I’m really enjoying it so far. I’m solidly in the middle of Act 2 and about to start The Winter March part 1.

I’m playing it on my Steam Deck and I’m really liking how I’ve got the controls set up. I grabbed a community template and made some additions of my own. I added a virtual menu for the left trackpad and changed the right joystick to handle scrolling long text and menus.

The story is good and I’m hanging in there on Easy. I figured I’d end up going down to the Story difficulty.

  • Gamoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    If you’re looking for similar games to move onto, Baldur’s Gate 3 is in its own tier, right at the top of the genre. Not only that but it’s a step forward mechanically and presentation wise for the whole genre as well. In this game I once threw an angry hyena at an enemy. Later just threw enemies at their friends.

    Pathfinder Kingmaker and Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous are both excellent as well. Especially Wrath, though still with the aged style graphically speaking. You can cast touch spells through weapons! In the second one I became a lich queen with an army of undead, it might be my favourite CRPG ever because of that. It’s awesome.

    Divinity Original Sin and its sequel are also brilliant, made by bg3 Devs Larian on their own ruleset. I’m currently replaying the second one with my sister (yep, it’s co-op), we are both playing undead. We are healed by poison and damaged by healing. Very cool.

    This is my favourite genre, if you can’t tell.

  • wintermutehal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    As a soon potential buyer, how is the track pad for mouse central games? My biggest concern is playing old crpgs with anything like the control scheme on Switch. It was a waste of 30 bucks to get Baldur‘s Gate on Switch for the control alone in my experience.

    • doggish@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I love it. The key is setting the triggers as the left and right clicks though. I find clicking the trackpad not great for precision. There is a certain level of tinkering/customizing that will be needed to get the most out of the controls.

      I’ve played several 20 year old FPS games with absolutely no native controller support and completed them all. If you put in a little work in getting the controls how you like them it makes it hard to play stuff without all the Steam Deck options.

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Trackpad mouse controls are great, even for strategy games. You can fine tune them even further if default is not for your liking.

      Aside from the Steam OS I think the trackpads are the other big feature for me to choose SD over the competition.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Glad you’re enjoying the CRPG. There’s plenty of older stuff that’s great in that vein too, one of my favorite older CRPGs that has a great story is Planescape: Torment.