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Was there ever a name for the genre of tactics game where you queued up a series of orders for each unit then hit a button and watched them play out? One of those ill-fated Jagged Alliance sequels/reboots used it iirc Watch BG3 use that style for maximum chaos
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Divinity Dragon Commander is an extremely cool game where you can marry a skeleton or a dwarf and be a dragon but it has Risk and RTS and dragon-flying shooter stuff and political intrigue government simulation and all four of those things are kind of half-baked
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En Garde Motherfuckers posted:Was there ever a name for the genre of tactics game where you queued up a series of orders for each unit then hit a button and watched them play out? One of those ill-fated Jagged Alliance sequels/reboots used it iirc fuckin Battle Bugs did this, that game ruled
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Jun 6, 2019 21:06
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En Garde Motherfuckers posted:Was there ever a name for the genre of tactics game where you queued up a series of orders for each unit then hit a button and watched them play out? One of those ill-fated Jagged Alliance sequels/reboots used it iirc I played an N64 game called "Hybrid Heaven" that married this to a beat-em-up and it was weird as poo poo and intriguing.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:07
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thumper57 posted:Why do people refer to a series with two games as a trilogy? The expansion to the second game was originally planned as to be a full game. It didn't end up being obviously, but kept the worst of both scenarios - it is almost entirely separate from the second game, including a separate menu that you select when you start the game, separate saves, a separate game world and map (you can't go to the expansion areas from the base game and vice versa), and you can start up a brand new play through and character straight into the expansion. So functionally it's like a separate game, just without the convenience of having a stand-alone install option, or anything like the kind of length, balance or story that you'd expect from a full game.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:09
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JamMasterJim posted:Take that back Styles. Pattonesque posted:fuckin Battle Bugs did this, that game ruled
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Jun 6, 2019 21:11
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The Ol Spicy Keychain posted:This is going to suck rear end. The fact that they won't even say what the game will play like says a lot. It doesn't say a god damned thing, really. This game is still a long ways off and they want to not say much until they are ready to actually show some stuff, too. En Garde Motherfuckers posted:Was there ever a name for the genre of tactics game where you queued up a series of orders for each unit then hit a button and watched them play out? If I understand correctly what you mean, the UFO: After* series of XCOM-likes did that.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:13
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BG made by Larian sounds like my dream game
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put Mazzy's identical great-grandaughter in as a party member, you cowards
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DoubleDonut posted:put Mazzy's identical great-grandaughter in as a party member, you cowards Hire David Warner to voice the main villain again Seriously he made Irenicus so loving good
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DoubleDonut posted:put Mazzy's identical great-grandaughter in as a party member, you cowards She could actually be a Paladin now!
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Jun 6, 2019 21:15
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I hope that depressed elf from the Nashkel mines is
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Jun 6, 2019 21:15
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Mzbundifund posted:I hope that depressed elf from the Nashkel mines is Xan, Coran and Minsc at the very least are still around in the present day. They could be party members.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:19
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MonsterEnvy posted:Xan, Coran and Minsc at the very least are still around in the present day. They could be party members. Yeah but I've never saved Minsc from the starting dungeon because he is an annoying dickwad. Rot in hell Minsc, and take boo with you.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:20
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The only characters I would put real money on appearing are Minsc and maybe Coran since he's I think part of the Baldur's Gate aristocracy now or something?
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I think Minsc, Jan, Xan, and maybe even Aerie all have a pretty good chance of appearing, but I doubt any of them besides maybe Minsc would be long-term party members. I just want to reiterate, though, that I am not joking about Mazzy IV. I need a character who can just shoot a zillion arrows a round.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:23
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Wizard Styles posted:I paid full price for Dragon Commander. I will die on this hill if I must. Heresy gross and foul.
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En Garde Motherfuckers posted:Was there ever a name for the genre of tactics game where you queued up a series of orders for each unit then hit a button and watched them play out? One of those ill-fated Jagged Alliance sequels/reboots used it iirc Have you not played Into The Breach
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I am not the biggest fan of Larian studios' writing, but the hot takes I see here are pretty obnoxious and silly. It's going to be a pretty good game. It just might not be the game I want. Also, I'm hoping for turn-based because I hate real-time with pause. And I look forward to playing this with my friends, so I am glad they are focusing on multiplayer.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:28
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Larian is cool and I'm pretty optimistic about this mostly. That said, can dudes really just get turned into mind flayers? I don't actually know how they work besides brain big.
