By Kieron Gillen on August 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pm.
Fans of trad RPGs will be discussing inventories intensely at this news, I suspect. Larian, creators of the awesomely-terribly named Divine Divinity and the less-terribly named Beyond Divinity have confirmed their sequel will be out in “Q2 2009″ and revealed the first load of screenshots. They’re swinging back towards terrible names though – this one’s called “Divinity 2: Ego Draconis”. C&VG leak out a few other details about quest structure and the return of composer Kirill Pokrovsky before getting on with the serious business of a mass of screenshots. Our prediction: we’ll be making a load of jokes about kobolds.
08/08/2008 at 13:07 SwiftRanger says:
Official teaser site has a track from Kirill already, sounds good. :) It’s Belgian, which is always a plus for me, an exception like Beyond Divinity (yukko) proves that rule.
08/08/2008 at 13:12 jamscones says:
DivDiv was great, for a low budget eurotrash RPG. Beyond Divinity was dreadfully tedious. The best thing about it was the hilariously bad novella by Rhianna Pratchett.
08/08/2008 at 13:34 Diogo Ribeiro says:
Why not just Draconis Divinity? That sounds a bit better than “title number: subtitle”.
Oh well, sounds better than Space Hack’s former name – “Maximum XV Abraham Strong Space Mercenary”, IIRC.
08/08/2008 at 13:41 RiptoR says:
I betatested Beyond Divinity back in the days… I live a good 30 minute drive from the Larian Studios building, and got selected as a inhouse betatester.
After betatesting BD, I bought DD and liked it so much I even played through it a couple of times.
I’ve been looking forward to Div2 ever since they released the first teasershots over 2 years ago.
08/08/2008 at 13:51 houseinrlyeh says:
Um, Kieron, is “teutonic” usually an adjective you use to describe games from Belgium? I don’t think Belgians will be all that glad about it.
Anyway, Divine Divinity was a great (if cheap-looking) game I’ll have to dig out again to prepare myself for D2: ED.
08/08/2008 at 14:00 Seb Potter says:
I worked with Larian on a project at the BBC, and got to see little bits of Divinity 2 in development whilst at their offices. Didn’t get to see much beyond Oblivion-style outdoor scenes and shiny particles, but that’s not surprising given their early stage of development and their use of the Gamebryo 2 middleware.
08/08/2008 at 14:50 Jochen Scheisse says:
Vot zee heck! Of cors zey are teutonic! Just ask zem or zee teutons over at Ubisoft! Soon! Peace!
I never played DivDiv, I guess the name put it under my radar.
08/08/2008 at 15:28 Bananaphone says:
Hurrah! Divine Divinity is one of my favourite RPGs. Hope they keep the amusing voice actors.
08/08/2008 at 15:45 ortucis says:
Divine Divinity was way better than anything Bethesda or Blizzard have ever done. Didn’t play the sequel but looking forward to this one.
The music was amazing as well.
08/08/2008 at 17:04 Kieron Gillen says:
Well, Divine Divinity always seemed terribly German in approach. But, yeah, gonna lose it.
KG
08/08/2008 at 17:06 BrainedOphelia says:
For you, Kieron, ze var is clearly not over.
08/08/2008 at 17:09 Kieron Gillen says:
Teutonic is just a great word.
KG
08/08/2008 at 17:50 PleasingFungus says:
I got Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity a while ago as a pack. Couldn’t get more than five minutes through DD, but played for a good bit of BD before I accidentally clicked twice on a cat, saved (!), and incited perpetual, universal cat-on-party warfare. It was more than I could bear.
The above makes little sense. Sorry.
08/08/2008 at 18:08 Jochen Scheisse says:
Teutonic is just a great word.
Don’t worry, you can always slip it in at the bar when ordering.
08/08/2008 at 18:34 MetalCircus says:
DivDiv is really a great game, but even on my nth playthrough these days there are things that annoy the piss out of me. I hope they fix them in Div 2 (as has been said, Beyond Divinity was terrible)
I hope they drop the ridiculously hard boss fights though. There’s one boss fight in particular that, even at stupidly high levels is still bastard hard. Less of that, please Larian.
:edit: YES! The music WAS ace!
08/08/2008 at 19:41 YogSo says:
Maybe I’m just being terribly obtuse here (and as a disclaimer I must say I haven’t played any of the games), but… shoudn’t it be called Divinity 3: Ego Draconis, in any case?
08/08/2008 at 22:09 Dhruin says:
No. Beyond Divinity was never intended to be a true sequel – just another game set in the same universe. This one is the continuation of the original.
08/08/2008 at 22:34 DSX says:
Great screens, no GUI yet. Lets hope it’s not so dumbed down for consoles… The art style is reminiscent of The Witcher.
09/08/2008 at 11:15 WCAYPAHWAT says:
i never left the opening village. i barely went past the first floor of the poorly hidden catacombs. but what time i did spend was rather fun, i must admit. although some dwarf yelled at me for slaying his cattle