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There's not a single track worth of listening to in this game. Who thought it was a good idea to place the same depressing track that plays when you face Eothas and the other gods into a catacomb?! When you wonder into a dreaded dungeon, you'll be expecting a mystery or suspense track, not a melancholic one. Seriously, someone there needs to find a new job ASAP, because they suck at it. Hearing that repetitive OST completely killed the mood, I had to turn off the game's music so I could resume exploring the dungeon. To say nothing of combat music. I always turn it off. If the fight takes too long and you have to think a lot, you start getting crazy hearing those same monotonous sticky chords. Soundtrack is the game's greatest weakness by far, along with the awful "mobile-style" world exploration. There's also the Single/Multiclass balance issue, where going single + solo + PotD is downright suicidal without using console commands to boost your stats and add extra talents. But I shouldn't be complaining at all. Maybe they'll perform even worse in Avowed and we'll find ourselves nostalgically missing the first two classic entries in the series. Story and combat is what holds PoE II's rushed and unfinished pieces together, really. Even if I still enjoyed most of the game, and I think most players did, Obsidian needed an extra 1~2 years of heavy development to rework the island exploration system entirely and give the game less superficial, more meaningful content (notice how pretty much every dialogue line was shortened from PoE I because of the voice acting costs). The writing itself wasn't a big problem, even though I believe writers were given a "limited number of quest stages, scenes and dialogue lines" to work with. Last but not least, bounty quests felt like a disguised form of level grinding: totally uninteresting and repetitive, the kind of which you compulsively finish one after another just for the sake of gaining more XP.

Hello all, Was wondering how Pillars Of Eternity compared to NV in terms of an RPG. I know it's a highly regarding franchise, and I actually like the top-down iso style RPGs, but for some reason never got into Pillars. If I do buy it, do I start with the first? Or should I jump straight to POE Dead Fire?

I admit it, I am a complete noob. Especially when it comes to installing a mod AND extracting files. I am running Windows 7. So far I have downloaded and extracted the IE Mod to steamapps\common\Pillars of Eternity\PillarsOfEternity_Data\Managed. The instructions on the nexus site say to copy archive to this location overwriting ONE file in the process. My question/s; - which file do I overwrite (there are a bunch of .dll files at this location)? - the extracted archive is a FOLDER called WIN (containing folder ie mod), can someone please explain how I am to overwrite one file with a folder???? Sorry for my ignorance. I only hope you find this amusing and pitiful enough to take the time to help.