[February 2021 - ????] DSP Tries It: Divinity: Original Sin II

the fat boy has wandered into the Gargoyle Maze, for you kids with out reading comprehension, it's a maze full of traps. You're supposed to reach a tower towards the center which has a ton of shit in it. Phil bulldozes his way in, gets mowed down by the traps and is now fleeing the maze, saying it's a stupid waste of his time.

despite his claim of giving up, phil is still attempting to bulldoze through the maze. he is very upset that he can not figure out how to get to the end of the maze. say it is too confusing.

"why did they make this? it's not fun. it's not. why did they do this? because they're dumb"

says the fat nigger who apparently doesn't understand the point of a maze.

his fans walked him through the maze. "thank you! that was really dumb, i never would've figured that out"

the shocking solution to this brain damaging maze that phil barely managed to escape with his life?

open that door over there you didn't notice.

"woah, where are we? we're in a totally new room that we didn't know about"

yes that's usually what happens when you enter a building you've never been in before.

phil is going absolutely ape mode over the fact he can't figure out how to use a backpack in the game. it's pretty fucking funny. "how do i do it? HOW DO I DO IT? the inventory is SO bad. they should've done a much better job. they have no idea what they were doing, this is the SECOND game and it's GARBAGE. how do they not understand it's way too cumbersome. how do I use the backup? ripleyatomic says you need to...hold the item in your hand..and put it in?"

"okay i have to hold every item manually in my hand and place it into the backpack like a small child would do"

how the fuck does he think a backpack works? what the fuck.

"this is the worst inventory system i've ever seen in any RPG, what the fuck were they thinking with this garbage?"

listen kids, anytime someone sits you down and tells you "DSP is a master manipulator, he knows exactly what he's doing at all times. every lie, every excuse, it's all planned out beforehand to get money out of his viewers"

remember this moment. that he had to be explained how to use a fucking backpack.

"dude if you're going to make an RPG then know what you're doing, no one wants to sit in a menu for forty five fucking minutes. you can't make an inventory from diablo 1, wake up and grow the fuck up, this is so dumb"

man is playin' a PC RPG on console and whinin' bout the inventory bein' a lil bad. yeah and i'm sure if I try to play devil may cry with a wii mote I ain't gonna have the best time either.


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"wh-what are the yellow flags? is that where i need to go? dude...what're the yellow flags..."

someone in chat had to explain to him what the flags mean. I hope I do not need to elaborate on why I am pointing this out.

okay children, after about. oh i don't know, what was it? like 20 hours? (phil just claimed 40 hours holy FUCK) two months over all? Phil has finally left the tutorial island. but we're not out of the woods yet. There's one final boss fight before we can close Chapter 1.

i'm going to make the boss fight, if it is entertaining, a separate post since phil has to stumble around Lady Vengeance for awhile and will likely go on break before the fight.
 
ok, I know I said I wouldn't post again until the boss fight, but Phils tactical genius has me in fucking awe right now. Phil went into the basement of the ship where he meets two The Hammer's Pets. These are large undead monsters who are Rogues essentially, teleports, backstabs, that's how they do. One teleports behind Phils archer, phil wants to teleport it back down, but can't due to Line of Sight, he bitches and whines how much he hates LoS, then for some bizarre reason decides to teleport the OTHER Hammer's Pet up onto the balcony BEHIND his archer. So now his Archer is up alone with TWO people who do bonus damage if they're behind the target.

Hammers Pet killed his mage in a single blow. Phil didn't like that.

Phil tried to run away from the Hammer's Pet with his archer but forgot about Attack of Opportunity and got his lil ass slapped. I don't think he noticed because he did not mention it.

"oh my god....two AP to walk a few feet and go up a ladder, really?"

ain't this the same fat boy who drives to his mailbox?

Phil is lucking out with enemy AI, so for anyone watching this and not knowing what's happening, Gheists, which are what The Hammer's Pets are, can't go up or down ladders. So they get around this by teleporting, but their teleport has a cooldown. So if they go up a ladder and don't have teleport/no one in range to teleport too they just jerk off until they can. So phil got 2 free turns because the AI is telling the Gheist "hey go kill mages first" but they can't reach mages since ladder. So Phil got a few turns in for free. Then the teleport came off cooldown and they one shot his other mage.

phil managed to defeat the two Hammer's Pets. all it cost him was two of his party members and almost a third one as well.

