It's the Codex's usual way nowadays; they will nitpick on one line of dialogue out of a thousand, insisting that the best RPG ever made is terrible, while praising some unknown indie game like Cave of Lore and pretending it's the best thing ever now of course ignoring any flaws. Or they'll praise an action RPG like Oxaca. They seem to do their best to make it look like the place where people are retarded and wrong about everything.
"I Swen will make the review for the best game of all time, you see, I'm an objective person, true, I objectively say may game is so good that people who like it are still on Act 1 and instead of playing prefer bitching at people who hated it and finished the game 2 times to show how much they hated it, see how my game is good? In reality, nobody hated my game, that is impossible because I made the best game of all time."
Yeah, it's one of the thing that rubbed me wrong.
The funniest bit is that after I recruited Karlach, on the next rest Wyll showed up in camp threatening to kill her (and by proxy, everyone else). After effortlessly talking him down (wouldn't want to have any hard choices in your RPG) he goes "well ok then, can I join you?". Who wrote this? If someone threatens to kill you you don't invite them to sleep 1m away 2 minutes later. Astarions intro has the same issue, although there you can at least maybe argue it's a case of mistaken identity. But would you really be able to sleep if a guy who held a knife to your throat 6 hours earlier was lying next to you?
But Caves of Lore is actually a decent game. Maybe not the best ever.
Possibly yes, but I hate the double standard around here. If you criticize those games the same way BG3 is criticized here, they are all terrible, utter shit. And the Codex review will be yet another joke, further undermining the credibility of the site, if that's even possible.
I would argue that lacking content is exactly the reason why Minthara is better written. She is a after thouhgt, a "one note" character, she just needs to be the evil power hungry drow. The writer didn't want to add more "depth" to her and she has one and only one romance scene.
KotC2's flaw is its engine and its limitations. It's not so much of a problem if you're just looking for a tactical dungeon crawler. But that's what it was designed for. I've never played CoL though.
Maybe but Shadowheart's personality just doesn't match a devoted follower of Shar. I guess it's just another character they wrote with the good path in mind. Because she acts all silly and lovey dovey down the dark justicar path also. She acts like aerie the Shar follower
Which she is I guess, considering that she was a Selune follower who was basically abducted and memory-wiped.
It's exactly what I am speaking about. Flaws are a lot more numerous than this, much, much more so, from the plot and writing to the encounter balance and presentation. And the budget has nothing to do with that. While BG3 has some flaws, they are very minor and nitpicking in comparison.
It doesn't bother me, because you get the option to kick them out.
The codex has never been a big fan of post BG2 bioware, and BG3 sure is eerily similar to something bioware would make if bioware weren't a soulless husk ruled for decades by ea beancounters.
KotC2 doesn't need a complex plot or anything like that. The Augury of Chaos campaign is a structured combat dungeon and there is no illusion from anyone here that you play it for any reason other than its superb combat. It does exactly what it's designed for. It's encounter balance is excellent since most encounters are difficult while being reasonable enough for a player who is able to figure out a strategy for the encounter. The AI is excellent, still the best AI in any tactical game to this day. Your characters going through the dungeon is the plot and there doesn't have to be anything else.
