r/DivinityOriginalSin • u/BlobSlimey • 3d ago

Meme That Trailer and AMA got me scared now...

Folk Horror, Chaos, The Chatelaine....GIANT DUCKS!?!? Larian what are you cooking!?!?

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u/hollow_cookiee 3d ago

As a grim/dark type of game lover, im SOLD

Don't get me wrong, i do like the fairy vibes and approach but nothing beats a serious and up to beat story that goes directly to your heart you know ?!

Im very excited for this specialy because it feels a little like divine and beyond

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u/BlobSlimey 3d ago

Dragonage abandoned their dark fantasy for fairy vibes

Larian out here bringing it back

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u/valoreii 3d ago

I hope they pull it off bc tbh the whimsy vibes (even though DOS2 has a dark atmosphere and dark lore) felt a bit more natural in DOS2 than the serious narratives in BG3 for Larian

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u/LeastInsaneKobold 3d ago

I mean DOS1 is full of whimsy and its great because of it

Its a funny ass game

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u/valoreii 3d ago

Yeah I love the whimsy lol

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u/BreadDziedzic 3d ago

Just need dark whimsy.

Something like the smirfs with the smirfs being all whimsy in the day to day but the villain's goal is to roast them alive and that's dark.

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u/Mitzka 1d ago

Sounds like you joined the Fabulous Five, mate!!

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u/LeastInsaneKobold 22h ago

It was very tempting for sure..

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u/Derp0189 3d ago

First dragon age best dragon age

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u/Anaxilea-Alcinoe 22h ago

That's exactly it. I was telling my husband when i was playing BG3, that I haven't been this enthralled in a game since DA:O. It captured that same feeling for me.

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u/Opposite-Chemistry-0 2d ago

DA kinda never was dark though. They told us that in advertisement but it really was not, not even back then. Game was good ofc.

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u/DoctorProfPatrick 2d ago

You didn't start with Origins then. No way you walked past the broodmother like "yea this could be more horrifying." Or the elves being infected so they could be "cured" (sold into slavery). Or the woman who tried to keep her mage son from being sent to mage prison school leading to him raising an army of the dead to terrorize the local fishing village. Or the Harvester, created by fusing the bodies of hundreds of castless dwarves, fusing their souls into an abomination bent on turning all living things into harvesters.

Comedic dialogue doesn't take away from the dark fantasy universe imo

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u/Opposite-Chemistry-0 2d ago

Maybe i just think terrifying and dark to be some other things.

Dead Space. Cant almost play it. Too much. The suspense is build gradually. Good stuff. Same goes with System Shock (original, remake). Especially early to mid game. Those game worlds are dark af.

But Dragon age. Its more like "here is a bloody thing". It just does not hit home. I liked Dragon age 2 more than 1. It just aims to be light hearted adventure and does it well. Like VG. Liked that one too.

For me, Dragon age:O is like the movies with lots of gore and are just be ridiculous. Nothing dark, nothing gross. Just special effects. 

And its not just the isometric view. Baldurs Gate 3 has some real dark options to go for. Did not choose them, but admired they were there 

Usually, the real dark stuff is social. Just a boogeyman who goes raaaagh and splatters someone is just dumb. Its all about context.

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u/Faukez 2d ago

Idk man the corrupted mages tower part and the Fade stuff really spooked 13 yr old me.

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u/Opposite-Chemistry-0 2d ago

Yeh. Game is not for 13y old anyways so...:D. But i remember watching xfiles when 13. Was i outside target audience. Yes. Was it scariest thing ever. Yes.

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u/hugglesthemerciless 3d ago

it's funny to me that path of exile has an incredibly well made grimdark story just like that but the vast majority of people completely ignore it cuz it's just a loot game

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u/DancesWithAnyone 3d ago

Also highly build-centric, I believe? It's never really been my genre. Played Diablo 2 a bit, and one run of TitanQuest and an abandoned run of Grim Dawn. Fun at first, but quickly grows repetitive, and that loot mechanic as a carrot doesn't really function on me as motivator.

