Avalerion posted:

Could mean it's an action game.

DoubleDonut posted:

I don't have strong opinions on real time with pause but honestly I just end up pausing so much that it may as well be turn-based, but I can hit spacebar to just make everyone auto-attack quickly


I assumed "directly follows" means that it is using the module, not that it takes place after the module

Zore posted:

You know like most of their games outside of Original Sin 1 and 2 are wildly different genres right? Dragon Commander was an RTS, Divinity 2 was a Skyrim style 3rd person RPG, Divinity the original was a Diablo knock off etc.

ubachung posted:

I know nothing about this. At the risk of opening a can of worms, could you elaborate?

Arivia posted:

what the absolute gently caress is that

nothing in the FR looks like that

maybe, maybe a gold elf gone to ground real hard with the Eldreth Veluuthra? But I highly doubt elven KKK member is a playable option in this game

Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:

that was never the case even in baldurs gate 2, i think youre misrepresenting the genre sir!!!

click fighter point at enemy, click other melee point at enemy. they will continue to mash face until you tell them otherwise

did you know theres an entire genre of games like rts and mobas that involve micromanaging units in real time (without the ability to pause!) its pretty crazy. stay away fromt hose haha

boredsatellite posted:

i think if pillars of eternity 2 sold well wotc might have considered them but seeing the success of that game (or lack thereof) compared to divinity original sin 2 its obvious why Larian got the game

Relax Or DIE posted:

Freakazoid_ posted:

Imagine when Michelangelo made the statue of david, many years later the rights-holder having passed on to his family, and then some capitalist pays for the rights to make another one but out of iron and wood and it doesn't look that good but it had gear mechanisms that let it change poses and kick a soccer ball.

Freakazoid_ posted:

It does sound awesome but it's intention was to facilitate capitalism.

Starks posted:

Does anyone actually like how Larian does dialogue. It’s mind boggling to me.

Zane posted:

he flipped out at some of the owners/managers at obsidian shortly after the release of poe1 and did some probably intemperate ranting to that effect on rpgcodex.net. that was 3 or 4 years ago now.

En Garde Motherfuckers posted:

Deadfire has an event where you can fail in performing a magic trick to impress some peaceful not-kobolds so spectacularly that they are driven to violence

WarpDogs posted:

Avellone definitely comes across as up his own rear end in interviews, but the fact he always gives the PC the option to tell his characters to gently caress off is a huge point in his favor.

Usually when a writer makes a 'negative' character - whether they're broken, an rear end in a top hat, arrogant, whatever - they exist only to be a punchline or so that they can be redeemed in their personal quest.

Durance is pretentious and a tryhard philosopher, but like... you can say those exact things to him. You can choose to deny him his redemption. More than that, you can mock him, tell him he's full of poo poo, and ultimately own him so bad that he screams in anguish at his failed life and the game ends with him setting himself on fire out of despair

Maybe I'll be mocked for this myself, but I think that's a brave thing to do as a writer. For all his faults, he certainly understands the importance of player agency

cuntman.net posted:

for some reason i thought dragonborn monk would be more popular

Caidin posted:

I think Dragonborn are neat but between how poo poo the breath weapon is and the decent possibility your DM will never actually have an enemy that does your resisted damage type and you may well not actually have any racial traits.

Avalerion posted:

Curious, 5th ed got tieflings but no asimaar?


That one i’m sure is in. They already got the assets from dos2 lizards.

cuntman.net posted:

im starting to wonder if you know what stapstick is. im starting to wonder if i know what slapstick is

Cythereal posted:

BG2 as well. This is why only Anomen was made a romance option for female PCs, and Valygar and Haer'dalis were cut for time. The Baldur's Gate series was very much expected to be a niche game appealing to a small but devoted audience, and women were almost entirely discounted as a market for the games.

Bioware really was not expecting the series to do as well as it did, or to have such a strong female fanbase.

oswald ownenstein posted:

Were your sensibilities offended?

Fruits of the sea posted:

BG2 is arguably the game new players should try if only because the plot moves at less glacial pace and the team had gotten a lot better at designing dungeons and quests. Except that's throwing folks into the deep end with shielded mages and level-draining vampires when they haven't yet gotten comfortable with the basic game mechanics.

gasman posted:

C'mon, Montaron and Xzar's voiced banter was funny for a 1998 video game.

Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:

have you tried just playing bg2 and not 1
the point of bg is how hard you can cheese it, dos doesnt even come close lol