Dragon age origins is to blame for the downfall of western rpgs.
This is not the first game in a series. If FIFA 2022 ends up being an american football game, you bet your ass FIFA fans will complain.
I do it because this game will have a lasting impact on the baldurs gate name and community and will have a big impact on rpg gaming in general. All I have are my words, they're the only way I can express justice.
I still don't understand the mentality of people frequenting the threads on games they actively dislike/have no interest in. One really has to have a twisted mentality to do that. Imagine fans of FIFA frequenting Madden forums and complaining about how not soccer-like the game is. My only guilty pleasure in this regard are Star Citizen threads, but that's because those are separated into Roberts cultists vs. normal people.
I do it because this game will have a lasting impact on the baldurs gate name and community and will have a big impact on rpg gaming in general. All I have are my words, they're the only way I can express justice.
Still better than 99% of the other RPGs out there who either never take into account one's race, or have a very, very small number of references. Up until today basically only Arcanum and the Dragon Age series took the main character's race into serious consideration.
Dragon age origins is to blame for the downfall of western rpgs.
Wrong. Is wow. Before wow, we had Arx Fatalis magic system, ultima magic system, vancian magical system(...) after wow, everything copies the same cooldown based everyone gets spell at lv X magic and few games deviate for that norm. Vincke said many times that spell slots which exists on countless of games aren't intuitive. Even 4e took a lot of inspiration with wow.
Dragon Age, mainly DA2 and DA:I is one symptom. WoW is the disease.
Wow seems like a shit game though, but passion requires research.
It's not out yet. Stay tuned. It's going to be big. I can't release a blog with only a few posts, it needs to have enough content to leave a mark on peoples minds. Imagine reading a blog and finding less than a dozen posts. That would be a major disappointment to the people that could have been my fansLink to your blog?
And that is the main point which i disagree with you. The RPG is already destroyed and viewed as wow clone in 99% of places.
If you are in the middle of Earth inner's core or in the deepest layer of the hell in forgotten realms, there is no way down...
My dear viktor you are wasting your life , hoping for things that will never ever happen. But rejoice i am here to help you. What you really need is playing 2E D&D, and obviously if you lament BG3, wich is objectively massive incline, so much you cannot get what you really want . That is a real pen and paper group. Buy fantasy grounds, or use roll20, go to their discord, meet people ask for a 2E group, DM it whatever, someday one of your player will DM for you too. FG is especially good for it , they have lot of modules for it (buy it or go on the trove) . Character sheets are extremely complex and well done everything is automated, your table, saves, thaco etc. Ancient adventures are ported. It's fluid and a wonder to behold.It's not easy to get good groups but you need to step up and stop mourning like this everyday.You can even play by text if you are socially impaired.I just hope that BG3 will be easily moddable... So people will mod crazy shit into it like shadow weave based magic for BG2:EE and IWD:EE and more 3.5e classes like Pale Masters being ported to a game in 2e and even better. 2e rules. I was of the opinion that 3.5e is the superior ruleset but when read some 2e books(never found a group to play, all rpg stores are closed where I live. Thanks corona-chan), changed my mind and think that 2e is the superior ruleset.
But just imagine if BG3 is easily moddable like NWN2. There are mods which adds classes like dread necromancer, makes spells more P&P like, fixing then, modules re making even BG1/2 campaigns. Imagine this level of mod friendly on BG3...
Because BG1/2 are hard to mod.
A massive critical and financial success just like the smash hits "Sword Coast Legends", "Neverwinter" and "Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard"?
There is a huge difference. Larian has a much more mainstream renown/appeal. On Switch, DOS2 is one of the most popular games on switch. And Switch has the most "normie" playerbase.
Sadly, few portable RPG's has any depth. When you are in a treadmill, reading book or playing portable games can make this boring exercise more bearable. I own NWN:EE on my Android but is unplayable... I wish that Switch was less expensive in my country so I would buy.
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One thing that I don't get is Vincke worrying about things like spell slots. IDK how he thinks that it is unintuitive. I mean, POKEMON, a mobile children's game uses spell slots. Eg - 5 "casts" of Fire Blast per rest and max 4 "moves/spells" memorized. Dark Souls and other console RPG's like Suikoden and FF1 uses it too. And pokemon is a good example because is popular for 4 yo children and 40 yo competitive tournament gamers.
Imagine trying to recommend the Baldurs Gate series to your random co worker and he replies with "Yeah, I love larian games. baldurs gate 3 is amazing." Hearing that would break my heart, and I would lack the constitution to guide this random co worker into actual good RPGs.
It's not out yet. Stay tuned. It's going to be big. I can't release a blog with only a few posts, it needs to have enough content to leave a mark on peoples minds. Imagine reading a blog and finding less than a dozen posts. That would be a major disappointment to the people that could have been my fansLink to your blog?
And that is the main point which i disagree with you. The RPG is already destroyed and viewed as wow clone in 99% of places.If you are in the middle of Earth inner's core or in the deepest layer of the hell in forgotten realms, there is no way down...
