Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

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Posted on: March 24, 2021

orgh1123

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An outstanding sequel to a good original

I'm more than happy about the 2nd installation of the series. It's one of the best recent CRPGs out there. Definitely kicks butt of anything WOTC churned out in a decade. It's rough around the edges, but it's bordering on being a gem. I still think that Obsidian's setting is ridiculous, but the game is more than decent and screw WoTC/Hasbro for killing D&D and making a greasy 5ed sexdoll out of its once marvellous/illustrous skin. P.S. It suxx that when Obsidian does a better game (NWN2 DLC No.3/Pillars 2) they get shunned by the general public... P.P.S. Remove the damn review character limit!

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Posted on: November 21, 2021

Dot21g

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A fun romp through the Deadfire...

...which seems to have its priorities a little muddled. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is a very solid title, but its flaws are holding it back from being something truly great. Probably my biggest gripe with it is the relation of the main plot to everything else that goes on in the Deadifre. It's short and, compared to PoE I, rather weak. From the get-go, you're told how urgent it is to stop Eothas. After leaving Port Maje, however, the game opened up completely - the whole Deadfire was waiting to be explored at my leisure. So I found myself doing pretty much anything else, rather than following the main plot - because that was so much more interesting and compelling. This discrepancy between the sense of urgency the main plot is evoking and the open and explorartory nature of the gameplay was incredibly jarring. This is further compounded by the fact that pretty much everything else was so well-done: The city of Neketaka was a joy to explore, the vastly different cultures and factions around the Deadfire, as well as their corresponding quests, were varied, rich and well-written. At times, it felt like the developers were so busy fleshing out the lore that they forgot to write a good main plot to go along with it. The same goes for the companions: In PoE I, while not having many interactions, they felt nuanced and real. In PoE II, I felt some of that nuance was stripped away in favour of playing it for laughs (Edér and Aloth being the biggest victims). Speaking of companions: The reputation system associated with them was bugged in my run. Nothing game-breaking, but still... meh. The changes that were made to the rest of the gameplay were a bit of a mixed bag for me, too: Multi-classing was cool, but not really for me. The skill trees that replaced the skills and feats lists annoyed me, so did the Resource and Empower system. It felt much like an Action RPG in places, though whether that is a good or a bad thing is for the individual player to decide.

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Posted on: December 10, 2021

Frankelstner

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Boring

There's way too much distraction from fun parts like exploring dungeons or other environments: Much of the time is spent on a world map where you slowly travel around on foot or by ship. And make sure to enable level scaling because otherwise you might sail to the wrong place (with zero indication) and get chased and then smashed to bits by a high level pirate ship. Most places that you can travel to basically turn out to be either tiny random encounter zones or just loot drops where you repeatedly say "keep looting" and get some more water or find some coin until it runs out anyway. Who would even stop looting halfway? More time is spent on character level ups; selecting all the skills of everyone in the party is a slog in itself because ability descriptions are doubly nested before you can actually see what an ability does. So when you first hover your cursor over an ability, it provides a very short description that is worthless. Then you rightclick on the ability to get more info. Then that info says something like "grants the Insightful inspiration" and then you need to hover over Insightful to finally get an explanation of what actually happens. Rinse and repeat for the 10 different abilities that your fighter unlocked for this power level (there are 9 power levels). Repeat for all 5 members of your party. Conversations are also tooltip-heavy, where NPCs use newly invented words in every other sentence. So dialogs cannot be really handled with the keyboard because you constantly need to hover over these words. (Or just do not bother.) Combat is quite chaotic but the default AI works pretty well and wins your average fight without any input at all. Characters can also have up to 4 weapon sets, but it's not possible to define a hotkey to cycle between them. More clicking. So combat is streamlined out of the game and dungeon exploration is replaced but an utterly annoying world map. And the rest is boring.

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Posted on: March 4, 2023

Fast_Food

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good pace

Great pace for an RPG. You don't spend too much time wandering around and backtracking on maps. Addition of 2x speed is trully a gift from developers and why this game stands out among others. It has good class choice and vesatility. It is easy to pick up and quite hard to master.

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Posted on: May 9, 2018

Hunbaar

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Breaks the chains of nostalgia

Ignoring the critics who most probably do even own the game (you can see your game activity) I can safely say that PoE II is a clear improvement from its predecessor. The writing is not bloated, the world is more fleshed-out, characters are memorable, graphics are much better -I often just stared at the sheer beauty of the waves, shores and idle animations. Musics are not are at par with PoE I serviceable and pretty good. Sound design also did not improve much. One tiny criticism, which could be totally on me, is that I find the combat encounters rare and when they occur they happen so fast, just a cascade of flashes and skills and poof the enemy is gone. Hence the combat does not feel tactical but strategic, if you have the right skills you win. My party is around level 6-7 and I am 5.5 hours in so this might change, but the positive points I provided will not. The game goes above and beyond the imitation of old isometric crpgs, and excels in every aspect except world setting, sorry but Forgotten Realms has an incredible lore behind it, but PoE II despite the obvious disadvantage still kept me interested in its world. In sum, this is a solid game by it own, and you may enjoy it even if you have no memories of Infinity Engine games that you want re-live from two decades ago.

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