Pillars of Eternity Beta Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

I don't think it's like either of them really. It's more like NWN2.

 

Nope.

Only if you're not talking about the combat.

 

You're becoming more obsessed with PoE and Sawyer then Roguey. Pretty scary.

 

Because I disagree with you (and others) on a few points?

I'm not doing anything I haven't already been doing.

 

You're consistent and i appreciate what you're trying to accomplish with combat / ui feedback. To me, the best parts of the bg series and iwd1 was the combat and mage duels. Full scs2 + tactics and assorted difficulty and ai improving mods. I fully expected that since PoE was pitched as a spiritual succesor to those old IE games, that the combat and spell system would at minimum equal the unmodded complexity and depth of the stated inspiration.

So thanks for fighting to get them to reach our baseline minimum expectations.

 

The most accurate description in the end will be that the game looks great, the story is very well done, and the game plays nothing like the IE resurrection it was promised to be.

Roguey has wisely dropped the obession once she realised sawyer is not going to succeed in the one place she had absolute faith in him: mechanics. Too bad he won't get a chance to make a sequel to correct his failure as they won't be able to gather even half of what PoE collected on kickstarter for it.

 

I'm going to wait until final release to give an absolute on that but yeah it's trending like many of the systems may not gel together properly. For a game that is supposed to be 'balanced', PE combat is hugely swingy compared to the IE games, you can deal between 0.1 damage and like 80 damage with the same weapon. I'd rather have total immunities and better numbers across the board than what we currently have, because it's fucked.

 

Shooting for Tuesday for the next patch.

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/69201-update-on-the-update/?p=1537982

 

An overstatement. As much as I'm going to be disappointed in poe, I'll probably chip in again, cause a mediocre rpg is better than no rpg at all. I think most people will do the same.

 

Reposting from other thread

 

Holy shit.

I don't recognize the guy on the far left though.

 

Of course not. As I've said before, I don't want to watch this sausage getting made anymore. I'm sure it'll turn out fine in the end, though like all other Kickstarter projects, it'll probably need months of patching to be solid.

 

Enjoy

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/shoop-make-this-look-professional.94775/

 

Sausage of Eternity, Pillars of Eternity

 

More responses from Josh.
http://poedevtracker.net/

 

So he says the horribly generic wizard spells are the result of Obsidian not having enough time to script stuff.

And yet it's a nonsense. They've outsourced things before, it'd cost them a few thousand bucks to get a programmer from Europe to code stuff for a whole month, and with their solid framework he'd be able to do all the missing spells in less time than that. So Obsidian doesn't have a 3-4k bucks? Right.

 

Suck up more.