Avowed Anyone?

[Knaves Quill]

I don't know much about the setting. Is there a lore YT channel you would recommend?

Mortismal Gaming on YT has a whole playlist of Eora/Pillars of Eternity lore; most of them are pretty short videos. It's from early on in this channel's life, so the audio is not super, but not too horrible I think. Link to the playlist:

 

[Reynard]

Mortismal Gaming on YT has a whole playlist of Eora/Pillars of Eternity lore; most of them are pretty short videos. It's from early on in this channel's life, so the audio is not super, but not too horrible I think. Link to the playlist:

I forgot about that. Mortismal Gaming is my preferred reviewer.

 

[Knaves Quill]

I forgot about that. Mortismal Gaming is my preferred reviewer.

Same here; his style is focused on the worth and overall enjoyment of the games, and he really tries to respect the efforts put in by the devs.

 

[Reynard]

Same here; his style is focused on the worth and overall enjoyment of the games, and he really tries to respect the efforts put in by the devs.

Plus, it is clear he really loves gaming. He goes all in and it shows. I am glad it has worked out for him. Too many YouTubers succeed by being massive dumpster fires.

 

[Distracted DM]

I'm a HUGE Pillars of Eternity fan, but I hate paying for early access to a game, so my principles are just barely winning out. I'm eager to visit Eora again, but I'll just enjoy it when it's out fully.

Same! Except I can put off things like this for a weirdly long time ... I reaaaally loved PoE1+2, though.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

12 hours in now, and I will say, it's actually got better, I'd say it's pretty great right now, with some unexpectedly huge side-quests. One I just bumped into and thought would be a simple boss-kill quest has bloomed out into a massive deep-lore involving dungeon deal, where the dungeon changed hugely halfway through.

Also even on my terrible PC it looks pretty amazing (and the weird deal where it has low-ish - 30-40 - FPS but plays better than most games do on a higher FPS continues, which is good!).

Here is my character - I wish I could adjust her lips down a bit and make them slightly smaller lol but you can't edit the face once you're in-game (it does warn you at least). Also wish I'd chosen showier godlike features. Also some random pics.

 

[Reynard]

I failed my save and bought it last night. Now I am going to play that instead of doing a bunch of other things I am behind on.

 

[Reynard]

I feel good about getting a few days of early access for $20. It is a fun game. I am not particularly familiar with Pillars, but the story is still engaging and I like the fact that there are races and monsters I don't recognize from every other RPG. It is no Skyrim, but it isn't trying to be.

I am glad I bought it, rather than played it on Game Pass, because I prefer to reward devs and companies that make good stuff. But I would recommend it even if you just want to try it out on GP.

 

[wicked cool]

I’m liking it a lot so far and it was a total suprise as it was never on my radar until a few days ago. Hat tip to renfail for doing a good job with his early access playthrough
Dragon age was/is such a big disappointment for me I’m using this to move on

 

[Joshua Randall]

So far it feels like not-Skyrim with weirder lore. But, I'll give it a shot.