>inb4 old good, new bad or variants thereof
I haven't played either.
the obvious choice is 3, if you're a jaded boomer than 2
>>725978263*then
>>725978263ballhurts gay 3 has extremely faggy writing thoughno amount of skill checks and combat tactics can outweigh that.
>>725978124NO one remembers BG3, everyone remembers BG2
>>725978928>NO one remembers BG3/v/ certainly keeps whining about it
If you had any standards, you'd be whining too.
>>725978124Not a single good argument has ever been raised against BG3. Make of that whatever you will.
>>725978124BG3 is better in almost every way. BG2 has a few things going for it, though. One is the sense of scope. Whether or not it actually is, the BG2 map feels massively bigger. Athkatla alone feels pretty big. It also has more large towns and cities that you visit, while BG3 really just has the city of Baldur’s Gate, minus the upper city. BG3’s companions and companion interactions are generally better, but not as a rule. For example, the Viconia romance feels more rewarding than, say, the Minthara romance. Minthara is a great character, but Larian left a lot of her content on the cutting room floor. But the Shadowheart romance is more in-depth than any of the BG2 romances. The narrative in BG3 isn’t quite as compelling as BG2’s story, but BG2’s story is ultimately an extension of BG1’s story. A Durge playthrough keeps the feeling of continuity somewhat in BG3. ToB was not good at all. BG3 is overall better, but angry uncs insist that BG2 is better. Usually they say BG3 was too woke, as though BG2 didn’t have its own woke elements.
>>725978124I prefer BG1 and 2. I have a strong hatred for overly cinematic games.
>>725982361>BG3’s companions and companion interactions are generally betteri have no idea how anyone could ever come to that conclusionit's a real mystery
>>725984807Simple, they haven't played BG2.
>>725984807he's a romance fagthat's all they havecut out the shitty coomer fujo bait and companion interactions are really barebones in BG3There are a couple rivalries but they are mostly free of consequencesIn BG2 companions with different alignments will literally kill each otherOh wait, right, there are no alignments in BG3 cause it's "heckin restrictive"It's a theater kid thingthe entirety of BG3 is
>>725982361I think you should genuinely kill yourself. With taste like this, you must not have much to live for.
>>725978124jej
>>725978124BG3 mogs 2 in every regard, except writing (not that BG2's writing is particularly good).A single level 1 encounter in BG3 has more depth than anything in BG2, and that's a crazy thing to say considering BG3 runs on 5e.Anything else in this discussion is just nostalgiafaggots seething. Infinity Engine games have dogshit gameplay and always have and ultimately that's all I care about.When I can do rooftop parkour and physics to climb to the third floor of a building to assassinate someone there while the other half of my team simultaneously barricades the lower floors with furniture to prevent reinforcements from getting in, yeah, BG2's thac0 hitroll simulator isn't really going to fucking cut it. And that's not even going to how insanely reactive the entire game is.
>>725980000It's 10% owned by Communist China and you're literally funding the enemy by buying it?
>>7259781242 starts with a nietzsche quote so its better
>>725984807nta but companions in BG1 and 2 suck ass too.I don't like the bg3 companions either, but at least they had personalities and actually did shit.companions in previous games are little more than balls of stats who occasionally say some stupid shit. imoen is just a stupid young girl, jaheira is just married, minsc is a retard, etc. none of it has depth or any real story going on, you need to face reality and take off those goggles.
>>725978124Bald n gay for thee doesnt even have a world map.Absolutely pathetic game.
>>725984807voice actingreactabilitysheer number of interactionsactual questslots of reasons, and i'm not that anonnotice how no one mentions romance except you seething nostalgiafagsthe romance in bg3 is terrible, no one is even praising it except retarded tumblerinas and twitterfags, you are coping hard
>>725978124one is baldurs gate and d&d, the other is a div os2 clone pile of shit with d&d theme dlc.
>>725990587dos3 literary has no questing
BG3 doesn't even go to level 20instant into the TRASHAnd magic is also complete SHIT and less varied compared to BG2 which is hilarious given it's a game released 20+ years later
BG3 has better companions, choices and consequences, presentation, and gameplay (2Efags can suck my THAC0, that shit sucks).BG2 has a more thematically cohesive story, better villains, better side-quests, and a grander scope.