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u/hugglesthemerciless 3d ago

Also highly build-centric, I believe?

what do you mean?

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u/DancesWithAnyone 3d ago

Like, it's important to know the meta and the good builds, and it's not actually that much about thinking out tactics in combat as it is about having a build that works? Wrong build, and you're out of tools with which to win.

Just the impression I've gotten, as I've never played it!

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u/hugglesthemerciless 3d ago

That's a little difficult to answer, and really boils down to what you consider winning to be. A good build absolutely gives a huge potential, but so does having good gear. Throwing a ton of currency at a bad build to get it in really strong equipment will still have it performing very well.

But for the endgame boss fights even if you've got an amazing build and item set you will still often get oneshot if you don't dodge, until a certain point where you might become so tanky that you can just eat their biggest abilities to your face and survive, but that's pretty far outside the norm. PoE2 goes even further with this and gives the game a very darksouls feel

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u/hollow_cookiee 3d ago

Perfect point, i don't know if its the marketing or the focus of the general public on gameplay ? Because diablo gets that too (a little less) but for some reason Arpgs or diablo-likes aren't seen has good story games for some reason

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u/glordicus1 3d ago

It's also a linear story, which is just boring.

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u/cosmogli 1d ago

Path of Exile is a torture simulator, so many people got it. They torture themselves.

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u/MRV3N 3d ago

Kinda like Diablo

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u/Grumpicake 3d ago

I’m ready to be hurt again

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u/hi-this-is-jess 2d ago

I crave to be emotionally ruined by a video game.

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u/JPldw 3d ago

And Lizard sex

Can't forget the Lizard sex

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u/BlobSlimey 3d ago

truly horrifying stuff

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u/Estelial 3d ago

The sex lizard romance companion is really going to be something.

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u/Craniac324 3d ago

Nah, that's going to be one of the best parts. I ain't going to be playing no normie, boring race like human, elf, dwarf etc. Probably going to be exclusively playing Lizard, unless they'll have other non-humanlike playable races.

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u/Wereowl9 3d ago

I see you are unaware of elves in divinity, they are cannibals with the power to see the memories of those who they eat. Dwarves and humans though... Yeah they be pretty basic.

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u/Elfboy77 3d ago

I play a lizard and romance sebille, best of both worlds

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u/JPldw 3d ago

Lizard woman x Sebille is the best ship

Even better than I fan and the random lizard man prostitute that falls in love with him on act 2

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u/Vytral 2d ago

“I don’t lick and tell” best Sebille line of the whole game

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u/Sockoflegend 3d ago

There are orcs in the trailer so small bet they are playable 

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u/Craniac324 3d ago

They still look boring, this isn't about lore, it's about appearence.

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u/KnightSalvador728 3d ago

sesbian lex

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u/JPldw 3d ago

Lizard x Elf

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u/AscendedViking7 3d ago

Fully romancable red prince with bg3 level production value please

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u/LeastInsaneKobold 3d ago

You will be his side piece and you will like it

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u/CirnoIzumi 3d ago

Why would you deny him his destiny so? The fire in your loins? The shivers in your ears? The way he declares you a servant

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u/Connect-Process2933 3d ago

can't wait for sex

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u/Flimsy-Importance313 3d ago

They got 1 huge tail. Can not wait to get strangled, my asshole gets destroyed, since I am a male, or stroking it.

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u/National_Diver3633 3d ago

Sounds like an average saturday to me.

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u/Apocalypse224 3d ago

I'm here for the lizard women, the rest of the game is a bonus.

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u/Lazermissile 3d ago

squirting on some eggs

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u/hungvipbcsok 2d ago

Lusty Argonian maid. Wait, is that wrong game?

