Splattercat: I find it fundamentally impossible to do bad things in video games. I always feel guilty. Also Splattercat: I love MechWarrior and Brigador games because they basically are war crimes simulators.
I have somehow the same problem. When I have the choice, I have to choose the "good" path most of the time. Therfore games that are designed for you to play bad guys are refreshing, because you don't really have the choice. GTA is like this as well. Also the witcher 3 was nice, because most of the choices were very grey area like and nuanced. No obvious good or bad path to walk on, but real choices. The struggle to choose "the lesser evil" and having the feeling of failing at it. This is the whole personality and curse of life of gerald in the books as well.
You can be pretty bad in Divine Divinity up to the point sellers don't wanna sell to you or getting attacked by guardsmen when entering a village or town. Even animals will attack you forever if you do harm to them.
@@wilhelmschilling3105 That's how it is for me too. If I'm just the villain by default I'm usually ok with that. Especially if it's either cartoonish evil or comically excessive. If I get to choose I'm a big softie.
Bjes (pronounced B-yes) just means 'anger' but it is also a name for an undead spirit in slavic mythology. Also Svarog is a Father god personality that dreams and his dream is the real world for us. When he wakes up we all and our world ends.
Oh man this takes me back. Dungeon Siege 1 was my childhood game as well. I remember the first time I beat Gom as a kid, my heart was beating like crazy. haha Also that cursed church of azunai that was infested with crawling and headless zombies in the swamps. It took me so long to muster up the courage to get through this part of the game as a kid. I still get a little bit scared when I try to get through this part when replaying the game. Not because of the place itself but because of my memories as a kid of it. Those crawling zombies were just something else for me at the time. 😭 The amount of secrets this game had from the secret bear boss cave early on to the hidden switches that lead to secret rooms in the catacombs to the underground tunnel mazes that were infested with giant spiders, insect people, etc. The music composed by Jeremy Soule there since the start along the sweet looking environment. Game is truly a masterpiece. Good times.
This game is a freaking blast. It's super frustrating the first couple deaths (ironman mode) but once you get a few levels a bit of gear without dying it's off to the races. The devs are a lot of fun too these quests are great and there is a bit of humor mixed in. Damn enjoyable. I highly recommend it. I've put in about 8-9 hours. I'm about 20% through the game.
a game like this is a dream come true. i always wanted a game combining deep story telling and open world with quests and rpg elements combined with diablo style combat.
@@kaptainkrunch593 They kept refining the formula. Sometimes it didn't work, but it still taught them lessons for the next iteration. Once they got to Divinity: Original Sin, it was aces from then on.
Divine Divinity is indeed nostalgic. I remember in my first playthrough that I didn't do at all the starting quest in the catacombs to give his sanity back to the old mage, and ended up confused at the end when he poped through a portal thanking me for helping him back then. x) These same catacombs had a funny scene with skeletons talking to each other about how bored they were to pull levers since eternity to end up questioning their own existence and how they could talk without vocal chords. That same question ended up breaking the spell maintaining them because logic won over magic on this one! XD Thanks for showcasing. ^^
You can even press c on wild animals like a boar or a fox, it will “pet them” and there’s a chance they’ll follow you as a minion can have a couple follow and fight with you to give that beast master or Druidic feel
Sometimes when you die you can come back as animals and creatures. Then when you die as those you can go back to the body and get a necklace that transforms you into that animal or creature again. I've played ad a boar, leshy, and a plagued so far.
I love how it starts. You’re a soul that gets put into the body of a dead man and you come back to life. That’s actually creative and original, also funny.
Shadows: Awakening did something similar-ish. Only instead of inhabiting a dead body, you unlock heroic souls and can switch between them to accomplish different tasks.
Both are really good games but were actually developed by Ascaron. Sacred 1 introduced me to playing online hardcore and I played the game that way for ages. Sacred 2 was an incredible game but unfortunately it took a lot longer to develop than they financed for and the company folded because of that.
I have 'Divine Divinity' and the others in the Divinity Series...love them. Divinity 2 is such an underrated game and really deserves more attention...'Original Sin' moved to turn based combat and is great as well but i really loved Divinity 2 and flying the dragons and areal combat. It's a game that has had a few replays over the years.
