Pillars of Eternity Beta Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Mastermind]

Lets compare it to Bioware's latest offering.



Obviously we're going for two very different tones here.

DAI: truly generic, epic fuckyeah music
PoE: subtle, melodic music, which is unique amongst the soundtrack offering of modern games. PoE sounds refreshing, DAI is just another epic music. Thus PoE>>>DAI

 

[Mazisky]

Dragon Age Inquisition main theme is awesome, please. Nobody can deny.

Pillars of eternity theme is good too, but completely different, they can't be comparable, first one is "epic mood\going battle" while the second is more "dreamy fantasy journey"

Btw, i have to say i've listened almost FIVE different battle tracks from PoE, and that's where the soundtrack shine: they are all fantastic, same level if not better than Baldur's gate 1 imho (and i loved Hoenig work)

I updated my order from basic to champion just for having them on mp3.

 

[Hamster]

 

[mutonizer]

The DAI theme is actually a hymn in the game as well. There's a wonderfully cringe worthy moment where every member of the cast breaks into faith inspiring song and your character just stands there looking at them like they've lost their minds.

Can't even skip that fucking scene if I remember correctly. Was already going out of my mind before with how bullshit the whole thing was but after that scene I just ALT-F4CK-IT and didn't come back to the game for a couple weeks when my "damn, bough that game, need to finish it or something" kicked in.

 

[Athelas]

New deliciously cheesy tactic. Once again it revolves around me killing entire groups of enemies without actually attacking anything. The invulnerable glowing cocoon is me, by the way.

 

[Diablo169]

Cisgendered Jaheira?

 

[Nihiliste]

Frankly neither theme is anything to write home about. But it's not going to detract from the game so beyond that I'm glad they spent the resources on other aspects of the game rather than hire a big name composer to give them what would likely be a marginally less generic score.

 

[LizardWizard]

Lets compare it to Bioware's latest offering.



Obviously we're going for two very different tones here.

Didn't play DA: I, but I liked Trevor Morris' stuff from Kingdom of Heaven. Both themes are pretty generic though.

 

[Merlkir]

When the YT video of this got posted, I liked it and thought it was quite a bit Poledourisian. Apparently, that's what the composer was going for. Good! The BG2/ToB score was similar in this aspect, which I also only noticed listening to it yesterday.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Wait, there are people who didn't like the PoE theme?

 

[aeonsim]

It's good to see PoE has accurately followed in the steps of BG2 with it's original manual .
I never did work out how to enable Detect Noise, Climb Walls, and Read languages in BG2 , not to mention my high wisdom characters never seemed more resistant to enemy spells...

 

[Jarpie]

I wonder if GOG pushes PoE out earlier than Steam, has that happened in simultanous releases?

 

[Diablo169]

It will be released at the same time on every platform.

 

[Osvir]

#1 :D

 

[CyberWhale]

 

[mutonizer]

Damn...had doubts but nice one.

 

[Delterius]

Top Selling on Steam!!!



Fake edit: Godamn CyberWhale .

 

[Bleed the Man]

 

[Diablo169]

 

[mutonizer]

Ok, damnit, how the fuck do you brofist someone? Been here for months now and still no clue how that works!

 

[J_C]

 

[Zep Zepo]

Ok, damnit, how the fuck do you brofist someone? Been here for months now and still no clue how that works!

Equip the ring.

Zep--

 

[J_C]

Ok, damnit, how the fuck do you brofist someone? Been here for months now and still no clue how that works!

You are still a newfag. If enough time passes, you will be able to brofist. Until then use this:

 

[Zep Zepo]

Ok, damnit, how the fuck do you brofist someone? Been here for months now and still no clue how that works!

Seriously though..at your 1 year anniversary you get brofists, or alternatively participate in one of the codex game fund-raisers or (equip the ring) donate to the running of the codex directly.

Zep--

 

[Anthedon]

Is there any info on how the GoG version will handle patching?