No other topics on this game on GB, but I'm just gonna throw in my two cents.
I'm 30 years old, lean (read: BMI is lower than anyone thinks is healthy) and in pretty good shape. For exercise I've done regular running and weight lifting in previous years but have fallen off because of life changes.
Played the beginning world for 30-ish minutes yesterday and it kinda kicked my ass. I'm looking forward to seeing what else this game has in store; I suspect the story won't hold up, but the gameplay is surprisingly fun.
I've actually been using a moka pot the last few weeks. It's coffee that's fairly similar to an espresso without needing an espresso machine. Add a bit of hot water to the result for something approximating an Americano, that's usually how I roll. Before that, I used an Aeropress consistently for about a year, and before that I made all my coffee in a Chemex. In the dark ages I had an actual coffee brewer.
Apparently there was a patch for the console versions yesterday, with performance improvements. Any of this stuff alleviated by that? My only input is that the game runs super-choppy on a 2013 Macbook Pro, while it's fine on a PC with a discreet GPU. The gamepad support seems solid(I'm playing on my TV via Steam), so I think the console versions should be perfectly playable once the performance issues get taken care of.
@phoophanphun: At least in my case the disc drive makes quite a bit of noise, but it generally only bothers me when I first load into the game, probably 'cause it does the most of its heavy loading into memory at that point. Loading times aren't horrible, but of course I haven't compared.
I was actually was given Torment as a Christmas present, and while Planescape: Torment is my absolute favourite game ever, I didn't give Torment's crowdfunding campaign much attention. As such, I hadn't given any thought to the stretch goals, but nothing you're saying is very surprising to me. I do agree that the hastily-added stretch goals for Eternity weren't really to the game's credit, and if I remember correctly, there was a stretch goal for a second major city in that game as well that was never realised.
As far as Torment is concerned, as I didn't participate in the crowdfunding I don't have a horse in that race, but I have played the game a bit this past month to get my feet wet ahead of its release, and I'm extremely pleased with the deftness with which they have built that world, or as much of it as I've seen. If the game holds up the quality of dialogue and world-building that I've seen from the first hours, this game will most likely be the best game I will have played this year, even if(or perhaps especially if) there's not too much content.
@big_denim: If I remember correctly I was doing a bit of overclocking, and after extended play of Shadow of Mordor(2016's Game of the Year of 2014) the game would soft-freeze and I'd get a "graphics drivers restarted" error message from Windows. The picture you provided shows you have a lot more space than I did(the case barely fit into it height-wise), so I shouldn't think you'll have any problems.
If I have the time I'll move my computer back into the entertainment center and stresstest it with some DOOM to see what happens.
I bought this case for my new computer build this year. It's not used as an HTPC right now, but I bought it to keep my options open in case I wanted to move it into an entertainment center later, so I got a CPU and GPU with lower TDP instead of the higher performing ones(namely i5 6600 and Asus Strix GTX 960). With 2 Noctua fans(S12B) providing static pressure, I'm getting some solid temps out of the GPU and it stays relatively silent.
I'd recommend this case for anyone, with the caveat that I did have some issues with stability when I tried placing the computer on a shelf in my entertainment center, but I believe you'd be fine as long as you didn't try to overclock.
If needed, I could move my computer back into the entertaiment center and run some benchmarks to see what kind of temps I get out of it.
@rinsatori: It's unlikely there'll be a console port, but at least Pillars got an official Steam Controller control scheme, so that could be a solution, maybe?
Man, I'm not sure how I'm gonna handle this and Dishonored 2 coming out back to back. Maybe I'll spend the holidays playing this on my laptop when I'm out and about. I didn't love Pillars of Eternity, but this seems like it might be a bit more interesting in its choices and story, hopefully.
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