TatteredHat
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I'm playing it just fine on my 2014 gaming laptop with an i7 4700MQ and Nvidia GTX 765M, had to turn down some settings but it's still a beautiful looking game and runs great.
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Divinity Original Sin 2 review thread
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I'm playing it just fine on my 2014 gaming laptop with an i7 4700MQ and Nvidia GTX 765M, had to turn down some settings but it's still a beautiful looking game and runs great.
Crank all the settings up. I'm running the game at 40-60 fps with most stuff on ultra with those same specs.
https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/15/16316126/divinity-original-sin-2-review
This review is a joke lmao
"DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2 IS STUNNINGLY AMBITIOUS BUT FAILS TO PULL ALL ITS PIECES TOGETHER" !?!?!?!
This review is a joke lmao
"DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2 IS STUNNINGLY AMBITIOUS BUT FAILS TO PULL ALL ITS PIECES TOGETHER" !?!?!?!
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Basically the issue is that the reviewer found the game too open ended. She complained that it's too dense so it's time consuming to find everything it has to offer. She complained that it's too open so she could accideny kill quest NPCs and so on.
So basically the biggest strengths of the game is an issue to the reviewer. It's a bit of a BS.
Soulblighter31
Banned
The Lolygon "review" striped one point from the MC score, pulling it down from 94 to 93.
His Majesty
Banned
Help, there is too much RPG in my RPG.
It's fine, really. This is aimed at people who voluntarily read Polygon, after all.
Sentenza
Member
it was actually up to 95 before this review.
True.
AuthenticM
Member
I mean it's a valid criticism. Not everyone has the same tastes and the same barometer for gauging such and such. It would be an issue if the majority of reviewers on the Internet were of this same opinion though. But they're not, so it's fine. It's also good to read opinions that differ from the rest, if only to make us formulate arguments as to why these opinions don't hold up.
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Deathknell
Member
It's fine, it's polygon..no one gives a shit.
This type of gameplay is a staple of the RPG genre. Why hand the game off to somebody who does not know RPGs, doesn't understand them, and isn't able to contrast and compare to the rest of the genre in order to address where DOS2 fits in terms of gameplay and quality.
It's like somebody complaining that they don't like how many guns you can carry in DOOM because they only care about two of them, and that if the game was balanced around two guns they'd always have ammo for them and wouldn't ever have to switch.
I do agree that reading differing opinions is healthy. It'd be nice if it would drive the discussion further than fundamental game mechanics though.
truestatic
Member
The score fits the experience she describes. It's too bad but it sounds like DOS2 didn't end up holding true to its initial promise. It sounds like it just didn't follow through on its systems driven gameplay from her end, that quests would break or inventive but reasonable player solutions would produce no result too often.
Yea, people should put away the predictable pitchforks. I read through the review, and she justifies the score she gives based on her experiences with the game. I personally don't agree with the score, but it's her opinion, and she explains it well.
I finished the game yesterday, a couple of bugs, but not game breaking.
Also, Larian released a big patch a couple of days ago.
Also it took 29 days to review the game even if she had access to the game early?
Ryzaki009
Member
This. I don't agree with her score but that's just because a lot of the bugs of act 4 didn't bother me that much.
Just because you didn't run into any large bugs during your play through doesn't mean other people won't.
The fact that it took her so long to review the game is no reason do discredit the review. You'll notice that it's essentially a two part review, she wrote early impressions, then came back upon finishing the game to finalize the review. Not everyone can or needs to review a game at the same pace, and I'd rather get well-considered opinions, even if they take longer for someone to form.
Not only me. The average score is 9, 9 across over 30+ reviews and i didnt read those "game breaking bugs". She is the only one with a 7.
In your opinion, she's right and the others wrong? Come on.
No she's entitled to her own opinion. Through her playthrough, she had bugs and other problems that warranted a 7 from her. Are you saying she should've ignored her own experience and given it a higher score because others didn't have the same problems as her? Because that's what it sounds like
Seriously. Not everyone can play a 90 hour game in a few weeks. Particularly when youre a freelancer who literally cant exactly afford to drop everything for a single review.
Also, as a note, Polygons scores are decided by the reviewer + some editors based on the text of the review. Similarly headlines/titles are usually decided by editors and not writers. So please do think through exactly who youre angry at a bit more.
Yes, don't put games in incompetent hands or give them to people with no knowledge of specific games, series or genres.
Giving 7 to one of the best RPG in the market right now is a sign of incompetence, ignoring all the good stuff and crying about those **game breaking bugs**
Skyrim was universally acclaimed with a 96 mc and we allo know, critics and users, the game suffered from several game breaking bugs, glitch, lost saves and shit like this, but ehy, let's give high scores and ignore all the real problems of the game.
homeworkfilms
Member
Her experience with bugs you keep focusing on are really only in reference to the quest journal. It is probably the part of the game in most need of revision so it is understandable it led to a great deal of frustration and apathy. I had a similar experience to hers with the quest journal and it led to a similar feeling of apathy toward what was happening in the game by the end of act 2.
