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

[Once more unto the Codex]

All this sci-fi talking set me in a mood, post your top 10 suggestions (titles, not authors) if you care

I'll give you five current and five older ones. Here are the current ones:

Iain M. Banks: Use of Weapons
Ken McLeod: The Star Fraction
Alastair Reynolds: The Prefect... or the Poseidon's Children trilogy if you like, although the ending for that is a bit derp
China Miéville: Embassytown
James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes

Here are the older ones... although just a little off the beaten track perhaps?

Theodore Sturgeon: More than Human
Fred Hoyle: October the First is Too Late
Arthur C. Clarke: The City and the Stars
Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun
Robert A. Heinlein: Citizen of the Galaxy

Not very progressive

 

[Prime Junta]

Not very progressive

After a straight Communist ticket in the modern ones I felt I had to take one out and put in a liberal instead in the #5 spot, and include a few reactionaries in the old school list. Wouldn't want to be accused of political bias.

 

[Once more unto the Codex]

Not very progressive

After a straight Communist ticket in the modern ones I felt I had to take one out and put in a liberal instead in the #5 spot, and include a few reactionaries in the old school list. Wouldn't want to be accused of political bias.

I meant in terms of intersectionality and privilege.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I concur, most of golden age sci-fi is absolute garbage, and the so called "masters" of the era are usually pretentious, self-fellating hacks. I consider exploring that era as a reader to be at top 10 of most wasted time of my life.

 

[fantadomat]

All this sci-fi talking set me in a mood, post your top 10 suggestions (titles, not authors) if you care

I'll give you five current and five older ones. Here are the current ones:

Iain M. Banks: Use of Weapons
Ken McLeod: The Star Fraction
Alastair Reynolds: The Prefect... or the Poseidon's Children trilogy if you like, although the ending for that is a bit derp
China Miéville: Embassytown
James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes

Here are the older ones... although just a little off the beaten track perhaps?

Theodore Sturgeon: More than Human
Fred Hoyle: October the First is Too Late
Arthur C. Clarke: The City and the Stars
Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun
Robert A. Heinlein: Citizen of the Galaxy

No Azimof....

 

[Jezal_k23]

What is that? The red skulls?

 

[Prime Junta]

No Azimof....

I don't much care for Asimov anymore (although I did as a teenager). The Foundation trilogy is pretty good but the rest of it really hasn't aged well.

 

[Infinitron]

http://versusevil.com/games/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire_c-r/

A human at last!

 

[fantadomat]

What is that? The red skulls?

It is clearly a difficulty level or it shows that there is still monsters to kill.

http://versusevil.com/games/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire_c-r/

A human at last!

A faggot with glasses,the other human will be an arab faggot. Why modern artists can't pain a man? The ork one have opened mouth and looks like there is a big dick in his ass.

 

[The Wall]

A human at last!

Well since it's a portrait of a member of Critical roll cast, I wouldn't be so sure. Humans are made of flesh abd blood, not soy.

Also he has a lot of greys for someone not that old. Probably seen some weird shit on his travels. Like the rest of cast for example...

 

[Quillon]

 

[The Wall]

Balance über alles!

 

[FreeKaner]

One time he should deviate from traditionalists to make something pleasant, innovative and exciting he bends the knee. This guy is THE worst.

 

[Riddler]

http://versusevil.com/games/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire_c-r/

A human at last!

Looks pretty good tbh but that ear looks like it isn't attached to the head.

 

[HoboForEternity]

A human at last!

Well since it's a portrait of a member of Critical roll cast, I wouldn't be so sure. Humans are made of flesh abd blood, not soy.

Also he has a lot of greys for someone not that old. Probably seen some weird shit on his travels. Like the rest of cast for example...

great idea for rpg monster design: soy homonculus.

Special ability: testosterone absorb that drains your STR, END and dexterity.

It is like mind flayer, but with testosterone

 

[Sentinel]

"doing something different with potions would be too far for the traditionalists"
"but removing interesting magic is ok, who cares about the traditionalists"

 

[Cross]

One time he should deviate from traditionalists to make something pleasant, innovative and exciting he bends the knee. This guy is THE worst.

