In many ways, leveling praise or complaints onto Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is doing so to the subgenre itself. Even if it doesn't break new ground for the genre there are no filler quests and the writing is wonderful. The bottom line is that POE2DF is a rich and rewarding title
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PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???
And they never fixed it.
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I'm the editor, not reviewer but Matt felt that it was so strongly entrenched in that old genre, doing everything fantastically as you say but, well, typically. That's perfectly fine, we don't get enough dense RPGs, I'll take something supremely competent over an innovative gamble.