Pillars of Eternity 50+ Hours REVIEW (No Spoilers)
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...in which I nitpick about my favourite game in years.
With Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian attempts to recreate the wonder from the old Infinity Engine games. Does their cRPG match up? Find out in this review. No spoilers!
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Pillars of Eternity
Release: 03/26/2015
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Sorry about the FPS indicator in the top left there, didn't notice that at all when I was recording all of these files. At least you can now double check that I record at 60 FPS I guess?
***** Shadowplay FTW
So many spoilers
Pillars of Eternity review! th-cam.com/video/lpmP2YedC54/w-d-xo.html No spoilers! Just me nitpicking about an amazing game.
Great review Haas! I especially liked how well you pointed out some of the little details that might frustrate. I'll be referencing your review in mine coming out later today.
Thanks! And good luck with getting yours out, always interested in hearing others' thoughts on a game like this.
I accidentally saw your Endless Legend review and I gotta say I really like your channel! good work, and honest reviews. Keep up the good work!
It's a very good game and Obsidian definitely tried to cover everything....but it feels like it just needed an extra "push" in either direction to make it great...better enemy AI, more colorful companions with better interaction, stronger antagonist's presence, more depth to stronghold etc.
Still, their best game probably and this time Obsidian will finally get a chance to make a sequel of their own.
Yes, something is definitely missing. I can't quite put my finger on what, though.
That opening dialogue>>>>
"I want to boop the snoot!" "It's your hand" "I'mma boop it!"
Is all the dialog so formal? For instance in baldurs gate, you had people talking as if they were actual farmers and shit. The dialog in watching your video seems like everyone talks so formal. Is there any kind of dialog like this: "Let's see what yer guts be lookin' like!" "Aye, now this be more like it! The first t' disobey me orders gets an axe in their skull."
Holy shit! First gaming review I've watched by this guy and already this is the best damn game reviewing channel on TH-cam.
he does his homework and goes into the mechanics, exactly what i need to know!
Thx for the Review, Pillars of Eternity is one of my all time favourites RPG's.
I really enjoyed IceWind Dale 2 and some old might and magic games. Ill definitely look into this.
Excellent review Haas. You got right to the point about what this game story is about without spoiling anything. I was on the fence about buying it until I listened to your review. I bought it and it is excellent. Thanks...plus I subscribed.
I started playing Divinity Original Sin a a few days ago , and it is basically my introduction to this category of games. CRPGs. I really like your reviews.
To me , a fan of a certain type of games is the most qualified reviewer, and you do a great job.
I'm eagerly waiting to experience some more similar games once I'm done with DOS, and PoE has grabbed my attention thanks to its amazing visual style.(imo at least)
Thanks, glad you find them useful. Have fun with exploring what is an amazing genre of video games! Regarding D:OS, I'll have a review out for the sequel D:OS 2 probably early next week!
he's alive :O
Barely! Here I had grand plans for two other videos earlier, but then Pillars of Eternity. I have no regrets.
One of my favourite games, this. I really love it. Especially the world building is particularly great.
Great review... This game is superb in almost every way imaginable and executes every part flawlessly...
Shadows of Amn and Planescape: Torment are some of my favorite games ever. I don’t know how I missed this game and I’m late to the party but I’ll be buying this.
1:48 Cue the Skyrim intro.
The problem with this game for me, is that you can't play it on the couch, 3 meters from the tv: you don't see shit...
Loved the 'D&D' games of yore like Baldurs Gate. Not sure how I'd feel about trying one now though having been 'spoiled' by modern Dragon Age & Elder Scrolls games. May have to check a few LP's. :)
+Jimboola
To those feeling the same way, I never played a top-down RPG until recently. I still haven't played another infinity engine game. Even though I love games like Skyrim, Fallout 3/NV/4, and Mass Effect, I am LOVING Pillars of Eternity. The choice, the level of personal interaction with everything, and the amazing writing really makes the world come alive.
Loved the video man! Keep up the good work!!
Still today i prefer to play Baldur's gate 2 over PoE....Hugely more and better content.
Would this game be a bit too hard to get into for someone who has never played a Crpg? I was looking at this game or Divinity: Original Sin, but wasn't sure which would be easier for a newbie to these types of games.
+TechnoTurtle Both are significantly less clunky than most cRPGs and should be pretty accessible for new players. You should be fine, they're good games to get into the genre with.
Thanks for the quick response, man. Keep doing your thing!. I like your content and you're a swell bro for answering back so quickly.
TechnoTurtle just get into it it will get easy after a few deaths.
This comment is over a year old, you don't think he already made his decision..........
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im guessing the game had some updates by the time i got it im able to carry at least 7 camping supplies maybe more but i might never know because by the time im ready to return to a village ive used most of them up.
Im playing for the first time and im really enjoying it.
I just bought this on ps4, hoping the port is decent. Either way i can't wait to dig into this gem. I already know I'm going to waste countless hours building my party. Appears to be the perfect blend of Icewind Dale - Baldur's Gate - maybe even Neverwinter.
