Eternity Pillars of Eternity + The White March Expansion Thread

[Sentinel]

It's not bad but it lacks editing and it's just exhausting to read (and play) through it because of the excessively oppressive and doomy mood that lacks any contrast, so it's about as exciting as listening to the same musical note being played for 80 hours.

 

[Lacrymas]

That's a complicated answer. It's not bad, but it's not good either. It's also not mediocre. If you want to play it for the writing, however, don't. It's a mess and not because of lack of contrast, it just doesn't make sense and it's overwritten to the point of exhaustion. Words, words, words, words, WORDS, a never-ending torrent and none of them important. Sure, Numanuma is worse in this regard, but that doesn't make PoE better.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

Gotcha. I've always had the impression that Obsidian's writers are fairly well-read and interesting people though so even if it's a sort of stream of consciousness from those guys I'm thinking it could be worthwhile. I wasn't really expecting the game to be exciting, but I sort of assume that the game has much more depth than pretty much any game to come out in the past many years.

That said, I still don't get why it's $45 (doesn't even include DLC wtf). I could probably pick up a complete collection of Nietzsche's works for like $3 or free from the library but they wanna charge me out the ass for this game?

I'd pay 5 dorrar

 

[Lacrymas]

You got the wrong impression :p The good and well-read writers are long gone, with almost none of their writing in PoE surviving at the end. I think only Sawyer is left from the "old vanguard" and, yeah, he's an interesting person and can write when he wants to, but he can't do the whole game all by himself. PoE is not the stream of consciousness of an interesting and erudite writer, it's the unedited first draft of average video game writers.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

FUCK

 

[Parabalus]

It's the best isometric party RPG that came out this decade. If that isn't worth the shekels, what is?

They'll likely lower the price when Deadfire releases tho, surprised they didn't yet. Wouldn't bother playing the game without the expansion, which is 30 more. Best to try it out and buy if you like it.

Writing gets a lot of flak but not like all IE games were literary masterpieces and they are more than playable.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Wait for sale. It's only that expensive in the offfseason, it was for 12 bucks in Humble Bundle just a few months ago.

 

[Lahey]

Dawkinsfan69 protip: search the 'dex for "boring". My pet theory is that Sawyer made the team listen to Aimee Mann albums every day, but I cannot prove this.

AoD, Underrail, Dragonfall and Original Sin were all good in their own ways. I recommend checking out one of those if you're waiting on PoE price drop.

 

[Lacrymas]

I'd rank PoE higher than DivOS. Only when taking into account WM2, though. I have a lot of complex thoughts about PoE after WM2, before that its ability to make me want to slit my wrists was unparalleled, but after playing through WM2 I feel differently. It's ...weird. I wouldn't replay it any time soon, though, so there's that.

 

[Lahey]

To each his own. I'm not ranking them, merely suggesting lower-priced alternatives I enjoyed. Dawkins seems like a storyfag so AoD might be the best match assuming he hasn't played it yet.

 

[Lacrymas]

AoD is currently at -75% off on GOG, so there's that. It's a great and almost unprecedented game, so it's a must play.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

I actually grabbed AoD when it came out (I think I beta'd it but that was a looong time ago) but I only played with two characters, both of whom got wrecked within 30 minutes. Def gonna give it another shot!

 

[Fry]

Words, words, words, words, WORDS

Looks who's talking.

The game is good and fun as a game should be. Buy it. If you don't want to pay full price, it's on sale somewhere almost constantly. Keep on an eye on Steam, GOG, Paradox, GMG, Humble, etc.

This is a helpful resource: https://isthereanydeal.com/search/?q=pillars+of+eternity

 

[Iznaliu]

surprised they didn't yet

It's still selling reasonably, so why bother?

 

[dukeofwhales]

games stay at full price forever now with big sales 4 times a year because it appeals to people who buy games cos they're a fiver (even though they may never play them) and also people who aren't price sensitive enough to care and just want to play the game now.

the same as chain pizza joints where menu price is $15 but a quick google gets you a code for $5. they make $1 off the people who put the effort in and $11 off people who don't care without losing either customer base.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Man I'm dying to play this, but why the fuck is it still like $40 4 years after release?

IDK if I believe you guys when you say it's no good.. Every Obsidian game I've played has been so much incline in terms of writing that it's hard to believe this would suck unless they made this with a different team or something. That said, I haven't played anything by them since FNV so..

A discount is bound to happen in just 8 weeks, so don't worry.

It's good for what it is, the conditions they produced it under, the KS stretch goals they had to meet, and the Unity tech they were learning as they were making it.

IMO, when discounted, it's worth it just for the expansion.

 

[2house2fly]

Man I'm dying to play this, but why the fuck is it still like $40 4 years after release?

Because it's two years after release.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

Got a copy of it and so far (maybe 1-2 hours in) I like it a lot.

Only thing that bothers me so far is that some of the dialogue options make my character seem like a total retard.

One of the first companions I picked up told me his background story which involves killing some dude who claimed to be the incarnation of a god.. He said he gave the guy a 'drythan welcome' or something along those lines. Dialogue option was:

"What is a drythan welcome?"

Like DUUURRRR wtf am I playing as a social retard or autist or something? My char has 16 int too so it's not like int is too low to read between lines in dialogue or something. I'm noticing that dialogue options like that pop up a bit too frequently.

Besides that the writing's good and the story is holding my interest so that's pretty chill

 

[Great Deceiver]

You haven't come across backer walls of text yet.

 

[Haplo]

Eh, they are easily identified by their coloured name tags... and best left alone. Well, except the first guy in plate in Gilded Vale... scavenging plate is quite nice at the beginning of the game.

 

[Hyperion]

He said he gave the guy a 'drythan welcome' or something along those lines. Dialogue option was:

"What is a drythan welcome?"

Like DUUURRRR wtf am I playing as a social retard or autist or something? My char has 16 int too so it's not like int is too low to read between lines in dialogue or something. I'm noticing that dialogue options like that pop up a bit too frequently

I take it you didn't click on that response. Eder's response is, "We blew him up." It's a joke. There's nitpicking, and then there's nitpicking. Never change, Codex.

 

[Sacred82]

He said he gave the guy a 'drythan welcome' or something along those lines. Dialogue option was:

"What is a drythan welcome?"

Like DUUURRRR wtf am I playing as a social retard or autist or something? My char has 16 int too so it's not like int is too low to read between lines in dialogue or something. I'm noticing that dialogue options like that pop up a bit too frequently

I take it you didn't click on that response. Eder's response is, "We blew him up." It's a joke. There's nitpicking, and then there's nitpicking. Never change, Codex.

You wish that kind of thing was a joke.

 

[Prime Junta]

Eh, they are easily identified by their coloured name tags... and best left alone. Well, except the first guy in plate in Gilded Vale... scavenging plate is quite nice at the beginning of the game.

Or, for the fashion-conscious who choose to eschew armour, scavenging a Vailian outfit from someone else there.

 

[Hyperion]

He said he gave the guy a 'drythan welcome' or something along those lines. Dialogue option was:

"What is a drythan welcome?"

Like DUUURRRR wtf am I playing as a social retard or autist or something? My char has 16 int too so it's not like int is too low to read between lines in dialogue or something. I'm noticing that dialogue options like that pop up a bit too frequently

I take it you didn't click on that response. Eder's response is, "We blew him up." It's a joke. There's nitpicking, and then there's nitpicking. Never change, Codex.

You wish that kind of thing was a joke.

...You know the game tells you it's a joke, right?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Like DUUURRRR wtf am I playing as a social retard or autist or something?

Lol, "playing".