I’m not throwing shade at BG3; I’ve also enjoyed it, but something about the sheer amount of options and more widely diverging story paths in Wrath just does it more for me. I also like the art style more, but that’s strictly subjective and I accept that.

To a lesser and more personal extent, I despise Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro and their recurring attempts to monopolize and bully third party game developers and players alike and I don’t like to even indirectly trickle money their way compared to Paizo. Yes yes, no ethical consumption and all that, but Paizo’s way less fucked up with both distributing game materials and open licensing agreements.

https://www.polygon.com/23553389/dnd-ogl-paizo-orc-open-rpg-creative-license-announcement

That’s all I had to say. If you’ve already finished BG3 or it wasn’t quite to your liking and you’d like an alternative, give Wrath a try. only-good-gamer

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    If it helps, you can make the battle spam trivial by playing in “Story” mode. It makes most fights breeze by enough where you can just enjoy the story and ignore the battles for the most part.

    You can also turn the crusade minigame entirely off in the starting options, which in your case I’d definitely recommend.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I kind of wish I did in my first playthrough; I appreciate the ambition of putting it in there but I didn’t really enjoy it compared to the rest of the game.

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          i’m guessing it actually works now? i remember when it came out if you chose that the ai would absolutely fuck you over in the crusade mode. i just got a save editor and added like 1000 dragons into my army get-in

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            i’m guessing it actually works now?

            My current playthrough kept it on just to experience it, but I personally think that may have been a mistake because I find the crusade’s day to day operation an annoying distraction.

            • Comp4 [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              I really like the Pathfinder games and I think they tried something different and interesting with the crusade/kingdom systems but at the same time I feel these systems mostly dont improve the game by much. Which is a shame because im sure the devs spend a lot of time on these systems in otherwise amazing games.

          • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            It does work now, but you lose out on some story stuff if you’re completionist. Steam workshop also has a mod to just auto-win every crusade battle.