Hell yeah, please post impressions.
is anyone playing the baldurās gate 3 early access? is there a thread of it iām missing? i thought it would be big news around here. i donāt have a computer that can play it but iām curious about how itās going so far
I was pretty unimpressed! it really felt like they grafted D&D onto the original sin formula and broke everything about what made it work; they lost both the terry pratchett nonsense tone and the tightness and immediacy of the combat
refunded after 3 hours, ty steam, will check back in next year
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oh sad! do you think it can be fixed? i mean the writing stuff probably not, but maybe they can at least make the combat better? what a bummer
I donāt have super high hopes based on what I saw, it really seems like a regression in approach, but weāll see
On the one hand, Felixās opinions on crpgs are Extremely Bizarre and should be taken as a barometer for no one
On the other hand, never play a game in early access
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Counterpoint to ānever play a game in early accessā is Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, an awesome Quake 1-inspired throwback FPS developed on the DarkPlaces sourceport whose early access version is essentially episode 1 of 3 a la the old shareware model.
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Me and my buddy have played a few hours of it together and we fucking love it. Iām not going to say our experience is universal or that itās already a Great RPG but can you have fun with it? Fuck yeah you can
Thereās obviously a ton of work to be done but if you have fond memories of baldurs gate and like the divinity engine it holds a lot promise. Our main goal is always to do dumb shit in combat and wow how perfect. The divinity engine lets you easily do a bunch of stuff thatās cool but way too tedious to do at the table, and all the environmental/elemental stuff makes sure combat way more interesting than the infinity engine games.
I donāt care about baldurs gate the city or forgotten realms at all but thereās a very strong chance this turns into a spelljammer campaign which is easily, easily the most fun d&d setting. Fantasy space flight? Sign me uuuup
Itās basically a game made for us two nerds and I donāt care how well it stacks up against pillars of eternity 2: didnāt get very far because these games are at their best with a bud on the same wavelength as you
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I continue to be the weirdest CRPG fan, who dislikes CRPGs proportionally to how much RPG nerds like them
I uh Iām not doing it on purpose
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I think we just have different criteria for what makes an RPG good and thatās okay? I wouldnāt even call myself an RPG nerd because I donāt actually play very many of them and have never finished a western style rpg in my life
no, of course it is, Iām just always amused that this genre I nominally like actually regularly produces stuff I that enjoy at all, given how much my tastes run opposite to the people who theoretically have more claim to it than I do!
I am very excited how BG3 is committing to expecting you to fail 50-75% of rolls, and just keep going. Its refreshing after New Vegasā fix to save scumming to just let you know you know youāre going to succeed.
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As long as we can all agree that Outer Worlds is boring as shit
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Mostly, but for one or two endearing companions and their little sub-plots
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Outer Worlds put me in a coma
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Is this supposed to be the skeletal corpse of the King of Hyrule?
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Huh, I guess thatās pretty definite then. I always just assumed it was the wizard Agahnim from the green robes chilling on the throne wearing the crown.
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so, certain key members of my extended family have decided that a global pandemic is a great time to plan a large-scale family reunion. Is there anything I can do about this to get it shut down, and maybe get some of them arrested in the process, fingers crossed?
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send a bunch of male strippers in gender reveal party outfits holding signs that say āANTIFA PROAERITHā and then call the police about this loud and lewd party going on ānext doorā.
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