General video game discussion

[Reynard]

I think i want to get really acquainted with Rivellon before Divinity comes out. Which Divinity games are worth playing all the way through? I plan on definitely doing D:OS2, but should I D:OS1? What about the older games?

 

[SkidAce]

I think i want to get really acquainted with Rivellon before Divinity comes out. Which Divinity games are worth playing all the way through? I plan on definitely doing D:OS2, but should I D:OS1? What about the older games?

Divinity OS 1 and 2.

 

[MarkB]

I think i want to get really acquainted with Rivellon before Divinity comes out. Which Divinity games are worth playing all the way through? I plan on definitely doing D:OS2, but should I D:OS1? What about the older games?

Both Divinity Original Sin games have a lot to recommend them, I spent a lot of hours playing them. However, they're also pretty big, dense games whose combats tend to run very long at later levels and with each of them I found myself getting fatigued later in the game. I'm not sure I actually ever finished either of them, despite multiple playthroughs.

The turn-based combat is very good, and especially in the second game there are a lot of elements of verticality and environmental effects in the battles, even compared to BG3. Often, tactics that would feel like borderline exploits in other games are simply the expected approach in these.

 

[Gradine]

I definitely need to finally play Expedition 33.

I've been saying this all year, do not sleep on this game

 

[CleverNickName]

I've been saying this all year, do not sleep on this game

It's on my Steam wishlist...

 

[Reynard]

I've been saying this all year, do not sleep on this game

It's on my Steam wishlist...

I own it and just haven't gotten to it. Not least because I kind of don't enjoy depressing entertainment and I am worried it is going to be that.

 

[Kannik]

Master of Orion 2 is another one that never got a proper sequel or spiritual successor. Everything I've seen (especially the official sequels) that's tried to be has had either used spacelanes, had a dodgy and/or realtime combat system, or had a bad interface

Consider me one of the oddballs who preferred MOO1 to MOO2. I haven't played either in a number of years (mostly because I know if I do all my time will be forfeit) so maybe my view would shift, but at the time I felt MOO2 got too fiddly for not enough extra benefit.

That said I did want to give GalCiv2 a try, as I heard it was really good and the ship design was a lot of aesthetic fun, but again I avoided as I knew I would lose all my time into it.

Currently I made the mistake of giving Timberborn a try and now it's gotten it's teeth into me...

 

[Gradine]

I own it and just haven't gotten to it. Not least because I kind of don't enjoy depressing entertainment and I am worried it is going to be that.

This game has some of the absolutely funniest moments in a video game I've ever seen.



...but yeah also it gets super sad like a lot.

 

[Reynard]

Also, I totally forgot in all the Game Awards excitement: Temple of Elemental Evil is out on Steam. Has anyone gotten and played it yet?

 

[Gradine]

My understand is that it desperately needs the fan patch to be remotely playable, but it's otherwise probably the best adaptation of 3.5 D&D in a computer game. Storywise though we're well on the Icewind Dale side of the Icewind Dale-to-Planescape Torment scale