925003 No.11987[Last 50 Posts]
Other thread in catalogue is 404 because hotwheels fucked up the site.
Coming from a person who exclusively plays turn based CRPG's, are there settings in this to make it play as close to turn based as possible?
Post character concepts, screenshots, thoughts so far, party builds, and hopefully bug fixes
461b6b No.11996
>>11987Re-doing my tankadin due to me using cheats on my first playthrough. He is pretty unstoppable. Right now I'm trying to figure out party compisitions and whether to use companions or just make my own.
31134b No.12021
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There's a bunch of auto-pause options in the menu. I'm sure you would be able to work something out, it won't be completely turn based though.
Currently looking into multiclassing. Just trying to merge the abilities tables right now.
461b6b No.12022
>>12021I don't think multi-classing could work honestly.
a6feeb No.12024
>>11987What are some cheese strats that can be pulled currently?
Can you play as a party of all rangers?
Is a tank rogue do-able? I've liked it since I've played rift
what classes are just plain bad?
31134b No.12026
>>12022I was thinking of it more of a Primary/secondary class. Where you wouldn't gain all the abilities of your second class.
31134b No.12027
>>12024>Can you play as a party of all rangers?Yes.
>Is a tank rogue do-able?Not without completely gimping damage. And you won't be as effective as a Fighter or Paladin.
>what classes are just plain bad?Rangers.
a6feeb No.12028
>>11996custom party stats are better focused. story companions have some weird shit mixed up in their stat blocks
a6feeb No.12030
>>12027suppose I should have asked if the party of all rangers would work, not if I could.
why are they bad? does a ranged rogue just do it better?
31134b No.12031
>>12030>does a ranged rogue just do it better?Yes.
>why are they bad?Shitty skills, useless pets.
a6feeb No.12033
>>12031guess that's it then.
What do you personally like to run in your party?
461b6b No.12034
>>12033Two tanks. One guy with reach. Rest are guns.
31134b No.12035
>>12033Currently doing a solo Cipher run.
But party wise I would go with
Fighter tank
Monk Offtank
Wiz debuff/dps
Cipher stuns/dps
Cleric heals/buffs
31134b No.12036
>>12035To be clear that was my last party composition. That's not the be all end all.
a6feeb No.12037
>>12036course not. My build is something more like
Rogue dps
Fighter stuns/disables
Paladin tank(although I'm thinking fighter switch)
ranger dps(lion)
ranger dps(bear)
druid spellslinger
31134b No.12038
>>12037Any composition will work to beat the game to be honest. It's only in PotD where you have to min/max.
31134b No.12040
Here's some portraits if anyone wants them
Icewind Dale
http://imgur.com/a/08Ac4Icewind Dale 2
http://imgur.com/a/LX50xRandom shit
http://imgur.com/a/Gok09 a6feeb No.12042
31134b No.12045
31134b No.12046
>>12045Well not the ones I posted as they are already done. But if you want to do some other images of your own.
b85212 No.12047
All right, so since I learned that the Caravan in the beginning can be killed and NOT be considered game breaking, how can I do this as a Barbarian? My stats were
16 Might
15 Con
10 Dex
3 Per
18 Int
16 Res
I was playing a Moon Godlike on Hard and I can consistently get the Caravan Leader/Heodan/1 of the 2 Caravan Gaurds to Near Death with no other survivors but I usually die then. Am I doing something wrong?
31134b No.12050
>>12047Some of the things I did when I took them out.
>there's a spot by one of the fences where you can fight them 1 at a time>let Calisca take out a few before she dies>buy the healing pots from the vendorIt helps to get lucky
67abe2 No.12052
>>12024>What are some cheese strats that can be pulled currently?Cipher's petrify is still stupidly powerful and with the blunderbuss you can recharge your focus super fast
>>12047There's a horse pen on the bottom side of the map, if you run into it you can fight them one by one. If you still have trouble pick up The Disappointer and use it to snipe the caravan guards and heodan while one of the weak NPCs is blocking the way and doing shit all damage to you.
