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    My Ultra-Conservative/Reactionary Wishlist for the Expansion

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Pickpocketing never works in videogames because it always either something you can savescum or read a list on the Internet to learn who has the worthwhile loot and what skill level you need to get it. Yes maybe some of you don't do that well done but 99% of people aren't going to keep playing after they try to pickpocket someone, fail and turn the whole town hostile.

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    Angry Joe LOVED Pillars Of Eternity

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    This is not a philosophical/debatable issue. We're dealing with plain old objective statistics. Statistics that game studios and their marketing firms intensively follow when creating games.

     

    Skyrim sold 20 million copies while Baldurs Gate 2 only sold about 2 million. Care to guess why this is?

     

     

    Well Baldur's Gate 2 was a PC game based on a tabletop RPG that was released in 2000. Skyrim was a multiplatform game released over a decade later with a multimillion dollar marketing budget.

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    Angry Joe LOVED Pillars Of Eternity

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Part of what problem?

     

     

    The problem of games being "dumbed down" or "consolised" or whatever buzzword is being used at the moment. If there is some perceived platonic ideal of the average gamer who likes X and won't put up with Y then a lot of companies won't risk venturing outside that narrow band of concepts they are afforded by that. If people keep parroting that idea then it becomes "accepted wisdom" and people don't see any point challenging it. The world is more complicated though so if we can try to avoid relying on lazy stereotypes and be more inclusive of consumers and creators in this industry then we can get rid of these toxic ideas.

     

    Or we could just sit in our ivory towers and look down in disgust at all the console peasants who are so dumb as to enjoy playing games with less mechanical complexity than we do and tip our fedoras to each other.

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    Angry Joe LOVED Pillars Of Eternity

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Romance has a place in games, at least *~in a perfect world~* but in games of this type it is inevitably awkward and juvenile. People may ask why there is no romance in this game, well because the developers didn't see a need for it in the story they were creating. Better to have no romances than one shoved in because that's what you do.

     

    I'm sure you can have some great bromances in any case. Just because you don't sleep with your friends or talk about mushy stuff doesn't mean you can't love them after all.

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    Angry Joe LOVED Pillars Of Eternity

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    There is value to aiming for a broader audience as well as for smaller markets. It's nice to have entry level stuff, or even just dumb stuff you can mindlessly blast your way through. Gaming reaching a wider audience is a net positive though, obviously you will get huge AAA games that might be bland or samey but you get that problem with Hollywood and theres still hundreds of great movies from smaller studios that can get made because of those big dumb movies, they give the studios money and kids grow up watching big blockbuster movies then make smaller, more personal ones when they are older.

     

    Some games have limitations due to this wider spread of audiences and consoles not being able to do everything and that can be a bummer. This isn't some vast encroaching enemy we have to fight off though. Just like the taco girl says, why not have both? People shouldn't act like they are superior to others just because they like different genres/levels of complexity, its gross.

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    Angry Joe LOVED Pillars Of Eternity

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Strange. He usually plays AAA games on his console and I don't expected him to play indie games. But if he likes POE, there will be no reason to be sad :)

    I hope he will not crush this game in his review because he doesn't know he can use a pause in combat  :p

     

    My thought, too. I can see him thinking the game is something it's not, and then chainsawing the game by it's ankles come release. What little I've seen of him, he seems like a loudmouthed knuckledragger exemplifying the non-gamer gamer generation of self-appointed "nerds", the douchiest of the douchiest.

     

     

     

     

    You know he plays a lot of PC stuff too, right? Also, I play vast majority of my games on Consoles but I still put some of my money into the kickstarter of this. Granted, I played every past IE game + expansion and spent more time on a PC back in those days (kinda split between console/PC back then). You don't like Joe, you don't like em but ignoring someones opinion because you have some weird personal issue with consoles is... I dunno, whatever.

     

    It's not really a "personal issue with consoles"; console "gamers" and the console platform has been poisoning PC gaming for over a decade, and Ruzen is hardly alone in the sentiment. The fact that someone favours consoles (and therefore favours console gameplay) definitely warrants ignoring their opinion and all their input should be treated as suspect, at best.

     

     

    Just so you know, this kind of attitude is much douchier and poisonous to the "gaming community" than some guy who plays Halo or whatever arbitrary line you are drawing in the sand. If you love games then you should be happy that all kinds of people are getting into them which will lead to new viewpoints and experiences in games that we've missed out on due to the insular nature of the business until fairly recently.

     

    Remember the wise words of the philosophers Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan:

     

    1. Be Excellent To One Another

    2. Party On Dudes

     

    So lets all have fun playing games together and not be horrible little gremlins hiding in our clubhouses with "NO GIRLS OR JOCKS ALLOWED" signs next to the door.

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