The Penultimate Warrior
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[February 2021 - ????] DSP Tries It: Divinity: Original Sin II
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It's hard to say how guided his playthrough is. He gets some tips offline, and other advice is just a mix of random things from stream chat regarding different quests. Papavera at least gave him concrete instructions.
Dropping the difficulty would give his characters a 50% health boost and hefty armor boosts, so it would be readily apparent.
Regarding today's stream: very aggressive with the chat, first trying to follow Tyrone's advice (to find somebody hiding in a barrel), giving up, and then refusing to try again when given directions to the room where the barrel is. Then, when he finally finds the quest lizard, she gives him some oblique instructions on how to perform a ritual. Fortunately chat is there to give the step-by-step instruction that he's able to understand.
The Penultimate Warrior
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Whining about the pacing of the game now, odds on this playthrough lasting until May?
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i have it on in the background, nothing super interesting, but he has been on a fucking ban spree lately. vocally banned like 4 or 5 people so far.
Jasper2K
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This playthrough has been complete ass. Phil continues to suprise me with how low effort and lazy he can be. The way he has been playing will most likely catch up with him in act 3 and 4. 4 has a massive difficulty spike where you can't simply cannot rush through. I have a feeling with recent happenings he's going to rush through act 2 and completely fuck himself over.
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i know the fat boy is playing divinity tonight. but i just got the anti-wuhan wheezer shot and walked two miles immediately after. i'm not feeling great. go on with out me.
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His absolute disinterest in learning ensures he will never enjoy this game. Chat gives him advice but he thinks it's all completely arbitrary stuff that you can't know without playing through or reading the strategy guide.
The stream started with him attempting to open a trapped chest (which petrifies whoever opens it). He was told to Bless it last stream, so he does so and gets petrified.
Reload. He assumed it was some sort of bug and did the same thing.
Reload. Somebody tells him he has to cast Armour of Frost first (it cures and prevents Petrification) and DSP starts getting frustrated: "How am I supposed to know that? Seriously, how was I supposed to know that?" So he casts Bless (which is completely irrelevant to the trap), then Armour of Frost (without reading the description), and it works. He auto-loots the chest and complains that he doesn't know what his new items are, when he could have just looked when they were in the chest. And then chat tells him he didn't have enough Magic Armour and that's why the Petrification was going through, so he thinks it's some specific game knowledge that he couldn't reasonably know.
After a few minutes of shopping he cries that the game is complicated because Summoning (which passively increases the health of summons) buffs a Bone Widow (which summons a skeleton nightmare). Wow, it's like there's some synergistic skills.
He went into a crypt and there's a Terracotta Army, which he spent an hour trying to beat before giving up. He read his chat log to find out what to do, read some quest hooks he'd forgotten about, and got annoyed: annoyed waiting for chat to tell him what to do (advice for some minor sidequests in Driftwood) and annoyed when he didn't know why he was being told to do things. Annoyed the game doesn't label all the quests with "This a story quest! Recommended level: 6. Location: (8,14)." He threw a fit that it was too hard to know what to do because it's too open-world and there are too many places to go. Annoyed that he has to play for Viewers' Choice, even if it's bottom priority for him.
The end result is his accomplishments for the whole stream were looting a chest, light shopping/gear distribution, and meeting the dwarves under the tavern. He chose the most aggressive dialogue options and was upset that he got into a fight.
ETA: oh I thought he was done lol. He put the hammer down and said he needs chat (naming 2 regulars) to guide him. It's officially a guided playthrough, and he will quit if it doesn't start being fun for him. He also called himself a "casualized gamer," though I'm not sure he meant how it sounds.
The stream started with him attempting to open a trapped chest (which petrifies whoever opens it). He was told to Bless it last stream, so he does so and gets petrified.
Reload. He assumed it was some sort of bug and did the same thing.
Reload. Somebody tells him he has to cast Armour of Frost first (it cures and prevents Petrification) and DSP starts getting frustrated: "How am I supposed to know that? Seriously, how was I supposed to know that?" So he casts Bless (which is completely irrelevant to the trap), then Armour of Frost (without reading the description), and it works. He auto-loots the chest and complains that he doesn't know what his new items are, when he could have just looked when they were in the chest. And then chat tells him he didn't have enough Magic Armour and that's why the Petrification was going through, so he thinks it's some specific game knowledge that he couldn't reasonably know.