Get the Endurance over time potion, Beer and the leather armor from the guy near the fallen tree
67abe2 No.12053
>>12052The horse pen is on the lower side of the camp, I mean
>>12050Fuck it never even occurred to me to use Calisca, I killed her first
31134b No.12054
>>12053Yeah if you get her to attack first and move your guy away, she goes hostile but everyone attacks her because she started the fight.
Then she defends herself.
I usually sick her onto Heodan.
b85212 No.12055
>>12050>>12052I went in with 2 of the End over time potions and the Instant End Potion, and I had Calisca attack first and then I'd lead them to the horse pen mentioned. I'll check out the Dissappointer but is the Leather armor worth it compared to Mail?
Also, in general, should barbarians go two-handed or dual wield?
67abe2 No.12056
>>12055I forgot not all classes start with the same gear, stick with Mail
31134b No.12057
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>>12055>Also, in general, should barbarians go two-handed or dual wield?Weapon and shield.
b85212 No.12058
>>12057>>12056Alright then. I'll go ahead and retry it.
31134b No.12061
b85212 No.12063
Aaaaand I did it. Awesome. Shields really do make a difference.
65f883 No.12095
73a2fd No.12099
>>11987There's an auto pause each preset second
an auto pause each skill done
auto pause each time hit.
You're just gonna have to deal with the moving and positioning
73a2fd No.12101
>>12024Having 2 tanks near the chokepoints would stop any enemy
You can lure enemies by sneaking and attacking them from afar, that also means killing them one by one
You can have a wall of tanks and kill them all from behind with really strong wizards and their spells like that fan of flames.
You can make a gimmick party like 6 chanters and simply summon minions, as well as using summons from items
0aa23e No.12105
This game looks really interesting. I want to like it. But I work 8 hours a day, come home and study all night. I just feel to drained to read through mountains of text at the end of the day. Should I put it off until after graduation, or can it still be enjoyed just by skimming the text?
73a2fd No.12106
>>12105Maybe you're better off waiting until you graduate.
At least by then we'll know if Obsidian get to polish it even further, and by then maybe they'd have released their expansion.
087521 No.12107
>>12105Here's something that might help
>Turn on the Show Personality/Reputation for dialog>skip all the conversations picking what you want to shape your rep/personality>read the summary in your journalIt's much less reading, and you will still be able to follow what's going on.
546df5 No.12365
461b6b No.12367
3be20d No.12368
>>12367People to respond.
461b6b No.12369
>>12368Its a pretty slow board. Not to mention that hotwheels accidentally the last thread might have ruffled some feathers.
3be20d No.12370
>>12369Yeah I know how it goes. Just waiting patiently for people.
having 2 other PoE threads open helps with the waiting 461b6b No.12373
>>12370I think its also that the game isn't that interesting overall. I like it but it doesn't grab me by the balls like BG or torment did. If the sequel/expansion sets it in a sick place like the living lands or rautoa and lets avellone goes nuts I think it will be way better.
3be20d No.12375
>>12373Really? Shit is moving like a freight train elsewhere. People discussing builds/lore/story/items etc
I think they did a really good job for what is hopefully a new series.
461b6b No.12377
>>12375I just don't like the Drywood.
Also GG overreacting like a motherfucker to the situation kinda ruined in on this site.
3be20d No.12378
>>12377Yeah Dyrwood could have been better. Oh man the shitposting for this on /v/ is insane.
You can tell none of them have played it either, calling it pandering to SJW when it features, rape, infantcide, child killings, torture, and kidnapping.
3be20d No.12381
>>12378Oh and incest, can't believe I forgot about the incest.
b65371 No.12399
>>12378>>12381SJWs don't give a shit about incest, child killings, torture, kidnapping, or rape that is portrayed as bad.
bcac5c No.12411
Anyone else think that the lore about souls and gods was a little underwhelming? I feel like they never really expanded on it like they should have, and that it never went anywhere. Thinking about it, I feel that way about most of the lore for the game.
The descriptions and in-game books for the gods were all decent but it felt like a drop when I wanted an ocean.
67abe2 No.12418
>>12411Yes although I can't really pinpoint why.
