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Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series (kotaku.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] tissek@sopuli.xyz 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think Pathfinder is as bad of a match for Larian as DnD mechanically speaking. Compare the sheer battlefield joy and chaos of DoS to the austere strictness in BG3. And Pathfinder is in the same vein. Better I think it would be if Larian picks up a setting fitting their humour and shenanigans. Heard good things about Discworld.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I guess people just have different preferences. To me, the chaos of DoS turned rather monotone. You could get rich by betting that every combat encounter would end with half the map on fire. It was a real issue that Larian fixed in bg3 thankfully.

And have you payed pathfinder wrath of the righteous? In my opinion, the combat experience is better than DoS 2 and bg3. I will say that I enjoyed the freedom of movement in DoS 2 though, it made positioning a core part of the combat.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I got most of the way through DoS2 and gave up. Every fight was a giant mess of surfaces. Reducing that makes BG3 far more enjoyable.

[–] tissek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Played a good bit of Kingmaker and while not as refined as WotR I think is very similar. I agree with you that the DoS chaos can be a bit monotone and is too much. But I'd take that over the environmental flatness of other cRPGs.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Environmental flatness isn't really tied to the game mechanics/rules though. Larian are just using a better engine with a larger budget than their competitors

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Discworld might be absolutely genius if done well. And of all the dev studios I believe Larian would be the best pick. Maybe throw in some co-op with Obsidian and I'm sold!