Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

Heh, I forgot reading that.

But still I added my valuable commentary

 

Soldier.

 

Edér is a soldier by profession, but his class is rogue, so that's a no go.

Besides, the reason the names are mostly DnD stuff is probably all about keeping the 'feel' of IE games, like Josh talked about in that recent presentation.

 

If you have a fighter that doesn't play like a fighter it doesn't keep the feel. Saying "there's no more fighter class, but here try these other classes instead" would be more honest.

 

Maybe some Lore name would be good. But they probably dont have any specific one.

 

Sawyer loves quoting Gfted1 - his target audience!



Plz like my game, Gfted1, please!

 

FFs this thread has reached beyond 1000+ pages. It fuck up the numbering at the end of page.

 

Chrome is better than firefox.

Motherless and xhamster is better than pornhub!

Just sayin'

 

Thanks for the tip bro!

Just sayin'

Anyway, I would go for a more general class name. Soldier, Brawler etc. is too specific. Assuming of course that there's some diversity... With classes like Rogue (that could be Thief, Scout, Stalker, hell, even Ranger!), I would go for a Warrior.

Off the top of my head, there could be three main categories in case of "classes"; general class: Warrior, Rogue, Mage, Cleric, Druid etc.; specific class (kits, specializations etc.): Duelist, Berserker, Necromancer etc.; and then something like a "job": Soldier. Of course, that's totally arbitrary and majority of classes could fall in different category. It's up to developer actually. The point is, those categories could provide some kind of clarity for the player, show him how stuff work in that particular universe.

 

Awww. Mr. Sawyer wants a portrait of Roguey: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/421908348208812032

 

To be fair. Gifted1's complaining is annoying on another level. Just remember how long he dragged the degenerate thing out.

I kind of get Sawyer reacting like this.

 

Gifted1 is ironically the opposite of gifted. I don't really understand why he or any of the other prominent Obsidian mods were considered mod material.

 

Gifted1 has been on the obsidian forums and derived forums since blackisle.

 

So have Gromnir and Volourn but no one would think of making them mods.

 

What's your beef with Tigranes?

edit: infinitron is teh fast

 

I don't like his opinions on Obsidian-related matters and I've noticed all the various snide remarks he's made at or about me.

 

You get offended by personal remarks? I'm sure there's a joke in here somewhere about stones and glass houses.

 

You sound jealous

By the way, I am not really interested in combat mechanics, but I wonder how PE will play compared to Icewind Dale 2 - Sawyer's first game. What I remember from IWD 2 is terrible encounter design, not unlike one in Dragon Age 2, where you have enemies appearing from nowhere in the middle of the fight. Will it be the same in PE? Also, those trials in the ice temple and in the monastery - does Sawyer still consider things like this to be 'fun'? And the forest, ffs I wish this game was erased from my memory forever...

 

Face it - you are just jealous he gets more attention from Sawyer than you.

 

His first game was Icewind Dale. IWD2 was the first time he had a leadership position and only for the first six or so months.

It had some some bad encounter design dwarfed by a lot of great encounter design.

Josh is aware that the quality of IWD2 was hurt by the quantity they felt required to make. They expected it'd end up as a 30 hour game at best and ended up with 60+.

They also feel required to make a lot of content for PoE as well but they're going in aware of what happened with IWD2 and also NWN2. There'll be a lot more talking this time around to help pad the time.

He never considered those areas fun.

 

That was Legacy of Kain.