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Post by bladefist on Oct 25, 2018 15:16:46 GMT
Youtube pretty much read my mind with its suggestions. I'm getting ready for another playthrough this time with the definitive edition and I found this gem
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Post by Element Zero on Oct 26, 2018 16:49:03 GMT
Thought this was a good little video from new gaming channel Special Moves. Good to see a channel talking about the actual games rather than drama.
It’s good to see someone talking about Special Moves. I was really disappointed when the guys had to leave #PrettyGoodGaming. YouTube algorithm changes resulted in plummeting revenues. Gaz had to let them go, as they were paid employees. What a great channel that with the four of them. Anyway, PGG is bouncing back and Special Moves means Mike, Liam and Jake get to keep talking about gaming.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Oct 30, 2018 22:14:21 GMT
I'd like to drop a comment just saying what a gem of an RPG this game is! After a bit of a rocky start for me gameplay-wise, this is one of the most funny and surprising RPGs I've ever played. You never know what's going to happen next. You can interact with sooo many characters, say and do the most hilarious things. There are a shit-ton of quests you can complete in a variety of ways. And co-op, although not entirely smooth, is icing on the cake. Since it's not a cinematic personal experience like Mass Effect and more of a fireworks of quirky dialogue, having two people interact with NPCs makes it even funnier. Today we TRIED to do that quest with that shady prostitute service in Driftwood. I agreed to it. Told the pimp "Surprise me!" Had no idea what to expect. Thought it was going to be something similar to DA2. Sadly, no companions allowed. So my co-op partner had to wait downstairs. That bummed him out at first. So I recount the sexy talk to him. *g* He decides he needs to try that too. Then of course things take an (not so) unexpected turn. So I come out of the room butt naked, "They stole my clothes and all my stuff!" My partner starts laughing. I run around the inn naked for several minutes, unable to find the guy who scammed me nor my clothes. Partner still laughing his ass off, of course. Too bad he didn't see me try to fight naked with my fists. I only managed to survive by exiting the room which wasn't locked anymore. While naked we confronted a serial killer about serving people for dinner. Nobody reacted to my character's nakedness sadly. The game is pretty reactive however in other situations. Apparently the clothes were supposed to be in a box nearby but they weren't. Some kind of bug? So then google told us the gang is downstairs. Problem was I couldn't convince the bouncer to let me in. My partner could get in thanks to a perk. I thought this granted us both entry. But nope, I got attacked. Still naked and defenseless, mind you. We reloaded and decided to approach the situation from a different angle: cozy up to this gang who also runs the brothel scam. We're still in the process of working that out. And then we'll see if we can still get paid sexual services and how that might play out now.
The game is chucking full of these odd situations and horrible outcomes. I LOVE IT! It's the most messy game I've ever played. It's delightfully light-hearted.
Few games actually manage to still surprise you with crazy situations and countless ways in which they can play out. Everyone is kind of crazy. So you don't feel bad when you accidentally steal something instead of talking to the NPC standing next to the object which results in that NPC attacking and you forced to kill them. You may even get the expensive armor they sell for free now. LOL.
What a most marvelous change of pace from the usual copy & paste AAA franchises. And it's not even short. It's fucking HUGE! There is so much to do and see. It's crazy!
I've maybe seen a third of the game so far but I'll already proclaim this is one of the best RPGs ever made. In terms of original writing and interactive gameplay this beats any Bioware game. If other cRPGs like Pillar Of Eternity are this good, I've been missing out!!!
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Post by bladefist on Nov 10, 2018 6:33:19 GMT
Red Prince wow! His story was the most fun for me. And he has a cool theme
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Dec 16, 2018 17:09:13 GMT
So, I was going to install DOS on my new PS pro when I accidentally disconnected the cable and aborted the install... I made sure to remove everything and reinstall the game, but my screen still looks like this when I start up the game and I'm afraid it will look the same in-game as well:
Anyone has any idea what has happened and if I managed to fuck up my console completely?
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Dec 18, 2018 17:39:18 GMT
Anyone has any idea what has happened and if I managed to fuck up my console completely? I'm assuming it's not responding? I don't have a console, but maybe there's a way to do some kind of a hard reset, wipe everything and install again? Otherwise, the only thing I can think of is trying actual tech support with PS. Already done, no luck. I'm starting to think that the issue is either with the gpu or the RAM-memory (as only "heavy" games seem to be affected). It sucks though, the company I bought it from are not very fun to deal with when things are not working...
