If Someone Didn't Particularly Care for PoE1

[ComradeYellow]

Would they feel the same about PoE 2?

Never played.  Asking for a friend.

[Wormerine]

I think they might/might not like it. It depends what they exactly didn't they like.

[xzar_monty]

Impossible question.

[asnjas]

Yeah, they would.

[daven]

I wasnt entirely enamoured with the first game. Deadfire is a massive improvement... for me. 

[Boeroer]

I personally would't care about Deadfire if I wouldn't have liked PoE much. But that's just me - people are different. 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Probably, Deadfire is an improvement in many ways but it is the same kind of game as PoE.

[xzar_monty]

What I think is important is that it might be difficult to even understand Deadfire without the background given in PoE.

[ComradeYellow]

On 11/8/2019 at 6:41 PM, Wormerine said:

I think they might/might not like it. It depends what they exactly didn't they like.

Well they thought the premise was good but at the same time they felt the game played out like a cluster**** and was trying too many angles all at once.  Basically sounded good on paper but was poorly executed.  If Pillars 2 didn't chew any fat and was just a copy paste of the original then they wouldn't like it.

[Boeroer]

Mechanically, Deadfire is a lot different from PoE. If one likes the world, lore, stories but didn't like the mechanics then Deadfire might be worth a shot. The combat is less messy, the rules are more straightforward/systemically coherent (even though they are still deep and somethimes hard to figure out) and some of the "old" mechanics like so-called vancian casting and the separation of endurance and health are gone. 

Edited November 11, 2019 by Boeroer

[Jarmo]

Halfway through PoE2 now.

I'd say it's somewhat less angsty, not so "life is hard and then you die".
Still a bit overly complex set of rules and item/spell effects.
The setting is lighter and more colourful, south sea isles instead of grimdark tolkien.

But it's still mostly the same thing.