Another good review, Im enjoying my new sub so far
Big, big fan of the original Baldur's Gate and similar games so certainly interested in this. Do have to ask which out of this and Divinity Original Sin you prefer though Haas. Divinity is a great game and I strongly suggest any who haven't played it to give it a go.
Drezzek01 Pillars of Eternity, hands down. I do like Divinity: Original Sin and was very positive towards it, but I definitely think this game is leagues ahead of it.
***** will have to buy this for certain then! Bought Divinity after watching your review on it and was very pleased with it, if you think this is better then ill certainly give it a go.
Drezzek01 Great to hear they've been useful! D:OS was very surprising at the time and contained some great combat. Combat here is of course not turn based, as you can see in the review it is real time + pause and some people might not like that style of combat and prefer the turn-based mechanics of D:OS, but otherwise it contains fantastic writing and story (something D:OS did lack). For me, I enjoyed them both but definitely think PoE is a lot better.
Should I get this game or both baldur's gate games
Cannot wait to play it!
pillars of eternity imaginary qualities. While I can say for sure that pillars of eternity 2 deadfire is expanding the first game in every level. Graphics gameplay character design world build etc etc it doesn't have the same nostalgia feeling as the first one. Of course one can argue that the first is build to be the next Boulder's gate re creation in 2015 with the same game elements and world design and difficulty. but what makes the first game special is as I already said the feeling of 1999 games in modern time more than that the game has design of pause and think tactic which is rare in games with this nature. It's an isematric rpg who you really need to think deep about combat desition. the amazing art beauty that combine the old and the new works so well not to mention the architecture
Of semi middle ages style and it all goes
so well with the game would build.
in a strategic point of view Poe 1 makes sense very much with support roles characters that can give boost of resistance endurance on so on it's very much fun to keep the wizard behind and make a warrior stronger and beat the enemies while using the wizard 's own Magic's. in the heart of Poe 1 there's a great thought about philosophy and spiritually what are dreams ? is one egsaple while the main character is a watcher who can read others souls give the game his inpact on questions human ask in the real world. what if we could do that for real? what are the outcomes of that unique ability mean for the understanding life it self?
Poe 1 isn't just another rpg it has depth
.that is rare to see
the world always create new ways to carrest you as a player like the felling of having a castle who you need to get buisness working and the influence on the world and your companions with the choices the do in the castle makes you feel like it's actual fun work. this is of course just one of many imaginative qualities the game has. also the combat is very complicated and fun in the same time learning from your own mistaks reposition your specific character like warrior in flanking position with a strength potion and a magic support from the wizard carrest you to go on and on with more possibilities the game offers in every new quest.

Ok boomer
great review,keep going pal
i gotta get this game once my backlog is a little thinner.
good review, subbed
I heard, read, etc.. this game clocks in around 80 hours? So is that for the standard edition or complete? Thanks.
The standard edition has about 40 hours of main story content. Perhaps if you complete everything it gets close to 80, it's been a while so I'm not quite certain, but it's certainly possible. The complete edition adds the White March expansions which each feature around 10 hours of story content (+ a couple of more hours with every side thing done) each.
Thanks:)
just for the deal , campfires are not 4 at any time , its 6 on easy ,4 on normal , 2 on hard.... the story companios are not 100% voiced , if you go for deeper talk about there background and stuff like that about 80% of there lines are not voiced ...except those mistakes a nice review and thumbed up
Just started playing (on Game Pass). I love this game. I'm enjoying it but there are some things that feel like this was made in 1999. The static map, the janky here-and-there voice overs. You can barely tell which character you have selected during a fight.
Which leads to the pausing. It throws the experience off. Even when you want the entire fight to play out, it still pauses. (Imagine trying to watch a movie just to have someone keep pausing it on you, yeah, welcome to PoE).
Finally, every fight plays out the same. Trigger an enemy and everyone rushes to the center in one big dog pile. Which makes certain AoE spells useless.
Should i get this, tyranny or divinity original sin?
Very late comment but my vote would be for Pillars of Eternity all the way. I haven't played the first one (yet) but the second one is literally the greatest narrative-based RPG I've ever played. Only Bethesda's games top it. Tyranny is a very solid game but lacks a lot of the greatness of PoE and from what I've heard, it's quite short. As for Divinity: Original Sin, it's a fun game but I feel like people overrate the series quite a bit. It's much more light-hearted, it has turn-based combat (I hate turn-based combat) and just doesn't feel nearly as polished and epic as PoE. I mean, for what it tries to do, it does it well, but I much prefer the serious tone, world building and general gameplay experience of the PoE games by a LONG shot.
If you can, get all three but if you can only get one, I'd say get PoE first!
Nice review. Thx!
My apologies but are you dutch? Being from Belgian I seem to notice a dutch accent(as compared to a flemish one to seperate the 2 "languages")
+Londronable I am indeed!
Very good review, but enDUrance, not enderence.
Was looking for this comment
what is endurents
Was thinking of buying this. How do feel it compares to Wasteland 2? I was thinking of buying one or the other. I love both fantasy and sci-fi so it's a hard decision. Also currently playing Arcanum. What a wonderful game. Love your reviews!
