I’m really enjoying it so far. I’m solidly in the middle of Act 2 and about to start The Winter March part 1.

I’m playing it on my Steam Deck and I’m really liking how I’ve got the controls set up. I grabbed a community template and made some additions of my own. I added a virtual menu for the left trackpad and changed the right joystick to handle scrolling long text and menus.

The story is good and I’m hanging in there on Easy. I figured I’d end up going down to the Story difficulty.

  • doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What other crpg style games have you played and enjoyed? I’m trying to figure out if I should play it or give something else a shot

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Personally I was a huge fan of Tyranny. It’s built on the same engine as POE, but I liked the story, worldbuilding, and characters a lot more.

      • WadeTheWizard@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        We need more villain-as-protagonist games. Tyranny giving you evil choices that were both meaningful, and reasonable, is so much better than the usual “I’m the hero, but I do enjoy kicking puppies on weekends” evil choices in most RPGs.

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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          10 months ago

          The thing is, it’s not really villain-as-protagonist. It’s more like “goon-as-protagonist”. You are just a cog in the real villain’s machine. That’s why the choices are so interesting. Because they are often trolley-problems constrained by the world Kyros has created. So you don’t get choices like “will you kill this baby or not” because then it’s easy to not be the bad guy. You get choices like “Kyros demands someone from this town is getting killed. You can choose this baby or this old person. You can also choose not to make a choice, but that would be shirking your job as a judge and omniscient daddy Tunon wouldn’t like it”

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Pillars of Eternity is very good. The writing is fun and I liked a lot of the classes. Especially Cipher.

    I think the second one is better though. You get a ship! And the powers are per-fight instead of per-rest, so you don’t have to worry about camping much at all. Also multiclassing is fun. I wasn’t a heavy optimizer but my rogue/monk just punched stuff into chunks.

  • Eggyhead@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    I think I have this game on switch. I only played a little bit and gave up because I sucked so much. Maybe I should do exactly as you are, get it for cheap on deck and scale down the difficulty to story mode. I’ve heard it was a good game.

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    It’s good, but in the name of the Galaxy, those hour-long dialogues and exposition dumps!