Pillars of Eternity

A game that could have become the gold standard for CRPGs if it had a slightly larger scale and funding. The main story is quite interesting, but at the same time, the main antagonist is rather dull and doesn’t live up to the hype the game tries to build around his personality. The side quests are also good; I can’t say anything bad about them. The music and environment in this game create an atmosphere of such pleasant melancholy and solitude in this place mired in crisis. The companions are okay, only Durance stands out due to his personality, backstory, and dialogue. If the game had been larger in scale, it could have been a full‑fledged successor to Baldur’s Gate 2, and perhaps even surpassed it in some aspects. Overall, it’s a pretty good game that was destined to remain in the shadow of more production‑intensive RPGs.

It had endless pathes.

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Für mich persönlich ist das hier der einzig würdige Baldurs Gate Nachfolger. Hätte man auf dieser Basis den dritten Teil erschaffen, wäre es der Triologie würdig gewesen! :') Der Stil, die Atmosphäre, Steuerung und vieles mehr. Ein großartiges Spiel. Ich hoffe es geht hiermit auch in Zukunft weiter.

好玩！

Bravo! I love this game. As an “elder” gamer, I played Baldur’s Gate 1 when it was contemporary, and though I’ve never enjoyed RTwP gameplay, I endured it because of how engrossing BG1 was. PoE had long been on my interest list, but I refrained from trying it due to the lack of true turn-based combat. When Obsidian recently updated the game to include it, I knew it was time, and I’m so glad I finally dove in. PoE was clearly made by devs who loved the original Baldur’s Gate games; it is obviously a love-letter to them. The turn-based combat is imperfect - after all, it was added to a game engine that it wasn’t intended for - but only barely so, with some minor hiccups. But that is the only complaint I can find with PoE. I’m close to end of Act 2 and everything about PoE has its hooks in me. Where BG typically had very clear “good” and “evil” choices, every choice in PoE is gray. Even the good choices have negative ramifications, and when I have the help information turned off (where it indicates which dialogue choices are “benevolent,” “cruel,” etc.) I rarely am able to determine which choice would actually be considered the “good” one. The game world - its history, lore, gods, factions, and even equipment flavor text - is so rich I thought for sure it had been drawn from an existing canon of some sort. Nope. These guys invented it for this game. For the statistical nerds, character builds offer incredible depth and variety and copious tooltips help make sense of what it all means. For those who’d rather just adventure through the excellent story beats, lower difficulty settings and automatic party leveling are there. You can enjoy this game at any depth you like. I suppose PoE shows its age in comparison to the full 3D engines of BG3, Solasta, and similar games, but for anyone who had even a passing affection for the classic isometric RPGs of days gone by, this is an incredibly well-done revival of the genre. I hear talk that PoE2 is even better. I can’t wait.

Good for me since they added turn base combat.