literally picking a screenshot of one of the fights where the chaos of the spread of oil and fire is the fucking point
also D:OS 2 sold better than both these games
One is taken with all UI options enabled and activated (TAB), the other isn't.What's disingenious about it? RTwP is a clusterfuck and turn-based isn't.
Pillars of Eternity is only trash mobs, even the boss encounters can be classed as them since its simply a case of applying the same formulaic solution for every single fight. There is nothing difficult or innovative about them, its just a case of using the same solution everywhere, regardless of whatever abilities the boss may have. The thing is, the combat system is not necessarily bad, it just feels like the fights within the game are lacking something to actually make you need to think. This is similar to how mage fights in Pathfinder are a let down, but Pillars manages to pull off the let down on a game wide scale.
You mean those encounters in deadfire where I would take tea breaks while the npcs were having their turns because it took forever and nothing interesting or relevant happened?
You're right, but at least those games respect your time and combat is over within a reasonable amount of time, the damage:hp ratio of the deadfire megabosses puts them solidly in the sponge category. If a game wants to make boss fights go on for half an hour plus, the boss better have interesting mechanics that change as the fight goes on. Multiple phases, changing tactics, the works. After the first 2 rounds of combat with the deadfire bosses you have seen pretty much all of the mechanics, with maybe the exception of Hauami o Whe, where after you kill the first ooze you realize that it is all just a horrible joke being played on you.
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Out of everything you listed, the only thing that actually matters is the infuriating ooze splitting mechanic, the rest of it is summarily dealt with by the application of self buffs (which occurs on the first round of combat). Infinite adds that spawn -> get ignored until the boss is dead, the trash in pillars matters so little you can completely ignore its existence, except for the boss trash, which also does very little but just takes 50 turns to die. And if you are trying to call something like, "boss casts a spell which only functions when it is on low hp when it is on low hp" a unique mechanic, that really is a stretch. It is more a case of it happens to have that specific spell in its spell book and that is the only point at which the spell does something.
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Soloing them in RTwP is a lot less time consuming, sure. I have done both, but are you really trying to defend the fights by saying, "they don't take so long if you play in the game mode that I Safav Hamon think is bad?" I soloed the game 4 times. Once on release, once when they added the beast of winter, once when they added seeker, slayer, destroyer and now with the forgotten sanctum. The 4th time, was in turn based and technically I didn't finish every fight since I hated Hauami o Whe in RTwP and there is no way I am subjecting myself to that tedium in turn based. I can do it, but I am not doing it again when I hated that fight the first time. RTwP does a lot to hide the flaws of those fights sure, but if you didn't notice in RTwP that there isn't much happening in those fights then try soloing it in turn based. The repetitiveness very quickly sets in.
Except most of the time it isn't. BG 1 and 2 are not tedious to solo, it is in fact a pleasure to do so. Kingmaker is also not tedious to solo. I could name a few others but that is besides the point. As far as the megabosses not being easy, from my perspective I disagree.
And this:Anyways, this thread has been derailed. Let's get back on the topic of RTwP being an incomprehensible mess...
Allow me to quote this:
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I see that tag is correctly applied to you then, since you told me that I should be playing PoE 2 on it to make the game less tedious.That tag should be applied to everyone that defends real-time with pause combat.
