Amidst the thoughts of "turn-based is stale" and "turn-based was a product of obsolete hardware," Baldur's Gate 3 lands to debunk them all.
With a game like Baldur's Gate 3, a number of factors make it successful—but perhaps none are as powerful as its side quest design.
Article makes a great point and I agree with it but is spoiler heavy. It should be marked. If you haven’t played through the game be warned as it even spoils parts of act 3.
Thanks for this dude, I am very interested in playing when I have time and am trying to avoid spoilers.
This game rocks, everything is quality, and I love the cutscenes, which remind me of Dragon Age Origin.
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While we were so hoping to not have to update owners of the console physical Deluxe Edition with any further news of delay, we’ve now run into more production issues which means that players who pre-ordered their PS5 North America copy that was expected to ship later this month, will now have to wait until July before they can get their hands on them.
Got that email like 2 weeks ago. Tbh I'm not tripping. I understand sht happens. I'm just glad they changed their minds on the physical release
I with you. I got the email is well. Happy to eventually own a physical copy and glad it’s not digital only.
Baldur's Gate 3 is so good it might actually be a bad place to start with RPGs.
Baldurs Gate 3 was great, but I dont think it is as crazy as people make it out to be. I actually think Starfield is closer to being a crazy insane once in a lifetime game, but Im ready for the flak Im about to get.
If you think that then you either A never played Bg3 or B never watched anyone else play it, or C you don't know anything about the game, or D you played it and have no idea of the marvel it is in every single aspect of game design. It doesn't matter what game you compare it to, it doesn't hold a candle. Let alone starfield.
A. Ive played it thrice
B. Played with others, so there are moments of watching
C. Know more than I would care to about the game
D.
Thats quite bold, seeing as there are an inumerable amount of games for it to contend with. I also know plenty of people with their own gripes with the game.
As someone that creates things, and has actively sought to gather intel and understanding, I would say Baldurs Gates very nature makes it so it would have a hard time sitting upon the lofty throne you have given it. Similar to a Bethesda game, it is a game with a very large number of permutations and variables to consider, despite being smaller in scale by direct comparison.
Exemplary mastery of design philosophy is more certain to appear in a game that is for confined. One of the reasons I see Starfield the way I do is simply Bethesedas approach of breaking the rules. Anyone should hopefully know that you just dont try to fit a Bethesda game into a space game, but they found a way to pull it off. Do to the nature of large scale open world games, whether it is efficient or not depends on the angle one is looking at.
Many people would tell me immediately that loading screens and empty planets prove that they failed to pull it off. If you play Starfield like a conventional game yes
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Many people would tell me immediately that loading screens and empty planets prove that they failed to pull it off. If you play Starfield like a conventional game yes, it will seem disjointed and lazy; however, to those who realize what Bethesda were going for, you will see that the game is severely underestimated. The idea of God is hated and loved by many, and there is much controversy. Starfield is closer to that idea than people even notice.
Shows that turn based is still a usable method in rpgs. Dq11, baldurs gate 3, persona 5 were all pretty damn successful. There's still a very viable market for it.
This may be the first full price digital only game I have to buy 😮💨 looks so good
Crazy that BG3 delivers such uncompromising depth (so uncompromising that they got Xbox to bend the knee on Series parity), and is celebrated for it (as they rightfully deserve), in the same general timeframe that Final Fantasy reduced itself to almost braindead simplicity.
I was telling a friend I've played BG3 with how it's been hard for me to go back and finish 16. It's like I can close my eyes and mash square+triangle to defeat almost any basic fight, while in BG3 I have to plan out something as basic as walking across a bridge without getting stuck in a spiderweb.
Heck, I accidentally sold light armor and Astarion isn't proficient in Medium, so I even have him walking around naked so he can still fire all his abilities and spend an action putting on the Medium when I can't avoid a close encounter.
Turn based can be good, but it's not superior as a lot of people say.
Literally no one has stated that about turn base. Some people simply don’t like it as much, others do.
The only RPG series that got away from it is just Final Fantasy. That’s literally it.