D:OS2 - Review After 100%
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Somehow I never got around to reviewing this despite making content on it for literally years.
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I actually voiced Ifan in this. Lovely to see the game is still really popular!
That’s awesome. Ifan is one of my favorites on par with red prince
Did you really
@@life_is_gr8 he is. Bless 'im.
Great job, you're very talented
Respect.
This is not usually a style or format of game I'd consider playing but this just has kept popping up so I tried it. And let me tell you, it's completely captivated me. The dialog and voice acting is superb along with the game play! This is what happens when you step out of your comfort zone..
fuck yes. one of my favorite games of all time
@ashy Oh it most certainly has. I've been really debating about trying Baldurs Gate 3 early access.. But damn, full price for an incomplete game is hard for me to accept but I will say it looks badass.
Exactly! This is literally the first RPG that I played and I got addicted. Glad I saw that deal.
oh boyy have you seen baldurs gate? shit got me immersed fully when im playing
@@MrAwesomeHero1 Which one? Are you playing the third? That's in the Alpha? I've wanted to try it but I didn't want spend $60. Would I have to spend that a 2nd time.
Underrated channel. I hope your channel gets loads of deserved views and subs once we get BG3 full release
Oh he will. I'm absolutely positive.
His BG3 got 1M views so yep
The narrator of this game might be my favourite video game character of all time. So good.
If you haven't played it and can stomach old school graphics the game Bards tale has a really good narrator too.
*searches in hay*
"Were you looking for a needle?"
I like to think that the narrator is a D&D Dungeon Master telling the actions in the dialogue and story, which it fits perfectly in this game.
Baulder’s gate 3 has entered the chat. Lol 😅
I turned his volume off immediately because I hated his voice and would rather just read, so I'm assuming I missed things outside of that?
Never played a CRPG before DOS2, and the combat in this is incredible. I love long tactical nature of it. Put 300 hours into the game, its just this good. Beat on honour with a party of two as well.
I haven't played BG3 yet, but I'm really hoping that they make talking your way out of combat more rewarding. It always feels bad in DOS2 playing a character that would avoid combat if possible, but you have to get into the fight anyway so you don't loose xp
They do reward you with XP for talking your way out of combat in BG3. Some of your companions also react favorably to avoiding unnecessary combat so that can be really helpful for making friends.
why do people want to talk their way out of combat. combat is fun. combat is what you prepare for when you trade and buy skills, armor, weapons. why not use them lol
@@kanishcktewatia597 Agreed, but it brings a point of; why even bother to have the options if killing everybody is just more rewarding in everyway?
what options?
@@kanishcktewatia597 at the end of the day it’s an RPG so being able to role play as a pacifist or at least someone that probably engages in only critical fights seems like a good choice to have. To make that choice blatantly bad to play in terms of rewards seems kinda silly. I think rewarding the player with around the same exp for talking your way out of a situation or even more at times seems like a good idea.
i actually watched the 3 hour long vid you mentioned after i cleared the game. it was very logically done and served as a great refresher. keep up the great content!
I just beat Divinity OS2 for the first time this week, and I found your channel after trying to find decent content around it. You make damn good stuff and have been binging in the background as I do shit. Keep the grind going Morty ;)
The music is fantastic. Truly incredible. They managed to make a score that has the requisite fantasy sound while not sounding like any other score. It reminds me of the witcher 3. Not the sound, but the way they made it unique but appropriate for the genre.
How they didn't win any awards for the soundtrack is beyond me
This game is a tour de force of game design. It planted itself firmly on the pantheon of cRPGs as one of the greatest. An instant classic.
Few aspects are somewhat flawed, but then nothing is perfect. However, in every part that really matters this is nothing short of a true masterpiece.
You are right emphasizing the fact that they thought of almost anything a player could do in any situation. It actually caught me off guard so many times. In other games you'd expect it to be what some people refer as emergent gameplay. Or playing out of the box, not the way it was intended. In this game - it's ready for your worst(best). Every god damn time. The amount of work that went into just scripting, and designing encounters, level layouts, layers and layers of...stuff. Secrets. Somebody's job was actually just constantly trying to think about every way a player may resolve each situation, of which the game has hundreds and hundreds. Then there's writing. Which is so tight. A lot of cRPGs are very verbose, drowning you in massive paragraphs of text in each dialogue. DOS2 manages to say as much with way fewer words, while also giving tons of flavor to the world and characters. And obviously totally bonkers creativity of the world is a signature Larian touch. There are so many delightfully absurd situations you will get yourself into, it has a whiff of Pratchett's writing to it.
