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true is....
TB worked better wih DOS 2 for lot of reasons.
1) the game was design to serve the gameplay.
2) each turn allow the characters to do a lot of things. AA 2, 3, 4 times, or cast 2, 3, 4 spells or just a really big one. Waiting permit to stock action's points, etc.
3) I t gives this feeling-chess. Mastermind (well casual mastermind) feeling. Nice and pleasantly slow.
3) it's a game of his own style and it's really cool. Larian create, innovate, succeed in their way. All new, all cool.




true is...
TB harm a little BG3 for lot of reasons.
1) The game doesn't feel design to serve the gameplay (and I think it's for the better in a certain way. Story should come first in BG.)
2) each turns allow to do one action and one bonus action. Most of the time, it's just waiting for AA. it's really different from the DOS experience, it deliver something which can feel, sometimes, really long, uninteresting and laborious.
3) it doesn't give the feeling of flow and excitement the RTwP gives. It's like taking football and decides it'll be turn-based. It may be fun but not the same fun.
4) Major point, Larian are not creating a whole new game. They are doing a "game +1" and they brag about it. So they have, at least, a moral duty. This is not about being a fan. I would say the same for any "game +1". They have to respect some basics. And, even if BG was smart enought to give the option of TB, it was a RT game.


Some may want to argue about the 1) fact even if it's obvious Larian did DOS cause they loved their TB system and this is why they want to put it in their BG game.
Saying otherwise would be dishonest or proof of a bad understanding of the way Larian did and thougth things.

The 2) fact is the "technical point" of why it didn't work really good.

The 3) and 4) are one of the most missunderstood points. Doing a "game +1" is nothing like doing an "independant game". Larian can do a BG3 in RTS mod with FPS elements and it could be awesome, sells 300 millions copies, etc, etc. It would still be a big treason for the licence and the gamers.

Even Blizzard was not.... stupid enough (sry can't say otherwise) to call "World of Warcraft" "Warcraft 4". And why ? Cause they KNEW it was a really different game and they wont lie to their gamers. I would like to have a "Warcraft 4" as I would have been mad if they called their MMORPG "Warcraft 4"... It's common sens.

And even if Larian is still doing an RPG, the true is a RTwP RPG is not a TB RPG (even if, in fact RTwP is kind of TB).
A good dev... I'm gonna say it differently.
I f I was a dev, even if I was sure in my heart than RTwP is the top of all the gameplay existing, I would, at least, give the two options for my gamers. Because fun for all comes first, not dev's personnal convictions.
But I guess, this last argument is subjective.

Last edited by Zefhyr; 27/10/20 06:17 PM.