Do I get this - or Pillars of Eternity?

[Captain Keen]

...?

[Flo]

Pillars. Better artstyle, writing, characters, longer.

[Geeves]

If you feel like wasting money, get Pillars now while it is not on sale even though xmas is coming very soon and it is highly likely to be on sale then.

[Captain Keen]

Originally posted by Geeves:

If you feel like wasting money, get Pillars now while it is not on sale even though xmas is coming very soon and it is highly likely to be on sale then.

It's 50% on GOG. I'm not an idiot :p

[jutschi78]

Well, it depend what kind of Story and World u like.

The Game-Mechanics are quite similar. The biggest Difference in my Opionion is, that Pillars has a more old-school class-based Charaktersystem while Tyranny is more like Skyrm, you can be, everything you use. But as far als i can see, its better to spezialise in some Skills and Perk-Trees.

While die NPC can use whatever skill u like, their Perl-Trees are quite thematic and suggests one oder two classes.

Your First Companion for example have 2 Perk-trees, one to make an good archer and one to make her a kood two-weapon figther. Of course you can use magic over an over again, but she has no perks to improve her magical skills amd have only two spell slots.

Pillars is more a classic fantasy RPG like Baldurs Gate - Tyranny is more unique and darker. And you start as important member of the empire of Kyros - but it seems it is your decicion, if you bring the Overlords Will in the World, work for your own benefit oder support the Rebellion. But i am not that far in the game.

I like both games - but i like the unique way, Tyranny goes.

[Commander Corvus]

Both

[OpenSheep]

tryanny improves a lot on poe

[Big Moncho]

the story of poe is boring. Tyranny you actually feel more attached to the story, imo. I haven't felt impacted consecuences from a game in a long time. Tyranny makes me want to play the game a 2nd time just to see the other quest lines. I got to the last act in poe and i just didnt bother finishing it.

[DeckBlack]

Tyranny

[Clown Reemus]

No idea I can not foretell the future.

[Serpit]

I'm gonna say get Pillars. Story/setting aside, since that's pretty subjective, Tyranny is new and PoE is not. Pillars has gone through several iterations of bug fixes, new content being added, and general balancing. Tyranny was only just released, so you can expect to run into a lot more issues with bugs, poor balancing and lack of content by comparison, since a lot of those problems only really become visible after the game has been out for a while.

[Spy sapping my Pyro]

Pillars. Longer and better gameplay having some flaws.

[Tawm]

If you're not getting Tyranny, I'd suggest looking into older CRPGs instead. PoE is very, very bland as far as setting and writing goes, and the gameplay is objectively inferior to essentially every Infinity Engine game other than Torment. The latter can be said for Tyranny as well, but at least it has a compelling setting and plot with plenty of meaningful choices.

[Stratigamo]

Originally posted by Tawm:

If you're not getting Tyranny, I'd suggest looking into older CRPGs instead. PoE is very, very bland as far as setting and writing goes, and the gameplay is objectively inferior to essentially every Infinity Engine game other than Torment. The latter can be said for Tyranny as well, but at least it has a compelling setting and plot with plenty of meaningful choices.

This guy obviously loved the nuke centric mage "gameplay" of the infinity engines. And the constant buffing into a minor god. Gameplay is far superior in PoE and even moreso in Tyranny.

The writing is all up to personal taste, though, and I could agree on some points there.

[Hariwulf]

I'd start with POE. Finished product, no bugs, DLCs released.

[spaceunicorn]

I just started playing Tyranny, but So far I prefer PoE. The music and voice overs are amazing in PoE and the story just sucks you in quicker. That said, Tyranny is a lot of fun, but it's a different style of story but smilar combat mechanics compared to PoE