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Post by Gwydden on Dec 30, 2018 3:45:10 GMT
BTW, I have a question pertaining to DOS2: play an origin character or play a custom character? I dipped into the game for a bit - serious playing will come after I finish DOS1 - and couldn't find more than cursory information about that. Since you can adjust attributes and skills, change everything but species, sex, name and background traits, there seems to be a case for origin characters since I can expect more customized dialogue for them, right? Or do you get content related to origin characters even if you do not play them, in form of dialogue with them or their own quests? It's been a while, and I don't know if you've already started the game, but if not I think origin character is definitely the way to go. They get dialogue options, quests, and abilities unique to them, and from what I've seen the story works better with them than with customs. I confess I have a bit of a bias, since I don't care much for headcanon and prefer to roleplay someone with a clear place in the world rather than a blank slate of my own creation, but there goes. Myself, I finally got a chance to play through D:OS2 — over a year after it came out and six months after I bought it, but alas. As someone who is not given to hyperbole, I can unambiguously say that it is the best RPG I've played to date. The first one already had great combat, RPG systems, music, visuals, and level design, but it severely faltered on the writing front. Narratively, D:OS2 is on par with the best from Bioware, CDPR, or Obsidian. It's quite a drastic and impressive improvement. But I call it the best not so much because it is excellent at one thing, but because it is good at everything. There are plenty of RPGs where I've put up with mediocre gameplay and/or bland filler for the story (pretty much all Bioware and CDPR games, Sunless Sea, Shadowrun) or vice versa, with a bad story for the sake of the gameplay (previous Divinity games, Pillars of Eternity, Kingdoms of Amalur), but in this one I go from fun combat to fun exploration to a fun narrative and all the way round again. So cheers, Larian.
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Post by anarchy65 on Dec 30, 2018 20:06:53 GMT
Damn, I'd really like to play this game right now, but I'm going to travel on january 23th and I won't be able to finish the game until then, and I don't want to go back to play it only after a month.
But just so I can start preparing, what are the best magic classes? I like my Main Character to be normally a mage with a lot of cc and damage. Mages in Divinity: Original Sin 1 were awesome and really ruled the field. Is this game "classless" like the first, like, you choose a class, but it really doesn't matter, because you can pick skills from any class?
And I've read you can play as a druid, are druids good? Always wanted to play as one
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Dec 31, 2018 11:39:36 GMT
Hi, quick question: I've had my personal source collar removed by Nebora, but my friend still has his. What is the quickest way of removing it for him? He's a bit pissed about me being able to use source powers and not him...
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Post by Gwydden on Dec 31, 2018 13:27:26 GMT
Damn, I'd really like to play this game right now, but I'm going to travel on january 23th and I won't be able to finish the game until then, and I don't want to go back to play it only after a month. But just so I can start preparing, what are the best magic classes? I like my Main Character to be normally a mage with a lot of cc and damage. Mages in Divinity: Original Sin 1 were awesome and really ruled the field. Is this game "classless" like the first, like, you choose a class, but it really doesn't matter, because you can pick skills from any class? And I've read you can play as a druid, are druids good? Always wanted to play as one Sounds like you want an enchanter build e.g. a mix of Hydrosophist and Aerothurge. The former lets you freeze enemies (and heal allies as a bonus) while the latter lets you shock them with electricity and comes with some teleportation spells. There’s some synergy between the two as you can create water surfaces and then electrify them. And yeah, the “class” system is basically he same as in the first game. As for the Druid thing, depends on what you mean by the term. There is no dedicated skill tree for that, and you cannot really transform into animals like typical D&D druids. The closest to that is the Polymorph tree, which lets you do stuff like grow wings or tentacles. Hi, quick question: I've had my personal source collar removed by Nebora, but my friend still has his. What is the quickest way of removing it for him? He's a bit pissed about me being able to use source powers and not him... To my knowledge, there are three ways of removing it. Spoilers ahoy: - The blacksmith can do it for one character if you complete the arena. I think that’s what you’re referring to.
- A woman in the swamp hideout can take it off everyone. Usually you have to complete a quest first, but I believe Lohse can circumvent that if you have her in your party.
- At the end of Act I, if you still haven’t managed it, Malady will get rid of it.
