Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

That was Chris's speculation. No buyer would be idiotic enough not to do the basic due diligence to check what IPs are being acquired. Putting the IP into a different company is normal late capitalism bullshit; if Obsidian were to go tits-up or get sued to oblivion, they'd still retain ownership of the IP. If they will sell the studio, Black Mountain Holdings or whatever it's called will be part of the deal.

 

Your constant negative assumptions based on secondhand knowledge are annoying. It would be a lot easier to push your agenda if you actually played the damn game.

There are some noticeable voiceacting limitations, but it's not entirely bad. There are more dialogue options and branching paths than the first game, which is an incline for player agency. The dialogue is also more focused and digestible than the first game, so that's even better. Plus, some of the voiceacting is legitimately good and makes characters more memorable. Overall I'd say it's three steps forward and one step back. Their biggest blunder is probably the cost of it all, and how it affected their profits. Of that I have no idea.

 

PoE3 already in the making. You heard here first.

 

I get you for the IP,but PoE IP doesn't have that much market value. It is not some classic or a multimillion selling story like ME games. It will have the same value as uderrail in the eyes of lets say EA.

 

Every one of the voice actor for the companions has done more than just the companion, but also some random side characters as well. So either they decide "hey let's cut some companion content so these expensive actors can do some minor characters nobody cares about", or they didn't really cut any content at all in the first place and that's all they've planned for it.

 

The Fearg wants to make a Skyrim killer hiking simulator in Eora. It makes sense to establish the IP with smaller projects first.

 

Like I said, I see him really making a Skyrim killer... 10 years post-Skyrim, and everyone will just yawn at it.

 

Or "cut companion content so that we can use the fact that we VA everything in marketing". Using Californian union voice actors is expensive as shit. Their individual rates are about 1000$ a day as a baseline, and famous VAs such as Laura Bailey (Xoti), Ashley Johnson(Narrator), Liam Obrien (Serafen) and Matthew Mercer (Eder+Aloth) might command higher rates than that. Additionally, obsidian used 3 studios to finish their VA quickly rather than their in-house studio.

 

Prime Junta you sound like an ancapistani with your utopia of Feargus' incompetent and malicious self-interest leading to better product for us consumers in the end.

 

Also I think people overestimate the budget for fully voice acting when it comes to Deadfire. Their collaboration with Critical Role is a marketing strategy and it goes both ways, so they might get a decent discount when it comes to the payment for those actors.

 

I would read that interactive book

 

Probably not the first one to notice but I heard an NPC skip the part of the sentence that deals with my background. Not a big deal, just thought someone might find it informative in regard to the budget issues and whatnot.

As far as the responses go there's way too much of 'yeah, well, fuck you too!' and 'that's what she said OLOLOLO'.

 

When trading, press CTRL and click on any item stack in your stash to highlight it, then, after selecting everything, drag and hold with lmb any of selected to trade screen, and everything selected would be transfered together to trade screen regardless of amount of items in stacks.

 

Apples and oranges. Well, quite telling that Bobsidian didn't even bother making the weapon unique in any way.

At least it doesn't come with descriptive text.

 

- This is out last koiki fruit
- Ah ok. Well, I do have 32 koiki fruits in my stash--
- No need we kill person and then starve
- k.

 

This is one occasion where the mulish insistence that all quest resolutions should give you the same amount of XP fails the nice quest. I would have supported a quest resolution where you give them your koiki fruit, this closes the quest, but you get like 1/4 of the normal XP reward.

 

Is this thread still about Pillars of Eternity?

 

Cool videogame discussion, dudes!



Edit: Thanks to whoever moved those two pages of political shit out of this thread.

 

Don't worry, Infinitron will kick this into GD PDQ.

 

It's content filler until we get that Sawyer stream in 8 hours.

 

I remember quite a few posters on the dex declaring POE a flop and celebrating that it would never sniff a million copies a couple weeks after release.

 

Looking forward to the review, man.

 

That's interesting. I don't remember those, but I guess they were there.

 

I cannot tell whether the direction this thread has taken speaks to PoE2's generally warmer reception (i.e., lack of polarization compared to PoE1), or the lack of any defining quality left to discuss.

Edit: I surprised how many people have already finished the game in this thread. I have barely touched the main quest, and it is taking days to slowly explore the map. Granted, I can spare about 1 hour or more a night during the work week.

 

That is absolutely true mate,would have brofisted if i could. This little derailing of the thread is the best thing that could have come from PoE2.

Looking back and saying what they should have done is easy,being on the table and making the decision in the moment is not . If you ask me we should have waited some time and fucked them well in the ass when ready,and yea a deal with Romania would have been nice. The retarded faggod declared war on Serbs while our troops were on the Turkish border. Fucking faggot!