It looks amazing, and that soundtrack is absolutely divine. I have tracks from it stuck in my head for days at times.
Ah, I could go on forever. To me personally it's a 10/10 game. Tiny annoyances I had were just dwarfed by the amount of quality time I had with this game. It's a great laugh, it's a tactical challenge, it's a good story, memorable characters, a true adventure. What a legendary game.
Just to add something to your point on 'doing everything'; for me the big issue with the game is how tight the XP is. I feel that in order to keep up with the recommended level you need to really do 95% of the content, and this leads to either hoovering each map for hours looking for the last few enemies, checking a walkthrough for missed quests or finding exploity ways to make up the ground - Hence why players are often killing NPCs or judging decisions on XP rewards more than roleplay.
During my current playthrough I had a fun chilled out run through Act 1, and found a new way to escape Fort Joy, but wasn't able to quite hit level 8 before getting off the island. I ended up fast travelling back into town to escape the Fort again through a different route, then circling back around and killing all the magisters on the upper levels just so I could keep up with XP. It defeated the point of multiple unique routes that the opening act is so famous for that I needed to double back and do the alternate paths just to be the right level for the next zone.
It would have been great to see the game provide just another 10-20% XP either through a bit more content or just more generous quest rewards. It would give more freedom and flexibility to explore an area and then move on when you feel you have seen enough, and perhaps leave some of the secrets uncovered for another playthrough.
was that on higher difficulties or does playing on normal difficulty make up for being underleveled?
been planning to maybe do a first playthrough after getting the enhanced edition for an apple and an egg on steam
@@maxmustermann-zx9yq In normal difficulty you'll be fine. Reloading and starting fights over is completely normal tho even on that difficulty.
@@maxmustermann-zx9yq I've only finished the game once on normal (and never needed to do any deep research), so i'm no expert on the subject. That said, with over 100 hours of playtime, what I've noticed is that the stat scaling is ridiculously high, making battling multiple enemies two or three levels above you often brutally difficult if you don't have a good build or system-specific knowledge that you can use to even the difference. Many times, with just this small difference in levels, you are almost forced to change most of your equipment because it becomes too weak.
And since progress is pretty ungenerous with experience, whether you like it or not, you're strongly encouraged to do whatever you can. It's not hard to imagine a stage in the game where you might be so underdeveloped that it becomes impossible to continue playing.The second act, for example, has a monstrous amount of content that doesn't need to be done to complete it. It can be finished very quickly, but if you do that, once you start act three, the first enemy you encounter will be so many levels above you that it will probably be able to eliminate your party on its own.
@@Dmndota mmh, I think RPGs really need to take a hint from the Left for Dead Director AI to create some sort of Dungeon Master AI
level scaling enemies is only one part of it, loot should fit too and quests should ideally not be piled on until the player either has some downtime or maybe they should work downtime in the main quest in some way (like "hey we need some time to do this/money to buy this/relationship with that faction/.... so see what you can do, maybe take some contracts")
@@Dmndota Yeah DOS2 is fundamentally flawed in terms of XP and level progression. The final act ruins the game for me because of this.
Such a gem of a channel ! Only really got into CRPG's as a whole, i'd say 2 years ago if that and stumbling upon your channel it's been an absolute joy finding new series to play and delve into, this being one and Pathfinder, Baldurs Gate 3 etc
Phenomenal work Mortismal ! Loving all the guides and how beginner friendly it all is and overall just helpful, it really does make understanding the galaxy wealth of terms, rules, play styles, lore, story all very digestible and overall fun !
My favorite modern game like this is Pillars of Eternity, mostly because of the darker style and story but I certainly respect Larian and enjoy their games. Excited to see what they do with BG3.
