Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire + DLC Thread - now with turn-based combat!

[Grunker]

Where's your review Darth Roxor? And yours Prime Junta? Waiting to play this until patch final.0 is making me lust for some review-reading at least

 

[FreeKaner]

I am okay with dark humour as long as they don't go philosophical. In fact much prefer former to the latter.

Come on guys,the worst thing about both PoE games is the writing. Why the fuck are you expecting the "Dark humour" to be on the level??? Humour is a lot harder to write than normal writing,they couldm't do normal well let alone humour.

In deadfire the regular conversations are decent. It's the philosophy, theology and prose that fells flat. They have the talent to write a b-rate TV series but think themselves capable of writing a philosophical novel. If they just wrote like they were doing adult Pirates of the Caribbean it would be fine.

 

[Prime Junta]

Where's your review Darth Roxor? And yours Prime Junta? Waiting to play this until patch final.0 is making me lust for some review-reading at least

I haven't even finished it yet, way too early to be thinking of a review.

 

[fantadomat]

I am okay with dark humour as long as they don't go philosophical. In fact much prefer former to the latter.

Come on guys,the worst thing about both PoE games is the writing. Why the fuck are you expecting the "Dark humour" to be on the level??? Humour is a lot harder to write than normal writing,they couldm't do normal well let alone humour.

In deadfire the regular conversations are decent. It's the philosophy, theology and prose that fells flat. They have the talent to write a b-rate TV series but think themselves capable of writing a philosophical novel. If they just wrote like they were doing adult Pirates of the Caribbean it would be fine.

Yes,but didn't,not capable of doing it. It will be about a suicide cult,a lot more philosophy incoming.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I am okay with dark humour as long as they don't go philosophical. In fact much prefer former to the latter.

Come on guys,the worst thing about both PoE games is the writing. Why the fuck are you expecting the "Dark humour" to be on the level??? Humour is a lot harder to write than normal writing,they couldm't do normal well let alone humour.

In deadfire the regular conversations are decent. It's the philosophy, theology and prose that fells flat. They have the talent to write a b-rate TV series but think themselves capable of writing a philosophical novel. If they just wrote like they were doing adult Pirates of the Caribbean it would be fine.

Yes,but didn't,not capable of doing it. It will be about a suicide cult,a lot more philosophy incoming.

What? Deadfire has quite a few of comedy moments and those also happen to have the best writing in the whole game. The game is always at its best when they go for that "R-rated Monkey Island" vibe.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Where's your review Darth Roxor? And yours Prime Junta? Waiting to play this until patch final.0 is making me lust for some review-reading at least

time, what is time

 

[Infinitron]

Remember that the alleged "dark humor" aspect of the DLC is entirely the opinion of the guy at PCGamesN. There's no sign of that at all in Obsidian's marketing.

 

[fantadomat]

Where's your review Darth Roxor? And yours Prime Junta? Waiting to play this until patch final.0 is making me lust for some review-reading at least

I haven't even finished it yet, way too early to be thinking of a review.

But you have read most of the thread,stop wasting time get doing it!

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

But you have read most of the thread,stop wasting time get doing it!

Spoiler

Besides, why you need Roxor's review so much? You can't create your own opinion about game yourself without reading someone's "professional" opinion?

 

[Darth Roxor]

fwiw i'll try to get it done before august, but i make no promises

 

[Trashos]

Damn, it is going to be posted when I am on vacation, isn't it?

 

[fantadomat]

Besides, why you need Roxor's review so much? You can't create your own opinion about game yourself without reading someone's "professional" opinion?

Uhggg,it is funny,obviously! I have already written a fast review back when the game came out. I do have my opinion about the game. I am curious who the fuck reads reviews to make decision?! I read them because they are fun and interesting in a codexian way.

 

[Abu Antar]

fwiw i'll try to get it done before august, but i make no promises

But which year?

 

[fantadomat]

fwiw i'll try to get it done before august, but i make no promises

But which year?