After a few minutes of shopping he cries that the game is complicated because Summoning (which passively increases the health of summons) buffs a Bone Widow (which summons a skeleton nightmare). Wow, it's like there's some synergistic skills.
He went into a crypt and there's a Terracotta Army, which he spent an hour trying to beat before giving up. He read his chat log to find out what to do, read some quest hooks he'd forgotten about, and got annoyed: annoyed waiting for chat to tell him what to do (advice for some minor sidequests in Driftwood) and annoyed when he didn't know why he was being told to do things. Annoyed the game doesn't label all the quests with "This a story quest! Recommended level: 6. Location: (8,14)." He threw a fit that it was too hard to know what to do because it's too open-world and there are too many places to go. Annoyed that he has to play for Viewers' Choice, even if it's bottom priority for him.
The end result is his accomplishments for the whole stream were looting a chest, light shopping/gear distribution, and meeting the dwarves under the tavern. He chose the most aggressive dialogue options and was upset that he got into a fight.
ETA: oh I thought he was done lol. He put the hammer down and said he needs chat (naming 2 regulars) to guide him. It's officially a guided playthrough, and he will quit if it doesn't start being fun for him. He also called himself a "casualized gamer," though I'm not sure he meant how it sounds.
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Hardcore gaming season has begun (According to DSP), now Divinity will be night stream only.
So now the options are a) Play the game for 2 hours a week until the heat death of the universe or b) wagequit
Reminder; this was a viewers' choice game
So now the options are a) Play the game for 2 hours a week until the heat death of the universe or b) wagequit
Reminder; this was a viewers' choice game
Shabobus
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This is especially funny given that he was shilling a possible patreon award of allowing backers to choose one game a week for streaming from his back catalog. This is the kind of enthusiasm he would bring to that choice.
kebab4you
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In May? We're approaching the lulls of the summer months, releases will slow down the coming months not speed up.
Jasper2K
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Big ups to Phil for wasting an entire stream on one fight then wage quitting. I have a feeling Divinity is going to be the next persona 3. Incredible. See you next week divinity maybe. *seething snort*
JamFlowMan
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Honestly surprised it took this long for him to blowup. The lack of handholding and money attached to said handholding must have pushed him over the edge.
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Always fun to see Dave rage and lose his shit whenever his electronic toy doesn't just roll over and let him win.
Begging Gaming Season like RE8 and uuuuuuuuuuuuh... Rome Total War Remastered?
But dood there's so many new HAWT upcoming games in the Hardcore
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What blows me away is that Phil comes from an era where figuring out what to do WITHOUT the strategy guides that any idiot with an allowance could buy was what separated the men from the boys, and we know how much Phil used to act like he was such hot shit during his early days on YouTube. He could not be making it any more obvious now how much he was willfully full of it back it then.
A reminder that Phil has played Morrowind, and therefore has experience with trapped chests already.
His whining over stuff that wouldn't elude him if he paid attention does much to illuminate why he's known as the Worst Gamer Ever. It's also one of many reasons why I'm convinced that Phil refuses to budge on any of his unlikable behaviors is because he likes being what he is, just not the rep that comes with it.
I've never played this game and I could still tell you that something called "Magic Armor" is going to protect you from magical effects like "Petrification". Again, this asshole has played Morrowind, a game which has Resist effects for protection against stuff like fireballs, poison, and paralysis, which I assume is what "Petrification" basically is. This is basic fantasy RPG stuff, you would be hard-pressed to find such games WITHOUT such tropes.
And it cannot be stressed enough how telling it is that on top not being arsed to remember anything, Phil's gut reaction to it costing him is to whine instead of learn. It's like he thinks everyone else wins and he loses if he improves his personality, which isn't remotely true. He could display learning even BEGRUDGINGLY and it would be an improvement to his image. But no, he insists on staying the exact same asshole, until the day he dies, and when that day comes, the last words out of his mouth will be whiny.
He complains about this a lot these days, and it seems just fucking bizarre, until you realize that it's because he wants a simple, linear experience that doesn't require effort. All of his bitching boils down to that laziness of his.
And there's one of his other traits manifesting itself a playthrough: talking shit and expecting to get away with it. Only Phil could be such a dick and a pussy at the same time.
Of course. This serves two purposes: 1) creates conditions under which he can ditch this game, and 2) allows him to blame someone else.
Phil needs to dig himself out of the hole that is his life right now, and instead he's going deeper. God what an idiot...
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Posts like these make the sweatyman.jpg collection in Bejeweled make so much more sense though.
