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Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

frajaq

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I don't even have the strength to care about these patch notes anymore

I lost all interest for this game
 

Bocian

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General quest design -
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How it feels when people still play this after almost 2 months.
 

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I put around twenty some odd hours into this game, in the one city. I was stuck until a recent patch at any time I travel it randomly crash. I tried to get back into this weekend, and just really can't find my footing.

It's so dialogue-heavy(and often just poor writing), it's just everyone has 5 mins worth of talking and it's just endless shit. I spent forever in the first city just listening to people.

Anyways I have started to play Might and Magic 2 and Wizardry 1. Less new age bullshits the better for me this week.
 

ArchAngel

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I put around twenty some odd hours into this game, in the one city. I was stuck until a recent patch at any time I travel it randomly crash. I tried to get back into this weekend, and just really can't find my footing.

It's so dialogue-heavy(and often just poor writing), it's just everyone has 5 mins worth of talking and it's just endless shit. I spent forever in the first city just listening to people.

Anyways I have started to play Might and Magic 2 and Wizardry 1. Less new age bullshits the better for me this week.
When one plays Vampire Bloodlines and sees the amount of effort and quality that went there into every voiced conversation, shit like PoE 2 is even worse when you need to listen through its VO
 
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Lacrymas

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I don't blame the actors for the VO, I blame the script not giving them anything to work with. Fantastic VO with a fantastic script is the best alternative, but that's rare, so it's better for them to be silent.
 

Rinslin Merwind

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The mod manager and "Various CPU performance improvements" are the only important things I can see.
The Player Stash now has a search feature.

Or you had fun without a fast way to find item by it's name instead of scrolling entire category?
I never hoard too many items in my stash. I'm not some kind of ~autist~
Great, nowadays gathering loot from mobs and treasure chests counting as autism. Adjusting stats in way that you can kill someone - power gaming, gathering loot - autism, what next? Enemies should drop nothing just because having loot in player's inventory count as mental disorder? You don't need to call people who like collect items as disabled, just because you didn't had any loot in your stash. People seriously should stop labeling someone for playing in different way than fits their agenda.
 

IHaveHugeNick

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I don't see much of a point to any of these balance changes as long as health/injury system continues to do nothing at all.
 

Sizzle

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I don't blame the actors for the VO, I blame the script not giving them anything to work with. Fantastic VO with a fantastic script is the best alternative, but that's rare, so it's better for them to be silent.

An important thing to also note here is that almost all of the dialogue wasn't originally meant to be voiced, and, as MCA himself pointed out on numerous occasions - dialogue that's meant to be read is crafted differently than dialogue that's meant to be voiced.

Most of PoE2's dialogues would be mediocre to bad even unvoiced, but it's something that must be taken into account.
 

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Great, nowadays gathering loot from mobs and treasure chests counting as autism. Adjusting stats in way that you can kill someone - power gaming, gathering loot - autism, what next? Enemies should drop nothing just because having loot in player's inventory count as mental disorder? You don't need to call people who like collect items as disabled, just because you didn't had any loot in your stash. People seriously should stop labeling someone for playing in different way than fits their agenda.
You're not in the context bro, I'm the one criticizing others for misusing the term "autist". That was irony.
 

IHaveHugeNick

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Great, nowadays gathering loot from mobs and treasure chests counting as autism. Adjusting stats in way that you can kill someone - power gaming, gathering loot - autism, what next? Enemies should drop nothing just because having loot in player's inventory count as mental disorder? You don't need to call people who like collect items as disabled, just because you didn't had any loot in your stash. People seriously should stop labeling someone for playing in different way than fits their agenda.
You're not in the context bro, I'm the one criticizing others for misusing the term "autist". That was irony.

Don't be such a postenago.
 
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Safav Hamon

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I don't blame the actors for the VO, I blame the script not giving them anything to work with. Fantastic VO with a fantastic script is the best alternative, but that's rare, so it's better for them to be silent.

An important thing to also note here is that almost all of the dialogue wasn't originally meant to be voiced, and, as MCA himself pointed out on numerous occasions - dialogue that's meant to be read is crafted differently than dialogue that's meant to be voiced.

That's BS. Dialogue should be written so that you can picture it in real life. Great literary writers, not Chris Avellone, have said this.
 

Lacrymas

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Yes, I can just picture Boris Vian or William S. Burroughs' dialogues in real life.
 

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