I'll likely edit this post when the Lady Vengeance boss fight happens if he gets that far today. he's been stalling like a mother fucker.
 
Divinity: Original Sin 2 (And the first one) are my favorite games ever. Also what the fuck who plays this game with a controller?


Also what the fuck is really that hard about it? Do you play with god mode on on the regular, or?

the fat boy has wandered into the Gargoyle Maze, for you kids with out reading comprehension, it's a maze full of traps. You're supposed to reach a tower towards the center which has a ton of shit in it. Phil bulldozes his way in, gets mowed down by the traps and is now fleeing the maze, saying it's a stupid waste of his time.

despite his claim of giving up, phil is still attempting to bulldoze through the maze. he is very upset that he can not figure out how to get to the end of the maze. say it is too confusing.

"why did they make this? it's not fun. it's not. why did they do this? because they're dumb"

says the fat nigger who apparently doesn't understand the point of a maze.

his fans walked him through the maze. "thank you! that was really dumb, i never would've figured that out"

the shocking solution to this brain damaging maze that phil barely managed to escape with his life?

open that door over there you didn't notice.

"woah, where are we? we're in a totally new room that we didn't know about"

yes that's usually what happens when you enter a building you've never been in before.

phil is going absolutely ape mode over the fact he can't figure out how to use a backpack in the game. it's pretty fucking funny. "how do i do it? HOW DO I DO IT? the inventory is SO bad. they should've done a much better job. they have no idea what they were doing, this is the SECOND game and it's GARBAGE. how do they not understand it's way too cumbersome. how do I use the backup? ripleyatomic says you need to...hold the item in your hand..and put it in?"

"okay i have to hold every item manually in my hand and place it into the backpack like a small child would do"

how the fuck does he think a backpack works? what the fuck.

"this is the worst inventory system i've ever seen in any RPG, what the fuck were they thinking with this garbage?"

listen kids, anytime someone sits you down and tells you "DSP is a master manipulator, he knows exactly what he's doing at all times. every lie, every excuse, it's all planned out beforehand to get money out of his viewers"

remember this moment. that he had to be explained how to use a fucking backpack.

"dude if you're going to make an RPG then know what you're doing, no one wants to sit in a menu for forty five fucking minutes. you can't make an inventory from diablo 1, wake up and grow the fuck up, this is so dumb"

man is playin' a PC RPG on console and whinin' bout the inventory bein' a lil bad. yeah and i'm sure if I try to play devil may cry with a wii mote I ain't gonna have the best time either.



"wh-what are the yellow flags? is that where i need to go? dude...what're the yellow flags..."

someone in chat had to explain to him what the flags mean. I hope I do not need to elaborate on why I am pointing this out.

okay children, after about. oh i don't know, what was it? like 20 hours? (phil just claimed 40 hours holy FUCK) two months over all? Phil has finally left the tutorial island. but we're not out of the woods yet. There's one final boss fight before we can close Chapter 1.

i'm going to make the boss fight, if it is entertaining, a separate post since phil has to stumble around Lady Vengeance for awhile and will likely go on break before the fight.
Lmao it's crazy. The gargoyle maze can literally be circumvented by just having one fucking character with the teleport ability. It really is not hard to traverse it. This dude's brain size may very well be compared to that of a koala. Wouldn't surprise me if it's mostly air.
 
Lmao it's crazy. The gargoyle maze can literally be circumvented by just having one fucking character with the teleport ability. It really is not hard to traverse it. This dude's brain size may very well be compared to that of a koala. Wouldn't surprise me if it's mostly air.

my first character started out as a metamorph with the wing ability. i just jumped through the entire maze and the gargoyles at the end yelled at me.

also phil isn't doing the boss fight today. he is slowly reading every book and exploring this 12 by 12 foot room. he's not doing the boss fight today.
 
my first character started out as a metamorph with the wing ability. i just jumped through the entire maze and the gargoyles at the end yelled at me.

also phil isn't doing the boss fight today. he is slowly reading every book and exploring this 12 by 12 foot room. he's not doing the boss fight today.
See if he handles it easily when he does it. Will be a dead giveaway that he's reading a guide.
 
