Is the game actually good? Seeing a ton of hype around it, but also saw a ton of hype with Diablo 4 and Final Fantasy 16 and I thought both of those were mid at best.
It’s very good. D4 was also really good to be fair too, minmaxers just screamed a lot online while most people just played the game. I intentionally played a fire sorc this season because these people said it’s unplayable, currently in wt4 and doing tier 20 nm dungeons with my level 65 character so those people were obviously wrong.
If you like roleplaying games, absolutely yes. It’s way move involved than their previous games (which were also great). Divinity always felt AA at best, but the polish on BG3 is impeccable.
For me what really does it is the professional voice work and motion capture on seemingly every single sentiet humanoid character in the game. Even random folks who have a single line of dialogue have a unique voice and an interesting character design. They don’t all blend together, even when they are objectively filler characters.
D2 was maybe my favorite game. I couldn’t pay D4 more than an hour before being too bored to keep going. BG3 is capturing me though. It’s much heavier in the story and writing and less combat like a real dnd session would be. So far it’s not going to beat Pathfinder wotr for me but we’ll see
Depends on what you like. I’m enjoying it so far, but it’s not a casual game. It’s slow and there’s a ton of information thrown at you from the beginning in terms of game mechanics. It’s pretty overwhelming honestly, even though I’m familiar with older editions of d&d.
The turn based combat means battles can last a long time. It’s still satisfying, but it can also be a real slog sometimes.
I think a lot of people will find some of the dialogue mechanics tedious. If you want to roleplay for a certain outcome you’ll be forced to save scum because it uses on-screen dice rolls for conversation checks. But at the same time the RNG/dice system can lead to some cool, unexpected situations so I usually just go with it and enjoy the consequences, there’s a ton of freedom in this game and the writing and design is pretty clever. It does feel like a next gen RPG just because of the sheer scope of it and the huge number of options and abilities it gives you.
I’m finding the story interesting, the characters are well written, and there’s a ton of good content. It’s also gorgeous and hitting 60 fps on my laptop 3060 on ultra settings at 2k.
I’d say if you enjoy a deep/thoughtful role playing game, it’s worth trying. If you prefer a faster-paced RPG like Witcher or Dark Souls it might not be your cup of tea so watch some videos first. I definitely like it more than Diablo IV, but it’s basically a different genre entirely. It’s much, much deeper than D4.
Fair play to them, but it’s kind of crazy that just delivering an enjoyable experience for your customer is something to be lauded in the gaming industry…
Mind you, I am not even mad, because they are extra superflous items from DOS2, so whatever, but they definitely have at least dlc for in game items. I guess that isn’t really technically an in game purchase in the same way a dark pattern loot box is, but also in a single player game it is pretty much the same thing.
I am really supportive and happy for what Larian has done, but I think it is kind of naive for them to be beating their chest about this. Wizards of the Coast will one day probably force them to release monetized items, or charge for extra modules. I don’t think they will be unfair about it, but come on.
I dunno. They’ve provided this for free for Early Access backers (like me), which they didn’t need to do and none of this is required to enjoy the game. I just considering it as a bonus for backers and a small top up for people who don’t want to miss out.
it kinda doesn’t though, unless you’re able to complete the transaction from within the game. I’m okay with paying $10 for what is essentially a digital t-shirt that says “I paid the $10” and has no effect on gameplay.
I mean but come on, dlc for in game items - I don’t care how you slice it, that’s a microtransation, even if you don’t purcase from within the game UI.
That’s true of lots of predatory behavior and doesn’t excuse it. Even if 90% of people don’t use them, the whales make it worth it. People with addictive personalities or so much money that it just means nothing to them. And we all suffer for it.
I don’t see how games having microtransactions necessarily hurts anyone else
Many games wouldn’t exist at all without said microtransactions (looking at you, League of Legends) and I vastly prefer having those games to not having them
I might be wrong, but aren’t whales the target demographic for microtransactions? It’s not like the majority of players are buying them. It’s a “vocal” minority that make the business model viable via insane spending habits and the rest of us just have to deal with it.
Back in college I worked at a big box store (so pretty much everyone was making minimum wage) and one of my coworkers told me he spent something similar on Clash of Clans. Absolutely insane
This is the problem with the whole “vote with your dollar” thing overall. Going by net worth, the median net worth of an american family is $103,500. Jeff Bezos, otoh, has a net worth of 152 billion. That means that he has 1468999 times as many votes as the average person. That’s about a third the population of America. If we “vote with our dollars” because “the free-er the markets, the free-er the people” then one guy has the same power as a full third of the country’s population. As inequality increases, the middle class is disappearing. The number of people with effectively no voice at all is increasing, and the number of people with a voice that can speak over the populations of entire states is also increasing.
My partner and I have started using the vague “Y’know, covid…” to dismiss anything without explaining it. It comes from when I was in the hospital and they wanted to stay on the couch in my room with me. They were told that they couldn’t, and when they asked why the nurse just said “y’know, covid…”. Now in real life, the best covid policy is to stay, not to go out into the world and come back. But after 3 years of all sorts of knock-on craziness due to the pandemic people who work in customer service seem to have realized that they can just say “you know, covid…” to almost anything and everyone else will just be like “Yeah…”
I want to play this game so badly, but I might wait to see how it plays on PS5. Seems like a great couch game. Little worried about how it’ll control though.
Coming from someone who doesn’t really like DOS2 with a controller - they made it work a lot better in Baldur’s Gate 3 and it is at the point where I am mostly playing with a controller. Turn based mode goes a long way in this game to not having mouse selectivity.
It plays impressively well with a PS5 controller. I’m playing with one on my PC. I actually think it plays better with the controller than mouse and keyboard, which I tried first. On PC it dynamically changes to the console UI when you use a controller. They clearly put a lot of thought and effort into the controls.
Bought this when it was first released on beta, life got busy and it was prown to glitches since it was very incomplete. Just updated it last night and am stocked to make an attempt at a play through :)
Bought it a few weeks ago and could compare the early access version to the final version now. Not only is the game amazing and incredibly deep but also very polished. I did encounter some very minor bugs but overall, I’m completely amazed.
Chances are those glitches have been fixed. Theyve been keeping on top of the game and released 3 patches already. Thing is though, these arent multi gigabyte patches like other games. These are straight to the point patches that are < 400MB. its awesome
I will defend microtransactions till the day I die!!!
For free to play games, where they belong, where it’s a means for a dev to make money without cramming ads into a game or selling your data.
Full priced games having micros is the most bullshit fuckery. Every MMO you play now, cool mount? It’s a micro! Because grinding doesn’t make these companies more money.
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