Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Does this game pick up later?

No I am not looking for hack and slash fest, otherwise I would be playing Diablo-istic ARPGs.....please don't treat me like an idiot and don't respond to me as a zealot....

I am simply inquiring about the general frequency of combat encounters in this game, does it pick up as you proceed further or does it remain the same as it is at the beginning of the game?

Thanks....

You asked a perfectly legitimate question and I gave what I thought was a perfectly reasonable answer along with an explanation of how I see this game as compared to some others. While you may not be looking for a complete hack and slash fest, your OP does imply that you are tiring of the dialogue and would like to see some more combat action.

Yeah it does pick up after Cyseal, as Cyseal is, at first, a very talk-only area.

Outside of Cyseal, the game is a fair mix of talking, fighting and exploring.

If you intend to play it "normally" you'll have to explore in a given order which is not guessable (stop when you encounter high level enemies and go elsewhere).

A sizeable chunk of the talk is really boring in my opinion, because I dislike the End of Time area (Zixxzaxx, Timeweaver, Astarte, omg) AND I really dislike the trait-related dialogs (really bland). But the area substories are really worth it. The beginning of the game is very heavy with those bland dialogs, I guess that's why you are wondering if it's worth continuing: there's less of that later, as from a developer point of view I think they wanted to give you all trait bonus at Cyseal (so alot of stupid talking), and they wanted to introduce you to the End of Time early aswell.

Fights are the most interesting at the beginning of the game. You gradually become very powerful which makes fights easier as the game goes.


edit for unclejoe:


You went straight ahead to emotional rubbish while OP was saying that he spent 16 hours in the game and had 2 or 3 fights total, and a lot of talking in Cyseal. He gave data, and you didn't even reply to his question: does the pace change after Cyseal, which it does.

My apologies.

I really appreciate the thought and complexity involved in this game

Don't worry, but I think you misdiagnose.

Personally, I don't care very much if you say somebody is an idiot, or if you imply it. As you yourself said, it's the internet. And when somebody is openly behaving like that, it saves time (no point engaging).

No, for me the problem lies in you bashing "click-fest" games. Not only what you write is false, but it is uneeded! Why even brought them up? Why even make the comparison?

Click-fest game just means that the game is fast paced. It does not mean it is mindless. A good click-fest game is well designed, and its fights can be meangingful (you don't need much exposure to have strong meaning) and challenging.
Personally, I enjoy more and more games like D:OS, and less and less fast paced games (FPS for instance) because I'm growing older and I enjoy less and less the stress those games induce in me.

But I have played enough good click-fest games (I don't really like Diablo however, as it's too much of a skinner box game for me, I can't help but notice it) to know that Divinity is not better in term of
than similar quality click-fest games.
Good gameplay requires a lot of thoughts to develop, regardless of the genre; and the talk you have in Cyseal does NOT make the fight system in Divinity any better (or worse). It is a false dichotomy: you don't have to suffer additonal dialogs in order to enjoy better fights. No relation.

Hey guys, first off I like to say that I come from long background of playing cRPGs, been playing RPGs for over 20 years now and specially I am a big fan of turn based combat so I bought this game when it was in Alpha state and I tried playing it time after time but could never get past Cyseal but now I am honestly trying to play this game and beat it once and for all as the second game is about to come out later this year.....but once again I am faced with the same issue that has been putting me off this game.......

Now I have been playing this game for 16 hours (as per my steam record) and for the most of it, I was just running around Cyseal, talking with this NPC or that....had probably one encounter with skeletons (in that tomb after landing on the coast at the start) and one encounter with orcs, near the entrance to Cyseal...and I am getting pretty bored with this lack of combat encounters and far too much talking.......

Is it going to be like this, in the whole game, that you talk for 2 hours and then have couple of combat encounters and then again you talk for 4 hours before finding any combat?

Or does the game pick up later?

Thanks

It's unfortunate that the first quest part of the quest line is so heavy on talkin vs. fighting. Really picks up once you get past that.

Tactician mode is awesome too, at least for the first few fights I did with it. My friend and I had already went through the original game but we wanted to try it out. They did an awesome job upgrading the encounters and making them a lot more difficult. Although I'm really missing my archer. Decided to switch out our archer for a rogue to increase the difficulty even more and keep kicking myself for it.