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Any New/Recent Baldur's Gate-type Games?
Manic205
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Recently started playing D&D 4e with my friends, and now I've got a yearning for some Planescape/Icewind Dale/BG2 action. Except I want something new and shiny!
Has anything good come out in the last 5 years or so? I am drawing a blank here.
Has anything good come out in the last 5 years or so? I am drawing a blank here.
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It isn't based on D&D. Its a brand new IP that Bioware has developed. The reason for this, to my understanding, is that they wanted to break away from the hard and fast rules of D&D and get a bit more creative liberty with their games.
You can bet it will share some similarities with D&D though, since that's where Bioware's roots are.
http://dragonage.bioware.com/
You'll get mixed reviews on NWN. I liked them okay, but probably not as much as the old Infinity Engine games.
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The funny thing about this is that 4th Edition is at it's worst when posed as a system for a multiplayer RPG, like say...an MMO. Simply put, 4th Edition has a big emphasis on exacting movement and useage of actions to work as a tactical unit, something that would really work best in a turn based single player RPG.
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Regarding D&D 4e, it does seem like the perfect system when it comes to playing a party-based BG type of game, though I do agree it'd probably not be quite so perfect in an online sort've multiplayer game.
And the game does not need to be 4e.
How is Temple of Elemental Evil?
On the other end of the "not D&D" spectrum, there's the Witcher, which is a single character RPG based in a morally ambiguous and reltatively dark fantasy universe. Also very good.
Sorry, can't think of anything that really hails from the Baldur's Gate school of gameplay.
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So many people like ToEE, so it might be worth a buy, especially given how cheap it is at this point. One caveat though: If you are going to play this game, you have to find a player-made patch that fix all the glitches and bugs, because Troika never did.
I did this a long time ago when I decided to give the game a try, and it was fairly painless... but I didn't really like the game much so didn't play it for long.
I'll second the Witcher as well. It's the best CRPG I've played in recent years. Definitely more action-y than any of the IE games though.
The full game is large, perhaps a bit too long for it's own good.
Anyway, trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33145.html
There's also an expansion pack coming out for it now. You even get your own pet dragon to raise.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47612.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47621.html
Because of the nature of the gameplay, the videos might make it look a bit bland, but it's really a very polished and fun SRPG.
Haven't gotten onto the later stages, and apparently the game starts running out of ideas near the end (no word on how things are in the expansion pack yet, it should be coming soon), but it's definitely well worth it. I was instantly hooked when I tried the demo, and I'd suggest to anyone even mildly interested to try it as well.
EDIT: I have no idea about what the 3D glasses in that trailer are about. But hey, I'm willing to try it if it's novel.
But it's worth giving a shot, if only to see how D&D combat should be in a single-player game.
Regarding King's Bounty.... what is an SRPG?
Strategy with units that level up, basically.
I'm tempted to say the console version of the Witcher might end up being superior if only because of that. I wager the combat will feel much more natural on a controller. It definitely never quite felt right timing clicks with a mouse.
But yes I totally agree, timing button presses feels far more natural than doing so on a mouse, especially since I'm also having to turn and such with the mouse to face opponents.
It does look as if they're going to make it a bit more in-depth for the console release however, which is to be expected. Apparently they're re-doing the whole engine from scratch.
It was well-animated, but it never quite felt right to me to have to consistently keep the mouse over my target while clicking, lest I accidentally move or target something else. It just felt kinda clumsy with a mouse.
I completely disagree.
If you are playing by yourself, The Witcher, NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer (NOT the original campaign, the first expansion pack), or Drakensang are pretty good.
I really enjoyed the combat, that's pretty much where the gameplay is. Although from what I've read, the game's stretched out to around 60-80 hours, and it can't quite maintain the creativity and gameplay over that period. Basically they were stretching it a bit thin by the end, or at least that's what I've read over at RPS.
But in any case, for the time it does work, it's still a really awesome game. Seriously, try the demo if you're interested.
I'm not far into Drakensang, so I can't compare really, but while some of the quests in Bloodlines are good, the combat was really pretty horrible. Melee is really just mashing left-click.
The thing that gave me a head ache about NWN 2's camera was that when i just tapped the edge of the screen with the mouse the camera would spin too fast even at the slowest setting.
Vampire's gameplay is HL2 based and buggy at times. It isn't party-oriented. However, it has a fantastic plot and some great setpieces, though the action scenes in the middle 30% of the game are pretty tedius. It's a brilliant, but flawed diamond and so cheap it's definitely worth playing.