Comment on Dragon's Dogma 2: Review Thread
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoDepending on what you liked about BG3, I might recommend Solasta: Crown of the Magister. It’s much more linear (if my DM ran it I would accuse them of railroading), but it’s also based on 5e’s SRD. It offers much less freedom in how you play, but makes up for it by how well characterized the player characters are, especially considering they’re all entirely customizable and fully voiced. It’s easy to forget that the party isn’t made up of premade characters when they’re all sitting around a campfire having a conversation with each other.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh, thanks for the suggestion! Never heard of that game before, I’ll have to check it out. How would you rate the story?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I must admit it’s much shorter and simpler than BG3’s story. Objectively, I would give it a 6.5/10 for being overly simplistic and linear, but still a fully functional story without plot holes or many contrivances. It’s very easy to see where the story is going, there are very few surprises, your choices don’t much matter, and you literally meet in a tavern. Subjectively, I give it a 9/10, because although the story is simplistic and linear, it’s also easy to follow and fun to play, and it’s very reminiscent of every actual campaign I’ve ever played.
I especially like the second main campaign—it takes place shortly after your party resolves the story in the first campaign, when there are still problems going on in the north. I really like that people recognize the players as the heroic adventurers that they are, whole still acknowledging that the new threat is more dangerous than the old one. I’d say put off getting any DLC until after you beat the main campaign, unless you really want to play a barbarian or a warlock or something.