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Relations between companies don't work the same way as relations between people though. He can say "f**k publishers" and strike a deal with EA tomorrow if both parties are interested. It's not like he's offending anyone. Which Brian did exactly that by making WL2 for Microsoft & Sony.

Kind of touching. Can't wait for Obsidian next project while enjoying PoE.

This is pretty good idea. It means control groups where maybe F1 you can have 2 characters as one group or F2 you can have 3 characters as one group and etc. What i see at the moment is that every character needs to be manually controlled. And there are no AI Tactics etc.

Disintegrate is pretty bad if it destroy loot as well. Perhaps it's required against certain monsters that if you don't disintegrate them, they will regenerate or their corpse can be animated or conjured as undeads?

May i ask why there are no resurrection spells? Was it due to the lores in Eternity?

I previously made a thread about how bad PoE looks but i'm surprisingly clueless how PoE looks so beautiful in the PAX East demo. Was wondering if the demo was greatly polished just for the presentation? I watched earlier stream where in sewers in looks really bad. But now it's really clueless it looks freaking beautiful. I hope throughout the other areas it will be consistently as beautiful. This changed my mind and i'm going to get the Royal Edition on Steam.

I've just watched the latest 1 hour stream of gameplay by Josh. I'm kind of worried about POE. The art or visuals in Baldur's Gate 2 seems to look better than POE to me. The buildings, the backgrounds, sceneries looks very bland to me. It's no where near the quality like the first tech video that was shown. Even Divinity Original Sins look leaps and bound more beautiful. This is not a troll thread. I'm seriously worried about the final quality of the game that will be released on March. The earlier section of the game probably will look better as they are much polished. Based on the latest stream that by Josh, not only the arts but the UI is equally dull and bland to me. While i'm extremely excited about the game, but after the latest stream it put me off. I probably just wait for the game to release and listen to player's feedback and watch move videos before i put in my money. Thanks

To be very honest, consoles ruined gaming. 100 spells became 10 spells? Inventory grid became scroll list? Meaningful RPGs became button mashers? Imagine you can have more people in a city or a crowd for immersion and it has to be reduced on consoles? AI has to be simplified? Pathing and complex calculations need to be optimized? really look at The Witcher 2 UI forced upon PC gamers? The Witcher 3 will be no different. Allowing few extra particle effects on a PC make it not consolized? Game has to be first made on PC with proper menus/UI. If a game goes multi-platform, PC version will be dumbed-down because the devs want to treat everyone equally. Know what a console gamer will tell you about Divinity Original Sins? "Pirated it and it's complete crap. I still prefer my consoles".

The game was pledged for 1M if not mistaken but they funded for 4M. Divinity Original Sins looks far more beautiful to me which they were funded only 1M.

To be very honest, the visuals is really a big letdown to me. I dont dare to voice myself but i'm glad someone brought this up. BG or BG 2 Enhanced Edition looks far more appealing to me surprisingly. The first impression that the visuals are VERY dated. No it's not because of the video, i've seen the one that is Full HD and it's just bad. Of course it's just my opinion. But my thoughts were the whole reason to go full 2D was it's going to have very beautiful visuals not plain dated.

To OP i kind of agree with you. The graphics looks really dated. The sole reason they mentioned why they went 2D was the visuals can look visually stunning on lower end machines. I've seen Wasteland2 and Divinity Original Sins which were 3D looks far more beautiful.

@RocketChaser In my opinion the original Dragon Age Origins were meant to be the successor to Baldur's Gate. In DA2 and DAI, it's clearly it has been casualized to appeal to the masses. I personally would get DAI too since it seems the tactical camera is back, and they mentioned close 50-100 hours content. Not to mention the sheer beauty of the world on FrostBite3 engine. Any how, i'm wondering why DAI gets mentioned here on PoE? Wasn't that off-topic? Anyway i think PoE cannot compare directly to DAI as PoE isn't AAA. I think the real contender for PoE is Divinity Original Sins for me (my opinion). I'm having a blast playing DOS at the moment and wasn't really impressed with the latest impression on PoE video.

I hate that nowadays games like Dragon Age only limit your characters up to four. I think 5 it's a nice number and 6 is really awesome as you can have different types of races and classes composition that each class and race covers all the required skills and abilities perfectly.

Just wondering if managing the personality for not having party characters to leave the party will be a tough challenge? While i like characters having their own personality, i really hate it that when they can't get along and fight against each other and as the party leader you have no control over them and you wanted them to get along since you wanted the party composition so much.

It probably means "console-friendly". You get the gripe. It will be released on consoles after PC is done.

