Divinity: Original Sin, Kickstarter. Isometric turn based RPG with editor.

[motsm]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/larianstudios/divinity-original-sin

When making large-scale epic RPGs it often helps to summarise what you are trying to make in a couple of lines, just to ensure you don't lose focus during development. You can spend a lot of time trying to come up with these vision statements, but when we started making Divinity: Original Sin, it didn't take us long to come up with the one above. It's simply what we've always wanted to do. The only reason we haven't made this game before was that the following list never made it past the marketing departments of many a known publisher. Now that we are self-funding and self-publishing, we can get away with features like the following.

• Divinity:Original Sin is an Isometric cRPG.
• You can play in single player mode but also in cooperative multiplayer mode
• It's a real epic CRPG so even in multiplayer, you're engaging in much more than just combat and item fever. A nifty cooperative dialog system, a highly reactive world, a deep character development system and plenty of choice and consequence situations see to that.
• You can create your own RPG adventures with our powerful RPG editor and share or play them with friends
• Combat is very tactical. It is turn-based and features things like skill and spell combos, attacks of opportunity, action points and much more.
• Exploration is greatly rewarded.
• You can develop your character(s) to fit your playstyle using our classless skill and stats system.
• There are countless item interactions and item combinations waiting to be discovered.
• No Divinity game is complete without music composed by the brilliant Kirill Pokrovsky.

I've been following this one for a while, and its been looking great. While it's part of the Divinity series, it appears to have a lot of it's own new features and changes compared to the previous installments.

 

[Maleficus]

>kickstarter

 

[Bateluer]

Interesting, worth a backing?

 

[gothamhunter]

Backed; love the Divinity series and this looks great. I didn't go Collector's boxed edition though, just digital on this. A great time to be a cRPG lover.

 

[Martimus]

After watching the video, I am very excited for this game. I had no intention of pledging, since I have never played a Divinity game, but this game looks far better than any of the other RPGs I have backed. I am quite excited to see it released!

I am far more excited about this game than Torment, Project Eternity, or Wasteland 2. I have a feeling that this will be the best game to come out of Kickstarter.

 

[smackababy]

This actually looks pretty good. I am glad they have so much already finished. This might be a kickstarter that isn't a recipe for disaster.

 

[Red Storm]

No intention of pledging, but cool stuff. Kickstarter has really been a savior for classic gaming.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I have been really excited about the RPG resurgence that Kickstarter has enabled. I can't wait to play Shadowrun Returns. I am excited to get my hands on Wastlands 2. I threw my money at Project Eternity. I made a *squee* sound like a little girl at the announcement of Torment. But how many more can I stay excited about?
Divinity looks great, but my plate is full for a long time to come. The likelihood is I'll buy this on a steam sell sometime in 2015 or 2016.

 

[gothamhunter]

I have been really excited about the RPG resurgence that Kickstarter has enabled. I can't wait to play Shadowrun Returns. I am excited to get my hands on Wastlands 2. I threw my money at Project Eternity. I made a *squee* sound like a little girl at the announcement of Torment. But how many more can I stay excited about?
Divinity looks great, but my plate is full for a long time to come. The likelihood is I'll buy this on a steam sell sometime in 2015 or 2016.

You have that backwards.

You should definitely throw your money at this now, because this game will actually come out this year, as most of it is already completed (the expected release date for this game is in 2013).

You'd be wise to back this project, as it'll come out before any of the others do.

 

[Chiropteran]

I'm in for $25 simply because it's a real turn based RPG. So sick of action game claiming to be an RPG because "experience points!". Also sick of RPGs adding platform jumping and dodging to make the game more "skill based".

 

[smackababy]

I'm in for $25 simply because it's a real turn based RPG. So sick of action game claiming to be an RPG because "experience points!". Also sick of RPGs adding platform jumping and dodging to make the game more "skill based".

It is funny players praised the simulated real time combat of KOTOR and wanted games to advance past the turn based combat, but once they did everyone wants turned based games again.

 

[Martimus]

It is funny players praised the simulated real time combat of KOTOR and wanted games to advance past the turn based combat, but once they did everyone wants turned based games again.

Some people like real time combat, and some people like turn based combat. I like both, but the depth of combat options available due to having turn based in this game, really looks like a lot of fun. I like having the ability to plan out complicated strategies like this shows you are able to.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thanks for posting about this, looks intriguing and has several elements I have never seen before.

 

[Bateluer]

I decided to pledge 25 for it. Their video was good and it looks like they've made substantial progress on it already, this'll give me a good game to play at the end of the year.

 

[Craig234]

I liked the original Divinity so this sounds great, I'm off to pledge. Sounds like one of the most exciting kickstarters so far.

 

[JamesV]

It is funny players praised the simulated real time combat of KOTOR and wanted games to advance past the turn based combat, but once they did everyone wants turned based games again.

It's because AI hasn't improved to the point where real time combat is actually strategic. Almost every game, the AI simply bumrushes straight to you, and your characters AI is guaranteed to do something stupid you don't want it to do.

A good turn based game gives the illusion of good strategic AI, without the headaches of real time.

As for Divinity, played the hell out of all of them, except the last one. Good games, but quite bug riddled, and as balanced as the current leader of North Korea. Replaying the first, and I do around 15-60 damage with my bow, and 1000 dmg with a trap for example... too easy to exploit the OP skills. Will check it out once it released though.

 

[SMOGZINN]

You have that backwards.

You should definitely throw your money at this now, because this game will actually come out this year, as most of it is already completed (the expected release date for this game is in 2013).

You'd be wise to back this project, as it'll come out before any of the others do.

Shadowrun Returns should be out in 3 months. Wastelands 2 should be out in October. I doubt I'll be done with those two before Project Eternity comes out next April, and that game is looking to be massive. Torment is projected to come out sometime at the end of next year as well, and I'll probably drop everything else to play it. I haven't even gotten to the new XCOM yet.

 

[Craig234]

Just read it, it looks like there's a second game from them,called Divinity Dragon Commander, coming in 4 months you can get bundled with this one, for $65.

I normally just get the basic game, but for this one I think I might try that package. It also includes the 'developer' stuff that comes with the $50.

I wasn't crazy about some of the bonuses, which 'affect only your copy of the game' and are things like getting a message in the game that you wrote. Yay.

The $10,000 level that only one person can get does sound like a neat feature, but $10,000 oh well.

 

[AdamantC]

Saw this on Rock, Paper, Shotgun a few days ago, and it now has my $25. I loves me some open world RPGs.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Shadowrun Returns should be out in 3 months. Wastelands 2 should be out in October. I doubt I'll be done with those two before Project Eternity comes out next April, and that game is looking to be massive. Torment is projected to come out sometime at the end of next year as well, and I'll probably drop everything else to play it. I haven't even gotten to the new XCOM yet.

Okay so, I broke down and funded it to the tune of $25. I could have probably have bought it cheaper on a steam sell since I might not get to play it for a few years after it is released, but after listening to their video and seeing what they are doing, I decided that they deserve my patronage.

 

[Rhezuss]

Kickstarted that shit! Gonna be awesome.
Divinity 2 is one of my fav RPGs in the year 2000s and Larian Studios have my trust since the day they were born.

 

[shadow9d9]

nm

 

[shadow9d9]

It is funny players praised the simulated real time combat of KOTOR and wanted games to advance past the turn based combat, but once they did everyone wants turned based games again.

I don't recall that happening at all...

 

[Craig234]

Still at $250K/$400K, need more sponsors.

 

[Bateluer]

Still at $250K/$400K, need more sponsors.

They have 24 days to go.