After Grossing Out Everyone At The Game Awards, Larian Says Divinity Isn't "Trying To Shock" People

After Grossing Out Everyone At The Game Awards, Larian Says Divinity Isn't "Trying To Shock" People

From TheGamer (Written by Joshua Robertson) on | OpenCritic

Last week, Larian revealed that its next game after Baldur's Gate 3 will be Divinity, and to say that the trailer was a little bit gruesome would be an understatement. Every single bodily fluid you could imagine was present in Divinity's big reveal, as a man puked into a pig pen (and then again not moments later), a different man was burned alive inside a large wooden effigy, which was surrounded by lizards and women getting busy. You'd expect nothing less from what some believe to be a Satan summoning ritual.

I actually can't remember a more disturbing reveal trailer off the top of my head. I can remember plenty of blood-filled trailers, there were plenty after and before Divinity was revealed, but when it comes to unrelenting grossness, nothing more intense really comes to mind. It definitely caused a few people to feel a little uncomfortable, as reactions began pouring out online quicker than the blood that poured out of that burning man's back.

Now that we've been left to sit on that trailer for a few days, Larian itself has waded into conversations surrounding the trailer in the form of publishing director Michael Douse (thanks IGN). In...

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