Watched the quick look EX on PoE. Here are my first impressions: 1) Visually, they don't look as good as Divinity Original Sins. I thought the whole point of it being 2D that they'll boast the best graphics? But anyhow it doesn't bother me much. 2) It seems that some of the static structures are blocking the slimy ooze? This is one of my gripe that the game is not 3D and not rotatable. 3) Some of the interiors seems out of proportion to me. Noticeably seen in the room after the puzzle of lighted symbols. When characters are moving left, it seems as characters are climbing up. 4) Now onto race like godlike, it looks kind of weird on the design of the godlike especially the head. It looks over exaggerated. I don't mind a slight variation of being different but the head is just too extreme making it look like alien-breed. But on the other hand, they have perfectly human body with humanly pair of hands. I hope the head can be reworked as it looks really bad to me. 5) Now on the UI. It looks awesome to me. I think it's alittle empty on the left after 3 character portraits but i think it'll be fine when we have 5-6 characters. There's no minimap shown yet, but it'll be great if we get a tranparent minimap as well as customizable UI and menus? Where i can move my characters portraits to the left if i wished? 6) Calisca portrait looks nice but my only gripe it was shown the side of it. Can i have portrait that she faces me? Ps. Also the blue circles beneath characters. Do we have an opacity slider? Or can i hide it? Original Sins look great without it. Of course, i'm not objecting to people who wants them. I just like more customizations. Overall, hope to see more improvements on PoE for days to come.

You know what? Console fanboys always branded PC gamers as elitist or master race or call them 'beggars' or pirates. What Sony and Microsoft had done was clearly dividing gamers and make their console fanboys to hate against PC gamers. The only real reason i have to play on consoles because they are 'conservative' and 'selfish'. If you look at IGN and Gamespot before GTA5 were announced for PC, these fanboys literally laugh at the face of PC gamers with profanity, insults, it's not even funny. They clearly branded PC gamers as low as dogs. I have never seen in gaming that console fanboys were made to HATE. They are brainwashed in hating other gamers on other platforms namely PC gaming. Now look who's begging?. Now i don't hate any platform. The only reason i HAVE to play on a console is because they do not want to make the game available on PC. So if they refused to make their so called 'exclusives' to PC, why should PC exclusives make available to them? What kind of mentality is that? On top of that, PC gamers were constantly harassed as the pirates. Now honestly, does piracy not exists on consoles? Enough of the rant at the moment but i sincerely urge Obsidian to not release the game on consoles. No i'm not platform racist (as i game on PS4 for their exclusives), why can't they buy a PC to play a PC exclusives game? Why because they are the master race now? But based on latest gameplay demo, it seems that inventory screen are scroll-based and UI is definitely "console" friendly. It probably means, a console version was planned all along with PC. I have nothing to lose as i play on multi-platform. I'm just voicing out the console fanboyism are really getting out of place. Most indies will release their game multi-platform and that's a good thing. Just don't turn yourself onto "exclusives" so that your fans are forced to play on consolized, dumbed-down consoles.

Exactly. I think gameplay design should encourage a balance party as it also promotes the most fun playthroughs (having solution to every situation). It's fine to have certain items as a replacement of an absence of a class but having all answers in the form of items make each class not unique or required.

If such designs of allowing any party combinations and to make each classes unique, i believe the only viable options to have any party composition (all mage, all fighters, all rogues, etc.) is to make available usable items that act as skills for compensation of lacking specific class.

At any rate, Divinity has proven it looks far more impressive without those circles!. Understand those who love it but it would be awesome to have an option to disable it. Thanks for replies!

I'm shocked Divinity Original Sins is so beautiful!. And all hail it's in fully glory 3D. Since PoE was boast as the successor of IE games that worship 2D, i really can't wait side by side comparison with Divinity Original Sins.

Sorry if this was asked before? Do we have an option to disable circles below characters? Look at Divinity Original Sins! It looks brilliant without those circles. Also for the highlights, they implemented the cel-shading or character outilnes. It looks way, way awesome than the circle below each characters. Those really hurt my eyes. I sincerely hope they can be disabled. Thanks!

If Obsidian considering an MMO.. they will dugging their own grave. Seriously no. I've played a fair share of online games but i look forward more towards quailty single player experience games.

What I get in reading the interviews are that the Devs are trying to make the game as generic as possible. I hope I get the meaning wrongly

Yeah I'm looking forward on tactical isometric RTwP type of game that has lite story but heavier focus on combat. Can't remember IWD or IWD2 the narrator's voice were breath-taking!! Totally suits the settings of the snowy feeling