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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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
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.
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There is not really much in terms of new content. Just minor bugfixes, some optimization and modding improvements. The announced expansion will also be payed content.
Absolutely. The appeal of an RPG for me is to be able to immerse myself in a story and decide for myself how i act and what i chose. It bothers me that it is so rare these days that i can control my characters attitude to a problem instead of just choosing the outcome of a situation. Like in Cyberpunk 2077 where the main char is a rude asshole with dumb ideas no matter what you do.
I think this video showcases an interesting aspect of gaming that I never really thought about before. In their case, they play more games for a shorter amount of time vs spending a large portion of their time in few games....
I noticed I have a really sharp motivation drop after ~300h that is usually the point where i would say I am competent in a game and would need to put a lot of effort into to bocome better and reach the top ranks. And that is just not worth it for me. I mostly enjoy learning a game, figuring stuff out on my own is a large part of my enjoyment. I only have two games on steam with 500+ hours and those are Factorio and Stellaris. Factorio just took me a longer time to get bored of. Stellaris I usually play in ~30h bursts twice a year after a new dlc drops and changes the game completely. So everytime is a new game to learn which I really like.
I'm shooting a movie currently and after a conversation with my director we realized that we couldn't think of a single prequel that we liked. However, we both agreed that there has to be at least one....
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.
Calling this glitchless is a little misleading, unless you’re suggesting that carrying spells over from one run to the next was intended / normal functionality.
I would definitely argue that this is intended. Hollow eggs have all kinds of weird abilities and are extremely important to the lore. And the wand is also completely possibe to build ingame unless I missed something. So while extremely unlikely this is theoretically possible.
Of course you are right, this is not a standard speedrun. But i still think it is insane and very cool.
I'd say it all depends on the rules he community of each game agrees on. For Noita this is not a legit run and that is fine, but using data from different runs/saves to make another run faster is not that unusual I think. Pretty sure some jRPGs do similar things for rng manipulation and Kotor2 and Skyrim have useful glitches that appear when you leave the game running for a while before starting your run. They are not allowed, but for skyrim at least the reasoning is not that it is an invalid strat, but that the setup is too much of a pain.
Currently we are playing D&D's Rime of the frostmaiden and I play as a Darf wizard (Order of scribes) that used to be a successful writer/journalist in waterdeep and now wants to write a travel Guide to Icewind Dale. At least that is what he will tell you. In reality he and his publisher (my backup rogue) had to flee the city after some research for a seemingly harmless article about some nobles ended up uncovering a huge cult of devil worshippers. If you are wondering why I have a backup character ready to play: We are currently level 5 and so far we have had three charcter deaths. Also my wizard may have an unhealty amount of curiosity which leads to him beeing the designated "things toucher". So far I only have been cursed, Vaporized (he got better), teleported, and tranced for a while so things are going fine.
Our last longer game was supposed to be a Oneshot but ended up being 6 sessions (as usual). It was set in Theros (think ancient greece but D&D) and we were participating in a tournament as a team. it was great. Each round had a different game. One was a race around the city in flying chariots. On the side people were betting, attempting to bribe us, some honor duels and lots of sabotaging. Our team had a minotaur with anger problems, an extremely famous (and extremely vain) gladiator/athlete, a very chill, "I'm just here to have fun" druid (guess who got into all those duels), a Paladin who was my grandson and myself, a 90 Year old Human Monk who used to be a Judge until he decided to be an agressively atheistic hermit and philosopher. originally I was going for "Aristotle with abs" but then decided to do an astral self Monk and dump my physical stats.
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.
Thanks, that actually helps a lot. I had hoped for something as easy to navigate as the trove, because that was great for finding new systems and modules but this will do for now.
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'The Game Just Fundamentally Undermines Itself': Game Designer Breaks Down 'Baldur's Gate 3's Most Fatal Flaws (www.themarysue.com)
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ can be a fantastic experience and a bad game at the same time.
Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 Revive Age-Old RPG Debate About Encumbrance (www.ign.com)
Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 both weigh the player down with encumbrance. Love it or hate it, it seems like it's here to stay.
Larian says it’s discussing potential Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Baldur's Gate 3: Act 3 Bugs and Missing Content Becoming a Problem as More Players Near End (www.ign.com)
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"We believe RPGs are big ... So we always believed the audience was there," says Adam Smith
Which Dragon Age games are worth playing?
I have never played any of the Dragon Age games, but I just gained access to the GamePass tier that has EA games, so I can play any of them....
Cyberpunk 2077 was “better than it was received,” CDPR dev says (www.pcgamesn.com)
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The Story of Factorio, the Game that Only Increases in Price (youtu.be)
Steam code giveaway
Because- lemmy needs more participation, here is my deal....
The ‘JRPG’ label has always been othering (www.polygon.com)
interesting article for consideration from Polygon writer Kazuma Hashimoto. here's the opening:...
How many hours do you put into games? (www.youtube.com)
I think this video showcases an interesting aspect of gaming that I never really thought about before. In their case, they play more games for a shorter amount of time vs spending a large portion of their time in few games....
Best Prequels?
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Spedrunning Noita in 2 Seconds (Glitchless) (youtu.be)
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.
Tell me about your TTRPG character(s)/campaign(s)!
TTRPGs count as gaming, right? So tell me a little about what you have going on!...
Good direct source for ttrpg pdfs?
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.
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x01 "The Broken Circle"
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