Divinity: Original Sin 2

Now it looks like getting that 2M stretch goal is actually a possibility

Welp, looks like they barely hit the 2 million mark.

Time for its own thread.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Steam

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Home
Available: Early Access September 15th 2016


The kickstarter link for posterity. Its over.
Original Original sin thread.
Divinity - Orginal Sin_imported
Active Original sin EE thread.
Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition

Is it a kickstarter?

Kickstarter was already ended couple months ago.

After playing through the EE for free, this is one pre-order I have no issues with. Love the idea of different races having different responses from the NPC's, I'd laugh how that crazy bitch in the first city would react to an undead stealing her smelly panties.

EE for free, what?

Izo said:

EE for free, what?

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If you had already bought the original on steam, the enhanced edition was gifted to you for free when it came out.

Mmm .. downloading enhanced now .. going in all nerdy style on this game, looks promising

Cant wait

Kiroy said:

Hmm I might pick up EE - is it sort of like Pillars of Eternity? Better?

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Different, PoE is real time combat, this is true turn based. Otherwise I would say they are roughly about the same quality wise. Obviously very different engines and details, but still both roleplaying games with OK stories and fun combat.

If narrative tone matters, D:OS does tend a lot more towards the "silly" in its writing (the stealth mode has your character tiptoeing around disguised as a bush; that's a fair indicator of the general tone of the game). Aside from that, yeah, it's turn-based combat, and there's a fair amount of emphasis on the idea of having different effects interact with each other (water douses fire, lightning is amplified by water, poison gas explodes on contact with flame, etc.).

Kiroy said:

Hmm I might pick up EE - is it sort of like Pillars of Eternity? Better?

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I think it's better, though both are good games. Definitely play divinity on the special difficulty mode, I forget what it's called. Even on the hardest mode, you can become godlike about halfway through the game with just some light metagaming, but it's still a good playthrough. The tactical options in divinity are great, such as placing special oil barrels before a fight in order to detonate them with fireballs, or doing synergy comboes like nuking a guy with ice (spawning an icepatch) then hitting them with a fireball (melting the ice, leaving them in a water puddle) then unleashing a lightning storm, which electrifies the new pool of water, stunning everyone on it.

Kiroy said:

Hmm I might pick up EE - is it sort of like Pillars of Eternity? Better?

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D:OS is fairly unique.
Its a successor to ULTIMA, not Infinity engine games.
What that means is a much deeper interaction with the world, environment, and characters. It is essentially a game of systems. As the notes on tactics are being made. you are entirely supposed to use and abuse the world, and mechanic interactions.
It also has a multiplayer conversation element, not seen in any other game. Where in 2 player, each player can choose their own dialogue options in any given conversation, allowing arguing among yourselves.

And yes, all Larian games are inundated with silliness. Much like a World of warcraft, as apposed to diablo, or even Warcraft rts.