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Post by themikefest on Dec 31, 2023 5:42:45 GMT
It was very much Bioware at near the top of their game imo, character writing wise. My personal opinion was that the lack of plot in ME2 caused the problems in ME3, because ME2's plot spent most of the game recruiting people. It was the recruitment ark xD But the characters were just amazing I loved the team in ME2. ME2 really ended on a high note, I almost thought out loud, "I'm so proud of you guys" after the suicide mission. My only problem with ME3 right now is that the Normandy feels a little dark and lonely after ME2, lol. I miss having all my squadmates around. I miss Miranda in particular, she always felt like FemShep's bestie. One of the things I missed in ME3 was having Harbinger talk more smack to my Shepard. My Shepard was looking forward to talking smack back at Harbinger.
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Post by vonuber on Dec 31, 2023 21:02:52 GMT
SH is a cleric, right? So, she heals people, I guess? I've played the game through and still don't have a clue about why she's supposed to be so good at what she does. Really? So you missed going to where she was literally raised and trained, and confronting her former trainer? And finding out all the back story behind that?
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Post by roselavellan on Jan 1, 2024 3:33:08 GMT
Really? So you missed going to where she was literally raised and trained, and confronting her former trainer? And finding out all the back story behind that? Of course I didn't. I finished her personal quest, talked to her after, talked to Nocturne, visited her secret hideout in the Cloister, read all the books in the Cloister including Nocturne's journal, interacted with her throughout the game and around Baldur's Gate, including at her old teacher's grave etc etc. Ok, so the story tells us she is supposed to be special, but you never quite see that in the game. You never quite see the skills that were supposedly honed to make her special. I mean, even in the Gauntlet of Shar, anyone can pass the trials, and SH's actually the least competent for the tests. Astarion's better at the first trial, and my sorcerer is better at the second. Don't get me wrong, I like her a lot - she's someone I probably would have been great friends with in school. I do think, though, in a game where you are working towards an end goal of defeating an ultimate threat to the realms, that our companions' actual skills and professional history would be more defined. They did it to some extent with Gale and Karlach. Anyway, as I said, I find the companions in DA and ME to be more convincing.
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Post by colfoley on Jan 2, 2024 3:35:22 GMT
So noticed BG 3 is on sale for the first time on the PSN...for 7 bucks. Probably needs to be about 40 off for me to consider it but still note worthy.
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Post by githcheater on Jan 2, 2024 4:26:53 GMT
So noticed BG 3 is on sale for the first time on the PSN...for 7 bucks. Probably needs to be about 40 off for me to consider it but still note worthy. Hmmm ... BG3 is 10% off on Steam for $54 during the Winter Sale ... perhaps I should wait until the Steam Spring Sale ... $54 sounds like a "rip off" compared to $7 ... Anyway ... Hogwarts is keeping me quite busy for now.
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Post by githcheater on Jan 2, 2024 5:22:23 GMT
So noticed BG 3 is on sale for the first time on the PSN...for 7 bucks. Probably needs to be about 40 off for me to consider it but still note worthy. Is that $7 off for $53 or is that $7 the current price on PSN?
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Post by colfoley on Jan 2, 2024 5:26:38 GMT
So noticed BG 3 is on sale for the first time on the PSN...for 7 bucks. Probably needs to be about 40 off for me to consider it but still note worthy. Is that $7 off for $53 or is that $7 the current price on PSN? 7 for 62. 69 is its base price right now. If it was 7 bucks I'd snap it up faster then you can spit.
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Post by vonuber on Jan 2, 2024 9:02:46 GMT
So noticed BG 3 is on sale for the first time on the PSN...for 7 bucks. Probably needs to be about 40 off for me to consider it but still note worthy. You think it's only worth paying $29 for?
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Post by colfoley on Jan 2, 2024 9:41:12 GMT
So noticed BG 3 is on sale for the first time on the PSN...for 7 bucks. Probably needs to be about 40 off for me to consider it but still note worthy. You think it's only worth paying $29 for? partially. Though part of that is since it's mp it'll be the first true RPG I might be able to play with the wifey so the idea is maybe to buy two copies. Of course she is about as crazy about the turn based combat as I am so it's going to be a bit of a hard sell.
