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IT BEGINS posted:I'm optimistic about this. If anything, 5e should be simpler to code than the 3.5-era games since it's less fiddly. While I haven't loved games like NWN2 I haven't been particularly disappointed by them either. It just seems like a terrible mix of crew, Dragon Age developers, guys with a repetoire consisting of 90% handheld console movie-tie in shovelware and the Warframe devs who're mostly known for F2P Grindsville. Literally no people who have a past that says: "I can handle this concept well." and not really crew that seem to have much experience with the genre either, aside from Tudge. I'd also call it a bit, well, early to do a 5e videogame, there's not exactly a lot of official content to make use of yet, at least in my opinion.
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They're already leaving out 4 races and 6 classes so no need to worry about running out of content.
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PurpleXVI posted:I'd also call it a bit, well, early to do a 5e videogame, there's not exactly a lot of official content to make use of yet, at least in my opinion. Look at the list of abilities all the characters have. Its pretty much connected in name only.
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Divinity: Original Sin already has pretty much everything they're promising; it even looks almost identical. but that's just par for the NEXT course
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Feb 13, 2015 00:52
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Harthacnut posted:They're already leaving out 4 races and 6 classes so no need to worry about running out of content. You're giving me Neverwinter Dragonborn flashbacks.
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"Choose from five playable races and six unique character classes to build your own stalwart adventurer." Unique classes, you say? Like the Warlord and the Psionicist perhaps? No seriously, even for a marketing blurb who are you trying to kid here? It's going to be Fighter, Cleric, Rogue, Wizard... Paladin and Ranger? Sorcerer and Warlock? You do realize that even World of Warcraft has all this and more, right? (Also I'll bet you a shiny internet dollar that the races are human, dwarf, halfling, and two flavors of elf.)
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Feb 13, 2015 01:30
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Human, Dwarf, Halfling, Elf and Half-Elf would be my assumption. Though if halflings are replaced with half-orcs to save on skeleton modelling I wouldn't be surprised.
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Really Pants posted:see if you really wanted to go for some kind of epic burn you should have said "or how far they are from your poopy butt face Was not trying to burn you. I was not sure what you meant. The two games you mentioned are very well liked and take place on the center Sword Coast.
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goatface posted:Human, Dwarf, Halfling, Elf and Half-Elf would be my assumption. Though if halflings are replaced with half-orcs to save on skeleton modelling I wouldn't be surprised. My bet is the same but Half Orcs replacing half elves.
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PurpleXVI posted:I'd also call it a bit, well, early to do a 5e videogame, there's not exactly a lot of official content to make use of yet, at least in my opinion. Does 4E even have a video game yet?
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GrizzlyCow posted:Does 4E even have a video game yet? Every time im reminded of this I get more annoyed I never got a sweet turn based tactics game.
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GrizzlyCow posted:Does 4E even have a video game yet? Daggerdale. I downloaded the demo thinking "hey, this might be cool to drop  on to kill time!"In the hour played the demo, I had to restart the game four times times because twice I got stuck in a crate/barrel, once I got stuck on the lid of a chest, and once the cinematic that spawns the next area wouldn't start up because I jumped over the spot on the ground you need to touch to make it go. Woo.
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GrizzlyCow posted:Does 4E even have a video game yet? It has a relatively decent MMO that has a ridiculously predatory monetization system.
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GrizzlyCow posted:Does 4E even have a video game yet? XCOM: Enemy Unknown Or maybe that's more Gamma World than 4E per se.
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Didn't 4e have a video game version before it even came out?
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MonsterEnvy posted:Was not trying to burn you. I was not sure what you meant. The two games you mentioned are very well liked and take place on the center Sword Coast. Their worst, most boring parts take place there, yes. They get more fun and creative as they go to other places, the farther from the Coast the better.
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AlphaDog posted:Didn't 4e have a video game version before it even came out? World of Warcraft?
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kingcom posted:World of Warcraft? That's what I heard, yeah. e: In all seriousness the Neverwinter MMO while having nothing to do with the 4e rules had pretty fun gameplay. I'd still be playing it if it wasn't for the cash shop bullshit. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Wasn't there a DS game that was awful?
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AlphaDog posted:That's what I heard, yeah. Yeah the basic combat was really fun. Really enjoyed my time with it. Just didn't like the structure of areas.
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Really Pants posted:Their worst, most boring parts take place there, yes. They get more fun and creative as they go to other places, the farther from the Coast the better. Yeah, Baldur's Gate was fun, if not great. Baldur's Gate 2 moved things a bit further South and was already a lot more creative and original, and Throne of Bhaal was really great. If they must set the game in the Realms I'd rather they'd explore some bit of the Realms we haven't seen yet. Basically, screw the Sword Coast and Icewind Dale. Give us a game set in that country where everyone's a Wizard or something.
