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You guys are really tempting me with this.
However is it as hard as they say - like does it get eye rollingly hard or frustrating during fights?
Played a lot of BG back in the day and sometimes it was like argggggh just NO!

Its challemging at times but not insurmountable. The only thing that frustrated me was the boss at the bottom of Caed Nua, and that had more to do with my choices in class abilities and party makeup than anything else.

I picked it up with the expansion. Felt like I was playing Ice Wind Dale or BG2. Disappointed in how few races were present, was kind of hoping for a few more, especially evil type races and the classes were not very diverse as well, especially with all the books out there with classes and races they could have borrowed from and renamed.

Game play is good so far. I am not far into the game as I suffer from multiple character syndrome and keep starting over to try something new out. I enjoy the old school feel to it and how fast it moves. Digging the dungeon crawling aspect of it. My favorite part of any fantasy RPG.

I must say, I'm interested - is there somewhere I can read an objective review (or listen if youtube is your thing) that doesn't involve "ZOMG THIS IS LIKE BALDURS GATE" and other 'NOSTALGIA IS BETTER THAN COMING UP WITH ORIGINAL IDEAS" type of deals?

Not saying any of that is bad, but it makes for a pretty gak review for those of us who don't want to throw money at a game they know nothing about.

Metacritic allows you to read the reviews from which its aggregate score is created. You can just scroll through them to find ones that aren't just nostalgia trips... and, when it comes to games, I typically find the bad and neutral reviews to be the most-helpful in highlighting problems and tend to have less fan-wankery involved, even for games that I like.

There's always this as a review for the game.




Though, it's not the most unbiased of ones, Marisha's partner, Matt Mercer, voices both Aloth and Eder in the game.

In all seriousness though, I've never played more than a few minutes of Baldurs Gate, but Pillars of Eternity is great. I'm currently finding myself playing more of this than trying out the new dragon age DLC.

Finally got to the end of the Endless Paths.

I've barely played it, just 2 or 3 hours, but I found Pillars of Eternity to be much more accessible than Baldurs Gate. A better interface, a little easier to learn etc. My recommendation would probably be to play Pillars first before graduating to the classic Baldurs Gate series.

Eumerin wrote:
Finally got to the end of the Endless Paths.

Spoiler:

Then when the conversation with the dragon ended, she instantly one-shotted my entire party save the paladin NPC (who only had single digit endurance left). Um...

So I set that aside to return to later.

Then a little while later, I faced the blue dragon in Hylea's temple. That fight went something like this -

Miss
Miss
Miss
Miss
Miss
Miss
etc...

/sigh

Yeah, both of those challenges are pretty much made for max geared/level characters.

The brightside is that the level cap goes up in the White March! So that can make those a little bit easier.