I could go way deeper into analysis at this point but I'd rather know your amount of experience & knowledge of the genre first and your overall gaming preferences. Pathfinder Kingmaker I haven't played yet, but from everything I've read so far it's still to bugridden to fully enjoy.

But even if it turns out to be great I doubt it's better starting material than BG2 or PoE. Tyranny has a great concept but personally too many aspects of combat annoyed me to play it further than a couple hours, so I can't tell you much about it. Imho you should play this after BG2 or even start with it. It has a couple of flaws, but most of those get fixed by it's 2 excellent DLCs. It has great graphics, great atmosphere, great characters. It's system is completely new but very transparent and everything can be easily identified in comparison to the BG series. Pillars of Eternity is an homage to the Baldurs Gate series, but it's also a great standalone game that doesn't rely on nostalgia.

You'd miss a couple hints and whatnot about part 1 but in the end it's not essential to have played p1 first. Personally, I think you should start with this one. It and part 1 have at times convoluted mechanics though for a newcomer to D&D and at times can be difficult or at least counter-intuitive to understand. It's about epic battles, but don't think the story falls short here. It's also more fantastic in scale although it loses the charm of the open world and just traveling through almost empty but charming areas and having a feeling of freedom. It's bigger, better & louder than its predecessor. It's graphics and style(?) haven't aged well.īaldurs Gate 2 is where it's at. Just like Torment I wouldn't recommend it to a newcomer. It starts you off as a nobody, every fight is potentially lethal, you can explore very freely for an RPG and it has a lot of subversive character archetypes.

It's a grander than life experience when playing for the first time, but every bit of combat is a boring chore and newcomers to the genre will likely be overwhelmed by the text.īaldurs Gate 1 is the ultimate classic but it hasn't aged well. It's mostly about reading and making choices and encountering very interesting things and ideas. It's excellent in so many ways, but combat is not one of them. Planescape Torment is the best CRPG you will ever read.

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