Divinity: Original Sin 2, new Gameplay Footage Released.

Larian Studios discusses PvP gameplay in the following video and explains how combat can affect the game's world. Here is the brand new footage for sequel to critically acclaimed cRPG.

https://youtu.be/BpfLMGg06bE

2 Weeks ago, presentation was showcased at PC Gamer's Weekender event. So check that out too.

https://youtu.be/Uyg9EZtVRSM

First, proper gameplay footage will be showcased at Pax, later this month. Are you excited for Divinity: Original Sin 2???

Absolute ZERO interest in PVP in any form.

"The purpose of these interactions is to have fun messing around with party members who may have opposing goals but never to prevent anyone from actually playing the game."

sorry, that doesn't sound like fun, especially paired with randoms who you know will **** with you and try to ruin the game for you,

MAybe with friends, I dunno, but I dont think pvp MP in any form is needed in this game.

Ooh yes I'm excited :D backed for the double dip pack, so counting the days QQ

That WWE arcade stick sure was random lol.

Looking cool though.

Looks meh, just like the first one.

They seem awfully fixated multiplayer, which noboby gives a shit about.

Shaping up pretty well, been somewhat interested in the arena ever since the RPGcodex utterly humiliated RPGwatch in it.

With meh being infinitely superior to the godawfulness of what FF15 seems to be shaping up as.

A game you cant even defend without resorting to Ad Hominems and namecalling.

I'm a kickstarter backer for this game. Go me.

That statement is so wrong at so many levels, but since you are pretty much trolling, I would be better off ignoring it.

I probably won't play it as much, but looks interesting.

I love how enthusiastic he gets in these videos. Always seems happy to talk about his games. DOS 2 is a day 1 buy for me.

You received +5 Paragon points.

Not really, they hired one of the best writers in videogame history, Chris Avellone to do some of the writing for this game. I loved Divinity Original Sin but it needed better writing, better the GOAT of rpg writing on board should only improve the singleplayer aspect as the writing will be much better.

Since, due to economic issues, I was unable to back DOS2. I will be there, buying DOS2 day 1 as well.

DOS was my GOTY of 2014. And, this game looks improved in every way.

@thepclovingguy: Sadly, regardless of potty mouth names and running off to avoid the badness, rightness very much remains.

The last thing anyone wants in a explorative, slow paced RPG with (as touted) the best writer in the world, is having to skip sections and text, rush through villages, dungeons and bosses, put up with players messing about, running around with highly skilled played removing challenge and having any sense of mystery and self discovery sucked out. The logistics is too much, Left4dead understandably kept all elements streamlined.

5 people will like it, most likely from the Bioware forums and most likely writing paragraphs about romances with squidhead woman in lycra suits. Much like the 5 people who downvote a YouTube video for no apparent reason, these individuals are an oddity.

It looks exactly like the first one and that guys total obsession with multiplayer for a game that just doesn't suit it at all is getting on my last nerve.

He did this with Divinity Enhanced as well, bleating on endlessly about multiplayer features and completely ignoring the single player game which is the way the vast majority of people will play it. It's a great game but that dev and his demos are so annoying he almost completely puts me off one of the best CRPG's of recent times. The bloke is a fucking Grade A Asshat and should just demo the game and not what he did with his mate and how clever it all is that they can play together we DO NOT GIVE A F***.

Rant over.

DIdn't they say Avellone came on too late though to do much if any actual writing or design? I thought his role would be more creative input, which is still better than nothing.

Cant wait for this game. Love the whole divinity series despite its flaws.

Backed it and just waiting for a release date. Can't come soon enough.

you joking , right ?

People are overreacting to this whole MP thing. The thing is, this is going to make SP even better than Original Sin 1. Origin stories of different characters will really improve storytelling and will force you to make hard choices when two of your party members will be at each others throats. And this experience will be amazing when playing in MP mode as well.

