Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition

This is a wonderful old-school isometric RPG. Love it! I can imagine it's not for everyone, but if you like old-school RPG (Diablo, Baldurs Gate, Divinity etc.) this is a must have.

the game isn't terrible but it has a few flaws that prevent it from being a great **** game isn't terrible but it has a few flaws that prevent it from being a great game. I'm going to post this for both consoles, as the next gen consoles like ps5 and xbox series x resolve the loading times issues that a lot mention as a negative, that doesn't factor for me as a negative. My complaints with the game are in regards to the story and design First, the game makes a lot of references to the lore that almost makes you feel like you should already know all of this stuff. It may be in best interest to watch a story recap that avoids possible spoilers to explain the lore/background. Also, the game doesn't do a very good job of doing dynamic storytelling, instead it's just conversations of text with no voice acting for the most part or reading the books/scrolls that you find. There's very few cutscenes that present the story. Also, the story is very vague for the most part where there's no sense of urgency to go through the story, and some of the side quests/tasks are easily skippable/boring. I think the biggest issue is that you don't really connect with the characters or factions in Act 2, and when you finish Act 2, the pacing of this game is just bizarre as Act3/4 are just like a few hours and then you finish the game. Basically, it's just hard to even care about the story/lore. It's even more impacted when the main villain and major plot twist doesn't even really shock me as again there's no set up for this until last the last hour of gameplay

Моя вторая изометрическая РПГ, первая - Neverwinter Nights, в которую играл еще в 2003.(Dragon Age - не считается) С чего бы начать.... В игре очень интересные и хорошо написанные диалоги(Крис Авеллон - батя). Графически игра хороша, из Юнити выжали все соки, сразу видно. Музыка - бесподобна, сюжет интригует, хоть и не так как побочки, как по мне - они интереснее. Крепость добавлена для галочки, смысла в ней нет. Со сложностью, как по мне - перегнули. Если полезешь не в то место - тебя развалят даже на новичке. Игру не прошёл, остановился на Арсенале. Может быть потом продолжу. Игра все равно неплохая - 7|10. Читать интересно, играть - нет.

I really wanted to like this game, I went in without any expectations other than I really want to like it, but I couldn't even get past the 2nd story arc. Everything is just so god damn BORING man... The combat is boring even on higher difficulties, the characters all feel bland even though they have some interesting stories... And the locations are the most dull I've ever seen... By the way, whose idea was it to have a huge city separated into 5 different districts with a LOADING SCREEN every time?? And whose idea was it as well to make all of the quests happen in different districts, so you keep having more loading screens than gameplay?? The story also looked to be your bland WRPG story, wow something totally not predestined and obvious happened to you and now you're whacky whacko special, great.

I just cannot take this much loading time. Otherwise the game would probably be around 7. I liked the story very much, the voice acting is great, the battles are a bit chaotic and found the window of tactical possibilities a bit narrow, but still decent. I feel like they just stole the whole class and progression system from D&D, but since that is decent too I don't really consider it a downside. So it would be a good game really, but the long loading screends just **** the good out of it. I would want to finish it but cant make myself doing it. I could accept if it had like 5 minutes loading time between 2 big areas. Then I would drink, pee, take a short break while it is working. But it has like 1 min loading screen between two levels of a house, or when you enter a tiny cave or anything similar. Imagine: the task is simply to speak with someone in town. You are already in that town but she is in the neighbour-disctrict and in a house on the second floor (ex. one of the main quest giver is like this) that means 5 (FIVE) f*kin loading screen. Out of town when you don't have that much closed spaces it is tolerable (just barely, but it is). But in town it is just too much.