I can certainly see the appeal, but they can still kindly fuck of by virtue of their controls alone.
Yep- which is exactly why I started playing despite.. well, everything, hahah.As for BG3... It doesn't surplant all other games. It doesn't even surplant all other RPGs. It's just a really good RPG with great characters.
Hey, me too. It was a cinematic game - Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - that got me into gaming.
Why does that mean that he's not including the whole company? Team size mainly increased to increase production values. You can make the same game as BG3 with lower production value and a smaller team just like Larian did with Divinity Original Sin. People aren't liking BG3 only because the graphics are better, it's because it's a better RPG than the vast majority of RPGs.
Lack of speed isn't the problem, lack of free movement is. You're asked to explore and investigate an area, just as you have done dozens of times before, but in this case you're forced to do so with the same movement restrictions (and character switching) you have during combat. The game trains you to think that whenever you're switched to turn-based mode that there's enemies that need to be defeated, at which point the game switches you back to free mode. But when there's no enemies it's like 'Okay, what the fuck am I supposed to do?' You can't even untrigger it by moving away from the area. And it's not like it's an automatic response to you being in danger, because there's plenty of environmental hazards that can damage and even kill you during free-roaming. I just... I just don't get.
Well then, could you tell me what button you pressed to switch it off, because I for the life of me can't escape it. Unless you mean the L3 button, which let's you point-and-click, but that's not it.
Do we all just accept this cuz that's just how RPG do, because the older I get the more I'm confused why no one else is raising this issue. Get rid of this stupid restriction developers, for the love of God.
Apparently in the RT wheel menu? (I played on PC so I'm not sure what this is like or whether it's correct.)
If it makes you feel any better Eiyuden Chronicle looks like it allows you to have 6 people in your party. Hooray for progress?Enemies are allowed numbers over 4 on the field, but not me?
yes- R2 to bring up the menu that also lets you select journal and map etc, and there’s one on the left called something like “active turn mode” or some such
And I'm just gonna bring it up again... Why can't we have more than 4 people in our party when we have them? Why do RPGs still do this? This isn't a sports team, this is life and death - why would Gale, Karlach, Shadowheart, Lae'zeel, Astarion, and... the other guy just not all be there during combat? Enemies are allowed numbers over 4 on the field, but not me?
This is done because in those situations there are usually environmental hazards so dangerous that they can kill you in seconds of real time that you're either meant to escape from or take out (like the arcane turrets). They're not quite combat, I guess you could call them environmental challenges. As you've been told, you can switch between turn-based and real time mode outside of combat any time you want.
My recommendation is to hammer F5 like it's a nail that won't go into place. One of BG3's biggest flaws is definitely how it doesn't autosave nearly often enough (probably due to its open-endedness), which has led me to repeating an hour's worth of progress multiple times.
You wouldn't even need to have everyone on the field all the time, just make it so you can switch characters out or drop them in mid-combat. And that you could only manage the items of the four characters in your team (outside of camp). At the very least give an in-universe explaination as to why you can only have a party of four, like only four parasitic brains can be together during stressful situations otherwise they fry eachother out or whatever.
Jup, that would be an improvement. Often you have personal quests for several people in the same area and don't want to turn back to camp several times to change people.
I don't think you need a balanced party in the traditional sense. But if you want a "thief" type character (stealth, trap disarming, etc.) it's pretty easy to do with another character. Just select the requisite skills at creation or the level 4 character development picks. So, a mage, two fighters and a priest is perfectly viable if you want both Karlach and Lae'zel.
