Developers and experts in CRPGs give us their takes on why Baldur's Gate 3 and RPGs in general seize the public's imagi…
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RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre
Submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to games@lemmy.world
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tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
finthechat@kbin.social 1 year ago
Often when we talk about "hype" surrounding a release, it’s in anticipation of shared cultural euphoria more than that of a great gaming experience.
Maybe I'm hijacking the discussion, but also I don't care. That quote is the first line of the article. That's pretty much exactly what I was trying to talk about the last time I commented about BG3 and called all the excitement surrounding it just "hype" and people were crawling out of the bushes to downvote and dunk on me for criticizing their new favorite game. Every time I looked at my message inbox I was making that "wtf" face the guy made when fucking O'Reilly said "tide goes in, tides goes out, you can't explain that."
stephenc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Amazes me how invested we are in “games” that are 99% story, 1% tedious gameplay and call “RPGs”. Meanwhile, a beautiful, awesome modern take on the original Wizardry dropped, a game that says “fuck story, fight through this dungeon for your goddamn life, have some real RPG mechanics instead of 500 pages of dialog every five seconds” and no one seems to care.
JRPGs ruined western CRPGs long ago and the original BG was one of the ones that did it.
gac11@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What game is the modern take on wizardry? I can’t seem to find it but it sounds interesting
mriormro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 1 year ago
Please use spoiler tags
ayaya@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I haven’t played it myself (yet) but apparently Divinity Original Sin 2 was similar and the “Definitive Edition” that came about a year later fixed Act 3. So I hope the same thing happens for BG3.
ono@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Did owners of the unfinished edition have to pay more for the Definitive Edition?
mriormro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hope they do. Again, I’ve gotten plenty of enjoyment from the game that I’m willing to give Larian the opportunity to fix that last Act.
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I loved acts 1 and 2. But, somehow I made it through those without any mention of the names Gortash or Orin, so for them to show up at the end of act 2 and suddenly THIS is the bigger bad beyond ketheric was…weird. and then, the transition into act 3 felt very poorly executed, suddenly Gortash is THE head Duke of all of baldurs gate? Whyls dad is now mind controlled and there was no option to prevent that from happening? Just felt a little railroady after all the branching upon branching of the first two acts
fushuan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m telling this because I assume you have finished the game: Gortash is related to Karlach’s backstory so you can get some hints from before, and Orin is related to Dark Urge’s backstory so yeah, same.
Frogster8@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah brilliant, lots of huge spoilers, nice one
mriormro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What exactly is a spoiler? That you can fight Raphael? Something that anyone can intuit the moment you meet the character. That the game comes in three acts? That the game has an ending?
ono@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I wonder if Thursday’s patch will help with any of that.