Suffering and success.

  • Sirico
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    591 year ago

    Guess Larian just got a load of designers and writers. Such a shame as 5th ed was a real highlight, but now a lot of people seem to be heading back to pathfinder like the 4th ed days. Luckily, the Divinity universe can stand on its own and there’s a wealth of other tabletop rulesets waiting for their amazing adaptions

    • @Ilflish@lemm.ee
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      451 year ago

      I don’t think it’s too controversial to suggest that 5e mechanics are not the strength of BG3. It would be arguably praised more if it kept the world design of BG3 and replaced the combat to have the spell scope of DO2 with the basic actions of 5e (aka shove, which arguably BG3 tweaked anyway to make it fun in combat)

      I’ll miss the design approach of the game but BG3 was just a big advertisement to how good a D:OS3 will be

      • @Lesrid@lemm.ee
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        131 year ago

        Revisiting DOS2 after playing BG3, the game feels like Splatoon: Painted surfaces everywhere, all the time.

      • @Aqarius@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        I agree. DOS2 was, mechanically, a superior game. Porting 5e into videogame format isn’t as clean.

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      81 year ago

      I made the change almost a year ago now after all the OGL nonsense they tried to pull and I honestly believe Pathfinder is a much more fun game. My entire table enjoys it more than 5e and they are a real variety of different player types.

    • @jandar_fett@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      I’m so ready to get the kind of polish and mastery that BG3 has applied to a new game in the Divinity universe. I haven’t finished DOS3, not by a Longshot and don’t have time to play it, but it blew me away and I think about playing it again often. I will one day. It is daunting when you haven’t played a game like that in a while, to continue on. Especially on the harder difficulties lol RIP. Larian is the GOAT game studio up there with From Software and the Zelda team imo.

      • @SCB@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I prefer D:OS 1s story and played-through world to D:OS 2’s, but D:OS 2 has a lot more polish. Both are excellent games and worth your time.

      • @Patches@sh.itjust.works
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        21 year ago

        It’s slow like a TTRPG. If you liked Baldur’s Gate then you will like Divinity.

        If one is too slow for you then you won’t like the other.

        I personally can’t stand either but I’m not a TTRPG fan.

      • @jandar_fett@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        I have a hankering to go back to it regularly and I’m playing on the Switch so it is less smooth, but yes I am a forever fan of Larian Studioes after experiencing just a tithe of DOS:2. Hard to explain why it is so good, but the mechanics are creative, fun, and challenging. The story is epic and actually epic in scope and the characters are all so fleshed out and the voice acting is professionally done and immaculate. It is very open ended and very long but very very good.