Eternity Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Pre-Release Thread [BETA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Sentinel · Sep 10, 2017

I want Thaos to take control of Aloth's soul and have him as a party member instead of Aloth and then have him lecture me on why mankind shouldn't abandon religion.

Lacrymas · Sep 10, 2017

I wouldn't want that, because it'd still be the same people writing him and it will be cringe-y, pseudo-intellectual bullshit that goes nowhere. Not to mention that with the laughable doctrines of the retarded gods the setting is stuck with they won't convince me of such a thing, no matter how hard they try.

Sentinel · Sep 10, 2017

TheSentinel said:
I want Thaos to take control of Aloth's soul and have him as a party member instead of Aloth and then have him lecture me on why mankind shouldn't abandon religion.

and then at the final confrontation with Eothas he turns on Thaos(Aloth) and you have to pick between Aloth who's still in the body somewhere or Edér who does not want to go against his God.
:dance:

sorry

Lacrymas · Sep 10, 2017

Also, Thaos doesn't think religion should exist, but the gods. That's a humongous difference.

EDIT: I love how immensely butthurt Bonerbill gets by every post I make which is vaguely negative towards PoE.

Iznaliu · Sep 11, 2017

Lacrymas said:
EDIT: I love how immensely butthurt Bonerbill gets by every post I make which is vaguely negative towards PoE.

You are the source of the commotion.

Lacrymas · Sep 11, 2017

Iznaliu is also a fount of much delicious buttmadness. Yum.

aweigh · Sep 11, 2017

i think the core premises of PoE's story telling narrative are fucking dumb. still enjoyed the game and played it 7 times.

i can't remember the last time a game featured anything engrossing about it when talking purely about its plot or characters; honestly the last time i played an RPG where i gave a shit about something other than playing it was with F: NV, and i don't think i can really count that as i was already engaged with its setting from having had my formative RPG experiences shaped by FO1 and FO2.

well, wait, that's not true, i played Wizardry after F: NV and I also became engrossed with what little story there is in it, even googling extra information about L'kabreth and looking for interviews with the designers.

hmm, I don't know what i'm trying to say here, although it's probably something about how the story itself will become meaningful to the player only if they enjoy playing it, i.e. the underlying system mechanics.

it might seem like an obvious thing to point out but there are a lot of storyfags here who argue to the death that "the writing!!!1" is all that matters in an RPG because they think RPGs are literature or some shit.

Sentinel · Sep 11, 2017

aweigh said:
played it 7 times.

holy shit. I mean I've replayed Max Payne 2 around 24 times, but damn, it's been only 2 years.
just curious, how many hours you got in PoE?

aweigh · Sep 11, 2017

it's a codex meme reference. can't remember who it originally was, maybe Andhaira or Morgoth or Skyway, going on endlessly about some game and how they hated it then revealed they'd finished it 7 times.

Sentinel · Sep 11, 2017

Oh shit. Fucking obscure memes.

Modron · Sep 11, 2017

aweigh said:
it's a codex meme reference. can't remember who it originally was, maybe Andhaira or Morgoth or Skyway, going on endlessly about some game and how they hated it then revealed they'd finished it 7 times.

Skyway and KotOR. Although I can't really remember his opinion of the game.

santino27 · Sep 11, 2017

Modron said:
aweigh said:

it's a codex meme reference. can't remember who it originally was, maybe Andhaira or Morgoth or Skyway, going on endlessly about some game and how they hated it then revealed they'd finished it 7 times.

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Skyway and KotOR. Although I can't really his opinion of the game.

I miss that guy's posts here. Said nobody ever.

Quillon · Sep 11, 2017

TheSentinel said:
I mean I've replayed Max Payne 2 around 24 times

Wtf. 5 or 6 times should have been enough.

roll-a-die · Sep 11, 2017

santino27 said:
Modron said:

aweigh said:

it's a codex meme reference. can't remember who it originally was, maybe Andhaira or Morgoth or Skyway, going on endlessly about some game and how they hated it then revealed they'd finished it 7 times.

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Skyway and KotOR. Although I can't really his opinion of the game.

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I miss that guy's posts here. Said nobody ever.

Skyway was fun to get going, but yeah, don't really miss his gimmick.