Pillars of Eternity

This was my second time playing this game, I tried to give it another chance since the White March came out but unfortunately it's as much of a cheap cash grab targetted at Baldur's Gate fans as I remembered it to be. Very weak, forgettable writing and story, weak encounter design and weak technically since it's Unity slop. It could have been great but unfortunately it was Obsidian who attempted it and that's the result.

I'm in it for 8 hours - that's 4 attempts at a couple of hours each to get into the game over a period of months, years. I reach about the same point each time and find no reason to come back to it. Dullsville.

I haven't gotten far yet, but the new turn based mode has made me fall in love with this game! I bought it many years ago but could never get into it. The combat was just as terrible as the old Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale games. But the turn based mode makes it really fun!

Game released in 2015. Eleven years later they add turn-based combat with a huge update. This studio is absolutely nuts.

This game has no soul (lore appropriate). Boring world, boring characters, boring maps, boring skills, boring leveling, boring items, very boring combat. Everything is boring. I've tried to play this game a few times and it's just way too mid. (Most of the playtime is on Epic)

This has to be one of the most boring and buggy games I've ever played, and I like old-school games like BG1 and 2, but this is just plain boring. Wall of text after wall of text, millions of words saying absolutely nothing, ending up with a pointless quest to find something. Walls of text with no dialogue options or content, just empty descriptions of things, places, people... Oh my god, why didn't they pay an editor to read and edit the text? It's simply awful. You know the expression, "This meeting could have been an email"? Well, 90% of this game could have been summarized in a cutscene or a slideshow, but no, someone decided a wall of text was better. A friend told me it gets good after Act 2, I'm going to keep pushing through this hellhole to see for myself, but even if it's amazing from then on, it's still a no, it can't be that it takes more than 20 hours for it to get "good". edit: 29+hs still in act 1 and no, is not getting good..i quit.

If you do not play turn based combat, ignore this opinion. I have bought the game because they have added turn-based combat. I am not a big fan of real-time, so I wanted to try it. Sadly, turn-based combat is a complete mess. In one fight, I was utterly crushed when playing TB. I didn't even make a single move. Yes, it is that bad. I have tried this same combat after switching to real-time, and lo and behold, I won without issues. And I didn't even understand how to fight in real time! This is my reason for the negative review. If the devs rebalance TB combat into something playable, I will update this review.