You can do other things with animals too.

I think some things could be fixed by having party members able to butt into conversations.

Like Asto turning on the charm for a charisma check, or have Karlach threaten to cut somebody's plums off if they don't let us in.

For a party based game with so many cutscenes, you feel weirdly on your own as soon as you start one.

Dynamic difficulty feels cheap to me, and I imagine it does for the developers too, which is why they give you nearly perfect information in a way that a DM probably never would. When I played the RE2 remake, the one mod I wanted was one that would turn off dynamic difficulty; that mod would eventually exist, but after I had long since finished the game. At the time, there was little else besides mods that enhanced Claire's wet t-shirt physics.

It’s as close to a perfect game as we’re getting nowadays.

I agree about the same scrumming. Particularly in the beginning when I had low level characters, I would think I was being clever and bypass some section only to accidentally wander into a a bunch of hostiles that far outnumbered my group and repeatedly get massacred.

It definitely has plenty of flaws, but the good things heavily outweigh the bad.

I mean just the shear scope of that game is crazy. It's very ambitious .There are so many dialog options. I've tried to explore as much as I can in my first playthrough but I can tell there's a lot of content that I've missed.

Can't wait to do a second run.

That's why you play in honor mode :p

All jokes aside, I had the most blast playing the game when going in blind on a Dark Urge playthru with honor mode.

It's not a good dm that fudge rolls and adjust difficulty. It's a dm you like. And it's a game you like.

Act 3 is pretty janky at times and they seriously need to give you vertical camera controls (xcom figured this out like 15 years ago!) but it’s still a fantastic game. Lots of valid critiques, but still a great game

Don’t tell the forums that, they’re convinced it’s an unplayable woke government ops

This is far too many Steam forums lately, and I don't know why or what hurt these people. If you ask the Steam forums, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League failed because it went woke and hired some diversity consultancy firm that only these people know the name of and hold up as the antichrist.

It did have a "literally unplayable" save deletion bug on Xbox until recently. I just waited for them to fix it before spending my money.

I mean, my partner and I actually did stop our play through because it was too buggy and it was effecting our enjoyment. Been meaning to get back to it after all the patches, but like... It was pretty buggy around launch by my standards.

I love BG3 as a video game, but I feel like Hasbro is going to take a lot of the ideas and try their best to translate them into the trrpg space and shittify both on the way through.

Lemmy is the opposite. Don't dare criticize or say you dislike BG3 or else they will come for you.

Honestly it's worth it at full price.

This really is one of those games that’s worth it at full price. Save waiting on a sale for the half-finished games that shouldn’t be priced as high as they are.

I think the biggest draw toward BG3 is the replay-ability!

I think I had 200+ hr on my first play through, but I made decisions, that I won't say for spoiler reasons, that cut off multiple entire story lines that I have read are another ~80hrs + of playtime! Super cool, in my opinion.

The players actions CHANGE the world, many games have strived for this, although few have achieved. BG3 achieved!

I always get the feeling that D&D's Forgotten Realms is a more goofy kind of fantasy, like everything you want is possible. It's about imagination and self-expression, rather than setting strict rules for how things work. Makes sense imo, they want it to be the world that you use to create your own stories for P&P games, so it should have many different facets and can't be too limiting.