Only problem of PoE is the insane amount of time it takes to load places. I had to wait 2 minutes to just enter a room. That's why I haven't, and never will, play PoE2: I have no time to waste
@@Ganjalf_the_Green I don’t remember it being that bad but it certainly could be. I have it installed on SSD as well. But again don’t remember it being bad but certainly been a while for me. :)
Just started playing this game with a friend on Twitch and knew you liked it so came to see your review, I'm just at Fort Joy and loving it so far, can't wait to see more
I bought this game for the Switch last year on a whim, and it has hands down been one of my favorite RPGs of all time! I haven't beat it yet, the Final Act has so many brutal battles that I am taking my time. I love the story the many many ways to approach battles and especially all the crazy abilities you can pull off. If i had one complaint of this game (as a first time player) it is that you basically have to do every battle possible to be a high enough level to complete the Act, especially Act 2. Again this is coming from a first time player who hasn't researched broken builds or min maxed my XP. Still though beating a tough battle after many tries is euphoric, and makes all the effort totally worth it!
DoS2 combat makes me feel like a tactician. The possibility to create strongholds moving stuff and shielding yourself with it is amazing, you can win battles where you are clearly underpowered
Just found your channel and it’s what I’ve been looking for for years. Someone who does deep dive videos so I don’t have to 😂 Thanks for your content, I can see me spending many hours here.
I agree with pretty much everything you've said here. I absolutely LOVE this game and am actually playing through it yet again, despite already having 500 hours in it. It's just so damn good. The inventory system is absolutely a mess and the gift bag "fix" for it is even worse. You bring up a great point about murdering everybody in town because I've absolutely done that as it is nothing but beneficial to do so, same with cheesing dialogue to steal from NPC's. Also, summoning is just straight up broken, holy shit. Great review!
I deliberately didn't do any of the truely immersion-breaking stuff like murdering whole towns for no reason in my first playthrough on normal difficulty, but I definitely would on tactician difficulty. The fact that there is no sufficient exp reward for talking your way out of fights is a big problem, I agree.
Also my favourite game of all time. I have played through all the story lines and now just recently after watching your story line videos I decided to replay again but have decided to install the Divinity Unleashed mod to change the armour system making it a bit different since I've played though so many times.
I love your reviews most! Thanks for posting them!
I totally agree with the review, excellent job. You in fact where one of the main places that I used when it came to seeking wisdom about the game so, thank you for everything
This is what made me realize every review you do is something I'll love ❤
An honor to have this comment recognized keep doing amazing work Mortem
Your metagaming point speaks to me deeply. I'm so aware that this is an amazing game, but to an extent it feels like a job to me because I feel compelled to completely solve each act and investigate every possible way I could have moved forward.
I'm with you Mortismal, this is my favorite game of all time
Nice! I'm also going for the 100% currently at 87%. Love this game even though it didn't click the first time I played it back in 2018.
The gift bag inventory "fix" is awful. I like the idea of specialized bags for different categories of items, but they went way too specific; there are so many bags that it's just as cluttered as without them. I want like one bag for all my spare gear, possibly one for weapons and one for armor. Not one for axes and one for maces and one for swords and one for helmets and one for boots and ...
I never used that. You find a lot of item containers anyway and I just used like 4 of them for different types of items. 1 for scrolls 1 for ingridients 1 for quest items 1 for unique loot etc.
You can find heaps of normal bags anyways so it's basically a non-issue.
Really good in-depth review! The only thing I'd add (and that is just my personal preference) is that the pre-made characters are so much more interesting and give you so many more options, you are kinda pressured into playing them instead of an original character. That stings a little. Especially in a CRPG.
Yeah, I think they've spent a bit too much time fleshing out origin stories and haven't created any content exclusive to custom charactets.
