Originally Posted by Emrikol
Originally Posted by Maximuuus
Originally Posted by Emrikol
Story and characters are secondary to gameplay and mechanics. It's a videogame, not a novel (or even a movie).

That being said, I don't think Larian are the best story tellers.


Now I understand why I nearly always disagree with you^^
I'm not looking for an explosive gameplay with special effetcs everywhere, fire and blood, jumping characters and shove etc... when I'm playing a BG game.

I am looking for a story to follow but also to write... A story that feels like the stories in the books that took place in the FR.
Not saying gameplay isn't important but you'll never find so many surfaces effetcs and jump and arcady fast travel and rest and...... in a consistent story.

Larian's gameplay is great and they already created a good game with it.
I hope they'll change their mind a little bit more about BG3 to improve the consistency and the immersion of their stories. Combats should also be a part of the story instead of being only gameplay elements.

A videogame is a vastly inferior medium for storytelling. No videogame I have ever played even sniffed at the story of a decent novel. Tell me what you think is the best story ever told through a videogame that you think is the equal of Lord of the Rings (or any highly regarded novel/series).


As you said this is different medium, so obviously the story telling is not the same. It's not about depth... It's about the feeling you experience as a player.

The Baldur's gate games give the general feelings you're in a story someone could have written (and guess what... someone written it...now it's a canon of the F.R.)
No one would ever write a story in which, i.e there are 36 jumps at each combats + fire/acid everywhere + dipping sword in fire to create a fire sword + unlimited ammo + surfaces ammo/containers/potions + safe rest in a dungeon, companions unconscious 5 times in the same combats,...etc... and this is only about combats...

They actually failed to create both an interresting gameplay and consistency in regards of D&D/FR.

Last edited by Maximuuus; 19/10/20 02:55 PM.

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