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Pillars of Eternity from Obsidian has a new patch coming nearly 9 years after releaseJan 9, 2024 - GamingOnLinuxWell this is quite a surprise isn't it? Obsidian Entertainment have announced a new patch is coming and now in Beta on Steam for their 2015 RPG the Pillars of Eternity. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/pillars-of-eternity-from-obsidian-has-a-new-patch-coming-nearly-9-years-after-release Nearly 10 years after it came out, Obsidian's isometric RPG Pillars of Eternity gets a surprise updateJan 8, 2024 - PC GamerBaldur's Gate 3 is the big, world-changing isometric party-based RPG that everyone's still talking about, but I've always felt that Pillars of Eternity is the game that really first started turning that engine over. The OG Infinity Engine vibes were strong, but it stood well on its own merits too: We called it "a deep, rich, and wonderfully written RPG that lives up to the towering legacy of the games that inspired it" in our 92% review... Read more.Finished Baldur's Gate 3? This 10/10 CRPG just got a surprise updateJan 5, 2024 - PCGamesNUnexpectedly, Pillars of Eternity developer Obsidian Entertainment has rolled out a patch for the classic 2015 CRPG, fixing plenty of bugs and issues plaguing the game. Longtime fans are stunned by the sudden update since it has been literal years since Pillars of Eternity received a substantial patch, and potentially, there may be more on the horizon from the developer. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This week's free Epic Store games are two Obsidian RPGs - and they're now live What does it mean if Microsoft buys Obsidian? Pillars of Eternity, Tacoma, and 19 more games are free with Amazon Prime this month Obsidian's Josh Sawyer wants to do Pillars of Eternity 3 with Baldur's Gate 3's budgetOct 20, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunObsidian Entertainment design director Josh Sawyer has said that he'd be well up for making a new Pillars of Eternity RPG, given a budget on par with Baldur's Gate 3. Specifically, he'd like to build on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire's combat system, and use a "scripted 3D camera" that avoids some of the fuss of exploring the world and navigating the interface of Larian's game. Read more Josh Sawyer would like to make Pillars of Eternity 3, but only if he got a Baldur's Gate 3-sized budgetOct 19, 2023 - PC GamerI recently got around to playing Pentiment, and while I won't spoil the experience for anyone I will say, "Man. Wow. Holy cow," as I stare off pensively into the distance. After contemplating the nature of existing for a few days, my main takeaway was that Obsidian should just give Josh Sawyer a few million dollars every five years or so, and tell him to come back when he's done... Read more.Forget Baldur's Gate 3, I'm playing a CRPG from 2015Jul 13, 2023 - Wargamer.comRead the rest of the story... Pillars Of Eternity and Tyranny are this week's Epic Store freebiesDec 10, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Fancy your RPGs a little slower, a little fiddlier, and a little more isometric than today’s big release? Two stellar Obsidian adventures, Pillars Of Eternity and Tyranny, are this week’s free giveaways on the Epic Games Store. So if you’re not feeling up to jacking into your cyberware just yet, there’s a good week of free high-fantasy plundering and moustache-twirling villainy ahead before the free games lineup rolls over once again next Thursday. (more…) Obsidian RPGs Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny are next week's free Epic Store gamesDec 4, 2020 - EurogamerThere's a double-whammy of Obsidian-Entertainment-shaped RPG freebies coming to the Epic Games Store next week, so if you've been eager to sink your adventuring mitts into either Pillars of Eternity or Tyranny, you now know where to point your internet in the coming days. They're both good 'uns, of course, with Pillars of Eternity managing to secure itself a Eurogamer Recommended badge when it released back in 2015. It's a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, deliberately designed to replicate the nostalgic old-school whiff of '90s RPGs - which is to say, exactly what the 73,000 people who stumped up four million dollars to support the project on Kickstarter were hoping for. There's overworld exploration and dungeon crawling to be done as one of the game's eleven classes - Barbarian, Chanter, Cipher, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Priest, Ranger, Rogue, and Wizard - and the end result is an experience Eurogamer called "an RPG with design firmly rooted in nostalgia, but one that absolutely doesn't rely on it to be enjoyable today." Read more Pillars Of Eternity and Tyranny are free on the Epic Games Store next weekDec 4, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun As though we didn’t already have several massive new games to get through this month, next week we’re getting a bunch of RPGs thrust upon us, too. Epic Games have revealed their free games for the week starting December 10th are two big Obsidian romps, Pillars Of Eternity – Definitive Edition and Tyranny – Gold Edition. It just so happens that they’re free on the very same day that Cyberpunk 2077 launches. So, will you go for a new futuristic RPG that’s gonna cost you upwards of £50? Or two known very good fantasy RPGs that are completely free? (more…) The next free games from Epic are two Obsidian RPGsDec 3, 2020 - PCGamesNAnother week is here, and that means another round of free PC games from the Epic Games Store. This week, you can grab the classic indie metroidvania, Cave Story+, and next week's selections hold a pair of terrific titles for fans of RPG games. Obsidian's Path of Exile and Tyranny, plus each of their respective DLC packs, will be free to claim starting next week. Both Pillars of Eternity: Definitive Edition and Tyranny: Gold Edition will be free to claim on the Epic Store promotion page on December 10 at 8:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 16:00 GMT. (You don't have any other big RPGs to play on that date, right?) The games will be available to claim until December 17 at those same times. Pillars of Eternity is a traditional isometric RPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate. You build a custom character, collect a party of varied companions, and run through strategic battles and mountains of dialogue text in a grand fantasy adventure. The Definitive Edition includes both White March DLC packs, plus all the additional digital bonuses that came with various editions of the original game. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: What does it mean if Microsoft buys Obsidian? Pillars of Eternity, Tacoma, and 19 more games are free with Amazon Prime this month RPG players don't like paying for their DLC, according to a survey from Obsidian The best RPGs on PC in 2020Nov 11, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunLast year brought RPG gems like Disco Elysium. Was there an RPG as good released in 2020? We’ve updated our list of the best RPGs of all time to reflect the best of the past year – and there’s still dozens of older classics, too. (more…) Paradox are running a sale to fundraise for coronavirus reliefApr 1, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunParadox Interactive are pitching in on Covid-19 coronavirus relief efforts with a sale on several of their big management games and RPGs until Friday, April 3rd. You can snag some mighty hefty discounts on things like Cities: Skylines, Pillars Of Eternity, and BattleTech. Paradox are committing proceeds from the sale to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund. (more…) The best RPGs to play on PCJan 30, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe best RPGs have always found their home on PC, but it’s a big genre and it can be difficult to know what you should play next. That’s why we’ve put together this list. (more…) Visiting post-acquisition Obsidian to see how much has changedNov 14, 2019 - EurogamerI visited Obsidian Entertainment a couple of weeks ago for the reveal of the studio's first game for new owner Microsoft. If you remember, The Outer Worlds was published by Private Division, Take-Two's label for partnering with independent studios (Obsidian was independent when the deal was made). This was, then, a significant moment. The game itself was a bit of an anti-climax - Grounded, a small-team survival game with a Honey I Shrunk the Kids hook - but I still got an opportunity to nose around the studio and see what changed post-acquisition and since I visited in August 2017. The answer, in a nutshell, is "not a lot", which is encouraging. Obsidian still resides in the same office block in the eerily perfect city of Irvine, California, and still occupies the same amount of office space. It's still a bit tatty, which I like, and the only real sign there's now Microsoft money behind the studio is a pile of boxes with computers and monitors in them. Read more I wouldn't expect a Pillars Of Eternity 3 soonNov 11, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Sales of Pillars Of Eternity 2: Deadfire were disappointing enough that Obsidian Entertainment would need to “re-examine the entire format of the game” before making a hypothetical third, game director Josh Sawyer has suggested. Writing in response to a fan asking after a third game, Sawyer explained that the sequel sold worse than the original, and he’d need to understand why before they were to do another in the same style. He makes clear that whether Pillars 3 happens is not a decision he himself has control over, but this does sound like the series is at least taking a break. (more…) Low Deadfire sales means Obsidian would have to "re-examine the entire format of the game" before committing to Pillars of Eternity 3Nov 9, 2019 - EurogamerWill there be a Pillars of Eternity 3? It sounds like the series' design chief wants to work out what went wrong with the last game before taking on another sequel. Old-school role-playing game Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire was critically acclaimed but sold poorly compared to its predecessor and other, similar games. Obsidian's Josh Sawyer has said he wants to work out why before committing to making Pillars of Eternity 3. "That is not something that I get to decide, but I do think that the relatively low sales of Deadfire mean that if we consider making another Pillars game in this style, we're going to have to re-examine the entire format of the game," Sawyer wrote on his Tumblr. Read more The best RPGs on PC in 2019Oct 11, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Look! A ranking of the 50 best RPGs on PC. I know, you never asked for this, but here it is. It is 100 percent correct, we double-checked. The RPG is a broad and deep sea and fishing out the best games from its characterful waters is no easy task. But we are capable fishers on the good ship RPS, and know when to humanely throw back a tiddler or fight to heave up a monster. Enough of this salty metaphor. Here are the 50 best RPGs you can play on PC today. (more…) Borderlands, Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny feature in the Humble RPG BundleSep 4, 2019 - EurogamerYou can pick up Borderlands, Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny and many more all-consuming games in the latest Humble RPG Bundle. As usual, it's a multi-tier affair with the more money you commit granting you access to even more games. Starting at a ridiculously low 83p, you'll get Hiveswap: Act 1, Deep Sky Derelicts and Immortal Planet for the minimum investment. I haven't had the pleasure of trying any of these games for myself, though hearing Deep Sky Derelicts described as a "procedurally-generated roguelite turn-based RPG with cards" has me intrigued. That is, after recovering from the barrage of buzzwords. Things get a little more recognisable on the second tier, though, where you can pay 3.48 to get Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity and Cat Quest. Now, the first two are easily up there with some of the best cRPGs of the modern era. Perhaps not quite Divinity: Original Sin level, but both are undoubtedly terrific games. As for Cat Quest, well, do you really need any more convincing after hearing that title? Read more Pillars Of Eternity 2 fully launches turn-based mode, adds more story beatsMay 9, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunPillars Of Eternity 2: Deadfire didn’t set the charts ablaze the way I’d hoped, but that hasn’t stopped Obsidian from giving the piratical RPG some top-notch support. Released yesterday, Patch 5.0 is set to be the final major update for the game, marking the end of beta testing for its turn-based combat mode, overhauling the ship interaction UI and adding some new story stuff. They’ve even gone as far as roping in the original voice actors to provide new dialogue to help flesh out the main plot arc. Below, a video overview of the changes, plus a challenge for only the maddest of players. (more…) Daily Deal - Pillars of Eternity, up to 50% OffMar 9, 2019 - AnnouncementToday's Deal: Save up to 50% on Pillars of Eternity!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

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