It would be IMO better if they've made tags more meaningful and given them only to custom chars
Just watching this as I got my wife playing it two days ago and I wondered if you had ever did a classic review on it. Turns out you do! She's having a blast, and I'm enjoying seeing the game fresh again vicariously through her.
my only gripe with the game is the physical/magical armor on enemies which forces your party to be either magic based or physical dmg based which is lame but other than that it is by far my favorite game since Final fantasy tactics(yea i said it) keep up the great work man you're slaying it
you should do a 2022 review of FFT mortim its timeless
I wanna play with yooouuu I'm so obsessed with this game and I wish people were as stocked
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I’m playing through this on my Switch now and am about 100 hours in and love it! It’s really immersive and I cannot get enough 🔥
I just found this review! I had actually picked up this game not much after this review was released, I played the For Honour mode for my first playthrough as I enjoy the challenge and it required me to learn a lot about the game before feeling comfortable about moving to the next act. I feel like you hit a lot of strong points in your review and especially related to the meta-gaming issue with killing all the people with no consequences. Yeah, I ended the game with like 1.5 million gold and also had 100's of kg of crafting materials (which I always had gear-fear), but it was an incredible game and was really rewarding to figure everything out. I will admit that Act II I think is the hardest section of the game for playing the For Honour mode, which was kind of disappointed as it made the later acts, but especially Act III feel trivial.
Thanks for such good reviews. Hope the channel keeps growing!
I too love divinity original sin 2 and the first one. Thank you and may you wonder in wisdom!
How'd you know I just installed and started playing this!?!
You're a wizard!
Sorcery!
Mage!
my only gripe was the lack of xp, I felt like being forced to do side quests and errands just to get some xp and keep up with the enemies.
Nice video man ! Personally my favorite CRPG too ^^
What I dislike the most however is the armor system, because it gets exponentially crazy as the levels goes by and if you don't have a team specialized in physical damage, or magic damage, you're just going to drag the fights and crippled yourself even more (reference to the summoning part of your video). Thus, it just kills diversity in your party and although I love this game to death, this has been really bothering me. I've tried the Divine war mod but it just doesn't cut it for me I guess. In that regard, I feel that DOS 1 was better handling the armor system.
That's not true. I beat Honour Mode in a blind run with 2 physical and 2 magical. Although fights did dragged on forever, I felt it was mostly because of Defense spec and gear. And I didn't use "pre battle setup cheeses" which I found out about later. Just lots of research on mechanics of the game and item databases...which was like half the game! :P
I'm super excited to get my hands on this on the 25th. I've spent the past few days getting absolutely hyped for this game, and from what I've seen my expectations will be met, if not exceeded.
There should never be a consequence to initiate a conversation with one character, then teleport all the NPCs that annoy the eff out of you because they initiate dialogue loops. I can only hear "how ya holdin up brie" and "if I'm not visitinc ya, who will?" so many times before i want to shut the game off. Those NPCs will get murdered every time.... Usually discreetly as possible. It's the first thing I do upon entering a town hub as soon as I get some sort of teleport ability.
Side note though... Do you ever find out what happened to Brie or is there more backstory on Thun? It's like Belegar from DoS1. My wife and I are obsessed with DoS1/2. I've 100%ed them both and I am not an achievement hunter by any means.
P. S. Fane blood mage lone wolf = the cheese to end all cheesing. Summoning kinda balances out toward the end game.
Lohse's last part of the story left me speechless for a couple of minutes. It was a very difficult decision to make, even if it's not reflected in the game world.
That choice was hard to make and that fight was a bitch. I died so damn much in fight.
---spoiler---
Yeah… I committed genocide and that’s my biggest regret in the whole campaign. ALL the companions (including Ifan wtf?!) rooted for a mass murder. Eh, I wish I was courageous enough to look for another way
I Played this game on PS4.
Was blown away by the content.
One of the best game imo
and the mods make this gem shine brighter.
I was surprised that the console version (PS4) felt really convenient, even better than the PC version. I especially liked the camera following the characters’ movement. They really put some thoughts in how to make it work.
Yes, this is a game in the corner of my heart too. :)
I agree on a killing NPC point, there should be some kind of detriment or punishment for killing.
Love DOS2. I was happy to see co-op gameplay in BG3 allow characters with the same turn order move at the same time. I really do wish enemies would move all at once or several at a time.
