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Of course, one has to factor in the nature of video games as escapism.

Playing an evil character has a draw to it for someone who is good in life. As they can experience something new and different to what they're used to.

For example, I have no desire to be a criminal... But playing games like GTA, Thief, The Getaway, Mafia, Hitman etc. Is fun. It allows me to experience something different.


Oh absolutely.

Not only do we have people in real life who follow "Questionable" ideologies. But in D&D settings, there are actually tangible benefits for siding with evil gods. Like, literally you can be a Cleric of Shar and get cool powers.

This is often true in other settings. In fantasy, there are often actual gods (Or god-like entities) that bestow gifts upon their followers. Thus adding some actual logic behind faith in them, as opposed to real life where faith is just based on feeling as though it is real.

On a side note;

Something that often bothers me about games and their morality systems is that it's quite often just a binary thing. You're either goody-two-shoes paragon of the people, or you're Jerky McJerkFace the murderhobo. There's no inbetween, no neutral or morally grey representation.

It's especially apparent when looking at the Star Wars universe... I hate both the Jedi and the Sith. The Jedi are way to uptight and annoying and the Sith are far too "Chaotic Stupid". There exists the middleground, the Grey Jedi which are more morally ambiguous but they barely ever, if at all, get any screentime.

All this get compounded on by horrendously awful implementations of "Morality Scales" which basically force you to make all "Good guy" or "Bad guy" options in order to build up enough morality points to select options later on... For example, when I did a full playthrough of Mass Effect, my Paragon character took every Paragon option except 2, once in ME2 and once in ME3 (They weren't even "Bad" options. They were either logical or simply human) and as a result I couldn't get the Paragon ending in ME3...

It has not to be a total loser (not very helpful to achieve something in a story), but much less of the usual hero rigmarole I would greatly appreciate. However I fear that in the high fantasy world of Divinity it is a bit diffcult to make the characters more "normal" and still explain why they can do what has to be done. Divinity is even more problematic here than Dnd, maybe.

Bah, what I actually wanted was a more traditional top down/isometric camera without that weird "distance deformation" Larian keeps putting in its games.

BG3 simply didn't have assets detailed enough to look good from a third person perspective (i.e. the terrain being overly flat, the upclose of things lacking details, etc).

https://youtube.com/shorts/9qg-rF9VPxw?si=wmrv1K2sZyXW_2AR

Platform: Nintendo Switch 2

When exiting Divinity: Original Sin 2 to the HOME menu, a very brief blue/noise screen appears for a split second.

This only happens during the transition from the game to the HOME menu.
The game and system continue normally with no crashes.

For me the major plothole in DOS2 was how the female mage I played in Divine Divinity turned into "Lucian." I'd like them to respect full series lore to the extent that it doesn't contradict itself and also to be up front about whether our character is actually predefined. Letting us play the character we want to, only to find out later that the "real" Bhaalspawn was Abdel Adrian just doesn't feel good.

I believe Larian when they've said that tone will vary, depending in part on the player's in-game choices, that the sort of scene we saw in the trailer may occur, but that will be because the player made choices to enable it. I personally enjoy "Larian Whimsey" and hope to see it in-game. I also hope to see darker, more serious content. My suspicion is that anyone who wants only "adult" content will either be disappointed or have to be careful to make the sorts of choices likely to result in darker outcomes.

I'm trying to enable cross-save between my PC and PS5.

I've done the following:
- Connected my steam account to Larian Account
- Enabled Cross-Save on my PC
- Logged into my most recent game on PC and created a new manual save
- Connected my PSN account to Larian Account

Versions are: 4.1.1.702326 PS5 / PC 4.1.1.6995620
I have no mods.

Where I'm encountering problems is that there doesn't seem to be an option for enabling cross-save on my PS5. When I start the game it shows that I'm connected to my Larian account (https://drive.google.com/file/d/18SJ78hnfxSQ-5xDuVxSE7RH6ilNrTyQg/view?usp=sharing).

However, when I got into Gameplay -> Save Options there is no Cross-Save option at all (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U0pki-gPTDk_DBwY8h_e1AYaV4zeDW2j/view?usp=sharing).

To Troubleshoot this I've done the following:
- Disconnected and reconnected both Steam and PSN from Larian account
- Closed the PS5 game and cleared the cache
- Unintalled and reinstalled the PS5 game.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bioware died when EA acquired it. Ever since its only a name. The original developers fled quickly, given the working conditions at EA.

I liked the idea of DA:O a lot when it came up. A successor of Baldur's Gate, but without Wizards of the Coast overview ? Heck yeah.

But what we got was extremely poor in every regard. An extremely uninviting, depressing and stereotypical fantasy world. The rulessystem extremely dumbed down full of idiotic decisons. Dislikeable characters. Boring story. Poor combat.

Nevermind that EA had already acquired Bioware when DA:O released, so they hurt the game every way they could. No multiplayer. A forced console version, which destroyed the interface on PC. They made part of the game a download you could only do if you told EA everything about your person, which is why I never got this part.

I doubt that even Larian could produce a good Dragon Age. There is just not enough to work with.

AI is a tool. As far as I heard, Larian knows this.

Other companies are trying to replace human work with AI "work" and its failing for obvious reasons. AI is just a machine repeating patterns it has seen before. It cannot actually think in any way.

I kept changing how I played my characters in Vanguard. It was part of the fun.

Well there was one class that I didnt change much, and that was the Dread Knight. I worked very hard on the macros etc until I had the optimal setup, or so I hoped. Didnt change much after that anymore. Still was a hell of a lot fun to play, because it was so challenging.

My probably favorite event was when I once tanked for a pickup raid and the people went all oh we have to be careful our tank doesnt have good gear (I had APW and some other lesser raid stuff on me), and in the end, when they evaluated how the raid had gone, it turned out that I had actually the highest dps in the whole raid ! They really didnt need to hold back THAT much lol. Well, it was a pickup raid.

Anyway on a tank you had to keep aggro, so there was less experiments possible. You had to find the optimal dps strategy and stick to it. Especially if you had multiple opponents, it could get hairy.

On other classes however I changed around all the time, trying to optimize my play further.