Basically sounds like the full core development was completed, but the Dev wants to make progress still and add more. So the Dev is working on Patches and DLC type stuff while the base of what they originally wanted is done xD
Lol at those signature unity blood splatters 😂 all jokes aside the longevity of them is a chefs kiss. Lemme cover everything in a forever or long lasting mess after im done fighting
Game looks interesting. It's also SLAVIC mythology, specifically: South slavic. You know, the guys that invented vampires (no they weren't invented by Romanians, that's something Bram Stoker mixed up). Drekavac = Screamer is specific for South Slavs.
Such a cool game! I started playing it before seeing it on Splatter's channel, but it is honestly very good. It may look like a typical aRPG, but it is not.
I am SO glad you found this - isn't it cool? Some folk might find a wiki or a book on Slavic Lore and Mythology useful - it's not evident, but this is what the game is based in. All I need is a Celtic game that isn't twee or confused, and I think I'll have the set!
I played this for four hours. My issue so far is that the world is VERY empty, but the gameplay is very realistic. It's been fun, and I like the fact battle is challenging. You can't be an archer because their range allows them to get MAYBE two shots off at best
You can, it's all about NOT rushing it. Compare your bows, choose the best one. GO HUNTING!!!! Just wandering the world hunting rabbits, deer, and boar you can level your character with virtually ZERO threat. I get my first bow skill leveled to 5 before moving on to the next one because that gives me an instant kill. Also in this video when he had to choose between the SPARE BOW and the 1000 or 1200 gold coins, if he'd have been an archer it would have been better to choose the bow. The bow given is a "Shadow Bow" which I have for my melee fighter (Jan). I have him hunt with it and it gets his dexterity raised regularly, as well as his piercing damage.
I will have to add this to my wish list. I actually forgot that I have all the Divinity games that a friend gave me a couple years ago, guess I should check them out as well.
I played this game for few hours and actually mentioned yesterday so you make vid about this game and YOU DID IT! I like this junk of this game and it feels "right" also you should try and die :D there are hidden mechanics in dying :D
This went from worst game (not being able to pet the dog) to best game (for having a dedicated dog petting button) real quick. Going to keep an eye on it. Also, that little-known title Divine Divinity? Larian Studios, so that's where Baldurs Gate 3 originated. Maybe this can be the start of something similar, 15 years down the line.
I'm a little bit like Yahtzee from ZP, its really cool to see what one person will do with full creative freedom that just wouldnt make sense to anyone else. this and archmage rises give me those vibes.
oh my, what a throw-back! have you ever played sacred splat? my buddies and me put months into the first 2 games. every weekend we'd put our CRTs into a wheelbarrow to shlep it to the garage of one of our mates ^^
I Found Define Definity as an acident and i loved it. Been tracking the studio ever since even did some Kickstarter for their games. Every one needs to start somewhere as long the game has soul the rest is secondary :) maybe i try this one out. at least added to wish list for now
Your playstyle and behavior from being raised religiously and carrying that moral compass over to even fake video games resonates with me, I think you mentioned it in an earlier video. I am the same way where I generally do the right and moral thing even if it might cost me, the right way being it's own reward. Unless I'm out to be evil on a specific playthrough. And with the exception of looting every shopkeeper at night 😂. Gotta level that lockpick skill, too.
@26:00 Very similar feeling, that was until I played Soulash 2 and decided that the entire world needed to pay for... Whatever I determine at the time of your execution.
Why I never heard of that? I'll go check it out! So what can I give in return?.. "Fate" trilogy (a worse version of Torchlight). And maybe "Silverfall: Earth Awakening" (tech vs magic theme). Both are Diablo-like.
'Bies' means 'devil' in Polish and I imagine similar in other Slavic languages. Having said that Svarog sounds Nordic to me. Not sure where the developer is from... maybe one of those well travelled types :)
I have the strong feeling Baba wants to fatten you up to cook you up! 28:50, Splatty's workin for the WRONG side, KILL the usurper "one god", and it's servants!
