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Quick Look: Divinity 2: Ego Draconis

If you were to say Dave, Vin, Andy really fast it almost sounds like Divinity.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Jan. 11 2010

Cast: Dave, Andy, Vinny

Posted by: Vinny

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Divinity II: Ego Draconis

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Edited By G0rd0nFr33m4n

Yay!
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Edited By Winternet

Damn, this is a bad game.

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Dragons!

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Woo !!
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Dave, Andy and Vinny! Awesome!

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i have no idea what this game is, awesome

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Edited By FreezieUnlimited

been selling this game like crazy at  work just saw it when I came in one day haven't even heard anything about it may have to check it out.

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Fucking uni! Have no time to watch quick looks!

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Wow, dudes with great big glowing eyes who hunt a specific creature and also possess the ability to turn into said beast? Sounds a lot like Demon Hunters from Warcraft, they're just missing the dress and blindfold.
Mana Burn.
Mana Burn.
Mana Burn.

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lol

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You are the dragon!

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I got the South Park reference, Vinny :)

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Truly this is the age of Draconis

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Its like they saw Dragon Age Origins and realized they wouldn't be able to do better so they just stopped development halfway through.

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I cannot believe the guy who made the engine behind Oblivon and Fallout 3 complained about bad animations :P Anyway, the game looks half-decent, I like the depth and difficulty, although Risen  looks a lot better
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Almost as bad as Big Rigs?

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Hmmmm. Not interested at all.

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Edited By ApertureSilence

An RPG-enthusiast friend was trying to push this game on me recently, so I played the demo. Dave's sentiments mirror my own exactly. Terrible frame-rate and choppy animations, bad interface.

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Oh God this is boring.

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Why'd you kill the ducks? ;-;

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Wow Lvl 4 enemies can really pack a punch. Dave pretty much mirrors what I think when I watched this vid. Wasn't on my radar before, and it certainly isn't now.

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Yes? Goodbye! End.

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quick looks of bad games are always the best! :D

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@jim_dandy said:
" Why'd you kill the ducks? ;-; "
NES Duck Hunt demands it!
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Wow, this game looks horrible.

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Edited By evilkaz

Dare i say its not totally aweful, just very rough around the edges. Played it until around level 15/16 and got the dragon skill. The story just wasn't gripping enough for me to play it any longer on the 360. It has some neat ideas, being about to mindread (at a cost of xp) is something new that adds a new dimension. Its not as accessable as most rpgs on consoles, you really need to do all the sidequests so that you high enough level tp proceed with the story. More than once i've hit a wall and had to find quests or enemies in order to grind to a suitable level. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, it meant i explored far more of the map while searching for stuff to do.

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@evilkaz: I'd agree with that. In general though I think that's a poor game design decision to do within the first 5 levels though. You really shouldn't have to grind to take on the very first story quest outside of the tutorial.
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I can say that the PC version is leagues better than what is shown here, many things have been patched already. For me it is like 18 eruros on Steam, so considering the price it is quite worth it. There are lots of interesting choices to be made and many opportunities to be a complete dick to people.
 
They are right about it being pretty hard in the beginning (first 10 levels or so)

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@evilkaz: I'd agree with that. In general though I think that's a poor game design decision to do within the first 5 levels though. You really shouldn't have to grind to take on the very first story quest outside of the tutorial.
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Why is the camera constantly panning during the dialog?
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DaveVinAndy - Divinity. Oh my god it's a conspiracy!

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Might be kinda fun. It has some euro trash appeal.
 
The PC version actually got some solid reviews. Most German outlets gave the PC version about an 8/10. But then again, Germans are RPG-nuts. Going crazy for stuff like Risen and Gothic.
 
Might pick it up from a bargain bin for PC - once I got an up to date gaming rig again.

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I dun wanna be a conspiracy theorist but I think maybe someone duped this game into getting into the "most viewed" slide and now GB does a quicklook? Yall getting played like a banjo.

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Man this game looks awful. I was hoping for a good action rpg with some depth. 
 
For anyone interested, go out and buy Sacred 2. It's infinitely better than this game. If you look it up you might read that they had some same save game issues, however those have all been patched now. It won't have an amazingly deep story, however it has a level 200 cap and tons and tons of loot. 

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well at least it kinda looks pretty when you stand still. Other than that this game looks like a frustrating mess.

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You know I have to say for some Bizarre reason I really enjoyed Risen so I might give the PC version a go but if it is anything like the 360 version something tells me I will uninstall the demo pretty quickly.

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@jim_dandy said:
" Why'd you kill the ducks? ;-; "
I blame it on Duck Hunt.
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@Seppli said:

" Might be kinda fun. It has some euro trash appeal.  The PC version actually got some solid reviews. Most German outlets gave the PC version about an 8/10. But then again, Germans are RPG-nuts.

Hurray for putting labels on everyone foreign.
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Edited By Trilogy

Dave Vin Andy.... dave vin andy... dave vin andy... davevinandy.... davinandy... divinindy...DIVINITY!!! IT WORKS!

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it ends 3 quarters of the way thru

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Giant Bomb needs to learn an old wisdom of the jungle: always play German games on the PC.
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I've played it.

I returned with relief to Neverwinter Nights. The first one. And I've disliked that game.

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lol gondolf

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I thought this was the poor mans Dragon Age and it's not even good enough to be a poor mans version.

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That game looks terrible. Bad dialogue and ugly HUDs and UIs. Thank God for Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
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omg booooooring. PC games need to die already, except for the good ones

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Tower dude was straight up USAIN BOLT! CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER!

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@ZmillA:
Except it's an Xbox game. 
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@frans130: it could be that the engine is good, cuz i played fallout 3 and thought it looked soo much better than Divinity 2, but that the developers either cant? or dont know how? to use the engine to the best of its ability
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Almost no pausing ... wtf?!!