Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
Users comments:
Highlights:
- A true homage to the infinity engine games.
- A modern blend of all your favourite IE RPG's of the late 90's.
- Considered the True spiritual successor of Baldur's Gate series.
- There’s a lot to love about Pillars of Eternity. The way it liberates players by letting them play their own way at their own pace through the story, by letting them decide on both their motivations and actions, the interesting game world and lore, memorable characters and a very tactical combat system.
- Voice acting is correct, but not particularly noteworthy.
- No multi-class characters.
- The story is intriguing and the named party members were interesting characters that weren't just flat generic fantasy warriors.
- It has a nice aesthetic and interface, good music, and decent production values all-around.
- A masterpiece that has it's rightful place among the legends of the genre (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment).
- It has been so long since we've seen a game that came anywhere near what Baldur's Gate 1 in particular established. The kind of isolinear game where early encounters were tough, especially for low level parties, and where you were provided with a slew of choice as far as party members and classes.
Combat System
- Combat system is challenging, but doesn't follow D&D Rules.
- Your party members are dumb in combat. If you dont pause to issue commands, they will quite frequently end up not doing ANYTHING at all.
- Lack of AI for player NPCs.
- Before you get your full party, the game can be super challenging.
- Deep, tactical turn-based and real-time gameplay.
- The improvements to the combat are simple and effective - limiting resting means that you can't spam it after every single fight (slightly undermined by the fact that there seems to be at least one camping kit to find in every area, but whatever) and by preventing the player from gaining an unfair advantage by buffing with spells and potions pre-combat.
Character creation
- The quantity of options to define your character at the beginning can be overwhelming.
Story
- The story line is well written with excellent character development.
Issues
- One of the big problems are the loading screens. 50% of gaming time is loading screens, sometimes for ridiculously small level parts.
Recommended for:
- If you like Baldur's game saga.
- If you like Icewind Dale saga.
- If you like Planescape Torment.
- If you like Neverwinter Nights.
- If you like Dragon Age saga.
- If you enjoyed old Infinity Engine.
- For Baldur's gate fans.
- If you like CRPGs, you'll love this game.
System Requirements:
- OS: OS X 10.6.3 Leopard 64-bit or newer
- Processor: Intel Core i5-540M @ 2.53 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6750M or NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
- Hard Drive: 14 GB available space
