The definitive, last Pillars of Eternity rating thread!

[Sensuki]

Yeah, sure, this must the reason for the positive outcome. Not because contrary to some edgelord's opinion, most people don't think that PoE is a bad game. But I'm sure the haters can always come up with a good excuse.

If you look at the 2015 Codex GOTY the game received a lot of negative votes, enough to almost push it out of the top 20 in the scoring system used for the vote. If you need a poll 15 months after release to justify or reinforce your opinion that it is a good game, then fine.

Most of the codexers I know that enjoy the IE gameplay quite a lot did not like the Pillars gameplay, for one reason or another (often different reasons). Most of the codexers I see that enjoy Pillars don't like the IE gameplay that much, or enjoy it but not to the same degree that the group that really likes it does.

Me specifically, I have completed only one Obsidian game - Knights of the Old Republic II, which was their first game. I played Neverwinter Nights 2, and never finished it. No game of their since has interested me, and after Pillars, I doubt another one will.

 

[prodigydancer]

You may resume feeling safe and smugly content in your ignorance.

Nigga please. First, any PoE-related topic created in GRPGD would end up here anyway, wouldn't it? Second, there's over 100 votes to date - how many do you need to admit that people who are mostly content with what PoE is aren't a marginal group of mainstream casuals who ended up in this prestigious club by mistake? Third, "wrong poll, wrong results" is a p. weak defense - you should know that much.

So why don't you drop your passive aggressive charade and speak plainly? What do you have against PoE specifically and Obsidian in general? Also, what is your opinion about the IE games? I would vote Sensuki for president of Cuckland but I agree with him about one thing: we cannot judge PoE without looking back at BG & Co. If you hate the whole (isometric) RTwP deal, I seriously doubt you can contribute anything remotely productive here.

 

[polo]

Well you are asking to rate it to the people who actually bought the expansion, so they initially liked the game. I didn't even finish the main campaing, cause i got bored, so i never got the expansion, ergo i can't really rate the 'final' game. I can rate the game i backed tho, and its a 6 at most.

 

[J_C]

If you need a poll 15 months after release to justify or reinforce your opinion that it is a good game, then fine.

Hey, I don't want to justify anything. It was actually you a year ago who said that you are wondering what people will think when the honeymoon period is over. Here it is. Many people like it, and it is not a colossal fuck up as some Codexians claim it to be in every PoE thread. It is actually the other way around. Whenever a thread or poll comes up about PoE being a good or at least decent game, the hate defense force make cheap excuses that it is not and it is shit.

I was a bit worried that the haters don't turn up in this thread, and the thread won't deliver, but people are starting crawling in.

 

[Sensuki]

many people like it

Just over a third of Codexers who voted in the GOTY, yes.

It is also the second most hated game of last year, after Fallout 4.

(according to the [much better] poll than this one, anyway)

 

[Severian Silk]

What does sorta liking PoE make me? What will my colleagues think of me?

Will this ruin my marriage and my relationship with my kids?

 

[J_C]

It is also the second most hated game of last year, after Fallout 4.

And it is the 5th most enjoyed one, so?

(according to the [much better] poll than this one, anyway)

There is no better poll than mine. Mine is clean, without any statistical shinanigans. Just rate the game, bamm. Clean and simple.

 

[Sensuki]

Sheltered behind the walls of the subforum.

 

[J_C]

Sheltered behind the walls of the subforum.

You are the second person who makes a big thing about this. Infinitron Would it be possible to move this thread to the main GRPG forum?

 

[Jinn]

I feel that's a fair request. It's far too often topics get ignored because of the labyrinths of subforums around here.

 

[Immortal]

Sheltered behind the walls of the subforum.

You are the second person who makes a big thing about this. Infinitron Would it be possible to move this thread to the main GRPG forum?

Don't forget to reset the poll. Wouldn't want it tainted with any <One Year alts.

 

[Sensuki]

You are the second person who makes a big thing about this. Infinitron Would it be possible to move this thread to the main GRPG forum?

