So clearly I was still willing to screw my future self over for the sake of good storytelling. But then I binged on watching Netflix’s Daredevil (review coming soon!) and stayed up till 3am on a Sunday to see how the first season concluded. At first I thought maybe I was just becoming a responsible adult, a truly horrifying possibility.

Yet when I started my new job I felt no desire to stay up late and play Pillars when I got home.

Pillars of Eternity came out two days before I began my new job as a transcriber, and I couldn’t finish the game in that short period of time. There were moments in this game that brought me close to tearing up and yet… I never felt truly engaged in the main storyline. This what you call painting a picture with words. By average video game standards it’s a good story, but from the people who gave us Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Fallout New Vegas, it’s probably one of their least interesting stories.ĭon’t get me wrong there is some absolutely amazing writing in this game, I mean god damn spectacular writing. I was also surprised to find that the story was… okay. So I was surprised when Pillars of Eternity ended up having very little bugs, at least in my experience with the game. I’ve always had a soft spot for Obsidian because their games are exactly how I would expect mine to be if I ever made one: an amazing story stuck in a lair of bugs. Pillars of Eternity surprised me, but not in the ways I expected.

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