Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Bioware Just Pissed Everyone Off.." video.
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@immatoll4375 "But back in 2023 no one was making a drama out of it [BG3] for not beeing d&d enough" you weren't paying attention then, the amount of people eternally fucking assmad that the game was not RTwP like previous Baldur's Gate games was absurd. it made me cringe because I played all the BioWare D&D CRPGs and after all that, I like them in spite of the fact they are RTwP not because of it. Meanwhile, I was cheering inside because I had been waiting for a D&D CRPG where you can FLY and JUMP with combat rules that actually followed the tabletop for decades now, with only Solasta coming out to show for that. and Solasta is good don't get me wrong, but it had its problems
RTwP just feels jank as fuck with the arbitrary "rhythm" of the actions, like I never asked for picking my actions to be a timing minigame with a cheat button. that's just an awkward gameplay concept right out of the gate. I got used to it after all my time playing with it, but the fact that I've gotten used to it and it still feels awkward means that it is bad by definition.
that's to say nothing of the contrarians existing to this day that have it out for Larian's writing staff, and seem to think Larian are "woke" despite the fact that Forgotten Realms was always a cringefest fan-fiction-tier universe and their camp style of writing fits like a glove, complete with Drow sexual fetish pandering. but goofy sex scenes with mind flayers and bears are meant to be taken 100% seriously apparently despite the rest of the camp and is therefore evidence of their "degeneracy." I mean for fuck's sakes, NWN's campaign had a Mary Sue character insert from one of the devs that became your employer and upstaged you at every opportunity. BG3 is far more interesting than many D&D CRPG campaigns. also pro-tip Gale isn't even the first guy to fuck Mystra in the setting. much of the cringiest parts of the lore existed before Larian ever put pen to paper
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