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'The Game Just Fundamentally Undermines Itself': Game Designer Breaks Down 'Baldur's Gate 3's Most Fatal Flaws (www.themarysue.com)

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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ can be a fantastic experience and a bad game at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

a situation where your character would get killed for a bad dialogue choice.

I think this is a ridiculous thing to criticize too. Dialogue is important in a game like this and it has (sometimes lethal) consequences.

Imagine if this argument were applied to combat. It turns out that it is impossible to beat some encounters by role-playing a loner wizard who refuses to cast spells. Nobody in their right mind would actually believe that is a valid criticism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I absolutely agree. It'd be like if in RDR2 the "rob dialogue" was criticized for enacting combat. That said I haven't played BG3 so I can't know exactly what they were talking about or how it feels unfair.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's one point where you can deliberately make out with a brain-eating monster.

There's another where a strict and cruel god-like being demands you hand over something very important to them.

These situations honestly should lead to death if you push it.