Anyone else playing through the first Pillars of Eternity because of the campaign for the second...

Anyone else playing through the first Pillars of Eternity because of the campaign for the second? It's pretty damn comfy desu senpai.

Me, although this is my third playthrough. Going pure coldsteel 2edgy Bleak Walker.

Is PoE actually worth a buy? It's on sale on gog

Yes, it is. It's a really cozy and fun RPG.

Yet again the Paladin is completely shafted combat and story-wise.

I just want to detect and smite evil and this shit, supposedly a bastion of role-playing greatness, just shits the bed entirely.

>It's like playing a fighter but sometimes you can use a buff

Well that's fucking fantastic. I'm triggered as fuck.

What's the best difficulty for this game if you played plenty of CRPGs before but aren't very good at them?

Yeah.

I have bad habit of restarting though. I got like 5 characters going on running around Defiance Bay. Being a sucker for roleplaying sucks.

>after a few failed attempts complete PoE for the first time a few weeks ago but with a joke character

>Deadfire announced

>Realise I don't really want to take my shitty joke character into Deadfire

>consider doing another PoE run-through with a better character who I'd like to import

>can't stand the thought of slogging through Act 1 and Defiance Bay yet again

I really hope they announce a complete character respec option for people importing saves to Deadfire, I don't know if I can run through PoE again.

waiting for game of the x/complete edition desu

>Suck Maerwald's knowledge out
>Let the cultists proceed with their ritual
>Sacrifice Aloth to the blood pool
>Jail people who do me wrong and give them as test subjects for money
It lets you be a way bigger dick than Tyranny

>Suck Maerwald's knowledge out
I do this on good characters too. I just feel shit if I'm locked out of stuff.

I finished a full playthrough on hard last month, I'm actually itching to replay it on PoTD to try a diferent party comp but you can't edit companion stats anymore so fuck playing with 10might alloth and whatever stupid stats the companions have.

Also, the loading times get crazy at the end game

I'll eventually cave in anyway and make a full "adventurer" party

normal is probably fine.

actually they're great front liners , the armor aura is pretty good, they have a per encounter heal and at high levelse they get an amazing fire/Heal AoE

They aren't meant to do beast dmg anyway

I love the game but have never even considered playing through it a second time. It took me 200 hours to finish one play through alone. Sometimes I replay the ending dungeon, though, I really like the last moments from that game and all the shit you can do.

like all rpgs the game gets easy by midgame if you know what you're doing.

start on hard so you actually have to use spells/skills to win encounters

If you mean class and stats respeccing, then I think you'll be able to do that at the start of PoE 2, yeah.

They also said that if you want you can just emulate a save from the first game and make all the important choices.

I was barely able to play through it the first time, the game is shit, Tyranny is shit and PoE 2 will be shit too. I don't know what happened at Obsidian but they somehow forgot how to make good fucking games. The notion that someone could spend 200 hours on a game so bland and shallow in every aspect is completely baffling to me, it's like someone saying he took 50 hours to go through a CoD campaign or something.

Not even worth 10$.

>nu-sidianfags in a nutshell

It's a 30-hour game. Less, if you click through the endless purple prose.

The figstarter seems to be running really slow lately. Do you guys think they'll make it to the 8th companion stretch goal? I'm afraid they might not even reach the relationships one.

Name a good recent RPG.

>It took me 200 hours to finish one play through alone.

Is this your first video game or something?

I wouldn't worry too much, my man. They already have 3.2 million dollars if you count the reserved fig funds. They might even make it to 4 million by the end of it.

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I just hope the second is better than the first. I didn't really like the original that much, it seemed too standard fantasy.

No, I'm just a completionist and POTD is challenging. Every quest and side quest from the main game and the expansion does lead to around 200 hours.

That save emulation sounds encouraging, thanks user will it emulate the orlan babby in my inventory though

It's neither challenging nor does it take anywhere near this long.

HAGGAR BLOODSMITH

Respect the pipe

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Underrail
Age of Decadence
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Divinity: Original Sin
Legend of Grimrock 2
Expedition: Conquistador
Fallout 1.5: Ressurection

Yes, it does. Are you gonna pretend that you completed every quest and side quest in POTD and it took you something like 60 hours? Show proof. I bet you haven't even touched this game.

