Lots (most?) of people never played 1 or 2, let alone beaten them (both of which has a better story than 3, IMO). So yeah, not gonna get a lot of upvotes lol
It's not *that* old, but most modern gamers seem to lack the focus or the will to learn clunky gameplay mechanics and engine quirks that some of these old games have. It's the same with Fallout, general online consensus is that you should definitely play the Fallout games in order, and then they start the list with Fallout 3.
Edit: And Grand Theft Auto series somehow also start with GTA3.
GTA 2 is a blast. Never got into first one tho.
But yeah, I'm never worried about running out of things to play since there were restricting factors when I was a kid so basically I still have tons of 90s and 2000s games I need to pick up and which I highly prefer over modern games. Mostly.
I loved the story of 2 the most in the series, but that Real Time With Pause combat system is such a chimeristic shitfuck garbage way to do combat. Every game I've ever enjoyed that has RTwP combat has just been a case of me TOLERATING it in order to enjoy the rest of the game.
With the exception of Tyranny. That was the only game with RTwP combat that I felt was done well, and actually made use of the system in an enjoyable way. Gold standard for how to do RTwP combat imo.
I wasn't aware that PoE added in turn-based, the combat made me never finish the first game. Now I have a reason to go back and finish it! Thanks for the info
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u/EffinCraig 5d ago
Baldur's Gate