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Pillars Of Eternity:Complete Edition|OT| The perfect chance to revisit Raedric's Hold
- Thread starter Cornbread78
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Nope.
There are 2 companions who need to be actively in your party for a good amount of time if you want to complete their companion quests, but that's about it.
Companions:
Durance, Grieving Mother
Thanks. That's a relief. I'm taking my time exploring and doing some side-quests, having a blast. I got to the big city and did a quest that gave me a new companion that i really love, the
paladin woman/bird/whatever
DamagedInc
Member
Made a start on ps4 today, got to the Vale and recruited a couple of guys, I like what I've seen so far, the movement does seem a little jerk occasionally though.
Is there any way to centre the camera back on your characters if you've moved it around?
Is there any way to centre the camera back on your characters if you've moved it around?
Serenity_Lotus
Neo Member
DamagedInc
Member
Thanks, I did try that, must have registered it properly.
Well, this release got me to fire up my Divinity Original Sin playthrough and push towards the end (just need to round up some outstanding star stones). Then I can actually look at potentially getting this game. I always hear people rave about Obsidian's writing and that was where Divinity was weakest so would be interested to try this out.
Serenity_Lotus
Neo Member
Even after studying the controls I still got stuck in the same situation, lol.
Huntersknoll
Member
🎶🎶🎶 Hello Darkness My Old Friend 🎶🎶🎶
Can't wait to jump back in this time from my couch
Can't wait to jump back in this time from my couch
Did you do the basement?
I play on a TV and it would be heavenly.Basement? You mean the dungeon with the crazy women in it?
Yeah. I've seen some people miss it if they didn't talk to the priest or go in that way.
Yeah i went that way to Raedric.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Nope, no time limits. Some quests just require specific party members - you can always swap them out so no sweat.
Game is fantastic in every single way.
TRUE Baldur's Gate 3.
DamagedInc
Member
It does work...just about! I'm loving what I've played so far, it seems to be the rpg I've been after for ages not being a PC gamer anymore.
I love it. I especially love the companions, they truly are Baldur's gate 2 caliber (so far). Only down-side for me is that the main-story basically does nothing for me, unlike Baldur's gate 2 which is AAA.
Lister
Banned
I have heard this a few times. Don't get it.
The hollowborn was a compellign hook for me. Imagine giving birth to hollow beings. The despair of the parents, the fear of the people and their desperate search for the cause (or a scapegoat).
I agree the premise is interesting as fuck. But i recently got to the main city (at least i think it's the main city) and they haven't really done anything interesting with it. But i'm fairly early so... Still this is a GOTY contender for me.
Not sure if it's that. But Pillars got way better side-quests than BG2 though.
jimmypython
Member
looks tempting. are there any talks of doing a complete edition on PC?
For what its worth, if you're just getting to Defiance Bay then you've barely even started the main quest. That said I don't think it's the strongest part of the games narrative, though I do think it's quite a bit better the second time through when you know the stuff revealed to you later. It's kinda frustrating overall.
Someone from Obsidian on the Pillars Reddit said "Maybe". Also the console launch is obviously being looked at closely regarding controller support on PC and probably any chance Deadfire has in the future.
BG2's plot is pretty by-the-numbers epic fantasy, but it is extremely well-paced and mechanically just works. PoE has a more interesting (to me) premise and setting, but does a worse job at bread-and-butter stuff like giving you a clear motivation, setting the stakes for your character or for the world, pacing, etc.
jimmypython
Member
Good to know!
It has been forever since I have a decent PC. Pillars is the first game I wanted to play on. But the same content would cost around 100 Canadian $, as opposed to 60 on the console lol
I suspected as much. I have 23 hours of play time but i mostly just go around exploring and doing side-quests and talking to everyone. I'm having so much fun doing this stuff that i have mostly neglected the main quest lol.
MisterShine
Member
Lots of new people in this thread I'm sure so I won't discuss spoilers at all, but the narrative pay-off and villain for PoE really don't hold a candle to Baldur's Gate 2 at all. BG2 was both a personal narrative AND a significant regional threat, which Pillars tries to ape and fails for reasons I can't get into without talking about the ending.
Thankfully the expansion (White March) does this significantly better.
I love Pillars to death but let's not say things we can't take back. Planar sphere? Firkraag? Watcher's Keep? A decent number of the companion side quests (Keldorn, Jan, Haer'Dalis spring to mind)? A whole Sahaugin city?!
Thankfully the expansion (White March) does this significantly better.
I love Pillars to death but let's not say things we can't take back. Planar sphere? Firkraag? Watcher's Keep? A decent number of the companion side quests (Keldorn, Jan, Haer'Dalis spring to mind)? A whole Sahaugin city?!
JumpJeff84
Member
Is the text big enough on PS4? Kinda wanna play with a controller but if it's gonna be hard to read the dialog on my tv I may not
They are both pretty similar in complexity as far as a newcomer goes.
I'd say Divinity requires a little more brainpower to play in regards to solving quests, they don't sign post or hold your hand as much as Pillars does. But mechanically they are both about even.
Lister
Banned
I liked that a lot about Divinity.
Man, the perfect CRPG would be something with the narrative focus of Pillars, the quest design, quality, and quantity of a BG2, the combat challenge of Pillars, but the quest design challenge of Divinity.
My god.
Hey, BG2 is my GOAT. And i do think it have awesome side-quests. But from what i've played so far of Pillars i think the side-quests are better. But i'm only 20 hours in.
By the way just got
and that was some fucking A-class writing. Intense shit!
Edit: And i might just be suffering from a new found love and therefore overvalue the side-quests of PoE against BG2. Haven't played BG2 for about a year or so there might be some bias...
By the way just got
Grieving Mother
Edit: And i might just be suffering from a new found love and therefore overvalue the side-quests of PoE against BG2. Haven't played BG2 for about a year or so there might be some bias...
Anyone?
Lister
Banned
I don't own a console version, but looking at the few streams I've watched it doesn't look like it. The load times are the only concern, everything else seems fine.
I'd still pick the Pc verison over the console one if that's an option though, not just for laoding times either.
That radial menu is so slow and clunky compared to just selecting the ability with mouse and keyboard. Really slows down the pace of combat, and not ina good way,
GHG
Member
The radial menu is fine provided you pause the combat, you get used to it. If you want to use the radial menu in realtime then.... yeh you're going to have issues On the harder difficulty levels.
I've also had absolutely no issues with the load times on PS4 Pro for what it's worth, I'm about 6 hours in now and it's been great.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Is NeoGAF still mentioned in the credits?
Lister
Banned
I mean compartively to the PC UI.
Just watched someone on Ps4 give 4 seperate commands to his party. This would have taken me 3 seconds tops on PC. It took him almost 10 times as long. When you're talking about a 50+ hour RPG, that's going to add up. Of course as he gets used to it he'll be quicker, but still, it's menus and submenus and sub-sub-menus.
Obviously this is just an inherent issue with gamepads when dealing with a game that is integrated into a mouse nad keyboard setup. Nothing to be done about it.
popsicle_sundays
Member
Something odd is going on with my Paladin, I've respec'd into a heavy Defensive build and done something like 17 cons, 17 might, 18 int, 17 res but notice that in my character sheet it shows might as 15 and cons at 12...do you think this is just bugged?
I tried just doing a respec but nothing changed, I also checked for anything that could be negatively reducing my stats but nothing active is.
I tried just doing a respec but nothing changed, I also checked for anything that could be negatively reducing my stats but nothing active is.