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Post by fairdragon on Jan 2, 2024 11:49:42 GMT
Hey it’s all about opinions That's true.
You skip dialogue and skip areas you lose companions (bull will betray you). That is one think i love. consequences and replayability.
The game has huge boring areas that are only rewarding if you do the puzzle quests (dwarven desert ) You can skip them so i don't see the problem. I only play the main part the rest i ignore. In my opinion one of the more interesting enemies is tied to a time travel choice that most people hate I am sorry for your "most people". I love the time travel and never does the other part because i hate the time restriction.
Cassandra romance is a lot like shadowhearts and there is an approval system. Same goes for Karlach . The problem with Cassandra is it just fizzles out after the one scene Now laezel is triggered by strong deeds and agreeing with her but just like dai relationships are ended once you say no or if you choose someone else I'm not sure if they have fixed it yet: But if you keep going without resting much, you can say no and in the next scene your companion will still flirting with even though you said no. And i can't see Cassandra romance beeing like Shadowheart.
I prefer Inquisition SO MUCH MORE to BG3, because the things that I love in Inquisition are so much bigger and more important to me than the positives of BG3. I feel the same way. For me: reliable story, reliable Companions and a red thread that guides me through the game. I can take any bioware game and i know i will like the story and the companions. The only game that can keep up with both is Pathfinder WotR.
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 17:07:39 GMT
I finally finished BG3.
better CC: Dragon Age Inquisition remains the best I've ever used (minus hair options) I went to try to move a scar on my new avatar in BG3 and realized I couldn't. Also realized there are race locked faces so it doesn't matter if I really liked that tiefling face AND don't want to sport a tail. Also, ambiguous gender or effeminate male faces don't seem to exist, and the female bodies are tied to the female faces.
Graphics: BG3 has better graphics than DAI. The hair is a LOT better even though the PS5 can't seem to render it the way I see on youtube videos. The expressions are beautiful too--mocap!
Cinematics: BG3 is better. The bulk of the romantic scenes, and over half the rest of the normal scenes, look like they got the same treatment the Cora Sex Scene from Andromeda got. Lots of mocap = good. Thumbs up.
romance system mechanics: It would really behoove some of these scenes/conversations in BG3 to be locked behind Story Events. Lae'zel can proposition you for sex after one day of knowing you. I haven't had this much romantic whiplash since Dorian, similarly not locked to story events, did everything practically back to back. I suppose other than the speed/rate, they are on par with Dragon Age.
Story is good. Nothing I'd write fanfiction about which only Dragon Age ever made me do. I don't really HATE any of the bad guys? No one person is your main enemy. There were more like "Enemy of the Act" flavor of the month kind of thing. I hated Loghain, Meredith, and Coryface, at least right after Haven I did.
Companion story lines: Astarion and Karlach moved me to actual tears. Wow. And Lae'zel moved me on several occasions so much that I deeply came to respect her. Wyll is plain toast and the rest of the cast I'm pleasant, neutral, or slightly dislike about them. This is compared to Morrigan's, Anders', Blackwall's storyline arcs.
Music: That house of hope song slaps and I put it on repeat for a couple hours. Alfira's song was great the first two times but I'm over it now. The rest of the music is forgettable and I'm downright tired of the start screen music. Dragon Age wins.
Combat: I only ever liked Origins' slower combat out of all the trilogy. Considering BG3 is that on steroids, I'd say BG3 combat wins. it can be finnicky though. Complete Build Control is glorius. Lot of ways to min max or just have flavor fighting that feels significant, so BG3 wins.
Stealth: Is possible, stealing is possible and worth trying. YAY
BG3 has the murder knife! And evil decisions that are remarked as evil and companions with agency that leave because you suck. but sometimes not. I've heard the narrator say the MC was siding with the bad guys as a form of infiltration when people are playing as evil. Like, it doesn't recognize a character that would be Pro Absolute and follow the cult because they believe in it.
