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At level sixteen, with a party of characters with builds entirely reliant upon passive abilities because I hate micromanaging, I was able to shut down all three dragons in combat that lasted perhaps thirty seconds in total. Totally agree that while the engine and the setting have potential, it went mostly unrealized.Īs to the dragons.Get Scale Breaker. The ending is particularly bad, falling apart in many respect if one tries to invest too much thought into it.īut yeah, while I rather enjoyed the White Marches, everything felt pretty flat. This, and other comparable elements, make this feel like a setting and story created through collaboration rather than vision since none of the internal logic is necessarily followed through on. Worse, an early recruitable character is similarly afflicted and treats it more as a vague nuisance, even fellow party members merely joke about their condition. For one, the player's primary motivation is to subvert their Awakening because they feel it is a threat to their sanity/ never comes across as significant or even serious, just somewhat novel and mostly useless -except nightmares, which we never experience as a player and are simply informed occur.

This game handled some things very badly.

It was paid for by the fans and perhaps Obsidian had a lot to lose by alienating them. Some people seem to get quite offended over criticism of this game, but surely there are others who agree.Īnyway, perhaps it doesn't matter so much. It implies the leadership were unaware of it being a problem. I am surprised they didn't go back to the drawing board and substantially revise it, while keeping the assets. I read Avellone argued strongly for more player agency in this one, and I'm not surprised. It seemed they were intent on exactly copying Baldurs Gate, but you can't do that without stifling all creativity and it shows. I don't know what they were thinking with this one. They even tacitly acknowledged it in some conversation options.

Motivation for the protagonist was entirely absent. I thought the story might pick up pace at some point but it never did. There's a difference between slow burn and stone cold dead.

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