Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Obsidian Edition

Deadfire is a pretty good game. I like the pirate setting and the turn-based mode. There are some interesting characters too. Overall the game feels a little flat/bland however. It could use some stronger emotions and stronger flavor. (Hard to explain.) There are a few irritating things: 1. loading times between areas are super long 2. the ship combat is strange and simplistic, so I simply boarded every vessel I came across instead

I really liked the first POE game but the sequel is an improvement in terms of setting, an island archipelago with a South Asian cultures flavour, intriguing plot and some returing characters from the first game, The only thing I didn't like is travelling the overworld through a ship from the map, at first it was pretty fun to manage and upgrade the ship and supplies but after a while it became a tedfious busy work to commute. Still Pillars of Eternity Deadfire is must play modern CRPG.

I regret installing this game via GoG Galaxy. Not only won't some of the DLCs that I own activate (even though I also installed them manually via the downloadable exes), the game also does not manage to verify its files. (stuck at 0% indefinetly). This is on fast fiber internet and running on PCIx4 m.2 NVME SSD with plenty of space left on the System SSD for TEMP files. When the game starts up, clicking the GoG overlay makes windows throw up a "program not responding warning". Nice. Probably Unity engine's fault. When closing the game, GoG client keeps sticking around like a guest that won't leave. The game itself is nice. Solid world building great characters and voice acting. All in All, more PoE, with what seems to be decent improvements over the first game. Hope the ending is better/less rushed, but I'm not that far into the game. 10/10 Wish Obsidian had gotten the Baldurs Gate licence to make BG3.

For a very long time Obsidian was considered to have the best writers in the industry, and for all the bugs and design issues their games may have had, the writing was always good enough to justify the purchase. This, unfortunately, is Obsidian's worst written game by a considerable margin. Infact this was their first genuinely poorly written game as a studio and it is obvious that they have lost some irreplacable employees. The graphics are fantastic and the game is very polished, but that is about all they got right. Combat is a mess and it is over so fast that tactics are almost never a consideration. Most engagements are over in the time it takes you to cast two spells, so while the game lets you build a fairly complex character it is largely pointless to do so. All in all, POE 2 just plain boring. The setting and story are not interesting, the characters are horribly written and combat is not challenging in the slightest. Everything is just a chore, even naval combat is essentially just a glorified excel sheet.

This is a great game but we have 2020 and there are still some bugs with vanishing NPCs and locked quests. Technology is also outdated - after almost 100h in game I was really in pain because of tons of loadingscreens. With HDD loadings are really annoying in this particular game. But still - the mainplot is very interesting (however quite short in comparision to rest of the game) and the worldbuilding with sidequests is amazing -this is the strongest advantage of PoE.