Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Will Light Up The Nintendo Switch This Holiday Season

Instant buy

Looks great. I loved Diablo 2 back in the day, this look like it would scratch that itch.

Maybe I just need to give it more time but I didn't really enjoy much out of the first game. However I do enjoy the genre so even so will keep an eye on this.

@TheWorkingDead
This is nothing like the diablo series, just a heads up so you won't be disappointed.
Pillars of Eternity is awesome, but very different.

That's great news. I hope they port the first game as well though, never got around playing that one and I'd love it on Switch.
@TheWorkingDead It's more like Baldur's Gate than Diablo.

@TheWorkingDead Sorry to disappoint, but this is nothing like Diablo. If you liked Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale back in the day, that's a better point of reference.

Man, that is good news. I predicted this when Obsidian this that hype thing with a burning character on Twitter. Aside from that, they also had some polls online if people were interested in a Switch version of this game.

This looks great.

I really wanted to like Pillars of Eternity 1, I really did but I just couldn't get it into it. WRPGs are always a little bit fickle for me for whatever reason.

I do respect the insane amount of customization the game has, as well as choices having actual consequences.

Oooh.......looks the part hopefully it plays just as well.

@TheWorkingDead Pillars is basically a continuation of the Infinity-Engine games of years past. All of these were and still are amazing games, with BGII probably being my favorite game ever, but they are most certainly not Diablo, not by a long shot. Completely different ball game ...

Fantastic. Proper, old-school CRPG. This is exactly what the Switch softrware library needs. Fills a proper gap, and this series is straight out of the top drawer. Now, if only we could get Divinity: Original Sin 2 as well...

Day 1 and i cannot wait!!!

Freakin' awesome news! Any chance we can get Divinity Original Sin (1 and or 2), as well?

This fills a bit of a gap in the Switch library and the first game was apparently very good, so great news!

AWESOME

I've never played a game like this before but I've always wanted to. It's got that Jason and the Argonauts and Sinbad look to it which I adored as a kid. An instant buy!

We've got Titans Quest coming this spring too which looks kind of similar.

@Expa0 I know what you mean. I liked Pillars of Eternity, but it didn't have the same draw as the Black Isle games of old. I just found your reason for fighting or getting pulled in felt a little too forced. I prefered Torment Tides of Numenera instead personally.

Still, this will be an instant day 1 buy for me. Now hopefully we can get Divinity 2 on the Switch also. Love me some infinity engine games

Could never get on with Baldurs Gate style games, so will probably give this a miss

So many times I considered buying this on PC. Now i feel justified in waiting.

I'm really looking forward to this.

I loved Baldur's Gate and its related games back in the day, and Pillars of Eternity has been on my to-get list for a long time. Looks like I'll put this one on my to-get list for the Switch

I was enjoying Pillars of Eternity I, until I did my usual "drop because I'm too busy and where was I now? oh crap..."

I would really be excited to get this on the Switch, great story, and great turn-based combat combine to make a great RPG!

Impressive looking. Anyone know if it has a setting to reduce the humans exploding into bloody chunk splatters? I mean maybe the game has too many adult themes and content anyway, but my son loves turn-based strategy and it would be nice to able to tone it down.

@Lone_Beagle I really hate that, and I feel bad about it. Some games are just so hard to get back into once you put them down. And then I feel bad for not finishing. Same thing happened to me with PoE, but it was a great game up until that point. Maybe having it on a portable will help with that issue.

AMAZING! Was just looking at this game a week back, and wondering if I should buy it for PC.

Now it's an insta-buy for me for the Switch!

Wasteland 2 and Pillars of Eternity 2.

Never seen a Nintendo console get these kinds of games before... Switch is truly a new beast

Awesome news. If there's one thing my Switch needs more of, it's good western RPGs.

Fantastic! I'm currently playing the first one on the XBone and it's awesome.

loved the first one, would get it on the switch if the port came out sooner, I don't want to wait that long

Interested to see how a Baldur's Gate type game like this converts to the console. A quality WRPG is very much welcome. It's nothing like Diablo or Titan's Quest for people who are wondering.

@TheWorkingDead If you're looking for the Diablo II vibe on Switch, pick up Titan Quest that should be launching in the Spring. That's a classic "Diablo Clone" first released on PC around the time of Diablo II itself from what was then Sierra. It does some things better, and some things worse than Diablo II, but does almost everything better than Diablo III If you love the Diablo II gameplay loop, you won't be disappointed with TQ! Also, it was designed by Brian Sullivan of Age of Empires design legend.

This as everyone said is the spiritual successor of Infinity Engine games from Black Isle/Bioware/Interplay in the 90's (also the same time as Diablo II but more of a turn based/manual active-time battle system), Baldur's Gate, BGII, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment. Obsidian consists of a large part of the Black Isle team that was closed down when Interplay went bankrupt, so it's largely the same team that made those games (minus the Bioware leadership which has proven they were NEVER the brains behind those games to begin with, despite getting the credit. They built the engine but apparently, weren't the guiding force of the gameplay design.)

@Ralek85 Have you played Divinity: Original Sin? How does PoE compare? I tried to get into Divinity and it just.......is missing something to me....I can't get into it. And I'm an Infinity engine die-hard.

I WANT IT

@NEStalgia Yeah, I haven't managed to get into it myself, not really. I absolutely concede that it is a good game, and I love how the combat and spellcasting uses basic physics and the environment, but something about the world just felt off and generic to me. Part of it is probably also purely due to the visuals. Top-notch hand-drawn visuals, like in BG2, will always beat middle-of-the-road 3D visuals, which is pretty much what Divinity is/was.

@Ralek85 For me it's not just the world, though that's very true. Something about the systems in the game don't grab me. From the very first battle it just seemed kind of....IDK....unstructured?

@NEStalgia I dunno if it is unstructured, but I felt it was definitely more ... well ... complex, maybe? Certainly as far as the combat goes. There are definitely other sensibilites at play in Original Sin than in the likes of BG, IcD or even these days, PoE. I have to admit though, that I find hard pressed to really point out why I did not grab me the way I had hoped. There is something very familiar about PoE that was just comforting to me. I mean, I played BGII like 5 times I think, even once entirely with friends in coop during a like 5-day long lan session way back then. Original Sin never evoked much nostalgia in me. It's been quite a long time since I tried my hand at OS though. I think it would have to go back and try it again, and pay closer attention to what bothers or, or maybe, what I find 'lacking'. I just remember that much of OS felt alien to me, and while Pillars felt in some ways fresh, it felt always familiar. Dunno really ... ^^

IDK about this on Switch. That's a lot of text for the little screen. Docked may not be so bad, but I just can't see playing PoE on a 7" screen. I couldn't do BGIISE on a tablet.

A BALDUR'S GATE style game for Switch? Bring it on!

Fantastic news! I think I have a better chance of actually finishing this game if I play it on Switch, than I have of ever finishing the first one on PC. In recent years, it's getting harder for me to commit to sitting in front of my PC and playing a lengthy game. It's a bit of a shame, really.

Instant buy! Can't wait for this.

I never got around to playing the first game. Maybe they will bring it out as a digital release for Switch as well if Deadfire is success with the audience.

This is great news! I wasn't a big fan of the first game but this is a good sign for the genre as a whole. Hope we eventually get Pathfinder Kingmaker for the Switch!