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

[J_C]

Apparently someone managed to buy the game from GOG for 15.49$

Not sure if photoshoped or not.

The dollar sign in the right is different from the left. Faaake!

 

[Kem0sabe]

Indeed it does look different. As it stands, cheapest place to buy without resorting to steam VPN activation is still nuuvem.

 

[Mystary!]

How do Godlikes work? Do people react differently to you if you're playing as a Godlike? Also, if I'm for instance an Aumaua Godlike, will people react to me as both a Godlike and an Aumaua, or just a Godlike?

They will only react to you being godlike, race only changes body size.

 

[Diablo169]

HMS Kaiser - Steam forum

Are there GLUTEN FREE food options in the game?
As someone diagnosed with Celiac Disease early on in life, I have been deprived of all things wheaty and goodly from a very young age. Instead of my mom packing a PB&J I had to eat just the peanut butter spread over some jelly, instead of a birthday cake I didn't have anymore birthdays, and once I reached college instead of getting to tack on a beer gut like all my other friends I had to stay with getting swasty on tequila every night.

Because of this I ask if the developers/ creators at Obsidian Entertainment have EVEN CONSIDERED the population of gamers who live on a gluten free diet and do not wish to be reminded every day of the fact that we ourselves, CANNOT eat such bouncy and fluffy products like a Dunkin Donuts Munckin without experiencing SEVERE bowel distress.

Please let me know if Gluten Free options are available at every inn and tavern, because I don't wanna be a bother, but I read on a flyer at Whole Foods that gluten is bad. Also, please change your gloves before you touch my game, cross contamination is a problem. I dont wanna start a debate, I just need to know. Thanks

Disclaimer: I actually do have celiacs IRL, its cool though, keeps me from snacking on the bad stuff

 

[ArchAngel]

How do Godlikes work? Do people react differently to you if you're playing as a Godlike? Also, if I'm for instance an Aumaua Godlike, will people react to me as both a Godlike and an Aumaua, or just a Godlike?

If you were a black jew in KKK land, would anyone care that you are a jew?

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

Actually the low scores might be a work of Sonyfags shitposting in retaliation of PCfags shitposting about Bloodborne.

 

[Sensuki]

Sensuki the jew is blaming you for PoE's metacritic score

If anything, I'm bumping the metacritic user score. Press probably won't look at my shit but eh, can't win em all.

 

[veevoir]

HMS Kaiser - Steam forum

Are there GLUTEN FREE food options in the game?
As someone diagnosed with Celiac Disease early on in life, I have been deprived of all things wheaty and goodly from a very young age. Instead of my mom packing a PB&J I had to eat just the peanut butter spread over some jelly, instead of a birthday cake I didn't have anymore birthdays, and once I reached college instead of getting to tack on a beer gut like all my other friends I had to stay with getting swasty on tequila every night.

Because of this I ask if the developers/ creators at Obsidian Entertainment have EVEN CONSIDERED the population of gamers who live on a gluten free diet and do not wish to be reminded every day of the fact that we ourselves, CANNOT eat such bouncy and fluffy products like a Dunkin Donuts Munckin without experiencing SEVERE bowel distress.

Please let me know if Gluten Free options are available at every inn and tavern, because I don't wanna be a bother, but I read on a flyer at Whole Foods that gluten is bad. Also, please change your gloves before you touch my game, cross contamination is a problem. I dont wanna start a debate, I just need to know. Thanks

Disclaimer: I actually do have celiacs IRL, its cool though, keeps me from snacking on the bad stuff

In that other thread:

They deleted all the other legit topics asking for Laotian, gluten free food, parapalegic, milf hunting, demoniac, chicken nugget, turretes syndrome, and polygamist representation in this game, but left this one intact.

i cant believe how LGBT people discriminate against Laotian people and all the other oppressed minority groups like that.

 

[Osvir]

Metacritic:
I don't even... 96 Ratings. LOL (refreshing the page, I saw it go up to 96, then down to 93, then up again to 97). They might be cleaning out the scores if it's the same IP, Sensuki.

