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Baldur's Gate 3 is now the top rated game on Open Critic (opencritic.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I thought TOTK was great, but it's not like it was good enough to compare good games against. Like, it's just BOTW with a new story and some QOL fixes. It's essentially a $70 standalone DLC. I could probably list a few games that came out this year that I liked better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, TOTK is too similar to BOTW structural wise, it's very easy to get bored of the grind and just do sandbox thing once in a while.(and that's with dup glitch in mind, without dupe those crafty machines won't see the day since the time required to get enough zonites to do the auto build.) I basically haven't even finish the 4 spirits yet (got 3) and decides to play BG3 instead, and that's a good choice, so much more brain engaging in this game as well.(and that's even with save scumming, mostly to see what other paths of conversation go.) The battle is pretty balanced if you turn off karmic dice.(on balanced difficulty.) I only restart battle when I misclick and attacked on my own party.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't even played BG3 yet, but I wouldn't fault anyone for saying this. I lost a month and a half to TOTK and enjoyed every second. It fixed every gripe I had about BOTW, but that's kind of the problem as well. I always felt like BOTW was a glorified tech demo, and after playing TOTK, it felt more like the game BOTW should have been.

TOTK also has its own issues, especially with the story. The story just being told to you and not being something you're really experiencing was a weird choice. I was hoping for Ganondorf's involvement to be more than "it was me Link!" leading up to the final confrontation.

The final boss fight was an insanely awesome sequence though. Easily my favorite part of the game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with not really being a part of the story. You do play a part a little more in Totk, but it's still mostly watching cutscenes from the past again. Such a weird narrative to stick to.

Also, did you know that was the imprisoning war?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Secret stone? Demon king?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they named them Sacred Stones the whole thing might be one tiny bit less cringe

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Nah.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Glad to see persona v here, twice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Baldur's Gate 3 is the living proof that - at least as far as RPGs are concerned - absolutely nothing happened in the last fifteen to twenty years of gaming. Make one good AAA RPG and people lose their minds over it. I mean it certainly is better than the slob Bethesda served up in the last two decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If only it came to Xbox :(

I could play on my Deck, but I want to play this one co-op. We still have the Divinity games, which D:OS2 is apparently very similar, but I wanna try this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you can connect your Xbox controller to your Deck, you can still play it in Coop, just ignore the gaphics and you're good to go

Im doing thus all the time with my Manjaro Laptop all the time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not when the friend I want to play with is a seven hour drive away and only owns an Xbox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It'll be coming sometime next year. Making splitscreen work on the Series S is holding up development.

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