Game News PC Gaming Show at E3 2015: Pillars of Eternity: The White March Expansion Pack Announced

worldsmith · Jun 18, 2015

Turok said:
If a game sell, is shit.
If it sell more than normal is the shittiest game ever.

Let's put that logic to a test:
If a candidate does well in the US presidential primaries, is shit.
If candidate wins US presidential office, is shittiest president ever.

Oh wait -- that actually sounds about right to me. Perhaps the IQ of the average gamer isn't that much higher than the IQ of the average voter.

That said, "higher sales -> shittier game", while perhaps some amount of correlation can be found, probably isn't sound logic. But I didn't notice anyone actually claiming it was. Did I miss it? Or were you just constructing a strawman? Either way, it's certainly not the case that popularity is any guarantee of quality, nor that quality ensures popularity.

Roguey · Jun 18, 2015

"That's nto even remotely MCing. Idiocy mislabeling."

"Multiclass abilities" is an accurate descriptor though. Now fighters can sneak attack and wizards can charm whereas before they couldn't.

Maculo · Jun 18, 2015

This thread makes me want to play Fallout. Otherwise, I am interest to see the additional spells or talents. Will hopefully make a decent PotD playthrough.

Roguey · Jun 18, 2015

Ulrox said:
It being positive changes it's nature. I love how we can keep doing this.

Having finally remembered my reply to this, Pillars of Eternity has an achievement for completing the game with only 175 kills, so with this reasoning, PoE also has very little filler.

Gruncheon · Jun 18, 2015

Looking at how Bethesda manage to market their new Fallout (a nicer-looking, equally stupid version of their old Fallout) and having people line up to praise it as the bleeding-edge second coming of games, I wonder why Obsidian don't hire some in-house PR or marketing person. Where even dedicated nerds like us have to rely on a thread in news to realise this isn't a megadungeon (which is definitely the impression the trailer gives off) there's definitely something going wrong. It seems like a company that has no clear direction or idea of where its faults lie, though I guess when you're jumping from flaming wreck of Project A to cancelled Project B you don't think too clearly

Cassidy · Jun 18, 2015

Gruncheon said:
I wonder why Obsidian don't hire some in-house PR or marketing person.

Outsourcing it to shills in Internet forums and games "journalists" and even better, dumb fanboys willing to do it for free, is a lot cheaper. The bribes to RPGCodex for example are probably less than 1% of how much it would cost to pay the wages of an in-house marketing person.