I've never played a JRPG, but the TB systems in strategy games like Civilization, for example, or digital adaptations of board games and card games, are also fundamentally different from TB in cRPGs.… (View Post)

I think the difficulty with making cRPGs is that unlike other genres of video games where even a so-so game may be acceptable to most fans of that genre, the fans of cRPGs will only accept a game tha… (View Post)

Yes that's exactly my sense as well, and why it is the game I have been most looking forward to. The look and feel and playing experience of the original BG games but without D&D rules and mechan… (View Post)

I am 100% with Sawyer on this issue. And this is exactly why I have come to dislike D&D mechanics. Bonus that I now understand why he did not opt for using the D&D SRD for PoE. Good man. He m… (View Post)

You cannot consider this question without the context of the timeline. These games are 20 years old. If they were being made today, so much about them would be different including how party banter is… (View Post)