Dialogue System: We need some Heart Symbols to indicate flirting lines. What are we doing here, BG3? no one should be ninja manced in 2023/2024. They have brackets for persuasion/intimidation etc, so why not flirting?
companion and inventory management: I can't equip that item on that character unless I kick someone from the party and add the other one. The new patch 5 slightly helps in that I can at least SEND items but come on.
Long rests to receive companion content: I don't love it. I can understand it gives some control to the player to make sure the scenes trigger when THEY want them to rather than say... going back to camp to get something only for this dramatic scene to start. I don't know how they could fix it, because it is better than clicking on a companion any time or day and getting a cutscene you didn't know you were gonna get. But the fact of it is that this ultimately causes me to long rest 3 times as often as I would naturally. The drawback to this is all the ritual spells, potions, and elixir buffs resetting and some of these are hard to come by, so I don't want to burn through them willy nilly just to get all the scenes. So then I'm doing 6 long rests back to back to save on potions/elixirs.
In the world companion banter: on par with Dragon Age and seems to trigger more often and correctly than DAI ever did.
BUGS: BG3 has some game breaking bugs. I literally couldn't save the last 15 hours of gameplay on the PS5 because of Error Code 544 and it's a well known PS5 error. I had to just save the end game for a Saturday and played straight until 5 in the morning, just leaving it idle if I did other things rather than log out and lose my efforts. I've heard Xbox is having severe issues as well. I think expecting the game mechanic of "saving" to work is a pretty acceptable thing to expect out of a game that's been out 6 months.
AI: Some of the AI for NPCs in battle are broken, everyone who's made it to Act III knows about the Gondians. I literally don't know how anyone can save any of them. WE dimension door'd one to safety only for it to misty step BACK into combat on it's turn and then die. I almost feel like you'd have to attack and knock them out and then dimension door their unconscious body to save any of them.
I'll probably come back and edit in more as I read other's stuff.
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 18:03:38 GMT
I think Astarion is similar to Dorian. Dude, WHAT? I can't imagine you'd actually finished the game when you made this comment.
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 18:09:18 GMT
Bg3 has 0 fetch quests Bg3 has 0 npcs that have no dialogue and no look alikes like dai did Ahem! Dribbles the Clown Fetch Quest begs to differ. And there were definitely look alikes. Disguise Self Halfling was Roan from the Zentarim
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 18:11:37 GMT
I’ve been playing now for weeks and there isn’t 1 thing dai does better than Bg3. Bg3 excels in romances Ignoring your subjective view, this here already proves you wrong. BG3 just has playersexual romances that forces sex, while DA has romances with actual orientations including letting you play Ace. Unfortunately true. My partner tried to do an Ace relationship with Shadowheart. But not kissing her ends the romance. BG3 made some great characters to romance but do fall back on the standard Romance=Sex trope that Bioware broke the mold in with Andromeda
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 18:13:42 GMT
Ok I’ll give you the tie as it’s subjective but I’m waiting on the rest They're all subjective you know? Like River said, people have different tastes. I'm looking at BG3 and I'm wondering why are people forcing me to like a CRPG that I'll probably have a hard time playing on console? Really? It's super easy? Since it's turn based you have all the time in the world. Can use toggle or D pad to select bad guys. R1 and L1 don't even have to be constantly pressed to keep the action wheels on the screen.
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 18:21:56 GMT
It feels like it's the entire fanbase, every encounter with a BG3 fan has been horrible. Why should I listen to the "good" fans if they're not even standing up to this nonsense? The good fans are getting downvoted on Reddit, no worries 🤣 on Reddit, I don't believe I'm allowed to dislike anyone but Wyll. If I say I honestly don't see Shadowheart and Lae'zel as a couple capable of naturally happening or that Gale is a smarmy prick, I'm downvoted to oblivion.
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 18:32:37 GMT
I love DA:I to death but BG3 clearly has a lot more in terms of choices and reactivity, but it mostly boils down to '' which person/group do I kill '' or '' good choice/evil choice. '' What DA:I might lack in terms of choices or '' illusion of choice '' and overall reactivity, it makes up for the few choices you do make not have a clear right answer, and while you do not see the consequences of your actions during the game (which is a shame), your choices do shape the world in big ways. I don't think there's anything at all close to Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts in BG3, for example. Honestly, there is probably only one choice in the entire game of BG3 that I feel like will have people debating (fpr years to come) on what is the '' best '' choice, while every big choice you make in DA:I has people still discussing what is the best way to go, in general or for their character. The debate over who should rule Orlais is still to this day really interesting to read. Agreed. My interest in other people's choices in BG3 lays in, "oh neat, you can do that?" But there are clearly wrong and right choices.
