Less frequent more meaningful battles?

[Wbino]

I would have preferred less frequent battles per level and had longer more involved ones....

 

Ideas?

[Shevek]

Trash combat is very much a part of the IE experience.

[Nonek]

Yes, simply yes.

 

However this is a spiritual successor to the IE games, which were very combat heavy as well, so part of the mandate for the game was a lot of combat. Personally I think there were a lot more interesting combat situations in the IE games however, whereas in Poe it just seems to be copy pasted mobs stood around waiting to be slaughtered, hence making for a very dull experience.

[Shevek]

What was the interesting combat situation in the Gnoll Stronghold in BG1? Did I interrupt a Gnoll mixer or something?

[LadyCrimson]

Define more meaningful battles?
They can't all have deep reasons for choosing combat, because then even those would become rote and tiresome. Or wandering maps with nothing to do in them except admire scenery, which doesn't work as well in non-3D games, imo.

It would have been nice to feel like there were more times with peaceful solutions, or if the land maps had more of a feeling of wild expanse vs. feeling like it takes 60 seconds to trek across/clear the fog whilst encountering wolves and things. Maybe the Pillars maps are similar in terms of physical size to some older games (?), but they feel smaller to me, which can make the encounters feel too closely spaced together.