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This might be the first time I'll buy battlefield

 

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I've gotten into the ship building aspect of starfield

 

[gnarlygninja]

I've been tricked by a string of unrelated people across several places online insisting that anyone who liked Baldur's Gate 3 would absolutely love "Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader". I've played it long enough to say that unless the reason you liked BG3 is you just love any and all CRPGs, that's probably not true.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I've been tricked by a string of unrelated people across several places online insisting that anyone who liked Baldur's Gate 3 would absolutely love "Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader". I've played it long enough to say that unless the reason you liked BG3 is you just love any and all CRPGs, that's probably not true.

It's as different as D&D and WH40K are. Now, most of my D&D players also like WH40K, so the assumption that there is a big overlap between people who like D&D and people who like WH40K seems reasonable. But it's obviously not 100%.

The Owlcat game is tonally faithful to the IP - full of grimdarkness and black humour. And BG3 goes to those places, even though those elements are not always part of D&D or the Forgotten Realms.

 

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[MarkB]

I've gotten into the ship building aspect of starfield

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I stopped playing quite awhile ago, but I got into some really silly designs by the end, just because I could.

 

[gnarlygninja]

It's as different as D&D and WH40K are. Now, most of my D&D players also like WH40K, so the assumption that there is a big overlap between people who like D&D and people who like WH40K seems reasonable. But it's obviously not 100%.

The Owlcat game is tonally faithful to the IP - full of grimdarkness and black humour. And BG3 goes to those places, even though those elements are not always part of D&D or the Forgotten Realms.

I think a lot of the success of Baldur's Gate 3 comes from the quality of the game itself. It's a big ambitious game that nails almost everything it set out to do. From what I've seen there are plenty of players who aren't interested in DnD at all. And I think a lot of those people are going to be very disappointed because if you want a beautiful game with great music, wonderfully written companions, or even just....good writing period then CRPGs as a genre are going to be dissappointing.
The 40k setting doesn't help my issues with the game, I don't find it a particularly compelling place to imagine myself as a character in (Oh, ok, I live in a fascist hellscape but that's good actually because everyone else sucks and anyone who wants to change that is evil) but there's also the fact that I just don't think Owl Cat make very good games. If I'd noticed they made this I wouldn't have even given it a shot.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I think a lot of the success of Baldur's Gate 3 comes from the quality of the game itself. It's a big ambitious game that nails almost everything it set out to do. From what I've seen there are plenty of players who aren't interested in DnD at all. And I think a lot of those people are going to be very disappointed because if you want a beautiful game with great music, wonderfully written companions, or even just....good writing period then CRPGs as a genre are going to be dissappointing.
The 40k setting doesn't help my issues with the game, I don't find it a particularly compelling place to imagine myself as a character in (Oh, ok, I live in a fascist hellscape but that's good actually because everyone else sucks and anyone who wants to change that is evil) but there's also the fact that I just don't think Owl Cat make very good games. If I'd noticed they made this I wouldn't have even given it a shot.

Owlcat are extremely ambitious. What they lack are resources and the judgment to know what is important and what to cut. Wrath of the Righteous is very similar to BG3 (especially in turn based mode). About as close as you can get. WH40K yeah, has it's issues as a setting that might be triggering, and I wouldn't recommend that to someone who didn't like the IP.