The revelation of the true nature of the gods lacks impact being the first game in the setting. Casually interacting with them as if they were any other NPC also throws any sense of mystery out the window.
bcac5c No.12427
>>12418Yeah I think that makes sense. That and you never really see anything they do.
The lore concerning the gods just seems to take elements from ancient faiths but lacking 90% of the complexity or depth of them. It's just a sort of face-value thing.
I also thought the ending was pretty disappointing, and there wasn't enough involving
the leaden key during the main story. There wasn't any real feeling of build up like in BG2, where finally being able to confront Irenicus was a huge deal. Even BG1 built up to the ending much better.
Also fuck the stronghold and reputation system. It was so fucking useless. Given that you had a stronghold I at least expected it to play a major role in the game but you can pretty much just ignore it and not give a fuck. It's just there to net you extra treasure over time, but otherwise is useless. Caed Nua was at least fun, but that doesn't really have anything to do with the hold. I only remember 1 part of the game where I needed to have a certain reputation to access a quest, and only a few NPCs act differently based on reputation.
Overall I thought the game was good, I like the combat system and the world is a good start. It really does feel like an infinity engine game. Problem is, playing through it for a second time really highlights just how bad most of the encounters really are. There is so much more crowd control compared to IE games, and encounters often have groups of enemies that just spam CC or cause it on hit. Obsidian will never reach the heights of their past it seems. Most RPG companies are dead or dying. It's sad.
67abe2 No.12444
>>12427Given Pillar's critical and commercial success it doesn't seem unreasonable to hope that they'll take lessons learned from it and make a decent expac or sequel. There's obviously a market for games like Pillars and Obsidian have demonstrated they're capable of making a very playable cRPG.
1f8ae8 No.12477
I hate that this game is decent enough for me to consider it good, but not good enough to be satisfied by it.
>>12444It all depends on whether or not they continue playing it safe. IE nostalgia can only carry the game so far.
b85212 No.12484
>>12444The only thing I could see being an issue is Tides of Numenera's release shadowing over any expansion packs released by Obsidian. I don't think it will do much though.
f1c80e No.12517
>>12427New Torment is in development, maybe we will get a bit closer to past ideal, still.
8287c3 No.12715
Do your party members ever get to resist… anything at all? They are constantly suffering from one of the million status effects. I never ever had a party member resist a charm/confuse/fuckever attempt, not even once, even with Cleric buffs. Also holy shit this buffing system is seriously retarded.
f1c80e No.12776
>>12715Nope, which makes fight against multiple dank spores especially frustrating.
12382f No.12791
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Ah tried to give it a chance. Maybe it's not as SJW as it seems and you can ignore such content…
>first companion's a fighter woman
>entire building devoted to nigger venetians in main city
>fan-stories about dykes
>funny fan poem cut for potentially offending the 0.0000000001% trannies who could possibly buy the game
>female party member's not for fucking
and then a quest about an abusive husband. How wrong is it? Let's count the ways at the start
1) Buying a diamond ring to mark an engagement didn't become a practice until the 1800s.
2) Women weren't served in bars until prohibition.
3) The earliest laws against hitting women were mild as the Rule of Thumb. No one would think anything of a woman being beaten, including the woman.
4) A woman wouldn't travel without a male escort unless she were a whore.
5) Divorces didn't exist. Annulments from the church were rare.
It's fucking disgraceful to give so little a shit about european culture while everything good in your setting is derivative of it. To try to revise feudal european history into some marxist power fantasy is an insult to the people who actually lived that history. Fuck these marxists. If they don't like feudal europe then don't misappropriate it for their game.
461b6b No.12793
>>12715The only problem I've ever had was the dank spores.
>>12517I'm so not hyped about torment its not even funny. After that splat book dedicated to give gays the ability to have babies I have no hopes about that setting.
461b6b No.12794
>>12791What did you think about the gameplay?
12382f No.12796
>>12794>gameplaymeh.
Close to what it said-on-the tin. Another isometric game akin to those of yore. Some of the mechanics are more like WoW while others are more like DnD 4th so it's a weird hodgepodge.
