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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1777466" data-attributes="member: 1465">I really liked Baldur Gate's series because of the huge plot  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> When I tried to play it first time I let the combats roll I didn't like it very much, it was impossible to even conceive a little of tactic... I could only control the main PC and let the other keep shooting.Then I tried the paused combat, thinking it would have been boring, and instead it was a hundred time better. Finally it made sense to call it a strategic game  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ToEE was also quite ok, but the 3ed combat turn-based structure is effectively quite too static on a computer game... BG was better because it gave each action some "time to perform", so you'll never know when it's the PC's turn again, and also you basically did one action at a time IIRC, not like 3ed when each turn consists of more actions. The 3ed combat system is better as a P&P RPG because it's easier to keep track of actions, but when you have the PC doing all the math stuff, the BG's system was much better IMHO.About graphics... mmh usually I prefer bitmap rather than 3D. The day someone will be able to do 3D textures without visible polygons or holes in the objects, then I'll switch to 3D with pleasure  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> But nowadays I prefer the visual results of 2D with basic perspective, like in BG or ToEE.</blockquote>

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