Divinity: Original Sin
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Anyone pick this up?
I've played it for about 5 hours and fuggin' love it. It's very difficult in all the right ways.
I haven't head a good RPG like this since the Baldur's Gate / NWN (original) days.
Amazing character building, combat is challenging and rewarding, no real quest log so you actually have to give a shit about what people say to you... the list goes on.
I have thoroughly enjoyed it so far and plan on restarting because of how much info I've been reading about character building and late-game progression.
I've played it for about 5 hours and fuggin' love it. It's very difficult in all the right ways.
I haven't head a good RPG like this since the Baldur's Gate / NWN (original) days.
Amazing character building, combat is challenging and rewarding, no real quest log so you actually have to give a shit about what people say to you... the list goes on.
I have thoroughly enjoyed it so far and plan on restarting because of how much info I've been reading about character building and late-game progression.
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lol what? since when is fantasy RPG = shit story?
I could probably write a book on why it has always never been good. It basically is playing someone's DnD campaign that is padded with tons of lore but not much actually happens in the game. And considering the last PC style fantasy RPG to come out was Shadowrun Returns which had the exact same plot as Original Sin. It is basically people swap out a basic plot and replace everything else with their own lore.
Final Fantasy Tactics, Xenogears, FFNINE all come to mind pretty quickly.
I been playing it for a few hours here and there.
But mostly I'm waiting for awesome mod editors. Because mods make turn great RPG into legendary !
Makkon: turn based or not the combat is super fun.
If I could play on tablet I would agree.
Otherwise Turn based combat is turn over for me.
its in a house on a wall inside of cyseal somewhere
I was also a bit hesitant at the turn-based combat.
But my god, it's fucking good.
It is the best turn-based combat game I have ever played. I haven't played Fallout 1 or 2, and many people say it's similar to that.
For being turn-based, it's pretty damn fluid and quick.
You just immediately enter combat when enemies are close and you start fuckin' shit up. You can play it as quickly or as slowly as you want.
I remade my characters last night because I started geekin' out on character builds and min-maxing points.
I highly recommend everyone watches this short vid on what NOT to do with character builds. Also talks about how many points you have at 20, so you can plan a full character well in advance.
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Yeah their paintings/concept art is definitely college level. I winced at some of the the sub-par paintings, but the amazing gameplay & character building for this game makes me not care about it.
playing with a friend coop and its really nice.
whats really nice is that noone points you directly to a quest, and noone tells you how this riddle works, so you have to solve that yourself
and the difficulty is nice, not too easy, you will die if you get unlucky or screw up
also coop is so much fun, we´re 20+ hours in and still on the first map (of 4 ?)
great job, didnt have this much fun in a long time
The art is there to support the game, at least the 3d art is.
keep in mind that this game isn`t one riding on a AAA budget,
but yeah don`t play the game if you`re only in it for highend cutscenes that where outsourced and planned months ahead because you wont be getting that here
"High end cutscenes" are things that typically deterred me from playing games. Most AAA games find the need to turn every game into an interactive movie and it baffles me.
There needs to be more games like D:OS, Dark Souls, and Half-Life where you experience the story via gameplay.
anyway it was fun working on this game, i did a lot of the 3d creatures/chars and learned quite some technical stuff working on it . I`m glad people are enjoying it so far
Cool! Did you make those weird ass bomb skeletons? They look like martians from Mars Attacks
Some of the creatures in this game are hilarious.
theyre not too serious with everything so you could put some goofy characters in there
we were laughing hard when we saw the first one ^.^
and we nearly shat our pants when we encountered some more at the cementary
"Nobody has as many friends as a man with many cheeses!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8b45sAJTo
Can't wait to play it on my laptop!
My first goal when I get a bit higher level is to sneak in town and backstab that guy. He is worse than the annoying preacher in Windhelm in Skyrim.
Noway, that preacher is fucking awful. I have killed him on every playthrough on Skyrim I have done... hahaha :P
"Sharpens anti-aliased edges"
Face straight down to my desk and into my palm. So bad it reversed everything and made me palmface.
ANYWAY, this game looks just like the shot I need. Now to finish a couple more games in my backlog, can't wait to get into this.
This video really helped me out.
In the future I hope some of the small kinks and annoyances get worked out though. Inventory management and selling is more of a chore than it should be. Lockpicking seems kind of pointless when I can just bash most chests in. Item durability, which only really affects weapons, is kind of an outdated and pointless mechanic. Also, I think environmental/elemental effects triggered from combat need to despawn as soon as combat is over. Every time my ice elementals die I have ice spread all over the place, and my whole party just keeps tripping and falling all over the place.
Still, it's super fun and refreshing, and the pace of updates and patches is fantastic. Congrats on the game Ravenslayer!
I actually like that it remains. It's a reminder of how we wrecked the battlefield... it's actually a place where combat happened.
You can use an archer with a flame arrow or a pyro with Fireball or Flare to clean up ice.
Also, it's great to have a Hydro with Rain to clean up all the fire, poison, and oil off the field.
I have a full mage and a battle-mage, between the two have access to every spell school in the game: Pyro, Hydro, Aero, Geo, and Witch.
My battle-mage uses Pyro and Hydro, and my mage uses Aero, Geo, and Witch. These compliment each other so the two characters can cast sequential spells to wreck and control the field.
BM casts Rain > Mage casts Lighting spell
or
Mage casts Oil > BM casts Fireball
etc
you've just been playing the wrong games
sorry bout that
RPG/Games with brilliant story telling:
Breath of Fire III - IMO, this game has the most heroic story. The climax isn't the boss fight, but a leap of faith where you put the lives of all your friends on the line for the sake of the journey that has nothing to do with saving the world or stopping any imminent threat. Would you put every friend you've ever known's life on the line for a leap of faith? It takes balls of steel to do what the protagonist does in this game.
Dragon Quest V : Hand of the Heavenly Bride - I get goosebumps just thinking back on the story. It's a story where the protagonist is thought to be the chosen one when he is a boy. Only to get older and to find out that he is not the chosen one. In that way he suffers the same heart breaking frustration that his father did. It's very interesting to see how everyone's attention instantly shifts away from him and onto someone else after the discovery. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Let's not even get to the shaft. Of how one total badass does what he has to do, with courage, perseverance, and humility. ^^
Other great ones:
Persona 4
Final Fantasy Tactics
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Borderlands 2
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinel of the Starry Skies
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Read about this today. Gonna try it soon hopefully