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No, this statement is laughable. They weren't even one of the most powerful in 2014. Every full caster was better. They were just the best non-full caster, which is like winning junior varsity.

If they require a bonus action you can't use them with a reaction attack. The weapon masteries are the only reason they're not straight-up 2014 Monk tier.

OK, so I either take PAM or GWM and just have a bonus action that's better than anything smite can do, or I ignore those feats and intentionally gimp the character just so it can actually be a Paladin. Some choice there.

Action juggling could be worked around in a lot of cases by prebuffing.

I playtested it, too, and the class just felt bad to play. It was by far the most unpleasant experience I have ever had in 5e in any form, and I've played a 2014 Four Elements Monk. I was juggling bonus actions too many times, and at no point did a smite ever feel like an option at all. Simply...

If that was all that happened to its smite it'd be fine. The fact that it also takes a bonus action OTOH murders the class.

It's not getting a republish in Unearthed Arcana, which means WOTC considered the latest version fit for print. That is not a good thing in the Paladin's case. It's easily the weakest class for 2024.

Unless you're a Paladin. They suck in 2024.

Final Fantasy XVI should be nowhere near a top-10 anything list. It's not even top 10 in its own series.

The problem is everywhere outside of the vaults also looked way too clean.

Was not impressed even a little bit. Everything looked way too clean, and if you can't get that basic aesthetic right, then I can imagine everything else about this is going to be lazy.

That really doesn't make any sense. It's still very much turn-based because you yourself are taking turns. Swarm AI is just a means of folding multiple turns with the same initiative into one. And BG3 only uses that for the minion-types, anyway. The stronger enemies still take their own turns.

BG3 has swarm AI which makes some groups of enemies all resolve their turns at the same time. While certainly not perfect in its current state, future refinements to such a concept are clearly the direction TB games will be going.

And that TB is superior. And that RTwP is pointless because in battles where you actually have to put in the effort to win, you pause so much it might as well have just been TB from the start. RTwP is only "real time" in low-effort filler battles that only kill a game's pacing. (Which REALLY...

Get over it. It's 2023, where we can finally admit that real time with pause is just bad. Even Owlcat, who made the Pathfinder games, has come to acknowledge that. Their next game, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, will be entirely turn-based.

You harped on one of the weakest Wizard subclasses in both BG3 and 5e to say that the entire Wizard isn't a top class?

lolwut? FFXVI, the game that has almost no people of color? The game that fridges one major female character in the first third of the game, and then literally sidelines the female lead for the ending sequence? It takes some kind of mental gymnastics to think that BG3 is anything on the same...

As someone who played FFXVI before BG3, I will warn you that FFXVI is going to feel incredibly disappointing by comparison.

I will say that the recent Coda recut/rename upgrades Part III from "execrable" to "slightly below mediocre." Also that it's no longer called "Part III" allows me to consider it separate from the real Godfather movies as it should be.

Are you confused? That review was for Part II, not III. Part III was and still is terrible.