Intimidated by RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3? Larian designer says stop obsessing over the "full experience," because "you don't need that, you just need to roll with it"
"You fail? That's okay, that's also part of the story," says Anna Guxens
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It’s a lesson that took me roughly two acts of Baldur’s Gate 3 to learn. Shaking off this sort of perfectionism, the fear that I was having fun sub-optimally, while grappling with the nuances of Baldur’s Gate 3’s rules, and the exceptions to those rules, about drove me mad. The thing is, you’resupposedto screw up, and you physically cannot see it all in one playthrough. That’s the whole point.
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