I don't get why this game has 80% positive reviews

[Ana]

As far as I have seen, the game has great graphics, Artistic Direction, music, several new classes and Gameplay is even flexible (Turn-based vs Real-time ; turning off the map control battles if you don't like it).

I don't get why a game like Pillars of Eternity 2 would get 90% positive reviews while from what I see it is a bit behind what Pathfinder WOTR offers.

I have not bought the game and I realllllly doubt whether I should buy it.
My doubt is based on this 80% positive reviews score (even though it is quite high).

Do you get why it only has 80%?

[Antinomy]

Probably because of bugs.

[PopsurSocks]

It released and continues to be quite buggy. Some of the negative reviews I've seen on steam even say "I think this game is great, but I gave it a negative review because of the bugs".

The more you know about the Pathfinder ruleset and how abilities/feats are supposed to work, the more bugs you find.

By the release of its 3rd DLC, Kingmaker was *mostly* bug free, so take that for what its worth.

[herbiehanx]

It is actually pretty good score for this type of game, from this type of dev. I believe bugs are the biggest reason for downvotes and it will take some time to iron them out.

[JustSmile]

Originally posted by Ana:

Do you get why it only has 80%?

Bugs. It's very bugged. It's an excellent game, but it's bugged to hell.

I love it, but it is bugged to hell, then back, then all around again.

[PinkPanther]

Maybe because of annoying fear effects? Been chasing demons in lategame more than fighting them x)
That could use some work, or a turn off switch^^

[CHAO$$$]

Bugs, performance and difficulty/game design

Performance was awful in deadfire as well but for some reason the majority of people didnt want to see it. This is a unity game as well. Performance is not great and degrades over time until you restart which is a common unity engine problem, here moreso than in kingmaker imo especially if they spam huge enemies with mirror image + onscreen effects (which do look quite nice).

People roll highest difficulty, realize its not easy mode like in Deadfire, cry on the forum and give a negative review. The game is not streamlined unlike everything else the industry puts out these days and people cant adapt (same threads everytime).

Bugs exist. Game is quite huge and there are a bunch of them although i personally havent seen a single one that was gamebreaking.

People run mods that break the game and blame the devs (every single time the game gets patched its the same thread).

[Elnidfse]

bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs
bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs

And the occasionally grievance of balancing issues. From the makers of "everything will hit your touch AC" here's "endgames a pain unless you hit touch AC"

[Tanchyon]

It's pretty good but it has a couple of things going against it. One, a few bugs that while are getting fixed pretty quickly can occasionally lead to the forums looking for a workaround. Two it really caters to the tabletop crowd and there are some players who just never seem to understand it or refuse to turn down the difficulty.

[FireMage]

What do You mean "only"? 80% possitive is a good score.

[Hobocop]

Crusade army battles are tedious and poorly balanced.

Get a mage general, doomstack archers, and delete enemy army stacks with pewpew. Watch out for enemy mage generals who will literally do the same thing to your own stacks. Begs the question as to why the other two general types even exist. The unique units you can recruit as part of your mythic path are often not worth using over this obviously dominant strategy.

Setting this to auto is not a safe option due to reports of it breaking several mythic quests and potentially missing out on powerful magical items and obvious QoL features like being able to build/use teleportation circles at outposts.

[Donduffino]

1) bugs. I didn't have a problem, but it's a mess for a lot of people
2) difficultly. It's extremely difficult. You'll have problems even on normal if you don't optimize.

But I agree, the lore and gameplay are a lot better than Pillars.

[herbiehanx]

Originally posted by FireMage:

What do You mean "only"? 80% possitive is a good score.

I think so too, because now this game can only get better, and I truly hope the final score will be closer to over 90% than below.

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by FireMage:

What do You mean "only"? 80% possitive is a good score.

I know right? Getting 80% of people on steam to agree with anything is a major feat these days.

[JonWoo]

Chaos just about nailed it. On top of that there's the Crusade mechanic which some people don't like too.

[Aldain]

Bugs and judging by how Kingmaker went Owlcat not taking the lessons learned from THAT launch and applying them to WotR.

I've also seen a few complaints about the Alignment system being overly rigid and the Crusade system being poorly implemented and the whole thing of Owlcat leaning into the powergaming nature of Pathfinder even more than Kingmaker to mixed effect in encounter design (stat adjustments in the options notwithstanding).

What's mostly keeping me from buying until a deep sale is the bugs and knowing how much they had to patch Kingmaker before it became more reasonable.