Ah divine divinity, 2nd out of 9(plus 2 cancelled ones) games that made baldur's gate 3 so good, larian really did improve with each game, with a couple of exceptions.
and one day, Larian might improve to the point where the text of items and abilities bears some resemblance to what said ability/item actually does. then, they might even make an inventory and hotbar UI as good as games made 20 yrs ago.
Divine Divinity - great game! From the developer who eventually brought us Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2, and then Baldur's Gate 3.
no way... holy shit.
Yeah. I've been playing Original Sin a lot lately. I'm playing it on hard and feeling it. I'm definitely going to get 2 after I beat this one, though.
Divine Divinity was perhaps my favorite game during that time! I loved the animation and voice acting and thought it far superior than Diablo.
@@MPendingDoom ditto
Divine divinity is still one of my favorites
Splattercat: I find it fundamentally impossible to do bad things in video games. I always feel guilty.
Also Splattercat: I love MechWarrior and Brigador games because they basically are war crimes simulators.
I have somehow the same problem. When I have the choice, I have to choose the "good" path most of the time. Therfore games that are designed for you to play bad guys are refreshing, because you don't really have the choice. GTA is like this as well.
Also the witcher 3 was nice, because most of the choices were very grey area like and nuanced. No obvious good or bad path to walk on, but real choices. The struggle to choose "the lesser evil" and having the feeling of failing at it. This is the whole personality and curse of life of gerald in the books as well.
You can be pretty bad in Divine Divinity up to the point sellers don't wanna sell to you or getting attacked by guardsmen when entering a village or town. Even animals will attack you forever if you do harm to them.
@@wilhelmschilling3105 That's how it is for me too. If I'm just the villain by default I'm usually ok with that. Especially if it's either cartoonish evil or comically excessive. If I get to choose I'm a big softie.
Bjes (pronounced B-yes) just means 'anger' but it is also a name for an undead spirit in slavic mythology.
Also Svarog is a Father god personality that dreams and his dream is the real world for us. When he wakes up we all and our world ends.
This reminds me of the original Dungeon Siege. One of my favorite games growing up.
You just brought back some very good memories.
Dude dungeon siege 2 was my whole childhood i had forgotten about those games
@@anubisfox5765 treasure goblin spawned when this comment dropped
Oh man this takes me back.
Dungeon Siege 1 was my childhood game as well. I remember the first time I beat Gom as a kid, my heart was beating like crazy. haha
Also that cursed church of azunai that was infested with crawling and headless zombies in the swamps. It took me so long to muster up the courage to get through this part of the game as a kid.
I still get a little bit scared when I try to get through this part when replaying the game. Not because of the place itself but because of my memories as a kid of it. Those crawling zombies were just something else for me at the time. 😭
The amount of secrets this game had from the secret bear boss cave early on to the hidden switches that lead to secret rooms in the catacombs to the underground tunnel mazes that were infested with giant spiders, insect people, etc.
The music composed by Jeremy Soule there since the start along the sweet looking environment.
Game is truly a masterpiece.
Good times.
Where's that chicken level at!?
This game is a freaking blast. It's super frustrating the first couple deaths (ironman mode) but once you get a few levels a bit of gear without dying it's off to the races. The devs are a lot of fun too these quests are great and there is a bit of humor mixed in. Damn enjoyable. I highly recommend it. I've put in about 8-9 hours. I'm about 20% through the game.
You say the words Divine Divinity and I perk the hell up. That was one of the best games Larian made.
Loving the ability to zoom out to really see things around you in a game like this. 👍
Makes so much difference.
The graphics and movement are beautiful and engaging- even if there is a bit of rough edges, the overall presentation is captivating!
It has this Kenshi vibes ;-)
This looks awesome. I don't need every game to be Baldur's Gate 3.
Yeah well the makers of Divine Divinity MADE BG3
a game like this is a dream come true. i always wanted a game combining deep story telling and open world with quests and rpg elements combined with diablo style combat.
i wish more developer's loved their projects... thanks for bringing this onto my radar. :)
This looks so good right off the bat. Thanks for showing these games ive never heard of.
Divine Divinity was great. A real gem at the time.
