Comment on Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time

doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 are better gameplay wise but the world building and lore in Pillars is unmatched.

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  • doggish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wanted to check out Pillars because I think Avowed looks cool, but I do see Divinity Original Sin 2 on sale pretty frequently so I might pick it up. I’m still trying to take a big bite out of my backlog before buying more games I won’t end up playing for years. (I finally played GTA5 last month.)

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Personally I was a huge fan of Tyranny. It’s built on the same engine as POE, but I liked the story, worldbuilding, and characters a lot more.

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  • WadeTheWizard@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We need more villain-as-protagonist games. Tyranny giving you evil choices that were both meaningful, and reasonable, is so much better than the usual "I'm the hero, but I do enjoy kicking puppies on weekends" evil choices in most RPGs.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The thing is, it’s not really villain-as-protagonist. It’s more like “goon-as-protagonist”. You are just a cog in the real villain’s machine. That’s why the choices are so interesting. Because they are often constrained by the world Kyros has created. So you don’t get choices like “will you kill this baby or not” because then it’s easy to not be the bad guy. You get choices like “Kyros demands someone from this town is getting killed. You can choose this baby or this old person. You can also choose not to make a choice, but that would be shirking your job as a judge and omniscient daddy Tunon wouldn’t like it”

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  • doggish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I also got that game for free from Amazon and I’m planning on playing that next! The premise is pretty cool!

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• Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  BG3 runs like a dream.

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  • Virulent@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Until act 3 😬😬

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  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On what settings? Mine mimics a jet engine every time I fire up BG3, no matter what settings or scaling I used so far and I already have the quieter fan in the SD.

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  • doggish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure I’ll pick it up eventually. One of my friends had to have a talk with her husband about how much she was playing that game.

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    • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      BG3 isn’t a bad game but it hasn’t really grabbed me.

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• Stamau123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Torment: tides of Numenera plays similar to PoE, although I’m mainly recommending it because it was my gateway into the Numenera universe, itself more interesting than the OK game.

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• Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The two Pathfinder games by owlcat are also great.

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• doggish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I loved the original Fallout games. Pillars is a lot like the original two Baldur’s Gate games and the other games like it. Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment. Though I haven’t really earnestly played any of them. I did play the Dark Alliance games when they were new and I was a kid, but those are action RPGs.

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