I will finish this off eventually. I got to the end of act 2 and whilst I was enjoying my time with it, I ended up having to head back to grind more and never attempted the boss again and started playing something else. Some decisions in the game also left me feeling a little aimless with my character, no options I had available seemed very fitting.
The combat is great fun - turn based tactics combat, though you'll need some patience for the amount of turns the enemies will go through before you take yours.
The main issues I have with this game are that multiplayer is a mess and almost unplayably so - it is never as enjoyable as solo. Its just a nightmare - its not as structured as a real D&D game and so people end up going everywhere and either get their gameplay interrupted constantly by cutscenes they know nothing about because theyre doing something else, or they dont turn on eavesdrop and miss out on the story. If you could get everyone to want to do the same thing it would be fine, but its just not ever going to work like that. It would be better if everyone had to vote on a path to take with dicerolls or something.
Another thing I really dislike is there was a few instances in the game where things were brought up despite me never picking dialogue options that would let the character know about it, which really hindered my immersion. And when the games focus is entirely on the story, this is a huge issue.
The game does reak of woke unfortunately, which I personally dont care for, but whilst it tries to be inclusive and with the times it simultaneously offers some of the worst variety in customisation options ive ever seen, with characters having four voice options and none of them sounding particularly rough or brutal. It was so bad that the game was basically unplayable without mods for me, as I like to play Orcish characters and having him speak like a british restaurant owner is a big nono.
Ultimately this is a really good D&D game but its not the perfect game everyone makes out that it is. It was definitely overhyped due to appealing to a loud audience. Its a shame that current politics caused it to win GOTY over other games that are most likely, more deserving.
The combat is great fun - turn based tactics combat, though you'll need some patience for the amount of turns the enemies will go through before you take yours.
The main issues I have with this game are that multiplayer is a mess and almost unplayably so - it is never as enjoyable as solo. Its just a nightmare - its not as structured as a real D&D game and so people end up going everywhere and either get their gameplay interrupted constantly by cutscenes they know nothing about because theyre doing something else, or they dont turn on eavesdrop and miss out on the story. If you could get everyone to want to do the same thing it would be fine, but its just not ever going to work like that. It would be better if everyone had to vote on a path to take with dicerolls or something.
Another thing I really dislike is there was a few instances in the game where things were brought up despite me never picking dialogue options that would let the character know about it, which really hindered my immersion. And when the games focus is entirely on the story, this is a huge issue.
The game does reak of woke unfortunately, which I personally dont care for, but whilst it tries to be inclusive and with the times it simultaneously offers some of the worst variety in customisation options ive ever seen, with characters having four voice options and none of them sounding particularly rough or brutal. It was so bad that the game was basically unplayable without mods for me, as I like to play Orcish characters and having him speak like a british restaurant owner is a big nono.
Ultimately this is a really good D&D game but its not the perfect game everyone makes out that it is. It was definitely overhyped due to appealing to a loud audience. Its a shame that current politics caused it to win GOTY over other games that are most likely, more deserving.