While Baldur's Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good. In th...

Yes I know its IGN but I thought it was a pretty decent vid in regards to some industry reactions to Baldurs Gate 3.

      • Redscare867@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Facts. I don’t play video games anymore and I haven’t for at least a decade, but I bought Baldur’s Gate 3 purely for nostalgia purposes. Baldur’s Gate was the shit back in the day.

        In general though I do think that the 5e system is much better suited to making an engaging video game. I really like that they’ve made it actually turn based vs having to pause every 2 seconds in combat to micromanage. Although I do constantly find myself instinctively pressing space to try to pause the game…

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Although I do constantly find myself instinctively pressing space to try to pause the game…

          Glad I’m not the only one. I feel like I need to remap space because it’s the skip turn button.

      • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I dinked around with BG 1 and it was clearly really good but damn the age shows and it can be tediously confusing. I didn’t really know what to do and I didn’t like how you start off with like 4 hp against enemies that do like 1-5 damage or whatever it is. I get that I’m supposed to wait before doing anything really valiant or whatever but it just never clicked. It was impressively deep though