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Post by vonuber on Jan 2, 2024 19:46:46 GMT
We saved all the gondians in the prison and the foundry.
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 19:53:24 GMT
It's not really something that's fully come out via the LP but man the companions seem to be pretty universally...not nice people. Yet some of them are extremely attractive,in one way or another, people. I'm confused. The coldest thing I ever heard Karlach say was about the Soul Coins- may as well be used for her to kill bad guys than for the bad guys to use them. I get it, but my poor heart, some of the stories behind these coins are deeply dark.
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 19:56:02 GMT
We saved all the gondians in the prison and the foundry. Some folks swear up and down that the prison is insanely difficult because of buggy AI. My partner and I did it on Co-op, blind, without a hitch. So when I say what I saw in the basement of the foundry was impossible because of screwed up AI, then I simply believe we had different experiences based on the voodoo of computer programming. Enough people have issues saving the Gondians that I absolutely believe it is a legitimate issue that needs to be fixed.
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Post by vonuber on Jan 2, 2024 20:11:19 GMT
Oh well I dunno then. We've been playing on PC and haven't encountered any real bugs at all tbh.
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Post by phoray on Jan 2, 2024 21:23:41 GMT
Oh well I dunno then. We've been playing on PC and haven't encountered any real bugs at all tbh. We were playing PS5 couch co-op from September to New Year's Eve. Act III had loading issues- once an entire building didn't have walls. Several times, using the portals to travel around Baldur's Gate the city, a scene would start- audio only, black screen, because the image hadn't loaded yet. Happened for when random citizens turn into Illthid but also when Counselor Florrick threatened to arrest us for "killing Duke Ravengard". Which made for, "huh, what's happening, people are yelling but I know not why" moments. These didn't super bother me, but not being able to save for the last 15-20 hours of gameplay did. The game was made for PC first, so it makes sense that it runs well on PC.
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Post by vonuber on Jan 2, 2024 23:12:53 GMT
The game was made for PC first, so it makes sense that it runs well on PC. Yes, I suspect you're right!
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Post by colfoley on Jan 3, 2024 0:06:42 GMT
I finally finished BG3. better CC: Dragon Age Inquisition remains the best I've ever used (minus hair options) I went to try to move a scar on my new avatar in BG3 and realized I couldn't. Also realized there are race locked faces so it doesn't matter if I really liked that tiefling face AND don't want to sport a tail. Also, ambiguous gender or effeminate male faces don't seem to exist, and the female bodies are tied to the female faces. Graphics: BG3 has better graphics than DAI. The hair is a LOT better even though the PS5 can't seem to render it the way I see on youtube videos. The expressions are beautiful too--mocap! Cinematics: BG3 is better. The bulk of the romantic scenes, and over half the rest of the normal scenes, look like they got the same treatment the Cora Sex Scene from Andromeda got. Lots of mocap = good. Thumbs up. romance system mechanics: It would really behoove some of these scenes/conversations in BG3 to be locked behind Story Events. Lae'zel can proposition you for sex after one day of knowing you. I haven't had this much romantic whiplash since Dorian, similarly not locked to story events, did everything practically back to back. I suppose other than the speed/rate, they are on par with Dragon Age. Story is good. Nothing I'd write fanfiction about which only Dragon Age ever made me do. I don't really HATE any of the bad guys? No one person is your main enemy. There were more like "Enemy of the Act" flavor of the month kind of thing. I hated Loghain, Meredith, and Coryface, at least right after Haven I did. Companion story lines: Astarion and Karlach moved me to actual tears. Wow. And Lae'zel moved me on several occasions so much that I deeply came to respect her. Wyll is plain toast and the rest of the cast I'm pleasant, neutral, or slightly dislike about them. This is compared to Morrigan's, Anders', Blackwall's storyline arcs. Music: That house of hope song slaps and I put it on repeat for a couple hours. Alfira's song was great the first two times but I'm over it now. The rest of the music is forgettable and I'm downright tired of the start screen music. Dragon Age wins. Combat: I only ever liked Origins' slower combat out of all the trilogy. Considering BG3 is that on steroids, I'd say BG3 combat