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  1. Gladius Legis

    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    Sorry, I'm just not seeing it. For one, your PC knows the name of someone you're supposed to talk to. Your PC knows that a guy by that name has information on what you are seeking. And your PC is indeed acting on that little bit of information by going to his haven. Your PC just doesn't know –...
  2. Gladius Legis

    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    Based on what information, though? Or more specifically and importantly, what information the PC has access to? The PC has only seen this guy once in person before entering his haven. The PC knows of a name of a certain person that would have information on what they're seeking, which is why...
  3. Gladius Legis

    D&D 5E (2024) Wizards of the Coast promises to release more “CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3” without Larian

    When asking people why they like DOS2 combat, a lot of people I've noticed tend to mention the action point system and the general execution speed more than anything else. Which I like, too, that's a great baseline. The overuse of surfaces, physical vs. magical armor system, enemy scaling, item...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wizards of the Coast promises to release more “CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3” without Larian

    Oof. (Tuque Studios was the developer of the absolutely rancid D&D: Dark Alliance.)
  5. Gladius Legis

    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    But when does the game itself actually tell you that he's doing that before you even meet him? The game at that point tells you he's pursuing the shards, sure, but it doesn't tell you what he's doing it for. And he's doing it with a bunch of demons and devils at his side while murdering people...
  6. Gladius Legis

    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    I figured out KOTOR's big reveal well before it happened in-game. Doesn't mean I didn't enjoy how it unfolded.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wizards of the Coast promises to release more “CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3” without Larian

    That ... really does not describe BG3 at all. If anything it's the opposite. Playing outright evil in BG3 punishes you a lot, which is actually something that gets quite a few complaints.
  8. Gladius Legis

    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    It's been a long time since I've actually played it, but I do not recall it being portrayed in a way that would make sense for your character to know who it is before you ever got there. That guy who wasn't a "real baddie" was still collecting the same exact thing you were after at that stage in...
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    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    That or they just decided to be lazy and bank on the toolset being the selling point for NWN1 and the OC being effectively a tech demo for said toolset. (If that's the gamble they made, it actually paid off for them.)
  10. Gladius Legis

    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    The plot of the NWN2 OC is rather linear, but there is pretty clear and detailed choice and consequence throughout that game, particularly dealing with the main cast of characters. As for MotB, could not disagree more. The consequences of hubris was a major theme in that story, and being...
  11. Gladius Legis

    Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025)

    It's still way better than the first game's main quest. It's worth one good-aligned playthrough, if nothing else just to set the context for Mask of the Betrayer.
  12. Gladius Legis

    Video Games You Wish Existed

    A Final Fantasy 17 that is an actual Final Fantasy game and not a Devil May Cry for Dummies.
  13. Gladius Legis

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    I suppose they're technically QTEs, but it's a lot more comparable to the Judgment Ring system in the Shadow Hearts series, if you've played that. The parrying and dodging part makes it more like a turn-based Sekiro, which I love.
  14. Gladius Legis

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    Eh, as a Rogue I'm usually using my bonus action more for Hide and dual-wield, anyway. Or even Disengage if I actually hit with my Attack action and got Sneak Attack already that turn. Plus Rogue likely has low STR so Dash would actually be better than Jump for them.
  15. Gladius Legis

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    I don't love everything about BG3's homebrew adjustments, but I do like how martials are generally a lot more capable than they would be in tabletop. The bonus-action jumps that can clear the screen if you have enough STR, bonus-action shoves, no attunement to worry about, all made martials just...
  16. Gladius Legis

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    It definitely is. But I don't consider that entirely a positive.
  17. Gladius Legis

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is pretty great so far.
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