No, I haven't made my point enough.
Gotta be honest, it is revolutionizing the genre by catering to every sexual fetish imaginable. No matter how disgusting, degenerate or subversive, they got you covered!
Larian caters to the exact same people who don't want to buy a carton of eggs or meat unless it says "cruelty free" on the front, and are more than happy paying twice as much for it regardless of the portion sizes or quality while the rest of us just want affordable eggs and meat and to eat good.
It releases on Aug 3rd.
There seems to be at least one perverted coprophile on some of the bigger dev teams who sneaks shit-related stuff into games. IIRC, World of Warcraft has a handful of quests that has you sifting through piles of shit and pick nuts and stuff from the excrement. Every expansion has like two of those. I'm sure there is some asshole on the WoW dev team who is furiously masturbating to the idea that he just made a million people dig through shit.
His voice reminds me of
BG3 is supposed to be the successor to the Bioware Baldur's Gate games, and it seems to have achieved this in its story-related aspects, though by contrast the gameplay should be far better, considering that Bioware's execrable RTwP system has been replaced with proper turn-based, tactical combat, while exploration will probably be improved by the shift away from an isometric perspective.
The more proper comparison for combat would be to Solasta, since both games rely on the ruleset for "D&D 5th edition".
True. Even though it is 5E, it's not hard to make combat better than window selecting a bloated 6-characater party and mobbing enemies to death, which was all that you needed for 90% of BG1&2 fights.
Yep. And Solasta fell into the kit game trap. They did a watered-down main campaign and expect people to mod in actually interesting stories. Sort of like NWN.
Reactivity (and intra-map nonlinearity) alone is a pretty big deal. How many Biowhore fake choice games have we suffered through? Or games that just gave you the stat check win button just to make you feel like you did something?
You have to give them credit for portraying her with the classic 90s-sexbomb eyebrowsI'm going to slay Jaheira like the mutt half-breed she is. I'm talking murder in the Realms.
She may have miraculously survived the Nashkel Mines, the Bandit Camp, the Cloakwood, the Iron Throne, the Candlekeep Catacombs, Durlag's Tower, the Isle of Balduran, the Confrontation with Sarevok, Irenicus' Base, the dangers of Athkatla and the surrounding areas to include vampires, dragons, liches, and beholders, Spellhold, the Underdark with the dangers of the Drow of Ust'Natha, Illithids, Ulitharids, an Elder Brain, Elder Orbs, Hive Mothers, and a Silver Dragon, the Cleansing of Bodhi's Lair, a reckoning and goodbye to her Harper friends, the Final Confrontation with Irenicus in Suldenessallar and in Hell, the Watcher's Keep with its Helmite cultists, seasoned adventurers sealed by ancient magics, elemental monstrosities, devils and demons in wild magical rooms, vampire Illithids, demilich, a Githyanki war party, and Demogorgon the Prince of Demons, and the Struggle with the Five most powerful Bhaalspawn, culminating in an epic clash for the metaphysical control of the Throne of Bhaal before starting a fulfilling life rearing her multiple children.
But she's going to die to a character who was level 1 a couple weeks or so before killing her.
That look of defiance and will to power will not survive a man with a tadpole in his brain.
I actually like simulationism in games quite a bit myself. But I've played RPGs without schedules a lot longer, and so I don't consider it a necessary feature in them. Especially in a game series that's never had much simulationism.
