Divinity Original Sin 2 Review

[Grudge]

Bought this game on a discount. Logged 221 hours on this game, experienced all the content. Finished this a couple of weeks ago on Tactician difficulty (hardest).

The good

- The humor was wonderful. This game gets some flak for that but I really enjoyed it. Best moments were the interactions with animals with the Pet Pal talent, I actually laughed out loud on some of those. Too many games out there take themselves and their shitty plots too seriously, this game takes it easy, and I can appreciate that.
- Voice acting was actually good.
- The turn-based combat was well executed. The game gets criticism for the physical and magical armor system, but that's really a matter of opinion rather than objectivity.
- The companions were well designed and interesting.
- Lots of ways you can develop your character abilities, builds and skillsets, lots of options.

The bad

- I didn't like that some abilities were not useful. Particular mention goes to the Persuasion ability which nine times out of ten, will result in an outcome that is least rewarding.
- This game tilts heavily away from role-playing by rewarding the path of violence the most. You might want to resolve an encounter peacefully, but almost all the time, the best choice is to just resort to violence for maximum xp.
- You can depopulate - commit genocide on the entire landscape in every Act, killing every NPC (peaceful character) without it having any consequence. And infact this is recommended because each individual killed nets experience.
- I didn't like the navigation system in the game where you can't select all your player characters, you have to select one and then others follow it, you can't select them all at the same time. It's just clunky.
- The npc banter is a little too repetitive.
- The quests themselves are nothing special. As I've mentioned on another review, I really get a kick out of big side-quests-side storylines, that each have intricate plots and / or involve large dungeons or areas to get through by the end of which you feel you've accomplished a key milestone. There was none of that here, the quests were mostly small, simple and straightforward.
- There are many dump stats depending on the build of your characters. Dump stats are attributes that can be minimized because they are not important at all. I don't like character development systems where you have to box yourself into a corner on the attribute system in order to achieve an effective build.

Overall

Yes get this game on a discount, you will enjoy it. I had more fun playing this than Pillars of Eternity 2.

[User]

agreed on most points. i am still playing it 5-6 hours every friday with my teenage mates. we have no idea what the plot is or what is going on but we love the killing and looting

[Grudge]

Well. I seem to have run out of games to play. What should I do now?

[Verbal]

post here instead

[zim]

Well. I seem to have run out of games to play. What should I do now?

daaaaaaaark souls

[Grudge]

I already played DS 3 last year. Don't feel like playing 1 and 2.

[zim]

path of exile is pretty cool and free

[User]

imran you should join my teenage buddies every friday, we may play through IWD2 next or something like that

[Grudge]

Why don't we play one of the newer action RPGs. There a few since Diablo 3 that have come out that are supposed to be good.

[Grudge]

Grim Dawn?

[Grudge]

Forget iwd2 and your teenage buddies, lets you me and Zim play grim dawn

[Corpsepyre]

Well. I seem to have run out of games to play. What should I do now?

Play Disco Elysium.

[Grudge]

I can wait on that until it gets discounted to $10-15.

[User]

i am up for grim dawn imran

[Grudge]

Apparently the expansions for it are must haves, and at the moment the bundle for it on Steam costs $55.

If that's out of your budget, I'm fine waiting until the bundle-definitive edition goes on sale.

Secondly, with you in AU time zone, how are we even going to find a common time to play?

[Grudge]

I read further and turns out grim dawn is a single player game with a multiplayer element added in as an afterthought. One of the problems is that the game gets too easy on multiplayer. So maybe this is not a good game for co op.

[zim]

Apparently the expansions for it are must haves, and at the moment the bundle for it on Steam costs $55.

If that's out of your budget, I'm fine waiting until the bundle-definitive edition goes on sale.

Secondly, with you in AU time zone, how are we even going to find a common time to play?

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

[Corpsepyre]

I can wait on that until it gets discounted to $10-15.

Uncle Torrent says hello.

[User]

one of my old mates from high school i play with lives in seattle, we do 7PM seattle time to 1-2AM or whenever he sleeps

[agony bagony]

the sequel is better,

barely

[zim]

i started playing this with a few friends last week, it's an awesome game

also there has been at minimum 3-5 arguments per session

[Grudge]

Doing group games for turn based set ups, not my idea of fun. It would be too damn slow.

[User]

it was a real blast playing through this with my two mates

looking forward to BG3 finally being released properly and doing the same

[shadowalk]

I don't even play this or BG3 anymore...it's all about WoW Shadowlands lately for me

[agony bagony]

do you pick the scrapple or are you the snake or what

[shadowalk]

i do some enchanting and tailoring

[User]

i am still addicted to deep rock galactic

it is a very entertaining game and there are some funny players around

let me narrate to you a story about my experience last night

https://record.reverb.chat/s/wY7fVUevsBAOeyRCWaCg

[zim]

i am still addicted to deep rock galactic

it is a very entertaining game and there are some funny players around

let me narrate to you a story about my experience last night

https://record.reverb.chat/s/wY7fVUevsBAOeyRCWaCg

can you narrate a book or something so i can keep listening