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Pillars of Eternity Soundtrack 12 - Engwithan Ruins (Justin Bell) It is so massive and epic, and addicting! The winding twisting paths are mysterious as you venture forth through the depths to discover who built it. The map is remarkably creative, none like I’ve seen before. It’s too bad you can only build one feature at a time though, but the options are so dynamic and fun, you can even repair the dungeon to imprison people in across your journeys.Īnother epic feature of the game is the endless paths below your stronghold.

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There are so many outcomes and options, and it’s up to you as the player to be bewildered by how open all of them are too fit your character’s play style.Ī feature Pillars of Eternity has superior to the Baldur’s Gate series is that it allows you to have a stronghold which you can improve upon with time and gold. Or it could be as simple as breaking up a drug dealer’s den only to find out things aren’t what they seemed. You can intimidate him and throw him to the curb like the little snot that he is, or go talk to the merchant who sold the knife to some adventures who you can buy it from or attack them and take it by force, and still decide to kick the puny human kid anyways. For example, a boy will tell you a secret if you get him a knife made out of special metal. The unpredictability, and freedom this game gives you, is what keeps you addictively playing like a gamer craving midnight mountain dew. A mix between Lord of the Rings, and also brings back memories of Conan the Barbarian running the fields with his Asian nomad companion, but after listening to it on its own, outside of the game, it reminded me of a mystic mystery, which is what this game is. Your journey is more or less open-ended, guided by a quest journal. Your character witnesses a ritual and awakens, where you are known commonly as a “Watcher.” You are now like the boy in the six sense, but hopefully less oblivious, you can speak with dead people, and touch objects to get visions of their past. The game takes place in an immersive world of Eora, inside a nation known as Dyrwood.

It scales off your level too so don’t get too hung up about it. This isn’t a big deal though, because you can hire a custom adventurers of your exact choosing similar to the character creation process at any inn in the game. After seeing what kind of companions you can get, I would have re-rolled to an evil halfing monk with the evil voice, since there isn’t any monks companions in the game. I picked a Wind Godlike Cypher, since I’ve played almost every combo in these kind of games, and this race class combo was refreshing to see something new and creative. The game begins in a detailed character creation with some new races that I haven’t seen before since my time in Azergoth.

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If you are a fan of that series, this game is a definite full price buy, with over 70 hours of content, and if you’re not familiar with the classics of ye old times, and are a fan of real-time strategy, D&D party mechanics, epic storytelling with a vast an immersive world, this game is also for you. Lok’tar humans! Azbolg the Gaming Orc to review the quasi-renaissance fantasy Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment.Ī grass roots crowd funding campaign, with over 77,000 backers, raising over 4 million dollars, as it recreated, and maybe surpasses the magic of the classic 3d isometric games of the 90s, the Baldur’s Gate series.

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