Huh, I never felt it was weak, but I still haven’t finished the first act.
What frustrated me with the combat was just how easy it was to make a small misplay early on in a combat that doomed you to lose, but it would still take like a fucking hour for you to actually lose (or for it to become obvious that you would).
DnD works great for table top, but it is a poor system for a video game. If you play solo, then the first act is quite enjoyable. I haven’t played past that alone, I have only finished the game with friends. And my god is it boring by the end, you wait for your turn, make 1 action, enemy makes a saving throw, now you gotta wait 20 minutes for your next turn. So basically the same as your frustration, just amplified.
All the fun and interesting spells require spell slots (or have use limits) which means you have to long rest after every fight in order to use them really, but then you lose buffs you might have and your friends might not be ready to rest. It’s so limiting. The fights just become slogs rather than something to look forward to.
DOS2s combat was way more engaging and fun, you could use any spell without worrying about not being able to in the next fight, you had way more fun spells and combos, you could do multiple things per turn, it was so much better for a video game. I wish they never took on DnD and BG3 instead was a great follow-up to DOS2. We will see what they do next I guess. Hopefully they fix the fucking camera at the least.
Divinity original sin 2. It was Larian’s previous game before BG3. Very worth playing, one of my favorites. A lot of the systems in BG3 were directly imported over from DOS.
Oh this is something I will have to try, the combat was the weakest part of BG3.
This might actually get me to play through the game. I found the combat mechanics so tedious that I never got out of the first act.
Huh, I never felt it was weak, but I still haven’t finished the first act.
What frustrated me with the combat was just how easy it was to make a small misplay early on in a combat that doomed you to lose, but it would still take like a fucking hour for you to actually lose (or for it to become obvious that you would).
DnD works great for table top, but it is a poor system for a video game. If you play solo, then the first act is quite enjoyable. I haven’t played past that alone, I have only finished the game with friends. And my god is it boring by the end, you wait for your turn, make 1 action, enemy makes a saving throw, now you gotta wait 20 minutes for your next turn. So basically the same as your frustration, just amplified.
All the fun and interesting spells require spell slots (or have use limits) which means you have to long rest after every fight in order to use them really, but then you lose buffs you might have and your friends might not be ready to rest. It’s so limiting. The fights just become slogs rather than something to look forward to.
DOS2s combat was way more engaging and fun, you could use any spell without worrying about not being able to in the next fight, you had way more fun spells and combos, you could do multiple things per turn, it was so much better for a video game. I wish they never took on DnD and BG3 instead was a great follow-up to DOS2. We will see what they do next I guess. Hopefully they fix the fucking camera at the least.
What’s DOS2 stand for?
Divinity original sin 2. It was Larian’s previous game before BG3. Very worth playing, one of my favorites. A lot of the systems in BG3 were directly imported over from DOS.
Sounds promising! I’ll check it out. Thanks for the response / explanation :)