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fargom posted:Yeah but I've never saved Minsc from the starting dungeon because he is an annoying dickwad. Rot in hell Minsc, and take boo with you. How do you sleep at night
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Jun 6, 2019 21:30
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Caidin posted:That said, can dudes really just get turned into mind flayers? I don't actually know how they work besides brain big. It's a mindflayer tadpole taking over a victim's body, but yea that's how they reproduce.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:32
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Caidin posted:Larian is cool and I'm pretty optimistic about this mostly. It stated as being an accelerated version. But yeah that's how Minflayers reproduce. Normally the same thing happens over 7 days, after the Tadpole finishes eating your brain. 
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Yeah they put a tadpole into your brain. It is meant to be a very slowly and painful process taking like a week, but that's obviously not so easy to depict in a trailer so this werewolf style transformation was a good choice imo.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Have you not played Into The Breach I have, it's not really what I'm talking about. Simultaneous Turn-Based is maybe what I'm looking for here, and I don't know why I reached for bad Jagged Alliance follow-ups and not like Frozen Synapse or something. Also I hope Cernd shows up as a friendly ghost, something about the guy being one of the least useful versions of one of the least useful classes in BG2 made him a sympathetic figure to me.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:38
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Cool, Disgusting and a bit unnerving but cool. Guess nobody is dumping their INT stat this campaign.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:38
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We might be getting (another) Spelljammer game and that possibility alone absolutely kicks rear end. Larian are great devs and I'm pumped that they're doing it. (definitely waiting for the "definitive edition" though)
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Jun 6, 2019 21:41
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I like both turn based and rtwp so I'd be fine with whatever they choose as long as the game is good.
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Wizard Styles posted:To be fair the pre-D:OS games are not really worth knowing about. I’ll have you know Dragon Commander is the only good Larian game.
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I liked Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity was buggy and fairly rear end. Ego Draconis was nice even if the ending kinda pissed me off until the DLC came out. Dragon Commander was fun if far from what I hoped for but I can respect the ambition behind it, and the OS series is pretty fantastic in my book even if 2 did kinda annoying toward the end on the story telling front. So, shot in the dark but will we get to kill Damian in this game?
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Yeah, Divine Divinity was also a perfectly fine game... up until the point near the end where it goes a bit too much on the rails anyway. But still, I'm looking forward to seeing how this works out, especially considering the time gap in-universe between games. They already cheated to use Minsc in the current D&D time via a comic, so I expect they'll probably carry on from those there for him to be fair, but I wouldn't hold my breath about many of the other shorter lived party members without some valid excuse turning up again in person.
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If I can't bang a bird-elf and have her never talk to me again afterwards I don't even want to play.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L04LWnKJqjQ Swen Vincke says that the giant tentacle monster in the background of the trailer is a Nautiloid. Would this be the first time a Nautiloid appears in modern DnD? They should go full Spelljammer.
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Could someone point me to a good link to read up on what this "Spelljammer" stuff is? I never heard of it.Arc Impulse posted:Yeah, Divine Divinity was also a perfectly fine game... up until the point near the end where it goes a bit too much on the rails anyway. But still, I'm looking forward to seeing how this works out, especially considering the time gap in-universe between games. They already cheated to use Minsc in the current D&D time via a comic, so I expect they'll probably carry on from those there for him to be fair, but I wouldn't hold my breath about many of the other shorter lived party members without some valid excuse turning up again in person.
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Adnor posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L04LWnKJqjQ
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Edwin could probably still be loving around either by misadventure or genuine accomplishment in one arcane life extension method or another.
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Yeah, for humans being a wizard (or getting one the wrong side of one) would be the easiest reason for why they'd still be kicking about. Less likely for the ones who were pretty much just martial classes admittedly.
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Caidin posted:Edwin could probably still be loving around either by misadventure or genuine accomplishment in one arcane life extension method or another. If Edwin isn't a lich by now then I have no faith in FR canon
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bike tory posted:If Edwin isn't a lich by now then I have no faith in FR canon Edwin could never achieve lichdom. Edwina though...
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