Like various folks have pointed out, intelligence is a dump stat. |I tried to give the benefit of the doubt and regret it. The decision |I find weirder than magic-damage going to "might" is every class having a fixed accuracy and dexterity buffing speed. Maybe that's effectively the same in their engine but it's not transparent enough, even with the feedback text, to know.
How long are "fast", "average", "slow" and "very slow" speeds? We know the damage is a small difference of 2 for many weapons but not how big these speed-grades are. Is it 2x as often? 3x? 5s? Even a percentile would be useful.
I'm sure someone has projected the answers on a wiki or using a debug tool but that doesn't fix the developer's failure.
I can see the rest system as an improvement over Neverwinter Nights and the like and in related news don't think Wizards are worthless like so many people complain. In the old 3rd edition games you could spam your highest-level spells each fight, waste everything, then rest. The rest of the party were just walls for the Wizard. Wizards are definitely nerfed in Eternity but that's for the better in overall class-balance. Now there's a point to the other classes presence and you're punished with the tedium of travel-time if you want to restock campfire supplies.
The load screens are horrendous as everyone has pointed out. I don't understand how the fuck 2d sprites on such tiny maps can be too much for an engine on modern equipment to un/load without loading screens. Obsidian's programmers must keep their jobs through nepotism. You never hear of a smooth Obsidian game and they don't seem to recognize their horrible performance repuation.
There's some nuance added to |AoE effects from the two-rings and their smaller size means you can cast without hitting your party, unlike in 3rd edition where you'd have to turn off friendly fire or scarcely use your most powerful |AoE abilities.
Pathing's fucking horrible. Basic shit like, "if this model collides with a friendly model the friendly model should be pushed aside for it to pass" is not programmed into the engine so you have the fun of tedious shit like moving party members out of one another's way.
Basic functionality's missing from the inventory system too. In any other game, even a first studio effort hack'n slash with a small budget like Torchlight, you double-click an item in your inventory and it's equipped to the character. In Eternity you must tediously drag items to their slots. Even worse, it will retardedly generate errors about how you can't add an item. So you have to manually drag out what's currently equipped instead of them automatically swapping out.
The health mechanic's interesting. It means you can't die in a single fight but you can in two. So I guess it's really just n00bification.
Guns are worthless as everyone has said. It's a slower version of the crossbow which aims worse.
What I miss most in such a system is dramatic status changes. The best combat I remember from BG 2 was a fight I kept losing against a bunch of clerics. My party was getting raped as fighters were converted to the clerics side, they healed what damage they took, powerful spells killed resistant party members and so forth. I read through all the abilities available and finally discovered an answer: a Swarm spell silenced the affected models. This single spell turned the entire battle scenario starkly in my favor as a bunch of clerics unable to cast for a few turns were cut down by hasted fighters.
There has been nothing approaching the feeling of learning the system and a fight turning on a small ability/equipment switch-up in PE as in the games it's supposed to succeed.
The system favors small distinctions so it doesn't matter much which you choose.
461b6b No.12798
>>12796Damn nigga, I don't know where to respond first.
Guns are pretty good on rogues with sneak attack, they can just kill shit half the time.
I don't know how endurance or health is n00bification. Its pretty unforgiving on harder difficulties since you can only keep two camping supplies.
The pathfinding is pretty weird, but hilarious at times. I had a boar run a circle around the party for the whole combat because the tanks where already enganged with all the other boars.
Really the game is best described as "okay". Mostly because the drywood is dry as wood. And about as interesting. I found rautoa is way more interesting with its underwater shark orgies. The mega-dungeon makes up for it some with some balls hard fights.
f1c80e No.12799
>>12793The setting is, like, a billion years after our time tho, I bet anything can have babies with anything by that time.
461b6b No.12802
>>12799It just seems like pandering. If they want to go the bio-engineering route thats fine, hell every sci-fi should be more like Prophet, but go all the way.
c70618 No.12803
>>12791>there's a female character I can't romance>this fantasy game is historically inaccurate>wife-beating is portrayed in a negative lightFucking SJWs, amirite?
