Originally Posted by Lake Plisko
Originally Posted by mrfuji3
+1 to ~everything said about Solasta's Lost Valley DLC. If anyone didn't finish the main Solasta campaign because of the areas/combat/linearity/other reasons (like me), but wants to like Solasta, I highly recommend giving the DLC a try. It's not perfect, but it's a good fun D&D simulator with writing that's...let's say mediocre. xD

I'm a very story-driven video game player. There is a reason The Witcher 3 is probably my favorite game. Really liked God of War 2018 and Ragnarok. I enjoyed D:OS2's story a lot even though it could get cheesy at times... it was a very lovable type of cheesy, haha. Those stories are all far from perfect, but at least they are good.

But I watched a preview of Solasta and I don't think I could get into it. It looked...

Really bad writing wise, haha.

Solasta has some good and not-so-good to it, in terms of writing. I enjoyed party banter, which is something BG3 doesn't have that I wish they'd do and do better at it than Solasta. Basically, during every conversation, all 4 of our characters participate. It's not just 1 character and everyone else is that character's minions who never do or say anything. I liked when my Chaotic Evil Halfling Wizard would say things like, "Why not just leave them to die? What's it to us?" and then my Lawful Good Paladin would say, "Come on! We can't just leave them." You know, cohesion in the party and the party deciding things and discussing things together.

And the overall story was okay. The problem was the lack of eloquance. I'm not sure how to explain it. It just felt forced in a lot of areas and it felt off. And then there were things that were TOTALLY predictable, and things that just didn't fully make sense. But then it had some twists that surprised me, which was nice.

Overall, I'd say Solasta's writing was mediocre, but it was a fun main campaign. I did enjoy it overall, even if it had its moments where I thought, "Ugh. What was THAT?"

I don't ever feel that way about BG3, though, and that's a big One Up for BG3. Every conversation and event draws me in. Pathfinder (both games) is also pretty good. If I had one complaint about Pathfinder (both games), story-wise anyway, it's that some areas ARE too wordy. I'd have preferred some story elements to be broken out a bit more. Lord, the Storyteller kills me. I start glazing over about a paragraph or two into his stories, trying desperately to stay focused because they're just too long and unimportant - or so they seem - to the overall story. And he's not the only one. Some characters just rattle on forever, and I'm like, "Dude. I don't care anymore. Let's move on." This is not true for MOST characters and situations, mind you, but some. I still REALLY like the Pathfinder games, and in many ways they are superior to BG3.

Though, in the end, BG3 still seems to keep my attention. I can't wait for this game to be fully released. It's killing me.