Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "This is how you ruin Baldur's Gate 3" video.

See, I've played the OG games, and Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights -- all the RTwP "greats" that the obnoxious purists have also played. But I never liked the games because of RTwP, I liked it in spite of that. It's just so fucking fiddly. For example: oops, I clicked to move at second 6.1 instead of 5.9, so I just lost my action for that 6-second round. In my opinion, the system is a crutch to support lazily designed encounters. Now, these games did have some memorable encounters, don't get me wrong... but the majority of them (especially in NWN) were just groups of trash mobs. RTwP makes this part of the game -- the boring part -- go faster. The difference is Larian's design philosophy. They try to make sure every encounter has a purpose, and that none of them are too similar or feature boring enemies. There are very few boring encounters in the game and even the low level mobs have at least one ability you need to watch out for. RTwP is fundamentally not needed because you aren't trudging through the prison district of Neverwinter killing naked prisoner dudes every 5 feet. If I had to kill all those shit mobs in turn-based, yeah, that would get annoying quickly. The real solution here is to not design annoying encounters, not to use a half-assed timing system that bastardizes the source rules.
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I do like that groups of enemies in the initiative order take their turns simultaneously. That was a smart decision. It could be optimized though
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That clown isn't even aware this game sold over 6 million copies, an insane number considering how niche games of its genre typically are. To propose that this game would sell 18 million copies, which are numbers reaching Nintendo first party game territory like Zelda or Mario, is absurd.
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@Songfugel I couldn't even remember that auto pause thing being an option honestly, but it's been ages since I played the originals. It's nice that the Pathfinder games offered that, and then they went out of their way to add real turn-based mode, with a good UI that tracks your action economy.
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 @arekisan5239 Fighting a game's interface is not a satisfying way to play a game and it is not "difficulty." It's just bad design.
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@refugeehugsforfree4151 Bro, the game uses an isometric camera. How the fuck do you get immersed to begin with?
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Try to imagine how bad this game's combat would be if it was in real time though. Like, how are you going to move an explosive barrel into position when the enemies are moving 100% of the time?
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WOTR has both options and its combat encounters are objectively inferior, in my opinion. It's clear where all Larian's effort went.
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@Astralthelionheart If you want a game that leverages that kind of stuff, you should play Dungeon Siege 1. It definitely does a better job at it, because it's designed to do that from the ground up, instead of adapting what is fundamentally a turn based game with specific action order. The initiative rolls barely even make sense in games like NWN.
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@VITAS874 I played it for hundreds of hours in my teenage years and it was always at least a little annoying. The saving grace was that NWN added full-fledged multiplayer with dozens of players. That, at least, was worth using real-time mechanics.
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@MrRafagigapr Pillars of Eternity had boring-ass writing that lost my interest within a few hours.
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I like Owlcat's games, but they are more old school in their CRPG design, in that they just throw some stuff in the Monster Manual all over the game world, with the exception of some major quest lines. Larian really meticulously designs every single encounter in their game. Most of them would likely play like shit in real time.
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@MrRafagigapr Dragon Age combat was honestly made trivial because of things like the spell combo shit which was absurdly overpowered. You could stack two low level spells on top of each other to get the equivalent effect of mass paralysis, a much higher level spell, with an even bigger radius. The only downside was that it had friendly fire but you can easily work around that. It's hard to use it as an example for either system because it would be trivial to win at either way
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