Yeah, seems like Larian made just that. Non stop x)
Trying to get into Divine Divinity on my ROG Ally. Still have to get the button mappings setup 😅
@@karry299 Dragon Commander was also not great.
@@kaptainkrunch593 They kept refining the formula. Sometimes it didn't work, but it still taught them lessons for the next iteration. Once they got to Divinity: Original Sin, it was aces from then on.
@@Zkdub4yeah it was better than great
“I always feel bad when I do bad things in games” says the mechwarrior house Stiner player 😂
You had me at Divine Divinity.
Divinity was the first RPG game of Larian Studios, the makers of Baldur's Gate 3 and it was pretty good.
Divine Divinity is indeed nostalgic. I remember in my first playthrough that I didn't do at all the starting quest in the catacombs to give his sanity back to the old mage, and ended up confused at the end when he poped through a portal thanking me for helping him back then. x)
These same catacombs had a funny scene with skeletons talking to each other about how bored they were to pull levers since eternity to end up questioning their own existence and how they could talk without vocal chords. That same question ended up breaking the spell maintaining them because logic won over magic on this one! XD
Thanks for showcasing. ^^
You can even press c on wild animals like a boar or a fox, it will “pet them” and there’s a chance they’ll follow you as a minion can have a couple follow and fight with you to give that beast master or Druidic feel
Sometimes when you die you can come back as animals and creatures. Then when you die as those you can go back to the body and get a necklace that transforms you into that animal or creature again. I've played ad a boar, leshy, and a plagued so far.
This seems pretty cool. It might have a little jank, but so did Arcanum and that was an absolute platinum mine of a game
I love how it starts. You’re a soul that gets put into the body of a dead man and you come back to life. That’s actually creative and original, also funny.
Kinda like the opening of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning...
Shadows: Awakening did something similar-ish. Only instead of inhabiting a dead body, you unlock heroic souls and can switch between them to accomplish different tasks.
Dead cell
planescape torment
destiny 1
this actually looks like fun; I even added it to my wishlist on steam to keep an eye on future updates to it.
Reminds me of Sacred from Larian in scope. I remember being floored by how big the maps in Sacred and Sacred 2 were.
Both are really good games but were actually developed by Ascaron. Sacred 1 introduced me to playing online hardcore and I played the game that way for ages. Sacred 2 was an incredible game but unfortunately it took a lot longer to develop than they financed for and the company folded because of that.
@@greyroo Ah yes, my bad. Larian had Divine Divinity.
I have 'Divine Divinity' and the others in the Divinity Series...love them.
Divinity 2 is such an underrated game and really deserves more attention...'Original Sin' moved to turn based combat and is great as well but i really loved Divinity 2 and flying the dragons and areal combat. It's a game that has had a few replays over the years.
Basically sounds like the full core development was completed, but the Dev wants to make progress still and add more.
So the Dev is working on Patches and DLC type stuff while the base of what they originally wanted is done xD
I like that you get the special talent of being strong from fighting a bear with a sword
that's not only cool but also checks out IRL
The game gives me a Titan Quest vibe.
Lol at those signature unity blood splatters 😂 all jokes aside the longevity of them is a chefs kiss. Lemme cover everything in a forever or long lasting mess after im done fighting
Divine Divinity 😍 - miss that. I can still remember the music of it.
Play it ;-)
Don't forget to search for some mods and community patches first!
I've had this on my follow list for a while now, looks interesting! Thanks for the highlight.
Game looks interesting. It's also SLAVIC mythology, specifically: South slavic. You know, the guys that invented vampires (no they weren't invented by Romanians, that's something Bram Stoker mixed up). Drekavac = Screamer is specific for South Slavs.
And the devs behind Divine Divinity (Larian Studios) just put out BG3 this year! 😁
Been waiting for you to feature this game!
The demon taking a dump quest sounds like a story that Trevor Noah tells in his autobiography.
I'm kinda digging this. Pretty old-school, like early 2000s rpgs
Such a cool game! I started playing it before seeing it on Splatter's channel, but it is honestly very good. It may look like a typical aRPG, but it is not.
I guess now it's a formerly undiscovered gem.
I am SO glad you found this - isn't it cool?
