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Lord Golbez wrote:How familiar and which edition? I used to play 2nd edition. Don't know too much about the later ones.
It's based around 5th Edition. You don't need to know anything about D&D because everything is explained in game if you take the time to read the tooltips and tutorials.
Damien wrote:I don't even get in what capacity it's D&D.
From what I've played so far the main things are:
- The game takes place in the Forgotten Realms D&D setting.
- You roll a d20 to determine success or failure on various actions as you would in D&D.
- Combat follows 5th Edition D&D rules to the letter.
- The narrator frequently chimes in to describe things as the Dungeon Master in a D&D game typically would.
As someone who has played quite a bit of D&D it's as close to the real thing as I've ever seen a video game get. Pretty impressive.
Rolling a d20 seems kind of like a dumb gimmick tbh. You roll die on a tabletop game, because how else are you gonna do it? A video game can do the same thing invisibly behind the scenes and showing a die is a silly aesthetic. Like fanservice for D&D players.
Picked up Returnal on the Steam sale just because I like third person shooters and was pleasantly surprised by how much I've enjoyed it. It's like risk of rain 2, metroid, ikaruga, dark souls, quake/unreal, and the Alien movies all had an unholy blood orgy and this game was the result. Top marks for tricking me into liking a roguelike.
2.5 is harsh. I really liked it. Was actually surprised how good it was. It was a little generic but in an intentional way. I liked that it didn’t contain too much backtracking, shit that plagues most JRPGs.
We all have our own scales. I really liked what there was to like about it but it felt like I was playing through a fanfic made by teenagers. I tend to rate those 2.5Gs a lot.
What it did well was good though (graphics, traversal, combat).
This meant I couldn’t go 3G sorry. Are you offended
Ward does give a lot of 2.5Gs. I haven't played it so I can't say, but in my mind 3Gs is ok/just kinda good. So it follows that 2.5 Gs would be kinda bad. Not very bad, with maybe some redeeming qualities, but definitely on the bad side, so I wouldn't give that rating to something I liked.
5Gs - Nigh on Perfect
4.5 Gs - Excellent
4Gs - Great
3.5Gs - Solidly Good
3Gs - Ok/Kinda Good
2.5Gs - Kinda Bad
2Gs - Bad
1.5Gs - Awful
1G - Horrendous
0.5Gs - Crime against humanity
0Gs - I wish I could give 0 Gs
I probably shouldn't have started with Xenoblade 2, because I've heard tell that's the worst one, but that said they all have that ridiculous every one auto attacks and you just wait for your chance to press special moves that come up battle system so I can't imagine liking any of them. If the story's really good, I'd probably be better off just watching a video of it, because that has to be more enjoyable than dealing with that gameplay, but the story of 2 did not look good.
The battle system of 2 apparently gets really good about 20 hours in with linking blades and combos and shit. All of them have massively different battle systems though. Xenoblade 3 has one of my favourite battle systems of an RPG and some of my favourite plot moments of any game. They're all linked so finishing 3 and the story DLC made me want to go back and fill in the gap between the two I'd played. Only didn't get it before as they stopped making physical copies in like 2G18 and second hand copies were too expensive
