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8 months ago
Divinity: Original Sin 2 added an official The Dark Eye GM campaign today
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is undoubtedly one of the best RPGs of the past two years running, but developers Larian still have some plans for it. Today they rolled out The Prison Of Shadows, a new campaign, based on Ulisses Spiele's popular German pen-and-paper setting The Dark Eye to be played with friends in D:OS2's tabletop-inspired Game Master mode. This also gave the studio an excuse…
2 years ago
Divinity: Original Sin 2’s voice acting credits include “pile of corpses”
"Hello, do you think you'd be able to perform the voice of a pile of corpses, a bull, a deer and a painting?" When the decision was made to have Divinity: Original Sin 2's dialogue fully voiced, the sheer quantity of text seemed like the biggest hurdle but I hadn't considered the difficulty that casting some roles would involve. Voice actor Jay Britton, who has…
Divinity: Original Sin 2 success makes Mac release strong possibility
Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site] left Early Access less than a week ago and sales figures have been very good. Those are the kind of figures, Larian CEO Swen Vincke tells me, that he'd been hoping for "by Christmas". The game is only available for Windows at the moment and during the Early Access period, the studio stated that, "A decision on other platforms…
3 years ago
Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site] launched into early access today, less than a year after wrapping up its Kickstarter. The fantasy RPG's initial release is quite small, and waiting for the full version before even thinking about touching it is certainly a reasonable idea but, y'know, maybe Adam's raving has got you pumped. Original Sin 2 "improves almost every area" of the original, he…
Cooperative Competitive Cannibalism: Divinity Original Sin 2’s Systemic Design
Divinity: Original Sin [official site] is an incredibly complex game. It's a very silly game, which might lead some people to think it isn't all that clever, but even though it wears a comedy tie to the RPG Christmas party, it's still the smartest game in the room. That's because it's built on intelligent, simulated systems that overlap and feed into one another to make…
4 years ago
We knew that Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition [official site] was coming today, so its arrival is no surprise. We knew what to expect too: split-screen co-op; improved graphics; more voice-over; controller support; a reworked story; revamped loot and economy systems; an overhauled skill system; and so on. I'm still impressed looking at the changelist detailing almost 1,300 changes that are now here for…
In a typically laid back yet pleasantly upbeat and enthusiastic dev video, Larian Studios have detailed all that is new and fresh and shiny in their Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition [official site] ahead of its release next week. Adam was impressed by what he played of the Enhanced Edition at Gamescom earlier this year, and now you can see many of its improvements…
At Gamescom, I spent some time with Larian and Divinity: Original Sin's Enhanced Edition [official site]. It's almost completely redesigned, adding controller support for splitscreen local co-op, containing considerable rewrites and additions, and retooling everything from specific quests to the entire loot system. There's also full voice acting and a revamped character development system, which should maintain interesting progression right through the end-game. Pleasing as…
5 years ago
2015 is almost here and I'm sure you have a plan. You do have a plan, don't you? You're not planning leave the year to chance, skipping gaily across the pages of the calendar like a child through a meadow, are you? Because the meadow/calendar is filled with vipers. I'm... look, sorry, we've caught a case of the day-before-last-day-of-term sillies. What I mean to say…
Divinity: Original Sin is at the very top of my "ooo, RPGs" teetering stack, making it actually significantly more difficult to reach than if it were in the middle somewhere. It's nice, then, that while waiting for me personally to get around to it, Larian Studios keep updating their Kickstarter-funded hit. The latest update comes along with some free DLC that adds two new companions.…
Ooh You Rascal! Divinity: Original Sin Adds AI Personalities
A nice bit of conflict always livens up a party--an argument here, a thrown punch there, an explosive cloud of poison out in the garden. As promised, Larian have added more AI personality profiles to Divinity: Original Sin so you can stoke friendships and flare-ups if you fancy. This was planned for launch but, er, they ran out of time while it was in Early…
Divinity: Original Sin may not be officially launching until next Monday but, as it's been on Steam Early Access since January, fans will already have a fair idea of what they'd like more of in the RPG and what they'd like changed. They'll get to make a start on that this week, as developers Larian today announced they'll release the turn-based RPG's editor this Thursday.…
Divinity: Original Sin may not have the big name backing of, say, Pillars of Eternity or Wasteland 2, but the gorgeous-looking chip off Ultima VII's block has impressed us time and time again. Rare is the role-player that offers this degree of choice and reactivity, not to mention a world of spontaneous, non-scripted orc wars and clairvoyant cattle. Larian's spent years (and nearly $1 million…
It's taken an enormous amount of willpower to resist the charms of Divinity: Original Sin since the Early Access version arrived on Steam. It's not that I'm worried about playing parts of the game before it's complete - I've already spent two days in its company - it's that I'm in need of an RPG partner. Far too many of my friends are either unnerved…
6 years ago
We've been eagerly watching (and, on some occasions, playing) Divinity: Original Sin ever since it launched a turn-based assault on Kickstarter, growing its already grandiose vision of a classic RPG world into one worthy of having its praises sung. Now it's finally available to everyone, whether old and grizzled or so young that they think Baldur's Gate was a middling action-RPG on the PlayStation 2.…
There are so many early access alphas emerging from gaming's underbrush right now - bugs exposed for all to see, freely worming around in the loam - that my pointing it out is even becoming tiresome. So let's skip all the run-up. Divinity: Original Sin, Larian's heavenly-looking fantasy role-player, is now available to backers in alpha form. If you didn't back it, no dice for…
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. The Bible said that, and - now that we will all be without Divinity: Original Sin until early 2014 - I'm pretty sure we're technically allowed to throw rocks at each other for a few months. You know what that means, don't you? STOOOOOOOONE FIIIIIIIIIIGHT! Hahaha, nearly got me Adam, hahaha there go three of my teeth,…
Another RPG sequel (spiritual or otherwise), another big Kickstarter victory. So it goes. And so Larian Studios go home with $429,508 of their desired $400,000 for Divinity: Original Sin, and that's with 16 days left on the clock. Across its 9,472 backers, that's an average of $45 per person. I don't why I mention that, I just had the calculator program open anyway and thought…
