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I appreciat your concern but dont you worry, some of us do read other threads and opinions :p .By the way I have some time to kill so If you have a link to a test or an article(such as this one https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10683 ) which describs in detail why PoE, 1 or 2, is bad then feel free to share. Thanks.Why all the disagreement? Pillars is a bad, a very bad game. It is known.
Is it just that this thread was filtered by time and is only visited by tasteless fanboys with no appreciation for functional gameplay? Because I can leave you be in your safe space, no problem.
That's a well made point, I'd have welcomed that. However, many, if not all RPGs are designed with an imminent world's destruction at hand. Players can go traipsing around for ages instead of rushing to thwart the plans of the evil mastermind. Irennicus becoming a god is a threat to the whole world, he's certainly not one to slack in his progress. But wait, I need to solve the local villager's love affair and feel nice. And I actually fancy spending a week at the inn until the mad wizard finishes his potion, I am really curious what it's going to do. Oh wait, I've another 3000 coins to earn so I can buy this cool looking sword.... So why mind it here, I wonder?
It's still is PoE1 thread so :
The idea iteself of such a cataclysmic event is not the problem(it can be for some). It is the way it was done that was the main problem. An RPG, driven by its mechanics or its story is supposed to let you makes important choices, choices that matter, put you in difficult situtations. In most of the main quest you do nothing but simply be a bystander to whom the Gods give orders. The Gods themselves were, to be polite, poorly written(irrationnal, childish at times, out-of-character and unwise). 3 factions among the Gods, none tried to convince you proper, its boring . It is a bit like Thaos, just even stupidier, more dangerous and now you have to work with them. Worse, the only real choice was at the end of the questline, so it's probably not a good thing in the mechanic and story departments for a big RPG such as this one.
Of course you could side with a faction in order to influence the region. But those choices concerned the region first and foremost and not the gods and their plot. As for the passage of time ingame, only one the challanges, added later, fixes this problem. Two part of the game cohexist and not in the best of ways, the main quest feels inconsequential because nothing happend three month after the start your journey/exploration. Tyranny at least forced you to go through chapters(kind of) and once you were commited to a place, you could only turn back at the end of it or by reloading.
Of course you could side with a faction in order to influence the region. But those choices concerned the region first and foremost and not the gods and their plot. As for the passage of time ingame, only one the challanges, added later, fixes this problem. Two part of the game cohexist and not in the best of ways, the main quest feels inconsequential because nothing happend three month after the start your journey/exploration. Tyranny at least forced you to go through chapters(kind of) and once you were commited to a place, you could only turn back at the end of it or by reloading.
On a more personnal note I found the plot already too big for such a recent setting.
You can already usher the end of the reigning pantheon while your barely played the serie. The Dyrwood events were a big deal but not such a big deal, most of the world was unaffected(exepct may be its neighbours). Naasitaq would be Naasitaq, Aedyr would be Aedyr, etc. PoE2 has a air of world-ending but especially of Era-Ending. What is the point if we already have major changes when most of this Renaissance-Exploration and Civilization clashs world is left unused or unexplores(8 distincts regions). Furthermore what is beyond PoE2's end(Avowed ?) could be a kind of apocalypse or another Dark Age where "Enlightement" would not never happened, it's another kind of world/setting altogether I say.
Though I absolutly agree with HoboForEternity, I guess it is still a matter of taste(genre and themes) at the end of the day.