Why don't you petition Bethesda to pay off Larian and claim BG3 for themselves?Butthurt grandpa. TB is inferior to RTwP #cope
Shit sandwich or shit sandwich. The only thing worse than either of these companies is having to deal with someone so unwilling to put in some effort that they'll just link me to some two year old shit rant and then add an emoji so they feel like they contributed something to someone else's argument. A rant by someone who barely got through any of the game is worth shit, and someone using that rant to replace their own is worth half of that shit. Half of some casual's shit equals everything Larian has to offer. Congrats User0001 you're worth double what Larian has to offerWhy don't you petition Bethesda to buy off Larian and claim BG3 for themselves?Butthurt grandpa. TB is inferior to RTwP #cope
I'm sure they will make it real time and you will be able to pause in it.
You will be hailed as saviour!
You could make a really funny BG instructional vid from your post. Starting with glorious chargen.
Insightful as always, Ontopoly!
What do you think about this one?
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/6qjwvj/cmv_baldurs_gate_is_a_really_shit_game/CMV: Baldur's Gate is a really shit game
So, Baldur's Gate! A classic computer CRPG. It introduced the world to active combat, a staple of MMO's. It brought the beloved Dungeons and Dragons role playing game to your computer screen. Any CRPG fan will recommend you this game.
I fucking hate this game a lot and here's why:
COMBAT
I have nothing against turn based or active combat. Nor do I have any particular complaints to be made against Baldur's Gate's combat. It's a perfect replication of ADnD's combat systems, complete with equipment, classes, spells, and everything you loved from 2e.
No, the real problem with Baldur's Gate's combat is the abundance of it.
Every single problem throughout all of Baldur's Gate leads back to its obsession with combat. The creators of ADnD knew that too much combat meant a boring session: the game would get stale. They intentionally made attacking unreliable, so players would either use spells intelligently, or would seek an alternate solution to problems, or would creatively defeat their enemy before the fight even began. In other words, they encouraged creativity. Later editions would make attacking more consistent, moving the impetus of creativity on to the DM, but that's another discussion.
In Baldur's Gate, there's only ONE path to be taken with combat. Well, 2, but really one. You click on your enemy and hope that you hit your enemy before they hit you. Or you use a spell to asplode them. Your only real choice is to nuke the shit out of your enemy, with no way to cleverly circumvent or protect against them.
The developers didn't even bother to make encounters interesting. Like, when you get to the bottom of the Nashkel mines, you meet Mulaney. You can try and bullshit him to get some stuff, but he attacks you anyway. You can cast silence on him, but he just magically screams through it. No matter what you do, he will always call in a big group of skeletons and kobolds.
And the only thing to do is just hack at them. Once Mulaney falls, you wait for your characters to get lucky and kill all the other enemies. Mulaney himself just casts Hold Person and then whacks at you the whole time. That's boring! There's no strategy to be made here aside from basic spells and attacking!
This focus on combat also disadvantages a LOT of classes. Thieves have become the equivalent of a Pokémon HM slave, and bless you if you try to actually PLAY as one. If you want to play as a Fighter or Mage, this is certainly the game for you, but otherwise, you'd best look elsewhere.
WRITING
Early on, in the Candlekeep area, you might encounter a man who asks your identity. He then attacks you. Ah! you might think, a random event! Then the same thing happens in the same area.
There are no less than ten of these encounters throughout the whole game. They all play out EXACTLY the same. You always know the MOMENT you see them that they're going to attack you. They always ask who you are. You're always given the option of lying. It NEVER, NEVER, NEVER WORKS.
This design philosophy is reflected in the entire game. Alternate paths, alternate solutions, are rare. You'll always follow pretty much the same path every single time you play.
Is that what DnD is about? Is DnD about pottering from one place to another, accomplishing little aside from monotonous combat? Making your character as min-maxed as possible, hoping to survive the constant bullshit the devs throw at you? Never being creative, or going away from the path the devs set you on?
Fuck this game. I haven't even gotten into the real heart of the issues with the game, the obnoxious companions, the constant overpowering enemies in early areas, the unbearable voice lines.
God, I hope BGII is as much of an improvement as they say it is.
It's a Reddit post which automatically makes it retarded.
It's on a subreddit where people pretend like they want someone to changed their mind but the post contains "I fucking hate this game a lot and here's why:" so he's obviously not interested or expects anyone to change his mind which makes it retarded.
He thinks the only thing that you can do in combat is click an enemy and hope you hit before they do, completely ignoring character building, positioning, PC roles, etc which makes not just the post but him himself retarded.
He called the combat active combat and said it's now a staple in every MMO????? Retarded.
