Eternity Does Pillars of Eternity have feature parity with Baldur's Gate?

[PunchYouInTheFace]

"Possibly retarded"

Nah, full retard.

 

[Cryomancer]

The game's combat sucks and there is no challenge, therefore if I'd ever play it, I'd play it on easy difficulty, so that god forbid, I'm challenged by this this stupid game.
Circular logic.

I just don't get why he even plays it if he wants to complete everything as fast as humanly possible and doesn't like the deities or the setting of Pillows. IMO Pillows is hardly praised by anyone because it is considered too "grognard" for the Larian audience and too modern/4eish for the "grognard" audience.

In GDC, if I remember correctly, Sawyer said that there is very little to no overlap between the PoE audience and the Larian audience.

 

[Beans00]

Games are designed for normal difficulty first.

Pillars is very detailed about what difficulty is for what players.

• Normal - The Normal difficulty requires strategy and efficiency, but forgives a few mistakes in combat. It is NOT recommended for newcomers to real-time party-based RPGs!
• Hard - The Hard difficulty is suited for Infinity Engine veterans who are looking for a challenge. Survival requires micromanagement and optimization of stats through items, spells and abilities.
• Path of the Damned - In Path of the Damned difficulty, enemies receive a bonus to most stats and encounters have many more enemies. Warning: this option can't be changed in-game! It is only intended for players who want the most punishing encounters!

They were convinced a lot of newbies would struggle with it because Obsidian's devs struggled with it. Before release Sawyer talked about how hard was the baseline https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...-released-go-to-new-thread.93694/post-3676740

That game sucked ass anyways, if I could go back I would have played it on easy.

The game's combat sucks and there is no challenge, therefore if I'd ever play it, I'd play it on easy difficulty, so that god forbid, I'm challenged by this this stupid game.
Circular logic.

Cope and seethe more about pillows of boredom lol.

 

[Beans00]

I just don't get why he even plays it if he wants to complete everything as fast as humanly possible

Do you mongoloids think 28 hours is some huge time investment? I played for maybe 60-90 mins every 3-4 days if that. I play games very leisurely since I actually have things to do, like work, eat my wife's pussy and be a dad. I don't sit around and fucking game for 5 hours every evening lol.


Also I will give pillars some credit, and this is why my hours are longer. The white march expansions were actually half decent content. Much better than the base game, or pillars 2. So thats an additional 8-10 hours since I semi took my time with them. I wouldn't have played them if they were trash(I skipped pillars 2 expansions).

 

[Desiderius]

Arcane Archer/Wizard (Geomancer) testing:

(using Basic Community patch to fix the two AA bugs that it’s kind of strange Obsidan never caught)

Went Blood Mage for staying power (and since I’m too much of an Empowerment hoarder anyway) but since AA gets scaling Accuracy from Arcana I think using scrolls is probably better for that. Summoned weapons make just attacking pretty good (Blights don’t get the AA malus).

Warbow (Slash/Pierce) with Modal as needed prevents Underpen and Mark gives it enough Accuracy to get full benefit from Eldritch Aim (which has 5 PER to cancel AA Malus in addition to 50% Graze to Hit). Grimoire has Fire Spells to ignite Gunpowder barrels/do some AoE if necessary. Pick Mark then 2AR (Resilient Companion) for Bear pet (that comes with +2AR) to set up Flanks. +2 PEN and +15% damage from Vicious Companion makes it less irrelevant with help from Flanking and Mark since it starts with decent Accuracy.

Wiz spells can focus on buffs and summoned weapons so generic Wiz probably best. Set up buffs on script to autocast and it plays pretty smoothly.

 

[Desiderius]

The game's combat sucks and there is no challenge, therefore if I'd ever play it, I'd play it on easy difficulty, so that god forbid, I'm challenged by this this stupid game.
Circular logic.

I just don't get why he even plays it if he wants to complete everything as fast as humanly possible and doesn't like the deities or the setting of Pillows. IMO Pillows is hardly praised by anyone because it is considered too "grognard" for the Larian audience and too modern/4eish for the "grognard" audience.

In GDC, if I remember correctly, Sawyer said that there is very little to no overlap between the PoE audience and the Larian audience.

I’m the overlap lol

eat my wife's pussy

Well there’s the issue.

 

[Desiderius]

Because there's no fun without challenge? And in case of Pillars, you need PotD for some challenge.

Which is not quite like Kingmaker / Wrath Unfair, which really requires a high degree of optimization and/or patience to beat.

Games are designed for normal difficulty first. This is the intended way to play the game for 90% of players. So like I said, if a game is good and I want to replay it I will bump up the difficulty after.

I played Underrail on hard(not dominating) on my first playthrough because everyone hyped up the challenge. I'm not ashamed to admit the first half of the game was an absolute challenge for me on hard. Although I did beat it of course .
I played ATOM rpg on hard(first time) because I knew it was a fallout clone and I would be familiar with it. Although even on hard the game wasn't particularly challenging aside from a few fights.
(just 2 examples)

I've heard KM's highest difficulty is a masochist setting. I liked KM enough to beat it, but it was long and sort of dull so it isn't a game I plan on replaying.


If you're going to tell me Pillars if hard on POTD get the fuck out of here lol. Maybe if the game wasn't completely braindead in design, I'm not going to play the HP bloat setting on a shit game that doesn't give me experience for killing trash mobs.

