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This blog is dedicated to my study and analysis of the video game, Pillars of Eternity. Blog posts will consist of weekly journal entries discussing my studies. I will also use this site to keep track of all of my sources.
This counts towards 10% of my grade for my advanced studies course. I didn't want to use Wordpress due mostly to lack of customization, so here we are.
If you're a classmate or the professor viewing this page, feel free to NOT click the "Return to Soysawzz" link as it will return you to my main NeoCities site that has nothing to do with this work.
What is Pillars of Eternity?
For my fandom of study, I have chosen the video game (series, technically) Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment (my beloved). It was one of several nostalgic cRPG's crowd-funded around 2012. The primary source for my "reading" will be simply playing the game and paying attention/taking notes on it.
Secondary material will be the youtube videos on the game and other games by Tim Cain, some videos with Josh Sawyer, the short stories linked on the Obsidian website, a handful of video essays analysing the game and what I consider to be very similar RPGs. Specifically, I have the entirety of Hbomberguy's Fallout videos nearly memorized, so it will be easy to pull from them for ideas and critical techniques.
There is sadly limited (non-degenerate) fan work for the game due to it not being massively popular. I'm hopeful that the reddit, other forums, and a bit of fan work that is of greater substance can also be included in my study.