Larian made one heck of a splash during The Game Awards earlier this week, announcing its next game, Divinity, with a trailer so sickeningly vile that it turned even seasoned games industry veterans into temporary pearl clutchers. We saw a lot of blood, vomit, and every other nasty bodily fluid that you can think of, but one thing that we didn't see was gameplay.
What with Divinity coming from Larian, the studio that made Baldur's Gate 3, you'd naturally assume that Divinity will be relatively similar from a gameplay perspective. Divinity itself is also strongly associated with the Divinity: Original Sin series, two games which both play very similarly to Baldur's Gate 3. Larian has been working on nothing but CRPGs for the past decade, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Divinity is going to be one.
While Divinity: Original Sin and its sequel are the more popular games, the series originally started out as an action RPG called Divine Divinity that more closely resembled Diablo. After a fairly underwhelming sequel called Beyond Divinity, Larian decided to use the power of the Xbox 360 and Bethesda's Gamebryo engine to make Divinity 2 a more standard 3D action RPG and released...
