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[Preview] Pillars of Eternity: First Impressions

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
in News & Features Discussion

Later this week, Pillars of Eternity launches after over 77,000 crowdfunding backers demanded it to happen. The spiritual successor to the Infinity Engine RPGs of old (Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment), Obsidian’s game has a lot of hype and hope riding on it. Here are our first thoughts after several hours with the review copy.

Read more of Bill Murphy's Pillars of Eternity First Impressions.

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The hand-drawn maps are beautiful to behold.


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  • dcope88dcope88 Member UncommonPosts: 12
    Sounds promising. I would say I've been looking forward to this game since I heard about the Kickstarter, but honestly, its more like since 2002. Can't wait!
  • AvarixAvarix Member RarePosts: 665
    Glad to read this. Waiting to unlock it on Steam. The 26th can't come soon enough.
  • TelondarielTelondariel Member Posts: 1,001
    Are there a multitude of hidden items, traps, and switches to discover?  I always carried a thief with me for picking locks, and finding hidden traps.  It could mean the difference between a good dungeon run and reloading.

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  • grimfallgrimfall Member UncommonPosts: 1,153
    Originally posted by Telondariel
    Are there a multitude of hidden items, traps, and switches to discover?  I always carried a thief with me for picking locks, and finding hidden traps.  It could mean the difference between a good dungeon run and reloading.

    I don't know, but I'd be shocked if you don't see chests and spots on the floor highlighted in red as you go about your journeys.

  • VonatarVonatar Member UncommonPosts: 723

    Agree with your impressions. Visuals are the first thing that disappointed me when I got into the backer beta. Sure, they're nice enough, create sufficient atmosphere, and evoke memories of the RPGs to which Pillars pays homage.

    But, having played a lot of Divinity: Original Sin as well, it's hard to move from D:OS to Pillars and not notice the significant drop in graphical appeal.

    It doesn't make Pillars any less great. It's a wonderful CRPG from what I've seen so far and will earn its place among its esteemed forebears. I just wish Obsidian had made it more stunning to look at.

     
  • angerbeaverangerbeaver Member UncommonPosts: 1,273
    Originally posted by Telondariel
    Are there a multitude of hidden items, traps, and switches to discover?  I always carried a thief with me for picking locks, and finding hidden traps.  It could mean the difference between a good dungeon run and reloading.

    When you stealth the party stealths with you and yes there are traps and hidden things if I remember correctly. 

  • VonatarVonatar Member UncommonPosts: 723
    Originally posted by angerbeaver
    Originally posted by Telondariel
    Are there a multitude of hidden items, traps, and switches to discover?  I always carried a thief with me for picking locks, and finding hidden traps.  It could mean the difference between a good dungeon run and reloading.

    When you stealth the party stealths with you and yes there are traps and hidden things if I remember correctly. 

     

    Yes, and they are highlighted in red :) You don't need a thief though, you can spec any character to do this if you want. In my last playthrough my ranger had high stealth and mechanics skills for this purpose.

  • ThebeastttThebeasttt Member RarePosts: 1,130
    I watched a stream of this and it looks amazing for baldur's gate fans like myself. Does it have online and DM'ing capabilities?
  • angerbeaverangerbeaver Member UncommonPosts: 1,273
    There is no mutli-player last i heard. If you're into that I would check out Sword Coast Legends which is similar type game but will have DMing
  • gatherisgatheris Member UncommonPosts: 1,016

    so no co-op - pity

    made Icewind Dale so enjoyable for me

     

    and....proofreading is fundamental - do some

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  • TheRealDarkeusTheRealDarkeus Member UncommonPosts: 314
    Ahh, I am so ready as a backer.... So ready....
  • SilverTriggerSilverTrigger Member UncommonPosts: 3
    I've been waiting for the return of isometric RPG's, and Pillars of Eternity is it, I hope this is one to remember, I'm so getting it asap.
  • SabinulSabinul Member Posts: 3
    Such a nice title. I only wish my brick pc wouldn't light on fire every time nice graphics showed up on the screen. Oh well, still enjoying it.
  • psiicpsiic Member RarePosts: 1,642
    Lots of bugs could have used another month of beta testing.
  • YashaXYashaX Member EpicPosts: 3,100
    I watched a stream of the start of this game and the combat didn't seem as tactical/hard as I seem to recall from Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale etc. The streamer just clicked on the enemies and waited till the auto-attacks killed them, he even easily defeated a group without using weapons. Does the combat tactics/strategy/depth/difficulty pick up a lot as the game progresses?
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  • SulaaSulaa Member UncommonPosts: 1,329
    Originally posted by YashaX
    I watched a stream of the start of this game and the combat didn't seem as tactical/hard as I seem to recall from Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale etc. The streamer just clicked on the enemies and waited till the auto-attacks killed them, he even easily defeated a group without using weapons. Does the combat tactics/strategy/depth/difficulty pick up a lot as the game progresses?

    I have not watched the stream but I would double check what difficulty level streamer have choosen.  

    Because difficulty setting  'normal' is usually equivalent of 'easy' in games released in last 10 years.   You would propably want to pick higher diff level.

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