Yeah, fact is, the atmosphere and combat seems to have improved quite a bit, and D:OS1's combat was already some of the best I have seen in an RPG. I dont know about storytelling yet, it could come out as overhyped and your origin might just be affect the storyline just once or twice in a game. In some games, I just see MP as a tool for SP.

Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 allowed you to create your entire party from scratch in the Multiplayer game. So what I did was to play through a multiplayer game, but did it all alone. Far more fun than using only one player created character.

@Ballroompirate said:

Not butthurt enough to throw in a massive fit when people rightfully criticize garbage games (Final Fantasy 15, Guild Wars 2) for legimate reasons.

@Maroxad: being stupid must come natural to you, not only are you bashing a game that doesn't even come out tell Sept 30th (ether you're a **** troll or just that daft), now you're bashing Guild Wars 2??? am I suppose to care about GW2??? I literally give 0 ****** about that game or did you just assume I gave a damn about GW2.

DO is beyond overrated, outside the combat mechanics the game was trash compared to Pillars, Planescape, Baldurs Gate, DAO, Fallout 1 /2 and the list goes one. DO had a crappy story and crappy characters (good lord the characters sucked ass).

Hmmm. The jury is still out on this one...

lmao , so the soundtrack is trash , mission design is trash , puzzles are trash and let's ignore the humor and jokes in the game and bash it for not having a shitty story like DAO which is full of stupid characters and cheesy romance...

Here we go again.

Now you are being blatantly dishonest. You flat out insulted me before for criticizing that piece of crap a while back, similar to what you are doing now. I wonder if I am going to have to dig up old posts of yours to remind you. You are so easy to stir up.

Your "but it has not yet released excuse" is so bad. And anyone with any experience in software engineering will know why it is a terrible excuse. Unless there is a miracle in the development, FF15, will have equally broken combat mechanics, the same 7th gen textures, same godawful animations. The game has long since passed its critical point. And to make matters worse, they have slightly less than 6 months to fix a LOT of problems. This consider the fact that hte game will go gold before it releases.

The quality of a game depends on the overall experience. What Divinity did well, it did really well, and offered some of the best combat in an RPG. The music by Kirill was also significantly better than the cheap hollywood knockoff soundtrack from competing RPGs.

And no it wasnt just combat mechanics, the encounter design too, was much more compelling than Pillars or DAO, and the quest design was also superior to DAO's mmo wannabe quests. The writing was bad, but that was one of the game's flaws. The quests involved some decent puzzles here and there, with many quests having different ways to solve them based on their characters abilities.

And the best part of D:OS2, is it looks to improve on every aspect. The already great combat got even better, the atmosphere seems like a step up, and the writing got MCA doing some stuff now. D:OS clearly did a good job, and clearly earned Larian a bit of trust. The fact is, this game has more than twice the Kickstarter funding of the first game. And had the first game been merely mediocre, that would never have happened.

I'm going to PAX East, so I'll definitely be waiting to play this game.

Definitely getting this, haven't finished the first one yet but had a blast with it so far, probably my favorite game.

@the_master_race: LOLOL and Divinity doesn't have crap characters and cheesey romance between the two characters you can make? oh the irony. Also there's no way in hell Divinity has a better soundtrack/story than the games I listed, not even fraking close

@Maroxad:Then dig it up scrub, no seriously please do, the only thing I ever said about the GW2 review was how it was funny Kevin played the most buggy class in the game at launch. So please be my guest on digging up shit you claim.

I never said that it has a better plot than the games you listed, I said you should stop fucking criticizing it for not having an epic story like BG, Divinity is not really a story-driven game, it’s far different from the old cliché D&D style and doesn’t take things too seriously and I’m really grateful for that …srsly why so serious?.. However I gotta say the story and characters match divinity’s humorous atmosphere, Larian did a great job with the narrative and now with Chris Avellone – the creator of torment – on the team I’m sure we’re going to see a far better game

I have to agree with you on this one. I really don't care too much about the multiplayer aspect of this game.

I enjoyed the first game a lot, minus a few of it's flaws & quirks. So I backed this one on kickstarter. I still have high hopes for it though, minus the multiplayer.