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All good points. Stretches of DOS2 were littered with pretty boring trash mob fights (the cave system in western Act2 comes to mind), wasn't the most enjoyable thing to slog through. Verticality is going to be interesting with jumps being available per default, but far ranging reposition...

See that's precisely the PC naughty word I don't want to see anywhere close to a game. What does my 3 foot race of adorable tinkerers have to do with the 7 foot half giants from the mountains? Or what about DnD Races with a genus far enough apart that they can't procreate with each other at all. I'm...

As far as DnD races are concerned I'd very much like races to be more distinct in their physical aspects. I'm game to remove all mental mods from classes altogether, you're not really capped by race in how much of a prodigy Wizard/Bard/Druid you can be. DEX, STR, CON however are a bit...

Didn't see it mentioned yet (but maybe I'm blind?). Using your Action for more healing usually works better if you can keep your Bonus Action busy, i.e. if you're in the thick of it as one of the Plate Clerics and have Spiritual Weapon running. That and Grave Clerics healing downed targets will...

Well as someone who has thoroughly enjoyed several generation of XCOM games (and Mods) as well as consumed a bunch of theoretical discussion on the games, pod mechanics came up, people are venting about it once and a while (mostly because of teleport bugs or AI clairvoiance). Worst case that has...

The RPG problem that Encounters need to keep up with you while you level is always a bit jarring. At least for the vast majority of campaigns where a party will always run in level appropriate opponents, is rarely if ever expected to retreat. How often do you fight an army of low CR opponents at...

The amount of random annoying deaths and reloads because your squishy backline can take as many hits as wet paper, combined with not having the same attention span and reaction time as my teenage self playing FPS, DotA and D2 on hardcore... oh the agony. If you miss that disable you needed...

Speaking in statistical tendency, a popular brand can outdo a better game. Most triple A games are going to beat indie/new devs for their first major game without even trying. Heck a usual sequel to a good game doesn't even have to try to sell well - looking at Mass Effect Andromeda, Dragon Age...

Swen mentioned they changed stuff about the Initiative system and we'll get a look at it in the upcoming Demo. I'd fully expect the game to ship with Squad based Initiative and individual Initiative of some sort. We're very likely to see at least 2 out of these 4 (if not all of them): 1. DOS...

Hey if you don't want to see my point, you don't have to. If PoE1 is anywhere close to Pirates of the Carribean and Conquistador themed to you in comparison to PoE2, well okay, perception varies. Read again, you seem to have missed he point. "RTWP was more or less dead in fantasy RPGs till DOS...

Don't think we agree on much there. Doesn't match with what I can remember from coverage either. POE2 went full yeet on the pirate setting. Which some people definitely liked, but more people found very jarring coming from PoE1. PoE1 was a successor to similar gameplay and theme of the older...

4 Claws on both hands on the good res cover picture. +1 for the Yeti horns from me as well Wondering why that Owl thing is accompanied by a pack of (winter(?)-)wolves though. How does that fit with anything we can dig up? Also looks like a biped and doesn't seem to wear anything other than the...

PF:KM might only have a quarter to half as many copies sold as DOS:2 but they're not several leagues apart. It's a commercial success, at least to Owlcat and did about as good as PoE II (Obsidian didn't think those numbers were a success, guess they made a bigger investment). PF:KM is an old...

Don't know how well the devs did their homework on statistics. However It takes active work to play offline these days. The only time I ran Steam games offline in the last few years was to install some mods steam kept detecting as corrupt game files. They did mention their stats are relative to...

A timeless classic remains adding NPCs to balance out opposing NPCs. For the suggested encounter you could get your party a few disgruntled knights to join them for the final encounter. They'd mostly be there to offset the CR difference if you want to keep the final encounter as is, tie up the...

Some postmortem info from the devs on game stats for the remastered version (wish I could find it... was on youtube somewhere). They suggested a lot of people bought it for the reputation or nostalgia and either bounced off hard or lost interest during the rather slow start that is a 90s...

Well it's just not that easy. X goes first, Y can counterspell, X can counterspell the counterspell. X is a Sorc for Subtle Spell, can still lose Initiative to a Warmage. As far as "things that just work" with reasonably good odds go: Warmage for winning Initiative, Polymorph into a immobile...

Might just be personal preference, but I've hardly played a RPG (with combat component) in the last 15 years that had semi reasonably good story. I didn't really have it in mind at all when writing my last post, but the best RPG I played since Morrowind (which has a massive amount of nostalgia...

Stirring the hornet's nest a bit further. A minor percentile of players (single digit) owning BG2 on Steam played it for over an hour. Well below Steam average. Triangulating that, most people claiming to be offended by it being turn based, statistically can't have played it on Steam, let alone...

Hm main weakpoint is it takes a lot of damage (no Resistance to Magical BPS) and the fairly low Initiative. Then again - it comes back when it dies. Main damage component appears to be the Breath, looks like the whole party will need Proficiency on Dex saves and Haste for Advantage and a way to...