btw i never said i was a game developer. i said that you are not. but i think if you do a little google, you will get your answer. and also the answer as to why am i making such a request anyway. just go and google . . .
Eeeh?
"I know that cause I am part of a "game development team", and our marketer has shown me enough evidence on that matter to believe its authenticity."
A part of "game development team" = game developer, I think?
I admit that i was wrong on some accounts, I always thought that divinity 2 was made with a huge budget, but after seeing those numbers, i think its a miracle they pulled it off even this much. I really do.
I understand, it's a shame that such a great serie of RPG's is so underrated. But on the other side, such lower sales are well deserved to anyone who names a game so stupidly (Divine Divinity? Really, Larian? If I was on your place, I'd fire that BUTCHER who came out with this name! If the game had a decent name, it would have much better sales!). If someone named Mass Effect, let's say, Effective Effect or Mass Massness, or KotOR Knights of The Old Oldness, nobody would probably even know about those games. Gears of Gear, Alive-Life... These names make about as much sense as Divine Divinity.
now as to your comment on the fact that some countries bann those kinda games, now let me tell you how it goes, you see there is a list of items that need to be rated one by one, if a game fails to pass a certain number, then a certain country which accepts only a higher rating will refuse the game being in the country. L4D was called a pointless game of bloodshed with no real purpose, hence why some countries did not let it be released. but imagine some games like Dark Messiah, or Witcher, they had 2 versions, an American version with full blood and nudity, and a europian version with all censored. but having 2 version needs a budged Larian could not afford.
I mostly know it, but thanks anyway. ^^
as to the character being innocent, i believe this is NOT innocence, this is just being a vegetable. like a mechanical robot, emotionless you walktrough the game doing whatever others told you (which *spolers - mostly is by a evil or super evil characters*) so i wont call that innocence. but i rather discuss this in another thread.
I agree yet again, but the story has a nice explanation - state of the mind of main hero is weakened by that unfinished Dragon Slayer ritual.
And about innocence, well, it also depends, as I said. You can be evil too, but the game prefers you to be good or only sarcastic (doing things evil way = less experience), besides your evil has no real effect on the game.
At least FoV gives you a nice possibility to
disagree with that evil ghost and choose Bellegar instead, who is by far my favourite character in the entire game. Following Bellegar is a must for me, even on my second try I will help him.
but in the end you should know that "THEY" wanted the blood, but could not implement it for obvious reasons you yourself pointed out. budget being the most important (or even the only main reason).
I can partially agree. We do not know really what they wanted, but we know most certainly that blood wasn't their priority - not enough to put budget into it, especially since it was barely enough to even release the game in a playable state.
