All I want from a modern Dungeons & Dragons video game is a virtual approximation of the tabletop role-playing game. We already have hack-and-slash games, we already have dungeon crawlers, that road has been well-tread. I want a god damn D&D game; a sprawling, epic campaign with plenty of dialogue and a veritable spreadsheet of numbers hovering over me like a mathemagical Sword of Damocles.
So, hey, good news. Pathfinder: Kingmaker might not be an exact 5e Dungeons and Dragons video game, but it's close – it's a Pathfinder video game. You know Pathfinder, that old standby of tabletop fans who never really let go of D&D 3.5. Pathfinder is to D&D what ARMA was to Call of Duty, in video game terms.
But while D&D is out here remastering old video games and enjoying the tabletop renaissance, Pathfinder is going after the interactive entertainment market while the CRPG iron is hot. Kingmaker plays fine, and it has many of the underlying systems I'd want from a tabletop adaptation, I just don't know if the full game will be able to hang with actual Pathfinder or the other Kickstarted CRPGs floating around.
via destructoid http://ift.tt/2sg84zF