4% of people are completely uncultured and don’t realize “You can literally talk to animals!”
You can do other things with animals too.
I can BE ONE!
Lick that spider.
It deserves it. It’s not a perfect game, but it’s a hell of a good one and it is incredibly satisfying to play.
My biggest gripe is that save scumming often feels absolutely necessary because you’ll unknowingly get yourself into situations that you just can’t push through without reloading or your whole party dying.
A good DM knows that games are most fun when the party barely scrapes by, but doesn’t die until the end game. If they could have implemented some sort of dynamic difficulty that adjusted background rolls and enemy decisions to keep the player pushing forward, it would have felt much more satisfying.
It’s as close to a perfect game as we’re getting nowadays.
It definitely has plenty of flaws, but the good things heavily outweigh the bad.
I mean just the shear scope of that game is crazy. It’s very ambitious .There are so many dialog options. I’ve tried to explore as much as I can in my first playthrough but I can tell there’s a lot of content that I’ve missed.
Can’t wait to do a second run.
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Ok but thats worse. They never learned from it.
Balders Gate 2 was developed by Bioware and published by Interplay. That’s not to say Larian couldn’t have learned from it anyway, but it’s not a lesson they would have learned from experience.
That’s why you play in honor mode :p
All jokes aside, I had the most blast playing the game when going in blind on a Dark Urge playthru with honor mode.
It’s not a good dm that fudge rolls and adjust difficulty. It’s a dm you like. And it’s a game you like.
It’s not fudging roles, it’s making NPC decisions that help keep the game moving forward.
A party of actual players would not be very happy with a DM that killed everyone in the first two hours of playing. Which is exactly what happened when I played BG3. Quickly taught me to save often and reload when I realize I’m completely losing a fight.
Going that way, there’s no reason to completely lose a fight in BG3. You can flee and resurrect everyone, unlike in most tabletop games.
Which leads to what I was saying : if tpk is the doing of the party, through its decisions, carelessness and/or poor play, they deserve to die.
Don’t tell the forums that, they’re convinced it’s an unplayable woke government ops pathetic remake zoophilia kissing simulator insult to d&d. It’s got so many bugs you can’t play it on anything short of a super computer, and is targeting children with it’s addicting gameplay and low system requirements.
Every day there’s a new 3 page screed expanding each of the above adjectives into paragraphs of garbage. Yet somehow most of the authors don’t own the game, and it’s has a overwhelmingly positive rating…
I love BG3 as a video game, but I feel like Hasbro is going to take a lot of the ideas and try their best to translate them into the trrpg space and shittify both on the way through.
And it’s always people that have private profiles.
If you’re profile is private on steam you’re automatically disregarded.Video game forums are always garbage.
But partially in their defense, it makes my 4070 work and the only other time it gets that warm is when I’m running stable diffusion on it constantly.
TBH it’s really not that surprising, just classic gatekeeping - cRPGs were very niche for a long time and those people dislike the fact many new people are suddenly interested in them because of this game.
I kinda get it in a way, I think some other games in the genre deserve this success more, but at the end of the day it’s still better than most of the shit released lately.
Lemmy is the opposite. Don’t dare criticize or say you dislike BG3 or else they will come for you.
I still have to find the time to complete this game one day.
I think the biggest draw toward BG3 is the replay-ability!
I think I had 200+ hr on my first play through, but I made decisions, that I won’t say for spoiler reasons, that cut off multiple entire story lines that I have read are another ~80hrs + of playtime! Super cool, in my opinion.
The players actions CHANGE the world, many games have strived for this, although few have achieved. BG3 achieved!
Just gonna hang back for that first big price drop.
I loved Divinity:OS/2 and figured if BG3 was even half as good, it would be worth the money. Waited until it was out of Early Access, then bought it. Worth every euro. And the soundtrack is a masterpiece! Not that I expected any different.
Played it a little bit (up to the goblin fort part), was pretty neat. Fights take a long ass time to resolve, but you can get pretty creative with them.
Now, this might be a personal thing, but the game somehow doesn’t really have that fantasy feel? It’s like playing Mass Effect with a fantasy paint coating over it, rather than playing an actual fantasy game. I hope I’m making sense here, lol. From my point of view, a work of fiction with a good fantasy atmosphere is all about that personal tranquil, solemn journey rather than bombastic adventures, romance or whatever. It’s the kind of mood that you get while listening to dungeon synth – a genre directly inspired by classic fantasy. Lunacid is a good example of what I am talking about.
Another point of contention for me is the disk size of the game. Now that I have more of disk space available to me, I could give it another chance, though
I always get the feeling that D&D’s Forgotten Realms is a more goofy kind of fantasy, like everything you want is possible. It’s about imagination and self-expression, rather than setting strict rules for how things work. Makes sense imo, they want it to be the world that you use to create your own stories for P&P games, so it should have many different facets and can’t be too limiting.
Yeah, that’s probably it
Another point of contention for me is the disk size of the game. Now that I have more of disk space available to me
I was going to say, do people even really care about drive space anymore these days, considering how inexpensive it is.
I don’t really keep up with the hardware market, so I have no idea; I’m a laptop user
I don’t really keep up with the hardware market, so I have no idea; I’m a laptop user
Well, generally speaking, you can always upgrade the hard drive on your laptop too, if and when you need more space.
So you might want to keep up on it, at least the pricing of replacement hard drives, for when you need more space.
Don’t care, don’t play new games, too expensive. Will wait for 90% off.
