StereoVsn
Gold Member
Well, that sucks, but even then the game is more than worth playing.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I find it odd that it wasn't included when it's plug & play in the SDK.
ap_puff
Member
Yeah it honestly sucks, maybe they didn't want to invest in enough testing to make it pass whatever validation sony/ms does
VanCityGamer
Member
Do you guys recommend this game to someone who loves story and character focused games, western RPGs, fantasy, etc. but dislikes turn based games for the most part?
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Mister Wolf
Gold Member
If you already have it set that you don't like turn based then no I don't recommend it. This game has long drawn out turn based battles that require strategic thinking.
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James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
Gonna wait and see if there's any black friday sales.
VanCityGamer
Member
Such a bloody shame. I just can’t get a proper fantasy RPG that appeals to me since The Witcher 3. Baldur’s Gate 3 would be perfect with real time combat.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
You're going to have to wait for Avowed like me. Or play Veilguard.
VanCityGamer
Member
Yeah I’m definitely looking forward to Avowed.
I was keeping an eye on Veilguard but don’t think I can endure the writing, those characters, and the awful art style. That Skill Up review was a TKO.
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Larxia
Member
It depends what it is that you don't like about turn based.
I myself hate turn based most of the time, especially in JRPG, because it's actually never strategic at all, you just spam the same actions, the combats are repetitive, it's boring, and it also often came with random encounters in older jrpg making the whole thing even worse. I think it never really provided anything beneficial that action couldn't do, in most of these JRPGs it's just tedious.
However, I really enjoyed the combats in Baldur's Gate 3.
It's actually really strategic, you can move your character around for strategic positioning and play with the environment (your position is very important in this game), you have to take your time to think about your next action, and you can really experiment with ton of crazy things. it has a very heavy "immersive sim" aspect to it, if you're familiar with that. You can really improvise a lot of stuff depending on how the environment is, what objects are around you, how the terrain is, what items you have on you etc...
And related to that, one key important thing about Baldur's Gate 3 combat is that all the combats, all the encounters, are UNIQUE.
It doesn't have the same feeling as other turn based jrpgs because it doesn't have this repetitive, grindy feeling. If you encounter ennemies somewhere, and kill them, this combat won't happen again. Ennemies don't respawn. Most human ennemies actually are unique characters with a specific name to them, characters which you can in a lot of situations not even fight if you turn the situation around through dialogue etc... And if you do kill them, well they're dead, forever.
This absolutely change the feeling of the combats. Each combat is a fun interesting and unique situation, making the game always feel fresh, you won't feel like you're playing the same combat over and over.
Absolutely loved it. The only thing I'm still not a fan however is the RNG, I never liked random things, so I did tend to save scum a lot in this game lol.
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VanCityGamer
Member
That’s helpful info, thank-you. I think I’ll have to get my hands on a demo.
Tommi84
Member
ap_puff
Member
You could just try it out?
Hrk69
Member
1 or 2 more playtroughs can't hurt
They paired it with a 4090. However actually, there is a DF video covering the PS5 version with Patch 5, which showed that framerates had improved from the low twenties to the low thirties.
So for the PS5 Pro to get a locked 60 here, performance would need to almost double.
Lucifers Beard
Member
No doubt it will improve FPS somewhat, especially in Act 1 and 2. Act 3 is very much CPU intensive though. Be interesting to see what the differences are.
Bojji
Member
Would be funny indeed and completely illogical.
sachos
Member
Based on this video seems like the Pro would be enough to clean up the remaining frame drops on the Quality mode to get a perfect locked 30 at least. I dont see how they achieve locked 60 here, even if the extra CPU clock translated 1 to 1 to performance it would still be like 20 fps short.
thatJohann
Member
I think I read somewhere that due to PS5 Pro having a very minor CPU bump that bad performing games won't have transformative changes. So I imagine here, it would go from 20-25fps to like 25-30 fps?
VanCityGamer
Member
Read 3 posts up from yours.
Not that learning to tolerate the combat will change the fact that we can’t seem to get high quality fantasy RPGs with real time combat over the past five years.
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mayham2199
Member
This is what I started doing it sounded interesting. I normally hate going evil in games with choices but I don't know BG3 just hits different and I want to do it. Like Mass Effect though nothing could make me play renegade in those games.
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Lucifers Beard
Member
I went for Dark Urge on my first play through and it's amazing. I can't imagine having a better first experience with the game. Being evil in BG3 is just so much fun and actually viable. There are so many ways you can play through the game, it's crazy. Can't wait to sink time into future playthroughs.
It's not as bad as that review is saying. Don't get swayed by online negativity surrounding the game. If you're slightly interested in the game like me, then just wait for a price reduction, like i did.
The dialogue is quite cringy sometimes though, but luckily that can be skipped.
vaibhavpisal
Member
What do you mean by real time combat?
Top down games with real time combat are plenty.
If you want 1st/3rd person games, those are completely different.
Yoboman
Member
As someone who thought this before playing it, you're wrong. BG3s combat is much better for being slow and strategy based
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous.
It's not turn based, very fantasy, actual replay value with choices that matter.
Downside? No bear sex and no voice acting. You'll have to read which means anyone under 25 can't play it