If you do nothing BUT the main quest in New Vegas, the game's over in 20 hours.
BG3 is just original sin 2 with makeup on.
I can understand your stance, but at that point you're no longer rating the games themselves.
But I am rating the games. When Swen first appeared on the stage to reveal Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay for the first time he showed us gameplay consisting of running around a beachfront that looked identical to the beach zones in Original Sin 1/2. Then he stacked wooden barrels on top of each over and jumped on them to reach something.
See, but what you're doing isn't rating the game for what it is. You're rating it against your expectations for what it should have been (as a proper BG successor). Which is fine and I mostly agree, but things become silly when you use that sort of metric to compare different games. Both Avowed and DA4 will most likely be way more mediocre than BG3 (although on the flipside, they might be less frontloaded which would be a big plus in my view).
They butchered both my wife Minthy and my best bro Gortash, so meh.
I'm rating it based on how much I can enjoy playing the game. I wouldn't enjoy playing BG3 at all. I played Original Sin 2 and I thought it was shit. I couldn't believe they made the same game again and called it Baldur's Gate. But then again it's not so hard to believe because consumers love to eat shit. It's proven scientific fact.
See this is the thing. I don't like savages but I sided with the huana in deadfire because other factions would let roparu(shudra caste in their society) roam free, absolutely despicable. This is a part of the clever faction design(Huana aren't noble savages, they are weird hindus and you can let them do their things, one of their things being a caste system, accept it or help le colonizers) was why they became a kind of design formula for Obsidian. Obviously New Vegas had even better setup, but that was the past. Is the TOW era obsidian capable of replicating this? TOW obviously failed at it, will Avowed?
Seems that the paths are proper imperialist path by siding with Woedica and the inquisitor she inhabits, cringe Aedyran centrist path and native woowoo path.
It is really not that hard. They just need to add cool animations to our attacks and more effects to enemies getting hurt. Limbs hacking, body parts missing, some enemies hit by hot flames running around screaming and stuff like that.
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You've probably spoken about this in some other thread already, but I'd be curious to know what are some of your favorite RPGs from the 2010s onwards.although TOW shows that it can be done badly as well
Factions are literally what makes RPG's interesting. Different world-spaces have different kinds of people with competing values and beliefs. Literally every good CRPG has factions. Why would you want to play something that has no inter group conflict?
Maybe he wants a classic heroic fantasy avenchure.
Jesus Christ, this website has gone down hill.
You've probably spoken about this in some other thread already, but I'd be curious to know what are some of your favorite RPGs from the 2010s onwards.although TOW shows that it can be done badly as well
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It would if he ordered collector's edition but good codexer only does this for Piranha Bytes games(rip)
I think he means factions who form the main quest by offering the player a questline that leads them to the finale, like in NV. Obviously you could argue that Khans and Shady Sands are "factions" in Fo1, or that guilds are "factions" in TES games, or that EotB has "factions" in the sense that the Dwarves are fighting the Drow, but they don't work the same way as the big centrepiece faction quests in more recent games.
