The Road To Eternity 

Don't forget Larian. :)

LaLaLaLarian

Obsidian, CD Projekt Red, Larian, and inXile bro. My holy grail of western RPGs. Obsidian are probably the most severely underrated studio to exist in mainstream gaming. Whatever unwanted sequel to develop they get handed to in half the budget and time, they deliver, and by God they deliver in spades. Fallout New Vegas. Legendary title and one which after almost 6 years still isn't gone from my system.

cd project sucks. Rockstar and obsidian are the only companies

ReiGnJuste CD Projekt Red and Obsidian are one of the few companies still giving a shit about releasing quality games with complete content... Rockstar didn't even release the online component to GTA on time with the release of the game. I really don't understand why you would think CD Projeckt Red is somehow behind them, The Witcher 3 and it's DLC's are possibly some of the best content released in the past many years of gaming, even if you don't personally enjoy them ignoring the quality is just ignorant.

Yup! Largely cuz Bethesda (or ZeniMax) ****ed em!

@@erikhendrickson59 and now microsoft owns them both

I tried to do something similar. I love Obsidian and a I love games they've made (and are making)!

Avowed has been announced and I'm so excited, I love both pillar games and obsidian's work

Obsidian is the last of the old greats that has persisted true to itself.

@@egoalter1276 Sadly(ish) they did sell to XBOX since I posted this but if they were ever going to sell to someone who would publish there stuff I would have immediately hoped it would be Microsoft of Sony. So, I'm not mad.

@@egoalter1276 the torch has been passed to Europe if larian is any indication.

Pillars 1 and 2 are great RPGs. I'm so glad that Obsidian was able to keep going, and now they are in a much better place financially with the Microsoft deal.

Hey Pally, I've been a fan of yours for a while now. I just wanted to know if you ever wished for time to play games like this (a CRPG). I know you're a big Dark Souls fan but I was just genuinely curious if you think you'd have the patience to play games like this (or if you'd even enjoy this; don't know much about your game likes outside of those you do videos for), cause I think you probably don't have time haha. Love the work and keep it up man!

No respond for a fan LMAO

Then play it!!!

Play it. Its my first time playing and got 15 hours in and absolutely love it.

I doubt that will happen because they will try to make POE2 an overly balanced, and thus tepid game instead of allowing world-enhancing, life-breathing, extremely exciting imbalances like we saw in baldur's gate 2. they already showed how much they care about overbalancing their crpgs in POE1 (years after release and they are still spending resources to balance a single-player game...). they don''t understand the difference between making a really good game with a cool world and a GREAT, 10/10 game and world. they are too scared to make the risky sacrifices of making some gamers who just want to beat the game on the hardest difficulty without falling into "trap builds" or not being good enough unhappy. they want the maximum amount of people to be intellectually validated instead of truly challenged (because it means more profits, of course). too scared to allow broken weapons and spells into their game because they value triple crown solo achievements more than they do constructing a world that is surging with palpable, realistic imbalanced life.

Hugh Janus I didn't come here to proof read an essay 😂

Hugh Janus, I think that this is the new direction of Obsidian. It might be because they've been constantly existing on the verge of death, albeit being the only company to actually experiment with their games. Unfortunately, it made them something akin to starving artists. At this point, they might be burnt out. They kept making masterpieces, which provided them cult-recognition, but no profits (KOTOR2, New Vegas, Mask of the Betrayer, Alpha Protocal etc). It's pretty sad actually, considering they're technically the continuation of Black Isle (there's also inExile, who are in a similar position). I think that the old Black Isle/Obsidian magic is dead at this point. You can blame the industry and the tasteless consumers for it.

there's only Josh Sawyer and Feagus left from Black Isle and none of them were involved in Fo or PS:T. Obsidian being the continuation ended after New Vegas didn't score its 85 meta critic bonus and people got fired or just left in disgust... Luckily, the old guard aren't the only creative forces at play and the new crop of Obsidian devs are doing well enough on their own.