>>725992649There are literary no consequences to anything in dos3
>>725992649>cohesive storySure>better villainssure>better side-questsabsolutely not>grander scopeeeeh kind of, but it doesn't feel like itbut you get points for not being a brainwashed retard who thinks 2e is good
>>725992649>bro go kill this ogre who has my amulet>better questsretarded or didn't play bg3
BG3 felt much closer to a videogame version of a tabletop game than BG1 and 2 ever didHowever it's up to everyone personally to decide if that's a positive or a negative
>>725993970Yes, quests in BG2 actually stand out and are memorable: Planar Sphere, Unseeing Eye Cult, Firkraag, the Shadow Dragon Temple etc. they actually feel like adventures in the high fantasy setting Forgotten Realms is, with even nice "secret" fights like the Twisted Rune & Kangaxx the demilichWhat the FUCK does BG3 even have as memorable quests/side quests other than Auntie Ethel, it's like they took all the magic out of the Realms besides Act 2 with the Shadow Woods, and even there the side undead NPCs mog the main tower and main questBG3 feels like BG1 but even BG1 has a more adventurous feel to it with all the many encounters you meet on each (optional) map like the Ankhegs, the Basilisks, Durlag's Tower, the Sirines, all the assassins hounding your party etc.I won't deny BG3 has better gameplay although magic, both divine & arcane is literally SHIT compared to BG2 and that's a fact, and the low level limit is appaling when even fucking Solasta manages to go higher despite 1/100000000 the budget (and better Flight spell implementation)
You legitimately can't even compare these games at all. Baldur's faggot 3 is an incredible downgrade and is basically just dos3
>>725995435the lower level limit isn't because of budget, it's because they didn't want to have a half-baked budget version of what high level gameplay is like, aka, what literally every single D&D has had (including BG2 by the way, BG2 level 20 feels absolutely nothing like what level 20 is supposed to feel like) lv 13+ parties not walk around, they teleport, they shift planes
>>725995435Raphael is a 10/10 quest line and the house of hope fight is better than the story fights
>>725995435to be fair, Auntie Ethel was more memorable than any side quest in BG2, there's nothing quite on the level of itand as you said there's the various side undead in chapter 2Raphael is pretty memorable and most of it is in fact side quest, there's no direct main quest reason to visit the house of hopethere's also more low-level exploration of forgotten realms, like the owlbears and something that has to be said is that BG3's quests are far more interactive than BG2's, whereas BG2's quests usually had at best 2 ways of finishing it, and were rather inflexible in how you finished them, BG3 quests offer a multitude of possibilitiesIt's part of why nothing really matches up to Auntie Ethel, the sheer amount of ways to actually approach the situation are unmatched
>>725995859>Raphael has been practicing singing something if you pay attention, the entire game>start his boss battle>he's singing his own boss theme
>>725978124BG2 has a better plot, better area variety visually and dungeons that actually feel like dungeons, but BG3's sandbox and interactivity of systems is better. Both combat systems are decent, I feel like BG3 has more options that let you make use of the environment more and make use of some neat interactions between stuff but encounters also feel much less dangerous than the harder fights in BG2. I like both but the ease of multiplayer has resulted in me playing BG3 for much longer than 2, I think 2 is overall the better game but 3 is also fun. I just wish I wasn't compelled to replay 1 before I re-visit 2, the idea of playing both games back to back again is a bit daunting after my first run of 1 clocked 100 hours
>>725978124all rpgs are shit
>>725980000The strictly linear flow instead of open world zones makes it less open and replayable. I don't like going through the huge ass areas before I can go into the city at the end of the game. It needed more openness. Other than that, it's perfect.
>>725978124>gameplay and "interaction"3, by far I'd say. Larian's pretty cringe sometimes but they really refined their formula to the point that they managed to make 5E not a dogshit system>writing, story, actual sense of adventure and exploration2, BG3 feels too on wheels and everyone's noted the story is a bit too modern and faggy at times despite being pretty serviceable. They're both good games though
>>725996798for me it was the opposite, I can't really remember a single fight in BG2 that was actually dangerous, while BG3 got close on a few occasions
