You scared me lmao
I thought it was a 4.5/10 xD
Haha, nah, USGamer does a 5-point system. If you transpose it to a 10-point scale, Metacritic will argue that 4/5 is 80/100, even though it's actually a 90/100 (a 5-point system is really just cutting off the bottom 5 points of a 10-point scale).
Oh, that's not too bad! Good to know, thanks!
A 4.5 is effectively a 90. I'd say that's better than "not too bad."
32 hours is most likely the main story and some small amounts of content. There is some pretty heady side content in the game.
Sorry, that's with almost all the side content in the game. I went through every map and visited every island. The only things I didn't complete at the end were a couple faction quests, a bounty chain (they make up probably half the missions in the game and there are only two types of bounties), and like... 2 other bounties. There was only one location in the game I didn't spend a lot of time in (the market district of the big city) that might have given me a few more quests, but when I did explore it, I didn't find anything.
The only way the game would be a lot longer is if you actually listened to all the dialogue. I just read it all.
32 hours seems very short. That's basically Tyranny level. Does it have the same amount of choices and consequences as Tyranny?
I haven't played much Tyranny, but Tyranny would do stuff like leave ENTIRE TOWNS DESTROYED AND UNINHABITABLE based on choices in character creation and I don't think PoE2 does anything on that scale. But I only played it once, so maybe it's huge.
The choice and consequence is pretty standard for an Obsidian game. You'll have a ton of fairly linear quests that everyone will gloss over, and then you'll have a few more complex things (kinda like how New Vegas) and of course, you can kill anyone.
Most of the actual choice and consequence is just "did you pass a skill check here?" not "can I sneak into this guy's house at night/what if I sweet talk someone into letting me in/could I kidnap a diplomat, steal their papers, and pretend to be someone else?" type creativity.
It's kinda like New Vegas in that there are a lot of ways to ~define~ your character through dialogue, but people pretend that "where's the beef" is indicative of the entire game when it's really the only quest that's super complex.
What I liked about the game was how I was able to roleplay a character growing gradually more impatient and sassy with everyone until I finally snapped and murdered the fuck out of ~everything~ that got in my way. A lot of other games just let you be one kind of person: good or bad. There's more nuance here.
Buuuuuut... like... yeah, it's not SUPER COMPLEX RPG or anything. It's very very very much an Obsidian game, with all the advantage and disadvantages that entails.
Only recently I learned the team that created New Vegas made this game.
For that alone I'm interested in this and past projects I missed.
The reviews are glowing but I feel most of their explanations are superficial. Looking forward to a video review.
I fuckin loved this game despite my complaints about Obsidian's quest design. Would highly recommend getting into it.
Tyranny, which I'm playing now, feels 'cheaper' but way way way deeper in terms of choice and consequence.