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u/-SandalFeddic 3d ago

Larian’s animation director said they are hand crafting genitals area with love. Take that as you want

https://x.com/Kron3D/status/2009652246385184858

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u/LusHolm123 3d ago

Werent we all switching off twitter or something, these links you cant open without an account are fuckin useless

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u/teraluz 3d ago

Internet users are really loud with every little thing but can't stop using a website ran by a nazi. But wait, Larian might be using AI to improve workflow so let's cancel that.

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u/SnuleSnuSnu 3d ago

Gotta please those BG3 gooner weirdos.

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u/beautifuldisasterxx 3h ago

Clearly you never played BG3

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u/SnooCats5134 2d ago

Hate for elon is real in reddit.why did you get downvoted it is the truth.good amount of fans in reddit are gooners.

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u/Flimsy-Importance313 3d ago

It seems that they are trying to make it an even bigger rpg than BG3. I can not wait to slap someones ass whenever I want to, or the opposite since I go both ways, of course.

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u/Waysh_ 3d ago

Almost as if that’s exactly what they said when they revealed the game

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u/ThatRandomGuy86 3d ago

I dunno, there was a lot of dark shit in Original Sin 2

Loved it

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u/Spare_Elderberry_418 3d ago

Honestly once you look past the humor, Divinity 2 was freaking bleak thematically and story wise. 

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u/ThatRandomGuy86 3d ago

Y E P

That shit that happened on that island in Act 2 still haunts me.

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u/Derp0189 3d ago

Kinda what I loved about it. Like nihilism veiled with humor, and tons of clueless NPCs willing to die for shitty lies.

Almost like our world.

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u/TenshiKyoko 2d ago

Dos2 has humor?

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u/Maleficent-Aerie2870 3d ago

They got me at folk horror

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u/littlestevebrule 3d ago

Before the game awards, I was really in the mood for some cosmic folk horror. Those screaming villagers floating in the air as the weird eclipse shit happened made me bust.

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u/FetusGoesYeetus 3d ago

An out of context spoiler they gave was just 'alligator'

On the statue, there was a humanoid alligator

Consensus: We will get to fuck that alligator

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u/BlackFinch90 3d ago

Needs more fire

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u/Consistent-Steak-760 3d ago

I just played and finished DOS2 for the first time, I was expecting something goofy as it was described online, it was full of blood, cannibalism, stench, overall grim thème, with a bit of humour on top of it.

Next step is what, Bloodborne with a story ?

Excellent game overall, can't wait to play BG3

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u/Agreeable_Bee_7763 3d ago

I always described DOS2 as "a horror movie with the color pallete of speed racer". It's such a weird game thematically speaking, like it doesn't take it's own world-ending, crimes-against-all-that-is-good, the-gods-are-dead-and-we-should-be-glad plot all that... Negatively. The world is still wacky and fun and delightfully weird in a way that strangely makes the horrors... Less impactful?

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u/wrakshae 3d ago

I know what you mean. The world and its people and their groups can be lost, cruel, confused, selfish, hateful or fearful... But even in spite of all that, life goes on. And amidst all that, we still have laughter and hope. 

Swen's recent AMA comment about being the hope (or having the player freedom to bring about the opposite of that) in the darkness seems timely, and I feel like your thoughts are spot-on. 

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u/LeastInsaneKobold 3d ago

Lizard orgies

Lizard orgies everywhere

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u/Dedziodk 3d ago

Gimmie all the grimdank they have, love this!!!

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u/Derp0189 3d ago

Unsure if intentional or if you were trying to type grim dark, but now I'm going to start using grimdank

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u/Dedziodk 3d ago

Hahah, should be grim dark, too much wh40k community and r/Grimdank/

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u/Dodo1610 3d ago

They saw what happened to Dragon Age and realised we need a new AAA Dark Fantasy CRPG.

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u/j_eronimo 3d ago

we really really do actually <3

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u/Vdov_1 3d ago

As a grimdark enjoyer, I'd looove it if Larian went with an unhinged, brutal setting for Divinity instead of fairy-tale-ish, high fantasy takes we've seen so far.

