Realms Beyond - World Building #3

rjshae said:

As a comparison, ToEE is pretty extensive and uses turn-based combat, but it certainly doesn't take 500 hours to complete. (Surveys say around 65 hours for completionists.) Part of that may be due to the D&D v3 system, which provides faster leveling up. But certainly the game designers would have changed things up if BG were turn-based so that the combat wouldn't drag things along too much. Presumably that would have meant fewer but more interesting battles.

Guess I'm just agreeing with daveyd here.

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daveyd said:

Bioware's reason for choosing RTwP was that it was deemed more marketable than turn-based. Thanks to the baffling popularity of Diablo, ARPGs were all the rage so they were figured a turn-based party RPG would seem too dated. Maybe they were "right". Interplay almost made Fallout RT, too. I'm glad they didn't.

IMO, trying to adapt PnP game to a real time game engine is a terrible idea. You'd be better off starting from scratch and designing the rules with real-time in mind. Of course that won't solve the horrendous pathfinding issues.

I'd probably enjoy BG a lot more if it were TB, but only if it was implemented it well. I've never played BG2 all the way through because of the tedious combat. But if they threw that many hordes at me, I don't think I'd complete it even if it had ToEE's combat.

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Archangel said:

That is not what I read. What I read is that Bioware was making an engine that was similar to RTS games that were popular at the time. Interplay needed an engine for a new RPG game so they worked together.

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