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Pillars of Eternity Review Thread

Yeah, these reviews rock!

Finally a game that gives Obsidian the recognition and hopefully sales they deserve. You crafted the tools with this one, now build on it and fly even higher!
 
LurkerPrime said:
Not the "R" word again! Ahhh!

It would be interesting to see, actually. Obsidian does a much better job of framing relationships than Bioware does in their games, making them a fling or "potential", rather than a full-blown romance. Which makes sense when you're saving the world - ain't no one got time for that.

Dave's departure left a giant Eurogame and CRPG-shaped hole in Giant Bomb. Miss the duder's input.
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I'd take Bioware romances if the plot ISNT save the world. Thats the kind of sacrifice I'm willing to make.
 
LurkerPrime said:
I wanna say thanks again (in the new OT) to everyone that Kickstarted. Without your generosity and love for PoE it wouldn't be here today.

So, thanks a lot! I look forward to the stupid-long credits crawl with all of your names... :(


I guess. It's not like GB does reviews very often, though. It takes a really big release for them to care at all.
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This is a really big release...
 
If PoE2 has BG2-level romances, with emphasis on intimacy rather than sex, it'll be game of the forever confirmed.
 
Those scores (I expected them even If I don't care because I'll buy it anyway :P) Now only one thing needs to happen before the second golden age of cRPGs is upon me: Somebody needs to buy/steal the Wizardry license from that japanese studio that is torturing the franchise or a spiritual successor to Wizardry 6-8 is announced/kickstarted/whatever.

Plz, somebody...

plz ....

*weepingsilently*
 
Shake Appeal said:
How is that... possible?
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Yeah and I browse GAF every single damn day too. I've been kind of out of gaming, I guess. Maybe I heard about this game in the past but I never paid it much heed since I didn't think Obsidian had it in them to make a spiritual successor to BG2.
 
Karak said:
This is a really big release...
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Giant Bomb does like fifteen reviews a year, to give an idea how little a focus they are for the team. I don't think anyone aside from Rorie (who is more a behind the scenes fellow at GB) is even playing the game.

I dunno, they might surprise us. But it seems unlikely.
 
Eh, I'd rather they stayed away from romances. Based on Alpha Protocol and KOTOR 2 I don't think they are in Obsidian's wheelhouse.
 
prudislav said:
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Still not decided if its satire or he means it seriously :-/
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Durr
 
Excellent, good to see Obsidian has finally managed to release a properly polished game, and a pretty damn good one too apparently!
Unfortunately I can't help but fear some kind of "hype backlash" from hardcore rpg players who might end up hating it in the long run because of certain changes to the IE formula (however big or small they might be).

Now, please give us a proper Arcanum/Fallout spiritual successor
 
Wow, time to try and get this going on my ancient laptop. I may have to hit the flux capacitor a couple of times with a hammer, but this sounds totally worth it.
 
LurkerPrime said:
Giant Bomb does like fifteen reviews a year, to give an idea how little a focus they are for the team. I don't think anyone aside from Rorie (who is more a behind the scenes fellow at GB) is even playing the game.

I dunno, they might surprise us. But it seems unlikely.
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Well to ME this is a big release. For many reasons but ya agreed. GB is sort of not relevant in many ways anyway I guess.
 
Never been so nervous about clicking on a review thread like this one. So stoked to see how well it is reviewing, and I can't fricken wait to dive in!
 
My body is so ready that I need to go back in time 9 months to get a woman pregnant just so that today I can witness the birth of my spawn whose body is also ready.
 
cirrhosis said:
Jason just posted this on Kotaku. Review still pending.


http://kotaku.com/if-you-like-rpgs-you-must-play-pillars-of-eternity-1693809270



Well, there you have it.
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I love what Jason said here...

Back in September of 2012, when I first heard that Obsidian was launching a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, I got a little… uh... too excited.

I was ecstatic. I called it my dream RPG. In retrospect that was a bit premature, especially as the years went by and we saw a decent number of successful Kickstarters either disappoint fans or disappear entirely. But the prospect was just so damn exciting. A new isometric RPG in the style of all those old Infinity Engine games I had spent hundreds of hours living in back in the early 2000s? Yes. Please.

Today, having spent the past week sinking my teeth into the game now called Pillars of Eternity, out today for PC, it's safe to say that I was right. This is my dream RPG.
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I didn't even know this existed.
Divinity original sin was good (only the inventory system kinda sucked)

Sure seem to be a lot of great releases on pc in the past 12 months.

edit :oh this is also published by paradox like cities skylines? cool
 
Durante said:
You read "highly praised FedEx quest system" and you're unsure whether it's satire?
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well on steamforums i've seen a lot of some satiric comments like this. And surprisingly more ofne than not there were people , sometimes even author of the post defending it that its meant seriously... ;-)
 
superdeluxe said:
Awesome spoiler free review Karak.
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Thanks so much. It was actually hard to get all the footage and glean through it for such a long review and make sure I didn't slip up at all. The game is almost all spoiler technically:)

Glad others are digging the game as well. It is a fantastic piece of work.
 
MisterShine said:
There are several 'new' Bioware romances that do the same thing. (Garrus, Jack, Alistair, Zevran if you do it right...)
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DA:O actually had OK romances, but the gift system fucked party interactions entirely for me.
Didn't play any other DA game and I only played ME1. But I believe that BioWare are capable of producing some good romances... Though I still find the scenes to be a little cringe inducing. IE games got away with it because sex was a simple screen fade out and emotions were mostly text rather than polygonal mimes.
 
Karak said:
I gave it a Buy rating.

The game is simply amazing.
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Is this your longest review?

Also, can you disclose how much caffeine you consume before each review? Ethics pls

Fantastic review. I'm not sure I've ever seen amateur porn with a donation button, tho. "Pre-puberty heart where I didn't know the world was made of bad tidings and razorblade smiles" lol
 
I'm really really excited for this, I've been waiting for a game like this for so long, the resurgence of classic isometric rpg is something that fills me with so much joy because I had pretty much given up on those ever coming back a few years ago (and while I had high hope for Dragon Age, it ended up being a bit too shallow and overall meh for me). It's almost surreal to me.
 
I'm mostly surprised how little bugs have come up. I expected it to have a bunch and need at least a few weeks of patching however much of a masterpiece it is, but it sounds like what ones there are end up pretty minor. The return of CRPG's continues.
 
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