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Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment (Kickstarter) [Up: Teaser]
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Your detached sanity has taken corporeal form and is the cause of your memory loss. Better go do something about it.
SquiddyCracker
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I have to admit that I've never seen a amazon/ranger/native-type dwarf before.
That fantasy races are always monocultural is why I usually hate them, so they're planning on properly implementing multiple ethnicities and cultural variations of dwarves and elves then I don't mind so much.
voodoopanda
Member
I feel like there was an option early on in New Vegas when you're talking to the doctor guy during character creation where you can say something about not remembering anything? Or that implies some kind of memory loss. But you don't have to pick that option and amnesia is never really used as a plot device or anything during the game.
well this just comes up because in the other games the player is a vault dweller with a known and constrained history. the courier may have had a life and family, friends, a hometown, and such which is never approached in the base game. I haven't played the DLC yet to see if it is there. From a start of the story perspective the courier player knows nothing of their past.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Multiple cultures and ethnicity makes a huge difference, imo.
nelsonroyale
Member
They say its in early state of development. It probably only started dev. when the Kickstarter took off ie a couple of days ago
I think that's more about production stage. I'm pretty certain a lot of the high-level worldbuilding and roleplaying concepts have already been established.
RTwP is just as good as TB combat. The people disappointed it won't be turn based are a puzzle to me.
Both RTwP and TB have produced the best of the classic RPGs. I am really agnostic on the subject. Either systems can produce deep involved combat.
Besides, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns and Dead State will be TB so its nice to get one RTwP game out of the new triumvirate of RPGs.
Both RTwP and TB have produced the best of the classic RPGs. I am really agnostic on the subject. Either systems can produce deep involved combat.
Besides, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns and Dead State will be TB so its nice to get one RTwP game out of the new triumvirate of RPGs.
jim-jam bongs
Member
you know that people are desperate for info when my shaky memory becomes such a hot topic.
I'm not desperate for infos, i'm desperate for this game. Get your facts straight!
jim-jam bongs
Member
oh sorry, that must have slipped my mind
jep, that sounds great.
If culture has that much impact it really doesn't matter if they use "generic" dwarves and elves.
Acidote
Member
At the rate this is going, the mac version will be confirmed in the final hours of the day. Today.
I'm happy that 6 party members are confirmed, even though I expected it.
Now that they said that they won't be using Onyx I'm curious what engine they will be using. Especially since it looks like it will need to support Mac and Linux as well. Unity seems like it would make sense.
Now that they said that they won't be using Onyx I'm curious what engine they will be using. Especially since it looks like it will need to support Mac and Linux as well. Unity seems like it would make sense.
Imp the Dimp
Member
The latest update makes it sound like the best game ever. It's like we're in 2000 with the technology of 2012.
They said the game will have the dungeon-ing of Icewind Dale 2, so I think the "I wan't to go alone" way will be reserved for the "speech" builds who can avoid most of the fights, since those kind of dungeon encounters are very designed around having a full party, I can't imagine a character going though that alone or even with a party sensibly smaller than the ideal (maybe a mage character could do something but...).
whalleywhat
Member
This made a whole lot more sense when I realized those weren't game acronyms. Also I agree.
robin2 said:
I think I saw Sawyer addressing someone's request that they not make mages OP, so it'll be interesting to see how they balance that.
You're being unfair good sir, what about such bastions of creativity as "Forest Elves" and "City Elves"?
DiscoJer
Member
I'm sure that's true, but there is an accessibility problem with real time combat. Every time I try to play a game that has real time combat with multiple characters, I just get frustrated and give up.
At least the Infinity Engine games. I did manage with NWN and KOTOR, but in NWN I had to always play a fighter and let the AI do the spellcasting.
I can control one character in real time (Diablo style games). Any more and I just get increasingly overwhelmed. I also can't drive a stick shift. When it gets to a six character party, it's just too much confusion to be fun for me.
Acidote
Member
They haven't answered my language question through e-mail. Understandable since they must have thousands and I only sent it three or four days ago, but I'm dissapointed they haven't answered that matter to anyone who has asked for it through twitter, facebook, e-mail or their own forums.
I guess we must have patience, there are 28 days left until I drop my pledge. I'm sure they will answer the matter before that.
I guess we must have patience, there are 28 days left until I drop my pledge. I'm sure they will answer the matter before that.
I actually prefer RTwP. TB is fun and all, but it usually makes the game unbearably slow.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Have they announced QTEs yet?
New stretch goal in the making.
"Visceral QTEs".
whalleywhat
Member
Just an angel/devil meter which determines how many of your companions you can have sex with.
They address that in the FAQ section of their KS profile.
Sexual QTEs. "Roll mouse wheel to tweak nipples."
Acidote
Member
That might have been enough when they didn't have set up stretch goals. Now they have set them up and there's no mention of the matter. As I said, we just have to be patient, 28 days left for them to address it.
what language question?
I feel it is unnecessary for them to localize the game and its a waste of resources since the people who care about this product knows English. It would take away time and resources from the game development.
(also I am sick of being punished due to German, French, Italian and Spanish nationalistic laws delaying games to EU (sometimes they never come here as well).
whalleywhat
Member
"Sorry, I'm just not feeling it. I require a gnome who is 70% evil."
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Some things ive thought of that i would like in the game..
Detailed item descriptions!
i love that stuff even on regular items.
i would also love to see a detailed journal of the world and its inhabitants. DA:O had a great one. There is also another game i cant remember right now that had an excellent journal. i remember seeing a video of it and being shocked at how detailed and comprehensive it was.
Detailed item descriptions!
i love that stuff even on regular items.
i would also love to see a detailed journal of the world and its inhabitants. DA:O had a great one. There is also another game i cant remember right now that had an excellent journal. i remember seeing a video of it and being shocked at how detailed and comprehensive it was.
Acidote
Member
Simple, will it be localized? As a stretch goal? Maybe after release? I know nobody here will care, but if the game gets a huge funding (2M or more, and it is almost guaranteed) and is not localized I'll drop my little pledge. I may be fluent in English, but it's not my mother tongue and immersion is affected by this.
No preference on lawful-chaotic scale? You're not very particular.
There's no way they'd be making their own from the ground up; I'm thinking Unity once again. Who, it must be said, have been doing rather well out of all this kickstarteriness.
whalleywhat
Member
I heard they're ditching D&D style alignment because it did poorly in focus tests.
water_wendi
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Hopefully there is no alignment scale or karma. id rather have faction standings.
Seems to me like they heavily implied it to be back in the Kickstarter text. Item description was awesome, so I'm really hoping it's back as well.
EDIT: I too hope for no scale. I hate that about BioWare games - Though I don't care as much about alignment because it usually has less implication on your character (evil aligned character do not change appearance, usually.) Not that it matters because alignment are probably too tied to D&D.
I think we can expect that. Alpha Protocol had reputations with each of the major characters, New Vegas reduced the importance of Karma.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Yeah im pretty much expecting things to be this way.
You can call it a Quetch, but it's still fundamentally a human.
Stretch goals are rarely priced particularly accurately; they'll add the feature for that much money, but the majority of the money will be poured into other aspects of the game and polish.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I give you city elves, as that isn't anywhere near as common as spiritual/druidic forest elves (which date back all the way to LOTR),