Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Some Feedback from a guy who got everything wrong.

Hello guys, I was reading some other posts and occurred to me that my "noobie on games like d:os feedback" might be valuable, you see most of you guys are veterans of this genre while I, being a Bethesda/Bioware/Squaresoft type of gamer, got smashed (and then kicked in the head a bit) by the learning curve of this game.

This is a long post, because I will tell the whole story on how a person like me will possibly react (as I did) to this game, and English its not my first language, so be pacient...

I got this game as reviewers were saying it was amazing, and started it right away. My first playthrough I walked out of Cyseal at level 2 (guards don't know shit about danger anyways, so why listen to them? I had 4 guys on the party already, so lets bash some skulls right?).

I left using the wrong gate and soon meet those legion friendly squeletons that told me about the church that I should not enter or my flesh would be vaporized from my bones... obviously I didn't bothered to listen to their warning neither.

You see, npcs have the awfull habit of warning us heros of shit they can't do, but we are heros so we know better...

...and obviously got my ass handed to me by lvl 7 squeleton archers how could 1 hit my entire party (grouped tightly as a good noob ofc) with 1 single explosion arrow...

After some dozens of attempts of sneak to improve the battle (with sneak 1 lol) or try to aggro single squeletons at the time to focus fire (and failling ofc because the game just doesnt work that way) I just rotulate the game as:

"badly polished game that failled to lead me where I need to go, afterall if I decided to leave the city being too weak it is the games fault for not having interesting enough things to do on the city, or even letting me venture into that area."

I play rpgs on hard mode most of the time, so if I just got raped on the start, on classic mode, something its clearly wrong with this game (not with me ofc, i'm awesome always).

(Now I know I should have used my secret "maybe I should not be stupid?" approach...)

I replayed Skyrim for about 1 month, and again I needed a new game, my friend recommended D:Os, and I started complaining about how "this game was bad, how the books are costy as hell and I had no idea how to get money on this game, and I couldn't defeat the guys outside because I had no items/spells so I was locked on being weak, this all pointed to the conclusion of the game being awful"...

And this guy responded: "strange, this game has such high reviews, some people call it masterpiece or whatever."
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As a critical thinker I started to doubt my conclusions and decided to watch on youtube some sort of guide, so I could know what I was doing so wrong or if the game was realy that bad, and if it was, how it could be misleading people into thinking it was "a masterpiece"...

I typed on youtube: "divinity original sin what not to do" and watched the few first videos...

After that I re-started the game, became the rich master of the art of art theft (as every player in d:os ever), got myself some nice candles to lit oil and poison clouds for mere 2ap, got spider summon, followed the main story as a nice scotsman and now suddenly everything made sense and this game was quickly being one of the best rpg I've ever played...

I researched traits so I didn't screw up very badly and discovered how Glass Cannon and Lone wolf work to make characters more epic (although the game itself more difficult in case of lone wolf)... and restarted the game making my current 3 bellegarettes party , a dual weilding lone wolf heartless shadowblade, a glass cannon geo/pyro/hydro elemental mage and Medora as tanky stats+grenades...

And now definitely this is one of my favorite rpg experiences tied with DA Origins and FFTactics...

I read some of the threads here, especialy those "this game is shit threads", feat. raze's monkish pacience at responding that sort of rants and occurred to me that those guys might just be the same as me (but not so smart and handsome)...

You guys look at their rants and think they might just be "not old school enough gamers", or "need the game to hold our hand", but realy, perhaps thats not (always) the case.

I for instance think I can be as competent tactician as you guys who favor this genre... but I just had no clue this game would be so different on everything, the closest thing I've ever played to Divinity was Wasteland 2...

Now, I would guess a large portion of rpg community probabily are final fantasy or elder scrolls players I would say there are few... very few rpg players that would survive this kind of learning curve only to enjoy this game...

I can tell, its completely worth it... but perhaps Larian should adress this as I can only immagine that are MANY, MANY "not so old school rpg players" that just need a bit more help to get into the genre...

If you survived all this reading thanks a lot for the game, it is awesome... and be free everyone to add if you fell the same or disagree = ]