This is easily the best first person fantasy RPG since Skyrim.
I genuinely cannot fathom what the mixed reviews are about, this is a phenomenal game.
Say what you want about Obsidian not having the same people that made FNV anymore, but theyve got some damn good talent regardless of that. This is a game that actually lives up to that legacy in my opinion.

Idk what people are on about saying the exploration and loot isnt good, this game gives out more unique armor and weapons than Skyrim does. The progression in terms of abilities is a bit slow feeling at times, you dont really have enough skill points to make any super good builds until the late game, but the bright side is its just a relatively small gold fee to respec all your abilities. If combat ever started feeling stale to me, I respecced and changed my build to something else, and theres a lot of different play styles to try out. And the combat is really interesting, they took a whole lot of cues from action type RPGs, so there is enemies telegraphing attacks, dodging, parrying, etc. The difficulty isnt as hard as the game makes it out to be, but at the hardest difficulty it is a genuine challenge. And you wont be dealing with annoyingly tanky enemeis or anything, the hardest difficulty is really well balanced and really fun, if you want to be forced to actually use all your abilities and strategize, I highly reccomend it. As far as story goes, it was phenomenal. I'd never played a Pillars game before this, and the game does a great job of introducing you to the world through conversations with people, and if you wanna go a bit deeper, the books you find. Your choices very much matter, I think its easily on par with New Vegas in terms of how much of an effect your choices have on the world.
I really dont know why more people havent been talking about this game, its seriously amazing. If you are an RPG fan of any sort, you owe it to yourself to try it out. Especially if its on sale like right now.

This is easily the best first person fantasy RPG since Skyrim. I genuinely cannot fathom what the mixed reviews are about, this is a phenomenal game. Say what you want about Obsidian not having the same people that made FNV anymore, but theyve got some damn good talent regardless of that. This is a game that actually lives up to that legacy in my opinion. Idk what people are on about saying the exploration and loot isnt good, this game gives out more unique armor and weapons than Skyrim does. The progression in terms of abilities is a bit slow feeling at times, you dont really have enough skill points to make any super good builds until the late game, but the bright side is its just a relatively small gold fee to respec all your abilities. If combat ever started feeling stale to me, I respecced and changed my build to something else, and theres a lot of different play styles to try out. And the combat is really interesting, they took a whole lot of cues from action type RPGs, so there is enemies telegraphing attacks, dodging, parrying, etc. The difficulty isnt as hard as the game makes it out to be, but at the hardest difficulty it is a genuine challenge. And you wont be dealing with annoyingly tanky enemeis or anything, the hardest difficulty is really well balanced and really fun, if you want to be forced to actually use all your abilities and strategize, I highly reccomend it. As far as story goes, it was phenomenal. I'd never played a Pillars game before this, and the game does a great job of introducing you to the world through conversations with people, and if you wanna go a bit deeper, the books you find. Your choices very much matter, I think its easily on par with New Vegas in terms of how much of an effect your choices have on the world. I really dont know why more people havent been talking about this game, its seriously amazing. If you are an RPG fan of any sort, you owe it to yourself to try it out. Especially if its on sale like right now.