Starfield voted most innovative gameplay by community in 2023 steam awards
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BG3 actually made me interested in the genre, I started right after with Pathfinder wrath of the righteous since I've had it sit in my library for a while. Was surprisingly good, even better than BG3 I feel. I'm in the middle of Planescape now and wanna check out Icewind Dale or BG1+2 next.
I was not impressed with Icewind Dale, I would recommend NWN2, especially the expansion Mask of the Betrayer - is the best high level campaign I know.
BG2 is great and you can easily play it even now but BG1 is a bit hard to get in to, still great and there is a lot of overlap with BG3. I played it just to get a refreshed for BG3 and you can see how they made it full of memberberries - the entire main plot was trying to be BG1 but larger somehow, but ended up being retardedly stupid because Laryan don't ever make a good endings on their stories. Even the entire doppelganger story line it was trying to do BG1 but left it completely unfinished.
From this perspective I would suggest playing BG1. At least you would get how dumb the BG3 story is.
I admit I did not play Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous because I did not like Kingmaker, the companions in that one were either boring, pathetic or annoying and the Kingmaker mechanic was just load screen after load screen after load screen.
I also recommend Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - great setting, just find some graphic / resolution mods. 4
And ofc Dragon Age Origins is a spiritual successor of BG1/2 games, I assume you've already played that one.
I forget the name, but there's a mod that pulls the BG1 assets into BG2 so that you can play through the entire story in one go with BG2 mechanics.
Does it not mess up leveling and stats? BG1 had permanent stat increases and a level cap.
Either way what is the mod? Sounds great.
Did a little digging and found it, under the super generic name "BGT". Also saw an "EET" mentioned that's apparently the same thing for the enhanced editions.
https://modlist.pocketplane.net/index.php?ax=list&cat_id=130
Yes, it does get rid of the level cap, but there's a tweaks list that includes a mod to add it back.
I've actually played the base game years and years ago. Just couldn't appreciate it as a teen I feel. Same with Dragon Age Origins. Really gotta give them another chance I feel.
Does have a lot of loadscreens also, but was fun to play and in terms of characters...I liked a couple, I really liked how every path was different: going Lich felt entirely different from Trickster(I played the game twice, once on normal and once on core difficulty). Lich can raise companions, pretty fucking cool. You build a necropolis also. Trickster was the joke path, you can even say "I want a better ending" in the end which was hilarious.
I tried BG1 once before not too long ago but then went with Pathfinder first. I cannot only play cRPG's and need a break inbetween personally to try something else. BG1 is a bit..hard to get into I noticed. I'll probably get into and finish it anyways after my current game and Planescape anyways.
rogue trader also has a lot of load screens. too many in fact
Good to know, will probably avoid it since I did hear there were some big issues with game breaking bugs.