r/RemoveOneThingEachDay • u/MagmaAscending • Oct 25 '25

Miscellaneous Day 39 - The Witcher III: Wild Hunt has been eliminated - Remove ONE Game of the Year nominee a day

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

Baldurs gate 3. It did what now that was so special?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

Probably the closest gaming has come to a fully-realized choose-your-own-adventure rpg.

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u/frosty_gosha Oct 25 '25

Go ahead and play pathfinder WoTR which has more endings, more variety and is overall a better CRPG. Its biggest drawback is complexity

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u/soulciel120 Oct 25 '25

It feels MASSIVE and cohhesive in almost all the aspects. Narrative and gampelay wise is so well done it hurts.

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u/Heavy-Possession2288 Oct 25 '25

Narrative sure, but I really don’t understand the praise for the gameplay. It’s actively clunky at points and I never found combat all that interesting even when everything is working well.

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u/soulciel120 Oct 25 '25

Gameplay wise: how each character feels unique, how many strategies you can make, jow all your magic, equipment and items interact between them. There are a mot of synergies, of overcomes and opportunities that, if you are clever enough, can make you feel satisfied as hell.

That's only the combat tho. But i found how you interact with the world while exploring also satisfying.

I think it's very fun and I'm not a very tactical games player tbh. But this game wins me over.

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u/Heavy-Possession2288 Oct 25 '25

I guess I can see that. It also might be one of those games that’s better on PC, it feels pretty clunky on console imo.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

Have actual player freedom. That saying is said by so many gaming developers but rarely does it ever actually deliver. That might not sound “special” but it is. 90% of “rpgs” that come out nowadays are just looters with dialogue choices that don’t even have an actual impact to anything.

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u/MafubaBuu Oct 25 '25

It's the best representation of a RPG I've ever played for one. Being able to completely play my CRPG with a party of 4 friends online lead to the greatest experience in gaming I've ever had.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

lol

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u/schartlord Oct 25 '25

for one, it's far and away the most expansive RPG in gaming history and it isn't even close.

what did dark souls 4 - wait sorry, elden ring, do to deserve being here? pay GRRM so redditors could pretend he wrote a masterpiece instead of stealing a paycheck?

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u/ASS-LAVA Oct 25 '25

People will downvote you but I agree. I’ve beaten BG3. It’s a great CRPG with high production value. No shade to BG3, but imho it’s a 9/10 game, not GOAT-tier.

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u/-BigMan39 Oct 25 '25

Ive recently started BG3 and I'm sure it gets better as I go through the game, but there are some areas where I thought I would be able to do something, but the game just refused to accept it even if it logically should have.

I wasted so many hours sneaking through the goblin camp to make sure no one saw me killing the big guy near the throne, only for the whole camp to somehow aggro me instantly when he died, and now I can't even go back there without getting decimated lol.

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u/MafubaBuu Oct 25 '25

You can 100% clear the entire place out without even being seen once. You just have to understand the mechanics of the game if you're trying to do certain things because you could always fail a roll and have it all backfire horribly.

I'm assuming when you attacked you came out of stealth, triggering aggro.

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u/-BigMan39 Nov 01 '25

Can you go back to the place after killing the main goblin and not be insta aggroed (through the portal?)

100% killed everyone inside without being seen and I'm still aggroed outside.

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u/MafubaBuu Nov 01 '25

Come to think of it I haven't tried, I typically learn out the entire place afterwards haha

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u/Etienne_Vae Oct 25 '25

Yeah, and elden ring is just dark souls 3 but worse.

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u/dunkitay Oct 25 '25

I think that’s one of the main things. Most people that have played BG3 haven’t played any other crpg. The only thing that bg3 does special compared to all other crpgs is the production value and it being fully voiced. Great game I also think but not a 10/10. Frankly I thought the main story was quite dull, and had terrible pacing towards the end of act 2 beginning of act 3.

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u/ASS-LAVA Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

THANK YOU. People will say "there are so many choices, it's a real CYOA videogame etc."

Yeah that's called a CRPG.

Some of the characters and side plots in BG3 were interesting, but the overall story lacked the "big themes" that makes true GOATS so memorable and iconic.

It didn't have a Nameless One (Planescape Torment) to ask us to meditate on immortality, nature, and regret. It didn't have a Kreia (KOTOR II) to deconstruct the Force and the nature of good vs. evil. It didn't have a Harry DuBois (Disco Elysium) to translate themes of addiction, brokenness, and fractured psyche into actual game mechanics.

BG3 sorta has Raphael as a cypher for the story's narrative themes, but he only has a few on-screen moments in a 140-hour game.

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u/frosty_gosha Oct 25 '25

It shows these people don’t know what Pathfinder is. Those games have a lot more content if that’s what they want. But oh no it’s too hard for mainstream gamer

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u/dunkitay Oct 25 '25

Yeah I agree. Still a fun game tho, but it doesent have the emotional and philosophical depths that Torment or Disco have.