Against my best judgement, I tried to play this game over the last couple weeks. It's just plain uninteresting, and I'm having a hard time putting into words why.The GAMEPLAY is decent. But EVERYTHING else just feels so sterile. It's inoffensive to a fault. There is absolutely no texture to this game. I don't hate it, I just can't find a single thing about it that's interesting.
>sterile>inoffensive>no texture>hard time putting into words whySounds more like you have no valid criticism and you're just trying to be a drama queen.
>>745225917>I'm having a hard time putting into words why.wokeslop>>745226021jeet
>>745225917You didn't enjoy the abortion quest? You really need to have an opinion, anon.
>>745226021Well if you enjoyed it, try and explain why.
>>745226270really retarded they just constantly are shoe-horning in modern politics and think is some fascinating exploration of fantasy.
>>745226270I didn't even realize what that quest was about until near the end of it.
>>745226021explain this to me, all of it.
>>745226021I think the dwarf companion is a pretty good example of what I'm trying to say. They tried so hard to make him tick the "HELL YEAH A DWARF" box, without giving him any of the dwarf qualities that are remotely interesting. Sure he's short, has a beard, says made up dwarf words, and you meet him in a bar. But he wears the same clothes as anybody else, his beard is tame, he enunciates perfectly, never raises his voice, and is completely sober the entire time.It's not even "subverting expectations", it's just failing to meet them.
>>745225917Without playing it, what I saw from the dialog Windows and the general look of the characters. It just looks boring, like it was made after a formula and not with love. Also that one dude who wants to replaced by blacks made a race in the game look like himself, which is another turn off.
>>745226021Fuck off, idiot. Those all are valid criticism points of the game.
>>745226021How do you always do it
>>745226021Why are aqua posters always the most insufferable retards?
>>745230604it's that the entire schtick? she's a retard in the show too.
Shit game that flopped, despite claims it was a stunning financial success. Matt Hansen got his wished and was (eventually) fired.
>>745231708*wish
>>745226021truth nvke
>>745225917yea about how i felt about it. ended up beating it but yea if you look up milquetoast in the dictionary this game shows up. combat and exploration was fun enough, but let down by there only being like 5 enemy types in the entire game
It takes special talent to make a fantasy world with dwarves and orcs more boring and soulless than real world everyday life.
>>745225917Sounds same to me as Outer Worlds 1. There was very little in it that I would actively hate, but it was mostly just somewhat bland and also lacked any real plot or gameplay hooks that would have truly pulled me in.
I enjoyed Avowed. =]
>>745233027Obsidian makes only the most stale, dull shit with no imagination possible. They barely deserve a food analogy but they're the unsalted crackers of gaming. And every time they make a big deal out of the troon and fag content in their games is like finding pieces of rat shit in your boring cracker.
>>745225917>The GAMEPLAY is decentI strongly disagree. The gameplay is one of the most bland and lame parts of the game, and help bring together the general feeling of bland lameness that stinks up the whole game.>enemy stands still or walks towards you for 3 seconds>does lunge forward attack if melee or sniper shot with perfect aim regardless of situation if ranged>repeatit feels so unnatural and clunky and soulless. Like someone took only the worst aspects of turn based combat and the worst aspects of real time combat and combined them into one vile bastard child
>>745233461enemies start to get something resembling attack patterns in the last area :)
It has no art style. Or rather, what is left of Pillars' art style is completely butchered by the phoned in UE5 grafix. The world has little to no reactivity. The skill trees are a boring hodgepodge of +2% damage and +5% attack/cast speed and meaningless, mind-numbing progression that exists only to say there is progression. The character writing -- one of the most important things in RPGs like this -- is horrendous; the characters aren't even tropes, they're simply uninteresting with next to no personality. The character creator is genuinely awful and made for libshit woke faggots, and I am hardly a person that throws out that kind of accusation lightly. The combat is OK. That's about all this game has to offer.
I can't understand why they thought their shitty, awful pillars universe would be any better as an FPS.
>>745233610>The world has little to no reactivity.it kinda has it? its just that pretty much everything thats interactable has an icon over it telling you to use a spell hereexcept for the 2 times in the game where you need to freeze water for some reason
>>745233856I meant to say interactivity but typed reactivity. I'm thinking of TES when I say this. While I think TES games are generally very overrated, the ability to pick anything up, physically, and move it around, steal it, etc, does a lot for immersion. Making an open world game like Avowed and preventing the player from interacting with it on almost every level makes the world feel like a set piece rather than a world.
these retarded rpgs are just multiple choice morality tests created by libtards. I dunno what you expect. maybe they'll even grade you with a few ending slides telling you you're evil.
I laughed when they all got sad about me killing my assassin instead of hugging it out. It's actually so bad it's good.
>>745234169i can tell u didnt play it cause u think it has choices
The gameplay is shit>enemies spawn from under your own asses or run into the encounter from inaccessible parts of the map, making spacing of any kind impossible because some random shit WILL bite you in the ass>upgrade system is 80% of your damage output, your actual build barely matters>so many bright lights on the screen at once you can barely see shit in late game>very small enemy pool, you're fighting the same set of enemies repeatedly
>>745234271It's making me really sad, that after only 20 years art style have degraded so much.Pic is character portraits from Arcanum.
>>745225917directed by a womanall you need to know
>>745234374I didn't. And I'm also clearly using hyperbole. However, I think that descriptions fits many of the rpgs /v/ gushes over, so I try to insert it where I can. /v/ needs to learn.
>>745236052No niggers. How nice
>>745225917playing it right now just got to the second zone>The GAMEPLAY is decentits OK just ok it feels like melee builds are meant to be played in 3rd person. fuck ranged enemies/healers actual cancer>It's inoffensive to a fault. There is absolutely no texture to this game. I don't hate it, I just can't find a single thing about it that's interestingthis might be a pillars issue the crpgs are a fucking snooze fest to get through i have the same feeling about them as i do with avowed. everything in this game feels like it needed a bit more time for the things you interact with to have felt more "fleshed out"
>>745225917I had those thoughts about The Outer Worlds and Pillars of Eternity.Obsidian is just Mid, they can't craft something special, this is why there were the best candidate for Xbox GamePass, they are as soulless as Xbox.
>>745236052Tag yfw taking a shit>row 2 column 5
>>745236127That doesn't narrow down the issue since male directors are also releasing similar stuff.
post more screenshots
>>745231708He is begging for a job on linkedin I hope he never finds a job and staves to death, or preferably hangs himself.
>>745227849It only counts as subverting expectation if you were capable enough to meet them in the first place