I haven't played this game, but I was thinking of buying. What I'm getting from
>>12796 is that it has minor balance issues, and an irritating lack of streamlining. That doesn't sound so bad.
461b6b No.12804
>>12803I'd pirate before you buy. Its pretty good but its not for everyone. On the sliding scale of gameplay and story its more like icewind dale, than say torment.
aab011 No.12805
>>12796Intelligence isn't a dump stat. It's a vital stat for Wiz, Priest, Barb. And Cipher/Druid to a lesser extent.
461b6b No.12806
>>12805Its also pretty useful for a buff tank like a paladin.
12382f No.12808
>>12802>every sci-fi should be more like ProphetIf you're new to Transhuman I recommend Blame! and this podcast retelling John Carpenter's The Thing from the monster's perspective
http://ec.libsyn.com/p/e/0/6/e061ed24f3ee2dac/clarkesworld_01_10_watts.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d06ca8f30d1c0592e84&c_id=5470201skip the intro talk.
Yes it's ridiculous that faggots hate all their ancestors, who struggled to survive and reproduce, they refuse to even try to even mate and then they have the audacity to demand children be given to them.
That's what killed another game I won't name for me. It was a feudal setting and the team spent more time on making sure faggots were in the game and could have children than combat mechanics.
>>12803>buyingDear god no. It's not even worth a pirate. Just replay ID, BG, Planescape, or Bloodlines.
>there's a female character I can't romanceI'd rather there were no female party members at all since female combatants are bullshit. The only possible redeeming quality a female character could have is she's what your dude fucks in the story. Otherwise, she's entirely worthless.
>this fantasy game is historically inaccurateDisingenuous argument.
You know damn well
1) The setting's supposed to be derived from renaissance Europe.
2) The marxism isn't presented as something magical but as something regular.
>wife-beating is portrayed in a negative lightIt's anachronistic to have a woman in such a setting talking about leaving her husband because he hits her.
>>12805You've confused the game's stat recommendations with the actual usefulness of stats.
aab011 No.12809
>>12791
>first companion's a fighter womanWho gives a shit
>fan-stories about dykesFan stories are exactly that.
Plus you get to purge them
>funny fan poem cut for potentially offending the 0.0000000001% trannies who could possibly buy the gameMore political shit that doesn't affect the game.
>female party member's not for fuckingYou could always play whatever game Bioware is shitting out right now.
>and then a quest about an abusive husbandMust have missed that one.
Unless you are referring to the bear cave where the man was murdered and then they CLAIMED he was abusive. Sounds more like 2 scumbags trying to justify their crime.
The rest of that shit is exactly that, shit. Fuck your attempts to apply real world practices to a fantasy video game setting.
461b6b No.12811
>>12809>Replying angrily to obvious bait. 461b6b No.12814
>>12812>replying to obvious bait again.>>12808>If you're new to Transhuman I recommend Blame! and this podcast retelling John Carpenter's The Thing from the monster's perspective Neat.
aab011 No.12815
>>12808>You've confused the game's stat recommendations with the actual usefulness of statsNo you're just a pleb who doesn't know how to play the game. Int boosts Aoes and durations.
Which means buffs and debuffs last longer.
And aoes have a larger zone.
The Retbarb build is evidence of that. Being as its only 1 of 2 builds that has solo'd triple crown and you need to max Int.
aab011 No.12816
>>12814>>12811You're not the boss of me.
12382f No.12817
>>12814Enjoy bro. Wish I could recommend more but there's not a lot of such content. There's a PnP game called Eclipse Phase if you play those.
>>12809Go to the tavern in the first district of Defiance Bay. That's where you get the exciting quest of giving a woman's wedding ring to her husband.
But I suppose you're too busy sucking jewish dicks to play videogames.
aab011 No.12819
>>12817Did you even finish the quest?
461b6b No.12820
>>12817>woman's wedding ringOh I remember that. That turned out to be a wizard posing as the husband.
461b6b No.12821
Well this PoI playthrough isn't going so well.
aab011 No.12823
>>12820He read the first line of text and then sperged out at his monitor yelling about "SJW! SJW!" and didn't get to that part of the quest.
