Pillars of Eternity user reviews

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

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt user reviews (PC)

The Witcher is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game, set in a visually stunning fantasy universe, full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher, you play as Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter tasked with finding a child from an ancient prophecy.

Users comments:

Highlights:

• The story itself is awesome: the locations range from your Northern Realm's Velen (no man's land), the free and beautiful city of Novigrad and The Skellige Isles (very norse-like in several aspects, feels like you're in the land of the Vikings to an extent).
• Vast open world that IS NOT randomly created and filled with dull stuff.
• This is the first open world Witcher game.
• Awesome game, reminds me of Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim, and Dragon Age. Bringing the best of those together in a world bigger than GTA V is truly something magnificent. While also telling a very good and mature story in a beautiful setting.
• You can import your save file from previous witcher games or answer questions during your beard shave which will shape the game.
• For those who have enjoyed previous Witcher games, there's little that will be unexpected- combat with unique enemies that requires forethought, but now with a crossbow, more gear and better lock control. The real improvements are in atmosphere and exploration.
• The Witcher 3 can be rough around the edges and other games are definitely doing some more impressive things technically, but the overall Witcher 3 experience is definitely greater than the sum of its parts (found in 3 reviews).
• Good story, could be hard to follow if you have not read the books but the characters and events are excellent.
• Game is pretty long, takes about 100 hours to complete both main and side missions.
• The only action RPG that weaves side quests into main quests making them matter and have an actual impact in the main story.

Main story and side quests

• The game is separated into 3 questing categories. Main storyline, secondary and witcher contracts each of which has its own story and memorable moments. The lore will keep players engaged.
• You actually get to feel like a real witcher\monster hunter by taking on some really fun witcher contracts.
• This game has the best side quests ever. They‘re funny, cruel, sad and sometimes ridiculous (in a good way).

Graphics

• Simply stunning. It's the best looking RPG I have played and the places I got to visit especially later in the game made my jaw drop left and right.
• On the technical side the game runs really smooth, although with certain drops from 60 FPS to ~40 FPS.

Gameplay:

• While the game is fairly easy on the lower difficulties, it becomes brutal on the hardest difficulty, Death March, exploration and side quests becoming the only way to survive during the early stages of the game, the difficulty becoming way more bearable once you go higher up in level (you also need to use potions/oils alot early on in order to survive the contracts).
• The Witcher 3 also has a game inside a game. It is called gwent. It‘s a card game and it can be really addicting (found in 3 reviews).
• Traveling by walking, running, horseback, swimming, boat immersion and fast travel requires signposts instead of just a game about instant traveling all over. Exploration can also bring out more quests you've never seen before.
• Simple yet advanced combat system, e.g, potions, oils, bombs, decoctions, etc.
• Controls and combat system are different from TW2. The combat got easier and requires less strategy. Although the combat was made simpler, it is not boring at all, and the difficulty is adjustable so the strategy becomes necessary sometimes.
• Crafting system is superb and, true to immersion, weapons and armor must be physically contracted to smiths for crafting.
• The combat is best compared to Dark Souls and Monster Hunter, as long as you're not overlevelled or playing a low difficulty setting.

Sound:

• The voice acting is great, much better than Witcher 2 and feels far more professional.

Recommended for:

• If you like open worlds and action RPGs.
• For Geralt de Rivia fans.
• If you liked previous Witcher games or books.
• Get this game if you want, heavy story, tons of quests, beautiful landscape, legit dark fantasy feels and weighted skilled-required combat that's not just mindless hack and slash or pause-planning.

System Requirements:

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
• Processor: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
• Memory: 6 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
• Hard Drive: 35 GB available space

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