Pillars of Eternity - Massive Review Roundup

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Pillars of Eternity should be released in some time zones right now, and the review embargo had been lifted from obsidian. I will just link the sites with the scores.

  1. PC Gamer - 92/100
  2. Eurogamer - No score
  3. Rock, Paper, Shotgun - No Score
  4. GameWatcher - 9.0/10
  5. Pixel Dynamo - 8.8/10
  6. Stevivor - 8.5/10
  7. MMORPG.com - 9/10
  8. Escapist Magazine - 5/5
  9. DealSpwn - 9/10
  10. Gamereactor - 8/10
  11. VideoGamer - No Score
  12. Den of Geek - 4.5/5
  13. PixelDynamo - 8.8/10
  14. GameCrate - 8/10
  15. PCGamesN - 10/10
We even have a thread in the forums with more reviews.

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holy omfg
 
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Now, someone tell me I'm crazy when I call this game a modern masterpiece! :lol:
 
May you have the luxury of being vindicated and proven right, Fluent. I rarely am. :D
 
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Well wish me luck as I'm just now starting to play the game. I will be back this evening to do my daily news-posting, and post another one of my interviews.

Till then I will be in my man cave quietly enjoying this masterpiece.:shh:
 
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all I can say right now is that Hard difficulty is... hard, and I LIKE IT!
 
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you said:
Well RPS was pretty negative .
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Are you talking about the John Walker review? Because I just read it and I'm not getting much of any negativity from it. Maybe a few minor criticisms, but mainly the review was overwhelmingly positive.
 
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RPS essentially called the game unimaginative and stale which was complete opposite of eurogamer. That was my take of their review (the one linked in newsbit).
 
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We have got to be talking about two different reviews then. The one I get to when I click on the Rock Paper Shotgun link in couchpotato's is by John Walker and it starts out like this:

Oh thank goodness. After 77,000 backers, $4 million raised and nearly three years in development, Obsidian’s Pillars Of Eternity [official site] is here, and it’s just stunning.

This is the RPG I’ve been craving since Planescape: Torment, the first to win my absolute love since Dragon Age: Origin. It’s a vast, deep and wonderfully written game, malleable to how you want to approach the genre, replete with companions, side-quests, an enormously involved combat system, and lasts a solid 60 hours. Here’s wot I think

The rest of the review pretty much reinforces this paragraph.
 
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RPS review ends with this: "It’s a triumph. A wonderful, enormous and spellbinding RPG, gloriously created in the image of BioWare’s Infinity classics, but distinctly its own. A classic in every sense." Not that I care too much about gaming sites' reviews. However PoE actually made me excited to play a video game after quite some time. I'm about to start the game myself so happy gaming everybody.
 
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To be fair, reading the Eurogamer review also came off a bit negative on the "stale" front - effectively sticking too close to the Infinity Engine (IE) template laid down with BG1. Yes, it's what backers signed on for, but I know I was rather hoping for IE on steroids, a bit like how Planescape Torment took IE/DnD and twisted it as far as it'd go!

Looking through the strat guide, I've not yet seen anything that particularly stands out to me (and I was rather disappoined by the limited number of exp levels/magic-levels... a little too DnD).

That said, it definitely hits the target of a new, modern IE game, but I suppose I was hoping for a game that would be as revolutionary/monumental as BG was when it came out.

Anyway, time to sit down and *play*, not moan on the forums!
 
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sounds like I will buy this game then

I was almost thinking they couldn't pull it off with that kind of budget. Wasteland 2 and Shadowrun got mixed reviews. I haven't played W2 (I didn't even know it was out till December) but I like the first SR in spite of its small flaws (even tho I hate the idea of magic and elves in cypberpunk).
 
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havent read any of them but it sounds like they got the combat sorted.
 
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you said:
Well RPS was pretty negative but eurogamer was fairly positve.
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RPS said:

It’s a triumph. A wonderful, enormous and spellbinding RPG, gloriously created in the image of BioWare’s Infinity classics, but distinctly its own. A classic in every sense.
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That's not negative.
 
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And still at 93 on Metacritic.

Where are the people who hates the game? It's impossible that they do not exist. I haven't seen a single review below 8/10...
 
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Unless Numenera fulfills the 2015 promised release and I doubt it, looks like we could have already the GOTY!
 
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