BeauRoger

Holy ****

Something i found kind of uninspiring in the first game was the lack of NPC portraits for key characters. Its a pretty minor issue all things considered, but adding them would help a lot with immersion and world building I think. As far as I remember, the only individuals with portraits in Pillars 1 were the player, the companions and Thaos. I think that there were plenty of others that deserved their own portraits in game, such as Lady Webb or Raedric for example. When you have an Isometric rpg that is heavy on narrative I think its important to be able to occasionally associate all that text & exposition with an actual face, since the graphics and camera angle wont be able to supply that properly. If all the text simply comes from virtually identical, anonymous looking character models seen from a distance, the player might lose some engagement that might have otherwise been there. Speaking from a psychological perspective, humans are hardwired to process faces, and so there would be numerous advantages in having more NPC portraits, such as improved attention, deeper encoding (memorization) of individuals and narrative as well as facilitation of empathy; its a lot easier to humanize and empathize with an actual face than with just text alone.

For me as well. I got the same email and HOPE to get the CE-Box today. Such a big country, even such a big city with 500K inhabitants and no game yet... Damn do I hate this.... ) Im in sweden, and it still says "shipping soon" for me. Starting to get a bit frustrated. Its been "shipping soon" for probably a month now. Check your emails. For me, it still says "shipping soon", yet I got an email from Paradox on April 10th telling me that my "swag is on the way" (no kidding). Yep, been checking it regularly, no mail.

Im in sweden, and it still says "shipping soon" for me. Starting to get a bit frustrated. Its been "shipping soon" for probably a month now.

For me as well. I got the same email and HOPE to get the CE-Box today. Such a big country, even such a big city with 500K inhabitants and no game yet... Damn do I hate this.... ) Im in sweden, and it still says "shipping soon" for me. Starting to get a bit frustrated. Its been "shipping soon" for probably a month now.

I want to donate, im just interested in a few more details about the project, mainly how big the team is working on this, and if we should expect more of a indie scale project or something more along nwn2 in scope/ambition.