So no answers on the addons like the strategy guide - then what about the first expansion being offered for $20 if you buy now?
While I know the convenience is nice, there are a multitude of other retailers that have better sales than Steam. Bought my copy for $30 on release day and it's even cheaper now. Key's activate on Steam unless they state otherwise. If you really want to play the game, and don't have some deep-down subconscious desire to buy it solely through them, there's really no use waiting for Steam to have their sale.Might pick this up on sale. Sure it will be a while though. Seems like it is taking longer for games to go cheap on steam lately.
So I finally finished the game, with 58 hours played. At first I tried to do all quests and search everywhere, but around three quarters through I stopped caring and just wanted to finish it.
I played it to death, and feel it was worth every penny, but in the end for everything better, there were four other things that should have gotten more attention.
Not to mention this game is extremely buggy - Ultima Ascension buggy. Even after the first big patch, I can't even load a game without waiting minutes in the main menu like it's reading my save from a cloud (which it's not). And, when I started, a quicksave took ~3 seconds, and zone load ~15; now a quicksave takes ~30 seconds and a zone load a minute or more (even for new games).
Doesn't measure up to BG, but tries and is fun. You can kill boss level creatures with lvl 2 spells, tripping dragons (think about that) into prone for extra damage, and hump your party members with your 1992 pathfinding. Good try, fun, but hoped for more and bugs and balance issue problems EA is better at spoils it.
Am I the only one who is doing runs with expert mode and trial of iron on hard until you die then start over?
So I finally finished the game, with 58 hours played. At first I tried to do all quests and search everywhere, but around three quarters through I stopped caring and just wanted to finish it.
I played it to death, and feel it was worth every penny, but in the end for everything better, there were four other things that should have gotten more attention.
Not to mention this game is extremely buggy - Ultima Ascension buggy. Even after the first big patch, I can't even load a game without waiting minutes in the main menu like it's reading my save from a cloud (which it's not). And, when I started, a quicksave took ~3 seconds, and zone load ~15; now a quicksave takes ~30 seconds and a zone load a minute or more (even for new games).
Doesn't measure up to BG, but tries and is fun. You can kill boss level creatures with lvl 2 spells, tripping dragons (think about that) into prone for extra damage, and hump your party members with your 1992 pathfinding. Good try, fun, but hoped for more and bugs and balance issue problems EA is better at spoils it.
So I finally finished the game, with 58 hours played. At first I tried to do all quests and search everywhere, but around three quarters through I stopped caring and just wanted to finish it.
I played it to death, and feel it was worth every penny, but in the end for everything better, there were four other things that should have gotten more attention.
Not to mention this game is extremely buggy - Ultima Ascension buggy. Even after the first big patch, I can't even load a game without waiting minutes in the main menu like it's reading my save from a cloud (which it's not). And, when I started, a quicksave took ~3 seconds, and zone load ~15; now a quicksave takes ~30 seconds and a zone load a minute or more (even for new games).
Doesn't measure up to BG, but tries and is fun. You can kill boss level creatures with lvl 2 spells, tripping dragons (think about that) into prone for extra damage, and hump your party members with your 1992 pathfinding. Good try, fun, but hoped for more and bugs and balance issue problems EA is better at spoils it.
Tripping? The best part of dragons in this game is when they fly over your oil slick, slip - on the oil slick, in midair - and fall from the sky.
Yea, those too
<snip> Putting the bed on the second floor - so instead of one loading screen to rest, you had to deal with 3 total - that's just pointlessly wasting the player's time.<snip>
The lack of a way to play on after victory makes me wonder if they somehow missed the last 10 years of gaming.
And all sorts of other little things. The class description for a wizard says you eventually turn low level spells into per-encounter abilities. But 'eventually' apparently means 'at a level higher then the level cap in this game.'
It being a story based game is why I expected it to allow you to keep going. Fallout 2 did, and Dragon Age did. It's a simple measure to allow players to experience all the content in the game without massive sidetracking disrupting the story. That's a real immersion breaker in a game like this where they're trying so very hard to press the need for haste into the story by the main character going insane.
It starts earlier, but people don't notice. At level 9-10 the first level spells are per-encounter. At level 11-12 the first and second level spells are per-encounter.It's a story based game, not some open world Elder Scrolls game. The game should end at the end.
If you got your wizard to level 12, you would notice that your level 1 and 2 spells become per encounter.
I'd honestly rank PoE favorably with the Icewind Dales and the first Baldur's Gate. It doesn't come anywhere close to BG2 or Torment but it was very fun. Hope they make a sequel.
I'm stuck at floor 9 for now since my Mechanic skill is not high enough to open every chests and doors on the 8th and 9th floor. Will have to some back.
Well another Trial of Iron run trashed and gone for all time now. This might start to turn into tear inducing if you want to even get that far if anywhere at all. The Skuldr King basically destroyed my whole party although I made some mistakes and got Aloth knocked out early which meant the start of the end for my character. Was not that far from actually winning the fight which just makes it all the more sad and frustrating.