Look at this mofo. It's like Vin Diesel spliced with Shark DNA.
You want to give him a hat? You can give him a hat.
Maybe you just want to be real fucking farmyard suave.
Thursday marks the release of the spiritual sequel to one of my favourite games evar and my favourite RPG, Baldur's Gate 2. This new game is called Pillars of Eternity. Despite the fact there's a review embargo till Thursday, the nice RPS man gives a few hints to the quality of the product. Including a first half hour playthrough if you don't mind a few early spoilers to get an idea of what Obsidian have done with millions of Kickstarter backer's dosh.
"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."
"This is a big, fat, deep adventure that lets you carve your own unique path through a fantasy world that’s been brilliantly brought to life with rich, evocative writing. It’s a game steeped in a bygone era of computer RPG design, but somehow it doesn’t feel archaic. Obsidian have always been bound to other peoples’ worlds—Fallout, Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, South Park—but in creating their own from scratch, they’ve made not only their best game to date, but one of the best RPGs on PC."
"In keeping so close to the Baldur's Gate/Infinity Engine template, Pillars of Eternity can't help but inherit a few old flaws, and it would have been nice to see a bit more personality of its own shine through its carefully traditional design and shell. That said, what most stands out is just how well it manages to modernise the experience of playing those games and stand apart from them as an epic adventure in its own right. It's an RPG with design firmly rooted in nostalgia, but one that absolutely doesn't rely on it to be enjoyable today. Instead, it's both a great reminder of why those games worked so well, and a brand new adventure well worth the hours upon hours (upon hours upon hours) that it takes to pick away at its secrets and its world."