Some folk might find a wiki or a book on Slavic Lore and Mythology useful - it's not evident, but this is what the game is based in.
All I need is a Celtic game that isn't twee or confused, and I think I'll have the set!
I remember when Splatty would rage against killing doggo's and now they're just another click to loot.
I played this for four hours. My issue so far is that the world is VERY empty, but the gameplay is very realistic. It's been fun, and I like the fact battle is challenging. You can't be an archer because their range allows them to get MAYBE two shots off at best
Level 3 beast summon in hunter tree. It's op
You can, it's all about NOT rushing it. Compare your bows, choose the best one. GO HUNTING!!!! Just wandering the world hunting rabbits, deer, and boar you can level your character with virtually ZERO threat. I get my first bow skill leveled to 5 before moving on to the next one because that gives me an instant kill. Also in this video when he had to choose between the SPARE BOW and the 1000 or 1200 gold coins, if he'd have been an archer it would have been better to choose the bow. The bow given is a "Shadow Bow" which I have for my melee fighter (Jan). I have him hunt with it and it gets his dexterity raised regularly, as well as his piercing damage.
@@charlesballard5251 Cool ,thanks
Svarog is the Slavic sky god, father of the sun god Dazbog and and the fire god Svarogich
You can be the Merlin of CS Lewis' That Hideous Strength. The baptized druid.
Game from the bygone era of action RPGs of varied quality.
This game is about Slavic Gods! I already love it!
the original Divine Divinity was an absolute blast to play! had so many hidden stuff and puzzles to find along the way.
Reminds me of something a little bit after divine Divinity, Hinterland. A jankier, more procedural ARPG that had a townbuilding element.
I mean the graphic works, its not top tier but if its one guy then its really good. My best hopes and prayers for the guy to keep the project running!
Buying the game and giving feedback helps much more than prayers ;-)
Looks interesting, thanks for highlighting this.
I can see myself putting in a good 100hrs playing this.
it is Drekavac (dre like doctor dre, ka like in Kazahstan and vac like in vaccines) it means roughly "he who shouts loudly".
The development sounds very very similar to the development style of dwarf fortress
Divine Divinity wow what a callback made by a little studio called Larian Studios :)
Not so small now ;-)
They created Baldur's Gate 3 btw!
if the developer is single, I can set him up with my cousin
I swore he was going to say "Nox". Hadnt thought of that game in a long time, but I got that feel almost right away.
It really looks like Kenshi tho ;-)
"From a single developer" didn't have to expose the solo devs relationship status
;-)
I will have to add this to my wish list. I actually forgot that I have all the Divinity games that a friend gave me a couple years ago, guess I should check them out as well.
I played this game for few hours and actually mentioned yesterday so you make vid about this game and YOU DID IT! I like this junk of this game and it feels "right" also you should try and die :D there are hidden mechanics in dying :D
This went from worst game (not being able to pet the dog) to best game (for having a dedicated dog petting button) real quick. Going to keep an eye on it.
Also, that little-known title Divine Divinity? Larian Studios, so that's where Baldurs Gate 3 originated. Maybe this can be the start of something similar, 15 years down the line.
Original sin 1&2 were almost made as proofs of concept to sell the studios ability to make a worthwhile baldurs gate.
Absolutely. And I’d say that turned out pretty well…. :)
This is loookin very intereting. You are spot on about Divinity too. Will buy the game when it's on sale.
Good game, almost half way through.
Another great game in a similar vein to Divine Divinity was the first Sacred game, loved playing as the vampiress/daemon.
I'm a little bit like Yahtzee from ZP, its really cool to see what one person will do with full creative freedom that just wouldnt make sense to anyone else. this and archmage rises give me those vibes.
oh my, what a throw-back! have you ever played sacred splat? my buddies and me put months into the first 2 games. every weekend we'd put our CRTs into a wheelbarrow to shlep it to the garage of one of our mates ^^
nice :)
On my second play through. Fun game.
Camera angle reminds me of an old Allods game. It also had an almost top down view.
