Can't finish it.
Bought this game on a "replay cRPGs" phase I had recently. Always loved the classics that you all probably know, BG, IcewindDale, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout, etc. In the process I also acquired new releases of the genre as I had also tried Divinity OS 2 and liked it a lot (combat balancing stupidity aside).
The first feel I got of this game after a little while playing it was: this is such a massively unnecessary slog of text! I don't usually have any problems with this as I loved every single one of the previously mentioned oldies and they are largely based on text as well. PoE however does it in a way where I get bored and disinterested after a couple of dialogs. It's just so thick to read and dull, mostly just spewing out irrelevant information while I try to find out what the actual point of the conversation is...
Combat is quite simply a clusterfuck most of the time, many of the actions you take aren't very transparent, movement and AI are weird as hell during the fights, the AI of the party members resembles that guy in your MMO party that went AFK to make a sandwich mid-fight. Almost every fight I've handled either was a massive victory or quite simply frustrating (where it should be tactical).
As far as the story goes, it's just so dull and bland. The protagonist can sense and talk to souls, big whoop. Then I chase a robed guy I apparently saw at the start and gave me this power. Bureaucracies from defiance bay ensue and I have a stronghold (that serves no purpose...).
After dealing with the duc and going for the second major zone I just couldn't handle the generic, bland feel of the game as the only thought going through my mind while playing PoE was "Why am I playing a crappier version of BG?".
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