Larian Studios Forums Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis (English) Technical problems 360 version rant

This game is a wanker!

The first clue is when you're examining the inside of a barrel/chest/whatever and you press B to go back and the skill you have in your B slot (hot skill) gets used. How difficult can it be to have a button press delay of 0.2 of a second so this doesn't occur?

The next clue comes along when you're part the way through the game feeling quite tough at this point, nothing is really posing much of a challenge then an archer turns around and nails you with 240+ damage. If you're a mage like them then that's curtains I'm afraid.

Another clue might be the story. The story feels as though it's written by a couple of high-school emo chicks just after seeing Twilight. You're a Slayer, oh wait, but you're a Knight... even though you don't get that choice... so what the fuck am I? Why do I 'have' to go and do their gay things they're asking? Give me an open world and the fucking 'option' to play along with your teen angst story line.

I'll bullet point the rest for efficiency (which this game utterly lacks):

* Projectile skills that have no projectiles (Magic Blast)
* Summonable creatures that hang you out to dry ("Fuckin heals Ghost!")
* The point of the story where EVERYTHING is given to you. Here, now you own this tower, all these servants, and you can teleport here, and upgrade it, and have a creature, and upgrade that, and make enchanted weapons and have runners and by the way you can turn into a fucking Dragon.... Too much at once! Bleed rewards into my experience and make me worthy of them.
* The music made my four month old baby cry you assholes!
* Bugger all character customization choices. Let's be honest, they all look the same in the end, why give me the choice?
* Projectiles that you can't dodge. Why can I time my jumps and rolls quite nicely to get away from spells but not arrows? Arrows are just fucking lightning speed compared to the lightning attacks that come at arrow speed... wtf?
* The female voice whenever it says "Feel my wrath" and pronounces 'wrath' as 'Roth'.
* No lesbian sex scenes
* Fucking swinging a big fucking sword as a big fucking crate 6 times and missing over and over again because the fucking physics engine (lol if you call it physics) decided that you can't hit something when it's on an angle and moving.
* Watch a barrel/vase etc. go sliding down a very gradual slope at unrealistic speeds because of the shit physics engine
* Lousy AI. Ping an enemy with a spell from downtown, he comes a running... his buddies sit back and let him do it on his own. That just ain't bros being bros.
* Pots, pans, cups and other meaningless junk to pick up... why? What's the point. Let me just abuse that 'Take All' button on everything.
* The shite animation when swinging an axe with the female avatar when the axe goes behind her and waits it flickers twice because some asshole animator misplaced it's locater for two frames.
* No fall damage ever. Realistic as a shoe made from bubbles, don't you dare try to put real physics in there and have no fall damage.
* Inability to set the quest marker/objective marker for anything other than the main quest. Sorry but some of the clues for some of those quests are rather cryptic and I wouldn't mind being able to experience the lavish world you've created and lovely quests without the desire to take an angle grinder to my eyes.
* On that note, what is the difference between 'Objective Marker' and 'Quest Marker'. For that matter why does 'Important NPC' have it's own one. The only time it shows up is when it could easily be one of the other two things.
* No multiplayer... actually this is a good thing. I think if I got my friend to come over and play this he would want to hurt me... so thank you for saving me a beating.
* Terrible bad guys. Sassan and Damian both do it where they go 'Right, you're finished' and then they piss off and leave you with a couple of easily dispatchable enemies. What the fuck is the point in that? Just fight me you dicks. If Damian rocked up right near the start and cut my throat instead of kicked me in the head then I would respect the man a lot more.
* Confusing motives. Laiken, Maxos, that other guy that becomes like a dragon and stuff, damian... what are they all after? What the fuck is the point of Damian being evil? Make his purpose clear.
* The glowing eyes... wanna be more clice'?
* That 1 second delay between selecting a skill to view and the details actually opening up is fuck head annoying
* The fact that I have to open the details in order to add a point is annoying
* The fact that I didn't get a fucking choice for who worked in the battle tower while I was on Sentinel Island. I wanted the non-drunk weapon guy, but he lost the challenge.