PoE is much better than Age of Decadence and Divinity: Original Sin, it's not even close, it's better than both of them combined.

Never played Fallout 1.5, so I can't comment there.

The rest of your list is good. All games around the same level of quality as PoE, as far as I'm concerned.

There are like 40 "sidequests" and most of them can be done in mere minutes and on the way to the main objective.

What are your feelings on a Pirate adventure across volcanic isles?

>PoE is much better than Age of Decadence and Divinity: Original Sin, it's not even close, it's better than both of them combined.

Feel free to show evidence of your deed, which you most certainly don't have.

most of these assblasted anti-poe shitters played it for an hour on release and then quit because they don't like rpgs

Man, Aloth looks pretty cool in there.

Time to play wizard in PoE and roll with Aloth, Black Bird and Eder.

>PoE is much better than Age of Decadence and Divinity: Original Sin, it's not even close, it's better than both of them combined

Depends on what you are looking for desu I had way more fun with AoD and did multiple playthroughs despite the game play and visuals being complete garbage. D:OS had really enjoyable combat but I never finished it - the writing was shite. PoE by 3.0 was quite polished and elevated by its expansions but overall was a pretty bland experience. As an overall package PoE is probably technically superior but it's mostly down to personal tastes

>thinking playing through PoE in 60 hours while doing most of the sidestuff is some kind of outrageous claim that needs to be proven by official screenshots

took me 120 hours thats with the both winter march. could finish in less time now with the knowledge i got.

How about you fucking kiddos play a real cRPG once in a while before you make such fucking retarded statements?

Took me 115 hours to finish

I didn't ever use fast mode shit tho.

The only way you'd do that is if you were reading a walkthrough. And the fact you have no screenshots just proves my point.

what the fuck was his problem.

>needing a walkthrough for babbies first RPG

If you can romance Eder, there better be a segment where you can choose to get him drunk and then flirt with him relentlessly.

I kinda want to but after playing a Skaen priest I don't think I'll be able to recreate a playthrough as fun as that one.

>gods aren`t real

I've starting playing it again because my favorite e-celeb won't shut up about it, because the 2nd game was announced.
So in a roundabout way, yes I am.

Isnt there a way to make custom characters?

>When the endless paths were actually endless

I cleared as far as I could the moment I got there and I thought I had just about beaten the game. Nope.

you can at the inn.

How does Pillars of Eternity compare to Baldur's Gate 1?

Pillars of Eternity is better than BG 1, IMO. Not as good as 2, though.

the expansion set is actually good and I enjoyed it a lot

What makes 2 so good? Is it just the story?

Cultist zealotry taken to the absolute maximum.

It's much more open and full of content. It's so packed with so much shit that Sawyer even admitted already that PoE 2 won't have that much amount of content. It's just insane.

nostalgia

I want to ask all anons something, I got during my play, does anyone else have loresickness?

When I was a wee lad I would devour the fantasy lore, 15 year old me would love reading about all the gods in forgotten realms, the politics of sword coast, the ancient empires of imaskar netheril and illefarn etc. Yet I lack the same drive to learn about the lore in pillars, even though I feel it is better carved out (priests have duties, rituals, religion have history etc rather than blank good/evil gods the fr has) I can't get myself reading thorough it.

I would read campaign setting books but I cannot manage to read the 50-100ish page lore book of pillars
>eothas this saint wars that
I get tired and sick trying to memorize the names the places the history, but I would'nt get tired 15 years ago, when doing the same thing for Baldurs Gate / Forgotten realms

Is it just me? Am I getting old or is there something fishy about the lore in pillars. It feels too detailed and too much work.

I wish all games were done in FR.

shit is a good way of putting it, BG2 is cluttered and suffers from horrible pacing

also, terribad D&D combat

I would say there are two reasons:
Pillars Lore isn't too extravagant and different from you may have read before, as far as I can tell. It feels very generic.
Also, you absorb information more easily when you are young.

Saint's War would be neat if you learnt about it from conflicting opinions of other people only

I can't relate. I devoured the guidebook and the almanac before I even started playing the game and I read every book I found on my way and looked at every description of every item.

