Throw in the Undead race, flipping entire established rules in the game on their head, and you have another way to bend this game into whatever you want it to be. You can choose to play as one of them, or create your own unique character, recruit the other characters, and help them along their way as you tackled the overarching plot involving divine beings.

This time around, the devs created a handful of characters whose individual stories could stand on their own in their own game.

The first Original Sin had an arguably better main plot, but the individual characters that joined had largely insignificant tales to tell. On top of the improvements to gameplay, Larian Studios improved their storytelling. You and three friends can tackle the story of Divinity: Original Sin 2 in an almost infinite amount of ways: Advance the story together or you can all just grief each other and advance independently while sending ripples across the massive world. Classic-style cRPGs, JRPGS, and more, but Divinity: Original Sin 2 led the pack. Larian Studios created an RPG that can be bent and broken while, somehow, remaining entirely whole and takes the award for Shacknews Best RPG of 2017.ĭivinity: Original Sin 2 increases the potential of its combat system by nearly doubling the number of elements that can be manipulated by players, but also doubles the number of co-op players from two to four.

There were some great games released this year. Many of the games you'll see nominated across multiple categories incorporate some RPG elements, but only a select few stand tall as the best that the genre has to offer.

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