Pillars of Eternity

I'll start by saying that I played this on PS4 and I think that really skewed my overall experience to the negative. It's very apparent early on that this was chiefly designed with PC players in mind. The interface is clunky and downright unpleasant to use, particularly when it comes to navigation. A game I could have otherwise spent a hundred hours on became something I couldn't get through fast enough.

With all of that being said, I still spent around 40 hours playing. The world building is top notch, the voice acting and characters are engaging and interesting, and the graphics are pretty for it being a classic RPG style game.

I know it'll never happen, but I wish this could be remastered to streamline the experience for console. I badly want a Dragon Age-style game with this same story and world. And actual cinematics would be absolutely lovely as well. Maybe I'm missing the point of the experience, but I very much felt like I was playing an older RPG that was released in 2015 with the same gameplay shortcomings as something released a decade earlier. I really hope Deadfire has some quality of life improvements for console.