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Would you guys recommend this for a casual gamer I love playing Zelda but rarely progress the story because I just like exploring. I know they aren't the same game but just giving an example of how I play games. Also, never played the other games before.
I'm gonna be the guy that says no. It's not an open world exploration game, it's more of an exposition game. Playing in small bits is likely gonna leave you stuggling to remeber where the story left off and what you were trying to do. Maybe if you did chunks of the story at once but even short sessions for me turn into hours.
No, probably not for casual. The D&D combat takes a good bit of time spent.
By that do you mean it autosaves often and many autosaves, and you have to prepare to figure out the autosave you need? I'm not really sure the difference meant but that's all I can think of compared to current games. Though if so I'd add, you get to pick how many autosaves it will do so you can increase / decrease as needed.
Also as someone who played 90s and previous older RPGs having multiple autosaves rocks, there weren't always multiple autosaves so you tended to reload back to your manual save and try again from that point. Save scumming wasn't considered a bad thing way back when, just how you'd figure out the hard stuff heh.
Quick save often lest you have to repeat ten minutes walking or the last couple of fights but do worse (or better damn you rng) than the first time. At least it's just a quick F5 to save and not 'find a place to rest to save', plus the camp/fast travel system seems pretty forgiving to me so far. There is a limit to the number of quick saves you have, the older ones are dropped I haven' paid attention to retention of non-quick saves, perhaps someone else could comment.
Meaning sometimes you realize you fucked up way back in the previous town or battle and have to go back and reload. Hence, you end up with like 10 saves at any given time.
It's one of the newest D&D like games out there, so UI wise it's probably one of the best to start on. But there are other similar games (e.g. Pathfinder Kingmaker / Pathfinder Wrath of the righteous) that I'd start on first.
Both of those last two we're a great overall introduction into what TRPGs can be like
Definitely. I also don't have much time to play but then you just take a slower pace. BG isn't some competitive online game that forces you to commit unreasonable amounts of time to it if you want to enjoy it. Although you'll be occupied for quite a while if you take it slow because the game is huge.