Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate III by Larian Studios - Early Access announcement on June 13th

Thank you all for today's show but I must sleep now.

 

Fallout combat is only good for its death animations and that's it. And relying on the
companion ai in combat is a poor joke, i'll take full party controls over this anyday.

 

fallout being a good game means bg is bad?
wat?

 

Have to agree. I’m playing Fallout 1 for the first time (I know!) and it’s freaking amazing, but it doesn’t mean that BG is bad or not good. BG remains one of my favorite games of all time, even after playing Fallout.

 

This is a forgotten realms game that will ultimately take you to the sword coast and the city of Baldur’s Gate. How is that not the same setting?

 

It's not about addition existing. It's about what you add. But I wouldn't expect you to know what's being added when you play Larian trash that hides as many of the numbers as possible and only shows you a percentage and a flashy damage number because 90 percent of their audience are declined in spirit and kind.

 

Efe citation needed, really? Here is Swen answering a question about locations in a recent AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/baldursgate/comments/fhq9cq/compiled_baldurs_gate_ama_20200313/

You have to scroll down a ways to find his answer. I took a screenshot but it’s not letting me upload it.

He says you start on the banks of the river Chionthar and eventually make your way west to Baldur’s Gate. Remember the bridge you had to cross to enter the city in BG1, Wyrm’s Crossing? That’s the bridge over the Chionthar.

Edit: here it is:

 

Untrue, I'm playing Poool of Radiance right now and despite the interface being kinda fucky and the game being from 88 the combat itself is amazing compared to Baldur's Gate. Tactical positioning really matters, attacks of opportunity are implemented, every spell matter, everything flows perfectly. Bioware didn't elevate anything. They've butchered a pretty great system and even if DnD was trash and needed to by elevated by a video game it would already be done by Goldbox games.
The only good idea regarding the system that came out of Bioware was getting rid of those silly level limits for nonhumans.

 

The original Baldur's Gate is the greatest D&D-based RPG of all-time, and the 4th-greatest RPG of all-time.

It makes the Goldbox games seem like pieces of shit in comparison.

Read this authoritative retrospective, and despair [link].

 

Fallout combat and UI are complete garbage.

 

Again, what's so horrible about Fallout's UI, apart from list-based inventory (which is objectively a shit design when implemented the way it is in Fallout, but doesn't really matter that much cause there's very little item juggling/trash collecting in the game)? I'm really surprised to still see this meme in 2020.

And the combat is just very simplistic, with fun animations, not exactly "garbage" for the kind of game it features in. It sucked in FT, but that's because you should expect much more from a (theoretically) tactical, squad based PC game.

 

It's still one of the worst adaptations of the DnD rules.

 

It's not even the best d&d-based rpg in its own series.

This is a good thing. 2e was kind of shit and tablet top is definitely shit.

 

"Tablet" top is shit to you because the first requirement to play it is to have friends.

 

Wow. Good one . The most basic comeback from the most basic rpg player. Good thing people liked you exist otherwise 250 Larian employees would need to find new work and would have to actually try to create something worth being proud of.

 

Onto, I did it! Now I finally understand where all your hate for TB and D&D stems from.

To be able to take any amount of time to make a decision (both in TB CRPGs and D&D), first you need to be able AT LEAST to think.

And, I think we can all agree, you went to great lengths time and time again to show us that you are completely unable to use your brain to form even a semblance of a coherent thought.

 

A good table top session expects the player to be creative and capable of interacting with other people. I understand why this would threaten you as you can't autisticly solve every challenge with a character build spreadsheet and number crunching - although I'm surprised this is where you want to make your stand seeing as you have difficulties counting up to 600.

 

Numbers don't show up on your screen if your on mobile, I would have had to look it up on my profile for a part off my comment that isn't even that important to what I'm trying to say. Why would I need to put the exact number when it's around 600 when just saying 600 is close enough. You Larian fucks are really caught up on typos and little things like that for some reason. I guess it's just an easy way to attack someone. Lazy.

 

and 5e is the edition with a focus on creativity and improvisation, this is why 5e is light on detailed rule for everything and number crunching.

what make different and interesting a character is not the build with 40 min maxed feat but his story/background and how is played.

 

I thought you took pride in comparing yourself to Sun Tzu for being able to hit the space bar and redirect units with new attack commands and that this would somehow demonstrate how much greater attention to detail RtwP places upon the player compared to the "degenerate TB cultists". Doesn't rhyme well with not being able to differentiate the number 577 from 600.

 

Literally close enough?

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And we are supposed to be excited about CRPG adaption of the rules that built around "imagination" and "creativity" of the diverse drama club that current gen of PnP players turned into?
Who hate math, complicated rules, spreadsheets, build planning, challenging combat and combat in general? (And probably any challenge in general too, since failure makes them feel bad so it is bad design)?

Who hate everything what I love CRPGs for.

 

So, in your opinion, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 have "math, complicated rules, spreadsheets and build planning"?

Can you make even a single example of "build planning" in Baldur's Gate that goes deeper than "I'm gonna select this race and this class"? I guess you can select your weapon, but that can be considered "build planning" only if you are mentally impaired.

 

Can you ignore not a user, but any conversation between two specific users on this forum?

Asking for a friend.

 

You just write random stuff because you want to hate something you don’t know.

Who say 5e hate combat?

Or that 5e don’t have challenge? For example in a printed adventure the party get fireballed( 8d6 damage) at lvl 2.

campaign like curse of strahd and tomb of annihilation are true meatgrinder.

how hard is 5e combat is based on the DM not the ruleset.

5e basically have rule only for combat.
The stuff that don’t get detailed rules is
Exploration and social interaction.

what 5e cut on purpose is the splatbook bloat with tons of unbalanced subclass and feats.

how many classes/subclasses you need for build a holy warrior with spells and martial weapons?