Posted on: December 30, 2018
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Not Right Now
Back in 1998 we learned what would happen if a video game company one-for-one converted a pen and paper ruleset into a video game. That game was Baldur’s Gate. In many ways the game was great but this was in spite of the ruleset and not because of it. Owlcat has done the same thing with the same results: a confused mess. DnD and Pathfinder rules exist in a vacuum; unless you are coming from that enclosed space it’s all unintuitive. This is compounded by the fact the game is balanced as if it is a pen and paper session with a DM. In a tabletop session an NPC gives me a quest to kill a basilisk. My character doesn’t know anything about basilisks and I spend a few hours wandering around town to try to find someone who knows anything about the creatures and their weaknesses. In that same quest in Kingmaker the NPC wouldn’t tell me anything he knows basilisks himself, I can’t ask around town to get more information, and then I have a fight against a creature made within that vacuum at a disadvantage because I didn’t meta and look up the rules. Then there are the bugs. I’m sure everyone knows the reddit meme Patchfinder Bugmaker by now. This game has earned that meme and then some. To the point that any time something starts to go wrong there’s I debate with myself as to whether it’s a bug or another case of lack of communication. This game released awhile ago and the state it’s in is unacceptable. The Wild Cards DLC they just released? It re-broke things that were fixed. Every time they try to fix the game something else breaks even worse (it’s like a programmer’s worst nightmare). That doesn’t mean that there isn’t a good game underneath all of the frustration (I wouldn’t get this upset if I wasn’t invested) but I highly advise anyone looking at this title right now (December 30, 2018) to wait a year for patches before buying and even then you’ll probably want to heavily mod it.
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