Pillars of Eternity console port by Paradox Arctic

[Lacrymas]

Watched it, it's incredibly slow and unintuitive and that's with only three level 1 characters, none of whom is a caster. Imagine a full party even at 6th level, battles are going to take forever and you'd have to keep fidgeting the controller so that pseudo-cursor reaches the right spots, that radial menu doesn't help. Ugh.

 

[FreeKaner]

This is obviously why they added spell re-targeting.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Paradox are shit, and it was the worse thing obsidian could have done, to get in bed with them.

Their current price hiking shenanigans on steam, are just another point on a very long list of anti consumer dick moves.

Fuck them.

 

[Rev]

My god, that gameplay looks really bad, it's even worse than I expected. Well done, Paradox Arctic.
They'll be lucky if this sells even as much as T:ToN.

 

[pippin]

The comments on that video are priceless (which refuses to load for me for some reason and I can't watch it) -

This game reminds me of Diablo/Baldurs Gate a lot, which I played the heck out of it. It's a shame that it isn't coming to the Swiitch given it would be nice just playing on the Couch, Bed etc...Definitely a good way to kill time while waiting...

I also agree it reminds me of diablo. I loved playing Hardcore mode in D2 and I am still playing hardcore in d3,

Diablo was used as a comparison for DivOS too. Sven had to avoid comparing it to U7 because people did not remember that game anymore, so he had to reluctantly compare it to BG.

 

[Excidium II]

God help those about to brave about 400 hours of trash mob fighting with that slow as fuck console interface.

 

[Morality Games]

They might edit down the trash mobs for the console release.

Probably not, but it is one of the things they have to consider given the complications posed by such an adaption.

 

[J_C]

This is obviously why they added spell re-targeting.

Obviously...

 

[Alienman]

They might edit down the trash mobs for the console release.

Probably not, but it is one of the things they have to consider given the complications posed by such an adaption.

I think they did. Shouldn't there be 3 bandits in that first ambush?

 

[Excidium II]

They might edit down the trash mobs for the console release.

Probably not, but it is one of the things they have to consider given the complications posed by such an adaption.

I think they did. Shouldn't there be 3 bandits in that first ambush?

Depends on difficulty, I think vid is story mode. Actually that fight is only two anyway iirc.

 

[Lacrymas]

Yeah, definitely low difficulty, not above normal. PotD would've been too much of a struggle and it wouldn't fit into 15ish minutes.

 

[Father Foreskin]

Poe2 will be a console shitfest just like Dos2. Anybody who disagrees is with this is an obese cum garkler

 

[Sentinel]

I agree with you.

 

[Morality Games]

In fairness, consoles in the 2010s aren't the same thing in the 1980s.

You got 3 direction controller, all of which double as action buttons as well as directional buttons, 4 "pause buttons", and four bumpers.

It's like 3x or 4x as many buttons/functions.

 

[Excidium II]

It's not just about number of buttons, after all to play poe you only really need spacebar and right+left click.

 

[Fry]

Yeah, the problem is the cursor. Analog sticks are no substitute for a mouse for a game like this.

 

[TC Jr]

Rtwp just doesn't work on consoles, tb is fine, I played divinity os on PS4 and it was fine, couldn't imagine trying to play a game like PoE with a controller though lol. I hope it does well though.

The only tb game I've had issues with on console was wasteland 2, I might need glasses but the text/UI was tiny.

 

[Iznaliu]

The radial menu blocks the screen so you can't see what you've doing. Great design, PDX Arctic!

 

[Reapa]

Weird thread. Larian spend an entire year personally developing a console Enhanced Edition for D:OS after its release with a full-sized team and nobody except Roqua really gives a fuck. Now Obsidian are letting their publisher dump a third party console port on the market two and a half years after their game's release and people are biting their fingernails? Swen needs to teach the world his secret.

