this game will definitely be a huge success.

You're not the only one. And they said they'll port it to consoles if the PC version does good so we just have to wait patiently.

Buy a PC. Worth it.

Yeah, you can play as undead versions of all races. It's harder than the living, as you have to cover up to avoid causing panic and healing spells damage you, so you have to poison yourself for any healing.

We know That sounds awesome. I was going to buy for sure as I loved the first one, but this puts it over the top.

Also, undead characters can use their bony fingers as lockpicks!

undead characters are objectively easier compared to other races.

Tobbit I don't think lariat games go on sale. Ever. Just buy the second game. It ids better on evry aspect and not even fullpriced. The amount of content you get is insane compared to AAA titles like destiny 2

Was going to comment but then you linked an online fps with an RPG, so I wont bother.

GhoulOfTheBEat it does. The game master mode seems pretty in depth. Can't wait for player made campaigns.

Shocky102 yea closest thing to d&d I've played.

So it uses dnd rulesets like neverwinter nights?

Whats wrong with 3.5 ruleset? I get some of the critisim of 4 and 5 but I think 3.5 was Great.

Lord Farquad if you think that your a console peasant why not buy a pc? + enjoying console gaming doesnt make you a console peasant.

the first game got a console release and with the success of this game it will be on its way to you real soon! :)

It's coming to ps4 and xboxone

Its out for Xbox i think

they said that console versions are possible, you should go the forums (the devs actually read the forums, i know, crazy, right?) and say this same thing over there, you're a console gamer and you'd like to have an x1/ps4/sw version of DOS2...the more people ask for it the more likely it's gonna happen