Preview Pillars of Eternity Beta live at Gamescom 2014

[Infinitron]

Tags: Adam Brennecke; J.E. Sawyer; Obsidian Entertainment; Pillars of Eternity

It's the first day of Gamescom, the premier European videogames convention. Twitch's representatives there decided to devote some time to Paradox Interactive today. One of the Paradox-published games they got to see was Pillars of Eternity, played by none other than Josh Sawyer and Adam Brennecke. It's actually the game's beta, the same one which will be released to backers on the 18th:

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Watch Adam get his ass kicked by beetles!

Update: Here's another beta gameplay video published today on the German site Golem.de:

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It looks like Josh gave Adam some advice this time, as he gets a bit farther despite the video being shorter.

 

[Infinitron]

lol, that was short. But keep watching, they're showing Runemaster now.

 

[Athelas]

They probably cut the session short to spare themselves further embarassment.

 

[Infinitron]

Updated OP.

 

[evdk]

When did "choices and consequences" become a mainstream thing?

 

[Athelas]

When did "choices and consequences" become a mainstream thing?

Since a long while now? I guess Bioware started it with how they marketed Mass Effect.

 

[Rostere]

Wow, I like how the combat is looking!

 

[Azalin]

Beetles vs Adam 2-0
That was kinda embarassing

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Buahahaha! He died to the beetles! Twice! In a Row! He looked so sad and ashamed in the end! Those eyes trying to desperately break a contact! Buahahaha!




By the way: music and lore skill looks good.

 

[Shadenuat]

MCA & wolves, Adam & beetles, now somebody else at Obsi should die to a party of random xvarts and we will have full set.

Well, hurrah for high difficulty!

 

[Ulrox]

This game looks incredible! Soo looking forward to trying it out!

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

MCA & wolves, Adam & beetles, now somebody else at Obsi should die to a party of random xvarts and we will have full set.

Well, hurrah for high difficulty!

It was said, it was on easy

 

[Scruffy]

the interviewer
wtf man
hire a personal stylist or something

 

[Veelq]

The Beatles - Adam's favorite band confirmed.

 

[MicoSelva]

Looks like this game will not be as easy to solo on maximum difficulty as Baldur's Gates are.

 

[Decado]

The interviewer seems like he doesn't know shit about video games.

 

[Sensuki]

Zed needs to do a Beatles / Adam Brennecke photoshop, then send it to him on twitter

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

MCA & wolves, Adam & beetles, now somebody else at Obsi should die to a party of random xvarts and we will have full set.

I'm guessing one of their well-known colleagues first played BG1 with a mage and was immediately killed by a rat. He's been on a mission to 'fix' level 1 mages ever since...

 

[Anthony Davis]

Sooooo good.

Adam is the best.

 

[norolim]

Well, this short gameplay got me more excited for the game, than any video they released before. Adam was definitelly stressed out, but Pillars sure looks like a difficult game. Nice.
My only worry is that they'll panic and make it much easier after that. Please, don't Obsidian.

 

[Jaesun]

Damn. They really did do a good job of making it feel and look like the IE engine. <3

 

[tuluse]

Watching Adam get his ass kicked, it seems like every character should have a once per encounter withdraw ability. Something just to get out of engagement, but lose control of the character for a round.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Well, this short gameplay got me more excited for the game, than any video they released before. Adam was definitelly stressed out, but Pillars sure looks like a difficult game. Nice.
My only worry is that they'll panic and make it much easier after that. Please, don't Obsidian.

It did but keep in mind Adam would make any game look difficult. That said, I'd be surprised if expert difficulty wasn't a good challenge even for people familiar with this type of game.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Why doesn't Josh demonstrate the gameplay? Probably would have gotten to see the Ogre if he was the one playing.

 

[LarsWestergren]

> My only worry is that they'll panic and make it much easier after that. Please, don't Obsidian.

> Watching Adam get his ass kicked, it seems like every character should have a once per encounter withdraw ability.

Make up your mind, Codex.