Mikeymoonshine

Yeah and one of the dialogue options was a wizard specific one I think but that also goes nowhere. I'll probably just kill the dragon again I was just interested to see how the other options played out.

I'd read that there were a few alternative routes to just killing neriscyrlas. One is to convince her to attack Rymrgand, I'd heard there's one about her helping you with eothas and I also that you can convince her to allow you to take the relic and try to free her. I've managed to convince her to attack Rymrgand before but there are no dialogue options about eothas other than an intimidation check that just results in her attacking. Making a deal with her doesn't work either, there's an arcana check about the relic being a phylactery and a diplomacy check after that but she still just refuses and attacks even if you pass both checks. All the dialogue options end in a fight if I try to make a deal with her. Am I missing these other options, do you need to do more than having the appropriate skills to pass these skill checks?

I don't often find reviews that useful and especially now it's all focused on review scores and aggregates. A lot of great games end up in the 80 range because usually they are going to have issues and that bumps them down. Then you get a lot of not so good games that also end up in the 80 range or close to it because a 7/10 means average to a lot of people these days and anything lower is considered bad. Critics also have their biases of course and you can get trends of hating on a certian thing or praising it more than it deserves, critics are not immune to these at all. Read reviews from reviewers you trust, look at what the consensus is on social media. Try to avoid politically motivated criticism (unless you agree with the political motivation I guess but even then I'd be wary), watch let's plays if they aren't too spoily, ask friends. Then you'll have a small chance of not wasting your money.

I'd love a collector's edition but idk if I'll be able to afford one so we will see. I'll be preordering or buying week one for sure though. Hopefully this one isn't broken.

There was that issue with the Witcher 3 on console but they eventually patched it to be bigger.

This is exactly it, in a novel it's better to not be too descriptive but you still have to be descriptive. In a video game with voice acting and illustrations as well it's gonna feel like a lot more than reading a novel or even listening to an audiobook. I don't want to seem like I am making a big deal out of this, I still enjoy the narration and if I get tired of it I can skip it. I just think it would have been better and saved them money on VO to edit down those lines. Like I don't need to hear about how a character is holding a sword if I can see that on screen.

I agree that maybe more animation was too costly and would not have been as effective but even in those scenes the images on screen portray the atmosphere well enough. I'm not saying don't add description to portray a little more of what is going on but the narration literally describes every detail of the scene and the characters, the way they behave, their entrances their expressions. Those details are more impactful if they are saved for when it actually matters. Like I don't need to hear the way a particular character is looking at me as they talk to me unless that detail is required for me to better understand the plot. Sometimes less is more, I am not a writer but I do know that one of the first steps in editing a novel is removing unnecessary words. There are a lot of things I don't need to hear, like the way a certain character looks if it is already represented on screen, I don't need a detailed description of the chiming of bells if I can see and hear the bells on screen either. This stuff doesn't bother me personally all that much but I just think it would probably be a lot better with some editing and I wonder if there would still be these complaints about the narrator if there wasn't all this fluff in those portions.

I like the narrator but the text is far too wordy. There's loads of unnecessary words that just makes it seem a bit like a chore to listen to sometimes. Be interesting to know if people still took issue with the narration of there was less "he said, she said" and long discriptions of your surroundings that could be about half as long and still be just as impactful.

I recall in the beta at one point might was replaced with strength and resolve controlled magic but it didn't work out well. I don't remember if that was their initial plan if it was maybe that's why some of the might checks are written like physical strength checks. To be honest I don't know why they kept in so many stat checks when there is that whole skill system with multiple different skills just for checks. Athletics would cover these all. So yeah I agree that it's an annoying oversight that should be solved by now.

A lot of people love TB, I tried the mode out and it was fun to play so I don't really see it as a problem. I still do prefer RTWP for this kind of game only because TB fights can get tedious and I prefer setting up all my moves at once rather than waiting for everyone to have a turn. Hopefully it will help them in console sales and future PC sales, they deserve it considering the amount of support this game has had post launch. If there was another instalment and it was TB only I would be disappointed, but hopefully that won't happen and who knows maybe we will get both again.

PoE1, and Pathfinder: Kingmaker. What else? Being a fan of this particular genre (and essentially no other genre), I'd be happy to know. "Several" surely implies more than two. Fine my wording was a off, POE1 obviously disappointed some and Numenera did too. There is also tyranny while that game wasn't crowd funded it was in the same genre and was also a disappointment to many (though I personally loved it and am sad it didn't do so well) There aren't many games like this made and some of them have not done very well or just done ok. My point remains the same POE1 benifited from timing.

