Great art direction, technology, setting and gameplay. All it wasted with shitty wiriting and a tedious campaign.

Great art direction, technology, setting and gameplay. All it wasted with shitty wiriting and a tedious campaign. We were so close, yet so far.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sawyer really needs to remove that stick from his rectum. He was always a very "no fun allowed" type of a guy.
    >no, we can't have high fantasy elements in our high fantasy story, it's stupid
    >no, we can't have weird and bizarre companions like Ydwin, this is a serious setting
    >no, interparty relationships are a waste of time, why would anyone would like to attach themselves to the companions?

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What game?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      What game IS THAT?

      pillars of eternity 2: deadfire

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      What game IS THAT?

      Deadfire. It looks cooler than it is in reality.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >tedious campaign
    it's what, 4 missions + a handful from the faction you sided with. i do remember people whining about it because they overleveled before touching the main quests but thats on them for waiting until they were lvl 20 just to do hasongo

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What game IS THAT?

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The background artwork is fricking amazing. The guy responsible for it was seriously wasted on this project.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hate this game so much. The "story" is complete garbage.

    >hurr durr you wouldn't understand, mere mortal

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Eothas' plan made no fricking sense
      >I am going to royally frick over the humanity for fricks and giggles but I am saving you, so it's fine, I makes sense in my head. You fix this mess yourselves, somehow. No, I won't tell you how. My job is done, no need to thank me, thxkbye!

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is it really so bad? I'm not too much into CRPGs, but I loved BG2. Tried the first PoE but got bored because too much text, specilly too much lore dumps which weren't all that interesting. Isn't PoE2 any better?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      the writing only went downhill, which also means the new companions aren't great either

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Somehow it's actually even worse, because it doubles down on all the things people disliked in POE1, while ignoring what fans actually wanted.
        >you disliked Aloth and Pallegina? I see, in the sequel you get even MORE Aloth and Pallegina. Oh, you wanted a pale elf companion? What are you a waifugay?

        oh shit, well guess I'll play the older titles instead, like Planescape or Arcanum.
        Are the Pathfinder games any good when it comes to gameplay snd story? From outside they seem to pander to furries and gays which honestly is not my thing.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >pander to furries and gays
          literally a Pathfinder game lol

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Are the Pathfinder games any good when it comes to gameplay snd story?
          They are fine. I still think BG2>WotR, and that's not even a contest, but I would say Pathfinder games get the appeal of Infinity Engine games better than PoE games. I helps that they aren't made by a pretentious twerp with a hateboner for Baldur's Gate, who thinks he knows better how to make the IE games than the people who made the IE games.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Are the Pathfinder games any good when it comes to gameplay snd story?
          I only played a little and I liked the setting.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Are the Pathfinder games any good when it comes to gameplay snd story
          They are not perfect story/companion wise and Owlcat had to cope with the fact Wrath was written during the peak of SJW craze by absolutely incompetent californian morons, but they did a very good job with the source material they were given. Even then, several companions that are either Owlcat originals or heavily rewritten characters from source material are top tier, far better than the garbage from PoE.

          Gameplay wise if you like DnD 3.5 you will like it, Kingmaker has a slow burn kingdom management mode, Wrath has HoMM styled military campaign on top of its basic gameplay. Both games have excellent itemization and insane build variety.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            There is still someone at Owlcat who tries their hardest to shit everything up. Whoever is in charge of writing ending slides is lazy as frick and hates companion endings, especially romances. Valerie, Camellia, and Arue are done incredibly dirty.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Camellia
              Look, if you are this stupid to unionically romance Camellia, you deserve this shitty ending.
              Simps get the rope.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I don't think there was any conscious decision to frick things up. It was just a genuine russian laziness.
              Even with the shallow ending slides, Arue is still among the most saccharine romances in all cRPGs and i can just headcanon the rest.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >shit waifus get bad epilogues
              >best girl Jaethal gets a great one
              based writer

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You get a very cute ending for the twins. They knew what they were doing with them.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, too bad the twins are an afterthought due to being a DLC affair and have almost no content.
                Kalikke especially is almost a non-entity.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              The ending slides were just heinously HEINOUSLY lazy. Just one and a half paragraphs of nothing for every character.

