So I’m finally close to finishing this game. Just a couple more fights in Arx left. I have begun to realize that as much as I like Larians world building...I don’t appreciate their philosophy towards combat in this game. Every combat encounter utilizes what I consider cheap tactics to ensure that you are ALWAYS at a disadvantage. You are either ambushed by enemies who have the high ground, confronted by new mechanics you haven’t seen in the 80 prior hours before (spiders who implant eggs, enemies who revive in some fashion, etc), put into some pit with environmental issues, have enemies magically appear like they were waiting in some pocket dimension, etc. This turns each fight into a puzzle to figure out the right combination required for victory (after reloading several times). Honestly this just gets frustrating and annoying after a while and provides zero sense of character progression or agency. No matter how powerful my characters become they are just as screwed each fight as the prior fights.
I don’t mind some of these “puzzle fights” in games but having every fight be this way seems...cheap. Toss in a couple of straight up slugfests for gods sake. Something where I can feel like my character has grown into a legitimate badass as opposed to having to reload after getting wiped each fight. I never got annoyed by the fights in D:OS or any previous Larian game. But at this point I’m just trying to slog through the rest of this game and doubt I’ll do a second playthrough. I really hope they don’t include this type of nonsense in BG3. Ugh
I don’t mind some of these “puzzle fights” in games but having every fight be this way seems...cheap. Toss in a couple of straight up slugfests for gods sake. Something where I can feel like my character has grown into a legitimate badass as opposed to having to reload after getting wiped each fight. I never got annoyed by the fights in D:OS or any previous Larian game. But at this point I’m just trying to slog through the rest of this game and doubt I’ll do a second playthrough. I really hope they don’t include this type of nonsense in BG3. Ugh
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