Fuck off you contrarian "le so jaded :(" scumfuck

>load up my pillars save
>cannot beat thaos

feels bad

what is wrong with you

He was way harder a fight than I was expecting.

The people who hate PoE are fucking retarded. They will give you 3 reasons on why it supposedly sucks.
>They'll give you some vague bullshit about how the story is "uninteresting" without going into any detail on why that is the case
>They'll say that the combat sucks because it isn't turn-based even though you can pause it and get a similar experience.
>They're angry they don't get XP for killing enimies because can't grind for hours, make their selves completely overleveled and beat the game with ease.

I can give you a very precise example - Temple of Skaen dungeon was badly designed, had way too many trash encounters, juvenile resolution and shit loot compared to the effort you must've put to get through it

I never did finish this game.
Kept adding stuff with the dlc I just kept getting distracted.
Tried solo monk because party members were gay and no mods on 2nd playthrough, was fun karate chopping ghosts and lions to death tho
Maybe I'll try it again

Don't forget throwing in the word "generic" 58 times.

be nice, I my save is right at the start of the fight, I have no scrolls/drugs/food/whatever prepared, I'm too lazy to find an earlier save and do that, and he just shits out these retarded hundreds of damage fire spells

So what does this unlock?

The third complaint is my favorite, since it's virtually impossible to not reach maximum level and being overleveled for content if you're even a bit meticulous in how you play, not even counting the expansion.

what's your party comp

The Flames of Fair Rhîan, unique sabre in lvl13 endless paths.

A room in the Endless Keeps with an unique weapon (that is decent, but not really anything special)

rogue protag, eder pallegina sagani hiravias kana

>mfw I turned off all the spell markers so I end up fucking myself over 90% of the time with druid spells

>had way too many trash encounters
>shit loot compared
These are good complaints that apply to the entirety of the main game, in my opinion. I had fun, but I agree with them.

I hope you did spec your rogue in pistols for a sneak crit

I just got Durance on my first playthrough. How to be as much of a dick as possible from here onwards?

the only non-generic thing I took was ruffian weapons, other than that it's equally good at everything

>PoE is bad
>Divinity is good

okay

Yes it does, you fucking retard.
Normal + DLC's took me 100 hours alone.

You better get some fucking unique dialogue for being a penis of Ethoas in the sequel because you got jack shit in the original.

To Durance or in general? There a million opportunities do to dickish or outright evil shit in the game, don't you worry.

Divinity is turn-based, hence it's from the very beginning better

Got to the barbarian village thing and was so bored I just couldn't force myself to keep going.

this.

Divinity's plot might be non existent.
But besides that the game is distilled fun.

I thought PoE was fine. But DOS is a better game.

PoE is a better RPG

I can only speak from personal taste user but I'm like you, a lorewhore, and I struggled with getting immersed in PoE lore and writing. It definitely gets more difficult as you get older and watching the same ideas get rehashed makes even competent settings lose their luster. However I think PoE is particularly frustrating because the lore/narrative presentation is pretty awful. There are loads of great ideas for the setting but they are locked behind massive info dumps and frankly bland in game books - probably due to the fact that the narrative in general was a rushed first draft. I also think that atmosphere immersion is part of the problem. In games like PS:T or morrowind it's easy to get immersed in the game world and want to check every nook and cranny and read every book for more information. PoE for whatever reason largely lacks that essential pull. The good news is that the expansions were much better in this (and many other departments) so we might see some much better stuff in Deadfire.

too bad it's not fun to play
you know, games are supposed to be fun

I can agree on this. In the same way Most Wanted is a better racing game than Baldur's Gate 2.

Good, Tyranny shit itself on that department.

I feel you mate. Compared to Forgotten Realms, Paladns of POE are common fighters.

>load up Pillars and try it out again since everyone is talking about
>About 45 minutes later realize that I hate real-time crpg gameplay
Oh....
It's a wonder how I managed to spend 80 hours playing it but I'll take turn based combat over this clusterfuck of an engine any day.
I guess that's what happens when i grow up playing the likes of Fallout and not Baldur's Gate.