a newcomer, non backer perspective

[Polanski]

Many pausing, no AI for teammates, no easy access to spells...

 

Did the OP just describe Baldur's Gate II? It sounds like it to me...

There was very nice party AI options in BG2. 

 

For me no customizable party tactics seems to be the biggest thing missing from PoE. After the release I intend to find out if they plan to patch it in, and if not then I will work on a mod to include it myself.

Edited March 23, 2015 by Polanski

[budyn]

Hey, I just found out that a spiritual successor to BG2 is coming out in a week so I spent most of yesterday slacking off at work while reading about POE and watching devs play it on youtube.

I really wanted to like the game but all it made me want to do was go back and play BG2 again. The UI looks inconvenient and click intensive. Is there no way to assign party abilities to a single bar and use keyboard shortcuts for each of them? Constant pausing to give basic instructions is a turn off and as far as I could tell there was no party AI. Combat in general seems more focused on attrition than strategy. The last straw for me was when I saw the fireball spell and instead of a massive explosion that incinerates everything and makes your whole party spread out and run for cover... a little campfire appeared.

Am I missing something? The story, graphics, and dialogue/scripted events look great. I'd give the game a chance and download a demo but right now a 45$ price tag doesn't seem justified.

if this game wont be close to bg experience for you i will send you 100$ paypal to cover your loses my dear friend.

On the other hand if you will like it, you will subscribe to my stream.

So buy the game if we got a deal on this

[Hassat Hunter]

I am disappointed they didn't look to advance it much - same story with giving up on the moving shrubs/trees in the wind. Maybe for expansion or PoE2 or a new iso RPG they will advance it more.

You're in luck, I heard for PoE2 they want to 'advance' it all the way... reducing playtime from 100 hours to 10 hours ADVANCEMENT, Romance sex dolls ADVANCEMENT, totally cinematic playstyle ADVANCEMENT, QTE Quicktime events ADVANCEMENT, decreased spells to 5 ADVANCEMENT and the most important one of all, Awesome Button Inclusion ADVANCEMENT.

 

Or the morale being; you need to explain "advancement" better, considering all the 'advancements' we've seen done to the RPG-game section since BG2 brought us the hollow RPG's of modern times we backed an old-school one for 4 million just to get rid of those 'advancements'.

You might simply not mean the same things but your wording is poor if that's the case, just mentioning.

[kozzy]

The price is perfectly fine, Divinity Original Sin was same price.

[Sky_walker]

 

I am disappointed they didn't look to advance it much - same story with giving up on the moving shrubs/trees in the wind. Maybe for expansion or PoE2 or a new iso RPG they will advance it more.

You're in luck, I heard for PoE2 they want to 'advance' it all the way... reducing playtime from 100 hours to 10 hours ADVANCEMENT, Romance sex dolls ADVANCEMENT, totally cinematic playstyle ADVANCEMENT, QTE Quicktime events ADVANCEMENT, decreased spells to 5 ADVANCEMENT and the most important one of all, Awesome Button Inclusion ADVANCEMENT.

 

Or the morale being; you need to explain "advancement" better, considering all the 'advancements' we've seen done to the RPG-game section since BG2 brought us the hollow RPG's of modern times we backed an old-school one for 4 million just to get rid of those 'advancements'.

You might simply not mean the same things but your wording is poor if that's the case, just mentioning.

 

Wow.... that was a one nice long rage post.

 

 

I'm pretty sure that he had none of these things in mind. Not every step forward means a step into QTEs, your way of thinking is bordering with some crazy paranoia. He is talking here about Josh Sawyer game, so probably wants to see how Sawyer could advance a genre, and that as far as I know the guy means none of the things you listed.