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of course it is, we here at RPG Codex have always loved Pillars of EternityIs this the official review now.
of course it is, we here at RPG Codex have always loved Pillars of EternityIs this the official review now.
Happened with me too.Might is still just strength as far as the game is concerned, so my weedy level 2 wizard was able to flip over tables due to hisstrengthmight score and that shit killed my suspension of disbelief right away.
Are we such desperate that we seek fame and new users on reddit or what?Decent Reddit thread about this review: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/6ldrgc/rpg_codex_retrospective_review_pillars_of/
Go easy with hyperboles.I was a fierce critic of PoE, but those two games are miles apart.
Fierceness indeed.My personal opinion: is PoE objectively on par with Baldur's Gate I? Yes.
When you google it, sure, but what if you yandex/baidu/duck duck go it?No need to feel dirty. See, any way you google it, the number one search for codex PoE review is always the original masterpiece of buthurt. As far as the internet is concerned, that is the codex review. And it is going to stay that way no matter how many re-reviews we get.
Isn't that partially because google knows your preferences (and is spying on you basically, even when you're logged off they have your IP)? This is how it looks like for Yandex, Baidu and Duck Duck Go:the number one search for codex PoE review is always the original masterpiece of buthurt
HOWEVER, that's still a big fucking disappointment after all this years. Having better presentation than a game from 17 years ago is nothing less than the minimal obligation of a dev today, and role-playing elements like PoE has are the norm today.
Everything that doesn't come from BG's original formula or from the "How to design games and make friends in 2010" book is just lackluster
The most memorable part of PoE is Raedric's Hold. Now compare that with Redcliffe Castle in Dragon Age and realize how banal that is even next to Derp Age.
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That doesn't change the fact that saying that he was a "fierce critic" of PoE is a huge exaggeration (or that PoE is MILES ahead of Tyranny, lol), he was basically disappointed and his critique was mild at most.
Maybe for a RPGWatcher/Neogaf user. And you know what other word he uses in the next sentence? "Lackluster".That is not a reasonable reading of that post. Saying it added what every modern game takes for granted (i.e., its improvements were something any designer could have done) and "proceeded to fuck up on the actual system underneath" is mild criticism only for those who don't understand what "fuck up" means.
is an example of fierce critique then... [insert insults here]PoE is a very hard game to criticize... it's almost impossible to talk about it without bringing in comparisons to other IE games, and that only makes it worse, leading to historical context debates. And those are a pain in the butt.
I don't know, saying that everything that isn't copied from BG1's formula is bad doesn't seem mild to me. He probably changed (at least a bit) his opinion on PoE in the two years since its original release, maybe because he played with the patches or TWM and enjoyed it or maybe because he simply stopped caring so much about it, but at the time he wrote some very critic pieces about PoE (and in fact guys like Roxor and others who were not happy with Obsidian's work agreed with him), it's just that he never wrote a simple "it's utter shit/the worst thing ever" one-liner but more elaborate posts as in "the game had the potential to be good but it really isn't and this is why".That doesn't change the fact that saying that he was a "fierce critic" of PoE is a huge exaggeration (or that PoE is MILES ahead of Tyranny, lol), he was basically disappointed and his critique was mild at most.
I mean, PoE has 82 monster types in the bestiary, plus the humanoid enemies. Tyranny has THREE enemy types, but I guess they both have "same encounters copy pasted all over the game" because your butthurt says so.
Dont lump me with mortmal.So Tyranny has better combat and Sword Coast Legends has better companions and character building than Pillars of Eternity? Seriously?
He was good but didnt belong in the game, narratively speaking he was a freaking alien. Everything and everyone else was so different in tone it was like barbie releasing a lovecraftian horror edition.I'm sure Durance
She was alright, kinda the same problem than durance.Grieving Mother
A borring non-entity. Never gonna understand why some dumbfucks praise that thing, i found more depth and interesting conversation on a custom party member.Éder
What the fuck do you even know? have you beaten the fucking game? Codexers are so full of shit i swear to god, talking out of their asses all they long.the amazing characters in SCL
I mean, PoE has 82 monster types in the bestiary, plus the humanoid enemies. Tyranny has THREE enemy types, but I guess they both have "same encounters copy pasted all over the game" because your butthurt says so.
those 82 monster types didn't matter for shit, only 3 of them were actually sorta relevant to gameplay as you had to change your tactics to beat them (shadows, vampires and adra dragon). The rest you just checked the DR and did the usual things, and given the density of the combat in this game, you soon had a feeling you've fought that encounter 20 times already.
Saying that you only have to change your tactics for three tells me one of two things: you're playing on PotD, or you haven't played the game since 1.x.
release PoE
...Wouldn't expect people to go back to play a 20+ hour game they didn't like solely to prove a guy on the Codex wrong.
Nah, I change IPs all the time and am not in the habit of logging in. It is simply that the original review by our rat overlord is the most viewed, most discussed and most linked by far, which is what puts it on the top of google search. And that is not going to change any time soon, nobody outside of codex cares about codex PoE review number... is this five or six now? I lost count. Retrospective ( ) or not. As for other engines, well Baidu has at least some users, but it too prefers the DR review. The other three are... well, let's face it, insignificant. Google is the big boy here, for good and bad.When you google it, sure, but what if you yandex/baidu/duck duck go it?
Isn't that partially because google knows your preferences (and is spying on you basically, even when you're logged off they have your IP)? This is how it looks like for Yandex, Baidu and Duck Duck Go:
Roxor's review is highest on Baidu only.