Terry
Sentinel
The only thing with this top 3 list is the only game guaranteed to be out is POE 2. Bards Tale is likely but I have yet to see a Kickstarted game out on time. So BT and Pathfinder are most likely to slide to 2019.
If you can look past the wannabe D&D mechanics, chaotic combat, and horrible launch issues, PoE 1 was indeed a wonderful game. I enjoyed it a heckuva lot more than D:OS2 - but only w/ the expansions and a year of patches.
So, PoE 2 is definitely my #1 for 2018 (although Bard's Tale holds promise if inXile don't suck the life out of it).
Big difference between saying PoE was a disappointment, and saying PoE was bad. Personally I enjoyed PoE. But it didn't come anywhere close to the hype/expectations. I think the vast majority of people agree on that - it's not a "minority". By the way, I believe I put PoE 2 as #3 on my own list, so pointing out that the editors put it there too isn't counter to anything I'm saying, either that or I haven't said it well. In any case, the point is, why would PoE 2 be the "most promising" when PoE 1 didn't really live up to its promises. If it does this time though, well, that's great.To me the PoE nay-sayers are a noisy minority. Not everybody agrees with you that PoE was a disappointment; quite the opposite in fact. Even the Editors had it at #3, rather than off the list entirely. I'm rather looking forward to PoE2, particularly with all the enhancements and lessons learned.
But it [PoE] didn't come anywhere close to the hype/expectations.
Judging by the age polls, I don't think very many people here were in their childhood when BG came out :lol:Nothing is ever going to measure up to a childhood experience 20 years ago.
Actually that would probably be my primary complaint too, but I chalk a lot of that up to the unavoidable clusterfuck generally inherent in RTwP. Perhaps I'm not giving RTwP enough credit, though. I mean, I suppose it's true that the Infinity engine games weren't nearly as much of a clusterfuck.That would have to probably be the chaotic combat, where you can't see what the hell is going on with all the spell effects, and you can't see what debuffs/buffs your characters may have because relevant information is shrunk down to the size of a pinhead.
I was fairly happy with PoE combat, but there were some issues for sure. However I'm sure that they will do better in PoE2 after receiving so much feedback.