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Eternity Pillars of Eternity II Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]
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Jezal_k23
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The theme is good.
Admittedly, I did hope for something a lot more different from PoE's, and in this sense it started out really well. There's changes here and there and that's pretty cool, but I wish they had kept the excitement of the first 15 seconds going. Those first 15 sec sound like this theme could have had a BG2-esque sound to it, and I would've loved that.
Fenix
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Defender is my favorite, also probably because it was translatet superb by the last soviet-era translators.
Me! Why fucking not? First have funny short stories, second is bad at least in Russian translation except one book that is a collaborative work
thats antology called "Berserker Base" that consist of 13 short stories, and I can recommend it to anyone. Maybe, when you are past 30-40 and have read a lots of book it's nothing so special, but back in the days it surely delivered as hell. If you are familiar with that cycle, but never read this book - I can recommend it, and you know what to read tomorrow. 
He define historical generation, not movement.
Today 99% of sci-fi doesn't worth the paper they printed on.
Middle class of writers that doesn't get awards but still write solid things is completely vanished, there are hordes of mindless monkeys that grew on comics and movies, and they draw their "inspiration" from them - I imegine them as a bags filled with shit, because recycled food becomes a shit, and they feed fully recycled stuff.
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Mirrors my own thoughts. Creative people always draw inspiration from the stories and legends and fables that already exist, but in many ways we're too far removed from the good sources now. Instead of taking from the fables, they're taking from things that take from things from the fables.
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Arguably writers like Avellone are what the middle class is supposed to look like. Most of the time the truly great writers don't even lower themselves to "genre writing" like fantasy etc, because it's supposedly demeaning, much less video games. It could easily be said that video gaming, where the written word is far more important than film, has the fraction of the talent pool that hollywood has for its script writers.
Talented writers promoted on merit is the eventual dream, but so far writers with exceptional literary prose are absolutely a rarity.
Talented writers promoted on merit is the eventual dream, but so far writers with exceptional literary prose are absolutely a rarity.
Wait for the definitive and authoritative review once Lacrymas wakes up.
"banal, shit, boring, #notart, #notalent"
I liked the theme and I'm glad they're making that the main theme for Pillars as a whole.
I do wish this particular one had worked into a bombastic climax, just seems like it would've fit the high seas theme for the game and it just feels like that's what it's going for at the start of the track. The string-heavy part in the middle feels a bit lacking in direction and goes on for too long.
I do wish this particular one had worked into a bombastic climax, just seems like it would've fit the high seas theme for the game and it just feels like that's what it's going for at the start of the track. The string-heavy part in the middle feels a bit lacking in direction and goes on for too long.
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It will be good. Good for what it is.
To be honest, I think I may side with Lacrymas this time, for a change. Provided he says he doesn't like it. This is recorded by the extraordinary Budapest Orchestra Budapest Art Orchestra and it sounds more like a synthesizer. I don't like that strings are dominating for 90% of the time. And after some point it feels like it completely "loses it".
Edit: Initially I thought it was the "The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra".
Edit: Initially I thought it was the "The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra".
I believe that for this theme Justin was given direction - "let's break off the traditional tropes, that's what Deadfire is about in relation to PoE". Anyway, my issue is with is idea, not so much with the technical execution.
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Keeping the melody of the older games and changing it somewhat is Bethesha's style with Elder Scrolls and latest Fallouts tho.
I would have liked a completely new motive for the new theme, with the old one being barely distinguishable in some moments of it, John Williams-like, but I'd like it to have the same structure the PoE theme. Oh well.
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Lacrymas
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What is there to like? It sounds like a synthesizer because the orchestra's diversity isn't used and the orchestration is terrible. The form also isn't clear, I suppose he was trying to go for an arch with the intro and outro, but there is no culmination and it ends so fast it's not clear and it sounds tryhardy, as opposed to competent or even intentional. There is only 1 place where the orchestra sounds kind of like an orchestra - from 3:03, because he combines the different material. I could've written this in literally 20 minutes, especially since the "melody" after the intro is taken straight from PoE1. I have a friend who composes stuff like this and has never taken a musical lesson in his entire life, yet he's muuuuuuch better than Justin.
The talking romancing sword is probably one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard of, really.
It's not funny, it's not witty, and it fits more in line with something whimsical like D:OS 1+2 (which is already fucking cringeworthily retarded), not fucking pillars 2. Ugh.
And then you got SJW queen Dollarhyde sprucing it up to state-of-the-SJW-art standards. Oh, golly.
It's not funny, it's not witty, and it fits more in line with something whimsical like D:OS 1+2 (which is already fucking cringeworthily retarded), not fucking pillars 2. Ugh.
And then you got SJW queen Dollarhyde sprucing it up to state-of-the-SJW-art standards. Oh, golly.
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lol, I understand this tweet now:
Some serious "characterization" work there. Bravo! My hat is off. My pants will soon follow.
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