461b6b No.12824
>>12823Welp. New character time. Think I'll make a monk.
aab011 No.12826
>>12824Those dual Skuldr Kings are harsh.
461b6b No.12828
Fuck it. S/v/ decide for me. Path of the iron damn difficulty. I'll be back later.
aab011 No.12829
12382f No.12830
>>12828>>12829My copy's defaul character at character creation is a negress with an afro. Subtle trolling…
aab011 No.12832
>>12830Is that the game's way of telling you
that you're a dirty nigger 12382f No.12833
6919f3 No.12898
Who is the best story companion and why is it Durance?
efc489 No.12901
Shade, ghosts, spirits and shit are the strongest enemies in the game.
No other enemies can teleport, stun, daze, blind, and cause a DR bypass with their standard attack. Oh and they can summon more of themselves.
bcac5c No.12903
>>12898Durance followed by Eder.
>>12901Fuck shades, shadows and phantoms. Shitty encounters and shitty enemies like that just aren't fun. A lot less fun when you're soloing, with a party it isn't as bad. The enemies have too much CC and there aren't enough ways to resist it.
efc489 No.12904
>>12903Yeah that's what this
>>12902 is about. It's fucking brutal trying to take these down solo.
efc489 No.12907
Oh and 2 shades = 85-90% uptime on blindness for the most part when you're solo.
So good luck trying to hit the fucking things.
67abe2 No.12912
>>12907A single spectre can keep you almost-permastunned if you don't have enough of whatever defence you need
efc489 No.12913
>>12912The saves don't do shit anyway. If you save against the first they'll get you with the second.
Which comes a second after the first attack.
At this point in the game it takes way too much resources to take them down.
ec6c16 No.13072
I'm trying to update my game using the downloaded patch. It seems to be updating, but very slowly and it's not responding. I have to alt+tab+hold to see what the progress bar is at. Is this common?
4a8f70 No.13104
>>13072The GoG patch took forever but worked fine afterwards.
7b7984 No.14868
Does the two-handed weapon talent work on ranged weapons?
4efc2c No.14874
bc9562 No.14879
>>14874
I am really fond of Pillars of Eternity and I can't say I disagree with the conclusion. In spite of all the creative freedom Obsidian got, they barely utilized it in fear of offending the people that funded their games. Pat from the Super Best Friends noted this as well a few weeks ago in referencing the documentary: it is clear that they were/are so scared of being shut down that they made a safe, homogenized game that, albeit structurally solid, is stale in its creativity.
6e88df No.14890
>>12912
Yep, those mother fuckers die from the level 2 priest spell that does fire damage and ranged piercing IE bow/crossbow. On Damned difficulty you can use the rogue to pull them one at a time sometimes and kite them with the proper run speed (which is why run speed is actually useful sometimes.)
0e64be No.14893
>>14879
>Pat from the Super Best Friends noted this as well a few weeks ago in referencing the documentary
When did he say this? I stopped watching awhile back.
448a6c No.14898
>>14879
I hope they'll go completely nuts in the expansion. Wouldn't even be the first time.
7b7984 No.14904
>>14874
I agree about 75% with the complaints about the combat and 100% with the complaints about the setting and writing.
Wouldn't call it Obsidian's wprst game, though.
bc9562 No.14921
>>14893
Podcast. Either 85, 86 or 87. Lean towards 86.
http://superbestfriendsplay.com/series/friendcast/
>>14904
They definitely went overboard in the addendum. It's a solid, enjoyable game (if you're into that kinda thing) just stale and largely unimaginative.
0e64be No.14926
>>14921
Thanks. I didn't know they did podcasts. I prefer it over the videos.
You were right, it was #86.
11de1d No.15227
Why is this game so painfully mediocre? Divinity OS is superior in every way.
464ff4 No.15236
fuck that rpgcodex review. seriously. it reads exactly like one of my college classmates essays where they thought the only way to "criticise" something was to hang shit on it. I'm 20 hours into poe and it ticks every fucking box, as well as having an intersting narrative.
obsidian has actually sat down and made a comprehensive, modern day rehaul of the IE and you can't handle it? fuck you posers. this is some good shit. ill revise my opinion once ive finished the game but so far its been fucking amazing
0d8b8c No.15241
>>15236
Is your enjoyment of the game lessened by other people finding it lacking?
