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Its great to seeBaldurs Gate 3finding such a large and excited audience.
It richly deserves this moment.
But to an older generation of RPG players, the moments a bittersweet one.
In many ways, the two games couldnt be much more different.
Two years later, BioWare made the original game look like a macaroni painting of an RPG by comparison.
In that sense, Larian StudiosBaldurs Gate 3feels part of the same lineage.
Nevertheless, combat is the weakest aspect ofBaldurs Gate 2.
Its simply that this element is overshadowed by all the others.
Oil and fire combos, water and lightning, teleporting enemies into awkward spots.
Its an anecdote generator.
Back in 2000 though, BioWare didnt leave the anecdotes to chance.
You infiltrate and take down cults and wrestle with greyscale morals.
Even in its darkest moments, theres something more convivial and bouncy about it than in BioWares isometric game.
Your only chance of survival and the first words you hear from your own character are Where am I?
Darker than a power cut at Tim Burtons house.