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See if he handles it easily when he does it. Will be a dead giveaway that he's reading a guide.

it's not something you can easily handle, not at the point where he is. It's a "boss fight" in that it's not actually a "boss". It's more "hey here's 20 enemies trying to kill 1 NPC. if that NPC dies you get one shot game over"

the easiest way to handle this is to get abilities like Cyclone you can cast on the NPC to keep them invulnerable to damage, but Phil is too late. He couldn't get that ability now even if he read this very post.

there is also the possibility for "story" important NPCs to die. For example the Paladin Gareth is an important NPC, he has his own storyline in Chapter 2 and will show up in Chapter 3. He can die on the Lady Vengeance fight, and I presume if he does, he is actually fucking dead. I don't know for sure because I didn't let him die. But I know he can.
 
my first character started out as a metamorph with the wing ability. i just jumped through the entire maze and the gargoyles at the end yelled at me.

also phil isn't doing the boss fight today. he is slowly reading every book and exploring this 12 by 12 foot room. he's not doing the boss fight today.
Right? Even when I did it for the first time I figured it out pretty fast. You don't even need the skulls to finish the maze. I wonder how he'll fare on Bloodmoon Island... - Or if he will even understand what's going on in the storyline most of the time.


Also Gareth doesn't do shit in the overall storyline after you have the fight on the Lady Vengeance. It's just one quest where he finds out his parents got murderkilled and you can encourage him to take revenge or not to. He's pretty much a glorified warfare book vendor after that.
 
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I'm so pleased every time I read this thread. Some bloody genius among Phil's fanbase put the word in his ear that he ought to play a game which has no pity for its player and which cannot be cheesed because it's not an action title, which amounts to a Pigroach Ego Killer.

Whoever played Wormtongue to Phil's Theoden deserves a medal.
 
phil has accidentally triggered the Lady Vengeance boss fight. I expect a very swift quit due to time. I am writing this post preemptively as he plays tho. So we'll see.

yeah, he made it to the boss fight, apparently 36+ hours into the game to beat the TUTORIAL. he is now exiting out of the game and endin' stream.

Also Gareth doesn't do shit in the overall storyline after you have the fight on the Lady Vengeance. It's just one quest where he finds out his parents got murderkilled and you can encourage him to take revenge or not to. He's pretty much a glorified warfare book vendor after that.

yeah i know he doesn't like change the fuckin' ending or anything. But he is still there and does still have his own storyline. I just didn't know what happens to him after the Nameless Isle with Alexander, since that's where he died for me.
 
The handholding is out of control. I don't know what do you guys think? Should I look at my inventory and stall for an hour? Run across the map for an hour? OR proceed with the story? I don't know. WE have made a lot of progress so far tonight but I don't know what to do next. I tell you what I'm going to go on break for 30 minutes, so you guys tell me what you think when I get back we will discuss it then.
 
it looks like phil beat the Lady Vengeance fight on his first try, I actually did not expect him to be doing Divinity again so soon and I had a job interview today, so I didn't actually get to see the fight. but I'm here now children. I'll keep you updated if anything happens of note.
 
hello children. my life has been very hectic today, trying to set things up and life is never easy for the common man. so i will be unlikely to chronicle the fats boys explorations today.

i will be here for another hour so i'll do what I can. lettuce begin.

"Guys i really need the help today so please consider tipping. I really need the money and I am trying to hit the tips goal every day this week"

don't you pretty much already do that, fattie?

more having the stream chat spec his characters for him

"so should i put it into huntsmen or? what do you guys think? .....................well what do you guys think? or should i just flub it?"

i ain't gonna lie to you kids. The past eight fucking minutes has been him leaning over in his chair "what do you guys think? should i give him loremaster? what do you guys think?"

let me tell you a story. I have a hobby that requires programming things. I had a friend who was a computer scientist. Any time I came up against something I did not understand or did not know how to achieve, I asked him how to solve it and he solved it for me. After awhile he went away. Suddenly I had to solve these problems on my own. You know what happened? My skill level rapidly increased.

my anecdotal story has nothing to do with how stupid Phil is and why he's stupid. don't think about it.