wins. it can be finnicky though. Complete Build Control is glorius. Lot of ways to min max or just have flavor fighting that feels significant, so BG3 wins. Stealth: Is possible, stealing is possible and worth trying. YAY BG3 has the murder knife! And evil decisions that are remarked as evil and companions with agency that leave because you suck. but sometimes not. I've heard the narrator say the MC was siding with the bad guys as a form of infiltration when people are playing as evil. Like, it doesn't recognize a character that would be Pro Absolute and follow the cult because they believe in it. Dialogue System: We need some Heart Symbols to indicate flirting lines. What are we doing here, BG3? no one should be ninja manced in 2023/2024. They have brackets for persuasion/intimidation etc, so why not flirting? companion and inventory management: I can't equip that item on that character unless I kick someone from the party and add the other one. The new patch 5 slightly helps in that I can at least SEND items but come on. Long rests to receive companion content: I don't love it. I can understand it gives some control to the player to make sure the scenes trigger when THEY want them to rather than say... going back to camp to get something only for this dramatic scene to start. I don't know how they could fix it, because it is better than clicking on a companion any time or day and getting a cutscene you didn't know you were gonna get. But the fact of it is that this ultimately causes me to long rest 3 times as often as I would naturally. The drawback to this is all the ritual spells, potions, and elixir buffs resetting and some of these are hard to come by, so I don't want to burn through them willy nilly just to get all the scenes. So then I'm doing 6 long rests back to back to save on potions/elixirs. In the world companion banter: on par with Dragon Age and seems to trigger more often and correctly than DAI ever did. BUGS: BG3 has some game breaking bugs. I literally couldn't save the last 15 hours of gameplay on the PS5 because of Error Code 544 and it's a well known PS5 error. I had to just save the end game for a Saturday and played straight until 5 in the morning, just leaving it idle if I did other things rather than log out and lose my efforts. I've heard Xbox is having severe issues as well. I think expecting the game mechanic of "saving" to work is a pretty acceptable thing to expect out of a game that's been out 6 months. AI: Some of the AI for NPCs in battle are broken, everyone who's made it to Act III knows about the Gondians. I literally don't know how anyone can save any of them. WE dimension door'd one to safety only for it to misty step BACK into combat on it's turn and then die. I almost feel like you'd have to attack and knock them out and then dimension door their unconscious body to save any of them. I'll probably come back and edit in more as I read other's stuff. Yeah despite what I said earlier the companions are probably the second biggest selling point for the game right now. I have my concerns but the majority of them look like they are really fun people and really prominent characters. Much like in ME 2 again. Shadowheart, Karlach, Astarion, and Gale are my definite favorites so far. Wyll and La'zael are going to take some work and I've barely seen anything out of...the other four. Ignoring your subjective view, this here already proves you wrong. BG3 just has playersexual romances that forces sex, while DA has romances with actual orientations including letting you play Ace. Unfortunately true. My partner tried to do an Ace relationship with Shadowheart. But not kissing her ends the romance. BG3 made some great characters to romance but do fall back on the standard Romance=Sex trope that Bioware broke the mold in with Andromeda Ah yes thank you for reminding me of this negative aspect. Granted by far a minor one but I've just been thinking about the game here and there and planning playthroughs and who I am going to romance with which gender Tav and what not...and apparently it doesen't matter. And while sexuality I don't think should neccessarily be a huge part of someone's character its still there and just leaving it up to the player still cheapens it IMO. They're all subjective you know? Like River said, people have different tastes. I'm looking at BG3 and I'm wondering why are people forcing me to like a CRPG that I'll probably have a hard time playing on console? Really? It's super easy? Since it's turn based you have all the time in the world. Can use toggle or D pad to select bad guys. R1 and L1 don't even have to be constantly pressed to keep the action wheels on the screen. That's kind of the problem though, at least from my perspctive, granted I guess both of these things are *me* things but think one is still kind of higher level...1. from what I was noticing with the LP I