FINALLY.

Multiplayer is fine,just let us host our own games with friends. I do not want to play games with randoms or be forced online. It’s also always amazing when singleplayer is there as well so I’m not knocking si gleplayer only, but the choice is always better.

Dude… they are voices! They dont exist. Nobody has old school IRL friends any more

Baldurs Gate 3?

The headline says new. BG3 already came out. Help is out there.

First paragraph says

“Dungeons & Dragons” IP owner Wizards of the Coast is moving on from its “Baldur’s Gate” video game franchise with a new single-player action-adventure game set in the world of the popular tabletop fantasy roleplaying game.

Yes. Baldurs Gate 3. That’s right.

action-adventure game

I feel like taking an extremely turn based game and making it “action adventure” is a weird choice. BG3 was a mega smash hit and turn based. If you want to funnel more players into your tabletop game, you probably want the video game to be kind of sort of like the tabletop. I have doubts about this.

Yeah, but it’s less risk and has more potential reward if you just follow trends and algorithms. You can always change your tabletop to fit more in line with the video games!

How many turn based goty candidates do we need until it becomes a trend?

BG3 was cheating. They had love and passion for the work they were producing. As if anything like that can be found at Wizards or Hasbro.

First and foremost, I understand and share your skepticism, but I attribute it more to Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast being terrible stewards of the brand moreso than the game’s genre. They’ve proven to be anti-consumer ghouls with nearly every decision they’ve made (many of which have needed to be walked back or apologized for in the wake of massive backlash) over the past couple of years. So, in light of that context, it’s only natural to assume this game is being made to chase some “casual gamer” money, rather than passion for DnDs various settings or mechanics.

As a counterpoint to the above, however, turn based gameplay is an abstraction used to make running the game easier for DMs. In the “reality” of the game world, all of the actions taking place in a round occur roughly simultaneously within a 6 second window. While my meat-based brain can’t handle adjudicating multiple dice rolls a second, my CPU absolutely can, and therefore you could, potentially, play a highly faithful version of DnD in a real time environment if the CPU is just rolling the dice in the background. In fact, this is basically what Real Time with Pause systems offer, such as the first couple Baldur’s Gate games (or many other cRPGs which emulate those).

Furthermore, the Dark Alliance games (1 and 2, not the recent live service game which is emblematic of the exact sort of decisions by Hasbro et al which leads us both to be highly suspicious of this project) are a lot of fun despite only being tangentially related to DnD. Getting something of comparable quality (with minimal GAAS nonsense), would make me pleased as punch.

If you want to funnel more players into your tabletop game

I’m pretty sure Hasbro/WotC’s only goal is to funnel more money into their bank accounts

You can compare with Games Workshop, who also created extremely turn based games in the past but later licensed their IP for all sorts of games, from strategical turn based ones to fast action shooters. I don’t see any reason why an action adventure game would be more likely fail just because it’s set in the D&D world, or why this would have any negative impact on sales of either the TTRPG or other licensed computer games like BG3.

a new single player d&d game

it’s from wotc/hasbro

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Baldur’s gate 3 2

Enough so that they’re not fun anymore.

Huh, in AAA terms you do have a point there.