Can’t wait to see your Baldurs Gate 3 review 😜
The part where you were talking about when you miss something, from a previous Act and how annoying that is made me laugh in a really ironic way. I'm actually having to delete right now 10 hours of gameplay because I forgot to complete my main character personal quest, and I'm dead inside :/
That's a big oof
I love what Larian can do with their games. Really. Divinity OS1 and OS2 are my favorite cRPG games, that I tend to come back to every now and then, to have fun with system.
the only part i dont like is that once you become divine there is nothing left to do, the first time i beat the game i expected to have some sort of short campaign after becoming divine and i was looking forward to using my Divine power in some different way than what i could do before becoming divine. It would be nice if some1 creates a mod to extend the game past divinity. For example after u become divine u could head inside the void and battle the voidwoken and the black king in their home territory > i think that would be fun and maybe some abilities that would represent your Godhood
So I just bought it during the last steam sale on a whim and haven't touched it for a week and the buyers remorse was starting to kick in. I finally had the time to play the game, sink my teeth in and I'm pretty much loving it. It's the third isometric CRPG I've played, the other two being DA 2 & 3, both games I haven't finished but Divinity just gives me a lot to think about.
I have a lot of gripes when I was just starting out though for example the main menu being a bit overbearing especially when the last games I've played had a very minimalist main menu that almost just lets you start the game. Further down, the system UI is a bit cluttered, inventory, crafting, and later on the skills you acquire floods their respective menus/interface. Though those I could still get used to, the persuasion mechanic on the other hand feels a bit under cooked, or I'm just missing something since even if my character has all their points on a specific attribute, without the persuasion skill, said character will simply get scoffed at at best or goes through trial by combat at worst.
On the other hand I've finally internalized why people turn to murder hobos.
I'm actually finishing Act 2 at Reapers Coast.
Cons:
Story: so far is kind of "mee" I really dont care about any NPC or companions at all.
Inventory management: 100% agree on you. Also i would add buying stuff to sellers is annoying hovering over every book to see the spell it unlocks.
Pros:
Technical: My crappy 2018's laptop still run this game quite smoothie and visually is stunning...
Combat: AI is challenging, some situations are kind of unfair or repetitive, but this is what most keeps me into this game right now.
Great in depth review! Thanks
Just got platinum on dos 1. Time to tackle this one. Nice video
I'm finding this game so frustrating because it has you running all over the place and when you get somewhere you'll need something that you don't have. And you won't know where to find it.
I didn't know anybody reloaded saves when they miss things. I get why you need to do it because of the 100% thing, but Roleplaying means rolling with things as they go.
That turn-based concept from wastelands 3 is also in the shadowrun series
I had heard that, but have no experience with them, I try to stick to what I personally know. Good call out!
Just found out I can play this on Xbox. Definitely going to check this out.
I agree with many points, but I also want to add if there is a D:OS3 I hope they do something a little different with the armour system. It's better than the first game's combat system in my opinion, however, its tedious to balance a physical/magic damage party unless you have good knowledge of fights beforehand. A pure physical team can be very diverse in party composition, but a pure magic team runs into the problem of fighting over the same gear. Archers and Summoners are the best at dealing both damage types, with Necromancers just tailing behind. I wish more magic damaging skills scaled with strength to help balance party composition.
To sum things up, I hope for a slight change in the current armour system or a more diverse pool of skills that deal physical/magic damage.
I think geo should have been a hybrid damage tree. It already does two different types of damage, keep poison as is and change earth to physical. What's so magical about pelting people with boulders anyway?
For a guy who generally hates turn-based combat, I would say that combat in DOS2 is my favourite of all time. I'm currently on my way on beating it true solo on Tactician as close to 100% as I can get by going in blind as it's my first playthrough, and for me it just hits the right amount of having to optimize your strategy without ever forcing you to exploit the game or use your tools beyond their intent. I had my own share of problems with roelplaying aspects, dialogue, GUI and QoL, but I would without a doubt say that combat in this game is a flawless paragon.
That’s interesting, that’s what really turned me off, other than the environmental effects, entire landscapes on fire, didn’t like it and the 40 minute battles, hated them lol. Gave up half way thru.
@@desdicadoric Sounds like you found the oil fight.
Favorite game of all time!?!? Bold statement. Just got it and will review your material. Subscribed.
How is it going
i’m just about to finish act 1 and i have just reached the same conclusion you did at the end of this review: it seems like the devs want you to abuse the systems. it took me a little while but now i think it’s super fun ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dos 2 plays like a really good DND session
This game is so good that me and my friends almost always come back to it every year. We finished regular Tactician less than 2 years ago and we're gonna try Honour mode next month. Excited to try out the gift bags and some mods as well. I appreciate the review cuz it might pull one of my friends into the game as well. Thanks!
