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frajaq posted:Yay Aloth and Eder are back and will never ever leave the party just like before  Way more excited for direct sequel than I thought I would be. I'm attached to my dumb party.
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CottonWolf posted:You are wrong. Direct sequels are actually both cool and good. Nah, when everything has to be super epic, earth shattering, and awesome, then nothing feels special. "Small stories in a big world" is better every single time. I'm pretty pumped for pirate adventure fun time, I can always just speed click through the God killing crap.
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Jan 26, 2017 13:27
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Welp, 200 bucks going towards them the moment this goes live. At least to start with. Going to spread it to all my possibly RPG-invested friends.
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Jan 26, 2017 13:28
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The Polygon article is gone. I bet someone hosed up.
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Caed Nua being totally destroyed as part of the premise for the sequel is kinda funny. Clearly we'd need to put our throne on the mast of a ship.
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Megazver posted:The Polygon article is gone. I hope they aren't really using Fig of all fuckin things
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I do agree that it's important that the team retains the human element in PoE2, but I think that mostly should be done by focusing on those who are affected by the events, especially (and I hate the word) "smallfolk." That's an aspect of PoE that I think is vastly underrated, the way the Hollowborn crisis affects the people of Defiance Bay and Gilded Vale really worked for me on a personal level.
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Megazver posted:The Polygon article is gone. Under the vegetable posted:I hope they aren't really using Fig of all fuckin things
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Under the vegetable posted:I hope they aren't really using Fig of all fuckin things They kind of have to unfortunately. At least, I imagine so. With all the backing from corporations for their last kickstarter, who all use and used Fig, they're morally obliged to a degree. I mean I wouldn't because there's even less exposure on Fig and that might mess up the process, but that's how things are.
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I just hope the writing/characters aren't as loving sandpaper-dry in this one. I can tolerate the combat, I suppose.
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The nerd in me is vaguely annoyed that it involves Eothas possessing the statue from the stronghold, because the backstory of that statue is that it got cut in half or something and was useless, and also beetles gnawed at it for centuries. Still, that's probably something godly power could fix, and it's cool that the story doesn't just involve you leaving your giant castle which you're the lord of and travelling the world like I'd assumed(although the big reveal at the end of the game could justify that too). I hope there's something like the Dragon Age Keep (I don't need the pretty tapestry poo poo, just a series of plain checkboxes would do me fine) if only because I want to know exactly what choices roll over. 2house2fly fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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Jan 26, 2017 14:01
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No you have to make a PoE Keep all pretty and stylish c'mon Obsidian
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2house2fly posted:The nerd in me is vaguely annoyed that it involves Eothas possessing the statue from the stronghold, because the backstory of that statue is that it got cut in half or something and was useless, and also beetles gnawed at it for centuries. Still, that's probably something godly power could fix, and it's cool that the story doesn't just involve you leaving your giant castle which you're the lord of and travelling the world like I'd assumed(although the big reveal at the end of the game could justify that too). I hadn't read that story bit yet, unless you're just making that up. Where did they drop that?
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Hey I'm still on vanilla PoE and I'm having kind of a hard time motivating myself to continue. It's not that I don't enjoy games like this anymore, but they're so huge and sprawling and demand so much focus and attention that I'm having a hard time "getting into" the nitties and gritties of mechanics and lore. I love the writing, I love the companions, but I feel lost because there's so much to do and I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. Fifteen years ago that do-anything openness would be a huge draw but these days I just... can't. I'm not asking anyone to solve this problem for me, since it's not really the game's fault, but I'm wondering if anyone can estimate how much is left of the main storyline once you're done with Defiance Bay.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:It's fine to dislike a game, but I'm not sure why you'd expect a sequel to change so much that it wouldn't resemble the original anymore. It's a bizarre expectation, especially considering the game sold decently by all metrics. I dunno, Bioware did this with Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
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peer posted:I'm not asking anyone to solve this problem for me, since it's not really the game's fault, but I'm wondering if anyone can estimate how much is left of the main storyline once you're done with Defiance Bay. You're almost done, just go to druid green town and ignore the side quests if you're in a hurry
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Hey, does anyone know where I can find a decent map of the PoE world? Like one that shows Deadfire and the Living Lands and all that?
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Super pumped! Never used Fig but here we go.
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evilmiera posted:I hadn't read that story bit yet, unless you're just making that up. Where did they drop that? https://gameup24.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/obsidian-announces-pillars-of-eternity-2/ quote:Eothas … the god of light and rebirth was thought dead, but he now inhabits the stone titan that sat buried under your keep, Caed Nua, for millennia,” reads a press release. “Ripping his way out of the ground, he destroys your stronghold and leaves you at the brink of death. To save your soul, you must track down the wayward god and demand answers — answers which could throw mortals and the gods themselves into chaos. Don't really know what you could need answers for since what happened with Eothas basically got resolved in PoE1, but I'd definitely want to track him down and kick his rear end.