Good point. And I think there has to be at least one other person than me who cares. At least one. My online soulmate I have yet to meet.

i'd care if ds wasn't already a crappy abomination of an rpg with its turn base + cooldowns and moronic spells like petrification that goes away after a few turns. to me ds is already streamlined decline and anything it does in addition to that doesn't deserve any more butthurt.
as to poe... i don't care either. "balance" kind of broke it. you get a system that makes any class be viable with any combination of of stats and call that balance while everyone can equip a crossbow and shoot everything dead in the first round. where they don't have MMO cooldowns, they have MMO itemization with x% increases where the only difference between one weapon and another is how much more of the same thing it does.
this whole thread is a monument to the influx of newfags that want to fit in by pretending they are against streamlining of games that are already fucking streamlined.

 

[Lacrymas]

We know they are streamlined, trust me.

 

[Infinitron]

Now on YouTube:

 

[Reapa]

Now on YouTube:

somebody bought it and played it for almost 14 minutes. it's obviously a success.

 

[Achilles]

A new radial menu is also available for players, which covers much of your needs while on your adventure.

Though they use every button on the controller pad, it still felt more compact and easy to get into compared to the original PC version.

Maybe PC will also get huge update and radial UI.

Console fags don't get to see good RPGs that often.

Bloodborne.

Bloodborne is not an RPG.

 

[YES!]

Weird thread. Larian spend an entire year personally developing a console Enhanced Edition for D:OS after its release with a full-sized team and nobody except Roqua really gives a fuck. Now Obsidian are letting their publisher dump a third party console port on the market two and a half years after their game's release and people are biting their fingernails? Swen needs to teach the world his secret.

Good point. And I think there has to be at least one other person than me who cares. At least one. My online soulmate I have yet to meet.

i'd care if ds wasn't already a crappy abomination of an rpg with its turn base + cooldowns and moronic spells like petrification that goes away after a few turns. to me ds is already streamlined decline and anything it does in addition to that doesn't deserve any more butthurt.
as to poe... i don't care either. "balance" kind of broke it. you get a system that makes any class be viable with any combination of of stats and call that balance while everyone can equip a crossbow and shoot everything dead in the first round. where they don't have MMO cooldowns, they have MMO itemization with x% increases where the only difference between one weapon and another is how much more of the same thing it does.
this whole thread is a monument to the influx of newfags that want to fit in by pretending they are against streamlining of games that are already fucking streamlined.

I don't understand. Are you saying every rpg that is turn based is shit? Or just the TB ones with CDs? Are you somehow trying to equate CDs with streamlining?

 

[Reapa]

Weird thread. Larian spend an entire year personally developing a console Enhanced Edition for D:OS after its release with a full-sized team and nobody except Roqua really gives a fuck. Now Obsidian are letting their publisher dump a third party console port on the market two and a half years after their game's release and people are biting their fingernails? Swen needs to teach the world his secret.

Good point. And I think there has to be at least one other person than me who cares. At least one. My online soulmate I have yet to meet.

i'd care if ds wasn't already a crappy abomination of an rpg with its turn base + cooldowns and moronic spells like petrification that goes away after a few turns. to me ds is already streamlined decline and anything it does in addition to that doesn't deserve any more butthurt.
as to poe... i don't care either. "balance" kind of broke it. you get a system that makes any class be viable with any combination of of stats and call that balance while everyone can equip a crossbow and shoot everything dead in the first round. where they don't have MMO cooldowns, they have MMO itemization with x% increases where the only difference between one weapon and another is how much more of the same thing it does.
this whole thread is a monument to the influx of newfags that want to fit in by pretending they are against streamlining of games that are already fucking streamlined.

I don't understand. Are you saying every rpg that is turn based is shit? Or just the TB ones with CDs? Are you somehow trying to equate CDs with streamlining?

just tb ones with cd. and i should mention i'd be okay with a spell taking several turns to get cast, but not with the mind of the wizard overheating for one spell and casting another one right away. can you dig that?
no, i'm not equating cds with streamlining. not on their own at least. but what is the point of cds? when you go through the mental gymnastics required to introduce cds in a game (the foot of that fighter overheats for kicking the enemy's face but can still kick his ass) what is pushing you to go through with it instead of letting that fighter kick enemy's faces every turn? i'd say it's a combination of paranoid focus on balance with being too lazy for encounter design. but then i ask myself, why not go for casting times instead of cool downs? because casting time would require real tactical planning. and you can't have players think while playing your crappy game or else they might give it a bad review. so, yes, i'm equating cool downs with streamlining, bitch.