A thing I’d like to see is gradual automation.
Taking something like The Sims 2 (I don’t play a lot of modern games), part of the gameplay is discovering how to keep your Sims alive and healthy, fair enough. But once I’ve got a way of doing that, I’d like to be able to automate that process and go on to something else, rather than having to keep saying manually “the bathroom is getting dirty, clean it” or “make another batch of meals”.
You need to play ONI. There is a ton of (home) automation stuff in there… later in the game.
Oh yes good point, I usually finish Stellaris. Hmmm ONI sounds like it needs a lot of bandwidth! I like the idea though…
Yes, I think I’d -really- like that in 4x games like Civ. Stellaris actually has pretty good AI leaders that can handle the minutiae, although you can still micromanage if you want. But I agree I’d like to see more of this.
Not wot I am playing, but I was amused to see my daughter has created a “job” for herself in Minecraft.
She has sheep in a pen, that apparently belong to the villagers, and takes them one at a time into a small complex where she pushes them into a bath in one room, takes them to another room, leashes them to a post, shears them, unleashes, takes them to an exit and hands them off to a villager.
Today she added a new job of feeding the sheep.
Paused my BG3 playthrough to start an evil necromancer. Immediately had huge fun, levelled really fast and had a ridiculously explicit romance scene in Act 1. Also teamed up with goblins for a fight, they brought Sword Spiders and those things are terrifying! (As they should be).
Back to my good Druid now.
Druids don’t get ANY summoning spells until level SEVEN, are you serious? (And no animal companion). 5e starts them at level three, before anyone else!
For all my complaining, it’s a very good game and I’ve been on it for hours.
I submit that “romance scene” might be more correctly named “sexy times scene”.
Who may get sexytimes, but it can’t be shown in most jurisdictions.
I chose the Shar priestess from the pre-rolled characters. Not having played DnD beyond the BG series… I didn‘t quite know who that goddess is 
Oopsiedo.
Also yeah, the romances get… explicit. Wasn‘t there some check at the start where the game asked if you wanted that? I don‘t quite remember.
I know now that I don‘t care for that. I don‘t mind much. But it kind of interrupts the game for me as this does not spill into any of the decisions outside of the camp as far as I can tell.
I am in the middle—I think—of act II now. There is another fight there that in my 2nd attempt (after failing the first and having forgotten to save for like an hour before—my bad—having to replay every dialogue since arriving at the place, yay for the space-skip function), I just lost on the first turn because I rolled badly on initiative and by that time the NPC I was protecting was dead.
Then I tried a novel approach. I sided with the other side in the dialogue (more or less on accident), but then fought them because friendly fire is a thing and tried to protect the NPC who kept attacking me. But there was no way to end the fight and everyone else was then dead as well. Just my group and the NPC remained. I learned that you can‘t revive an NPC.
I finished it on my fourth or fifth attempt by saving every single turn and reloading every time I made a mistake or misunderstood some AoE thing that friendly-fired myself.
I’m pretty sure there’s some bear action on BG3…
It does sounds like a crazily horny game for a big popular one. Then again, most games are full of violence and no comment it made on them, but a spot of bear screwing and everyone gets excited (not necessarily in that way).
I am really struggling with the combat in BG3, just can’t get the hang of it.
So the old BG series is mostly AD&D 3.5, and BG3 is the current D&D 5 (known as “5e” 5th edition). They are verrrry different, and knowing 5e will hugely help you in BG3. I think the biggest key to combat is knowing which classes are good at what, which spells are best etc. I would totally recommend setting the difficulty to minimum if you don’t know the system well, Larian will just happily hammer you into the ground otherwise.
Thanks for the advice! I was very good with the fights in the old BG series by learning the system in the game but if the new ruleset is so different than maybe I should watch some introduction videos about it before I play the game.
Because the fights are the best thing about BG for me. I finished BG2 several times with different parties made of characters I created. If you play a network session with only yourself you can start with already a full group. So I tried out different party compositions to find what I liked the most.
Never played D&D, so maybe that’s the problem. I know its 5e (cos I read it), and that’s all I know about it.
So what Spells are good?
My favorite Classes right now are:
because you specced for Arcane Trickster as the game suggests (I keep going back and forth on between that and assassin because of the portrait bug which can be fixed by respeccing). In addition, he has insanely high DEX and CHA (and who needs WIS or INT when you can have CHA)I have not tried any of the other classes. I remember I loved playing Jaheira and generally I am a druid player in other games as well.
The old BG games were 2nd edition AD&D, although there were some tweaks (by Throne of Bhaal at least) to echo some changes being made in 3rd. not sure 3rd was even out when those games released. The only 3rd edition Infinity Engine game was Icewind Dale 2.
3.5 was only in NWN2, much later.
Like this?:
I had no idea anyone was filming!
Oh, I think I was getting confused with NWN 1’s “Three and a bit”!