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good timing that this came out just before my workplace shut down for a week! otherwise i'd probably get halfway through and lose steam. big long RPGs are nice and all and i'm glad that there's a niche for them but by the end i was definitely starting to get a bit fatigued
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d&d 5e works so much better as a videogame than at the tabletop. having a bad roll (or just getting hit with a status effect) and wasting your turn feels a lot less bad when you don't have to wait 15 minutes for your turn to come up again because you're controlling multiple characters in combat, and doing any sort of dice rolling is accelerated by having the computer do it automatically. also there's no cultural baggage to rolling a 1, which means it can just be a miss and not an opportunity for "hilarious" fuckups 5% of the time you try to do anything at all
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still not really invested in the Lore of the forgotten realms, but the story is told well and i enjoyed pretty much all of the 80-some hours i spent with it. i haven't really lost myself in something like this in quite a while
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most of the companions took a while to grow on me, but grow on me they did. they've pretty much all got interesting stories and develop quite a lot over the course of the game, plus they're just fun to be around and watch interact. also i'm not sure what the last time i had a proper crush on a fictional character was, so they're clearly doing something right (this time around it was lae'zel and karlach, if you're curious. and every single dragonborn NPC but i don't know if i can necessarily credit that to the writing team in this case)
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the story is reactive enough that the occasions when it's not, or when it really seems like you should be able to do something but you can't, feel especially glaring. honestly the amount of work larian put in to achieve what they did is incredible and i wouldn't want them to do even more, it's kind of just a pitfall of CRPGs in general
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it was true when metal gear rising: revengeance did it and it's true now: boss themes with lyrics are hype as hell. there's only one as far as i know but it's absolutely perfectly deployed
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my computer is 10 damn years old apart from the GPU and wow it is really showing. it was still playable but at times just barely
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dragonborn still hot
anyway yeah good game, looking forward to trying a playthrough with a Dark Urge character eventually and seeing how that affects things