Baldur's Gate III announced!

I know. The decision realtime vs. turns is really upsetting some of the fans. But in grand scheme I would still wait until open alpha ends to see how the product shapes up before making up my mind. I would give bg3 chance if it was either way as long as the story is good. My roots are in turn based d&d, bg2 was just fine most of the time despite having to emulate turns with pause.

It's ok. though. Not everyone needs to like all games. I completely didn't like kojima's latest and wished he had made another mgs2/3 kind of game. That said some people really liked death stranding.

Maybe you would like pathfinder kingmaker? If you read reviews they are on the negative side but most of the complaints(other than difficulty) have been fixed with patches.

edit. I also played bg2 with 6 characters. That really made pause a mandatory evil, especially for spell casters.

 

Not an expert, played briefly in poe but yeah it has more vibes from bg2 than dos2 and gameplay of "bg3". I'm not into rpg as much today (love witcher3 though) but I was excited when bg3 was announced. Not so much after gameplay reveal.

 

Btw. For those who like turn based this game is pretty cool and from a small team. Mostly same people who made legend of grimrock series.

 

Fantasy XCom - sweet!

 

Yup, I can attest to that being a pretty good game.

Now if only I had the time to actually finish all these games I've tried that are so good.

Regards,
SB

 

considering how Bioware has been lately and how Larian has been. I would have made the same decision as WOTC

 

Yup, Bioware hasn't been capable of making a game like Baldur's Gate since they were acquired by EA. It's not the type of game that EA would allow to go into production. Just look at what happened to the Dragon Age series. DA:O started prior to the acquisition and was basically a modern day Baldur's Game sans D&D ruleset. Everything after that was a train wreck. Bioware immediately went from being an RPG focused company to something trying to appeal to Shooter fans and Action gaming fans.

Argh, sorry. I can't help but rant about it every time it comes up. EA absolutely destroyed Bioware.

Regards,
SB

 

Many of the old hats from Bioware are now in a new studio "Archetype" for Wizards of the Coast.

 

early release pushed back till Sept 30th if not later

Minimum

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 70 GB available space

Recommended

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel i7 4770k / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB / AMD RX580
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 70 GB available space