BomimoDK, they still have Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky from Black Isle (they rejoined recently). But that's beside the point. My comment was referring to the idea that Obsidian will not go back to their experimental roots - I was responding to Hugh Janus. What I'm saying is that modern Obsidian can no longer afford to screw themselves over by releasing overly ambitious and experimental, but buggy AAA games (or even niche cRPGs). They now prioritize polish and balance over originality, which is fine, since the company has been screwing itself for too long (which is also evident from this documentary). I'm saying that we shouldn't expect them to make anything original and mind-blowing as they no longer adhere to the Chris Avellonian experimental/creative game design philosophy (which only got them into trouble financially).

Me too ;)

Considering how bad Tyranny was, I'm no longer that eager. =(

Tyranny was bad? who thinks that?

Quplas obvioiusly

Way too streamlined compared to Pillars. I've got 300 hours in PoE but after 25 hours I was done with Tyranny.

I wish Dragon Age would have kept the feel of Origins and gameplay. Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition were boring.

Pillars of Eternity, mixed with the deeper consequences of Tyranny (especially the consequences of the choices made at the character creations) - that would be my *dream game* ! I absolutely *loved* Pillars and enjoyed most of Tyranny - but the lack of enemy variety, restrictive combat and very restrictive build choices made much of the "dungeon crawling" of Tyranny a chore for me.

Nr4747 ;) pillars 2 fixes a lot of it

* Elfwyn * ty for your donations to make this wonderful game possible

it's probably not gonna happen. the starwars license is a mess right now.

Yea sadly it's a big mess... But I wanne play the exile again. I tried SW:TOR for 2 months but I'm not a MMO guy. It's looks okay but lacks the kotor feeling.

I've had this game in my library since release and still haven't booted it up. One of these days I'll have a spare 100 hours to burn.

I've been wanting to play it but I play wizard in these types of games and I hear they aren't OP gods in this one. I heard druid is really op tho so maybe ill play that

I beat the PoE on the hardest setting, solo on hardcore with Just a wizard. Killing all the dragons and all the archmages...... getting "THE ULTIMATE" achievement...... I would argue that Wizards are fucking amazing.

Oh sweet. Were you a melee wizard though?

I used a 1h sword and a shield, but the overwhelming majority of my damage was from spells.

Funny how the exposure on the camera made his screen appear blank (white). WORKIN' REEEEEEAL HARD.

How did it go? Sorry 5 years late!

lol nice. I'm at about 200 hours and my next playthrough is going to be 6 Rangers with bears most likely :)

No interview of Chris Avellone the writer too. It’s sad he quit.

Yeah. “Reviews” are terrible metric to measure games.

I would have loved for them to have done fallout 4 but maybe they can do another one.

Fallout 4 was so, so, so bad. :-(

they don't own the IP ZeniMax do it's not up to obsidian

I know. They do Fallout better than Bethesda. That is why I was wishing they did it instead. With any luck they will get another crack but who knows it is looking very doubtful now.

have you tried wasteland 2?

I’m cautious about these isometric games too. I just feel the immersion is not there compared to 3D. I could not get into Divinity Original Sin 2. But this feels different. The character creation has so much variety, the attributes, skills, culture, backgrounds really enable role play. And the awesome team behind new vegas is here. Do you think it’s worth trying POE 1 in 2023?

Well well well... not obsidian but we got an excellent pathfinder crpg

I’m cautious about these isometric games. I just feel the immersion is not there compared to 3D. I could not get into Divinity Original Sin 2. But this feels different. The character creation has so much variety, the attributes, skills, culture, backgrounds really enable role play. And the awesome team behind new vegas is here. Do you think it’s worth trying POE 1 in 2023?

Totally agreed.

Yes, please. And with subtitles in english, people can add other subtitles in other languages :) It would be perfect!

I can add spanish subtitles! But firstly I must read, I can understand very good only speaking :(

Yeah fan here as well! ;D I was pleasantly surprised when I heard his voice. He's such a fantastic writer(journalist)

Indeed

@superbunnyhop i hope he have seen this, he should feel hella proud