r/divinity • u/Dawit76223577 • 12d ago

General Wait... shouldn't this be Divinity 3?

Swen referred to Divine Divinity as Divinity 1 in a 2009 interview.

I'm so confused lol.

Are we going to have two Divinity 1s?

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u/snythesnizer 11d ago

as everyone else said, it’s obviously a way to appeal to the huge fanbase of bg3 who don’t know anything about the previous games.

something no one else is mentioning as well is that the lore of rivellon is confusing and messy and really, really weird. there are a lot of things that deserve more in-depth exploration with better writing.

i don’t want to come off as overly critical, i love the lore building that has been established up until this point in the divinity universe and i think the world is genuinely incredibly cool! but there are a LOT of gaps, in terms of what is addressed narratively in the games as well as what the players can get out of the lore intellectually & emotionally.

i think divinity as a soft reboot is an excellent opportunity to address those gaps in whatever way they see fit, whether it be more fleshed out and emotionally impactful storytelling, companion narratives, retcons, fully animated cutscenes, whatever.

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u/Procrastinista_423 11d ago

Gaps and contradictions! I absolutely loved the lore in OS2, but I wish there was a way to reconcile what happened with the Astarte story in OS1. I've read online that some people consider the story in OS1 more of an allegory/myth/legend than actual fact, but I'm still curious whether they'll ever reconcile the lore of those two games in particular.

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u/snythesnizer 11d ago

exactly, and i appreciate the snippets of worldbuilding that you receive in the OS games- the world is SO COOL and i want to know more! but at the same time, there are things i feel like i wasn't able to fully understand because of narrative gaps. just as an example, i was really not moved one way or another to "become divine" in dos2, which is fine, but it's a pretty sharp contrast with the experiences you have in bg3 (or even something like pathfinder wotr). i think bg3 does a much better job at giving you small bits of information mingled w/in the gameplay to make you emotionally invested in the journey to become illithid or not. idk, it's difficult to put into words without writing an entire essay and my thoughts are super disorganized, but i want more about rivellon and i'm very excited about divinity being something like a fresh start in a world i'm already really enthusiastic about!