http://www.gog.com/game/pillars_of_eternity_champion_edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCiO4P4ZixY

"Eternity aims to recapture the magic, imagination, depth, and nostalgia of classic RPG's that we enjoyed making - and playing. At Obsidian, we have the people responsible for many of those classic games and we want to bring those games back…"

Pillars of Eternity ;)

To answer your question anyway: While I'd really like to play a game like Pillars of Eternity, I think the price they demand for such a game is utterly ridiculous. If it was more like 20€ it would be instant buy for me. Like this I'll wait for a sale.

For sure. I helped Kickstart it at the $65 tier. Getting a boxed copy & a digital copy. Like Wasteland 2, I'm not planning on taking the shrink warp off the boxed copy. It's going on my bookshelf.

I contributed to the kickstarter. My expectations are pretty mixed. I contributed in hopes of getting a game that feels like the Baldur's Gates and Icewind Dales but with fresh new characters and story and better enemy AI. I've always enjoyed the writing in Obsidian's games, so I'm sure the story will be intriguing and the NPC party members relatively deep as far as CRPGs go.

However, just because a game is party-based and use pre-rendered isometric 2D graphics doesn't mean it feels like the BGs and IWDs. If anything I would say the game's development has been guided by people who don't particularly like the IE games at all but like the 2D isometric style and wanted to make their own RPG. There are a lot of modern ideas that some people will like that, to me, make the game not at all what I was hoping for when I backed it.

I messed around with the backer beta a couple of months ago. It was... rough, to say the least. It's apparently gotten a lot better since then, so I still have hope that it will be pretty good. And even if it isn't? Well, even Obsidian's worst games are still quite interesting.

re: Anyone else looking forward to 'Pillars of Eternity'?

Hell fuck yes!!!

:)

I've been watching demo presentations of the game for months and I am very excited about 'Pillars of Eternity'.

All I ask from Obsidian is to please keep the mouse & keyboard controller scheme in the game as close to Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn as possible where the square on the area map which represents the players point-of-view can be repositioned with a click-drag action.

Get that method down in the game and I will be eternally grateful.

Oh, one more thing... please get this game pressed on a DVD, as I prefer a physical copy rather than downloading from the internet. I visited a Gamestop the other day and was pleasantly surprised Wasteland 2 was actually packaged on a DVD there and all this time I thought the game was available 'on-line only'.

Who0ps! :O