Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's new CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate

I updated the release date in the original post since I've been lazy about it, definitely looking forward to this, kinda wished it didn't come out at the same time as Bloodborne though. The class building shit looks fucking awesome, although it's almost guaranteed to be broken unbalanced because of all the possibilities.

Kirun_sl said:

All the best RPGs are broken and unbalanced. That's part of their charm - breaking them. Everything from Fallout to Planescape and Baulder's Gate had its fair share of balance issues.

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Well there's broken and broken, I feel with this game and the way they're making the class and stats work, stacking a full group of a certain build will probably break every combat encounters, which I don't feel was necessarily the case in like Baldur's Gate. You could solo with a bunch of classes and you could kite and do weird stuff, but there wasn't really a "stack 6paladins and left click to victory" which I feel is going to happen with this. We'll see though. Oh and maybe I'm wrong about Baldur's Gate.

velk_sl said:

You are very wrong about Baldur's gate. The shenanigans you could get up to with the main character were ridiculous. Warrior/Rogue hybrid that could one hit almost any enemy in the game with backstab being one example.

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But you had to solo to get enough xp to pull it off, though I guess yeah there were stupid shit especially if you killed Drizzt for his weapons and you could do that at lvl 1(or 2 whatever you ended up as) with the staff that summoned animals and stuff. Full party though, less so that I remember, most of the shennigans involved being solo to get way overleveled as a multiclass then wreck shit with immortal mage/fighter stuff or one shotting stealthing guy.

Anyway, this game has a lot of pretty cool classes and I like that they gave them each(or almost) unique mechanics to make them really different from each other. The "bard" looks pretty awesome in this, you can make your songs by piecing together some minor buffs then when you've sang enough you can summon undead and shit, looks really cool. Bard in BG was zzzzz.

Hardest part will be to figure out what I'm playing. I expect the first 5hours will be spent playing the char creation and starting area over and over again with a few different stuff until I'm content with my choice, which I'll regret 20hours later and reroll halfway into the game.

Regime_sl said:

My bro just texted said he got me a birthday present at Pax. It's Chris's autograph on a PoE shirt.

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It's even more confusing cause the lead guy in path of exile is also named Chris (Wilson) and is generally considered a pretty cool guy by the community.

I think I'll just call it Eternity.

Anyway game's has had a lot of shit released about it, if you search on youtube or check the Neogaf thread about the beta, a bunch of people have made very detailed videos about mechanics and stuff. Now interestingly, most of these mechanics are actually explained ingame in the help/lore book thingie, which is pretty cool, but it's nice to see they have pretty indepth stuff going on.

I think I'll do Chanter for my main, it's like a necro/summoner/bard all in one, it's pretty cool shit and they look insanely useful. Or well, maybe insanely OP I'm not sure yet. From a quick look at it, a priest and a tank with 4chanters look broken as all fuck with all the debuffing/buffing/summoning you do. On the other hand I'll probably use the normal companions first to see their stories and shit so I won't be making a completely broken setup.