Are these fanfictions from the backers ?

[Somberlain]

I realized very early that characters with a different colored name were these "reach for his soul" NPCs, so I started ignoring them right after Gilded Vale. I didn't realize they were some backer fan-fiction shit, though.

If they are as laughable as OP, however, I guess I could find some entertainment out of this crap

 

[PhantasmaNL]

This makes me somewhat cautious for my Torment backer content entry.

I will make doubly sure it will meet, nay exceed, Codex standards.

You will know it when you read it.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I realised recently that I seriously hate a lot of the rewards stuff in crowd funding.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

I don't know about the backers but I'd prefer if I was made into a normal NPC questgiver or a named bandit, not some special snowflake with stretched out stories. I mean telling people "remember that bandit that killed you on hard back there? It was me!" is much more satisfying than "Remember that textdump about misunderstood yellow vampire? I wrote this shit".

 

[Durante]

The backer content is easily the worst part of PoE.

Luckily it's easy enough to ignore.

 

[Jarpie]

Hopefully there's gonna be a mod what replaces them with generic npcs.

 

[Zombra]

So anyway -

I don't think they were written by the backers. Probably outlined and then written by the real writers, or at least heavily heavily edited. The writing style is way too consistent for them to be straight off the word processors of the general public. Actually, they all sound like they were done by the same guy after you read a few.

 

[Mazisky]

The backer NPS texts can be easily modified cause they are located in the game folder.

Problem is that memorial text files can't be find anywhere? Where are located?

 

[Irenaeus]

I liked about 80% to 90% of the stories. Read only about 30 so far.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

I think some of these stories are enjoyable. It's just way too much of it.

Pretty much. This is definitely the most hilarious drawback to a Kickstarted game I've yet seen though!

And to think I read like the first 10-15 before it dawned on me....

Spoiler

 

[Immortal]

It's funny because I have seen like 3 actual god touched npc's that -weren't- backer beta narrative dumps.

However almost all the back beta's are like these robed / armored death / fire / spirit god touched npc's smoking pipes and acting all edgy and cool. I can just picture the lame retards that all tried to be unique designing their NPC's only to have a mod remove them by the end of next month..

 

[Irenaeus]

I like the edgy NPCs, they give charm to the taverns, like the fat guy without fingers smoking a cigar in New Dunryd's Inn.

 

[LizardWizard]

So is there any point to these fucks, quest-wise, besides ignore/murder?

 

[Ulminati]

People really paid 1000 kwabucks to write a fanfic that no one will ever read? Fucking idiots.

Better than paying 1000 kwabux for a virtual spaceship they'll never fly.

 

[Jools]

People really paid 1000 kwabucks to write a fanfic that no one will ever read? Fucking idiots.

Well, they just joined the legions of thousands self-published fantasy (and non-fantasy) book authors.

I checked them all out until I realized/found out what they were, and skipped them from then on.

 

[Chateaubryan]

Some of them feel really fanfictional, some of them adds a nice break from the ambiant gloom. I check those occasionnally.
As zombra said, it's likely they were heavily rewritten by someone at Obsidian.

 

[Wulfstand]

There should be an option for disabling all backer made content. For this and all other Kickstarters.

The towns would be significantly more empty.

Unless you mean to just turn them into regular npcs.

I can't really say I've enjoyed most of that fluff, but then again it's ridiculously easy to just ignore the whole lot thanks to the golden tag attached to their names. I just wish there'd be more npcs with, you know, actually meaningful content/things to say.

 

[MicoSelva]

Backer NPCs do not bother me, their stories are at least consistent with the in-game lore (I still ignore them since I have realised what they are, though).

Also they are killable.

But those fucking backer memorials full of out-of-place text and internet memes - I hate them. There should be an option to disable those.

 

[Ulminati]

Time to make a run where you kill every backer NPC.

 

[Obsequious Approbation]

Lesbian wizards staring down the patriarchy defiantly (2x), ignoring their "responsibilities" -- very fucking subtle, thank you very much. And I thought those NPCs might become significant, so I checked them all.

 

[J_C]

Thank god this game is selling well, which means OEI won't have to go back to Kickstarter and beg for shekels for the sequel.

They would be stupid to not use Kickstarter. Not for the whole game, but like Larian, they could use the funds to improve the game.

 

[nikolokolus]

Thank god this game is selling well, which means OEI won't have to go back to Kickstarter and beg for shekels for the sequel.

They would be stupid to not use Kickstarter. Not for the whole game, but like Larian, they could use the funds to improve the game.

Is the money is necessarily there anymore? Maybe OEI would be an exception because they proved they were capable of delivering the goods, but I wonder if crowdfunding is quite the no-brainer that it might have been over a year ago?

Personally, I'd prefer it if they weren't beholden to include the kind of half-baked, fan made crap we got in this game; some of it is OK, but 90% of the backer content I've read is puerile, insipid trash.

 

[Morkar Left]

I don't actually mind the stories. They are optional. What annoys me is that the npcs are completely useless. You can't even talk to them and they just stand around without doing anything. They remind me more of a lot of advertising pillars. At least that's consistent with the name of the game.

 

[Zombra]

This is the first time in history I've been more excited to see "Commoner" than a named NPC.

 

[Bah]

So much butthurt in this thread. What does it matter? A decent to good game got publically funded, and this was partly how it was accomplished. You guys need to relax and take a chill pill (or joint).