Divinity 2

[lac]

You may know this franchise from the 2002 RPG release Divine Divinity (the Divine was added by publisher CDV and annoyed the developing studio Larian to no end) and its sequel Beyond Divinity (2004).
There was a thread about this game but since it died over a year ago I figured I'd make a new one.

The game was released in July in Germany on Xbox and PC and has received rave reviews. That in itself is nothing spectacular since everything RPG gets rave reviews in Germany, probably their Teutonic blood stirring or something...

Anyway, the English version will be released in December in the US and probably the UK too (might be sooner in the UK, the publisher has been sitting on it since July). Apparently the US publisher was a bit worried by the many fall releases and will try to launch this in time for the winter holidays and after the OMG's over the fall releases have died out.

To me it's been one of the few RPG's that was able to capture my interest in the last ten years. The quests are for the most part intelligent and do their best to be as inventive as possible (considering the limits of the genre).
There are no huge arrows on your map telling you where to kill a foozle or turn in the ten goblin hearts, instead you find a key hidden under the pile of apples you've just stolen and discover it opens a door in the cellar which leads to a cavern inhabited by an overly talkative tree who happens to dabble in alchemy. Or you can decide to rat out the drunken mercenaries you kicked out of the tavern earlier, only to run into them later in the game witnessing their futile deaths while performing the impossible mission they got because of you.
Oh and you get to mind-read people, it costs experience points but opens up lots of otherwise hidden quests and secret goodie caches.
This new old school RPG ports the subtitle 'ego draconis'.

Here you can find the start of a 100 minute playthrough video in HD. In German. Gans geil!
It seems to cover most of the starter area. It should give anybody interested in this game a good idea of what to expect or at least an idea of how devoid of immersion a playthrough video feels

[FatuousTwat]

Love me some Euro RPGS. Drakensang was the last one I played (and it reminds me visually of this game), and it has been too long.


Edit: Just watched the rest of the first video, and it looks much better than Drakensang, plus it looks like you wont have to use a trainer in order to make the runspeed bearable... Although the way he was swinging his arms out as he ran made me chuckle.

[Nonentity]

Gonna necro this.

The demo is up on Fileplanet.

[schild]

I have been playing this. I was supposed to write a preview, but I don't do previews.

This game is f'ing weird.

Not ina  bad way, but in a - I don't really have words for it - way.

It's very much a "catch-all" RPG. It has everything and then some.

[Hoax]

Some of the older ones are on sale at gog.com

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=18486.0

[Nonentity]

I am really damn fond of this game.

I've played the demo for a few hours, and I still haven't gotten to the end of it. I kind of agree with what schild says, though - it has a little bit of everything. There's some of that eastern european jank to it, but overall, it's actually quite good.

[Hoax]

There's some of that eastern european jank to it

lol'd, also I know exactly what that means.

[rattran]

Downloading now, I'll give it a spin this evening. The ads for it seem confused, if it wasn't for other sources, I'd have no idea what sort of game it is. I'm still not sure.

[Nonentity]

Isn't this out now? I should get it.

[lac]

Yes, it was released in the USA three days ago.

They made a demo available for people who want to get a feel of the game.

[jakonovski]

How is this compared to Risen or the Gothic series?