is the story good in this?

[mademan2]

Iv had this game on my wishlist for a while now, I love cprgs but the fact that we have this predetermined sort of group without even a player character kinda puts me off, makes it hard for me to roleplay I suppose. That being said I play games as much for the stories as characters, so is the story a banger or is it mostly all about the gameplay?
Thanks.

[guard65]

imo: weak story / role play, more dungeon crawler / game play.

[mademan2]

Originally posted by guard65:

imo: weak story / role play, more dungeon crawler / game play.

Damn it, not what I wanted to hear :(
Any recommendations for a hidden crpg gem? Ideally a party based one. I feel like I played mostly everything out there thats even remotely modern and playable.

[Agony_Aunt]

Story is a bit like a homebrew campaign made by your mate. Just roll with it and enjoy it.

Unless you're the sort of person who tells their mate they suck at storytelling, then yeah, steer clear.

[Aimee]

The plot is good, but the pacing is realy bad because of travel, random encounters and traversal in cities to talk to the right people.
But there are a lot of workshop campaigns you can subscribe to, and some of those are praised by many players.

[Frostfeather]

The characters you control probably won't appeal to you either. They basically blankly stare with their ugly faces and their eyes open too wide while making one-liners loosely based on personality tags you select when you create them. They don't really have any kind of backstory or anything. Solasta is more about the combat than the story or characters.

Originally posted by mademan2:

Any recommendations for a hidden crpg gem? Ideally a party based one. I feel like I played mostly everything out there thats even remotely modern and playable.

I don't think there are any "hidden gem" CRPGs... you would have already found it and played it by now.

[DiceWrangler]

Don't buy the game for the official campaigns, buy it for the fan-created content which includes independent adventures and full campaigns. That said, there are some benefits to having access to the "Lost Valley" campaign, namely new subclasses. By "having access to", I mean that only the host of a multiplayer game needs the DLCs and anyone who joins their game automatically gains access to the host's DLCs for the duration of the session.

[ppaladin123]

Originally posted by mademan2:

Iv had this game on my wishlist for a while now, I love cprgs but the fact that we have this predetermined sort of group without even a player character kinda puts me off, makes it hard for me to roleplay I suppose. That being said I play games as much for the stories as characters, so is the story a banger or is it mostly all about the gameplay?
Thanks.

This game is essentially a toolkit for people to create their own campaigns and play them (multiplayer!) with their friends Unlike a lot of CRPGs, this one comes with a robust toolkit to make dungeons/campaigns. It features really awesome 3d combat (might be the first crpg I have ever seen that actually lets you fly) and a faithful recreation of tabletop 5e rules. If you get the expansions it includes all the classes. And modders have added a lot of feats/spells/subclasses.

The base game comes with a campaign that mostly feels like a a demo of what you can do with the dungeonmaker. It is servicable but nothing deep or interesting.

If you want a good story: try Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (or the previous game, Pathfinder: Kingmaker). Or Tyranny. Or Pillars of Eternity I and II.

[Aimee]

Originally posted by night4:

The characters you control probably won't appeal to you either. They basically blankly stare with their ugly faces and their eyes open too wide while making one-liners loosely based on personality tags you select when you create them. They don't really have any kind of backstory or anything. Solasta is more about the combat than the story or characters.

True the combat is by far the strongest point of this game.

The best player made campaign use worldbuilding and combat to tell a story.

[Abscondrel]

it could have been good. great even. there is a spark of brilliance right in the middle.
but alas, it has more holes than a 3 course country club complete with courtesans.

[Frostfeather]

Originally posted by Aimee:

True the combat is by far the strongest point of this game.

The best player made campaign use worldbuilding and combat to tell a story.

Yeah, you know it's funny - some of the user made campaigns draw me into the story more than any of the official campaigns even though the writing isn't necessarily 10/10. I think it's because I don't have the constant distraction of characters making "witty" remarks, nor the constant distraction of jumping and climbing and running and climbing and jumping and climbing...

[dr.rosenrosen]

weak story. hideous character models. railroading.

you don't play this game because it will fill you with deep thoughts and reflection. you play it because it is fun.

[Aldain]

Serviceable is where I'd put it.

It's a standard Macguffin plot with some snap-fit characters, not gonna blow anyone away, but not Tumblr Fanfiction levels of wanting to claw your own eyes out.

[Soteria]

Originally posted by mademan2:

Originally posted by guard65:

imo: weak story / role play, more dungeon crawler / game play.

Damn it, not what I wanted to hear :(
Any recommendations for a hidden crpg gem? Ideally a party based one. I feel like I played mostly everything out there thats even remotely modern and playable.

Pillars of Eternity, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect... if you don't mind dispensing with combat, Disco Elysium has a really good story. It's basically a visual novel with RPG elements. Octopath Traveler.

[mademan2]

Originally posted by DiceWrangler:

Don't buy the game for the official campaigns, buy it for the fan-created content which includes independent adventures and full campaigns. That said, there are some benefits to having access to the "Lost Valley" campaign, namely new subclasses. By "having access to", I mean that only the host of a multiplayer game needs the DLCs and anyone who joins their game automatically gains access to the host's DLCs for the duration of the session.

Oh so this serves as essentialy the creation engine kit does for Skyrim then? So there are lot of quality "mods"? Id give it a go if thats the case, coul you recommend some for me to look at?
Thanks.

[Count Leaves]

Sounds like Solasta does what Neverwinter Nights did 20 years ago – providing an easy to use editor? The official campaign is for example purposes only? This would be awesome and just what I am looking for at the moment.