Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 days agoYes it’s 40k, but it’s more like original sin in terms of gameplay kind of. Pretty good, nothing to be bummed about it if you don’t play it at all though. Personal take.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
To clarify:
Rogue Trader is Owlcat, not Larian. They are also gods of CRPGs and tend to have really good dialogue and character writing. But Larian’s thing is more the environmental systems whereas Owlcat tends to prefer to go REALLY hard on the core rulesets as well as the way branching narratives work.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Also note that Owlcat’s other Pathfinder game, Kingmaker, is absurdly punishing. Start with Wrath.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
What? You aren’t a fan of a mandatory minigame that can cause instant failures at any moment and is all but guaranteed to during the lead up to the penultimate dungeon (note: Fail states on that can and should be disabled)? Or are you talking about said penultimate dungeon being nothing but translucent enemies with mind control who respawn unless you do the exact opposite of every other battle in the game and rush in to take out their spawners?
In all fairness, you can trivialize a lot of the hell in Kingmaker just by metagaming and preparing for the endgame early. If you don’t… yeah.
Whereas WOTR’s ridiculously plentiful enemy type(s) are much less obnoxious (and very clearly telegraphed the entire game) and they got rid of said endless failstates.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Kingmaker also has the problem of every encounter being designed for a full party but not actually having access to a full party until late in Act 1, after many mandatory combat encounters. The RNG also seems to hate me.