Pillars Vs Grimrock 2

[scottyford]

Which did you prefer?

[Zorfab]

Both are from smaller studios and use style of much older games, but otherwise the games are vastly different.

 

I´d say both are worth playing and good specimens of their own genre. People who like puzzles should go with Grimrock 2 and anyone who does not like a little bit twitchy combat should get PoE. Grimrock 2 has plenty of encounters where proper timing will save you a lot of trouble.

[BruceVC]

Both are from smaller studios and use style of much older games, but otherwise the games are vastly different.

 

I´d say both are worth playing and good specimens of their own genre. People who like puzzles should go with Grimrock 2 and anyone who does not like a little bit twitchy combat should get PoE. Grimrock 2 has plenty of encounters where proper timing will save you a lot of trouble.

 

This, games are really completely different 

 

Personally I enjoy both types of games. But I prefer your more classic RPG with real dialogue options like PoE 

 

But games like Grimrock are very entertaining in there own way 

[Daemonjax]

I've read that the Grimrock series of games plays a lot like the Eye of the Beholder games -- which are surprisingly very playable to this day in dosbox, there are even mods for them!  Eye of the Beholder 1 has a lot of charm.  Eye of the Beholder 2 is technically better, but has less charm (imo).  There's a mod that fixes some of the engine issues with EOB 3, but I never got that far in the series. I never played the Grimrock series.

Edited April 14, 2015 by Daemonjax

[Bryy]

These are nowhere near the same ballpark, dude. No way to compare. It's like asking which is better: Chrono Trigger or Fire Emblem?

[Jimmysdabestcop]

If you like Grimlock I will say check out Paper Sorcerers.

[b0rsuk]

Quake or Command&Conquer. Which do you prefer ?

[Luckmann]

PoE, easily. They're completely different games. It's like asking me if I prefer The Sims or CS, imo.

That's not to say I didn't like Grimrock 2. I loved it.

Edited April 15, 2015 by Luckmann

[Mungri]

I really enjoyed grimeock 2, its super difficult:

 

 

Bab, cant remove the mobile part to hotlink it off my cell phone

Edited April 15, 2015 by Mungri

[Sedrefilos]

There's no comparison between them. Two completely differnt things. I enjoyed both equally for what they are, although, in general, I prefere full-scale rpgs such as Pillars.

[RedSocialKnight]

After cheating my way through Grimrock 1, I made a solemn vow not to use any walkthroughs at all for Grimrock 2.

 

I kept that vow.

 

Unfortunately though, I'm kind of dumb, so I got stuck on a puzzle like two hours into the game and had to stop playing.

 

Alas for me.

[Ink Blot]

As far as I'm aware the Grimrock games are FP perspective, which I loathe. So, even though I've not played Grimrock 2, it's an easy choice for me... PoE.

[Enoch]

Different streams of '90s-era CRPGs are being resuscitated.  Pillars echoes the IE games; Divinity Original Sin echoes Ultima; Might and Magic X echoes Might and Magic III-V; the Grimrock games echo Dungeon Master and the EotB games. 

 

The original games were all very different from each other, and so are their modern homages. 

 

 

(I quite enjoyed the first Grimrock game, but I haven't gotten into the 2nd yet.  To me, the first was fun in spite of its twitchiness, and I'm not sure how well I'll tolerate that over the haul of a longer game.) 

[zombo]

Which did you prefer?

Pillars for sure. I loved Grimrock. I loved Grimrock 2 at first but it got annoying after a while.

[Bhazor]

They're completely different games. They're not even the same genre to me.

 

That said personally I prefer the Etrian Odyssey series to Grimrock. The DS was made for that game.

 

Either way Pillars wins out of the three.

Edited April 15, 2015 by Bhazor

[ruzen]

Which did you prefer?

I would prefer gta 5

 

[mrmonocle]

both r good in their own way

[Darkpriest]

The spell system in grimrock just annoys me to no end. Why do i have to each time i want to use the spell click on the sequences instead.of just pre-selecting a known spell like it would be a weapon... i liked the climate etc. But that spell system is just too much. And they did not changenit for the second game... so it is stuck on my steam account.