I picked up this game and in the last 3 months its the only thing I'm playing. It's AMAZING!!!
I would love so much a continuation of the story!
I have up to 70h of DO2 and I came to your review trying to find a reason to come back to the game since I wasn't having a good time with it. Beyond it's pros and cons, what annoyed me most was the main story tone in general and the pacing. I dont mind the slow combat, I actually enjoy it. The tone is a bit silly and the voice action doesn't help. The companions has interesting plots although, to the point I wish I knew before creating my character. I could easily play with Lohse, just to give an example. I really enjoy your reviews but I dont know if I can go back to DOS2. Maybe I'll give a second chance after hearing what you said here. Cheers!
i agree about the plot holes in the lore, for example: Lucian's story with his adopted son Damien is much different from their story in Divinity 2. also stuff with Zandalore and Bellagar too
I’m still waiting for a game where I can leave the hustle and bustle of fantasy adventure behind and wander deep into the forest enter a dark cave and live off bats
My friend and I are going through the game first time. The gameplay is incredible. We started on storymode and switched to classic after learning how the game is played. I think had we started on normal, it would have been too frustrating at the start and ruin it for.
I started playing in classic with my 2 friends and yea, it was hard and we had to restart basically every fight like 5 times, however it was so fun to figure out the best usage of AP and the best way to beat each fight.
DOS 2 in short: Make your Story - your choice, your emotion guide you.
Thanks for including the downsides, it really helps someone like me who gets "hype backlash" that keeps them from playing things like this.
I want to play this game, but these types of games kick my ass. Dark Souls does not have shit on games like these.
Best encounter design in a crpg that I can remember. Top cons for me were rng loot stats and armor/shield system.
DOS2 was also one of my favorite games ever, and I'm usually an open world RPG guy. I agree that the writing in DOS2 is amazing - just the right amount of serious with funny sprinkled in. Playing with the Origin characters is a must for anyone's first and/or second play thru. The only criticism I'd give to the origin stories is that some felt rushed at the end. Lohse's story, for example, had breadcrumbs of interest all thru the game, but Beast barely had anything until the final Act. Beast's felt kind of "added in" last minute while Lohse's felt like it was there from the beginning.
Thanks for this video. i know im late, but DOS2 been on my shame pile for 5 years? Finally going to start it here in a few weeks. But I'm almost paralyzed by party builds and figuring out characters to bring.. Thanks for the thoughts of your favorite characters. Now to scrub your channel for any builds you might have done or recommendations!
Keep up the content, love it! I just played and finished Tower of Time due to your review. Really really enjoyed it. Engineer and her mech destroy so much stuff!
This is my first CRPG outside of Wasteland 2. I absolutely love this game. It’s one of my favorite games of all time now. As someone new to CRPGs and D&D style games what do you recommend I try next? So far I have purchased Wasteland 3, Pillars of Eternity 1 Ultimate Edition, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Ultimate Edition, Tyranny Ultimate Edition, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Pathfinder: Kingmaker Imperial Bundle, Baulders Gate 3 Early Access, Disco Elysium, Divinity Original Sin 1 Enhanced Edition, and Shadowrun: Dragonfall Directors Cut. I’m just at the start of Act 2 on Divinity Original Sin 2 and omg these style of games is what I been looking for my whole life apparently. What would be the next one for a noobie out of the ones I purchased already would you recommend?
Tyranny or pillars would be my pick
@@MortismalGaming Thanks! Should I start with Pillars 1 or straight for Deadfire?
@@ace052330 I'd probably just start with deadfire honestly
@@MortismalGaming ok thanks again. I was looking at them both and was thinking I might skip the first one and start straight with Deadfire since it’s newer. I noticed Deadfire has a turn based mode or active with pause. I’ve never played an active with pause before seeing as Wasteland 2 and Divinity 2 are the only ones I’ve played so far so I guess I’ll try it since it can’t be changed later on after you choose.