No one is right. Reviews are not about being right. Anyone who tells you otherwise should not be reviewing a game.
Reviews reflect the writers time with a game and thats about it. Thats what theyre there for. Having a different experience is not incompetence - particularly as she spent 90 hours playing the game and at no point in the review describes bumbling through it - its literally just having a different experience.
Your goal should be to find writers whose taste align with yours (Janines actually such a writer for me, so I appreciate her getting games like these to review), or dont, and make judgements based on that. Not to get extremely worked up over whether someone thought a game was pretty good with bugs or very good.
Nope, and never once did I state anything like that, in fact I stated the opposite, I personally don't agree with her opinion. In my opinion, she has a right to her opinion and others have a right to theirs, simple as that.
Yep. It's immensely frustrating that people in review threads here just cannot seem to get that through their heads. A well reviewed game gets a relatively low score from a publication and people dog pile it every single time. What's worse is that these attacks almost always take the form of attacking the outlet or the reviewer. "Lolygon" and "the reviewer must be incompetent at RPGs" are not good arguments, they serve only to undermine the people writing them.
truestatic
Member
Only about 20 hours in, but this. First one was a great game, but this one improves on the lackluster, corny writing of the first. I'm more involved by the story thus far. It also just generally plays better, I think.
There's absolutely no necessity to have played the first to enjoy anything about the second, too. So if you have the opportunity, totally play 2.
Thank you!
You are way too hung up on the numerical value assigned to her review and not the review itself, almost as if you saw the score dismissed her opinion and then read the review (or didn't) with that mindset. The bugs that particular player ran into hampered the number score, the text of the review however gave the game tons of praise where praise is due. Put down the pitchforks!
FlibbertiGibbet
Member
It's Polygon, the same publication that gave TLOU and Witcher 3 scores well below the Meta average.
They are click-bait and pretty unreliable in many ways.
I couldn't care less what they think of anything.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
hi, if you get mad about the metacritic dropping a point because you disagree with a review you a) are probably going to end up getting banned for fanboy crap and b) have no life
Man, if I ever see any of you acting like you're somehow better than console gamers ever again... You're behaving just like the people in the infamous Uncharted 3 review thread just because someone liked a game a little less than you.
Grow the hell up; your opinion isn't any more right than this reviewer's.
Grow the hell up; your opinion isn't any more right than this reviewer's.
FWIW I experienced several game-breakers - such as the
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Sad Affleck
Member
Review from the greek site Ragequit.gr in english:
95% score.
http://ragequit.gr/reviews/item/divinity-original-sin-2-english-pc-review
95% score.
http://ragequit.gr/reviews/item/divinity-original-sin-2-english-pc-review
Teren_Kanan
Member
Enjoying this game so far.
The quest log shit drives me absolutely bonkers. The ability to accidentally break a quest is super annoying too.
Otherwise the only thing I can't stand atm is the camera. Just awful. So many instances where I have to constantly fidgit with the view to see what I need to.
The combat/status effect system I find slightly annoying. I've only just finished Act 1 so maybe it levels out, but currently by the time I lower armor or magic armor, I hardly need status effects anymore cause the enemy will be dead before it really matters and all their big cool downs are already used anyways.
I also find I have to choose armor vs magic armor to bring down, making me split my dps all the time cause it's often a waste to bother bringing down both unless it's a "boss" type fight. There are so many times I have enemies who have either no Phys or Magic armor left, then I have to skip turns on anyone who doesn't have the appropriate damage type because the enemy will die before I bring their fuller armor type down anyways.
Game still hasn't reached anywhere near DA:Origins levels for me, gameplay, story, or character wise, but it's a solid RPG for sure.
The quest log shit drives me absolutely bonkers. The ability to accidentally break a quest is super annoying too.
Otherwise the only thing I can't stand atm is the camera. Just awful. So many instances where I have to constantly fidgit with the view to see what I need to.
The combat/status effect system I find slightly annoying. I've only just finished Act 1 so maybe it levels out, but currently by the time I lower armor or magic armor, I hardly need status effects anymore cause the enemy will be dead before it really matters and all their big cool downs are already used anyways.
I also find I have to choose armor vs magic armor to bring down, making me split my dps all the time cause it's often a waste to bother bringing down both unless it's a "boss" type fight. There are so many times I have enemies who have either no Phys or Magic armor left, then I have to skip turns on anyone who doesn't have the appropriate damage type because the enemy will die before I bring their fuller armor type down anyways.
Game still hasn't reached anywhere near DA:Origins levels for me, gameplay, story, or character wise, but it's a solid RPG for sure.