Pillars of Eternity - you guys gonna play?
Just curious to get the bg forums take on this game. Seems like it would be right up everyone's alley here (beamdog employees included).
I hope it's not disrespectful to post this topic! Please know that I'm a huge fan who has purchased bgee, bg2ee, iwdee, and I'm definitely buying adventure Y. I just really wanted to hear the perspective of the usual suspects on the forums (@dreadkhan @elminster @bengoshi @Lord_Tansheron et al) on the game.
I hope it's not disrespectful to post this topic! Please know that I'm a huge fan who has purchased bgee, bg2ee, iwdee, and I'm definitely buying adventure Y. I just really wanted to hear the perspective of the usual suspects on the forums (@dreadkhan @elminster @bengoshi @Lord_Tansheron et al) on the game.
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As for me, well, I did throw a decent chunk of money at the kickstarter, and I'm only slightly short of shrine-in-my-closet levels of idolization of Josh Sawyer, so it's safe to say I'll be playing it. There are so many good ideas in that game, I really hope they've pulled them together well. BG is a high bar to aim for, and I know enough statistics to not expect quite that level of quality, but I think PoE has a fair shot at being a very good game.
also, this should be in off topic. there you could honestly talk about anything, and we do, so there will be no disrespect for having a PoE thread (and we have already had a few). this isn't exactly talking about BG2EE after all
Of course, I always hope to be pleasantly surprised.
...not before Adventure Y ships, that is
Seriously though, I definitely plan to give it a go. I've even backed it - I think I was more or less sold on the fact that they called single handed swords "arming swords" in the wiki. XD I got the impression that they'd gone to great lengths to make the game more accurate, in terms of technology, weapon/armour names, even heraldry...I remember once on the forum, one of the devs gave us a fun exercise where he'd list the description of heraldry from four people, and we would attempt to draw the shield from that description...okay it probably doesn't sound fun to you guys, but it is to a medievalist who knows about heraldry!
not realy liking what ive heard so far.
Personally, I was very impressed by it. I found the combat and skills system in that game to be quite interesting, diverse and well-thought. I found the amount of information to be a lot. It was only one village and several locations nearby but it was really interesting to communicate with NPCs and to read descriptions.
The game should be definitely your choice if you like BG, I think.
On the flip side, the dirty little secret is that the PoE forums feature some of the more rabid criticisms of the IE games on the internet, and these were the games that were supposed to be inspiring PoE.
It seems clear that Sawyer didn't like much about their mechanics or design philosophy and went his own way within the framework of a party-based game with pre-rendered isometric backgrounds. Having that framework isn't nearly enough to make a game feel like the IE games to me, but fans and the media are so desperate for a throwback hit that PoE will forever be remembered as a "Worthy successor to Baldur's Gate" regardless of how it actually stacks up.
Maybe I will try consider after some playthrough and/or review released.