Reasons in the tags pretty please???
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i cant BELIEVE i never posted this here wtf
the first one i did like, in 2021 ... anyway, heres my Lavellan
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attention all bg3 players who have also played any dragon age game!! (which is probably everyone, let’s be real)
im conducting an experiment, so if everyone could please reblog with their romance choices for both games
regards
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I think it's entirely fair to compare Baldur's Gate 3's rise in success to the Dragon Age franchise's downward spiral. Same goes for all other big name RPGs, for that matter.
What BG3 has just proven is that people do still love single-player, character driven roleplaying games. What BG3 has just proven is that studios do not need to fill their games with trash like micro-transactions, loot boxes, etc. What BG3 has just proven is that player-engagement can be used for the betterment of your product, and that people care more about feeling valued than potentially “spoiling” something.
But to circle back to specifically comparing BG3 to DAI…
BG3 has consequences to your actions. If you want to be evil, you can be really, really evil, and part of that experience is having the characters and world actually react to your wrongdoings! It’s so fucking refreshing to experience an RPG that has completely gone off the railroad track, unlike DAI which only offers what feels like the illusion of choice in comparison.
The way the player interacts with the all BG3 characters actually affects the course of their journey, as they all potentially change as people. I can only say the same for like, less than half of the DAI characters.
I think the biggest difference though, to me at least, is that BG3 has themes that anyone can relate to. DAI relies so heavily on the single theme of faith, without much else to offer, that it excludes anyone who doesn’t subscribe to that. But BG3’s multiple themes of trust, autonomy, power and corruption, etc. means that it’s far more likely for the player to feel personally invested in the story.
So, yeah. Baldur’s Gate 3 is everything Dragon Age used to be, and maybe that’s why it’s my new favourite game.
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The Exalted Planes I think is genuinely such an interesting map - perhaps one of the most interesting inquisition gives us. There's a really large desolate energy to it, the effects of the Orlesian civil war absolutely undeniable as you see crops and towns burnt, civilian life nowhere to be seen. And then that's compounded by the fact that there's dead walking around and not just in the trenches - are those corpses people caught in the war? Are there teenages in the mix? Children? Are they all soldiers or would some of them recognisably be wearing the clothes of farmers? There are demons roaming far from the rifts too - far more widely than in most maps, creating a truly chaotic atmosphere. And THEN on top of all of that you have the genuine feel that this is a colonised land; the marks of the elves, the fact that there's a dozen monuments to key moments in the exalted march on the dales, the elvish statues, some that have crumbled. There are bugs crawling on the floor. You can loot a teddy bear from a child's skeleton - a Skelton held by a mother. I just. I think it's got a really good and well put together atmosphere.
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