Posted on: July 24, 2017

Varichi

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Classic style RPG with modern perspective

If you are considering getting an RPG game, and you're considering a game that: ...allows a good level of characterization for your player character? ...has a story is very deep and detailed, but not at all tedious? ...has creative lore? ...lets you create your own companions, in addition to having extremely detailed story companions? If so, you should try Pillars of Eternity. It checks off all the boxes. The game has a distinct setting, customizeable characters, and excellent writing. Each response your character has at his disposal may elicit an entirely different outcome in the conversation. What's best about this is that each conversation is not standard. What I mean by this is there is no "Good, Neutral and Cruel" options in every talk. Your tone, knowledge of the topic at hand, background, past decisions, skills, or present company may affect a conversation in different ways. The best part is that there's not a formula as to when this could happen. It just depends on the conversation. Classes are differentiated pretty well, with the old favorites (barbarians, wizards, rangers, etc) making appearances. There are several ways Pillars differentiates them, however. Some are intuitive-the ranger has an animal familiar of your choosing, for instance, and the barbarian specializes in AoE attacks-but others are fairly innovative. The paladin gets to choose from several orders that affect gameplay. One may add to the burn damage of an ability, another may add a healing option. The priest has a similar process with the god the player devotes himself to. These options are selected at character creation and in certain dialogues enable unique options. Each option also affects what kind of reputation your character prefers. In addition, there are original classes like the chanter and the cipher that are entirely of a Pillars flavor. My original review was 3700 words over the limit, so I left the two best parts (thanks GoG) but that should be a testament to the game.

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Posted on: June 6, 2015

dutchmagpie

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Spiele: 19 Rezensionen: 1

Pillars of Eternal Loading Screens

I had high hopes for this game. But now, having slogged my way through it, I don't think it's going to go down as a classic for me personally. That being said, there are certainly things to like here. The graphics are really pretty to look at, and the music is almost worth the purchase price on its own. I enjoyed the combat a lot. Strategy is key, and rushing in with an overpowered character is not an option. Not many RPGs have made me give up in frustration at repeatedly losing an encounter, only for me to tackle it later on with a different approach and coast through it. All in all, however, I don't find myself in any rush to replay this game now that I've completed it. Why? Mostly because of the story. It's okay. It's passable. But it tries to come across as a lot more profound than it actually is and never, ever gripped me or made me desperately want to find out what happened next. The game world itself mirrored the story; not bad, but lacking in depth and charm. And the less said about those immersion-breaking fan-created NPCs, the better. For a game which requires its players to read so much, I found the writing to be rather dull. The player character's spiritual experiences in particular are too heavy on metaphors. It ultimately made me skip through large parts of the conversations (which admittedly might have dulled my experience somewhat). Then there's the loading screens. Those darned loading screens!! All areas - even very small ones - take absolute ages to load. This makes quick traveling from area to area a frustrating chore and too often takes the pace out of the game. It seems such a small thing to complain about, but really affected my overall experience. I love what this game stands for and I fully support Obsidian's campaign to get it made. I really hope it sells well and proves a point to developers that this old-school approach is not dead, so that we may see similar games like this. But overall, I can't shake the feeling that this game could've been so much more.

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Posted on: August 4, 2015

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Spiele: 0 Rezensionen: 1

The Best RPG of 2015

For sure, Obsidian was able to make an RPG of the year. Everything in this game is brilliant.

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Posted on: December 12, 2019

nudelsalat

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Spiele: 195 Rezensionen: 14

Ridiculous load times

This is the first game I abandoned solely for the long load times between maps. Literally a third of the total time played is spent waiting for maps to load.

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Posted on: December 3, 2015

canuckbiker

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Spiele: 77 Rezensionen: 1

Good tribute game that fails to innovate

It's a great game that gets way too much praise from rabid fanboys looking through rose tinted glasses. The reviews labelled "tastiest rpg in years", and "looking for dragon age? look elsewhere", make me ashamed of appreciating the same game as them. I know the gaming community has always had it's holier than thou, "the games I enjoy are awesome, and everything else sucks", mentality people, but they bring it to a whole new level. I enjoy games for what they are, not what I think they should be. I enjoy the witcher, and mass effect for their experiences, and I enjoy this for what it offers, which is good old tactical, old-school rpg action, that refuses to hold you hand. That said, they might as well have called this game "Baldur's gate tribute", instead of anything else, because that's what this is. It touches on all the great aspects of those games, while doing absolutely nothing to innovate, or add to the genre. If you like Baldur's Gate II/Planescape: Torment, or any tactical top down rpg, buy this, it's fantastic, if not, that's cool as well, but this is probably not the game for you. You see? it's really not that hard to praise a game and genre, without being a condescending prick, and I managed to be objective the entire time. I guess I'm just crazy that way.

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