I'd recommend pathfinder over pillars personally as I found it much more engaging from the start. Also divinity 1 felt just as fun to me as 2 and even had some mechanics I wish were in 2. Divinity 1 probably takes itself even less seriously than 2 but it's in a fun way, sorta like fable 2.
I never replay games but I played through DOS2 3 times. Not a perfect game, but definitely the best CRPG I've ever played.
I love the game too, but my biggest gripe has to be the final fight. The difficulty level skyrockets from 1 to 100 immediately. You could be strong enough to fight every major act 4 boss without even having your shields broken and this fight can straight up murder you before you get a chance to react. Multiple playthroughs now I've had my highest damage dealer get focused so hard by the phase transition kraken bullshit they're either dead, or permanently stunned and unable to get a single round off in the fight.
There's really two ways to approach the final fight. You either know the game inside and out, pull off some insane murder spree with the assistance of Fane's overpowered ability on your best character. Or, you have a normal party in which case your best course of action is to just use movement abilities, get as far away as possible, and chug invisibility potions / herbs / cast it yourself while all the rest of the idiots fight each other for multiple turns.
The easiest final fight I actually had was hilariously doing the rupture / chicken combo on the secret final boss that shall not be named due to spoilers, but when the phase transition happens and he tries to summon help, he runs across the entire arena in a pseudo cutscene, but rupture tendons is still applied and he almost one shots himself before the fight starts.
How does this game compare to Pathfinder wotr? Which would you say is better?
Dayumm, the way i explain it. made me bought it right away !!!!
Why do I watch reviews for a game I already played 100 hours?
RPG/Open-World games have been my favorite genre. Thanks to Divinity Original Sin, I was introduced to CRPG and fell head over heels in love with it. DOS was great & DOS 2 improved upon the solid base set by its predecessor.
Now tying my comment to this video - great video. I do agree with the points that you have made especially the criticism regarding not having consequences about killing civilians or merchants when you are close to finishing the act. This seems like an exploit/weak game design to me. I haven't played any games that I can think of where the entire team takes their turn, but I do enjoy this individual turn-based combat which makes things interesting - adds rng, make the combat more strategic and intuitive.
I would add to the downsides the armor system.
I spent 600 hours in this game and finished it like 10 times, but however I'm looking at it, I always go full physical, or full magical damages.
Besides, magical resists on ennemies are everywhere, and physical resists are pretty rare, which create inbalance in my opinion.
This is more of a mechanical criticism, but I feel like being able to have magical and physical damage mixed up in a team shouldn't be that big of a problem in higher difficulties (It should even be rewarded in my opinion).
I'm currently trying a run with Divinity Unleashed + Modded classes like Chronomancer, Astromancer, etc.
Seems promising so far, everything looks new wich is at least refreshing !
And no need to worry about magical or physical team comp for once. ^^
I dislike the armor system so much, that after completing DOS (1) twice i couldnt even bring myself to finish Fort Joy in DOS2.
@@spacechemsol4288 The game is absolutly astounding besides thoses few downsides, meybe you should try the Divinity Unleashed mod if you're looking for a different armor system, I'm currently running it with no issue. :)
I've tried over and over to get into this game, idk why it won't "click" for me. I've played Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder (Both games), and many more crpgs/tactical rpgs, and I liked many of those
Hey, love the format of the videos. I do think some more work could be put into matching up the visuals to your points during the video. It could make it all feel much more comprehensive. Just a tip. Keep it up!
