Pillars of Eternity: Definitive Edition

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Posted on: January 15, 2020

Savagesouls

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Games: 350 Reviews: 61

An amazingly beautiful & hollow game

The game looks and sounds great, I love those handmade landscapes. The 3D is not great though, I think it would have been better if they went for full drawing. The aventure looks very promising at first, it's mysterious but quickly fall from grace when most of the plot is discovered. Then the game become dull. Most of it has already been made else where and the really original content is so dull. Just follow the story of the grieving mother. It's was so bad I wanted to put that emo girl out of her misery. It's Obsidian so of course it's full of bugs and glitches. Not long before finishing the game the achievement stoped from unlocking. Whatever, there's one I'll never get : the backer's achievement. Because it's seems that backers need to get validated to the point where only them can get their game to 100% completion. You will also encounter their idiotic personas and their poorly written fan fictions. I think this game could have been so much more than that. When I compare it to Dragon Age origin or even Fallout 1. Thoses games made me feel so much more, I had empathy for my followers and cared for them. And their endings broke me inside. I don't think I'll remember much of PoE.

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Posted on: August 5, 2022

tukkek

Games: 38 Reviews: 10

Subpar

While Pillars improves on almost every single aspect compared to the original Infinity Engine games, it's still not enough to bring the formula up to speed with contemporary standards. Interface, balance, rules system and writing are subpar - often when directly compared to those older games too! A lot of what hasn't aged well in classic cRPGs is on display here, such as having a rules system better suited to one-character-per-player tabletop play which translates to a real-time video-game 6-unit micro-management nightmare. At least those games offered 3 quickbar slots for abilities, 3 for spells and 3 for items, while this game's interface devotes what must be 1% or less of screen real-estate to your combat options (which is at the very least half of the content in the game). It's a UX choice literally impossible to understand or justify. Balance is horrible by modern standards, instead relying on the same "reload until you make it" or "explore every area fully for experience (even though the story gives you no reason to)" formula. It's that much worse if you're playing casually (such as only following the main quest) or using a small party. Writing ranges from great at some points to poor most of the time. "Pretentious" is an impression that comes through a lot of the time. The setting is more interesting than your generic Baldur's Gate fantasy backdrop but only in being "grim fantasy", that is almost as generic as the Forgotten Realms these days. I'm mostly over narrative video-games and would rather stick to film or actual tabletop RPGs for my stories. If your main goal is to fully explore and interact with a game world, Pillars may be a decent choice at 60% off but if you want good gameplay, try Dungeon Siege or Neverwinter Nights instead. If you want the full depth of classic party-based RPG rule systems then go turn-based. Games like XCOM 2: War of the Chosen and Shadowrun: Dragonfall display vastly superior approaches than here.

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Posted on: June 13, 2018

razorvashka

Games: 73 Reviews: 5

Song

Look at me! Look at me! Pillars of Eternity!

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Posted on: January 15, 2019

Kenshu

Games: 86 Reviews: 5

Cool game but bugs now

Hello I used to play to this game. I deleted this game few months ago and when I wanted to play again, this week, there was a bug (launch... and I cannot choose "New game" "Load game", etc. Because I don't see anything on the screen except some stars but I cannot click on anything.

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Posted on: April 6, 2020

songoffall

Games: 307 Reviews: 7

It's good

Starting a new game world is a risk. You might end up with players just not being emotionally invested or interested in it. POE brings back the glory days of Infinity Engine RPGs and then refines the formula further. And then The White March happened, pushing the writing even further. The choice you were given in Ondra's temple. It's something that stays with you. What you had to do. Won't spoil it - see for yourself.

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