Poll of the Day > I finally beat Pillars of Eternity

(+) Yeah! (+)

Sheeeeesh.... 80 hour playthrough >_>'

Fun game, though. Holy hell, there's a fuckton of content and I didn't even do everything. Nevermind, the different choices to make throughout the game.

It'll probably be awhile before I play it again, but it's highly likely that I will.

Incredible damn game. And as a massive Baldur's Gate fan, it was incredibly satisfying. Haven't playing a game like this in a long time. It just goes to show that the genre is criminally unsaturated.

On to Deadfire!
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Bonus picture of my party near the end!

https://imgur.com/TLv3XIN
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I funded it via Kickstarter and have still yet to touch it. I've been getting the Baldur's Gate II itch again so maybe this will be a good time to start PoE. Was thinking of soloing my first playthrough as a paladin or make a mass party of just rangers and bears.

https://www.pcgamer.com/pillars-of-eternity-diary-playing-as-a-party-of-bears/

Krow_Incarnate posted...

It just goes to show that the genre is criminally unsaturated.

I do feel it is a niche genre, not many can tolerate sitting there reading a wall of text. For some folks, the story needs to be good for them to be able to sit there reading the wall of text. My friend and I co-oped through Divinity: Original Sin and D:OS 2 and I thought the amount of text in both games was just about right. Enough to give you a story but not so much that you spend more time reading than playing.
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I liked it but wish the gear selection was more interesting. Fucking balance, I want to be insanely op endgame like in BG.
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the 2nd one is out
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InfestedAdam posted...

I funded it via Kickstarter and have still yet to touch it. I've been getting the Baldur's Gate II itch again so maybe this will be a good time to start PoE. Was thinking of soloing my first playthrough as a paladin or make a mass party of just rangers and bears.

https://www.pcgamer.com/pillars-of-eternity-diary-playing-as-a-party-of-bears/

This will scratch that Baldur's Gate itch, for sure.

As for your party, Pillars is considerably more difficult than Baldur's Gate(some fights are just poorly designed). I wouldn't try soloing your first run, but that's just me.

If you're not sold on the companions, I didn't really find too many of them that interesting, myself. So on my first playthrough, I only took Eder and Aloth and they only periodcally interacted with things that were happening. Otherwise, they were dead silent and didn't have a lot of banter between them, outside of two or so short conversations. It's nothing quite like Dragon Age: Origins.

I don't think playing with a full custom party will hamper your enjoyment, too much. Hell, especially if you like the Icewind Dale series.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

It just goes to show that the genre is criminally unsaturated.

I do feel it is a niche genre, not many can tolerate sitting there reading a wall of text. For some folks, the story needs to be good for them to be able to sit there reading the wall of text. My friend and I co-oped through Divinity: Original Sin and D:OS 2 and I thought the amount of text in both games was just about right. Enough to give you a story but not so much that you spend more time reading than playing.

There is a looooot of text in Pillars. Easily more than either of the Baldur's Gate games. With that said, I found myself clicking and partly-skimming through most of it, and I was still able to get the gist of what most everyone said.

VeeVees posted...

I liked it but wish the gear selection was more interesting. Fucking balance, I want to be insanely op endgame like in BG.

I thought the gear was interesting enough. Gear seemed to be a bit different than the norm.

With that said, I do wish that the second game carried over levels, like BG1 > BG2 and by the end of Deadfire, we'd be like level 30 or some shit.

helIy posted...

the 2nd one is out

Yep, I've played a good bit of it a while ago. I probably had a good 20 hours or so in it, before I decided "Hey, I should try and do the first game again."

I played PoE a long time ago when it first came out, but it didn't really click right away. Now I love the damn game. It's got it's annoyances and in some cases, faulty execution, but all-in-all, it's a damn good time.
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I actually got that game from a person here who was doing a give away (miroku of the night-i butchered the name probably).

It seemed ok, I'll probably give it a second go.

Yeah, I'd give it until you get to Defiance Bay, at least. That's when the game really opens up.

I wasn't initially sold on it myself when I first tried it.

And I think it's "mirokuofnite" with a number. That was nice of him.
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I really enjoyed that game when I was playing it, especially the dark atmosphere... But for whatever reason I got distracted by something else and never went back to it. I was probably like a third of the way in. Hopefully I get back to it someday.
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The darker atmosphere made me think it was going to be like Icewind Dale or something with a mostly snowy/woodland environment and almost no cities.

I'm glad I was wrong about that one.
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