Pillars of Eternity

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the fact that it seems like any build is viable in some way.

Wanna make a buff wizard? Do it. Want a smart Barbarian? Go ahead. You wanna bard Chanter that's not very charismatic? That's cool.

edited 28th Mar '15 6:24:30 AM by Mukora

I gotta admit I really loved those choose-your-own adventure book style pages that show up when you overcome an obstacle or some big event or something... There is a strange charm into them. Glad they went with that instead of a flashy cutscene, more choices into them!

I love the combat system, every build is useful, no reason to delete a character and start a new game! Fights can be hard to penatrate due to looking out for characters' stamina (Which a few people might not like), but it makes the combat a lot less of a "spam attacks" and rewards careful planning and tactics. Sometimes luring an enemy to a blunderbuss wielding companion saved more time than bashing thier heads in like a Zerg Rush.

edited 28th Mar '15 6:41:33 AM by YoKab

I have a Miniature Giant Space Piglet. Kickstarter reward or does it come with everyone's copy?

edited 28th Mar '15 7:25:48 AM by AnotherGuy

Preorder bonus.

OK, the little dragon is the Kickstarter bonus.

I did the $140 backing.

edited 28th Mar '15 10:33:29 AM by AnotherGuy

dropping thread until I get around to playing

edited 28th Mar '15 9:35:16 AM by ch00beh

Oh my god. The paladin is a badass bird lady.

And she is awesome as hell.

I'm going with the psionic class.

I remember how Eder started as a Fighter, then Rogue, then multiclass of both, and back to a Fighter. Good times...

Looks like Forton the Monk won't be joining the party, I suppose I can live with that, I kinda suck at using them.

edited 28th Mar '15 11:33:05 AM by YoKab

Why is there no cast list anywhere? Kana's voice sounds really familiar but no one seems to have any info on any of the voice actor except for both of Matthew's Mercer's characters.

The reputation system is weird. It's like, you meet someone and they have no idea who you are but as soon as you hit a reputation "node" they'll all of a sudden know exactly how honest/clever/aggressive/whatever you are.

You're listening to the dulcet tones of Crispin Freeman. At least that's who he sounds like.

edited 28th Mar '15 1:09:31 PM by math792d

Cast list according to the credits w/ no names of the characters they voiced:

• Orion Acaba
• Valerie Arem
• Edward Bosco
• Brandon Cole
• Elspeth Eastman
• Richard Epcar
• Todd Haberkorn
• Mela Lee
• Matthew Mercer
• Dave B. Mitchell
• Liam O'Brien
• Tara Platt
• Sam Regal
• Cindy Robinson
• Gigi Sarroino
• Patrick Seitz
• Stephanie Sheh
• Micheal Sinterniklass
• Chris Smith

edited 28th Mar '15 1:16:56 PM by higherbrainpattern

Huh, weird. Coulda sworn Kana was Crispin Freeman.

Yeah, i'm pretty sure now that Kana's voiced by Patrick Seitz. I'm half expecting him to yell "INFERNO DIVIDER" any moment now.

edited 28th Mar '15 1:16:39 PM by higherbrainpattern

Oh, yeah. I can definitely hear Ira Gamagoori there.

I wanted to be a voice actor but they didn't get my demo reel in time. :sad face:

@Mukora: Funny you say that :P Since Aloth's second ruder personality is woman.

Anyway, geez X-x; I have to not open up this game tomorrow/today(its 1:26 am now) I have played for 34 hours in total and I think I'm close to the end of the game... Like at the "One more main quest and then time to clean up all sidequests while you still can" close

But yeah, I have to avoid playing this now since my school work is getting insane because I've been playing this too much x-x;

edited 28th Mar '15 4:28:54 PM by SpookyMask

I've been playing today for about four hours or so and I killed Maerwald and took control of the stronghold. And then I headed to Defiance Bay, recruiting Sagani on the way, and dealt with a wizard who was disguised as a drug dealer.

Good job, Obsidian.

Cool thing I just noticed: Your alternate weapon sets actually show up equipped to your character. So, like, if your main weapon is a sword, and you have a pistol for your secondary weapon, that pistol will show up on your character's belt when your sword is equipped.

Not-so-Cool thing I just noticed: None of the helmets match Eder's default armour. Meaning he will never wear a helmet in my game.

Okay, so I've been exploring Defiance Bay for a while, and I wanted to ask. Has anyone in Heritage Hill been able to kill Leyra and only Leyra in the Missing Sentries task? Apparently it's possible to kill only Leyra and spare the soldiers for a bigger reward, but the Enthralled Justiciars keep attacking me even after I've already killed Leyra.

Man. It really sucks that companions can't equip pets. Because I've been taking and buying every single one I come across and I feel kinda bad that I have to stuff all but one of them in my stash. And I really want, just, an entire pack of domestic animals following me.

edited 28th Mar '15 10:01:24 PM by Mukora

Basically, consensus is Obsidian has hit it out of the fucking park? Walk-off grand slam and all that?

Yep.

As, expected, the writing in this game is great. Also as expected, I absolutely loathe the real-time-with-pause combat system. Keep your RTS out of my RPG, kthxbai. I would love to be able to just roll over the combat and get to the parts I actually like about this game.

Unexpectedly, there aren't as many bugs as Obsidian is known for.