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[–] radroot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Baldur's Gate. I've never played DnD so there was a bit of a learning curve. I rage quit after two hours, almost returned it. Three days later I fired it up again and haven't really stopped playing since.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Baldur's Gate was a special game. It's the only game my wife liked to play, and we couch-coopted it. We played the rest in the series together, full play through all of them, a couple of times. Never found that magic combo again, sadly, and to this day she laments that there are so few 3d isometric couch coop games.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, there's Baldur's Gate 3 now... should keep you entertained for the next 5 years πŸ˜ƒ

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm excited to try that. No couch co-op :-( Nobody makes those anymore.

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe not on console but you can couch co-op on PC.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The BG3 website doesn't mention couch coop; only online multiplayer. The Steam page for it says it's a single player game, with online/LAN coop. Where do you see that it has couch coop? It's frustrating that you have to buy it to find out it has that.

[–] Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Hey mate, both PC and PS5 have couch-coop (I own it on both). For the former, you need to plug in two controllers, and it'll just kinda work, and the latter has it in the "session settings".

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaking from experience is all. Plug in another controller and the screen splits and you can make a new character or choose a premade.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's great! Thanks for letting me know; it's crazy that it's not easily discoverable.

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That is surprising. Couch co-op is such a selling point! And it’s drop in/out!

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it isn't out on Xbox yet because they are struggling with couch co-op on series s

[–] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's a phenomenal game, probably the best I've played since Red Dead 2

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you liked the first two, have you tried Planescape Torment? Basically the same engine

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know about that one - it looks great! no couch co-op, sadly, so my wife won't be interested, but I think it looks great!

Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It has a great story, you're in for a ride!

I also realised that the Shadowrun games (Returns, Dragonfall, and Hong Kong) might scratch that itch - the setting is a cyberpunk/fantasy mashup, and the game play is similar isometric point and click until you get into combat when it becomes isometric turn based tactical. I was recommended to start with Dragonfall

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And now I’m 158 hours in and can’t bear the thought of finishing it now that combat has become sooooo monotonous.

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I've been playing bg1 on Android lately, anything you would go back and tell yourself if you could? I've basically been flying blind and struggling a bit lol