Ok, I've probably said too much now. But my anger is out... so that makes life a little easier to bear.

-Papanurf
~FFXIV FTW~

Oh and lastly... the dance that the chick does for you in the tower. Just who finds that sexy? She dances like Elaine from Seinfeld... nothing pretty going on there at all. Now, the animator was probably given about 3 days to animate that dance and then proceeded to spend 2 days and 7 hours masturbating saving only 4 minutes to get the job done. That's just the theory at this point but I think it's pretty sound.

Wah some more? Glowing eyes? You're complaining about glowing eyes, seriously? Get your priorities straight, man!

This guy really said a lot in that. A lot of bad language too.

I can't agree with you on everything you said... glowing eyes are cool, but not really needed. Falling damage would make the game annoying, if you think about it when you turn into a dragon you usually jump off a ledge, if you messed up you would die. Lets face it, it is fun feature. Falling damage is so annoying!

I have to agree with on something, the girl dancing is pretty stupid, get rid of it, thats the suggestive themes, some girl that sounds kind of blank (fill it in). I think the graphic things you state are also a bit annoying. I do find the storyline to be completely confusing. Supposedly, it is cleared up in the end. I think this game need a big patch and they should definitely use what we say on here.

Please don't tell me that this is your response to that entire rant session.

/sigh

'Wah some more?' - The fucking topic title says rant. If you want less Wah then steady your trigger finger when hovering over such links.

'You're complaining about glowing eyes, seriously?' - No, I'm ranting and pointing out the obviously clice' bullshit that rookie games fall victim to.

'Get your priorities straight, man!' - You'll notice that the glowing eyes comment is right near the bottom of that rant making it lower in priority than some of the others. I think they're quite acute actually.



Oh, and lastly.. fuck you.

Stop being a child and watch your mouth. Do you like the taste of soap? Your mother should use it more often.

I don't listen to people who complain about cliches in fantasy RPGs. Truly ironic.

I'll end it here and say that I will not stoop to your level, my friend. Grow up.

It started off nice and look what happened, dude I warned you about the language... come on now.

This is something that does need addressing (I made a thread about it a while ago). Just put skills that require a target, or your melee/ranged attack, on the A and B button.



Actually they home in on you. Yours home in on them too.



I think this is being addressed in the patch. Quite amusing but hardly game breaking.



Being addressed in the patch. You can set a marker anywhere on the map for the time being (X button if I recall correctly).

Pretty much all that matters in your rant. the rest is just opinion.

The colourful language is really just unnesseccary though. We can understand exactly what you're saying without it thankyou very much.

I especially liked that line

I'm sorry man but I found your post really entertaining to read. Some of what you said makes sense and I agree on quite a few points. Hey, at least your rant was written with humour, or at least that's the way it seemed from my point of view.

Wow, I love the comments for me to watch my language. Can you tell me the point in time when 'Sticks and Stones' stopped being relevant? If you're offended, tune out. Nothing is really going to happen if you get offended other than the obviously provocative response of 'fuck off'.

Libertarian, that's a great rule "I don't listen to people who complain about cliches in fantasy RPGs. Truly ironic.". If only you knew the meaning of the word 'ironic'. Pro-tip: Alanis Morrisette sang about coincidence, not irony.

It's the internet, I vented, I feel better... now I can go and play a good game

EDIT: Just thought I would add an additional 'fuck you' to Libertarian Lick my nuts!

I think we can end it at, this game is very glitchy but the patch coming out will change that, I don't have a Divinity 2 on my computer, but how do you patch it on there?



I guess your right about one thing, there isn't anything we can do to stop you from using language, so why fight with you about it? You do know there are mods and kids on here most likely. I wouldn't throw around too much language, just a word to the wise.

What was that tip about irony?

You are aware that watching vulgar language is part of the terms and conditions you agreed to right?