was watching the vast majority of their combat encounters was like taking their entire half an hour episodes. Like 20 minutes of it. Which is just not something I really look forward to because while combat can be a fun aspect to these games they really aren't the big draw for any video games...but especially RPGs...and just what you do to get to the next encounter. So Inquisition, for whatever its other problems, combat in that game still felt incredibly fast and brutal. Like 20 secons and then you get to move onto the next encounter or the really good stuff like character interaction, the crafting, the story stuff. And 2. Because of that, and how I play video games, I can get very impatient. Like I am playing AC Mirage right now and its not one to one, its more of an action game, but since there is far more emphasis on being a stealthy boy and doing assassin stuff which can be a slow grind. Well I get impatient, I get to where I am running around time is running out on my play session so I have to rush. Same concept here since I am just not sure how much I will be able to get into it and rush through the combat encounters so I won't do it right. Plus I haven't seen a lot of footage on the PS5 versions of the game but the wheels do look more then a little complicated. It feels like it's the entire fanbase, every encounter with a BG3 fan has been horrible. Why should I listen to the "good" fans if they're not even standing up to this nonsense? The good fans are getting downvoted on Reddit, no worries 🤣 on Reddit, I don't believe I'm allowed to dislike anyone but Wyll. If I say I honestly don't see Shadowheart and Lae'zel as a couple capable of naturally happening or that Gale is a smarmy prick, I'm downvoted to oblivion. Hey leave Gale alone he's a precious snowflake that must be protected at all costs. I love DA:I to death but BG3 clearly has a lot more in terms of choices and reactivity, but it mostly boils down to '' which person/group do I kill '' or '' good choice/evil choice. '' What DA:I might lack in terms of choices or '' illusion of choice '' and overall reactivity, it makes up for the few choices you do make not have a clear right answer, and while you do not see the consequences of your actions during the game (which is a shame), your choices do shape the world in big ways. I don't think there's anything at all close to Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts in BG3, for example. Honestly, there is probably only one choice in the entire game of BG3 that I feel like will have people debating (fpr years to come) on what is the '' best '' choice, while every big choice you make in DA:I has people still discussing what is the best way to go, in general or for their character. The debate over who should rule Orlais is still to this day really interesting to read. Agreed. My interest in other people's choices in BG3 lays in, "oh neat, you can do that?" But there are clearly wrong and right choices. That is the other negative aspect I am wondering about and it does track from some of the things I have seen so far.
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Post by TabithaTH on Jan 3, 2024 17:36:19 GMT
partially. Though part of that is since it's mp it'll be the first true RPG I might be able to play with the wifey so the idea is maybe to buy two copies. Of course she is about as crazy about the turn based combat as I am so it's going to be a bit of a hard sell. Not sure if they are available for consoles, but you should consider trying out DOS1 and/or 2. Like you, I was also skeptical because of BG3 combat not being real time. Playing the older Larian games is what sold me on the turn-based aspect of BG3 (Though the mechanics for DOS are simpler than DnD, so there’s that to consider). SInce they are older, they’re also way more likely to be on sale, so won’t be so bad if you don’t like it. Currently playing 1 with my bf and having a great time. My impression is that it’s better as a co-op game than single player. There are 4 companions, but the character creation has a built- in way of making a pure solo/co-op run viable. 2 is more like a typical Bio game, except it also has the origin characters (like BG3) for a more personal story arc (You can still make your own custom character, which I did). The combat mechanics have also been streamlined a bit more compared to 1. Overall, It’s easy to see the evolution from DOS1 to 2 to BG3 (which some say is closer to DOS than BG and I tend to agree). It turned out to be just the natural progression I needed to feel comfortable with the price tag (had I not received it as a christmas present). Like I mentioned, the DnD mechanics are a bit more complex than regular DOS (Which I have come to really LOVE) and BG3 has me excited for if/when they decide to go ahead with their original DOS3 plans.
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