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You should rank the character arcs from worst to best for your next video
And worst to best in terms of combat prowess
My problem with games like this is you are at the mercy of the in game economy. If you want something you have to buy it, if you need money you have to steal or kill to get it. I would like to see a game where if you want something like Thor's hammer, you find a blacksmith in the middle of nowhere, take him to a Volcano and give him a meteorite to pound into a hammer. Something like that. Of course Minecraft and Terraria are games I really like; if you want something you can make/find/buy it and there are plenty of ways to make money that don't involve murder/hoboing everything in sight. If you want a diamond ring you should be able to hire someone with good eyesight and pay them to walk up and down a streambed until they find a precious gem, then you pay them for their time and now you have a gem, if you want it enchanted find an fairy, a wood fairy will give it a different effect than an ice fairy, etc. Why aren't there any games where you can actually make the One Ring to Rule them all by gaining friendship with the Elves until they offer to make you an accessory, and then provide all the necessary ingredients until they make you one with the desired effect, invisibility, mind control, etc. I want a game where if I so choose, I can make a cape with +10 to finesse, assuming that I get it signed by magic ink that I made from a living tree, after doing quests for the tree, and giving it 23 tons of jungle soil, bit by bit, until it gave me some of its bark, dripping with sap, then I turn the bark into ink, and the sap into the ink glue, and have the 10 strongest archers in the land sign the cape below the gold fringe with that magic ink, on the blessed bed of the high fairy, blah blah blah blah. Basically the best sword in the game is half a dozen quests getting bonuses from everyone around you, and the sword gives every sort of effect in the game. There is no reason why Thor can have such a good hammer and we can't get the same thing, if we do everything he did to get it. "Worthy"? Sure, you could make a weapon that only the pure of heart can wield. Hmm, 10 virgins sewing a tapestry of everything it takes to be good and pure, and then before you forge the sword, you place the metal that you will be using to make it in a pool of pure, still water, wrapped in the tapestry, and infuse it with fairy dust, every day, for 1 full year. I don't know, I'm sure the devs could come up with a ridiculous way to add effects to a piece of equipment, stack them all, and give the player 100% control over everything. The best skill in the game would be the ability to read the hidden stats of NPC's to see which ones can add what stats and effects to weapons. Like a princess that when she thinks about all the time she spent alone, her tears should be stored and used to add an effect to a weapon that makes it return to you if you reach out your hand and say the name of your weapon. Now how to explain all this to the player, that would be the hard part. If you just give a random blacksmith metal and have him make you armor, you get stats based on how good he is at doing it, with no magical effects, unless you had a fairy bless it, but the blessing would only be as good as that fairy was. For all you know you just need a fox to stare at the armor while it is being made and it gets x1.3 to walking speed. I can't be the only one that can make up this stuff. If you use the bottom of a broken bottle to have the fox look through you get fortification that holds off the effects of poison for 3 turns, but after that you get the poison like normal.
The successor to Baldur's Gate 2.
Local co op was my selling point. Picked up for wife and I. Great game that has us waiting on baldurs gate 3 for same reason.
I sometimes wonder if the "Start off strong, slower towards the end" also adds to why people stop playing games.
For me Elden Ring was this. It's great up until and including Layendel, but then it sort of got very very slow. Like it should hav ended but it just needed to squeeze more game out of it.
@@InnerRise That's sort of difficult to answer, since it depends on how much side content you have done, and how much you explore.
I'm not the only one who feels this way. Many people find the parts after Layendel to be somewhat lackluster. (I think parts of that is the snow biome being less exciting to look at compared to the lush grasslands and forests of the starting area.
I used to be overwhelmed with the inventory and would just sell everything and never craft but now I'm used to it. I love the slow combat. Don't know why but I find every battle interesting except for first 3/4s of act 1
That's interesting, it's the exact opposite to me. I was VERY immersed in the begining while trying to escape fort Joy and after that also, until Act 2. After Act 1 i felt like i had enough. I was 125 hours in at the time. I def' need to get back to it one day. But there are too many great cRPGs, i just can't play them all, sadly.
i just wish there was an option to speed up movement during combat, its extremely fun but a lot of time is spent just watching the characters run to a position
Dos2 and Ori and the Will of The Wisps are my two favorite games, My chief complaint is: NECROFIRE
That's fair, it's out of hand toward the end
About time!
fantastic humor in the game. for an example when you spy on 2 lizards getting it on and you wonder if the tail gets involved some time in the act
I love this game. When I first played it I said to a friend: Imagine a D&D game in this style.
Let's say I was pleasantly surprised when Baldur's Gate 3 was announced, and our favorite Belgians were attached to the IP!
Just finished the game again with mods on tactician with lone wolf yesterday , and finally i saw the final fight. On my first run on normal I just oneshot the end boss and rex didn't trigger the betrayal. Also do u recommend the other divinity games?
DOS1, the others are good but are honestly a chore to play on modern hardware
Great Game! Thanks for the video!
Here to decide if i'm going to buy it or not.
Jennifer English voiced like 70 characters in that game. Shes epic.