Eternity Pillars of Eternity II Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Hellion]

At some point you explore a plot-critical "fortress" and there's a hole in the wall, and Tekehu remarks "WHAT A GLORIOUS HOLE" in all his full-voiced splendor. GOTY 2018 Confirmed.

 

[Lacrymas]

I like that they don't have any idea how to write a sexual character. "LOL, I store jewels in my rectum because sex!", "LOL, I use leather strings as a cock ring!" or is he using them as anal beads?, etc. Funny, yet sad.

 

[MajorMace]

Alright. Do not enroll the sharkboi. Got it.
I'm starting to like the sidekick idea even more. No banter, no romance, no psychologist sessions.

 

[Parabalus]

I like that they don't have any idea how to write a sexual character. "LOL, I store jewels in my rectum because sex!", "LOL, I use leather strings as a cock ring!" or is he using them as anal beads?, etc. Funny, yet sad.

How is he different from Hiravias in this regard?

 

[AwesomeButton]

I can picture Feargus leaning behin Paul Kirsch's desk, "You gotta sex him up, Paul!"

Alright. Do not enroll the sharkboi. Got it.
I'm starting to like the sidekick idea even more. No banter, no romance, no psychologist sessions.

Told you all, didn't I :D

 

[Quillon]

I like that they don't have any idea how to write a sexual character. "LOL, I store jewels in my rectum because sex!", "LOL, I use leather strings as a cock ring!" or is he using them as anal beads?, etc. Funny, yet sad.

How is he different from Hiravias in that regard?

Where are the quotes coming from? Watching that guy deep into the game?

Or making shit up to shit on the glorious GoTY 2018 balanced to perfection game?

 

[AwesomeButton]

deep

heh heh...

 

[Hellion]

I've put 50 hours into the game in the past 3 days so my memory regarding some specifics might be a bit blurry, but I do believe that the line about the jewels ends up being just a joke.

Also, Tekehu's backstory (he's supposed to be

Spoiler

Ondra's chosen for the future of the Archipelago or something like that, and Ondra speaks to the Watcher and tells him to prepare Tekehu for this role as best as he can

) makes him kind of a logical choice as a companion, for a first playthrough at least.

Spoiler

He gets special dialogue and sometimes preferential treatment in quite a few locations.

 

[Bocha]

You guys are too tradicionalist, you need some spicy

Enviado desde mi XT1032 mediante Tapatalk

 

[MajorMace]

So in addition to his tasteless unoriginal glory hole jokes, we now have to prep the bull shark ?

 

[PrettyDeadman]

I want to be a dragon ride the bull experience tasteful sexual content in Obsidian rpg!

 

[AwesomeButton]

I've put 50 hours into the game in the past 3 days so my memory regarding some specifics might be a bit blurry, but I do believe that the line about the jewels ends up being just a joke.

Also, Tekehu's backstory (he's supposed to be

Spoiler

Ondra's chosen for the future of the Archipelago or something like that, and Ondra speaks to the Watcher and tells him to prepare Tekehu for this role as best as he can

) makes him kind of a logical choice as a companion, for a first playthrough at least.

Spoiler

He gets special dialogue and sometimes preferential treatment in quite a few locations.

you have a reviewer's code? Are you streaming?

 

[MajorMace]

I can picture Feargus leaning behin Paul Kirsch's desk, "You gotta sex him up, Paul!"

Paul in 3 years on the codex :

So Tekehu as he appears in the game was actually an act of defiance on my part, as I tried to make him as ridiculously oversexualized as possible, and wrote some disgusting glory holes and anal beads jokes as banters, in an attempt to make Feargus reject it.
It backfired however, as Feargus loved the idea and greenlighted it in less time that he'd spend chosing his coffee at the machine.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

I can picture Feargus leaning behin Paul Kirsch's desk, "You gotta sex him up, Paul!"

Paul in 3 years on the codex :

So Tekehu as he appears in the game was actually an act of defiance on my part, as I tried to make him as ridiculously oversexualized as possible, and wrote some disgusting glory holes and anal beads jokes as banters, in an attempt to make Feargus reject it.
It backfired however, as Feargus loved the idea and greenlighted it in less time that he'd spend chosing his coffee at the machine.

Did you write MCA's answers about Obsidian Upper Management too?

 

[Dreed]

Some of you guys are alright, don't go to the POE 2 thread tomorrow.

 

[Thonius]

I like that they don't have any idea how to write a sexual character. "LOL, I store jewels in my rectum because sex!", "LOL, I use leather strings as a cock ring!" or is he using them as anal beads?, etc. Funny, yet sad.

They way I read it he is just retard with leather braces serfer bro who tosses them around.... I ques I'm naive.

 

[MajorMace]

Did you write MCA's answers about Obsidian Upper Management too?

