It may be oversimplifying it a bit, but I feel the same way. And the same way Avowed is (probably) going to measure favourably against Underworld: Ascendant, it's going to measure unfavourably against Monomyth. You know, the game made by one guy. In a reasonably comparable timeframe.
I'd argue that Pillars of Eternity was made by creme de la creme of Obsidian and we all know how that ended.
In a pretty good game that was brought down by internet hivemind insistence that planeshit borement dialogue is something people want?
No it's not a masterpiece, but it's not a disaster like most edgy codexers deem it to be.
That and mobs tend to patiently wait until you turn to them so they can actually start to hit you. It looks as an action game for decrepit or retards. Even fucking Skyrim was more dynamic.
It's a decent build-fag game actually.
Nope. Everything about the game was either incredibly average or outright sleep-inducing.
"Sales? We of course have great sales, we even outsold Assassin's Creed. No I can't give you an exact figure, sorry."
I replayed it last year and I was shocked how good the writing felt today, when we're neck deep in the vegan diarrhoea tinged with hair dye, estrogen and rank incompetence that's the modern AAA video game writing. It was like a blast from the past when Obsidian devs still knew what they were doing, albeit just barely.
No it wasn't. It's either generic as fuck or based on the soy idea of religion
Yes and not just that. Even nuances like words flowing and sounding nicely, competently, creating an appropriate atmosphere, free of modern degeneracy and 21st century Bay Area lingo like "err... so I'm non-binary" and "I'm pulling a barv".
"Gods don't exist, therefore we must invent them" is a non sequitur concept.
Codex Revisionism + There's nothing "flowing" and "nicely sounding" about either Welsh or "fampyrs".
Yeah obviously the writing is better then nowadays woke garbage but at the same time it was a total decline compared to Mask of the Betrayer, Kotor2, NV and AP. And considering that Obsidian was THE storyfag company at the time everyone expected way better writing, lore and characters. So one step forward, two steps back.
Competent, not unique or outstanding. For a 'spiritual successor' to older games, they had to play it safe and they did so just fine. Difference being that it's more grounded than something like Forgotten Realms stuff due to Sawyer's autism (which is a positive for the game imho). The god stuff is the only big divergence, but it's the same sort of deconstruction as with MotB - difference being that they had no preexisting setting to limit the sort of divine metaplot that they could tell (and a comparison with KotOR2 is apt as well I guess due to MCA's presence on the PoE project).
In other words: Kwanoids did what they always do with their European heritage: Turn it into bombastic nihilistic mundanity.
