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PILLARS OF ETERNITY 2 confirmed

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Leferd

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If they do greenlight PoE2 for crowdfundung, I'm definitely backing. I doubt they'll hit $4 million but they wouldn't need that much to bring about the same level of breadth as the first game. The infrastructure is already in place.

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SkySlam

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Fantastic news indeed, thanks for sharing!!

I already know the wait is going to kill me! :aiee:

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AndreaColombo

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If they do greenlight PoE2 for crowdfundung, I'm definitely backing.

 

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rheingold

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Great news, I'm in.

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Leferd

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I'm assuming they'll keep the same Unity code base in place and have the game play and UI similar to PoE1.

 

So, should Josh continue with the current rules sysyem as is with a few tweaks, or completely revamp?

 

How about the camera angle? Is it currently too low? Should they tilt it higher to how it was in the BG and IWD IE games?

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TheisEjsing

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I had to struggle SO HARD not to scream. Awesome news.

I couldn't help myself! YEEEEEAH!

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JFSOCC

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please please be set somewhere warm!

I'm so eager to see a tropical setting. Lush vegetation, sticky warm nights in overcrowded cities. who knows.

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NegativeEdge

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I thought PoE was a requiem for IE style games and partly a cautionary tale about unnaturally prolonging life past its natural span, and that memory is a false and dangerous state of mind to wallow in? I liked that it gently rebuked us all for refusing to let go. A sequel feels like it dilutes the point.

 

Obsidian really want to be under the backer lash again? The whole thing was dysfunctional and at times pretty unpleasant. Seeing creativity yoked to the frustrated demands of thousands of first time patrons wasn't always edifying I have to say.

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Tanis

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Awesome. Missed out on funding PoE 1, glad to have a chance to donate with PoE 2.

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Jojobobo

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I can't really tell if NegativeEdge is trolling, but I'll bite.

 

I liked that it gently rebuked us all for refusing to let go. A sequel feels like it dilutes the point.

I never got the sense the fanbase was rebuked at all by Pillars - which I presume you mean it missed the mark of our collective expectations. Though the game isn't flawless, games with complex mechanistic systems are always extremely tricky to balance - but I still liked that Obsidian had the balls to try.

 

Besides, I never played most of the IE style games and I backed it - only really playing Icewind Dale 2 in that category. I did however play other classic RPGs, like FO and Arcanum - so all I was really looking for was a decent amount of detailed quests (not just repeatable dross, Bethesda) and a higher standard of writing than most modern RPGs. For me Obsidian certainly delivered on that. I think there was a load of other people in my situation, so the backers were far more than just the core IE games players who couldn't let go.

 

If anything, I'd say work on Tyranny and Pillars' success proves that there is a gap in the market for these games - if Obsidian has the resources to fill it then they definitely should.

 

Obsidian really want to be under the backer lash again? The whole thing was dysfunctional and at times pretty unpleasant. Seeing creativity yoked to the frustrated demands of thousands of first time patrons wasn't always edifying I have to say.

There is a difference now though, in that Pillars has already been released and so it's easy enough to assume that Obsidian would want the sequel to closely resemble that. While I'm sure some backers will still come in with outrageous demands, now that the framework of how these games play is in place it's much easier to stay on target - rather than the situation before where anything seemed to be possible and so it was difficult to get cohesive opinions and ideas from the fanbase.

 

Further Obsidian freely admitted they overdid it on stretch goals, because they didn't expect the project in a million years to get the kind of backer response it did and so they had to pull a lot of them out of thin air. With a second pass at the crowd-funding process, I'd say they will have thoroughly strategised all their stretch goals even up to amounts of funding they would have thought were inconceivable previously - which is great because it means they can focus on fewer details and have the quality remain higher.

 

Overall it's good to hear the game is in some state of production, though it seemed a little obvious (and I think that's what Feargus was getting at hear) that a games company isn't going to sit idly buy and let one of their profitable IPs go to waste - so some development was more of less a given.

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farleybear

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Take my money, Feargus. TAKE MY MONEY.....

 

Ahem.

 

I guess we're not going to see a kickstarter until PoE2 is much further into production than PoE was, which can only be a good thing. Can't wait.

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Messier-31

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The Vailian Republics are to the south and therefore colder than the Dyrwood.

I thought Dyrwood was in the North Hemisphere.

 

 

Dyrwood is in the southern hepishpere.

It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air...

anameforobsidian

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Is Whitemarch (in the north) just cold because of mountains then?  It seems a bit odd for a seaside town near the equator to be frozen.

 

 

Also, kickstarter should be like Shadowrun Hong Kong for this one, extremely limited with stretchgoals well planned.

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