Don't call me out on my lack of originality, I'm sensitive.
Please, say that you like me still. A rating shall suffice.

 

[Hellion]

A few spoilers regarding the ending (not really spoiling the plotline, just a few remarks on the final confrontation with Eothas, but proceed at your own risk regardless):

Spoiler

I don't know if this is due to my choices in the game or if I'm missing something else, but in the end you can't really fight Eothas or even object to what he's set out to do. If you pick the choice "I want to fight you" in the final confrontation with him he just absorbs your soul and you get a "game over" narration.

So, the only thing I really got to choose in the final confrontation is how to influence a few aspects of the world as it will be shaped after Eothas' decisive actions. Meaning that said actions WILL happen, no matter what.

Makes the whole thing look a bit like the "Indy is irrelevant" theory regarding the plot for Raiders of the Lost Ark. Other than playing the power game between the rivaling factions of the Archipelago, we as players don't really get a say in how the main plotline ends.

As I said, maybe this is all just due to my choices in the game. I'll have to start another one to make sure.

PS. Yes I have a review code, but no I am not streaming because I despise Twitch and everything it stands for. Unless you want to throw money at me, in which case I'll start right away.

 

[2house2fly]

Lmfao at you prudes. Oh a character says gay shit? I'd better skip the game entirely, to make sure I don't see the gay shit!

A few spoilers regarding the ending (not really spoiling the plotline, just a few remarks on the final confrontation with Eothas, but proceed at your own risk regardless):

Spoiler

I don't know if this is due to my choices in the game or if I'm missing something else, but in the end you can't really fight Eothas or even object to what he's set out to do. If you pick the choice "I want to fight you" in the final confrontation with him he just absorbs your soul and you get a "game over" narration.

So, the only thing I really got to choose in the final confrontation is how to influence a few aspects of the world as it will be shaped after Eothas' decisive actions. Meaning that said actions WILL happen, no matter what.

Makes the whole thing look a bit like the "Indy is irrelevant" theory regarding the plot for Raiders of the Lost Ark. Other than playing the power game between the rivaling factions of the Archipelago, we as players don't really get a say in how the main plotline ends.

As I said, maybe this is all just due to my choices in the game. I'll have to start another one to make sure.

PS. Yes I have a review code, but no I am not streaming because I despise Twitch and everything it stands for. Unless you want to throw money at me, in which case I'll start right away.

I won't ask for story spoilers, but there are a couple of, I suppose, format related questions I have. First of all, do you continue playing after the ending? Second, is there an ending slideshow? If so, please list the quests outside of the main quest which definitely get an ending slide. Also if so, do sidekicks get ending slides as well as main companions?

 

[Alienman]

Without getting too spoilery, what does he mean ? What's up with sharkboi ?
Please tell me he's not an extravagant transsexual.

he makes some comments to Aloth about storing jewels in his ass or something
also is a massive homosexual
https://youtu.be/O5PThovKdT0?t=1m27s 1:28

Not sure if it is worth pirating.

I actually get more triggered what comes afterwards.

Fucking infomercial voice about subs to his channel.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

If you cannot yourself become a god in a game about manufactured gods than the game is an absolute failure from narrative design stand point.
AoD seems to udnerstand that, yet it seems Obsidian is unable to show understanding of such basic things even in POE 2.
Shame on them!
It wouldn't have happened if Chris was still on board.

 

[Hellion]

First of all, do you continue playing after the ending? Second, is there an ending slideshow? If so, please list the quests outside of the main quest which definitely get an ending slide. Also if so, do sidekicks get ending slides as well as main companions?

In the preview version at least, I got the typical "separate save just before the end-game" like in Pillars 1, and after the ending I'm thrown back into the main menu.

There are ending slideshows, for the main plotline, most major locations, all the major factions, 4-5 major quests (you'll know them when you play the game, I might list them all later), and your companions, but not the sidekicks.

If you cannot yourself become a god in a game about manufactured gods than the game is an absolute failure from narrative design stand point.

It makes sense in the general context of the story. The Watcher as a character still has a (major) role to play in the general state of the world after the game's end. Making him into a god would be a pretty final act that's difficult to implement in possible future installments.

 

[AwesomeButton]

PS. Yes I have a review code, but no I am not streaming because I despise Twitch and everything it stands for. Unless you want to throw money at me, in which case I'll start right away.

Ah, I remember, you were from games.gr ok, ragequit.gr, I'm retarded

 

[MajorMace]

I'll give deadfire props for one thing, which I hope gets confirmed in game : the world and characters felt much more incarnated in the first hours of livestream (basically, first city).
I'd rather have this and lewd sharks than poe1.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

that's difficult to implement in possible future installments.

Sometimes you have to know when to quit (end the story).