Intelligence is how you play.
Obviously I'm not against mechanically rich items, far from it. What I want are memorable magic items that will stick with me for more than 10 minutes (and with "stick with me" I mean both with the character and with me as a person). I still remember Varscona from BG1 and Crom Faeyr from BG2 (actually, I think I remember every single weapon in those two games), while I've already forgotten "Lohar's Two-Handed Source Hammer" and "Executor Ninyan's Axe". Having mechanically rich and interesting items doesn't mean that the game has to throw at me five of them at the end of each encounter.
Reducing your weapons to a damage formula it's not a fucking incline.
Sure, with more grounded weapons should come more grounded quirks and modifiers rather than every other sword allowing you to breathe lightning and fart flames (and abominable number bloat has beenanyway), but having mechanically rich items (and everything else) is not only good, it's part of the only way a cRPG may possibly approach flexibility and reactivity of a PnP or even surpass it - by simulating everything with autistic levels of depth.
Expecting cRPG to be able to abstract shit away and only track it if its meaningful like live DM would is futile because for a piece of software that is cRPG "meaningful" is not meaningful itself.
So yes, give me a full page of crunchy mechanics (explicit or hidden and only indicated via flavour or common sense) per item and yes, this includes items having both weight AND size - beats "this is a gem-quality garnet, it takes one inventory slot; this is a flamberge, it takes one inventory slot; this is an M1A2 main battle tank, it takes one inventory slot..." lunacy.
Of course in this particular case (BG3 using DnD 5e rules) item description should be consistent with the system used, but there should still be quirks baked into it simulating what a good DM might or might not allow to do with that weapon.
You sound like an Elven degenerate scum.
Wtf I like Ontopoly now.
I am very honestly not worth this effort dude.
In D&D 5 I'm more used to 6-8 encounters per day, with a short rest after every 2 or 3 of them.
Maybe me and my friends are the biggest nerds on the planet, but encounters rarely last more than 20 minutes and only against bosses they reach the 1 hour mark. Normal encounters usually require less than 2 full rounds, while challenging ones require between 2 and 3 rounds. "Boss" encounters can go up to 10 rounds (or even longer for very important/difficult bosses). With a pace of 2 minutes per turn (it's a group of 4 people), that's around 12 minutes for a normal encounter, 20 for a challenging one and up to 1.5 hours for a boss, but obviously there are in-between cases (usually each session has a 40 minutes mini-boss).
It's not mutual. Get fucked Larian cultists. I have no respect for you
I'm ontopolyamorous but bashing on elven legacy and culture is where I draw the line, mister.
Lol at this eternal butthurt "intellectual" bulgarian gypsy spam rating my posts.
BG 3 will be so commercially successful that Larian will have enough money to make a BG 4 with voice acting even for unwritten lines. Even the menu will have full voice over.
They'll degenerate so much until they won't even have unspoken lines. You'll get Skyrim where its just people talking with the occasional books written by who ever they could find on the team to spare 10 minutes. Probably the intern.
Wait... they don't need to degenerate to reach that level: D:OS 1 and 2 already have voice acting for every single line of dialogue and narration description. They even have voice acting for animal sounds. Or do you mean that they will actually remove written lines? That would be quite metal.
*Meanwhile at larian zoom video conference*
That's the function of rarity and longevity (so basically lack of item treadmill), not number of modifiers to item's name.
Because magical items in BGs were rare. Varscona was pretty lame and boring weapon mechanically, actually, it's just that it was the only sword with cold damage in addition to its +2 modifiers and the fact that it fell out of a unique encounter that made it memorable.
I will share a secret with you:
Inventory Tetris is core RPG gameplay! It was pretty lacking in the previous BG games, but it was fine since it was so small and you only had to decide on what to carry with you, that makes it interesting since you have to make choices and from what I've heard RPGs are all about them. I do prefer inventories where one arrow doesn't occupy the same space as an entire set of armor though, that's super dumb.
Arcanum inventory (and pickpocketing) is the best I can think of off the top of my head.
Yes, but usually when a game has items with a semi-random number of properties selected by a finite set, it also has too many items (at least in my limited experience), so both rarity and longevity go straight into the trash. Right now the clearest examples I can think of are D:OS 1 and 2 and Nioh. Is there an example of a game that does this kind of items in a good way?
I agree, but, ironically, that Lohar's Two-Handed Source Hammer also is pretty lame and boring, because most of its bonuses are just "+5%" damage spelled in different ways.
Can you make an example of a recent game where the equation "weight limit = constrained inventory = less management" is actually true? Because D:OS 1 and 2 are two great examples of the exact opposite: there's a weight limit, but almost everything has a negligible weight and you find yourself carrying endless amounts of items all the time. The only meaningful effect of that limit is to stop the player from carrying too many barrels. In the end, the moment you reach the limit, you just have to teleport to a vendor, sell some stuff, go back to where you left off and keep playing as if nothing happened. That's just a minor inconvenience that adds nothing to the game and it's not fun.
