So I picked this game up today and while I haven't made it very far yet, I've really enjoyed it so far. I wanted to give a tip for anyone having trouble with the fonts in the game: during character creation the default font settings were honestly kind of hurting my eyes to the point of a slight headache but I realized that at least for me it wasn't just that the font is extremely crunchy with pixels, it was how very contrasty the text was overall and in particular the drop shadows. After changing the drop shadow color in the font options tab it's not perfect but way, way better, and it makes me think that in an upcoming patch it wouldn't be too difficult for the developer to make some minor adjustments to the contrast of the text against the background of the text boxes and maybe adjusting the fonts by just a few pixels so that it doesn't create weird continuous lines with how the letters line up across multiple lines, and I think just some small adjustments like that could go a long way to make it easier on the eyes without spoiling the dev's vision of an immersive look for the text.

I don’t mind crunchy games with complex character systems. But if you don’t like complex character sheets, let me say don’t play Rogue Trader 😆 you level constantly and have choices between skills like: 1. Add 1.63% to damage per hit to enemies wearing paisley socks and with the status effect “chilled” applied, but only on Tuesdays. 2. Gain 1 temporary hit point per adjacent enemy per round, if the enemies have a dodge score lower than your dodge reduction score, stacks across rounds when the moon is in a waxing gibbous phase 3. Reduce enemies dodge by an amount equal to the solution of the following partial differential equation, you suffer damage if you solve the equation wrong

@demoncleaner80

22 күн бұрын

Rogue Trader is the first CRPG I've played and completed in MANY years. But yeah the stats are really ridiculous. I had a few 1-2 hour breaks of obsessively trying to rebuild my party. That being said I put almost 200 hours in and loved it.

@TechnoLawyer

21 күн бұрын

@@demoncleaner80 you would probably like their previous game then, Wrath of the Righteous. It’s standard fantasy, but has a complex progression system, is really long and well written, etc. Plus all the DLC for it is out, so it’s like a 300+ hour game if you do everything.

@Marcusianery

8 күн бұрын

Yeah, its really awkward. "Raises crit damage on holidays falling in on weekends on even years against heretics or married women". Okay, thanks Owlcat!

@TechnoLawyer

8 күн бұрын

@@Marcusianery well, see, one of your companions can get a talent that causes every enemy in a 6 square radius to be considered someone with two X chromosomes and a spouse. You have to take that one for the synergy.

@Marcusianery

8 күн бұрын

@@TechnoLawyer Shit! Does it stack with the talent Chaos On Another Plane that says you need to win a game as Queen of Pain in Dota 2 to make it proc? Does a Demon Succubus count as female? Will it proc?

This game has been very enjoyable, imo the devs did a great job. Wish we had some kind of respec. Also feel like you're giving BG3 a bit of an unfair shake! It's a lot of fun!

I hope they will add controller support as i cant play on keyboard and mouse. Because the game looks amazing

I get the point with BG3, but I also do not think to shallow dialogue makes for a good CRPG.

The shade at CR is wild but also fair lmao. I recently decided to skip those moments of bonding or arguments cuz i either definitely wont remember it or theres a 95% chance it wont lead to anything Lore relevant.

@Marcusianery

8 күн бұрын

CR?

@DivineSpiritxXxX

7 күн бұрын

@@Marcusianery Critical Role

@Marcusianery

6 күн бұрын

@@DivineSpiritxXxX Ah, yeah. Never liked it. Always feels so pre-planned and scripted.

Will this run on the Steam Deck?

@dauthicutthroat

Ай бұрын

Im playing on steamdeck right now, but with hub and keyboard + mouse. Works well just deck, but I find it more comfy.

Nice RoR music

I totaly agree with you Baldurs Gate 3 statement. Those were mostly annoying characters, that i would try to avoid talking to in real life. Couldn't enjoy the game. 100% true.

I came here for an overview on SKALD, not a astute pin point accurate criticism of the faults in western rpg story telling.

Great summary of the problems with AAA RPG's. Agree 100% with your views on BG3. This looks interesting. Will probably pick this up. Thanks for taking the time.

I had not realized it until you described CriticalRole that, yeah, that is pretty much exactly my problem with it. It isn't really about playing D&D, it's about a bunch of theater kids wanting to do voices. And then breathlessly grab each other over some...weird moment in a "scene". Meanwhile the actual game is...oh, it's somewhere in there, maybe...who cares.

@stephenlovell1693

20 күн бұрын

lmao you guys are clueless. Yeah, it's designed to be a drama for people to WATCH, but there's still plenty of actual D&D in there.

The Casual Seeker.

@Marcusianery

8 күн бұрын

Wat

I completely agree with you on BG3. I've bought Skald recently and so far I'm having a much more rewarding experience with this indie gem. The NPCs in BG3 are, for the most part, frankly, poorly written and insufferable. This game NAILS the mood, this is "chef's kiss" atmosphere and aesthetic right here.

Finally, someone calls out BG3 for being aggressively horny. The story definitely catered to the Tumblr, shipping, OC crowd.

Romance in rpgs is a disease. Sadly the cultists of nurgle are very loud on social media spamming devs to allow them to single player erp in every game. Pillars of Eternity 1 thankfully didn't have any, but the sequel succumbed to the corruption. Those kinds of people are sick in the head.

@tachikomaomechodeth2297

Ай бұрын

Romance options in RPGs was novel, maybe interesting in the mass effect/dragon age days now it's boring and way over played.

@destinyhntr

Ай бұрын

@@tachikomaomechodeth2297 That's a shame. I like when it's included in a game as a side quest thing (so long as it's not the focus, not an excuse to add sex scenes, and the rest of the overall plot/gameplay is good).

@Simppu1410

Ай бұрын

I think optional romances in RPGs are fine. Most of them are just not well or convincingly written.

@arkgaharandan5881

Ай бұрын

just by looking at pillaers 2 you can tell it was woke and therefore gay and cringe. If you asked me the best love story in a rpg was in venetica because the whole game was the main character finding temples to talk to her dead husband.

@TheRealCHIMShady

Ай бұрын

@@arkgaharandan5881 pillars 2 had a really good multiclass system before they "fixed" it, destroying half the good builds because devs cried that they didn't like monks dual wielding shotguns and they needed to "balance" the game before some gay competition that no one cared about. Now it doesn't have anything going for it, devs totally deserved what they got

finally someone says it: the baldurs gate 3 companions are all a bunch of sexual predators i love world building way more than party banter if a game is more about your companions than about the world and you then there is something wrong i didnt like baldurs gate 3 party banter at all thats some deranged nerd fantasy in my eyes give me a good story vs. the same story + a lot of sex i will always choose the good story without the X i wanna dive into a fantasy world... not into a porn

@Infinite_Jester

Ай бұрын

I think it's fine to have a game about character relationships. It's just that BG3 has such shallow character writing that it doesn't work.

I don't know if it's different while playing, but the visuals look absolutely utterly atrocious. The overland map/character/monsters etc look so hard to differentiate.

"C" grade acting career. Thank you. Critical Cringe is what I call them. Terrible "voice actors" as well.