"hey phil what stats do you think you'd have if you were in an RPG?"

"i have no idea. *snort*"

hell of an interactive streamer, lemmie tell ya.

Phil has activator the water Voidwoken battle. When I did this fight, by the time I found it, I had pretty much finished Driftwood and was just cleaning up. So I slapped ham on this. But I heard it's a hard fight. Let's see how philbert does.

nice. "So this character can BURROW into the ground huh? let's try it"

he uses burrow on someone standing right next to him. It does as it's supposed too. "uhhhhhh. it didn't do anything? this is worthless. that was worthless!"

mate it's a teleport. you teleported onto someone directly next to you. it did as it should.

"when are you doing a hot tub stream?"

"i'm never doing a hot tub stream because i don't put out disgusting content, pornographic content"

you sure bout that....someone roll the clip....

"ew, he hit me with charged phlegm, disgusting."

sure is phil. sure fuckin' is....

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"can I hit him or not? i can't tell."

it's a mystery the worlds greatest minds struggle with to this day, honestly.

and that's all my time for right now. I gotta head back out. I should be back before he's done, so I'll resume then. Someone else feel free to take over fer me, yeah? The boy is a heavy burden to bear. It's killin' my fuckin' back...
 
DSP just claimed he "has to" finish this game since it's a viewers choice.

Seconds after, he said the game will be relegated to a secondary stream, playing it once a week, so expect it to be a long playthrough. :story:

Edit: He ventured the wrong way. All party members died except him. Proceeded to go the wrong way yet again and got into another fight, prompting yet another reload.
 
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I've returned from my miserable day out in my miserable life. Now to watch the fat boy, I'll either realize my life ain';t so bad or I'll blow my brains out. win either way.

I see Phil has met the Trolls. Trolls in this game are very very strong enemies. They have high HP deal high damage and regenerate health a lot. I managed to kill both of them due to the fact they have little magic resistance. The trolls, as the legend goes, prevents people from passing their bridge unless they pay. So is Phil gonna pay or is he gonna mario 64 bowser swung by a Troll?

i cant wait to find out.

oh for some reason the Troll only charges 1 gold coin to cross. Ain't entirely sure why that is, but phil escapes once again...

phil met a racist squirrel.

someone posts "the vendor is like a streamer, the higher they are the less they care about donations"

this causes this response from Phil "oh yeah i got it. since i'm just a tiny streamer, you give me a donation, i appreciate it, we have a conversation, we have fun. you donate to a big time streamer, be lucky to get your name read."

phil went into an encounter and got spooked by the enemies being high level and immediately reloaded and is fleeing the country.

Phil stumbled upon Alicseon. here comes the fucking one shot.


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nice. phil made it to a dock area i hadn't seen before. This area has Death Fog covering it. Death Fog, as you may've inferred from the name, kills any living being that touches it.
Phil being in his explorative mood, runs directly into the fog and dies instantly.

"Oh.....I didn't know that was going to happen. How was I to know?"

well. there's dead corpses all over the area. you've seen death fog before and oh yeah, mousing over the Fog tells you what it does.

phil ran into another optional boss and get shmacked up and decided to flee back to town and quit for the day.

i may or may not go back and watch the footage i missed, since i heard he died a few times. but we'll see.
 
How much is chat handholding Phil so far do you gather, on a scale of "DSP has to look up his guides offscreen to progress" at the 1 integer to "he's got a papavera for Divinity's sequel calling party attack plans" every step of the way at the top integer of 10? To my untrained eye I haven't really seen much evidence the difficulty has been cut yet but I could be very mistaken on that easily. Lack of cheers making a viewer's choice game being dropped seems to be right in DSP's traditional wheelhouse though, can't deny that.
 
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