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Post by anarchy65 on Dec 31, 2018 13:31:33 GMT
Damn, I'd really like to play this game right now, but I'm going to travel on january 23th and I won't be able to finish the game until then, and I don't want to go back to play it only after a month. But just so I can start preparing, what are the best magic classes? I like my Main Character to be normally a mage with a lot of cc and damage. Mages in Divinity: Original Sin 1 were awesome and really ruled the field. Is this game "classless" like the first, like, you choose a class, but it really doesn't matter, because you can pick skills from any class? And I've read you can play as a druid, are druids good? Always wanted to play as one Sounds like you want an enchanter build e.g. a mix of Hydrosophist and Aerothurge. The former lets you freeze enemies (and heal allies as a bonus) while the latter lets you shock them with electricity and comes with some teleportation spells. There’s some synergy between the two as you can create water surfaces and then electrify them. And yeah, the “class” system is basically he same as in the first game. As for the Druid thing, depends on what you mean by the term. There is no dedicated skill tree for that, and you cannot really transform into animals like typical D&D druids. The closest to that is the Polymorph tree, which lets you do stuff like grow wings or tentacles. From what I've read, the "druid" build focus on summoning animals. On the first game, you could only have one summon active, does that change on 2? And these two sound fun, but... I'd love fire spells too. It's no fun being a mage if you can't release fireballs! But yeah, that was my build on the first game, using freeze and paralyze to stop enemies and some fire spells to deal some serious damage. Also other cool cc like charm (saved my life many times)
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Post by Kappa Neko on Dec 31, 2018 16:06:06 GMT
Blood mage is totally OP. It's not even funny how much stronger than everyone this build was...
Over a 1000 DPS sometimes. Some bosses get insta killed. Ridiculous.
We played on Easy however.
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Post by The Biotic Trebuchet on Mar 3, 2020 15:28:52 GMT
HOLY SHIT THIS GAME TOOK ME MORE TIME TO FINISH THAN THE WITCHER III (and that was a looot of time) maybe because my first run was in tactical mode and with a fully completion of quests goalNow, why is this thread so left behid? people should praise this game for the ages to come. It's the only game where i can kill every NPC that i came across and don't get an end game screen. Been a while since a game left me with a sensation of emptiness after finishing it. btw, is D:OS I as good as this one? (characters, story, combat)
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Post by Pounce de León on Mar 3, 2020 16:00:53 GMT
HOLY SHIT THIS GAME TOOK ME MORE TIME TO FINISH THAN THE WITCHER III (and that was a looot of time) maybe because my first run was in tactical mode and with a fully completion of quests goalNow, why is this thread so left behid? people should praise this game for the ages to come. It's the only game where i can kill every NPC that i came across and don't get an end game screen. Been a while since a game left me with a sensation of emptiness after finishing it. btw, is D:OS I as good as this one? (characters, story, combat) My verdict: It's too long. I got bogged down on the island and at some point unlocked some academy, thinking this finally concludes, then the game prgresses with some puzzle shit inside. It's so fucking long I forgot what happened in between.
I did like it a lot tho. After restarting some 8 times trying to figure out which build I might like - and still have no idea how it works all.
It's good quality, music great, innovative combat mechanics. Even sandboxy in what we can do. Characters were nicely done. Voicing was good.
But it just felt like a slog in the end. Would maybe pick it up again and continue playthrough but I can't be bothered to retrieve save file.
And the ingredient bloat, OMG. All the recipes I never use, and the ones I find interesting lack the ingredients for. I gave up on the crafting shit - it's just too much. I started new playthrough on new computer but I don't think I'll finish that either. It's just too long and winded and if I can't remember what happened in between pauses I can't be bothered to continue later on. It's got some sort of diary, but all the party seems to be competitors for divinity and I dint keep personal track of who said what and is likely to backstab and I find that annoying.
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Post by azarhal on Mar 3, 2020 16:40:14 GMT
HOLY SHIT THIS GAME TOOK ME MORE TIME TO FINISH THAN THE WITCHER III (and that was a looot of time) maybe because my first run was in tactical mode and with a fully completion of quests goal
btw, is D:OS I as good as this one? (characters, story, combat) My first playthrough took me ~60 hours, that's a good 20 hours lower than my first TW3 playthrough and I did more side content in DOS2 than TW3. I know someone who finished DOS2 in 30 hours too (he finished the game twice in the time it took me to play through it once in fact). As for the first game, i'll say combat is better (less surface madness), but DOS2 has better VO, writing (DOS1 is a lot more goofy) and quality of life features. I still consider it worth playing, despite the fact that I never finished it. I stopped right at the entrance of the last dungeon after I read online that the last boss fight took over an hour for some people, but that was before the EE was released.
