Valmy

A completionist run of a game that is supposed to be longer than BG1? 20 hours? How much money are we talking about betting here?

Overreact much? It may not be that simple. Balance has been shifting around a lot with each version.

See I would. I generally play games once and play them that way.

Sorry I missed this post earlier. Wow you play that lightening fast, I cannot imagine doing a playthrough of BG2 in that length of time. Maybe for you it is 30-40 hours.

See? Fargo is alright, no bridges burned. Besides I thought he was mostly being funny.

Heh the only romance in BG2 I actually completed was Anomen's.

I didn't mean you EA, I was talking about Ubisoft.

I don't really nitpick over every detail but completionist means 80+ hours if doing a game bigger than BG1 to me. That just says exploring all available areas and doing all available quests to me.

While I appreciate Kjaamor's concern, this is not the first time we have been excited for a game before. We know how it goes. The overwhelming majority of the time I have been excited about a game it has not disappointed. And besides getting a substandard game is not exactly a soul shattering grim reality.

Didn't raise dead make you permanently lose CON and Resurrection had a chance of perm death? Seems like issues to me.

Please do

Right? I had no idea the stakes were so high. I thought it was just a cool game idea not a hail mary.

Wait did we actually save Obsidian from shutting its doors? Holy crap I had no idea. I want to see the rest!

If Hurl gets pissed off by length then why is he doing a completionist playthrough?

There is just no pleasing some people. Why do you think 30-40? That would surprise me. In fact, it would shock me. The beta itself took me about 10 hours to do on my first playthru of it, and it's what... 1/10th of the game? (Literally. it's 15 areas out of 150), and even that doesn't take into account the potential time sinks that were intentionally omitted from it (like engaging in conversations with party members; stronghold management, etc) In any case, the devs have already given us a ballpark estimate on just how big the game is. They said it's bigger than BG1 but smaller than BG2. Well? That's a pretty darn big game. BG1 can take 70-80 hours or more for a 1st time completionist run. And again, PoE will be bigger than that. This is in line with what I am expecting and it is what Obsidian has been claiming all along so what is the evidence for these presumptions of 20-40 hours? I mean we are talking about a completionist playthrough where you play as thoroughly as you can. Do you really think the main plot will take about 15 hours or so?

Quiet you! Now you know how I felt in 2012. Man this has been a long wait.

It was nice when you were overloaded and needed to quicktravel. But dang it was stupid how bears could run you down riding your horse. Or maybe bears are just that fast.

Maybe, but you have to admit doing everything you can do in one playthrough and ending up with 25 hours would be very disappointing.

Maybe this Maerwald guy just keeps it if you leave him alone. That is what I was getting at. Awesome thanks for the video!

There is a stream where Josh visits the Adventurer's Hall? Which one is that?

Yeah the ability to create our soulful NPCs solves any problems created by the classes of the Companions.

On a completionist playthrough? I plan on spending about that length of time in that 15 level super dungeon alone.

I would be surprised if it is less than 100 hours.

Judging by this VO sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfrroBk21do (at 0:17) It seems somebody named Maerwald is/was the owner when you show up.

You pick up the bounties at the wardens at your stronghold (or maybe beside your stronghold, it looked like he was outside the walls). No idea if you actually have to possess the stronghold to get them. I would be surprised if either of those speculations are true but we will see.