I wonder if Obsidian will be able to contact Metacritic and be like "Uhm, guys, our game isn't out, can you swipe these scores and start on 0?".

What are they even rating? The backer beta? The Kickstarter process?

 

[MicoSelva]

Other bonus stuff is now available on GOG too (ringtones, soundtrack, wallpapers, etc.).

EDIT: some of the links lead to 403 error, though.

 

[One-and-a-half-Ivan]

Metacritic:
I don't even... 96 Ratings. LOL (refreshing the page, I saw it go up to 96, then down to 93, then up again to 97). They might be cleaning out the scores if it's the same IP, Sensuki.

I wonder if Obsidian will be able to contact Metacritic and be like "Uhm, guys, our game isn't out, can you swipe these scores and start on 0?".

What are they even rating? The backer beta? The Kickstarter process?

Where did you see such ratings?

 

[GrainWetski]

Jesus!! Why do you people care about user scores so damn much?? F3 for example is rated higher then F1,2 and Vegas. But who gives a shit?

They care about what gamejournos think, so of course they care about user scores since they're more often than not way more accurate.

 

[Osvir]

One-and-a-half-Ivan Metacritic?

EDIT: I care about ethics, and common sense (I know I know *shakes head at self*). The game isn't out. There is nothing to rate. People are rating on one of the most prominent pages where lots of people are looking (because people care about scores).

What are they rating? Excitement levels? Kickstarter? Obsidian Entertainment? The Backer Beta?

The game? Only press+youtube+streamers have access to it. Are these User Scores streamers or youtubers? We can't tell. One of those could be mine, and I haven't played the thing.

Metacritic is making a mistake by allowing User Scores on something that isn't released, in my opinion.

 

[Sensuki]

Not on the Royal Edition, anyway.

 

[Kem0sabe]

only regret i have is not getting the lore guide book. Which looks to be awesome

 

[Sensuki]

Karkarov got his copy in the mail today, he's been telling me about it.

 

[The Bishop]

And here it is, a review from IGN Russia

http://ru.ign.com/pillars-of-eternity/74516/review/retsenziia-na-pillars-of-eternity

There're obviosly a lot of russian words inside
Would you accept this challenge?

The final score is:

Spoiler

10\10

This is very un-IGN of them. How far is Russian IGN from the usual IGN we see? I know that europe (central and eastern in particular) is the land of hard-on RPG fans.. But to have our spies in IGN and writing reviews?

Splendid!

With the hype train going on it will be very difficult for big gaming medias to be negative about PoE, so this is nothing surprising really. Journalism in general relies a lot on telling people what they want to hear and in this case the majority wants to hear that PoE rocks.

 

[himmy]

This fucking guy...

 

[GloomFrost]

Jesus!! Why do you people care about user scores so damn much?? F3 for example is rated higher then F1,2 and Vegas. But who gives a shit?

They care about what gamejournos think, so of course they care about user scores since they're more often than not way more accurate.

The game is not even out yet, those user scores can not physically be accurate.

 

[One-and-a-half-Ivan]

One-and-a-half-Ivan Metacritic?

I just don't see any critics reviews yet.

Spoiler

I may be stupid or smth.
And I agree with you that it was unwise of metacritic to allow user scores before release *sigh*

 

[Osvir]

*shakes head* (To be determined, TBD, on the left side) nevermind I'm dumb. TBD is the metascore.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Downloading now, slightly busy after work today, marginally excited. Hope the game proves me wrong.

 

[Trodat]

http://tools.garry.tv/steamchart/?show=291650&range=7

 

[One-and-a-half-Ivan]

PCGamer review!
http://www.pcgamer.com/pillars-of-eternity-review/

Spoiler

92/100

 

[Infinitron]

Richard Cobbett's review is at Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-26-pillars-of-eternity-review

Pillars of Eternity is the Baldur's Gate 3 we never got, returning to the Infinity Engine style of role-playing with flair.