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With big effort I created some custom made portraits to POE2. Please do not see spoiler this is some very nasty mod/edit the game and not big majority people do so my advice skip to read it.

I want to say he can't get any weirder but I am probably wrong...

Yikes, I've never felt the oxygen leave a room virtually before.

Time to pull an emergency lever:

This is truly one of the threads of all time.

Yes, of all the threads that have ever been, this was one of them.

Jaysus. I have never laughed so hard at a single series of posts. My chest hurts.

Thanks all.

Dear forum members. I did now put by majority considered unpopular and very rare (not something huge majority would do likely) part into spoiler at least.

Lets forget that detail and discuss games otherwise. Well since they have said POE2 is supposed to be so freaking "easy" at least compare to POE1 endbattle if you do that at level 10-11 level range well then I created a character without resorting to see any guide whatsoever despite it is not Dungeons Dragons and not so familiar with it.

It does help in POE2 character creation though that when you create character I guess depending on class it says example very important on one ability increase and then some important and then on something else and then does not mention important so some ability increases.
I suppose that I will not play now for a while because I have slightly fever.

My own theory POE2 is so freaking easy is that if you play it as big Open World World and start exploring you eventually will hit very much experience points and high level and then you go to end battle when very high level.

Link to very likely release date click Avowed down below this
Avowed
Rumor: Avowed Release Date Narrowed Down in New Report

A new rumor making the rounds online potentially narrows down the release date for upcoming first-person RPG Avowed

According to a new rumor, Avowed could be targeting a Q2 2024 release window. Obsidian Entertainment's first-person action-RPG Avowed was one of the first next-gen only games revealed for the Xbox Series X, but not much has been seen of the game since its initial announcement trailer. With so little revealed about Avowed since its announcement, fans may not be surprised to learn that the game will apparently not come out until 2024 at the earliest.

While there have been leaked Avowed screenshots showing the game in action, fans have otherwise not seen anything about it since the initial reveal trailer, which debuted nearly three years ago at this point. Xbox fans keep their fingers crossed that they will get to see more of Avowed at every big show, but the events come and go with no sign of the highly-anticipated action-RPG.

Original trailer not UNREAL 5 graphics from year 2020:


Well and Avowed is much bigger then Skyrim in area from what I have head and it will have Unreal 5 graphics and Pillars of Eternity lore/world. Avowed is single player game. What do I believe of Q2 2024 release date rumor? Considering the source I believe it to be true and sounds realistic. Of course it could be postponed to 2025, but I believe they plan to release it Q2/2024.

That's very much the reason. The game accomodates rushing through the crit story, so if you engage with not strictly required faction content, and side content you will quickly find yourself overleveled and overgeared even if scaling up is turned on. Deadly Deadfire mod addresses this problem but throttling experience gain, and increasing level scaling.

That said, end game content is decent - two optional end game dungeons have been patched to be more fitting for a max level party, and of course there are 3 DLCs which are a major spike in difficulty.

All that said, a lot of reputation of PoE2 easy difficulty comes from launch where game was very poorly balanced. Even professional reviews pointed out to unengagingly low difficulty, which is rare. Add to that custom AI editor, which means that one didn't even have to do anything in combat.

Thank you for your advice ad information. Well have been sick and to much work stress during week. Now I have 3 level 3 character and 2 of 2 level characters.

Pilllars of Eternity 2 verdict so far:
+ Graphics while not amazing or great are ok.
+ Retro feeling like BG1 or BG2 despite not Dungeons Dragons.
+ Sound world and music decent at least.
+ Does run on my gaming laptop.
+ You can edit looks of your own created characters also the 2D portrait with modding.
+ Challenge yes at early levels do not feel to easy specially if you set higher levels I would in fact recommend to not set above Veteran
challenge level. Veteran challenge level feels enough challenge for sure and you can on fly change to Classic if someone feels Veteran is to hard.
Path of Damned perhaps if you at high level begin to feel everything is to easy.
+ You do not have to use some silly scaling like in Guild Wars 2. It is optional to use scaling and I never want to use scaling.
+ Runs stable no system crashes so far.
+ POE 2 lore /world and gods feels fairly good world.
+ Point click on map travel feels ok.
+ While not so crystal clear as World of Warcraft MMO with exclamation markers... if you use TAB button it will highlight the important NPC and they have usually
a specific name first name and surname (last name). Works fine and clear enough.
+ Gives still a bit exploring feel though not to much Open World.
Neutral. Multiclassing feel a bit confusing and overwhelming at least if you do not look at any guides and have not played POE1 for years or never
or first time playing POE2 as me. It is absolutely more easy to plan single class feels like that at least.
Neutral: Story seem ok, but could be better.
Neutral: It does demand something my gaming laptop fans increase and still a warm becomes the laptop while playing POE2.
Neutral: While system is ok I do prefer Dungeons Dragons 5.0 rules or Pathfinder 2 rules.
- I have not found any way to rotate the camera angle so far not that it has stopped me from playing the game.
- Does support only single player and this despite you need to control more then one character.
My Vote: 8.5 /10 very good.