From last year, yeah.Hardcore gaming season has begun (According to DSP), now Divinity will be night stream only.
So now the options are a) Play the game for 2 hours a week until the heat death of the universe or b) wagequit
Reminder; this was a viewers' choice game
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Hmm...
What is more fun?
Deeply involved RPG with mentally stimulating and meaningful character choices and a lore-rich story
-or-
Spend $70,000 on naked men then match 3 color
Jasper'sDad
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I thought Mordus would be the final boss in DSP's DOS2 run, but the first part of the anathema quest (practically useless 2h sword for the end game since it breaks after 1 swing) breaking DSP is something I did not see coming. I am surprised Phil did not just quit the game after that pathetic stream, especially after OIC told him he didn't have to play it.
If this wasn't DSP's last stream of DOS2 then I think the next will be since he seems to think you can just breeze through this game without having to know how to play it. He is going to get destroyed in the arena since his character builds are retarded. He doesn't want to talk to NPCs to discover quests (this guy likes to play video games right?). He doesn't even want to look up guides on what to do (too much effort to google) instead he wants his loyal viewers to step by step tell him what to do. The major problem is that while DSP can be guided to the right encounter and destinations there are mechanics he is going to have to figure out. Someone can tell him where the arena is, but telling him how to beat the arena is entirely different.
Is DSP really expecting someone to tell him "okay now on your first turn use beast's tactical retreat, shoot this dood, then with Lohse ...." no he wants to play that part, but since he has no idea what he is doing he just gets bodied and then rages that the game is poorly coded (as if DSP could even fucking name a programming language or framework). The fight he lost to constantly was probably beatable even using his awful build if he positioned correctly and abused the retarded AI in the game.
Instead, it was"HOW WAS I SUPPOSE TO KNOW THEY ARE IMMUNE" (someone previously told him about the examine option on every character that he of course forgot the existence of) or "THIS GAME IS HORSE SHIT SINCE I THOUGHT BY KILLING THE LEADERS THE REST OF THE MOBS WOULD DIE". There was nothing to indicate that is how it worked and instead what happened is he made up a retarded solution that he convinced himself would work but didn't and then blamed the game.
Unless DSP is willing to look up a guide, or actually attempt to learn the mechanics and spells in the game, and respec his idiotic builds then maybe he would make more progress, but since we all know none of that shit is going to happen then this playthrough is going to be done soon if not already.
If this wasn't DSP's last stream of DOS2 then I think the next will be since he seems to think you can just breeze through this game without having to know how to play it. He is going to get destroyed in the arena since his character builds are retarded. He doesn't want to talk to NPCs to discover quests (this guy likes to play video games right?). He doesn't even want to look up guides on what to do (too much effort to google) instead he wants his loyal viewers to step by step tell him what to do. The major problem is that while DSP can be guided to the right encounter and destinations there are mechanics he is going to have to figure out. Someone can tell him where the arena is, but telling him how to beat the arena is entirely different.
Is DSP really expecting someone to tell him "okay now on your first turn use beast's tactical retreat, shoot this dood, then with Lohse ...." no he wants to play that part, but since he has no idea what he is doing he just gets bodied and then rages that the game is poorly coded (as if DSP could even fucking name a programming language or framework). The fight he lost to constantly was probably beatable even using his awful build if he positioned correctly and abused the retarded AI in the game.
Instead, it was"HOW WAS I SUPPOSE TO KNOW THEY ARE IMMUNE" (someone previously told him about the examine option on every character that he of course forgot the existence of) or "THIS GAME IS HORSE SHIT SINCE I THOUGHT BY KILLING THE LEADERS THE REST OF THE MOBS WOULD DIE". There was nothing to indicate that is how it worked and instead what happened is he made up a retarded solution that he convinced himself would work but didn't and then blamed the game.
Unless DSP is willing to look up a guide, or actually attempt to learn the mechanics and spells in the game, and respec his idiotic builds then maybe he would make more progress, but since we all know none of that shit is going to happen then this playthrough is going to be done soon if not already.
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I really want to give this game a try but I can't really justify spending ~$45 on Steam right now. Do you gentlemen anticipate this game going down in price any time soon?
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It's been -60% off every month or two (searching "steam [game name] sale history" is usually enough), and it was last on sale March 27. Steam will probably have a Golden Week sale imminently - I think it's Golden Week now - but that's Jap stuff unless Larian manually puts it on sale for the event.