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The heart of this game, and the most satisfying part for me, is the dialogue and where it can take you. Get ready to spend a lot of time in your inventory screens. I began my play-through with a Godlike Priest of Eothas, same as I used for my second run of PoE1, but when I encountered a very similar party member early on, I scrapped him and re-started with an Aumaua Fury Druid who hails from from the Deadfire Archipelago, which has already opened up some fun dialogue choices.

My initial impression is that Deadfire is bigger than any of them and potentially better. I played the original through twice - my object was to adventure with all of different classes in my party - as well as the DLC, and since then I poured plenty of hours into Tides of Numenera and Divinity 2. This game is in my wheelhouse, and I'm loving it so far. First is David Katzmaier, famous in CNET circles for at one time hosting a regular Friday night D&D game in an office conference room.

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It sounds like a hassle, but in both of these indie RPGs, I found the community problem solving to be one of the most appealing features.Д«eing new to this series, I turned to two of CNET's most dedicated PC RPG fans to get their take on Deadfire.

Also like Original Sin 2, you'll spend plenty of time in the game's Reddit channel and discussion boards on Steam and the game's official site, trading tips with fellow players as everyone figures out the mechanics together. Much of the minutia of the game's combat, and may other parts of it, are shrouded in mystery or never clearly explained by the very thin tutorials. There's still plenty of fighting in dungeons. It's a nice break from the standard gameplay.Дon't be scared off by the boats. Deadfire adds some interesting twists, taking both naval combat, some on-land adventuring and key conversations and turning them into text-based games, where you have to choose the best (or best for you) response to move the story along. That means there's no way to change the camera angle to swivel around and get a better view all you get is zoom.Д«ut fans of the genre who prefer the classic style won't have a problem with that, although I admit I prefer the more modern-feeling Original Sin 2 interface. The backgrounds are beautifully rendered, but in 2D, with 3D characters walking over them. While Original Sin 2 took the classic RPG style and gave it a substantial update, with fully 3D graphics, tons of visual polish, and console-friendly gamepad controls (it's coming to consoles later in 2018), Deadfire plays it as a straight-up homage to the Baldur's Gate brigade. That this style of game is having something of a renaissance is great news for those of us who grew up playing actual tabletop Dungeons and Dragons or other role-playing games (even if I hung up my 20-sided dice in the eighth grade.) Most of the new generation of PC-based RPGs are crowdfunded, including the original 2015 Pillars of Eternity, 2017's Divinity: Original Sin 2 and now Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire ( to the tune of $4.4 million).

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Life (and death) comes at you fast in the Deadfire archipelago, the series of islands where this metaphysical adventure plays out. After that, my entire crew is cut down by a wave of apparently better-trained fighters. Things look like they're going well for about the first five seconds. The pirates lay planks across from their deck to mine, and my hearty band of adventurers prepares for battle, casting some spells to increase our defense and stats, and others to confuse or slow down the enemy. Ship-to-ship fighting becomes a tense series of menu choices. If you've played a D&D-inspired game like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, or any of the many others from the late '90s and early 2000s, this will be familiar territory. I have to imagine those things, because ship-to-ship combat in the new role-playing game Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire plays out through a series of illustrated multiple choice screens, almost like a classic choose-your-own-adventure book (or perhaps like an old-school pen-and-paper nautical strategy game).Д«ut when our ships are within boarding distance, the game returns to much more familiar territory, a classic point-and-click RPG, viewed from an overhead isometric angle. I imagine the crashing waves and salt air as our ships hurtle towards each other. The distance between us closes from 500 meters to just dozens before I have a chance to order my skeleton crew to fire off more than a couple of rounds of cannonballs.

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Despite this, my foe unfurls his pirate flag and makes right for me, full sail ahead. Only a single cannon emerges from the port side, compared to the powerful pair I'm turning to starboard to aim at them. The enemy ship is larger than mine, but through my spyglass I can tell its wooden hull is weak.

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