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frajaq posted:I could do some messed up things in Wrath of the Righteous on Chaotic Evil Demon path... I wonder how far Owlcat is gonna go considering its 40k... Based on the little I've learned of Rogue Trader the past week the evil path will probably be that one dbz filler episode of Vegeta and the bug planet on repeat but with mad profit after every genocide and destroyed planet
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GreenBuckanneer posted:what's the consensus so far? From what I've heard and seen it's surprisingly competent for an alpha outside owlcat's traditional pathfinder wheelhouse. I was expecting a much bigger shitshow but if they can staple a bunch of heavy crpg mechanics onto a mediocre xcom lite and make it work I'd consider that a solid victory
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Wrath was much better for combat since it improved a lot on Kingmaker's extremely basic enemy ai. But honestly I feel like it had way more "open a door and get hosed by a satan lobster" type poo poo going on, it just wasn't frontloaded at lv 2 or whatever like a lot of the nasty bits in Kingmaker were
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Aramoro posted:For me BG3 had set a high bar for encounters. Whatever else you think of that game I could describe a fight and you would know which fight it was and why there was a fight. Yeah all those needle blight ambushes and generic zombie/wraith encounters in Act 2 were super memorable. Also can't forget the "ambushed by a half dozen doppelgangers" fight at the circus no wait under the temple no wait at the harper hideout no wait the wine tasting festival no wait the barber's no wait
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Further Reading posted:I haven't played BG3 but I have a similar opinion about their encounters in divinity original sin 2. One of my favourites was the oil well fight, I replayed that like half a dozen times trying to figure out how to save the guy on the rig. OS2 actually had amazing encounter design that peaked during Act 2 - Oil Field - Demon Isle - Voidbug Cave and the op Dwarf cultists guarding it - the tomb with the skeleton and her frost dogs - the cabin where the blind elf was held - the town that's under constant meteor fire with the crazy undead monster - the lizard Sourcerer on the run in the ruins - paying the Troll Toll twice over - crucified I'll kill your shining lights lady There's so much going on in that map it's nuts. The Island fumbles things a bit but there's still some neat stuff like the goblin clockwork pocket dimension or whatever
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Probably going to spend 5 hours on the char creation screen in paralysis. At least with Pathfinder I had some tertiary 3.5e knowledge from NWN2
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"I remember the fight so it's good" is not really something worth arguing so good on you I guess
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Maybe they changed that temple fight from launch since when I played it was "oh three guys on a ledge" *has like 20 thunder arrows and a hammer that causes AoE knockdown equipped* and then after the obvious happened I teleported down and beat the guy to death before he even got close to finish chanting. I would also say there's plenty of random garbage fights in the Act 2 overworld map like that one nook where the moonrise pilgrims wind up if you force them to leave the tower. Maybe there was an item, I don't know. i don't really consider that when evaluating a fight. But even then I wouldn't go wide eyed with awe if some easy fight drops the 20th monk bracer that no one in my party can use seriously that poo poo was a bit overkill
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evilmiera posted:Kind of torn on the last character. Since it's a 40k game redemption for them might be impossible, but on the other hand there's the Ynnari so maybe they can mellow out whole still being a crazy murderer? I've heard rumours of a datamined soulstone conversion plotline but that could always be some rando bits from the other xenos being misinterpreted, or just dropped from the game entirely like that one Devil Mythic Path update that never happened
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Eifert Posting posted:Hot take: My playthrough of BG3 was more buggy than my playthrough of the Rogue Trader beta. I went through the second entrance of the Mountain Pass to see where it would send you and every model and texture in the game got deleted except for the party's torsos which were T-Posing. Very spooky
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PC Gamer has had a very storied history with Bioware https://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-2-review/ quote:To make Origins, BioWare dredged up buckets of backstory from the minds of their best writers. A new land was invented, branded with religious intolerance and inherent racism. Then, once the continent of Thedas was concrete, BioWare forgot they'd invented all that engaging stuff and slapped a typical 'kill the big bad thing' fantasy plotline on top. For all its size and wonder, Origins didn't make full use of its fascinating world.
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CommissarMega posted:If that's what they have to say about DA2, then they have absolutely no credibility in my eyes- DA2 was utter garbage I'm not sure if that reviewer is even a part of PC Gamer anymore, it's just incredibly funny and timeless as a piece of writing
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Molybdenum posted:Infinity engine forever. I played BG2 only like 5 years ago and it is definitely head and shoulders above anything else in the series, though BG1 is woefully underrated. There's something oddly comforting in mapping out those zones and genociding the wildlife and gibberlings
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I played WotR at launch and it was fine beyond the odd mechanical class feature bugs and that one Lich crusade thing. As opposed to Minthara going in an endless loop screaming about how Ketheric is dead for the entirety of Act 3 or not getting a real ending until 4 months after the fact
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Fate Accomplice posted:I coulda sworn the preorder was $40, on release it's $50!? The deluxe edition was $50 USD on their site yeah. GMG has a 18% off code though so you can still get close to that price
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From what I've heard psyker and Officer Point at Guy builds seem to be the go to for uniqueness and efficiency
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KPC_Mammon posted:I thought they did put out all of the originally planned DLC for Wrath, it was just so successful that they are doing another round of DLC. Yeah I think they're at the end of round 2 or something which considering the War and this game coming out it's probably a decent pace
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