There's no way to go further down but Baldurs Gate 3 will not just bring itself and future games down, it will retroactively bring down all of Baldurs Gate just by association. larian is a plague and will ruin everything that comes in contact with anything that it comes into contact with. Imagine trying to recommend the Baldurs Gate series to your random co worker and he replies with "Yeah, I love larian games. baldurs gate 3 is amazing." Hearing that would break my heart, and I would lack the constitution to guide this random co worker into actual good RPGs.
It will be authoritative. And ultimately a good product, unlike the shit the company your gimmick account claims to own puts out.Lmfao at your shitty blog, this is 2020, nobody reads that shit, especially from a nobody like you. Maybe a couple of autists from rpgcodex will read it so they can laugh at you.
I'm all three of those. Why seperate? Can you honestly tell me most games aren't getting worse and more simple when you got swen the cult leader, who so many people now a days some how see as the king of RPGs, say shit like "we need to modernize; we need to simplify"?I separate them into three sections.
It will be authoritative. And ultimately a good product, unlike the shit the company your gimmick account claims to own puts out.Lmfao at your shitty blog, this is 2020, nobody reads that shit, especially from a nobody like you. Maybe a couple of autists from rpgcodex will read it so they can laugh at you.
I'm all three of those. Why seperate? Can you honestly tell me most games aren't getting worse and more simple when you got swen the cult leader, who so many people now a days some how see as the king of RPGs, say shit like "we need to modernize; we need to simplify"?I separate them into three sections.
The cult leader is a passionless hack and the Larian cultists are soulless shills who get mad and try to silence you everytime you bring up one of swen led larians many faults. They are incompetent and shouldn't work on anything. They definitely shouldn't be working on bg. Can you honestly tell me you think any Larian game is great? Or even playable?
I don't think it's nostalgia, it's religious fanaticism. I suspect these people trying to fill vacuum of belief which was created after religions of old started fade into obscurity by constructing false idols and unachievable goals(instead of thinking like rational people), just like SJW fanatics do. They even use same tactics as SJW do - throw tantrum 24/7 to promote their ideals and picking easy targets to attack (a bit dehumanizing them before, so other people would be more indifferent to a fate unlucky person who got in a way of cult) while artificially inflating numbers of their members to look big and lure weak minded people (who follows majority all the time) into their fold. I mean there was religious sect called "The Final Fantasy House" that worshiped a game called Final Fantasy VII, so it's absolutely possible for BG fanbase to spawn a several cults full of idiots.Jesus, nostalgia retards are the most pathetic people on this board. I separate them into three sections.
1. The Lilura faction - Reeeee any change done post-1998 is non-authoritative, it's not the real game. Play it on a CRT monitor. Reeee...
2. The "This isn't BG" faction - Reeee this isn't Baldur's Gate, the game should be RTWP, should be 2D, should be in the Infinity Engine.... etc. etc. etc. Just making demands out of the gate, as if they were the fucking owners of the IP.
3. The "Anti-Larian" faction - Reee Larian Studios is a shit studio, it will ruin the immortal legacy of the game, BG will be retroactively worse reeee...
My recommendation? A long make-out session with a loaded shotgun.
I don't think it's nostalgia, it's religious fanaticism. I suspect these people trying to fill vacuum of belief which was created after religions of old started fade into obscurity by constructing false idols and unachievable goals(instead of thinking like rational people), just like SJW fanatics do. They even use same tactics as SJW do - throw tantrum 24/7 to promote their ideals and picking easy targets to attack (a bit dehumanizing them before, so other people would be more indifferent to a fate unlucky person who got in a way of cult) while artificially inflating numbers of their members to look big and lure weak minded people (who follows majority all the time) into their fold. I mean there was religious sect called "The Final Fantasy House" that worshiped a game called Final Fantasy VII, so it's absolutely possible for BG fanbase to spawn a several cults full of idiots.Jesus, nostalgia retards are the most pathetic people on this board. I separate them into three sections.
1. The Lilura faction - Reeeee any change done post-1998 is non-authoritative, it's not the real game. Play it on a CRT monitor. Reeee...
2. The "This isn't BG" faction - Reeee this isn't Baldur's Gate, the game should be RTWP, should be 2D, should be in the Infinity Engine.... etc. etc. etc. Just making demands out of the gate, as if they were the fucking owners of the IP.
3. The "Anti-Larian" faction - Reee Larian Studios is a shit studio, it will ruin the immortal legacy of the game, BG will be retroactively worse reeee...
My recommendation? A long make-out session with a loaded shotgun.
This thread is one big rite of passage/indoctrination into cult, it's a chance for any moron to show everyone that they side with "cool guys in town" and receive cred points for publicly sucking their dicks off in the name of their pathetic religion. I doubt that anyone from groups that you described even loves the games, "purity" of which they trying to defend from "evul Larian" ( and holy shit these idiots really believe that Larian is some kind of mythological Satan, while it's just company), because people who loves games actually trying to play them and not spend around 600 pages on Internet forum in hate fever towards game that not even released yet.
