I'm quite a casual player and do not prefer any particular genre but rather look for an interesting game to immerse into. I do not need a powerful computer as gaming is not my priority and modern games require to invest a lot into hardware. So I occasionally turned to GOG to taste a few 10-15 years old games that I missed back in the 2000s. The most memorable RPGs I played in those times were the Fallout and Diablo series, which I all walked through, perhaps even a couple of times. The Infinity engine games I, oddly enough, discovered only recently through GOG. Planescape Torment impressed me by its unprecedentedly deep story and then I turned to Baldur's Gate to be impressed by its full D&D game mechanics. Yet I didn't manage to walk through them as at some point I became bothered. They might have been perfect games 15 years ago for a younger person but now it seemed ridiculous to spend so much time on repeating things like carrying the equipment back and forth, resting after every fight to recover health and a few other things. And now here is Pillars of Eternity. I carefully read through a couple of dozens of reviews and while those on the first page give the game 5 stars and excited vows, many of those on the following pages rate it quite poorly. I nevertheless decided to give it a try. And I'm more than impressed. It's sleek, polished, beautiful, interesting, and what is more important, it is a game! It is not a business-merchendsing-advertising noname product in a beautiful wrapping almost empty inside aimed to be sold to you by all means. It is solidly a piece of game art, e.g. the art of creating games, personally I would even say it is a masterpiece. The company behind the game did a great job both in sticking to spirit and traditions of classics, and showing their own creativeness and mature vision. I did not describe the game's mechanics or storytelling, this has been done much better by other reviewers. My point is that if you are a 30+ person with casual gaming habits and a bit of nostalgia for good old games, this is the best isometric RPG to be played in 2017-- I have found so far.
