It’s true, overall it’s more functional than Pathfinder’s stealth which barely exists beyond “flat footed” attacks. But the stealth was very similar in Divinity Original Sin and tbh I thought the overall combat of those games fit that stealth system better. In BG3 I often feel like barrelmancy kind of trivializes the rest of the combat systems and is just a test of whether or not you did a bunch of preparation/collection beforehand. It’s fun but I didn’t feel much compulsion to mess with it again after the novelty wore off.

Yeah but it isn’t as satisfying to me tbh, the sneaking itself is more fleshed out in bg3 of course but it doesn’t have the staggering number of interaction with skills and effects that the introduction of sneak attacks in Pathfinder offers

Wrath is so fucking crunchy I love it, it took a long time to get used to its many systems but there is so much build variety and the voiced characters, while still limited imo by the flat tropes of fantasy, had some surprisingly good moments.

Bg3 does not allow me to make a Sensei Monk front liner who does not attack but stacks dodge ac while buffing the party with bard songs, bg3 does not allow a sneak attacking ray caster who snipes people with ice beams, bg3 does not allow for anything as interesting as the constitution-based Kineticist caster.

Also at the end of the day Wotr is FUCKING LONG, while that is intimidating it means that if it clicks with you, you have a seriously HUGE epic of a campaign to enjoy

Damn is this typical of Chinese posting? They all go pretty hard

EDF 6 does not disappoint if you happen to like the very specific type of game that EDF is. Obviously limited assets and an old engine still get used very inventively, and that’s not even mentioning the writing. 5 really surprised me with its surprisingly clever and self-aware script, delivered entirely by voice actors who sound like they normally do translations of textbooks rather than fiction, which somehow adds to the vibe.

Warning you now that Golden Dragon is very limp, you can really only do it in act 5 and it doesn’t get a lot of meat. Angel is fleshed out but I don’t like Angel and I think the devs agree tbh, Owlcat does not present lawful alignment very flatteringly in the long run. Azata get all the proper good guy moments imo

That second one fucking owns, does anyone have a translation for the text in the first and/or third?

Love it when a conversation touches the riots in the UK and someone close to me invariably showcases their extremely reasonable position about exactly when it’s okay to throw out immigrants

It’s gotten to the point that the word “culture” emerging makes me wince

You wound me

I bust, therefore I am, therefore I bust