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3 years ago by nanoUFO to c/games

The more annoying aspects of modern gaming are completely absent in Baldur's Gate 3.
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snapsofnature 13 points 3 years ago

Would you guys recommend this for a casual gamer I love playing Zelda but rarely progress the story because I just like exploring. I know they aren't the same game but just giving an example of how I play games. Also, never played the other games before.

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pacoboyd 33 points 3 years ago

I'm gonna be the guy that says no. It's not an open world exploration game, it's more of an exposition game. Playing in small bits is likely gonna leave you stuggling to remeber where the story left off and what you were trying to do. Maybe if you did chunks of the story at once but even short sessions for me turn into hours.

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stappern 6 points 3 years ago
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orbitz 8 points 3 years ago

By that do you mean it autosaves often and many autosaves, and you have to prepare to figure out the autosave you need? I'm not really sure the difference meant but that's all I can think of compared to current games. Though if so I'd add, you get to pick how many autosaves it will do so you can increase / decrease as needed.

Also as someone who played 90s and previous older RPGs having multiple autosaves rocks, there weren't always multiple autosaves so you tended to reload back to your manual save and try again from that point. Save scumming wasn't considered a bad thing way back when, just how you'd figure out the hard stuff heh.

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BloodForTheBloodGod 6 points 3 years ago

No, probably not for casual. The D&D combat takes a good bit of time spent.

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AnonymousLlama 5 points 3 years ago

It's one of the newest D&D like games out there, so UI wise it's probably one of the best to start on. But there are other similar games (e.g. Pathfinder Kingmaker / Pathfinder Wrath of the righteous) that I'd start on first.

Both of those last two we're a great overall introduction into what TRPGs can be like

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sic_1 2 points 3 years ago

Definitely. I also don't have much time to play but then you just take a slower pace. BG isn't some competitive online game that forces you to commit unreasonable amounts of time to it if you want to enjoy it. Although you'll be occupied for quite a while if you take it slow because the game is huge.

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