He expects a video game from 1998 to recreate a gm so he doesn't have to use combat in a video game because he's too simple to realise he's losing because all he's doing is left clicking all the enemies and hoping he wins. Something only an idiot would do.
And lastly, it's a post on Reddit. How the fuck did you even come across it? Unless you're a Redditor scum just like him.
It's the exact type of post I would expect from Reddit. Some dumb fuck that has no idea about how something works and instead of either learning how to work it or just finding a game that appeals more to his casual idiotic self (Dos2), he cries about it but phrases it as some sort of weird change my view. Who the fuck would even make a post asking someone to help them like something they absolutely hate? Only an idiot who wants attention would do something like that. Even I'm not that thirsty for attention
Reddit is trash, it's a post on Reddit, therefore the post is trash.
What combat action can any class without spells use?
Picking class and?
Any positioning in addition to melee front and range at the back?
THE HORROR! In 1998?!?!
1997:
In Baldur's Gate, there's only ONE path to be taken with combat. Well, 2, but really one. You click on your enemy and hope that you hit your enemy before they hit you. Or you use a spell to asplode them. Your only real choice is to nuke the shit out of your enemy, with no way to cleverly circumvent or protect against them.
This focus on combat also disadvantages a LOT of classes. Thieves have become the equivalent of a Pokémon HM slave
What's wrong with that statement? Pause?
You had a chance here, Ontopoly, to actually prove everyone wrong about you by taking the challenge seriously. Instead, you used 3/5 of the response to talk about Reddit, conveniently avoiding having to put effort in. Disappointing...
LoL even garbage tier game like fallout 3 is better than larian at this point. Killing mindflayers in skyrim mod sounds fun. You are irrelevant old man,go away now.Why don't you petition Bethesda to pay off Larian and claim BG3 for themselves?Butthurt grandpa. TB is inferior to RTwP #cope
I'm sure they will make it real time and you will be able to pause in it.
You will be hailed as saviour!
It is amazing how the worst thing they could tell about the games is that they are shit at it. A bunch of sad little pensioners.
Quite the contrary, this is the point where I will break out some popcorn* and watch with morbid amusement.LoL even garbage tier game like fallout 3 is better than larian at this point. Killing mindflayers in skyrim mod sounds fun. You are irrelevant old man,go away now.Why don't you petition Bethesda to pay off Larian and claim BG3 for themselves?Butthurt grandpa. TB is inferior to RTwP #cope
I'm sure they will make it real time and you will be able to pause in it.
You will be hailed as saviour!
If you look up really closely, and maybe take a reading lesson or two, you will notice that it's not exactly what I have done.
Actually i do make pretty good butter popcorn.Quite the contrary, this is the point where I will break out some popcorn* and watch with morbid amusement.LoL even garbage tier game like fallout 3 is better than larian at this point. Killing mindflayers in skyrim mod sounds fun. You are irrelevant old man,go away now.Why don't you petition Bethesda to pay off Larian and claim BG3 for themselves?Butthurt grandpa. TB is inferior to RTwP #cope
I'm sure they will make it real time and you will be able to pause in it.
You will be hailed as saviour!
Wait, that's pizza.
Ontopoly, (since you like the word so much) LITERALLY nobody gives a fuck about Swen and Larian. You are so obsessed with this company that you see Larian fanatics everywhere, but they exist only in your mind.
Oh my god, this makes me think about something... maybe YOU don't exist and I'm so obsessed with you that my mind perceives you as real. This would explain a lot of things.
Eh, I think Swen is a pretty swell guy and Larian is a pretty good company.
I can already see the Todd explaining the R.T.W.P. Mechanic of BG3 you press a key and the game stop a bar appear and you can fill the bar with certain actions performed by the character and press ok and the character start a slow mo animation performing it!!!!Why don't you petition Bethesda to pay off Larian and claim BG3 for themselves?Butthurt grandpa. TB is inferior to RTwP #cope
I'm sure they will make it real time and you will be able to pause in it.
You will be hailed as saviour!
Date someone else.Actually i do make pretty good butter popcorn.Quite the contrary, this is the point where I will break out some popcorn* and watch with morbid amusement.
Wait, that's pizza.
What are you on about?!??! How it became from a talk about popcorn in to dick sucking??????Date someone else.Actually i do make pretty good butter popcorn.Quite the contrary, this is the point where I will break out some popcorn* and watch with morbid amusement.
Wait, that's pizza.
fantadomat forget butter popcorn, get the butthurt popcorn.
It will be butthurt copporn if we inflame him enough to go postal.
Shit, I will probably need to actually read that now.
I can die happy now.
This is the most beautifully hilarious thing i have ever seen.
Onto, I need to know your age! I want to understand more about the brilliant mind that was able to conjured this.
Wonder if Fanta would like to live in Ontopoland?
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