Really man, just have fun with it, I'm glad you like it.
>>15227
>in every way
Let's not get ahead of ourselves now
And for the record I fucking love Divinity
464ff4 No.15245
>>15241
>Is your enjoyment of the game lessened by other people finding it lacking?
yeah, sometimes. especially when their points are valid. This feels more like /v/ being /v/, to the extent that people are criticising things they never even experienced firsthand.
0d8b8c No.15267
>>15245
>This feels more like /v/ being /v/
But you were upset over an RPG codex review.. of something the writer of said review clearly paid firsthand.
I completely agree with you, shit like Witcher hate threads while the game isn't even out yet is disgusting. But this here is not the case.
Just play the game you enjoy, god knows I like games other people hate, there's always someone who hates something you do. Can't let it ruin your enjoyment of things.
ad49da No.15272
>>15236
I really enjoyed the first 30 hours, but sadly it suffers from poor pacing and many of the 'secondary' zones just being exactly the same stuff in the same attack patterns as earlier on.
7790d2 No.16814
Why do they put in obscure or made up weapons like the estoc and 2-handed morningstar but they didn't include halberds? I'm not even a halberdfag but it was a pretty common weapon and its disclusion is odd.
437ac7 No.16841
>Doing shit in Defiance Bay
>Do quests for both the knights and the dozens
>The knights come off as pompous assholes and the dozens seem too disorganized to come across as anything in particular at first, plus their whole "adventurer hall" thing is interesting, so I favor them a bit
>Come back from doing the second quest for them
>Find out they're total close-minded asshats
>Well damn, at least the shit I did for them never really helped them at all outside of making me look good
>Go to the knights instead
>They won't let me do shit for them because I'm in the dozens' good graces
>Even though my reputation with both of them is exactly the same
>Find out it's because of the quest I just did, wherein I gave them some broken weapons that they ended up destroying anyway
>No saves from before I accepted that quest
>The Doemenels won't take me either because of the same shit, you'd think they would appreciate having an inside man
More like pillars of bullshit
3ac843 No.16843
>>16841
I hate it when a game railroads you like that
It's always 'join side X or Y', which is not only simplistic quest design but also excludes interesting stuff like being a double agent or offering your services to the highest bidder or whatever else they can think off.
But no, it's always A or B
437ac7 No.16845
>>16843
I wouldn't even be so mad if there was any indication that this random bullshit I was doing would lock me into a faction
Like, I could understand if I got a quest to directly fuck with the other factions and doing that gave them a good reason to hate me, but the really benign way it's set up is just retarded
0ce026 No.16856
>>16841
I got locked out of Doemels when the only thing I'd done for the Dozens was give that faggot his breastplate back.
0abda9 No.16863
I'm also struggling. I completed BG1 and 2 when I was like 13 but I still fucking hate real time with pause. I stopped playing Dragon Age for the same reason.
I wish I could get the hang of it
437ac7 No.17051
>Get near the end of the game so finally decide to tackle the endless paths
>Fucking love proper dungeons, and the whole thing looks really cool at first
>Think the whole time how awesome it might be to recreate this place in like minecraft or some other game to see it in 3D
>About halfway through they just apparently gave up
>Floors seem to go off in random directions instead of being directly under the previous floor
>Several floors of literal fucking caves in what is supposed to be a single connected ruin so they could shoehorn in spider and fungus enemies, most of said caves being uncharacteristically tiny floors with nothing but filler enemies
>The beautiful hand sketched fast travel map of the dungeon which was pretty spot on for the first five or so floors becomes an abstract clusterfuck that only occasionally vaguely resembles the places you actually visit
Goddammit
1744c2 No.17329
Playing Good party in BG2
Who should I take?
I also have to swap one of them out for Sarevok
> Minsc
> Imoen
> Viconia
> Korgan
> Mazzy
> Jan
> Valygar