I also love how reincarnation is a fact of life in that world, and souls are a real, almost physical, thing that can be manipulated and used.
Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Pillars of Eternity. I really appreciate that they must have had some Anthropology majors on the team, especially for II, because the worlds feel much more exotic than other RPGs. It shows up just how generic Medieval Fantasy most RPGs are.
The tropical Roparu (?) society with its caste system is particularly interesting. The interaction of the various factions is believable. And of course the pantheon is well though out.
The downside is that they can be clumsy about exposition of the world - especially in the first one, you get these enormous lore-dumps.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
seat6@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I couldn’t agree more! It’s a fantasy game but it explores some really cool concepts; like colonialism and freedom vs order.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 3 days ago
I can't wait till they add true turn based combat to Pillars of Eternity.
I played avout 3-4 hours and the setting and world, but the real time combat did not work for me.
I don't mind real-time combat, but it has been in third person.