First of all, check the dictionary for the meaning of "authoritative" since you obviously have no idea.
Secondly, there is a dedicated hate thread for Baldur's Gate III - go and shit it up with your inane ramblings.
First of all, check the dictionary for the meaning of "authoritative" since you obviously have no idea.
I could sit here and try to convince you but I think releasing the blog will be all the proof needed and will do a great job at convincing you instead
Secondly, there is a dedicated hate thread for Baldur's Gate III - go and shit it up with your inane ramblings.
The message needs to be spread. This is prime ground for fence sitters and the ignorant. Everybody in my bg3 hate thread is already aware of everything I'm saying.
2. The "This isn't BG" faction - Reeee this isn't Baldur's Gate, the game should be RTWP, should be 2D, should be in the Infinity Engine.... etc. etc. etc. Just making demands out of the gate, as if they were the fucking owners of the IP.
. Yes it was still a fun game, due to a number of factors like cool premise and above average writing, as well as good loot.
But a Baldurs Gate 3 should not strive to emulate the outdated attempts to emulate Dungeons and Dragons, it should go straight to the source and emulate Dungeons and Dragons. BG 3 being turnbased is a blessing, not a curse.
What you really need is playing 2E D&D
And you can bet your ass people will now think about Larian when they talk about Baldur's Gate (a lot already do btw). BG III will be a commercial and critical success, can't wait to drink your tears with extra salt.
1. The Lilura faction - Reeeee any change done post-1998 is non-authoritative, it's not the real game. Play it on a CRT monitor. Reeee...
Baldurs Gate was an imperfect adaption of the DnD rulesystem. Yes it was still a fun game, due to a number of factors like cool premise and above average writing, as well as good loot. But a Baldurs Gate 3 should not strive to emulate the outdated attempts to emulate Dungeons and Dragons, it should go straight to the source and emulate Dungeons and Dragons. BG 3 being turnbased is a blessing, not a curse.
I love BG1 and 2 as much as anyone else, but this obsessive hatred for the “marring” of the series is pathetically retarded.
Even if BG3 was TERRIBLE, it wouldn’t change anything about BG 1 and 2.
It’s sort of like the Star Wars sequels. In my opinion, they are absolutely awful movies. Massive shits on the established characters and lore. Does that ruin all of Star Wars? No. They’re just bad movies.
So if BG3 were bad, it doesn’t take away from BG1&2. Another example is Ultima IX. I have never seen anyone praise that game, and yet somehow Ultima is still regarded as one of the greatest role-playing game series of all time.
Not sure what consuming has to do with what I said.I love BG1 and 2 as much as anyone else, but this obsessive hatred for the “marring” of the series is pathetically retarded.
Even if BG3 was TERRIBLE, it wouldn’t change anything about BG 1 and 2.
It’s sort of like the Star Wars sequels. In my opinion, they are absolutely awful movies. Massive shits on the established characters and lore. Does that ruin all of Star Wars? No. They’re just bad movies.
So if BG3 were bad, it doesn’t take away from BG1&2. Another example is Ultima IX. I have never seen anyone praise that game, and yet somehow Ultima is still regarded as one of the greatest role-playing game series of all time.
If you are a soulless consumer faggot, yes.
I love BG1 and 2 as much as anyone else, but this obsessive hatred for the “marring” of the series is pathetically retarded.
Even if BG3 was TERRIBLE, it wouldn’t change anything about BG 1 and 2.
It’s sort of like the Star Wars sequels. In my opinion, they are absolutely awful movies. Massive shits on the established characters and lore. Does that ruin all of Star Wars? No. They’re just bad movies.
So if BG3 were bad, it doesn’t take away from BG1&2. Another example is Ultima IX. I have never seen anyone praise that game, and yet somehow Ultima is still regarded as one of the greatest role-playing game series of all time.
I love BG1 and 2 as much as anyone else, but this obsessive hatred for the “marring” of the series is pathetically retarded.
Even if BG3 was TERRIBLE, it wouldn’t change anything about BG 1 and 2.
It’s sort of like the Star Wars sequels. In my opinion, they are absolutely awful movies. Massive shits on the established characters and lore. Does that ruin all of Star Wars? No. They’re just bad movies.
So if BG3 were bad, it doesn’t take away from BG1&2. Another example is Ultima IX. I have never seen anyone praise that game, and yet somehow Ultima is still regarded as one of the greatest role-playing game series of all time.
I can certainly see your point, and it's definitely true when you look back on BG1&2.
But there are things where BG3 may actually have influence on more than just it's own reception: future entries in the series. A 'bad' BG3 may either kill further entries in the series (assuming that 'we' want future entries, and assuming that BG3 is a commercial failure) or it may lead to even more poor entries (if BG3 is a commercial success).
Admittedly, this is all very hypothetical based on our current state of knowledge.![]()