This is not completely true! :[ (or perhaps I just evolved backwards O.o) I ran late for the CRPG-party, and I have been enjoying most of the old titles without heeding any issues to the somewhat old graphic, in *all* cases I've tried so far.
Well, in that case you obviously are not part of that group i was taking about.
I really should have used singular ...
PoE? I played it last winter (LIKE LESS THAN 6 MONTHS AGO O.o) and had a "Wowww, did it seriously look this bad?"-experience when I searched for it on YouTube to get the soundtrack to the battle of Castle Nua. As I remember it, 6 months ago it had equally great graphics to the newest Final Fantasy games :'D ....
DA:O - hey, I even re-played Guild Wars (1) just few years ago. If I can survive that (and enjoy it <3), then a few pointy edges in the scenery won't bother me!
BG2 - next on my list! I was even very pleasantly surprised with the HD version when I looked at it on Steam (I even had to call my brother and be like "Hey, isn't BG2 supposed to look ... Old? This stuff doesn't look bad at all!") - I mean... It really does not look that much worse than PF:K, does it? I am sure I am going to love playing it!
Hey i also re-played DA:O ... just few Weeks back, but i find their graphic to be quite good for theese days (i mean i still know newer games, that look a lot worse), and phenomenal for its release. O_o What is funny, i find graphic of DA:O being even better than DA II.
That is simmilar for VtM:Bloodlines ... wich i played even few Days back, and i still find it looking quite good ... kinda cartoonish, true, but that is kinda part of the experience.
And nostalgia probably helps me with both.
The other one you mentioned i didnt play ever, so i hardly can say anything about them.
Sure, BG3 is very pretty and obviously it is fun to see the breath-taking graphics and details - but... Like we discussed before in another topic - no CRPG is going to nail it just the way *I* want it and hence I feel like games like Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Pillars of Eternity and (possibly!) the earlier Baldur's Gate games can do the job just as fine - as long as one has the imagination to keep the world alive, and the creators managed to support your fantasy with amazing writing!
In that case, you are indeed happy player.
I kinda envy you ... but that dont change the fact that my taste is different.
Bringing up BG2 so much in this thread is kinda obvious though, we weren't really shown any strongholds in BG3 and Larian didn't mention them in any way. So this entire thread will most likely consist of comparison to other games/ vague ideas. Which isn't bad but I guess it's the best we can do without having any initial idea from Larian.
You dont understand me ...
I dont mind mentioning BG-2 at all ... as a source material of inspiration for BG-3 ... but nothing else. :-/
"It was like that in BG-2" is therefore not an argument for me, bcs if "in BG-2" was something otherwise than how i would like it in BG-3 ... then, obviously, i would like to change that, and therefore its completely irelevant how it was like there. O_o
What is wrong about having initianl idea? O_o
(Unless its some expression i dont get ... does that mean start the thinking about specific topic, based on specific idea?)
What you mentioned earlier in the thread is probably what Larian will do if they decide to go for any kind of " stronghold" thingy tbh.
Honestly i hope so.
For now we have the camp and we can move objects around in it. So if Act II brings us to Baldur's Gate I would imagine having a similar system there ( Unless we literally camp outside the city like 2nd category citizens).
Someone around here allready mentioned, that it seem logical that our character should have some own house, or at least apartment in Baldur's Gate ... after all, unles we play Drow, or Gith ... we all have tag "BALDURIAN".
It would make sence that our character should have lived somewhere.
Would be better if there was some kind of purpose to it. Either crafting, encounters requiring you to prepare some kind of defences giving you an advantage over the enemy ( HIGROUND ADVANTAGE. I SAID IT.), a quest requiring you to prepare some kind of ritual. Aaaah it can be a lot of fun. But I know I'm a minority in the " housing lover" aspect so there's that ^^
As far as i know, some kind of crafting was confrimmed allready ...
About the rest, im not really sure what do you mean. :-/
