Pillars of Eternity

This is the first rpg of this type that I have completed. The world-buiding is great, and the art is exceptional. Normal was the perfect difficulty even if this was my first real-time-with-pause game. Difficult, but still felt doable (even with my terrible builds)

i thought turn based mode might make it good nope

Now... now, after I’ve put over 230 hours into the game, they add a TB mode! You sons of...legends! Oh well, time for another playthrough :P

As a kid who played a lot of Icewind Dale (and barely could get past the first level), this has been so fun. It's made me even go back and play baldurs gate 1, though the quality of life improvements to the genre in this game make it hard to go back. Love the game, love the passion of the developers. It starts a bit slow but gets really good once you get your feet wet.

Great game made even better with turn based. Save early, save often, and bring your reading glasses!!

i just can't enjoy this game for some reason, gameplay is good, combat is good, i think its just the story that don't hold me.

how do you mess up this bad? I've started and stopped 3 times now. each time years apart and I forget why I never finished this game. only to then realise how much of a fustrating mess it is. The story and world building isn't the issue, even though the game makes little to no effort to convey importance or emotional urgency. Oh a massive army is approaching you, sure, you have time to finish off 20 side quests and pick up 20 more before meandering back. My main issue is, I can't see what is going on. the turn based implementation is laughable. it's completely unplayable. The camera is isometric, so you can't rotate the game, it also makes abymal effort to differentiate your selected player or enemy, so in the middle of combat, you're miss targeting, forcing attacks of oportunity against you as you reposition. then there's the idling during combat. I can't figure this out. sometimes your characters will retarget after they down their enemy, other times they'll just sit there, and if too much is happening, you can't tell if they're engaged or just standing there in the fray not doing anything. Too many times I've been dominated by small groups only to reload and try again to exit the fight barely scratched. There's no feedback from combat, I can't tell how much damage I'm doing relative to health. I don't want comical damage numbers appear overhead, but some form of feedback is needed. The UI is trash. BG1 a game designed for 420x680 resolution has a similar UI to this game. There is so much realestate on your screen yet everything is grouped and subgrouped. even if you increase the UI size to 130% there's still so much wasted space, why do i have to click 3 times when it could be 1 A lot of gameplay decisions were made almost as if they're pioneering an entirely new genre and they have no reference from others of what to do or not to do. Did you know that if you two items, each modifying the same stat only 1 is applied? I didn't until a completely random loading screen tool tip came up. There's no indication on the item, you have to check the character screen, scroll down midway to see what's being applied. I could go on and on about the poor decisions that were made It's a decent CRPG bogged down by poor UI

A modern Baldur's Gate. Writing, gameplay mechanics, everything is simply excellent. Finished on the very hardest difficulty, which is not recommended for most players. The last boss is a damage sponge like nothing you've ever seen. Another point is the excellent customization, while they do take their freedoms in intrepreting and making their own "DnD rulesets", especially for health and encumbrance, you'll get to terms to it eventually. May be hard to grasp in the beginning. Outside of this there's a ton of lore, areas to explore, secrets to find and gorgeous environments to wander in that makes you lose track of time. Cannot be recommended enough. Rating: 10/10!