              They didn't even care enough to write something stupid, like Viconia's romance ending in BG2. She fricking dies.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Viconia's ending makes perfect sense if you know your FR lore and know who Shar is and how she operates.
                Viconia made a mortal sin of deciding to be happy and Shar can't have that.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                She wasn't killed by Shar, she was killed by Lolth.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, but that fits Shar's MO perfectly. Lolth can't get to Viconia, because she's under Shar's patronage, and Shar is way more powerful of a deity than fricking Lolth. But the second Viconia decided to fall in love, which is actively verboten in Shar's dogma (Shar even demands that they clergy have to kill their lovers or else), Shar decided to step back a bit and have Lolth have her way with Viconia.
                It's fitting that in the ending where she DOESN'T fall in love, nothing bad happens to her.
                I can see you, Shadowheart simps. Have fun out there!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                But Shadowheart has already killed her loved one to become part of the church, so it's all good!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Shadowheart is a half-elf. She's going to be killed by an entity much more powerful than Shar. Much more powerful than Ao himself.
                Jeremy Crawford.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Consider that people don't like having their favourite characters killed off in an epilogue out of nowhere and that is fricking stupid storytelling.

                Imagine if the epilogue of Lord of the Rings after Frodo sails away and Aragorn is reigning as king was 'Frodo's ship sank and everyone drowned including Gandalf because some evil under the sea found one of the Silmaril and also Gondor was wiped off the map by a post-war plague they weren't equipped to treat.' Would the realism of the excuses justify that moron-writing?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Owlcat game would be perfect if they stop trying to add half ass mechanics from others genres.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Those mechanics are from the tabletop. I actually genuinely liked kingdom management and the game gave you insane leeway with it. Wrath's battle campaign was as unintrusive as it gets, but added a lot of flavour text and unique gear.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        And those companions who have potential to be good or even great, are reduced to being sidekicks with no content.
        It's like this game is deliberately trying to troll everyone.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Somehow it's actually even worse, because it doubles down on all the things people disliked in POE1, while ignoring what fans actually wanted.
      >you disliked Aloth and Pallegina? I see, in the sequel you get even MORE Aloth and Pallegina. Oh, you wanted a pale elf companion? What are you a waifugay?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Far worse. For me it even ruins whatever I liked about PoE1.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      its dry. its so very very dry..

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's Saywer for ya. He loves dry. He's an unfeeling robot who thinks emotions happen to other people. You want emotional, you go with Avellone.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Great art direction
    Mish mash of pre-rendered shit with inconsistent lighting.
    >technology
    Unity shovelware.
    >setting
    Literally just DnD with lolsorandom race swaps for fringe races, but still retains all the tropes as to not offend or drive away DnD spergs.
    >gameplay.
    LOOOOOOOOOL
    >All it wasted with shitty wiriting and a tedious campaign.
    The entire Pillars foray was a fricking waste, the whole nu-crpg resurgence was total fricking aids for the genre.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Shame everyone who likes Pillars of Eternity gameplay

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The combat was the most fun part. Story was entirely forgettable and drug out.
    I got real fricking sick of hearing the entire cast of Critical Role voice what felt like every single character in the same 1-2 slightly different accents.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    well, at least they got money from Blackrock. Right?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Well, no, no they didn't. Hence why they are now owned by Microsoft.
      Is Megan Starks still in Obsidian?

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    1 showed promise but man the sequel was such a waste.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think 1 showed promise only in DLC. If they took DLC as a base line for a sequel, coupled with characters as funny as Zahua, it could be an amazing game. Instead, we got more paladin vegana.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Pallegina
        >paladin vegana
        Oooooh, I finally get it. Sawyer, you cheeky c**t!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The sad thing is: everybody could see that this shit won't fly even during the Figstarter era, but Sawyer essentially ignored all the fandom's criticism from the get-to and went with his own autheur vision. He's a very strong proponent of "fans are stupid and don't know what they want" approach.
      The issue is it wasn't a good vision and now here we are.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    post the twitter image of sawyer telling you to look up porn because apparently being sexy is not allowed in games

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      And yet he greenlit the gay fish, that was about as fetishistic and pandering as it gets.

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >choose ~~*Vailian Trading Company*~~
    >get the best ending
    What a twist.
    With israelites you sometimes win, I guess.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I love that the game gets actually salty at you for refusing to engage with that stupid political subquest Sawyer loves so much and actively tries to punish you for it.
      It's like Fallout New Vegas sperging out that you picked the Yes Man ending. But unlike in FNV, you have no reason whatsover to engage in that political subquest in Deadfire.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Im tired of pretending that walls of text is good storytelling, just cut your fricking shitty writing and text in half and let me play the fricking game (this goes for all modern CRPGs)

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Walls of texts themselves are fine. Walls of *dry* text are a problem. And Sawyer can only do dry.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      FO4 is perfect for you, then.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I think the scope felt too limited. Every npc you talk to had a Purpose, often copy-pasted like the bounty givers.
    The only "random" fights were the ship ones, which played out identically every single time.
    I could put up with the effete, overbalanced mechanics if the game had any world-design verisimilitude, rather than feeling like a sandbox.

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