I Found Define Definity as an acident and i loved it. Been tracking the studio ever since even did some Kickstarter for their games. Every one needs to start somewhere as long the game has soul the rest is secondary :) maybe i try this one out. at least added to wish list for now
*Divine Divinity
I think what this game needs the most is a writer to make dialogues more interesting, and maybe a UI/graphics rework.
SplatterCat, I’m hoping they add other movement options soon besides point-to-click 😅.
Loved divine divinity and dungeon siege.
Edit: Van Helsing
It's part of being ADHD to be hyper-sensitive to justice and goodness. Experience the same myself whenever I'm playing RPG's, I like being a good guy.
Am the opposite and the same. I was raised to be hyper areligious, and also struggle to do anything bad in video games.
Your playstyle and behavior from being raised religiously and carrying that moral compass over to even fake video games resonates with me, I think you mentioned it in an earlier video. I am the same way where I generally do the right and moral thing even if it might cost me, the right way being it's own reward. Unless I'm out to be evil on a specific playthrough. And with the exception of looting every shopkeeper at night 😂. Gotta level that lockpick skill, too.
@26:00 Very similar feeling, that was until I played Soulash 2 and decided that the entire world needed to pay for... Whatever I determine at the time of your execution.
This should be fascinating
ooh, darkstone? no, divine divinity... cool, another great classic!
"The Darkstone will shine!"
Why I never heard of that?
I'll go check it out!
So what can I give in return?..
"Fate" trilogy (a worse version of Torchlight). And maybe "Silverfall: Earth Awakening" (tech vs magic theme). Both are Diablo-like.
I need Nox remade
mentioning Divine Divinity w/o mentioning how far the devs, Larian, have come (BG3 anyone) is a disservice to their hard work and perseverance.
nah
It does remind me of Dungeon Siege. Which reminds me of the best Total Conversion I've ever played for Ultima 5 Lazarus.
I just finished the game, definitely a little janky but i f*cking loved the game. Will definitely do a second playthrough
Owns Cyberpunk ten times over.
30 seconds in and already want to try it out
Thumb reminded me of A Faery Tale Adventure
This looks really cool
Divine divinity if I remember correctly is game by Larian studio . Btw this game looks interesting
Yep!
Same studio that gave us Baldur's Gate 3 ;-)
'Bies' means 'devil' in Polish and I imagine similar in other Slavic languages. Having said that Svarog sounds Nordic to me. Not sure where the developer is from... maybe one of those well travelled types :)
Svarog is an old Slavic god. Name literally translates as "Kin to all".
@@MI982 Didn't know that. Thanks.
In old Polish to be specific. It's not a common word, but a rather archaic one. To describe a devil we use the word "diabeł".
When Splat was in high school: so 2019?
Personally reminded me of sacred 1. In a good way.
It's a lovely game.
Maybe ;-)
But it is much more looks like Kenshi tho
Divine Divinity is the original Larian game. The precursor to Divinity Original Sin.
It kind of reminds me of Titanquest, especially graphically.
Loved Divine Divinity, early Larian.
I would love for larian to remaster divine divinity.
I've been eyeing this.
I have the strong feeling Baba wants to fatten you up to cook you up! 28:50, Splatty's workin for the WRONG side, KILL the usurper "one god", and it's servants!
27:12 - You can pet animals now! Look in the Controls for a right key ;-)
Thanks for the video.
Kind of reminds me of azazel with the body jumping
The game maker should experiment with different menu backgrounds, old wood, stone, etc. The game looks good but the menus look too clean. Good vid.
Ah divine divinity, 2nd out of 9(plus 2 cancelled ones) games that made baldur's gate 3 so good, larian really did improve with each game, with a couple of exceptions.
and one day, Larian might improve to the point where the text of items and abilities bears some resemblance to what said ability/item actually does. then, they might even make an inventory and hotbar UI as good as games made 20 yrs ago.
@davidmills1520 they do seem a lot more stark and utilitarian these days, some of the old ones had some real style for sure.
@@davidmills1520Exaggerating much? Honestly all some people can do is complain, complain, complain, complain, complain…..
That can't be Baba Yaga, it doesn't look a bit like Keanu Reeves...
though at least they got the hut right with the chicken legs >.>
Wow, this game has more storage than that other small indie game, Diablo 4.