What's so innovative and exciting about what he had in mind? Much like implementing regenerating health and making all abilities and spells per-encounter, it sounds like another way in which he would have removed any semblance of resource management, by making potions 'regenerate' after an encounter or some such nonsense.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

According to those portraits, all those characters may have been ejected out of the same vagina.

 

[fantadomat]

Sooo messing around with garbage that everyone sells is too much veering from the traditional formula. But messing around with everything else is radically innovative. I don't even remember if there was potions in the first poe. This guy is a mystery to me...

 

[Anthony Davis]

http://versusevil.com/games/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire_c-r/

A human at last!

Aren't these just the characters from their campaign, I'm pretty sure they are. I saw a video where they were live acting them in costume.
I would imagine the fans of the show already know who all them are and have a general idea of what they look like. I don't think there is a hidden agenda here other than marketing. *shrug*

 

[Infinitron]

http://versusevil.com/games/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire_c-r/

A human at last!

Aren't these just the characters from their campaign, I'm pretty sure they are. I saw a video where they were live acting them in costume.
I would imagine the fans of the show already know who all them are and have a general idea of what they look like. I don't think there is a hidden agenda here other than marketing. *shrug*

I understand that the original characters included members of races that don't exist in PoE (gnomes, half-elves) so that's made them less diverse.

 

[Orma]

 

[Iskramor]

Both of them have prescription glasses though..

Oh yeah? Have you seen the prescriptions? I buy Magnum XL condoms, by the way. Naturally, I wouldn't do that unless I needed them for my very large penis.

Horn-rimmed styled glasses frames are a statement, my dude. They aren't called the female fedora for nothing. We've had thin and light glasses frames since I got my first prescription glasses as a child in 1986.

In any event, wearing glasses and getting hired to write for a computer game doesn't make you a "nerd." That makes you a dweeb. Nerds actually have expertise in useful things like advanced mathematics, engineering, etc. This woman's bona fides are writing for no-name "magazines" that are one step above vanity publishing, and absolutely nothing else; I'm not sure where she went to university (if anywhere), but I'm guessing she probably didn't major in biochemistry. I've ferreted out many like her who've been hired to write for developers like inXile and Obsidian. BioWare pioneered the practice. These fanfiction-tier "writers" are a dime a dozen, and I strongly believe they contribute to the forgettable, tryhard and pretentious writing quality found in many crowdfunding-related games. T:ToN fell victim to it hard.

Why am I being mean to these women I don't even know? Must be because I hate women, right? Consider for a moment that it might be because they are walking stereotypes and, more importantly, no-talent hacks. Real mystery why the writing quality keeps not being up to par in these spiritual successors. We just can't figure it out!

Anyway, they should check their glasses privilege. I suffer from a disease called keratoconus, and I have to wear special contact lenses in order to see properly. I can't even wear glasses, not if I want to see without real-life chromatic aberration turned up to Ultra.

Blaine the true intellectual powerhouse of codex.

 

[Kaivokz]

http://versusevil.com/games/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire_c-r/

A human at last!

Aren't these just the characters from their campaign, I'm pretty sure they are. I saw a video where they were live acting them in costume.
I would imagine the fans of the show already know who all them are and have a general idea of what they look like. I don't think there is a hidden agenda here other than marketing. *shrug*

I understand that the original characters were members of races that don't exist in PoE (gnomes, half-elves) so that's made them less diverse.

Should have turned Scanlan and Pike into orlans. We could use some more portraits for PoE’s unique race. At least Grog will be an Aumaua, his looks semi-promising through the blur.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Actually, it wouldn't have been that bad. BTW, I have modding ideas for the potions which will please the "traditionalists" (grongnards, taliban, fundamentalists, etc), and which are perfectly doable, but I don't know why they were not considered for the vanilla game. Probably to avoid irking the "PoE traditionalists" as a cost of pleasing the "IE traditionalists".

Josh must be horrified that he brought to life just one more group of traditionalists