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peer posted:Hey I'm still on vanilla PoE and I'm having kind of a hard time motivating myself to continue. It's not that I don't enjoy games like this anymore, but they're so huge and sprawling and demand so much focus and attention that I'm having a hard time "getting into" the nitties and gritties of mechanics and lore. I love the writing, I love the companions, but I feel lost because there's so much to do and I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. Fifteen years ago that do-anything openness would be a huge draw but these days I just... can't. 3Romeo posted:Hey, does anyone know where I can find a decent map of the PoE world? Like one that shows Deadfire and the Living Lands and all that?
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Well, let me know when I can make a direct preorder instead of giving money to a pyramid scheme and I'm in.
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frajaq posted:You're almost done, just go to druid green town and ignore the side quests if you're in a hurry 2house2fly posted:just look at the quests tab and follow anything under "the hollowing of the Dyrwood," that's the main quest. You can ignore any side quests that don't look interesting, but bear in mind resolving quests for your companions or not can affect their ~*ending*~ Thanks guys. I think I want to complete (most of) the companion quests as well, since I like them all except the druid guy, but throwing me into a completely new area right when I was starting to feel comfortable in - and could find my way around - Defiance Bay sapped my enthusiasm a little bit.
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PoE2 gonna be cool but got to put on my cynic hat and remind everyone not to preorder video games. Fig needs PoE2, not the other way around.
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ropekid I really need to know where this game falls on the gently caress you/suck my dick spectrum of personal dream rpgs, tia. I'm so excited. Feels like 2012 all over again.
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zedprime posted:PoE2 gonna be cool but got to put on my cynic hat and remind everyone not to preorder video games. Fig needs PoE2, not the other way around. I trust enough in Obsidian to deliver a product that I'm fine with crowdfunding PoE. The announcement has me excited. Glad to see the return of Pallegina and Eder, and the screenshots already look great. The lighting on the exterior palace is incredible.
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I didn't kickstart on PoE so I'm considering doing it for this. Does Fig have KS style backer tiers? I hope they don't do backer memorial stuff again but I'd totally be down for another almanac or something.
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And I just dropped a sizable chunk of cash this month already. Does fig allow late backing and such? I'd like to fund this here PoE2 game I sorta like, but I'm not sure I can do it inside a month. (Out of country trips are expensive, yo)
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What's with the Fig hate? Am I wrong in thinking it's just a Kickstarter clone?
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Under the vegetable posted:I was under the impression combat was going to be undergoing significant overhauling tbh. I don't remember where I got that idea. Multiclassing is in, last I heard, but that's probably the most significant change. We might see some minor tweaks to the system, but the basics will remain. 2house2fly posted:Don't really know what you could need answers for since what happened with Eothas basically got resolved in PoE1, but I'd definitely want to track him down and kick his rear end. It's hinted at, but we still don't know for certain why he came to Eora as Waidwen (assuming he was Waidwen) and what happened to him after meeting the Godhammer.
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not really excited about fig, like, i hope it's successful, i guess? but i don't think i'll be backing it myself i still need to actually finish the first one, i always loose steam or get distracted by something else right at the end of act 2.
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I better be able to become a pirate king/queen in this game
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2house2fly posted:I didn't kickstart on PoE so I'm considering doing it for this. Does Fig have KS style backer tiers? I hope they don't do backer memorial stuff again but I'd totally be down for another almanac or something. Fig has backer rewards that work basically exactly like KS, but add-ons are integrated. Unless you're doing investing (I wouldn't recommend investing in videogames, but I know nothing about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), the experience is very similar.
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I'm excited for the implication of more animal companions including birds. Also hopefully better guns so I can go full pirate-Ranger.
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Clanpot Shake posted:What's with the Fig hate? Am I wrong in thinking it's just a Kickstarter clone? I think it mostly boils down to some people thinking that Tim Schafer is literally Satan, and he is on the advisory board of Fig.
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Under the vegetable posted:I was under the impression combat was going to be undergoing significant overhauling tbh. I don't remember where I got that idea. Relevant rope kid interview to understand how he approaches sequels http://www.gatheryourparty.com/2012/10/10/interview-josh-sawyer/ quote:Josh: Yeah, it can be really strange to see how publishers react to an initial title in a series that does well. Let’s say it does well, modestly well. Sells enough to warrant a sequel and then the sequel comes around and the things they change to get that wider appeal. So I would say a success story of that would be from Assassin’s Creed to Assassin’s Creed II. That was probably a rare success story of that happening. The first one had a lot of problems. People really liked the concept of it, but there was some weird stuff going on in it. And it wasn’t terribly fun either.
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Oasx posted:I think it mostly boils down to some people thinking that Tim Schafer is literally Satan, and he is on the advisory board of Fig. The Psychonauts guy? But that game was cool
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Broken Age didn't have the smoothest of development. I was disappointed by that too when it was happening, but in the end it worked out, they were transparent throughout the process, and they also went ahead to develop another game that was, by all measures, pretty decent with crowdfunding (Massive Chalice). He never really lived that down, though. He also doesn't really seem to have much to do with the other Fig projects except his own, but hey, his name is mentioned on the website.
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