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They didn't want to give the Watcher an inferiority complex?

Judging from Deadfire's sales, the people who care about romancing bisexual companions seem to be a minority as well. What's the point of catering to a crowd who isn't going to buy your game anyway?

Why does beauty need to come with a penalty? That's not realistic. Some people, such as myself, are naturally perfect in every way.

I loved the main plot in the first game, but it was absolutely terrible in Deadfire. Hands down one of the worst stories I've seen in a video game. Factions were 10/10 though.

I think the OP has a point, it's just taken to an unhealthy extreme and isn't coming across well. Writing of female characters and minorities in video games can easily fall into lazy stereotypes and Obsidian has definitely been guilty of this. Tekehu by himself isn't a problem, but when you have a cast of seven companions with five of them being bisexual and most of them coming onto you strongly... that's a problem.

You think that's bad, try killing Pim and see what happens.

I thought the main plot was absolutely terrible aside from the Rymyrgand ending, all of the conversations were so uninteresting that it made me want to mash 1 and get it over with. Whoever wrote it was too busy writing purple prose about golden cords and bells to write something that was actually interesting. Eothas breaking the Wheel should've happened near the start of the game. Let the rest of the game be about the ensuing chaos in the Deadfire and how the factions respond to it. Chasing a statue for the entire game was stupid.

I find them fascinating for this very reason, the way the factions operate and try to undermine each other are extremely realistic. How do the Huana fight off foreign invaders without getting their hands dirty? How are the RDC meant to improve conditions in the Deadfire if they don't remove the Huana leaders in their way? They force you to consider what the Watcher wants for the Deadfire and how far they're willing to go to achieve that. If your Watcher draws the line at assassinations or slavery or even lying then that's a valid choice, but that choice needs to have a cost. You're giving up a greater good for the sake of your morals. It's really no different from what you do to House in New Vegas, yet somehow everyone seems to be okay with that.

Not really? The only Obsidian game that I've detected feminist vibes in was Tyranny, literally every woman in that game was snarky, obnoxious and permanently had their hands attached to their hips.

Replaying Deadfire seems like a waste of time until it's fully patched and all the DLC is released. I'd rather replay the first game and get save imports ready.

If people aren't aware already, there's a mod on the nexus to remove the narrator. I think she does a good job as Ydwin but I'm so glad to be rid of her narration.

I believe you need master captain and a few master level crewmen too (not all of them, I had a few at expert) which means hunting ships. I never did drugs and I find the plot better paced and more interesting then POE1 because it pace revelation along the plot instead of dumping everything in the last 20 minutes. I liked POE1 plot too. As for why I love POE2 story, I love lore and learning new things and I got a lots of stuff to think about now. I don't need a game main plot to be about "me, the chosen one has to save the world ASAP". In fact, I find those stories boring these days. None of what the gods were saying was nonsense, but I can understand that people who don't pay attention to lore, refuse to immerse themselves in a gameworld and actually role-play would be totally lost. Also, thematically both POE1 and POE2 were the same: chase after X to get answers to your question(s). Oh no you didn't! And those scenes don't have anything of interest in them aside from like one line from Magran which never gets mentioned again. There are no engaging roleplay opportunities like the first game where you could discuss the beauty of dragons with Hylea or tell Ondra that living with your past is important - you can try to interject but guess what, they're still going to drone on about how they plan to do nothing. These conversations are just a big fat waste of time like the rest of the plot.

This has to be the worst main plot Obsidian has ever written. Follow someone else around the Deadfire and listen to the gods ramble about inane nonsense, wow, much exciting. Anyone who thinks this is better than the first game's plot has to be smoking crack.

The people complaining about negative reviews seem far more toxic than the reviews themselves...

I'm glad that spamming 1 and boarding is a viable tactic, having to fight properly would get old really fast.

Please for the love of god let me turn her off. I've had enough of her overdramatic reading of descriptive text about golden cords and "THE PALLID KNIGHT SAYS" every five seconds. She is literally ruining every main plot scene for me.

Heave Away My Lendry, it plays all the time and I wouldn't have it any other way.

The Rymrgand ending was certainly satisfying. Shame about the others...

Is it solid? No. Should you wait? Yes. Will you still have fun if you play it now? Probably, I'm having a blast even though I'm just rushing the main plot. It's sad that the launch was so terrible because it's one of the best games I've played in a very long time.

Yes, you should definitely wait. The only reason I'm playing it now is to rush the main plot so I can argue about it online.

Who do we want? Ydwin! When do we want her? In a DLC!

Please do it Obsidian. A Ydwin companion DLC would make approximately $14 billion USD, which is quite a lot of money and would certainly be worth the investment. The people want Ydwin!

I'm happy to see all these negative reviews, having to wait months for an Obsidian game to be "fixed" after launch is getting really tiring. I certainly won't make the mistake of pledging or preordering from them again.

So the male black hair orlan portrait and one of the human male portraits is missing. Pretty lame that I have to make my own watercolor portrait for a default portrait from the first game.

The save import issues have officially killed my hype. I know there's a fix scheduled for next week but idk, with the other issues I'm tempted to wait a few months.