I'm not saying that's necessarily a good thing and OS has it's grimdark elements. I just mean it's kind of less serious with the way it's written. Kinda like BG2 or Dragon Age. Dark plotlines but the characters and the mood is more upbeat. POE and deadfire has it's jokes and it's lighthearted moments but they are few and far between. I just think that might be a big part of why it's not so popular.

I feel like the hype just kind of died for this series before this game even came out. Yes it was successfully funded but it didn't have as many backers as the first and I feel like a lot of people just didn't like the first game much. Poe1 benifited from nostalgia and the whole Kickstarter craze but there are several isometric crowd funded RPGs now and several of those projects have been disappointing for some people. I think maybe the reason why something like divinity OS is so popular and deadfire isn't is that the former is a more light-hearted game. The POE setting is a bit dreary even when it tries hard not to be, that doesn't bother me but I think it might put a lot of people off. POE3 could happen though, the series still does have its following.

Thanks, opting out worked I forgot the game used to display those options in a text box and opting out reverted it back to that. There was also an issue with grimoirs not displaying all of their spells and using the wrong icons i dunno if that's a known issue but again opting out fixes it for me.

Haven't played in a while and only a little since the dlc so I am not sure when this changed happened but all ship encounters are now showing up like this for me. Tried verifying the game files but the issue persists.

Yeah I imagine it's classless. Seems to be some kind of perk point system and also a weaknesses system.

Wait was this taken out because I created a new game recently and this screen came up with the option of either. Didn't choose tb cos I prefer rtwp, sometimes a tb system is ok for me but usually I find it dull to play.

Deadfire didn't exactly make the idea of romances in an obsidian game more appealing. New Vegas and Kotor 2 did have some of that kind of content though even though it wasn't really romances and I didn't have an issue with it in either game. Other than the mechanics of the gay perk I found to be more like a lgbt character toggle but I doubt that was the intent.

I feel like there are a lot more things to consider if we are comparing, like the characters. Is POE2 better for having a lot more writing and work going into the companions or is BG2 better for having characters that are quite frankly more interesting more memorable and less annoying? There are a lot more of them to choose from in BG2 and some of them do actually have a lot of their own lines and content. BG2 has some really good side content too IMO where as I would say POE2's side content is for the most part just ok. BG2's story is more personal yes and I agree that the strong villain is a good thing but I think what truly makes it better is that it doesn't rush you through it like POE2 does. POE2 has a very short main story and the side content is supposed to kind of make up for this but it doesn't really and BG2 manages to have decent side content and a lenthy story too. What about stuff like the score? How immersive both games are ect. POE's setting is less generic and more unique true but there is also a lot about it that is just too much, it's overly complicated in ways it doesn't need to be sometimes. I'm not trying to say BG2 is a better game or that POE2 is a bad game, I love both games. BG2 has many issues, some of which are so annoying that I tend to just cheat my way out of them with mods when I replay that game and the first one. I just feel like you are looking only at a few aspects of each game.

I feel like being able to have a relationship in an RPG is not necessarily a bad thing in fact i think it can add to the aspect of roleplaying. I don't think I've ever seen it done well though, at best I find it mildly entertaining. I guess I liked the Yennefer romance arc in the Witcher 3 but that is a defined character and built on a whole history between those two characters in the books and it still wasn't as well written as their relationship in the books is. Relationships are just too complicated to do well in a video game and it's impossible to do it without upsetting a bunch of people.

It sounds like mass effect Andromeda is a good comparison to the kind of thing it will be with each planet being it's own sandbox and then there will probably be other smaller areas. but hopefully it's sandboxes will be more interesting than Andromeda's.

First person is ok with me but I do like to be able to see my character sometimes. I'm also hoping there is a way to holster your weapon because every demo i have seen of this seems to have the weapon drawn all the time, even on the ship.

I wouldn't mind if they did what NV did where you could flirt with people and that kind of thing. That's an aspect of roleplaying, maybe not the gay perk though.

I don't hate romance in RPG's like some people do but it's hard to do and pretty much always causes some kind of drama. So this is a good decision.

From what I understand there was supposed to be a Witcher game in development before CDPRs series but it was never released. Or it was but only as some kind of text message mobile phone thing. So after that disaster Sapkowski didn't have much faith in video games so he asked for his money up front even though he was offered a percentage of profits. So on the one hand, even though it's pretty ignorant to judge the entire video game market on one failure you can kind of see why someone who doesn't know much about video games would do that. On the other he was offered a better deal and declined it, it's also not like he hasn't profited at all from the success of the games. Lots of people especially in the west would never of heard of or baught his books if not for the games, me included.