No, I'm just saying that the Codex GOTY poll is about as definitive as it's going to get and no poll you make is going to garner the same number of votes. It's unlikely that many people who voted in the poll will change their vote up or down by more than a point if asked again.

Hopefully I'll be able to make some of my pledge money back by selling my PE CE during the PE2 Figstarter.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Poll lacks the option "the game was too pointless to rate it or discuss it and definitely too pointless to check the patches and/or buy the expansions" to make any sort of sense.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

PS Voted "cuck".

 

[LizardWizard]

Too lazy to make a poll

More butthurt: Sensuki or Celerity?

 

[Monkeyfinger]

I rate the game a 4.. but had to vote J_C is a cuck.

All the people who vote for cuck are just playing at my hands, this way I can get a very positve result for PoE in the voting. Keep it up, so I can bring this polll up everytime I need to prove how much the Codex loves PoE!

I was going to chide you for adding the JC is a cuck option to sneakily suck away negative votes but you yourself just admitted to doing that

 

[veskoandroid]

Im at the end of game atm. Cant say its hateable, haters gonna hate, its their personal problem. But the story is shallow, no grip at all. If the story was good the game would have been epic. It's patch 3.02 btw. Just my 2 cents.

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[Daedalos]

At launch 6.5

Now: solid 8

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

As I stated from the start developers are patching the hell of the latest releases and that's a very good thing. In the past patching was not that easy to implement because of the slow internet connection : Pillars of Eternity, Divinity : OS; Wasteland 2, Underrail, Grim Dawn all have been patched out and even received different releases. Hope the new ones will follow the same plan.

 

[undecaf]

It's a 7. I can't find enough reasons to "hate" it and I did have more or less decent time with it for the most part, but it's also the sort of game that it doesn't matter if a sequel takes a while longer to become a reality. I'm not all that anxious to get back to it.

 

[Theldaran]

As an IE games successor it should be 0 to 1 (out of 10), since it misses the mark completely, as encouraged by D&D hater Sawyer. It's inferior in every respect to them, except in the story, that's just a matter of personal tastes and IE games were never story oriented so who cares...

As an RPG and general videogame though, it should earn 4 to 5, a slightly tolerable experience that benefits from a real lack of competition on its department. Well, considering latest videogames tend to suck, not much can be asked of this game, that was also crowdfunded. Like in the glaring case of Mighty no. 9, it gathered way more money than initially expected, and I really don't think they spent all the earnings on development. But who knows...

 

[Sannom]

As an RPG and general videogame though, it should earn 4 to 5, a slightly tolerable experience that benefits from a real lack of competition on its department. Well, considering latest videogames tend to suck, not much can be asked of this game, that was also crowdfunded. Like in the glaring case of Mighty no. 9, it gathered way more money than initially expected, and I really don't think they spent all the earnings on development. But who knows...

On what do you believe that they spent the earnings aside from development?

 

[Theldaran]

As an RPG and general videogame though, it should earn 4 to 5, a slightly tolerable experience that benefits from a real lack of competition on its department. Well, considering latest videogames tend to suck, not much can be asked of this game, that was also crowdfunded. Like in the glaring case of Mighty no. 9, it gathered way more money than initially expected, and I really don't think they spent all the earnings on development. But who knows...

On what do you believe that they spent the earnings aside from development?

It's a spiky subject so I won't say too much. But I believe Obsidian, prior to this project was in economical shambles and they recovered thanks to POE (of course it also sold well). Also, way too much money was spent on developing the engine itself, so now they use it as a base for games like Tyranny and what the future may hold. Of course, the engine is critical to the game, but I think it consumed a lot of resources that were substracted from other areas of the game.

So, what I'm saying is that backers fundamentally secured a future for Obsidian, an engine for their games and a sneak peek of what they have in store (that was POE).

 

[Roguey]

Pillars of Eternity went slightly overbudget.

 

[Theldaran]

Obsidian's engines tend to be half broken. This is a welcome change, though it will be milked off to hell and back in future games.