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Cryomancer

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Angry Joe putted Baizuo's Gate 3 as the top 1 best game of 2023. At 43:26 Hogwarts Legacy was the second and Rogue Trader was the 10th for him.

I don't take him seriously since his Risen 1 review.
 

Rhobar121

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I don't take him seriously since his Risen 1 review.
Just out of curiosity, what did he say?
He played the 360 version which is a red flag off the bat. He complained mostly about graphics, and getting stun-locked. I don't remember if he finished the game or not. I'm sure he'd complain about the ending if he did, which is a bullshit ending.
If you buy a game, you assume that it is playable in all versions. From what I remember, the port of Risen 1 was so shitty that the game was barely playable. So it wasn't anything bad so I don't know what your problem is.
 

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I've done playthrough as a Human Male Paladin. Can anyone suggest a different combination of gender, race and class, which would give me more reactivity?

Or am I better off playing as one of the companion NPCs? Which one?
 

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I've done playthrough as a Human Male Paladin. Can anyone suggest a different combination of gender, race and class, which would give me more reactivity?

Or am I better off playing as one of the companion NPCs? Which one?
Dark Urge (regardless of good or evil) has by far the most unique content (especially act 3) that you could say it was the default route at one point. Anything that isn't a standard race also has a decent amount of reactivity.
In Act 1, the Drow are definitely the king, and the Githyanki have a lot as well.
 

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I don't take him seriously since his Risen 1 review.
Just out of curiosity, what did he say?
He played the 360 version which is a red flag off the bat. He complained mostly about graphics, and getting stun-locked. I don't remember if he finished the game or not. I'm sure he'd complain about the ending if he did, which is a bullshit ending.
If you buy a game, you assume that it is playable in all versions. From what I remember, the port of Risen 1 was so shitty that the game was barely playable. So it wasn't anything bad so I don't know what your problem is.
I don't have a problem. He played the 360, which is a red flag for having a shitty time. I know this because *I* played the 360 version initially too.

His criticisms are completely valid as far as the port goes.
 

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I've done playthrough as a Human Male Paladin. Can anyone suggest a different combination of gender, race and class, which would give me more reactivity?

Or am I better off playing as one of the companion NPCs? Which one?
Drow and Gith have the most reactivities in act 1. After act 1 there is barely any reactivity to your race no matter what race you are playing.

Gender barely matters at all through out the game(unless you are play as drow, then some drow npc will treat you differently base on your gender). Aagain only in act 1, after that it doesn't matter.

All classes have many unique dialogues and interactions, from what I can tell bard has the most dialogue while barbarian has the most unique interaction.

IMO original characters are not worth it(except dark urge), they have some unique cut scenes but their stories stays the same. Gale is the only exception because for some reason Larian decided that you have to play as Gale to finish his personal quest.
 

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Just out of curiosity, what did he say?

Complained about everything and called the worst 360 rpg



But as I've said, Larian appeal towards "normies" is unmatched. Piranha Bytes and OwlCat can't compete in this wide market.

Pirahnia hasn't released a good game since Risen 1, and even that game was only good up to a point.
Owlcat is strange, you can see that they are trying to attract Bioware fans and at the same time they are doing it in an extremely inept way. Another thing is that their subsequent games have a downward trend.
 

Old Hans

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what the hell is up with Waukeens rest? it feels like it was added at the very last minute. like I wander in off the street and help with the fire, and the next thing I know im getting asked to do delta force rescue missions by some random dark elf lady.
 

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Theres basically no player choices in how the character advances.
What do you mean? That some options are too OP and therefore others should be neglected? Because at least on surface there's plenty of options.

You just don't have not many options to pick from unless you are some kind of caster. As a paladin all I got to choose was the Oath and then the feat at 4th level, everything else is automatic. No skill points or feats,specializations or whatever.
 

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You just don't have not many options to pick from unless you are some kind of caster. As a paladin all I got to choose was the Oath and then the feat at 4th level, everything else is automatic. No skill points or feats,specializations or whatever.
That's dnd though right? Remember older dnd and fighter's complains?
 

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Crafting. I have never used it and unless it brings something new or needed for survival I will continue not to do it. It is an absolute waste of time.
It's good for Elixirs, and trying to keep those up is a better rest-limiting mechanic than the food since there's too much.

I wish there were more. It's annoying finding ingots and the like which were obviously intended for a crafting system that didn't make it in-game. The Silence Dagger (or even Sickle) is underrated I think as is the Blinding Spear. Weapons that proc relevant debuffs are nice.
 

DemonKing

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Finally finished - my character transformed from massive black Dragonborn to Bhaal slayer to Mind Flayer before finally climbing atop a pile of skulls to ascend to his rightful place on a throne of blood. Did every quest open to me and took roughly 140 hours. Probably a little too easy towards the end (I took Orin down in one round for example). Raphael in the House of Hope was probably the hardest fight. I was a bit surprised I didn’t seem to get an epilogue which I thought they added but maybe if everyone is enslaved to me there was no point.

Played a sword and board fighter until the end when I ditched the board for the two handler you can get off the undead dragon. I was a bit surprised there weren’t many good long swords though as I spent most of the game using a war hammer. Used mainly Shadowheart, Astarion and Wyll.

Wasn’t too keen on the story or Nu-Forgotten Realms full of Tieflings and other nonsense but the reactivity, creative problem-solving options, voice acting and quality and quantity of the cutscenes were pretty remarkable. The size of the bestiary was also impressive. Combat was average turn-based stuff (Solasta is much better IMO).

May do another run through to try the other NPCs out - thinking of a bard to cover dialogue, lock-picking and some spell casting.
 

Orutrus

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You just don't have not many options to pick from unless you are some kind of caster. As a paladin all I got to choose was the Oath and then the feat at 4th level, everything else is automatic. No skill points or feats,specializations or whatever.
That's dnd though right? Remember older dnd and fighter's complains?

Yes, but at least in 3.5 a fighter could go the Str/Con build with power attack and cleave or the high AC Dex/Int with spring attack and whirlwind. Or the rogue focused on social skills vs the trap monkey.

Crafting. I have never used it and unless it brings something new or needed for survival I will continue not to do it. It is an absolute waste of time.
It's good for Elixirs, and trying to keep those up is a better rest-limiting mechanic than the food since there's too much.

I wish there were more. It's annoying finding ingots and the like which were obviously intended for a crafting system that didn't make it in-game. The Silence Dagger (or even Sickle) is underrated I think as is the Blinding Spear. Weapons that proc relevant debuffs are nice.

With crafting I mean the average potion. The part about Grymforge for example was pretty fun and the items were good for the level.
 

Old Hans

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it happened again in my other game. I was TRYING to help the Tieflings during the seige... I shot a barrel goblin and it must have been a little too close to Zevlor (even though it wasn't THAT close) which resulted in the game going "you must wanna help the goblins again let me switch your side" I just rolled with it and said fuck it. im an evil asshole now
 

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Well... BG3 just achived new lvl.

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