Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire [Figstarter]

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No big deal. I hate shopping around and I know if I get a game from GOG it will run on Windows XX. Plus sometimes mods and cheats don't work on Steam, so screw them.
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y'know, I may give this another go.

I've gotten 5-6 hours into it twice before wandering off...maybe it'll stick this time.
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I just replayed it, and really enjoyed it. I ended up maxing the levels out a bit before the ending, so that kind of stunk a little, but I did enjoy the game in turn based mode.
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I have this and need to play it. But I was holding off until I got the desire to finish the first one. But honestly, the combat in the first one holds no interest for me. So I think I’ll just jump right into the sequel.
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One thing I don't like is you cannot pull one or a few enemies. If you aggro even one you get the full Monty, even from other rooms.
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My biggest issue (with most of the newer CRPGs, not just PoE2) is the complete lack of quest direction. Always felt like I was just randomly stumbling into things then having to piece together WTF to do with it based on very vague descriptions, rather than following well-defined and interesting quest chains. That really bugged me, especially when you get into the larger towns. I never knew if I was missing something vitally important just because I didn’t happen to click on a specific NPC. Simple quest markers would solve 90% of the issues imo, but I know people are against that for reasons.

I would love toggle-able quest markers that those who wanted a little more direction could use and those who didn’t could turn off.
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hepcat wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:26 pm I have this and need to play it. But I was holding off until I got the desire to finish the first one. But honestly, the combat in the first one holds no interest for me. So I think I’ll just jump right into the sequel.
This was me. I'm about 5 hours in and there are obviously tons of references to the first one but there seems to be just enough explaining, combined with the time I spent on the first one, that I don't feel lost.
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Now I’m remembering why I didn’t get very far last time. I had blocked out the stupid pirate ship stuff…all of which I absolutely cannot stand.

The next game with interesting sailing, naval combat, or ship/crew management I actually enjoy will be the first.
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Did you enjoy that portion of Assassin's Creed Black Flag? For me, that was the highlight of the game.
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Skinypupy wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:41 am Now I’m remembering why I didn’t get very far last time. I had blocked out the stupid pirate ship stuff…all of which I absolutely cannot stand.

The next game with interesting sailing, naval combat, or ship/crew management I actually enjoy will be the first.
I thought that it was limited, but I did like getting the upgrades, and I didn't do the stories for the ship combat, I just boarded every ship, and did turn based combat. I did enjoy the exploration with the ship, I thought that was fun.
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hepcat wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:47 am Did you enjoy that portion of Assassin's Creed Black Flag? For me, that was the highlight of the game.
Hated it.

Pirates are just not my thing, apparently.
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I've tried the first one two or three times, but I never could get it to click. The gameplay was fine, and the story was fine, but I just couldn't get into the setting. It was a little too... out there. I had the same problem with Planescape (both tabletop and Torment) and Numenera. I just don't enjoy settings that feel like a goth kid's peyote visions.
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Skinypupy wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:29 pm
hepcat wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:47 am Did you enjoy that portion of Assassin's Creed Black Flag? For me, that was the highlight of the game.
Hated it.

Pirates are just not my thing, apparently.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:22 pm
Skinypupy wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:29 pm
hepcat wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:47 am Did you enjoy that portion of Assassin's Creed Black Flag? For me, that was the highlight of the game.
Hated it.

Pirates are just not my thing, apparently.
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Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:00 pm I've tried the first one two or three times, but I never could get it to click. The gameplay was fine, and the story was fine, but I just couldn't get into the setting. It was a little too... out there. I had the same problem with Planescape (both tabletop and Torment) and Numenera. I just don't enjoy settings that feel like a goth kid's peyote visions.
This was me. I'm a bit of a traditionalist, and was a bit confused when the equivalent of a bard was labeled as one of the best tanks in the game. I'm not saying it was a bad game at all, it's just the classes were...odd? I don't know. I *loved* the Baldur's Gate games so I figured this would be more of the same, but it was just too different for me.

One day I'll give it another shot, I'm sure.
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Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:00 pm I've tried the first one two or three times, but I never could get it to click. The gameplay was fine, and the story was fine, but I just couldn't get into the setting. It was a little too... out there. I had the same problem with Planescape (both tabletop and Torment) and Numenera. I just don't enjoy settings that feel like a goth kid's peyote visions.
I get it, you prefer settings that are more junior high school nerd vision. :P
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hepcat wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:45 pm
Blackhawk wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:00 pm I've tried the first one two or three times, but I never could get it to click. The gameplay was fine, and the story was fine, but I just couldn't get into the setting. It was a little too... out there. I had the same problem with Planescape (both tabletop and Torment) and Numenera. I just don't enjoy settings that feel like a goth kid's peyote visions.
I get it, you prefer settings that are more junior high school nerd vision. :P
You betcha! Although not entirely. 'Standard' Tolkien fantasy settings do get dull, even for me. I like there to be an element or two to change up the world a bit, make it feel different and fresh.

Shannara was post-apocalyptic Tolkien. One Savage Worlds was famous for this. One setting was a Tolkien-esque world in the midst of an alien invasion. Another was a standard fantasy world where everyone woke up to find the sun (and the god of fire) had vanished. Another was typical pirate fantasy - except that the world had broken apart, and instead of seas, the ships traveled in the air between floating islands. Wheel of Time had a pretty typical fantasy world, but it was set in a much later period (it was based on the 17th century), and half of all magic was corrupted. /edit - Yeah, this is how The Wheel of Time looked in Robert Jordan's mind.

They all had the standard elements and tropes, but had an exotic element that made it different. What I didn't like about the video game settings I mentioned (Planescape, Numenera, and PoE) was that every element was exotic and strange. It made it hard to get my footing.
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I tried POE1 a few times. Got way far into it with effort. But as others said it never clicked with me. I loved the BG games and IWD ones. But I never finished POE. I tried and tried.
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