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  1. Baldur's Gate Larian is moving away from D&D, no BG3 DLC or BG4

    Imagine moving from fantasy to sci-Fi being considered as "having (space?) balls". :-D Then again, RPGs are the forever playgrounds of dwarves and elves, of Pip-Boys and Cyberpunks. Basically, a genre of games where even announcing a zombie apocalypse or WW2 game would be seen as a radical...

  2. Baldur's Gate Larian is moving away from D&D, no BG3 DLC or BG4

    Not gonna happen. BG3 was part of a larger plan... else they'd never approached WOTC to make a sequel to one of the biggest D&D CRPGs. Clearly a business decision. Up next: Ultima: Rereborn...

  3. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Henry is back - coming 2024

    For as long as they again make "open world as a theme park" audiences cry, I'm on board.

  4. Broken Roads - turn-based Australian post-apocalyptic RPG with "unique morality system"

    Even if that were true: That would be the least of problems. Plus: They must have tried hard to not be another Owlcat then. I just love how CRPGs always get away with padding their playtime via hundreds of trash mob and copypaste combat, uninspired quests and walls of text, all rolling...

  5. Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    DOS was far more linear and limited. It pretended to have open exploration, but really didn't. IIRC even PC Gamer had pointed that out in a subsequent feature. Two main reasons: - Every path being gatekept. You'll always run into an enemy somewhere - Level and also item scaling. A lvl 2 swords...

  6. Decline Wrath of the Righteous is even worse than Kingmaker (which was already shit)

    This is not due to RTwP. Deadfire got rid of that almost entirelly for large sections of the game. This is a design ethos of championing "quantity over quality" -- this IS a studio that has been pumping out 100 hour+ campaigns every two years, atop of numerous DLCs. Had Owlcat developed BG1...

  7. Commandos-Like Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew - ghost pirates stealth strategy from Mimimi Games

    Finished the main story, just bought the DLC as well. Didn't beat Desperados 3 for me, but it was a fun time. The more sandboxy approach had potential to be just as amazing in its own ways(and arguably would have seen Mimimi eventually hitting it bigger in the long haul). In particular...

  8. Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate turns 25 years old

    Fittingly, not a single mentioning of this on any Bioware Social Media. But rather a celebration of The Old Republic's whopping 12th season, yay. As argued, there's a parallel universe out there in which they're developing B-tier Soulslikes, Ubisoft clones and Visual Novels as we speak. There's...

  9. Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    Can you disable the markers? Watched some gameplay of a dude accepting a quest leading him like fifty feet away (The Outer Worlds is not a huge OW to begin with, but hub-based). And the marker was sleepwalking him right to quest completion. Which also makes me wonder how that "Who dunnit" DLC...

  10. Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate turns 25 years old

    Had Feargus slipped in the shower, broke his ankle and called in sick that day, not only would this have never happened. There wouldn't have been a dedicated BioWare section in this forum to begin with. Nor would they have ever been credited for revitalizing a then struggling genre. Imagine...

  11. Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - turn-based Warhammer 40k RPG from Owlcat Games

    I've actually listed Owlcat's busy schedule of releases as incline; but the flipside naturally is that if you keep pumping releases out like that, quality may eventually suffer. I understand they're not a small studio. But this still is their third full release within the space of but five...

  12. Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    To the modern more sophisticated gamer. Natural RPG studio evolution ever since. "Hi, we're id Soft. We're finished doing these boring old shooter games and try to offer something for the more sophisticated crowd, try it!" Sounds ridiculous? Yes. Except in RPG land. (In hindsight, I'm 100%...

  13. Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - turn-based Warhammer 40k RPG from Owlcat Games

    2018 Kingmaker 2021 Wrath 2023 Rogue Trader 2025 Ravenloft?????ß Plus multiple DLC, Enhanceds and of course fixes in between. In that same time, Electronic Arts had held two major emergency meetings. Topic: What should we be doing with EA RPG-Likes (aka Bioware) next exactly. :incline:

  14. Game News Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Released

    Let alone a tabletop conversion / RPG for...... like twenty years.

  15. Games "must be like Hollywood" is the worst decline in gaming

    The prime reason why for RPGs to go all-out Hollywood is decline hasn't been brought up. It's real simple: Role-playing is collaborative storytelling and moment to moment improvisation. Movies are not. They're a passive experience of somebody telling you a story. Trying to merge those two is a...

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