gamesfreak64: Great art style, story characters, to bad the game is loaded with flashes , explosions and too many motions, lots of fast scrolling, i watched some play videos on youtube.
Thats why i wont buy it, besides i can barely run pillars (well its more that i cant run it without turning my pc into a barbq , and this game will give me even more performance problems.)
I stick with games like avadon , simple games, low requirements, no zooming, panning and superfast scrolling, i cant run most of the latest games at min. requirements, so i have to wait got old stuff to arrive, or new games that arent cpu/gpu hungry.
I bought it cause everyone was so postive about it, but tbh its to heavy, and the game is a very big letdown, i cant play it, to much strain on the pc, i stick to simple games, good old games from the past.
one can always hope, but like they say : "old habbits die hard ..."
but DLC is a goldmine, they arent likely to give that up, so they keep on digging gold.
Zeeaire: Thats excactly what I thought when I just read through this coming soon announcement.
The Story and the setting in general sound very promising, I would probably buy it if it wasn't for the cpu hungry effects.
Good roleplaying games like Planescape and Baldurs Gate were great without it, so why implement it?
Or at least, there should be an option for people who don't need all the effects in the environment, high end water movement and shadow play around and who have a PC that won't manage to run it.
Sometimes nicely hand drawn graphics already suffice.
I never found it annoying that the water in Arcanum was just like a huge blue carpet, you could just imagine it moving and that was enough.
I'm not sure if they really have to make a lot of games so hard to run on older PC's, look at Skyrim, it already has classy graphics and it runs smoothly enough on 2GB.
I won't buy a new PC for one or two games which sound nice at the first glance.
I saw the release of the demo of System Shock and when I saw the recommended requirements 16 GB RAM and the graphic card requirements..I nearly fell of my chair, where are PC standards going to today anyway? :o
Instead I decided to buy a laptop for 50 euros on ebay with win 98 so I can finally run the classics not already here on GOG :/ So many money saved I could not afford.
I also bought Pillars last year because of the positive reviews and because I love isometric roleplaying games.
And Pillars of Eternity is crashing every 30 minutes, and it isn't that exciting, at least in my personal opinion.
Which I found unnerving is that you couldn't communicate with a lot of characters, instead there only popped up a wall of text of experiences the character in front of you made and which are sometimes totally out of context.
But perhaps that is because I never became acquainted with the game setting with hundreds of difficult names of places and people you couldn't really match to anything. I didn't have that problem in Planescape Torment although it is complex,too.
And I also fear there will be DLC's, I wish that constant releasing of DLC's had never started in video game history.
Well,anyway I'm sure this game will appeal to a lot of people and I have the feeling most of the people have a PC good enough to play it.
I'm curious about the first comments even though I can't play it. Obsidian Entertainment sometimes is an indicator of quality. Let's see.
yup, its very cpu hungry and also gpu, cause usually you have a pc that has a gpu from about the same time you got the cpu and otehr pc parts, 2009 my pc was assembled by hand, i never want a pc that is ready to play cause you cant have the components you want and can afford.
So at the time the cpu mobo and gpu were affordable and performed well.
Most paper game magazines seem to have powerfull PC's cause they realy like the obsidian games, they can't hardly wait for it to arrive.
I bought old click and point games cause these will work on my old pc: i have the Animation Arts Bundle
i bought all games seperately , you spend a little more cause the games seem to 9.99 each, but there's a steam bundle: at current Summersales its only 11.49 euro which is a very very good deal, to bad its full of drm, LH2 runs without steam, LH1 does not, the secret files 1,2,3 and sam peeters also need steam to run.
Buy Animation Arts Bundle : (list price: 46 euro) : that's only 7.69 eu a game
Includes 6 items: Lost Horizon, Lost Horizon 2, Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis, Secret Files 3, Secret Files Tunguska, Secret Files: Sam Peters
secretfiles 3 and sam peeters and LH2 got nasty reviews, the others got 75% or more, so i dont understand why many other new games that have lower ratings do arrive, and these games wont arrive here.
If the bundle was at GOG i gladly pay 45,99€ for it. and maybe other games might like them as well, but i guess they wont be arriving in this lifetime and i dont think the allow gamin in heaven :D
anyway, thats why it's sad when all kinds of games do arrive , of which alot are average, but good old games like these arent coming.
