The Axe of the Blood God.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God,

US Gamer's official RPG podcast where we talk about

everything pertaining to the role-playing genre. I'm your host, Kat Bailey, and joining me today

is a couple of newcomers, a couple of new additions to the party. Please welcome Jason Wilson

from Games Beat. Hello.

And Rowan Kaiser, freelancer, extraordinaire, formerly of Winterscoming.net, whose work can be found a lot of places,

but we worked together previously at Joystick, where I had a JRP column and he had a Western RPG column.

Hello.

So today we're going to be talking about Pillars of Eternity, which came out a week ago as of this recording.

It's a new old game by Obsidian that is in the style of the Infinity Engine games from the late 90s and early

2000s games like Icewindale and Balders Gate and Plainscape Torment and other games of that

fashion even though that it was made in the Unity Engine we've all been reviewing it or playing it over the past week or so, and by the time

that you see this recording, you should be able to actually read at least my review, which

will be going up later today. So you should go to USGamerin.comnet and check that out. So I think the first thing I really

want to do is kind of let's lend some context to what this whole infinity engine thing is. And I think

we should just start with Jason, you're a long-time role-playing fan. You kind of love these

games. Can you shed some light on why you really like Infinity Engine games? Well, I like all kinds

of RPGs. What I really love about the Infinity Engine games, where, you know, being able to

create party members up to six if you wanted to jigger it right

in Boulder's Gate. I like the pause controls for combat. I liked all the feedback you get from

combat. I like the control you have over that. I like the exploration. The maps could be a little limiting at times,

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