Caves of Qud, Ancient Domains of Mystery, Tales of Maj’Eyal, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, and Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode are all examples of modern games that meet the definition of a “traditional roguelike” - which is the term Steam uses to categorise games that are actually like Rogue, as opposed to games that just have permadeath and procgen.

However, dorks like the guy who wrote this article need to understand that language evolves. Roguelike doesn’t mean the same thing today as it did 30 years ago. There’s no problem whatsoever with games like Slay the Spire, Dead Souls and FTL being called roguelikes - you can see in an instant that these games don’t meet the definition of the traditional roguelike. The claim that this terminology is confusing or frustrating is just not true.

The main theme does the same for me, those opening bars are just pure bliss to me

Looks good, basically the same gameplay as the first game but with updated graphics - which is exactly what I’m after. I like that you can stand on enemies instead of falling through them. The spell effects look really good, and I liked seeing an armoured caster.

Yeah they always ask “Why won’t people pay $100 for our video game?” and not “How about we DON’T spend $100,000,000 making ONE video game?”

Anyone know if enemies trigger traps in BG3? Something I see in other CRPGs (Pathfinder and Rogue Trader, specifically) is that enemies will walk right through traps without setting them off. It’s particularly frustrating if you learn this only after you’ve spotted a trap and then you try to lead the enemies into it and it doesn’t affect them.

How shitty do you need to be to make your workers complete a ton of work on a project and then only credit the executives who didn’t even do the actual work? Altagram is run by garbage people.

As others have said, it’s pronounced “kud”. The name for the in-game plant qudzu, is based on a real life plant called kudzu.

My favourite run was when I took the mutation that gives a tiny chance of my evil twin appearing. Literally the turn that I started the game in Joppa, my twin appeared and killed me. They acted before I even got the chance to take my first turn, so from my perspective I just loaded in and instantly died.

Larian stated at the beginning that they deliberately set the early access at full price to try and discourage too many people from buying it. They wanted to try and keep the early access relatively small, and they wanted the people who did buy the early access to be the more passionate fans who would be more likely to provide feedback. That plan backfired because a shitload of people still bought it at full price anyway, but apparently that was their original intention.

There was also several people at the studios who confirmed to the press that the studios were planning to, quote, “allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.” These people are scum.