The game cumbles under its own weight. Particularly intolerable are the extremely frequent, long loading screens, but what truly made me rage quit after tens of hours trying to engage with the game is the game over due to kingdom being destroyed. It served me three 28 days tasks to fix, with only one eligible person to put in charge. There was just no way I was ever going to sort it out, unless rolling way back in my saves. That wasn't an option, because if you keep more that 2 or 3 saves, the loading times get prohibitively long.
On paper, right up my alley, but in execution, a bloated tedious mess. I don't think that it's an exageration that you spent at least a fourth of the game waiting for loading times, and making your caracters rest. Moreover, I find the setting and caracters have very little personality.
People tend to advise newcomers to go straight to Dragongfall or Hong Kong, but this first entry is very much worth a play. Enjoyed it thoroughly and it did not exceed its welcome.
I purchased what I thought was an extension to a RPG-lite GTA-like that is Cuberpunk, I ended up with an onrail shooter full of QTE and scripted events. What a massive let down. Cyberpunk on its way to become the new COD.
GOG is starting to look like steam, seeling you games that won't run :/
I wanted to love this game and invested 60 hours in it, but had to stop because of a well known problem with saves load times increasing beyond reason once you get quite advanced. Once I got away from the game, I started thinking about it and realized that I didn't miss it, neither its characters, nor its story. It is mechanically very competent but I feel an attachment to none of the characters, and can't actually remember much of the story anymore. Fallout, Arcanum, Bloodlines were so wonderful that you could easily overlook the insane amounts of bugs they contained. I can't do that for Pillars.
The game crashes very often during cinematics (return to desktop). You have to switch back and forth between desktop and the game to get it to go on. This has plagued my experience of KOTOR1 as well. But now, it just won't go any further. Buy this game but not from GOG!
I have no idea whether that's GOG's version, or the remaster itself, but the game is just unplayable considering that it crashes on average every 15 minutes or so. I wanted to relive the good times when I played it back in the day, but it now proves to be a total chore. The crashes are well reported by users all over the and I wish sellers would stop releasing non-working games.
