D&D as a setting is a massive turn off. It's like having your story and gameplay within dumbed down isekai lesbian romance series.
D&D as a setting is a massive turn off.
D&D as a setting is a massive turn off. It's like having your story and gameplay within dumbed down isekai lesbian romance series.
Fantasy is usually a bit of a turn off for me for how vanilla it can be, but BG3 has a bit of bite to it. From the get-go, you're ripping out brains and talking to them, having tadpoles inserted behind your eyes, etc.
>D&D
>setting
not OP, and while yes there are multiple D&D settings and the BG series is specifically in the Forgotten Realms, there is an assumed "setting" with D&D in terms of how the planes work, magic works, what monsters/races are USUALLY like, and the over-the-top ridiculousness that D&D can get into.
D&D is very Pop Fantasy and just throws in anything that seems fun, no matter how well it might actually fit. That's why you had weird stuff like a cowboy in Greyhawk and a crashed alien ship with laser guns.
of course you're not OP. i can understand you clearly, and i still don't know which boogeyman the OP is attacking.
i agree kitchen sink fantasy sucks. one reason i'm looking forward to rogue trader so much. Also wished there are CRPGs set in occult/esoteric background.
I know board game/TTRPG themes are more varied and focused but fuck that shit
I'm hoping Rogue Trader is my "in" into WH4K. I've been hearing about it al the time from friends throughout the years, but I didn't know how to get into the setting really.
Hoping a solid CRPG can be that gateway, Owlcat's done good stuff so far.
if i'm being honest, i dont have much confidence in these IPs run by boomers (games workshop, WotC). its always some bullshit balance issue or missing features due to licensing fuckery. will still play it tho
Good 40k games for newcomers:
>Mechanicus
>Dawn of War (1 is unambiguously good, 2 is 50/50 depending on personal taste, 3 is dogshit)
>Necromunda: Hired Gun
People hype up Space Marine but it's as boring and generic as it gets from a gameplay perspective. It's only good for the environments and atmosphere and slightly-campy tone, and you won't appreciate any of that if it's your first foray into 40k.
Boltgun kinda gets an honorable mention because it's genuinely good, but it takes so much from Quake that the lack of difficulty can be a nagging point if you're looking for a challenge.
Chaos Gate Daemonhunters is kinda-sorta almost alright, Mechanicus mogs the fuck out of it so don't play them one after the other.
Battlefleet Gothic is kinda-sorta almost alright if you're already into space strategy.
Ignore Gladius, it's shit.
Ignore Battlesector, it's shit.
Ignore Darktide, it's beyond shit.
Appreciate it anon, I'll look into those
Never played any D&D, they do a shit job at explaining anything thats going on in the world. But then again having too much exposition kills games, see PoE
Ganker loves Dragons Dogma to the point the game gets TWO stickys and it's based on D&D
Do people think isekai means just any video game with a fantasy setting?
isekai means the guy inexplicably acts like someone from our world today, but in a different world. bg3 would be native isekai
If any D&D setting would work as an isekai, it'd be Forgotten Realms.
The setting's creator has portals in the setting going to other realms, including our Earth, and it's his own canon that Elminster travels to Earth and sometimes talks to him which is where the novels come from.
WotC tries to ignore that part (honestly probably for the better) and dont' really mention it in official sourcebooks, but Greenwood is by contract allowed to do shit like that for the setting
You're new to D&D if you think it has a setting. BG3 takes place in one of them, and people have disliked that setting for longer than you've been alive
To be fair, WotC tries very hard to make one setting "the default setting", and it's honestly no wonder that it's seen as "the D&D setting".
Almost every video game being set in FR doesn't help matters.
Give us Eberron as a CRPG you fucks!
that's their audience moron, a bunch of coomers and femcels, sometimes bald guys over 35
I just started playing this, only about 3 and a half hours in.
Yes, the depth of the RPG elements is genuinely impressive.
But also, i do agree that the whole D&D aesthetic feels like generic fantasy and the combat (or at least, the early game portion of it) is like pulling teeth. I have no issue with turn-based RPGs, but the combat is just so fucking plodding and slow. Also, fuck RNG.
Modern d&d oficial settings have so much weird shit going on It feels like the most sterile kind of fantasy possible. Because nothing matters in a world so fantastical, not Race, not politics, not even fantastical mysteries of an ancient civilization in the underworld, since the fantastical is already so well known from the start
Cry all you want, you already lost.
Nope, you're just old and retarded. When you're ready to have fun, it'll be there bucko.
Dark Sun CRPG when?
The problem with kitchen sink Forgotten Realms and this game in general, is, that it lacks any thematic resonance. It almost exists as a self insistent memetic pathogen.
Dumbest retard that ever lived.
it insists upon itself
being a fantasy kitchensink is one of its biggest strengths, overly specific themepark settings might seem quirky and unique at first but they get so boring so quickly and nobody gives a shit after a short while
I enjoy generic fantasy like lotr and warhammer, D&D is not that though. D&D is just differently colored humans nowadays
100% correct, D&D was never great but modern D&D is some boring cinge shit
DnD is the ren faire of medieval fantasy