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Post by The Biotic Trebuchet on Mar 3, 2020 17:14:42 GMT
HOLY SHIT THIS GAME TOOK ME MORE TIME TO FINISH THAN THE WITCHER III (and that was a looot of time) maybe because my first run was in tactical mode and with a fully completion of quests goalNow, why is this thread so left behid? people should praise this game for the ages to come. It's the only game where i can kill every NPC that i came across and don't get an end game screen. Been a while since a game left me with a sensation of emptiness after finishing it. btw, is D:OS I as good as this one? (characters, story, combat) My verdict: It's too long. I got bogged down on the island and at some point unlocked some academy, thinking this finally concludes, then the game prgresses with some puzzle shit inside. It's so fucking long I forgot what happened in between.
I did like it a lot tho. After restarting some 8 times trying to figure out which build I might like - and still have no idea how it works all.
It's good quality, music great, innovative combat mechanics. Even sandboxy in what we can do. Characters were nicely done. Voicing was good.
But it just felt like a slog in the end. Would maybe pick it up again and continue playthrough but I can't be bothered to retrieve save file. And the ingredient bloat, OMG. All the recipes I never use, and the ones I find interesting lack the ingredients for. I gave up on the crafting shit - it's just too much. I started new playthrough on new computer but I don't think I'll finish that either. It's just too long and winded and if I can't remember what happened in between pauses I can't be bothered to continue later on. It's got some sort of diary, but all the party seems to be competitors for divinity and I dint keep personal track of who said what and is likely to backstab and I find that annoying.
ah yes, i took me way too long to get out of the tutorial island and dealing with reaper coast. But since i got into the academy (and that point is a little more than half the game), things speed up the pace (i admit i looked into guides from then). and yes, the game could have explain better the classes and their ability. I used like 20% of the recipies i collected in all the game (half of them was food recipies just for the giggles). Finally, about the companions and divinity: You can convice your companions that you are fit for divinity via persuation (and that's a down side, you're force to invest all your civil skills points into persuation, on your main character, to pull things like this in the game) or you can support one of your companions to be the new divine. oh and your LI just let you be the new divine, so no persuation check. HOLY SHIT THIS GAME TOOK ME MORE TIME TO FINISH THAN THE WITCHER III (and that was a looot of time) maybe because my first run was in tactical mode and with a fully completion of quests goal
btw, is D:OS I as good as this one? (characters, story, combat) My first playthrough took me ~60 hours, that's a good 20 hours lower than my first TW3 playthrough and I did more side content in DOS2 than TW3. I know someone who finished DOS2 in 30 hours too (he finished the game twice in the time it took me to play through it once in fact). As for the first game, i'll say combat is better (less surface madness), but DOS2 has better VO, writing (DOS1 is a lot more goofy) and quality of life features. I still consider it worth playing, despite the fact that I never finished it. I stopped right at the entrance of the last dungeon after I read online that the last boss fight took over an hour for some people, but that was before the EE was released. 60 hrs?! it took me 200 hrs to complete the game... Maybe if i didn't start with the highest difficulty it would have take me less... (i recall 3 battles that turned into a big wall to keep going, the one where you have to fight a white magister in an oil field, the demon at the end of Lohse's personal quest, and the final battle). I saw a speedrunner complete the game in a little more than half an hour.
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Post by azarhal on Mar 3, 2020 17:40:18 GMT
60 hrs?! it took me 200 hrs to complete the game... Maybe if i didn't start with the highest diffuculty it would have took me less... (i recall 3 battles that turned into a big wall to keep going, the one where you have to fight a white magister in an oil field, the demon at the end of Lohse's personal quest, and the final battle). I saw a speedrunner complete the game in a little more than half an hour. I know a few people who took 100+ hours. I'm just a fast player and I fast tracked once on the Nameless isle (i.e. stopped exploring as much). That's the 3 hardest/longest battles in the game, but at release the demon one could be cheesed (which I did as I was unable to kill the demon in its true form, still took 3 tries). I believe the cheesy way was patched though. I especially hated the oil field one.
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Post by Pounce de León on Mar 3, 2020 21:56:28 GMT
I have 170 hours in DOS2, so probably minus new attempt and 8 tryouts I took 100 hours until I arrived at academy. I think the games greatness is severely impaired by the amount of time wasted on loot and inventory and equipment management.
And I liked the oil field. I liked most fights, because I liked the combat system.
