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Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3: Combat System Poll

What combat system should BG3 employ?

  • RTwP or you are a heretic.

    Votes: 45 24.6%
  • Turn-based of course. You must be new around here.

    Votes: 80 43.7%
  • Both RTwP and TB modes. "It's all about player choice (TM)."

    Votes: 19 10.4%
  • First person action combat like Godd Howard intended.

    Votes: 15 8.2%
  • Third person action combat with stamina restriction. BG is the new Dark Souls.

    Votes: 6 3.3%
  • VN

    Votes: 18 9.8%

  • Total voters
    183

Chippy

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Let's say BG3 is the Notre Dame church in Paris, and Larian as the retard in charge of the restoration - given the job because of family connections. They'll either go down the route of making it modernist (glass roof - like Dragon Age) or, they'll commit sacrilege (Islamic spire). But hoping they'll go back to traditional roots (and that they have the skill to do so) may be asking a bit much.

FF7 isn't totally throwing the baby out with the bathwater; so maybe there's a sliver of hope?. I expect it'll be some kind of bastardized version of RTWP or TB though, and not commited to either.
 

Jeru

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Just commit to either RTwP or TB ONLY and make it GOOD + game designed around this ONE mode.

I sadly expect them going for both and having TB & RTwP at same time and switchable between them with a button.
 

DraQ

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Party based? Check.
Presumably related to existing PnP ruleset (this being not the way to do cRPGs (TM) doesn't really matter here)? Check.
No prior existing records of RTWP being ever done competently by anyone? Check.
Larian being sort of competent at TB systems (fuck-ups aside)? Check.

Conclusion? Duh.
 

gunman

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It will be both. Of course Larian will reuse the TB system from their Divinity games but with a RTWP to appease the BG fans. It will be the reverse of what Obsidian did with PoE2, whent they added TB after RTWP
 
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I'm all for turn-based as preferential option, but I wouldn't really call RTWP a deal-breaker. Just a sub-optimal solution.
The only ones I'd love to slap around are the ones of you who picked "both", because if the history of gaming taught us something is that there are very few things worse than trying to split your effort into two half-assed systems rather than focusing on getting one right.
 

J_C

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Project: Eternity Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath
I had no problems with RTwP in the Infinity Engine era, but those game didn't have MMO combat mechanics. So now that I'm older, I prefer turn based combat if designed competently (and not an afterthough like in PoE2).
 

Voids

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I expect it'll be TB. It's what Larian knows and it allows for them to implement multiplayer more easily.
 
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Thalion

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As long as there is no level scaling and random loot I will be happy with just about anything.
 

Eirinjas

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You guys are going to be so disappointed when it turns out to be QTE for all combat and dialog.
 

Mustawd

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Just commit to either RTwP or TB ONLY and make it GOOD + game designed around this ONE mode.

I sadly expect them going for both and having TB & RTwP at same time and switchable between them with a button.

Agree
 

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