Schlock

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[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, soccer is a terrible RPG.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Smashing chests in BG3 has no negative effects.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In BG3 it is a balance mechanic. Heavy objects tend to be completely OP and are used to cheese combat. encumberance limits this and even allows building your character specifically for this playstyle.

In Bethesda games encumberance is in part there to protect players from themselves. If every object can be picked up (and that is a design principle in those games) and every object has a Value, then the optimal strategy is always to grab every single object you can find and then sell everything at once. If that does not sound like fun to you that is because it is not, but still i know multiple people who play those games this way even with encumberance in place. Players will always find a way to ruin their own fun, the only hing you can do is to put systems in place that disincentivise these behaviors.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In BG3 encumberance is absolutely needed to balance the game. Heavy Objects are still the best way to cheese combat and that is with you being limited in how many you can carry. Building a Character in a way to work around this is absolutely possible and a valid choice for a character build. It is definitely not a meaningless aspect of your character.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

“Hahaha, I rolled higher initiative so now you don’t get to play for the next three rounds while I can do whatever I want.”

I had to reload multiple fights because the enemies just killed 3-4 of my partymembers before I had my first turn. Random Initiative is really not something I like in Games.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the opt for adding a GM mode and level editor they may just have the ultimate digital tabletop for D&D. Not only would it instantly be better than every other implementation I tried, the basegame additionally also managed to improve upon the D&D ruleset by adding Weapon skills for martial classes. They would not even need to add more content. There are already mods that add the missing spells, feats and subclasses.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I think I know exactly which dialogue bug you are referring to. Happened to me as well, although after I turned down the deal. The second part might just be Gale being Gale

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I know the feeling. It is the first time I have spent more than 30€ on a game and not regretted it.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first game in ages where it actually feels like the company/ developers actually put in effort and released a complete product

Ironically the only people who say this about BG3 have not reached the third act yet. Still my favourite game in years, but the later stages of the game really could have done with more playtesting. there are bugged quests, disappearing characters, people ignoring story events in dialogue, missing cutscenes and multiple outcomes for storylines happening at the same time.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

If you are here for branching stories with a lot of player choice you basically have to start with Origins. The save transfers up to the third game and it has a lot of callbacks that could have played out differently if you picked different things in the first two games. It's basically the only redeeming quality of DA:Inquisition for me.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would interpret "perfect" as "i can't find anyhing negative to say about this game". So for me the candidates are:

  • Portal 1&2
  • Factorio
  • Outer Wilds
  • FTL
  • TowerFall: Ascension
  • Dishonored 2
  • Prey (the Arkane studios one)
  • Minit
  • and maybe Nidhogg
[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Dissappointing from a technical point of view

Dissappointing from a roleplay point of view

Dissappointing from a narrative point of view

At least for me

 

This strat is banned form the speedrun leaderboard, so the actual WR is still 2:23 (also completely insane). The fact that this is completely working as intended just shows that this game absolutely nails destroying reality with complex magic.

 

I have not been able to find an extensive collection of RPGs since the Trove shut down. I know there is a torrent backup somewhere but i do not want to mess with that currently. The Eye has some stuff, but it is very limited and the usual Ebook sites also only have a small and very random selection.

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