You guys got a 9 on IGN congratulations fellas you deserve it.

 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/27/pillars-of-eternity-review

I agree. I'm the few hours I've had I have been captivated. Beautifully presented.

Wow, they didn't lower the score because there's too much text? I'm impressed.

Only someone who never played cRPGs back in the day could accuse PoE's environmental visuals (which are beautiful,) of looking like upscaled versions of graphics from games with a native resolution of 640x480 and a palette of 16-bit color. That's definitely a big "kids these days..." moment.

Edited March 27, 201510 yr by AGX-17

Wow, they didn't lower the score because there's too much text? I'm impressed.

 

No, but they lowered the score for its "Dated Art Style."

Yea it looks great and that was one of the few knocks lol...just couldn't give it a 10 eh

I guess, realistic is the new dated.

 

Wow, they didn't lower the score because there's too much text? I'm impressed.

 

No, but they lowered the score for its "Dated Art Style."

 

You can't win them all.

Oh noooeeeeesssss it doesn't look like Cryisis!!! Negative points just because lelelelel.

Oh noooeeeeesssss it doesn't look like Cryisis!!! Negative points just because lelelelel.

At this point, 14 year olds are likely to say Crysis looks like ****. Sure, it was cutting edge and exploded high-end video cards back when it came out, but it came out almost 7 years ago.

Yea I was surprised they had it up before Bloodbornes.

Well that's a turn up for the books.  I think this is the first time I have agreed with an IGN review for years.

 

Oh noooeeeeesssss it doesn't look like Cryisis!!! Negative points just because lelelelel.

At this point, 14 year olds are likely to say Crysis looks like ****. Sure, it was cutting edge and exploded high-end video cards back when it came out, but it came out almost 7 years ago.

Yes but crysis has that can it run meme still going for it.

"Dated art style"

 

FFS. Didn't I say the mainstream press would knock it for its intricately crafted isometric art style? I expect we'll see this idiocy reappear in other reviews from big review sites. Philistines. 

Edited March 27, 201510 yr by Sparafucil

Nice.  

 

The camera comment seemed weird and irrelevant, but no true gripes in the article. Obviously 'outdated' was just an incorrect descriptor. 

Outstanding! \m/ The Shadows of Amn look over the Pillars of Eternity.

All the critics are loving this game.

 

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/pillars-of-eternity

 

It's got a 92 so far on metacritic. Highest of all the current PC games, and the Highest of any Obsidian game ever.

 

And yes, I'd have to agree. I'm 10 hours in, and it's rather Obvious already that this is the best game Obsidian's ever done.

Edited March 27, 201510 yr by Stun

IMO this is the exact kind of artstyle and game engine that Obsidian should have stuck too. NWN 1 & 2 would have been many times better if they hadn't had the clunky, buggy early 3D engines they were built on.

 

Here's for the future, and my hope that Obsidian keep making games with this artstyle and engine.

And a sidenote. PCGamer gave it a 92. An excellent, head turning score, although still 2 points less than what they gave Dragon Age 2. Oh well, better luck next time, Obsidian!

lulz @ "dated art style" 

 

Prolly had to make an excuse to not give it a 10 I bet.

I agree that the art style is dated. Not sure why we're supposed to see this as some sort of criticism or condemnation or whatever. A Modern art style would have ruined this game.

Edited March 27, 201510 yr by Stun

I hate the game.

 

 

I hate it because it has taunted me viciously all day as I've worked and been unable to play. So friggen' rude!!

 

Stuck in traffic on my way home but hope to launch game soon, wherein I fully expect hate to become a love affair. Hopefully my wife won't become jealous.

I agree that the art style is dated. Not sure why we're supposed to see this as some sort of criticism or condemnation or whatever. A Modern art style would have ruined this game.

I just don't know how accurate that word is. That's kinda like calling a 2D game "dated," simply because it isn't 3D. I mean, this is the first game I know of that's had dynamic lighting and such in ultimately-hand-painted 2D environments.

 

What's in PoE isn't really dated, since it's brand new. *shrug*

 

I mean, yeah, 2D isometric games have been around longer. But... I dunno. Is a new 2015 car's wheel dated simply because we invented the wheel a lonnnnnng time ago? *shrug*

Next time I'm in France, I'm going to walk into the Louvre Museum and complain to everyone that all the art there is Dated.

"Agh, OIL PAINT?! SO several centuries ago, u_u..."