Trigger the codex with a statement.

[Cael]

Dragon Age, Mass Effect and KOTOR are the top 3 BioWare games, Baldurs Gate is only ahead of Jade Empire.

Jade Empire wasn't that bad.

Unless you were expecting a CRPG, then yes, it wasn't that bad. The setting felt fresh because ching chang chong shit was more uncommon back then. The story must have been unremarkable because I can't even remember it, but I liked the visual design some of the locations. It certainly was something different.

If it is what I think it is, then it was also incomplete. It was like the prologue and first chapter of a full game, and then it just stopped.

 

[HappyDaddyWow!]

Any videogame who doesn't limit save game features that consecuently leads to autistic savescumming is practically terrible game design.

The only RPGs to do save points well were the souls games, specifically because the bonfires (or whatever they call them now) were purposefully designed like oldschool checkpoints that you'd see in a NES/SNES/Genesis game.

Something I despise with JRPGs is that if you run into a savepoint there's always a reason. For example, if you find a random savepoint deep into a dungeon, you basically know for a fact that you're at a boss. Feels really gamey and breaks the suspense imo.

My point being: if you're going to throw me a save point every time I get to an obstacle that might kill me, you might as well just let me save whenever I want.

 

[behold_a_man]

If it is what I think it is, then it was also incomplete. It was like the prologue and first chapter of a full game, and then it just stopped.

It had three proper chapters, and then it became completely railroaded. The game had polish typical of Bioware games between Baldur's Gate 2 and Dragon Age 1; the production quality of the game is the least of its problems. I wouldn't call it incomplete in any way.

 

[Cael]

If it is what I think it is, then it was also incomplete. It was like the prologue and first chapter of a full game, and then it just stopped.

It had three proper chapters, and then it became completely railroaded. The game had polish typical of Bioware games between Baldur's Gate 2 and Dragon Age 1; the production quality of the game is the least of its problems. I wouldn't call it incomplete in any way.

It must be an other game, then. I only have vague memories of it. Something about a demon attacking a temple and a child saved from it who may or may not be you. That kind of stuff.

 

[Cryomancer]

Chris Avellone will be kept cancelled even after proven innocent, but don't worry. The industry has a lot of sweet babies to hire as writers and replace him.

 

[Atlantico]

Chris Avellone is a simp and a one-story writer.

 

[Shadowfang]

Were there any RPGs before Dark Souls?

 

[jaekl]

Were there any RPG's before Dark Souls?

Disco Elysium

 

[Peachcurl]

Not entirely wrong. But while it was definitely a great RPG game, Disco Elysium released well after Dark Souls.

 

[jaekl]

Not entirely wrong. But while it was definitely a great RPG game, Disco Elysium released well after Dark Souls.

DE came out 2 years before dark souls, google it dumbass. Then come back and apologise to me.

 

[Peachcurl]

As per your request, I googled it. It simply confirms my opinion. I mean, sure, Dark Souls is a true classic that only older gentlemen like us have played, while Disco Elysium is more like a modern twist to the genre. A revival, I would say.

 

[jaekl]

Google it again

 

[Shadowfang]

Disco Elysium is the Darks Souls of its own genre.

 

[Kruyurk]

 

[Hydro]

Codex was much more prestigious, intelligent and fun in 2016

 

[Kruyurk]

Codex was much more prestigious, intelligent and fun in 2016

You were not posting back then.