It’s fundamentally impossible to create a videogame that truly recreates the full experience of playing DnD. Larian’s extraordinary Baldur’s Gate 3 comes closer than ever before; it can’t replicate DnD’s mutative, imaginative quality, but it mimics it shockingly well by interweaving tons of well written adventures for players to explore however they like. BG3 is so good, in fact, that it left me doubting if a CRPG could possibly capture D&D any better. Then I played Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and I realized - as Boromir once said - that there are "other paths we might take".
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