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Beamdog has basically dug up the corpse of baldurs gate and implemented a bunch of thingst hat already existed as free mods, and to add insult to injury made it impossible to buy the original verison of the game anywhere.Īnd then theres PoE by Obsidian, a game series that since has also implemented Turn based combat because quite frankly its a better system. So why should future DnD games be held back by past glorioes, Larian isnt even using the same base ruleset as infinity engine games.įurthermore, look at the companies that keep making these kinds of games. Did the Infinity engine games play like the gold Box games? no they didnt. of course it also was a broken mess and took years of modding to make it play properly, and thats why the system was never adopted. Temple of Elemental Evil is the most accurate implementation of any DnD system into a video game engine to date and it used turn based combat. The only reason people like RTWP is because of some conservative clinging to the Infinity engine games. It also invalidates the initiative system from DnD and will lead to a devaluation of one of the primary stats. In an RTWP system, the player never has to commit to any plan of action, instnatly beeing able to cancel any descision and change it for somehting else, it leads to a lot of frantic pausing. RTWP simply is a combat system that is very unrewarding and leads itself to lazy encounter design. I dont expect it to be either of course, judging by what Sven said, i expect an action combat system. RTWP is a terrible system that leads to Basic attacks following a turn based models while spells are cast in real time, this leads to an even stronger case of caster supremacy, one of the prime problems with non 4E DnD. Turn based combat is a better system and i dont think there is even an argument of the contrary to be made. "Not every fight should be extremely risky or hard" How is pausing in the middle of the action any more realistic than TB? If anything TB is more realistic because the pace is even throughout the encounter, instead of being constantly interrupted by pauses. Please if people are going to argue TB versus RTwP please describe why they prefer one over the other rather than just using "I prefer" or "TB rules" etc. RTwP does require some AI and "programming" of the characters that you use, but it just saves time in the long run! Harder fights? Micromanage as you need too.
Misses with D&D? No issue, just sit back and pause when you need specific things done. TB would make such fights tedious, but RTwP means you can just let them have a good old hit, so you sit back and watch, and the fight is done for you. Having some harder fights and some easier fights is what it would be like if forgotten realms was real. Not every fight should be extremely risky or hard. How realistic is it for a bunch of characters to move around and do stuff before another character has a chance to do anything? Next thing you know they are dead! It is so unrealistic!! It does lead to some interesting tactics, but nothing that can't be done on RTwP.Īlso TB takes a lot longer to play. I do hope that their engine 4.0 allows RTwP! How is taking turns to have a go realistic? It isn't! RTwP is by far more realistic and in the vein of true D&D IMO. PnP can only do Turn based play, but with computers we can move forward to a more realistic type of game play. It relies entirely upon internal consistency. Any tool that lets us tell stories(even stories with a story) is a wonderful thing I think.ĭ&D tries to get as close to reality in a simulated world as possible! Have fun with what we are given, don't let something like game mechanics overshadow the potential fun to be had, and most importantly don't forget D&D is about the imagination and the wonderful stories we can tell. We are being given a gift, sure one we pay money for, but a gift nonetheless. I myself thought it failed in a few places, but I still had a lot of fun with what we were given. Sure there were what was perceived to be a lot of failings in that game. A lot of my fears are based on the player reactions to Sword Coast Legends and how that led to N-Space's demise. My main concern is that the player base will react negatively to something that isn't that important overall(again my own opinion) and the game fails unnecessarily. Some of the arguments for and against seem a bit superficial and petty in my own opinion. So I'm not going to get too worked up over which method is used. On saying that, I still really enjoy my multiplayer RP sessions either way. Me personally would prefer turn based, as I struggle with RTwP in multiplayer as there tends to be no pausing and I struggle with the pace. We D&D fans can be horrible and unforgiving at times. The whole argument is really making me worried.
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