I'm glad i've picked up both as early access, of the two I'm having more actual fun playing Solasta honestly (I find the combat much much better, and the world exploration, resting and area navigation much better, though its camera is irksome!), but BG3 hopefully will get polish on the gameplay side and general interaction side.

What i find most incredible about Solasta, is that it was done by a frankly tiny team... the team is about the same size as the team I'm part of for my current project, and its very impressive to see what they pulled off.

I think Solastas isometric graphics are downright good (BG3s are better), its character models are decent but a bit dated, its lighting is good for environments but not so food for characters in dialogues, Im sure they can sort things out. I think the face and hair models are generally pretty ugly, but again, all it would take is one particularly talented person to come along and provide them with more options and it would fix that.

The story is definitely classic D&D, and very nostalgic to play, the interaction between characters is really nice, i particularly like the fact backstories and the personality tags chosen seem to actually change things. It's good. Will it be a huge sweeping epic? who knows, it has humble beginnings like all good D&D stories should, that being one of the main gripes about BG3 I have aired here and to my pnp groups, BG3 starts at a point i'd expect higher level characters to be in, and it just makes it feel forced (cool, but forced)

Last edited by blindhamster; 24/10/20 02:01 PM.