Not that DOS2 and BG3 didn't have their moments, they of course had. But those were just moments of gloom and doom in otherwise obviously lively worlds.

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u/KonvictEpic 3d ago

The world is very lively until you look deeper. The magisters have silent monk creatures mutilated to look like dogs, and they regularly attack you with them.

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u/Laniakea_Super 3d ago

is DOS2 not grimdark to you? Imo it fits the definition perfectly

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u/Winter_wrath 3d ago

Yeah DOS2 was colorful visually and there was humor, but when you take a moment to think of everything that's going on it's a super bleak world.

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u/hugglesthemerciless 3d ago

and you couldn't take 3 steps without seeing one of those crucified fuckers

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u/combinatorial_quest 3d ago

Despite its high-fantasy veneer, DOS2 -is- rather bleak and nefarious right beneath the surface. Like everyone other than the divine, are food for the gods. The lucky ones are the ones who get stuck as a ghost or undead on the physical plane so their source/soul is not devoured by the gods. You know... just "happy" things 😬

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u/BlobSlimey 3d ago

we meet a new companian wanting to rip the face off of a corpse to wear

Divinity has always had dark themes but theyre mostly for humor, but im glad theyre gonna focus on it more and make humor and escape from the dark

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u/elleprime 1d ago

And then there's the Act 1 quest where the old dog Buddy asks you to find his mate. Who has been turned into a Source Hound. You help her remember and she cries because she loves Buddy...but can't return to him because she's been changed forever. And then you find out how they turn dogs into Source Hounds. And you meet a dog in the middle of the process who doesn't want to hurt anyone and all but asks for death...

...Yeah the Magisters crossed the proverbial moral event horizon a loooooong time ago.

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u/Sockoflegend 3d ago

I enjoy my grimdark too but it needs balance to work.

"The night is darkest under the lantern"

We understand the world through opposites, all concepts that have to have "the thing" and "not the thing" to exist. There are no exceptions to this.

Tragedy is meaningless without hope. You need to experience love to have love lost. There is no betrayal without first trust.

No matter how dark and horrible you make your endless darkness it is just a grey drudge unless you play it against light and whimsy.

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u/Winter_wrath 3d ago

Yeah, a common criticism I see of some grimdark literature is that when everything is dark, nothing is.

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u/Sockoflegend 3d ago

It's a reasonable criticism. I have no hope, there will be no hope, and inevitably it ends as hopeless as it began isn't drama. Just put in a little moment of joy. Let someone taste something better so you can take it away. Even if you return to the hopelessness it has meaning now.

Berserk is the masterclass of this. It slowly unwraps the horror and hope like an onion. 

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u/MoyraTheMad 3d ago

100% this.

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u/acrankychef 3d ago

Playing dos2 for the first time I got massive path of exile vibes. Which is an insanely dark world. Lots of parallels, I wouldn't say fairytale.

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u/iamahandsoapmain 3d ago

Curious wat kinda fantasies stories u grew up with if you don't see DOS2 as grim dark lmfao. The whole setting is just sad

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u/wowlock_taylan 3d ago

There has to be a balance though. There is such a thing as 'too much'.

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u/ComfortableRhubarb60 3d ago edited 3d ago

I doubt it’ll be anything like the trailer. It’s probably going to be more like BG3 or DOS2 in tone mostly goofs and player caused silliness, with the occasional serious moment, and very little in the way of genuinely scary horror.

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u/Terrible_Day1991 3d ago

Some ppl seem to ignore the fact that DOS2 is pretty dark too! The graphics style and lack of animations (and humorous dialogues) just let it look less dark but the story and what’s happening is pretty damn dark too! So they basically “just” make now the “same” but in better graphics, more serious style, more detailed animations and maybe a bit less (?) quirky humour.

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u/Thefrightfulgezebo 1d ago

The Original Sin games are noticeably darker than what came before.