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Post by The Biotic Trebuchet on Mar 3, 2020 22:59:59 GMT
60 hrs?! it took me 200 hrs to complete the game... Maybe if i didn't start with the highest diffuculty it would have took me less... (i recall 3 battles that turned into a big wall to keep going, the one where you have to fight a white magister in an oil field, the demon at the end of Lohse's personal quest, and the final battle). I saw a speedrunner complete the game in a little more than half an hour. I know a few people who took 100+ hours. I'm just a fast player and I fast tracked once on the Nameless isle (i.e. stopped exploring as much). That's the 3 hardest/longest battles in the game, but at release the demon one could be cheesed (which I did as I was unable to kill the demon in its true form, still took 3 tries). I believe the cheesy way was patched though. I especially hated the oil field one. Indeed, they patched it. I had to make a barricade before combat to avoid to get swarmed by the nurses, then i got to place Lohse in a far corner of the room and place a deathfog crate next to her for when the demon started to cast its possession over her, i would break the crate and kill Lohse the next turn (so, i could revive her with the next character so the demon had to restart its casting over her), that and leaving a teleportation pyramid next to Lord Kemm's source fountain to supply my party with unlimited source. Quite the complex solution, it was that or get clobbered by the demon (which could one shot my main and Sebille, both my hard hitting characters, leaving my tank, the Red Prince all by himself against demon + nurses + lesser demons). I have 170 hours in DO, so probably minus new attempt and 8 tryouts I took 100 hours until I arrived at academy. I think the games greatness is severely impaired by the amount of time wasted on loot and inventory and equipment management.
And I liked the oil field. I liked most fights, because I liked the combat system.
Yeah, for some reason, i couldn't resist the urge to loot every barrel/crate/coffin i came across, walk around back and forth, and wasting way too much time in inventory management to trespass every item that i wanted to trade to the character with the most points in bartering. And no, i didn't like the oil fields, the enemies where 1 or 2 lvls higher than me, i'd to barricade every stair/ladder in that place so i wouldn't get swarmed by oil blobs + magister's cronnies.
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Post by azarhal on Mar 4, 2020 0:12:33 GMT
I don't really have a problem with the inventory management. I don't bother with crafting so ingredients are either vendor trash if they are worth money or things I don't bother with. As for gear, I keep the minimum in inventory because I know that in an hour, I'll get 3 better pieces to replace what I'm wearing. It's all mostly vendor trash really.
As for my old field experience...it just ended up a super long fight because some of the enemies were far away from my party and it took 2-3 turns before anyone was near enough to attack each others. I believe it was revamped in the DE, but I'm not there yet though.
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Post by saandrig on Mar 4, 2020 11:31:04 GMT
Just started the game. A few hours in and I already feel crafting would not be touched. I am a bit confused with the Journal and it's information, but so far have managed to follow up on some quests.
The "all classes open for everyone" is something I didn't get quite used to in DOS1, so for now I am just dumping points in just a few main skills.
I don't know what party I should go for I thought it was fine with Fighter, Ranger, Enchanter and Wizard (or something that the undead guy is), but then met Specialist Traynor and undead dude got the boot for a Rogue. I keep the base classes for the Origin companions for now.
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Post by azarhal on Mar 4, 2020 12:48:06 GMT
The "all classes open for everyone" is something I didn't get quite used to in DOS1, so for now I am just dumping points in just a few main skills.
Don't spread too much on a single character, you should specialize on a few skills per characters. Also, it's better to just focus on a single armor type (i.e. physical/magic) in term of attacks for the whole party. No in-between, it will just take longer to get to the Health. Ok make everyone scoundrel because backstabbing and teleporting everywhere while having the highest distance per action point is great...
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Post by The Biotic Trebuchet on Mar 4, 2020 16:19:02 GMT
Since the oil field fight, i discovered that i could cheese 95% of the fights investing in the escapist skill, so i could teleport outside the combat zone with a single AP left, replenish and rebuff the character, and then jump right into the fight with the teleportation pyramid (that combined with high initiative, you could be able to hit the enemies right off).
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Post by operationathena on May 7, 2020 23:59:58 GMT
So I have D:OS1 on PC - is it solid as well? Also I hear D:OS2 touted as one of the best RPG's ever - is that something you guys would agree with?
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Post by azarhal on May 8, 2020 0:28:55 GMT
So I have D:OS1 on PC - is it solid as well? Also I hear D:OS2 touted as one of the best RPG's ever - is that something you guys would agree with? I liked the first 80% of DOS1, but they have redone the ending since I played it, not idea how better it is as I never finished it when I replayed the new version (it's a long game). I think DOS2 might be a bit overrated by some people, but saying it is one of the best RPGs ever isn't wrong. Saying that, I prefer the combat from the first one.
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