Markus Cone the music in the game is quite good
Wasteland 2 has turn based combat, its combat is quite like X-com. Pillars of Eternity is real time pauseable combat. I personally prefer pillars of eternity. :)
Marko Jovanovic Thanks so much. I've picked up Pillars and love it!
No problems mate. Happy to help! :)
I like Pillars of Eternity... but it's not really what I want. I love the writting, dialog and graphics. But something bothers me about the gameplay and how the story is told.
I keep wanting it was a better version of Neverwinter Nights 1 or 2.
Tiring battles. Lol.
I tried the console commands once and it became rather fun. Achievements be damned. Heheh.
Except all the boxes say missing GUI file...
It looks really exciting. Like someone else said, seems like a form of D&D style.
It's a bit too expensive for me to afford it at the moment, but I'll look forward to it later down the line.
That's exactly it. The original Infinity Engine games were based on the second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ruleset, which are by now of course horribly outdated. With Pillars they very much kept that concept in mind and have created a much more modern version of many of those mechanics.
Ah okay. I've just recently got into playing Tabletop RPGs, so it seems really interesting for a computer game.
Thanks for the review!
There are really cheap deals at that site, Pilars is 15 bugs
Sudden Difficulty spike in this game is very tedious + lack of potions
Do you only review newly released games? Can you review diablo 3 ultimate evil edition? :D or reaper of souls :) You have such awesome reviews!
It truly is a great game.
Liar. It says 50+ hours review but the video only lasts 11 minutes.
The other 49 hours and 49 minutes are all silence for artistic reasons.
what the hell is ender ance? say it right geesh
So you're saying it's pretty good?
By ender-ance, were talking about endurance right? Just making sure we are talking about something not related to the word "ender"
This game is goated 🐐
Man the same voice acting from Wasteland 2 really fucked up the immersion factor.
Ow to bad I don't have 50+ hours to watch this video
Simpleton
endurance
9:23 you said that you can't have just one person stealthed, only the whole party. yes you can...you just have to select only that character and engage the stealth mode.
That is a feature they added numerous months after launch, this review was released on launch. Hence back then, you couldn't.
HaasGaming ah, okay. didn't know that 😃
its like baldur's gate with a better graphics
Almost, yes.
I wanted to like this game, I'm a huge Critical Role fan and they all have voices in this game, and the sequel has a number of their actual characters in it, but I couldn't get around the mechanics. It might be better on PC, but I was trying to play it on the Switch for the portability. I got through the tutorial and promptly abandoned the effort.
Nah mate Pillars of Eternity fucking sucks. Play a real crpg like Pathfinder Kingmaker. PoE hahahahha
En-DOO-rahns.
I just killed Aloth when I met him. :P
I HATED the attributes, and I hated the magic casting from the spells to the fact you cant buff pre combat. In the end I wasnt pulled in enough to even finish this game. They should have stuck with D&D lore/rule sets... they tried to make a user friendly "unique" one but in the end it just felt vanilla and boring.
Yea... when you've played chess you cant just be content with checkers. Thats what Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny is like to me lol
DnD neckbeards are hilarious.
My neck is cleanly shaven, thank you very much.
+Acesahn The attributes were so ass-backwards that the game completely lost me based on them alone.
So fucking true, the attributes just don't seem to be able to define a character, it's like i'm not actually building the characteristics of a person, but just putting random numbers together.I actually gave up on the game because of that, tried playing again i think 3 times. One day....
Overrated game. 3.5/5
„No spoilers” ... ONE MIN then spoilers :/ Damn!
If you don't see the negatives of the game, I won't take your review seriously. This is just a praise. This is why I like LazyPeon.
Except I mentioned quite a few negatives? Considering this was a launch review, certainly after playing it for many weeks after that as well I can think of a few more points - although I don't think they're all that crucial personally - like how the stronghold was really disappointing and how the first expansion, White March Part 1 was somewhat of a letdown but that doesn't take away from the fact that, even though this is one of my favourite games in years, I think I certainly mentioned quite a number of flaws when it came out.
I cannot take you seriously with the way you massively mispronounce endurance. It’s like you’ve never heard the word before. How do you go your whole life til the recording of this video never hearing the word “endure” or “endurance”? I swear, man. What is it with TH-camrs? It’s like you guys were raised in a lab or something
"Writing in PoE is superb"
Thumbs down and stopped watching right there - sorry, but tons of lore dump are not a good writing
At the beginning, I agree. Later on, it absolutely pays off.
Is is only me or something is wrong with the combat in this game? Everything seems to be fine in theory, but in practice I feel that every combat encounter is repetitive and the same. Additionally there are plenty of those combat encounters and you cannot talk it through out of combat in most cases, therefore making combat boring and irritating in the long run.
You surely speak about PoE ? Not about Dragon Age Origins ? And I am not trying to be mean. I am quite surprised. Those are exacly things which I say about DA O combat. Boring, repetative, highly annoying ... well you didn't mention op magic (PoE has it just like Origins) or annoying one animation of attack (Origins problem).
However I had no problem with combat. Except for boss fights which demanded better tactics from me.