This is like the retards on the colony ship thread pretending the combat in that game was hard.

It was (stupidly) faceroll on release but was tightened up somewhat after that. If you do all the quests you can outlevel it somewhat but there’s definitely a good bit of challenge before that especially if you get off the beaten path.

 

[Beans00]

It was (stupidly) faceroll on release but was tightened up somewhat after that. If you do all the quests you can outlevel it somewhat but there’s definitely a good bit of challenge before that especially if you get off the beaten path.

Look pal, I'm not a disabled retard with 'fried kidneys'. I don't have time or desire to put 3000 hours into kingmaker lol. I got my steam account in 2006(when I was 14), and in ~18 years I have roughly 2700 hours total in all games.


If I was your age I wouldn't have even played video games. My parents are a year younger than you and they don't play games. You are the master of boomer cringe xD.

 

[Desiderius]

You’re on a cRPG forum.

Why are you here? Do you have your wife’s permission?

 

[Beans00]

Why are you here? Do your have your wife’s permission?

I registered here to cry about how much I hated NWN 2 when I was 15.
Yes I have her permission.
I am currently here for the free games, and to shitpost people like you and share knowledge of good rpgs, and warn people of the bad ones.


I'm not a dilapidated boomer who sits around all day. I like to spent time with my kids, spend time with my wife. Work, spend time with my investments and other finances.

I play games when all those are on downtime. Because I am a functioning adult. You should spend time with your kids, if all those health problems you said are true you might die before they get old and their only memories of daddy will be you playing pathfinder.

I was a father at 22, I didn't need to wait until I was old and weak .

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

I didn't need to wait until I was old and weak

Yeah, but why do you have to wait until you old and retarded?

 

[Lhynn]

Anybody tried this? Never played Gothic but it seems mods to improve on movement and gameplay may be a good idea.

 

[Inhabitants of Khorinis]

Damn, I had no idea Codex is so full of people who like to pretend to have a wife and kids. Good LARP, I guess.

 

[Desiderius]

Damn, I had no idea Codex is so full of people who like to pretend to have a wife and kids. Good LARP, I guess.

Not a LARP. You should try it. Best thing I ever did.

I was a father at 22

This is the way. Biggest mistake I ever made was not pulling the trigger then. You’re right about that.

Racked up a good many of those hours hooked up to a perontonial dialysis machine. Keeps you alive but that’s about it - still feel like crap. Since second transplant spend most of our time at the great parks around here, serving on park board, volunteering, hiking. Just got a big levy passed so good times.

Never be a speed-runner on cRPGs but the completionism goes a lot slower. Deadfire’s worth it. Enjoying a new run.

Eder, Xoti, Serafen, Tehanu all multi-classed presents many interesting options, and you can swap in the others for their quests for some variety.

 

[luj1]

Desiderius and Haplo are the type of guys who are happy with mediocrity, in my opinion. Give them artificially bloated systems where quantity > quality and they will think it's "great". I talked with Desiderius in the KotC thread (a game where you have to use your brain), he sounded frustrated and went back to shuffling between presets in Pathfinder games.

Pillars is ranked #63 or something on the Codex for a reason and I suspect it'll sink even lower in the coming years.

 

[Beans00]

This is the way. Biggest mistake I ever made was not pulling the trigger then. You’re right about that.

Racked up a good many of those hours hooked up to a perontonial dialysis machine. Keeps you alive but that’s about it - still feel like crap. Since second transplant spend most of our time at the great parks around here, serving on park board, volunteering, hiking. Just got a big levy passed so good times.

Well I hope you feel better soon.


E- Also I don't speed run games if I'm enjoying them. Generally speaking I try to do all content available, as long as I'm having a good time.

POE games weren't a good time, so I more or less blew through them.

 

[Desiderius]

Never felt better.

Well maybe when I was 22. Close enough.

 

[Desiderius]

I talked with @Desiderius in the KotC thread (a game where you have to use your brain), he sounded frustrated and went back to shuffling between presets in Pathfinder games.

I have more hours on KotC2 than Deadfire. Finished Hearkenworld a couple months ago. Been in that thread telling people to pay full price to support Pierre. Game’s great.

Keep biting those ankles faggots.

 

[luj1]

Yet you spend more time defending Pillars and Pathfinder (from people who rightfully criticize them) than praising KotC. Nice try, but I know a mid-range consumer when I smell one.

The actual decline enablers are not people with outright bad taste, it's you - pathological apologists and ardent defenders of mediocrity.

 

[Desiderius]

Yet you spend more time defending Pillars and Pathfinder (from people who rightfully criticize them) than praising KotC. Nice try, but I know a mid-range consumer when I smell one.

The actual decline enablers are not people with outright bad taste, it's you - pathological apologists and ardent defenders of mediocrity.

I was suspended from the Pathfinder forums, where I was always very careful to be much more artful and courteous than I am here, for being too critical of the Pathfinder games and the Owlsuits in particular.

Also famous for love of all things Soyer.

You're high.

Edgelords meme yourselves into cringe I'll give it to you with both barrels too.

 

[Beans00]

I was suspended from the Pathfinder forums, where I was always very careful to be much more artful and courteous than I am here, for being too critical of the Pathfinder games and the Owlsuits in particular.

If you were critical why did you play it like 20 times?