Yes it's 40k, but it's more like original sin in terms of gameplay kind of. Pretty good, nothing to be bummed about it if you don't play it at all though. Personal take.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

To clarify:

Rogue Trader is Owlcat, not Larian. They are also gods of CRPGs and tend to have really good dialogue and character writing. But Larian's thing is more the environmental systems whereas Owlcat tends to prefer to go REALLY hard on the core rulesets as well as the way branching narratives work.

If you like RT, check out Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous. It definitely appeals to those of us who grew up on 3(.5)e D&D (since that is basically Pathfinder) but a lot of people (self included) will regularly argue that it is in the running to be the best CRPG ever made. Yes, that includes Planescape.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also note that Owlcat's other Pathfinder game, Kingmaker, is absurdly punishing. Start with Wrath.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What? You aren't a fan of a mandatory minigame that can cause instant failures at any moment and is all but guaranteed to during the lead up to the penultimate dungeon (note: Fail states on that can and should be disabled)? Or are you talking about said penultimate dungeon being nothing but translucent enemies with mind control who respawn unless you do the exact opposite of every other battle in the game and rush in to take out their spawners?

In all fairness, you can trivialize a lot of the hell in Kingmaker just by metagaming and preparing for the endgame early. If you don't... yeah.

Whereas WOTR's ridiculously plentiful enemy type(s) are much less obnoxious (and very clearly telegraphed the entire game) and they got rid of said endless failstates.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Kingmaker also has the problem of every encounter being designed for a full party but not actually having access to a full party until late in Act 1, after many mandatory combat encounters. The RNG also seems to hate me.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Been a minute but I only remember that being bad for the fight

spoiler

against the hive of bug (?) thingies and the evil gnome

. But I ran a wizard MC so I had CC and light nuking down by then and my party was mostly handling positioning and meat shielding.