Pillars of Eternity (Original game & PoE 2: Deadfire)

Character stats, race and background are not imported because it mechanically changed too much. Only the world state, companion's endings and quest choices are.

Saying that, you don't have to import a save, you can use the history maker in the game to create a new world state, or pick one of the preset.

People are reporting multiple import errors. Although, your dialogues could just be flavor interaction (could be funny if the game catch you lying).

Josh Sawyer was surprised Sunday that some import stuff was misfiring in the twitch streams this weekend because they tested all of it. I don't remember reviewers mentioning problem with that either, but most of them probably haven't played the first game so...

That doesn't bother me too much, considering five of the companions are basically cut-outs this time around.

Then again the companions in the first game were ok but a ton of them lacked character too...

Any words on who is/isn't romanceable yet in this?

Saw this on the official Obsidian forums on the subject.


Male Watcher:


- Maia

- Xoti

-Tekehu


Female Watcher:


- Maia

- Xoti

- Tekehu

- Aloth


It may have been a stretch goal but saying Obsidian and companion romance in the same sentence feels really odd as such I'm not expecting anything fantastic.

I like PoE II much more than PoE though from what I've played so far.

I thought godlike are immune to emotions and cannot reproduce. er...if I'm not mistaken.

I bought the GOG POEII + 1 game. Can't pass up on such a offer after further spinning around.   Installed and playing. I'm thinking POEII might be the same case with the DOS series; I bought the first one, never finished it. Bought the second one, DOS II, finished it, liked it too. 

The ship battles aren't too bad, contrary to expectations. The one thing I'm grumbling over is having to toss 1k overboard just to appease some freaking god. It's that or have the crew rumbling away. So far, I'm staying interested. The pace is better than the first one, plus 1000 points to VAs. I don't think I can go back to non-VA and reading walls of text any more for RPG games. Also, companions are interesting. Not playing multi-class. That includes the companions too; I'd be interested to see how the top tier skills play out. 

I know they can have sex, I thought they're not emotionally involved. If there's such a thing. *thinks* having a roll in the hay feeling nothing, that doesn't sound right, does it?

Oh don't I know about Tekehu. he and Maia jumped on my toon all at once while I was following up a quest line. I was going; wha...what? That's a little too fast, I say. Still, I like the fact they made the first moves, not the protag. I don't know who to go for, I'm trying to keep relationships balanced. 

The game is really good !
I mean there's a number of frustrating import glitches and stuff ...but there's so much going on.
It blows POE 1 out of the water.

And yeah the romances are a bit wonky.
I mean there's a certain wizard who keep on ignoring me, but Xoti, Shark Boy and Kana sister have really easy to up relationships. You joke around for 5 scd and they bat their eyelashes and drop their panties on the spot.

But otherwise, with the boat stuff, the factions, the companions + the main quests ...there's a ton of interesting things to do and it's all very layered.
Remind me a bit of Fallout NEw Vegas, structure wise.

It's occurred to me that the Watcher I imported never did the White March.

Wonder if that will make a difference...

So I'm actually giving a go the first Pillars. After seeing Cohh streams playing the first game a couple of weeks back, and now the second game, it picked my interest a little bit more.
Now, I was aware of the game's existence ever since release, but I didn't quite like the concept. However I'm finding myself somewhat enjoying the game for now, last weekend I pretty much played non stop, only to do some breaks to watch some TV shows.

Anyways, my gripe with the game is a bit of the style. 2D isometric generates issues, plus it's very dialogue intensive, and some times that exhausts me, I'm not used to this style.
I understand the game is supposed to be based on D&D style, which I unfortunately was never able to play in my childhood due to various factors; and also heavily inspired in Baldur's Gate, which I actually did play a bit, but since I played the game so fucking late (about 8 years ago, probably in 2010) it never caught my interest due to how dated the game is.

So, I've said the 2D isometric style causes issues in the sense that the pathing is weird at times for the party, they glitch out. Not often, but it happened a few times that it was a bit distracting trying to figure how to get on top of a "building" of sorts because it's 2D. The art style itself I have no problem with however.

I'm still having fun with the game, and there's something that I cannot quite say that keeps me going back and keep playing it. Quests are really detailed in design, and it may be super dialogue intensive, but that definitely helps out with the quests: no "go there, kill that, return for reward" type of quests. Definitely Obsidian's strong suit.
It's also definitely very challenging at times, having me completely give out on some quests to come later because I get my ass handed over. Leveling up seems to be SUPER slow though, I wish they let you level up faster or get more abilities per level, but oh well.