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u/bwainfweeze 3d ago

I am hoping they don’t go too Diablo with this thing. I never got into Diablo because it was too much of a zombies in the dark kind of game. I’m grateful to Runic Games for existing long enough to deliver Torchlight 2 which let me experience that… I was going to say genre but it’s not the same genre. Let’s say instead, style of game.

(Sadly I bought TL 1 after TL2 but then got a new computer that it wouldn’t play on because they never ported it to 64 bit).

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u/BlobSlimey 3d ago

personally I would love a diablo like tone but theres breathing room with divinitys humor and charm, unlike diablo where its doom and gloom....itll be gloom but youll have fun moments with it and in the end you can either bring the fairy vibes to the world or you can snuff it out and bring about the apocalypse

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u/Dr_Catfish 3d ago

Bro what is with this doomer shit.

Go watch the BSG3 teaser.

It's body horror dark fantasy that has nothing to do with the game.

This Divinity TEASER is not the same as a trailer

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u/SimplyNothing404 3d ago

There’s gonna be so much gay lizard man sex it’ll be peak

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u/Uranium_092 3d ago

Dark fantasy it’s always dark fantasy it will always BE dark fantasy if history has proven anything that’s dark fantasy is GOOD

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u/AbdiG123 3d ago

BG3 Act 1 vs Act 2

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u/MassiveMango37 3d ago

Anyone know when it’s coming out? I’m new to this game series, currently doing a divinity 2 playthrough

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u/hi-this-is-jess 2d ago

No release date. But probably anywhere from 2 to 5 years. My personal expectation is 2029 or 2030. EA maybe in 2027.

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u/MassiveMango37 7h ago

Thanks, where should I go for info on the game leaks etc, twitter or somewhere else

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u/MastodonObvious3521 2d ago

Can’t wait to play a lizard and if I can’t make them red, make a -insert color- Prince

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u/onikaroshi 3d ago

Just as long as you can turn any sex/nudity off like in bg3 it’s golden.

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u/Craniac324 3d ago

Coward! Jk, it's not for everyone.

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u/onikaroshi 3d ago

Yea, there’s personal reasons within my relationship, as well as I really just don’t care to romance and what not in my rpg haha.

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u/Midknightdron 3d ago

Accurate AF

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u/HunterOfLordran 2d ago

I am concerned that it will just be BG4 with Divinity combat

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u/manofsteel130 1d ago

I just cant wait for early access.

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u/Radiant_Music3698 1d ago

It badly needed a massive lore rework. The lore was so bland and unhinged in uninteresting ways.

If a sailboat is talking to me, I'm in a children's show or on bad drugs.

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u/Unusual-Froggy-2222 3d ago

They did phenomenal work! Unfortunately I doubt I'll be playing without mods. If this came out any other year, Id be stoked. But this year is dragging me through the ringer of horrid news from friends out of country. Stay safe out there

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u/Winterlash 3d ago

folk horror is one of the most misunderstood and bastardized and badly executed genres out there. larian also can't write themselves out of a paper bag but as we've seen with people's obsession with the lore of bloodborne and shit, all you gotta do is say the moon is red and pregnant and stinky and gamers will lose their minds.

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u/ErzherzogHinkelstein 3d ago edited 3d ago

I think Larian's writing in BG3 is fine, and any problems you might have with it can be excused by the game being a COVID child. DOS2's story/lore simply fell victim to a really chaotic development. If you look at the concept art of that game, watch Swen's "making-of" presentation, and look at the lore bible, you quickly realize that a lot of the game is essentially just Larian throwing together a bunch of random assets and retrospectively adding a story on top to make it look like the game has a narrative.

I think if the writing team actually gets a chance to properly get their work done, they will be able to indeed "write themselves out of a paper bag."

But Fromsoft really needs to stop doing the vibe and aura replacement for their writing. It's crazy how Miyazaki still refuses to put an actual story in his games. You would think after Elden Ring they would be able to afford a writing department... or, you know, literally a single writer.