Got back into Wrath after completing Baldur's gate 3 and this absolutely slaps harder than BG3. The Pathfinder system is far superior to DnD 5E and the sheer scale of the story is incredible.
The Evil Lich path is the best Evil Path I've ever played. Dark Urge is like loony toons in front of how evil I can be as a Lich which is also the best Undead/Necromancer playthrough I've ever had in any game. And you can be even MORE evil in other Mythic Paths like Swarm.
The mythic paths is the best system in a CRPG ever. The game feels wildly different depending on your Mythic Path. I've not played all of them yet but the amount itself is very good.
The combat is very good. I still have no idea how it ultimately works and while I like the feeling of uncertainty and freshness, many people might not like it. It's definitely far more complicated than 5E. The sheer amounts of Classes, Subclasses and abilities is also unparalleled. The easy switch between Turn based and realtime combat is pretty good when fighting hordes of trash mobs. I prefer Turn based myself but Realtime is very useful time to time.
You can definitely make mistakes with character creation and it's also more 'difficult' to respec characters compared to BG3 since they can only be respecced from the level they met you at.
The story is amazing. Imo it's better than the story of Baldur's gate 3. The characters are not as developed as Origin Characters in BG3 however which is somewhat of a downside. Also there is no full VA so reading is required and the writing is pretty good imo so it won't bore you.
The game definitely has pacing problems at multiple points through out the story. Enemy padding also gets really really bad by the end.
If you liked Baldur's gate 3 or any other CRPG, play this because it's superior.
I would entirely agree with this if I wasn't playing Rogue Trader right now, and I think Owlcat have outdone themselves. I am enjoying RT more than even Wrath of the Righteous, which was already one of the best CRPGs I have played.
I enjoyed what I played of Rogue Trader, but ended up running into a bug that always froze the game during a certain boss fight, which basically killed my playthrough. This was awhile ago though, so Owlcat might have already patched it.
I hear you on that. I haven't had a crashing bug that stopped me completely, but I've never had a game crash as much as Rogue Trader does. But, in some way I almost appreciate that because it stops me from playing a bit. It's the type of game I could really get sucked into and the crash pulls me out and lets me to other things with my 'me' time of the day. But maybe it just shouldn't crash and I should have more self discipline haha
WotR and Kingmaker were buggy as hell on release too, they gave them lots of later attention to get them to the current state. Kingmaker only had turn based mode through a mod until Owlcat bought the code from the developer.
Oh, wow. I knew WotR and Kingmaker were very buggy too, but I didn't realize the turn based mode was a mod! Wild. Especially since Rogue Trader only really has turn based.
I love RT because the 40K lore is so good but combat is more fun in Wrath. The story is also more purposeful in Wrath compared to RT.
Definitely have to turn on fast animations for combat in RT because so many character's turns are just recasting buffs. Also I do miss the "real time" combat setting from Wrath when you knew you could just bulldoze something and didn't want to have to do a full turn based thing.
If only that wasn't based on pathfinder it would be best crpg ever. Well, incredible amount of bugs and severe lack of QoL in certain places also stink.
I am happy that, for the most part, the computer handles the Pathfinder crunch, but I agree it is a bit much. I even have GM'd Shadowrun tables for like a decade now and find Pathfinder to be too much crunch haha