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Ratpick posted:Yeah, Baldur's Gate was fun, if not great. Baldur's Gate 2 moved things a bit further South and was already a lot more creative and original, and Throne of Bhaal was really great. Wizard politics in Thay sounds like it would be rad to play a game in. Its like hogwarts but everyone is trying to murder eachother to climb up the foodchain.
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Ratpick posted:Yeah, Baldur's Gate was fun, if not great. Baldur's Gate 2 moved things a bit further South and was already a lot more creative and original, and Throne of Bhaal was really great. But none of what made the difference between BG1 and BG2 had anything to do with location. It was pretty much entirely down to more fun abilities and higher levels, mechanically, and recruitable NPC's that had a lot more dialogue, butted into conversations, had their own questlines, etc. BG1 also had a lot tighter design with regards to storyline, everything you did there was pretty directly related to Sarevok's schemes, 90% of BG2 was sidequests or just finding your way back to the game area(I think like, what, a solid QUARTER of the game was just loving getting back from Spellhold? Christ.), and the actual time you spent interacting with Irenicus or his plots was pretty minimal.
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Ratpick posted:Yeah, Baldur's Gate was fun, if not great. Baldur's Gate 2 moved things a bit further South and was already a lot more creative and original, and Throne of Bhaal was really great. Mask of the Betrayer takes place partially in Thay (The rest of it takes place in the Rashemen and the Astral Plane) and is basically the greatest thing to come out of Forgotten Realms so yeah, it seems like getting away from the Sword Coast really does make things better.
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kingcom posted:Wizard politics in Thay sounds like it would be rad to play a game in. Its like hogwarts but everyone is trying to murder eachother to climb up the foodchain. Mask of the Betrayer had a short section that was exactly this, and it owned.
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Decided to put a little fear into my players tonight. They're 4 lvl 4s and a lvl 3, and the boss is a young black dragon. I won't pull any punches.
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djw175 posted:Mask of the Betrayer takes place partially in Thay (The rest of it takes place in the Rashemen and the Astral Plane) and is basically the greatest thing to come out of Forgotten Realms so yeah, it seems like getting away from the Sword Coast really does make things better. Every single place in Faerun is more interesting than the Sword Coast. Even countries that are straight up "earth people live here" are more interesting than the Sword Coast.
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Elendil004 posted:Decided to put a little fear into my players tonight. They're 4 lvl 4s and a lvl 3, and the boss is a young black dragon. I won't pull any punches. I just went through that encounter. It ended up being hilarious as I spawned a spiritual weapon to keep the dragon's attention. My attack roll was a natural 20. My damage rolls were max damage. So after the DM stops laughing he does a big theatrical show of a heavenly weapon descending from high and cracking the dragon right between the eyes. The dragon looks at me, cross eyed now, and congratulates me for being the only trying to put up a fight. 
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Ratpick posted:Yeah, Baldur's Gate was fun, if not great. Baldur's Gate 2 moved things a bit further South and was already a lot more creative and original, and Throne of Bhaal was really great. Nah, I disagree. The best parts of those games are the wilderness and city exploring that make up most of 1 and the first few chapters of 2. After that, it gets more and more rail road with ToB basically running like a Final Fantasy game.
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OuTrast posted:I just went through that encounter. It ended up being hilarious as I spawned a spiritual weapon to keep the dragon's attention. My attack roll was a natural 20. My damage rolls were max damage. So after the DM stops laughing he does a big theatrical show of a heavenly weapon descending from high and cracking the dragon right between the eyes. The dragon looks at me, cross eyed now, and congratulates me for being the only trying to put up a fight. Our wizard summoned a phantasmal force, and since our wizard is a diviner, ensured that the dragon tanked his saving throws, trivializing the encounter. I did knock down two party members in the opening acid breath, but didn't kill anyone. Oh well.
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Elendil004 posted:Ou What did he think he was seeing.
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MonsterEnvy posted:What did he think he was seeing. His stats in the monster manual.
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kingcom posted:His stats in the monster manual. We are both talking about the Dragon right? The stats are decent. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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MonsterEnvy posted:We are both talking about the Dragon right? The stats are decent. It doesn't matter how good the book says your stats are when you're confronted with the cold reality that you're a fictional creature whose main purpose in life is to get murdered.
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Wow that's deep. This is Deadpool kills the marvel universe all over again.
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MonsterEnvy posted:What did he think he was seeing. A similar sized Gold Dragon.
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Really Pants posted:Their worst, most boring parts take place there, yes. They get more fun and creative as they go to other places, the farther from the Coast the better. Ah yes, the quality of a game is totally dependent on what fictional part of a fictional world it's set in.
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actually when I say the Sword Coast has always been the worst part of D&D computer games I really mean that we should kill all minorities
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Really Pants posted:actually when I say the Sword Coast has always been the worst part of D&D computer games I really mean that we should kill all minorities People are super, super mad about FR to a cartoonish degree and it's just the most hilarious thing. Check out my dartboard with a picture of Lord Nasher on it.
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