I am glad you are enjoying the game so far!

No, you can’t rotate the map - it is done more or less the way Infinity games were with pre-rendered 2d background with skewed perspective. I personally prefer that, as I don’t have to fight the camera, I see everything that I need to see and it’s easier to navigate.

Well after ultra left attacked Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy and said it is 1/10 game and I know this game is for best consoles and PC. Basically ultra left wanted that J. K. Rowling Harry Potter author that has much power over this game do some changes that ultra left like and J. K. K Rowling that is in England responded perhaps more diplomatically said, but message was like no and you go and fuck yourselves and end of discussion!

I wanted a see true professional review that I respect and hopefully spoiler free. Here we go spoiler free excellent review:

Everything honestly explained. The good , the bad and the ugly. What could be ugly? If you want very good framerates then max settings on PS5 is not optimal and if you set performance setting it does not look so great. If you set fidelity mode on PS5 it does demand more, but looks much better. The bad? See what he says. However generally this is very good game indeed!

Been playing Hogwarts. Beautiful graphics, fun spells, decent story…but its major mechanic is literally “dress up your wizard by grinding”. So only a 6/10 for me, personally.

Did anyone here play Tyranny by chance? A shorter game, but I personally enjoyed it. Curious what other more hard core rpg gamers thought about it.

I liked Tyranny for what it was. It didn’t wow me, but it did a lot of things differently than other RPGs and I really appreciated the creativity. I definitely wish that game could have had a bigger budget but there is no way such a niche project would have that kind of back so I get it.

@Terminator2020

The political discourse around Hogwart’s Legacy is exhausting. Nobody else here has given any indication that they wish to discuss that here. Please stop trying to introduce politics into the discussion.

Actually not 100% true. You can optionally in Hogwarts if you want buy with real money cosmetics in the cash shop then there is less grind to get the cosmetic item. However you can not buy power in that game. Have not played Hogwarts, but I know it from the review. However this grind and lack of enough good cosmetic item rewards was the bad I did not say in my last comment.

You know there is lots of grind in WOW MMO and Neverwinter Nights ONLINE MMO yet I enjoyed them for years. Of course they had the ultimate carrot though grind for power and not cosmetics! Well ok it was some grind to get fastest horse in Neverwinter Nights ONLINE MMO to earn that took look time. That horse was example of things that does not give power it does not help in combat you unmount in Neverwinter ONLINE MMO.

Yet you give reactions that indicate you care and are totally out of toipic and unprofessional not ok behavior from you. Please learn to express more diplomatically. In addition you act like your morals matter whatever they might be, but from reactions not same as mine.

Discuss games and not people thank you. That game has been drawn into politics discussion more or less but most that needs to be said about that game has been done now.

Um, yeah... There's games which drive on beautiful cosmetics and games that don't. As far as I can see, Hogwarts would, for example, have you pay 20-120€ (from memory) for a slightly different wand. That isn't really comparable to a skin that makes your char look completely different.

The grind for power and largely pew pew spell combat are also major turn offs. I don't like the story at all from what I've seen of it. Maybe the writing is good, maybe it's horrible... but it just doesn't appeal to me

Politically, it's not the ultra left that condemns it (like communists) it's LGBT people and allies from all kinds of political leanings.

Whatever you think of this, almost everyone was united in their dislike for SIRona RYAN for one precious moment. Rumour has it Rowling's Manina Dress wasn't approved by their PR department. (This is a joke based on Rowling's naming conventions)

No. Somebody politely asking you to refrain from a topic of discussion is not indicative that they care to discuss that topic. Obviously.