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  • iNeedScissors67@kbin.socialtoBaldur's Gate 3@lemmy.world•I was kinda hoping it'd take Baldur's Gate 3 longer to ruin my life
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t even have any hype for this game because I don’t do anything DnD related and I typically don’t like how complicated CRPGs are, but this game has me by the balls and I constantly think about it. I find myself having to avoid some fights even on easy (those god damn phase spiders in the well at the goblin village) but it’s so freakin’ great either way. I played co-op on Friday with a friend who has been playing DnD for 30 years and he was impressed by my experimentation and creativity which is something I’m usually pretty poor at.

  • iNeedScissors67@kbin.socialtoBaldur's Gate 3@lemmy.world•You think the next big RPG is gonna measure up to Baldurs Gate 3?
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    1 year ago

    Depends what you mean by measure up. Baldur’s Gate 3 is my first CRPG that I was able to stick with for more than an hour and I absolutely LOVE it, and that was before even trying co-op, which somehow made it even better. I’m hopelessly obsessed with it, to the point where I had all Sunday to myself while my wife napped off her hangover, and I opted to try to power through the rest of Final Fantasy 16, just hoping I could get to the end, so I can focus purely on BG3 with all of my gaming time. It would be nonsense to compare this game to Starfield (which I’m also very excited for) because they’re such vastly different types of RPGs. I think this game sets the generational benchmark for RPG quality, but I don’t think it’s even going to be the highest selling RPG of the year if that’s what benchmark we’re using. I think for now and the foreseeable future it’s certainly the benchmark for quality especially when it comes to your choices actually mattering.

  • iNeedScissors67@kbin.socialtoGaming@beehaw.org•Best sub-20 hour games?
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    1 year ago

    I’d look at Telltale-style games. They’re roughly 10 hours each ( five 2-hour ish episodes) and are almost entirely story driven. The gameplay is usually very simple. You choose dialogue choices to drive the story.

    The best Telltale games are in my opinion: The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, The Walking Dead, Batman: The Telltale Series and its sequel, Batman: The Enemy Within. They’re also releasing the first episode of The Expanse (based on the TV show since the character Camina Drummer does not exist in the books) later this month.

    Another series that is very much that same style but by different devs is the Life is Strange series. I’ve played the first one and the prequel called Before the Storm. They are very emotionally heavy stories so I’m taking some time before I can go into the sequels but I absolutely love that series and will preach it to anyone who will listen.

    10 hours is definitely short but it also helps that they are all done in 2-hour episodes so you can easily take breaks.