The same one the Grimoire's manual is released.

 

[Lacrymas]

I'm praying to the whole Eora pantheon that they won't be attempting to write comically, reading that will crush my will to live.

 

[aweigh]

#GaymersRiseUp

...and press 'X' to pay respects!

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Obsidian's marketing.

 

[Prime Junta]

So far the difficulty's felt pretty good really. MQ stuff has been on the easy side (except for that one fight on the tutorial island, surprisingly -- I bet it's gonna stop a lot of goons dead); however in the sidequests there have been more than a few seriously challenging fights especially if I go after stuff that's just a bit above my level.

I'd expect that I'll outlevel the content sooner or later but 11 levels in this isn't half bad.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

You're just about there, level 12 is when it permanently go to shit.

 

[fantadomat]

After level 12 the game becomes noticeably easy,after level 16 is just a joke. Only possibly hard battles left at that point are the vampires on the undead island and maybe the overgrown imp.

 

[Glaucon]

I just encountered an interesting bug. Sometimes when you enter a new zone with a scripted interaction, your companion(s) will start an idle dialogue before it loads, and then will suddenly be cut off. In this case, one of Xoti's "zany" stories got cut short.

This is proof that Obsidian's bugs actually improve their storytelling.

 

[fantadomat]

I just encountered an interesting bug. Sometimes when you enter a new zone with a scripted interaction, your companion(s) will start an idle dialogue before it loads, and then will suddenly be cut off. In this case, one of Xoti's "zany" stories got cut short.

This is proof that Obsidian's bugs actually improve their storytelling.

I never encountered this bug during my game,maybe it is a nu one introduced by the patching.

 

[aweigh]

 

[aweigh]

man they stealth-added that recov. time penalty to disoriented. there already was little reason to use blunderbuss modal now there is zero.

edit: does blunder buss modal give distract or disorient? oh who gives a fuck.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Next batch of negative reviews, hot and ready.

Look I'm not trying to insult anyones favorite game but Divinity 2 is a very similar game that better in every way. Not to mention I think the first pillars game is better than this one.

Graphics: Divinity 2
Story: Divinity 2
Gameplay: Divinity 2
Companions: Divinity 2
Combat: Argueable but PoE combat gets a little easy. Divinity suiffers a similar problem in later areas.

Even the devs are better than obsidian. Not to mention Divinity 2 released with way less bugs. Another thing obsidian seems to have taken from bethesda. What really nails the coffin for me is that this game is more expensive than divinity. Its a great game but if you only have enough for one go with divinity. If your not some poor college student like me then get a life and buy both.

I adored POE 1, played almost 500 hrs. To me this game was slow, boring and confusing; so unlike it's prequel.

Outstanding game with the worst sea combat ever. It's like a broken text adventure from 1985. For that reason alone I'm giving it a thumbs down.

This game is ok thus far, but they went 100% in on the SJW ...stuff*. More than 1/2 the NPC characters in the game are africans with italian accents (not an exageration, literally half the characters). This is pretty clearly not their target market, but some unnecessary SJW appeasement that detracts from the game's story. I really loved the original Pillars of Eternity and was so excited to purchase this game in full, but I don't see why they did this. The original game was fantastic without this. Why couldn't you just stay out of the pop-culture bs and stick to creating a good story.

#NotMyPillarsOfEternity

"Obsidian's modern masterpiece" - me, re: Pillars ~400 hrs played.

"Deadfire is a pansexual dating sim, not an RPG. It's actually more challenging NOT to ♥♥♥♥ everything that moves." - me, re: Deadfire ~100 hrs played.

What a ♥♥♥♥ing disappointment. Forced myself through it.

PROS:
- Improves on just about every technical and mechanical issue present in Pillars.

CONS:
- Throws out everthing that made Pillars a masterpiece: a strong story and relatable characters.

1st game was fun overall and I expected better graphics and a better combat system.

Expectations not met on both accounts! Meh graphics and meh combat system.