Baldur’s Gate 3 Reignites Age-Old Save Scumming Debate - IGN
Baldur’s Gate 3 Reignites Age-Old Save Scumming Debate - IGN
Baldur's Gate 3's huge launch has reignited the age-old debate about save scumming.
Baldur's Gate 3's huge launch has reignited the age-old debate about save scumming.
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I remember when Pathfinder Kingmaker released there was a very vocal group that said the game was too difficult and they were forced to save scum. Now everything in that game basically had a slider and you could completely customize difficulty, but that meant you were changing it to the forbidden option labeled "Easy". The pride these people had, they just couldn't do it.
The funniest part of it is that Owlcat did fix it. That group's attitude was very much "finally, it's playable. About time". However, all that Owlcat did was move those sliders for them and renamed it normal mode.
Having received Kingmaker for free and tried it on a supposedly "normal" difficulty, I totally understand why people save scummed and did it myself, because the game balance is so poor in the early sections that if you don't save scum, progressing was often literally impossible.
And then later on, if you got some really bad rolls, particularly when travelling or making camp, even if you could progress, you'd have used so many resources that it wasn't worth it. The worst part was that certain class combos were overpowered and others were really horrible too. That game was just all over the place, and I eventually stopped playing it not because I couldn't handle the difficulty, but because it was a chore to play and unfun.
Very clunky all around, and it got repetitive too and had many work-like elements. I hear the sequel is much better, so I may try that instead later, or the upcoming 40k RPG from Owlcat.
It's not that simple. It's not just "how hard are the fights", it's also "how big is the difficulty gap between the easy and hard fights?"
Take me for example. I struggle with the difficulty in DoS games, not because the fights are too difficult, but because the difficult fights are too difficult. If I turn the game on to easy, then I can manage the difficult fights fine, but then every other fight just becomes an annoying grind that bore me to tears.
What I need isn't a slider that just moves difficulty up and down. What I need is a slider that reduces the difficulty "dynamic range"