Pillars of Eternity

Amazing homage to the old Infinity Engine games. After I don't know how many years of The Forgotten Realms, exploring a new fantasy setting with great world-building was a treat. Other games may do some things better, but when it comes to the most important things in an RPG for me like mood, atmosphere, choices and consequences, a sense of adventure and mystery, few games can compete with Pillars 1.

Such a peak concept for the plot. Was totally invested into it till the very end. Great companions, side quests as well. Literally a perfect crpg.

unc gem

I found my time with Pillars of Eternity to have been the best experience in the genre and the only one I was able to slog through for at least one play through. I would have enjoyed that much more with the Turn Based Mode that has just been added. I think that people who normally bounce off of anything of the Bauld-ish bent to give this a try because it hits a lot of the same beats without being tied into the problems of those settings/IPs. It isn't as if this doesn't have their own but it's nice to see creativity rather than expectations fulfilled in such genres.

nice setting. combat very boring

I wanted to like this game. The character creation screen is beautiful, but I must have created like 5 characters over the years and just couldn't get past the first 1-2 hours of gameplay each time. The combat just feels way too tedious and none of the decisions you make during combat feel like they matter. This is probably a genre that evokes a lot of nostalgia for others, but it simply isn't for me. It probably does what it's intended to do very well, but even with the new turn-based update, which is a massive improvement over the old gameplay, it still feels too clunky. Combat feels simultaneously too unintuitive, easy and meaningless. For the first woods and cave dungeon area, I've tried skipping as many fights as possible and taking as many fights as possible. This doesn't seem to make a difference at all. You acquire a ton of items and they are all useless garbage. You just have 1 ability that you can click every few seconds and then you auto attack. None of your positioning or abilities really matter in the combats either. There's nothing tactical. It's just tedious braindead point and click. Maybe I'm just a CRPG hater. It's just trying to do too many things at once and it's not doing any of them very well. If I wanted good positioning combat, I could just play XCOM or a variety of strategic roguelikes. If I wanted a story, I could just go read a book or watch TV. Overall, this just feels like a point and click walking simulator pretending to have "a great story" and "tactical gameplay." The point and click exploration just slows down the pace of the game and gives you a bunch of pointless filler to pad up the play time. The character creation screen is truly beautiful though, but the gameplay could be a lot more streamlined and you could probably make a modern game that tells the same story in 20% of the time.

Pillars 1 e 2, enredo divino, jogo incrível, compre sem receio algum!