Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[AwesomeButton]

Huh: (timestamped to 18:05)



So there are voiced and lip synched lines? If the whole game will be with a voiced protagonist, I wonder how many voice sets they will have.

 

[neilsouth]

Horizon Dawn and my 2070 OC gives me around max of 75C with everything maxed out, but playing Baldurs Gate 3 and my temps are going way up to 90C even with 90% fan speed!

 

[Robber Baron]

So there are voiced and lip synched lines? If the whole game will be with a voiced protagonist, I wonder how many voice sets they will have.

If as much as DAI I will be content

 

[AwesomeButton]

My main complain is how claustrophobic the game is, the level design choice it inherited directly from DoS2. I mean you have a ship wreackage, an ancient ruin and a druid grove all in the 400 meter radius. And then they are like "you brought the goblins here", well no shit they live like 300 meters along the road. To think they dropped "you must gather your party", map travel, random map encounters and map locations in favour of this is really saddening. Then there's that "one map per" act dogshit philosophy.

Yes, this! I can't believe how imbeciles keep falling for the "we have great big maps" manipulation. Larian's big maps are rather linear things where you proceed from one corner into the center and then branch out to various other corners until you explore all, and move on. However there is hardly ever any reason to go back to an area you've been to.

Since we mentioned Larian's map design, it's worth reminding everyone that there is this poll: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/what-makes-a-baldurs-gate-to-you.132106/

55% - Travel a big non-linear open world
55% - A big multi-district city

I wonder how Larian's area design will satisfy these expectations, and if we aren't in for a massive wave of butthurt, but this time real butthurt.

 

[whydoibother]

Do Confuse and Charm work on enemies correctly? Enemies that I successfully confuse just get the confused status (not resisted), do the confused laugh ahhahaha and run towards my group, up a ladder, spring forward, climb the rope, and cleave my party while continuing to do the ahhahahahah confused sound effect.

 

[Catacombs]

The masses are eting this shit up.

What to do? Buckle down and use the funds to finish the damn game.

Anyone know why the gog version of this game which may or may not have been acquired via means metaphorically related to the practice of privateering is trying to install to my c drive when it's pointed at a different drive? Cuz my C drive is smol and the install process eats up like 10 15+ gb for why?

The GOG installer for each game let's you pick The drive. Are you not seeing that?

 

[Starwars]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

 

[smaug]

Several things about this rub me the wrong way. Judging from Gameplay:

Why does the Sword Coast look all of a sudden like a landstrip in the Mediterreneans with all the sparse flora and the cacti? Even the houses look like italian style villas. So this is supposed to be some south of Baldurs Gate. So where in the Realms is the starting chapter set? Is this Amn?

I hate Larians choice for map design. There is no sense for exploration, I can freely drag along everywhere on the map and see what's around the next corner. Also everything is crammed on one big map and there seems to be a lack of a plot beyond something something the Absolute and you are a True Soul aka Chosen One.

So far so bad.

Wrong thread.

 

[Robber Baron]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

Dragon Age: Original Sin

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Just a random thought, most of the mainstream players won't be able to smash those ladies because they will be playing as a good character, but both of the female companions are evil. So their approvement will constantly dropping and probably betray or leave PC.

Kind a troll move from Larian.

then again maybe they will play as evil character because their dice thinks they need to kill half of the random npc.

Are they evil though? Who knows. There are no alignments now, so I guess they’re whatever the plot needs them to be.

Regardless, I usually play a pretty evil bastard according to the game world. I don’t give a shit about the refugees in the Druid plot line and didn’t even want to lift a finger to prevent one of their kids from dying because frankly she was a criminal and she resisted arrest.

So needless to say, I’ve scored points with the half elf bitch and the noseless freak without even trying.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

So this should be the sword coast eh, some miles south of Baldurs Gate? Why does everything in Chapter 1 looks like it‘s set in the Mediterraneans with all that cacti and semi-italian villas?

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

Dragon Age meets turn-based Baldur’s Gate.

 

[Xamenos]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

Dragon Age meets turn-based Baldur’s Gate.

You mean Dragon Age meets D:OS2, wearing BG's skin after they flayed its corpse, right?

 

[Robber Baron]

Dragon Age meets turn-based Baldur’s Gate.

There's literally nothing from Baldur's Gate here. Hell, NPCs need to constantly remind the player there's a Baldur's Gate city nearby just so you wont forget it aint another Divinity

 

[Sergiu64]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

Dragon Age meets turn-based Baldur’s Gate.

Which part of Dragon Age? The deep roads in DA: O? Or is this more like DA: Inquisition? You guys need to be more specific.

 

[Robber Baron]

Which part of Dragon Age? The deep roads in DA: O? Or is this more like DA: Inquisition? You guys need to be more specific.

Party interactions from Origins plus DoS2 themed gameplay and maps

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

For those that think the true soul/absolute thing means you’re the chosen one:

Spoiler

no, it means you have a mindflayer tadpole in your head that hasn’t started eating your brain yet because the mindflayers likely have some kind of plan.

Also, I’m pretty sure that the tadpole transforms you a little bit more every time you use the illithid dialog options, so it’s effectively dark side points.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

Dragon Age meets turn-based Baldur’s Gate.

Which part of Dragon Age? The deep roads in DA: O? Or is this more like DA: Inquisition? You guys need to be more specific.

DA:O with pretty much zero trash mobs.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

It is Baldur's Gate in name only. Pretty much Divinity Age: Forgotten Realms Edition.

I'd say it is 80 percent DOS 2, 10 percent Dragon Age and 10 percent Baldur's Gate.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

Dragon Age meets turn-based Baldur’s Gate.

You mean Dragon Age meets D:OS2, wearing BG's skin after they flayed its corpse, right?

Nope.

D:OS2 is pretty much just a tech demo by comparison.

There are some environmental effects and spells, but the game doesn’t revolve around shooting explosive barrels.

The dialog isn’t ridiculous or always trying to be funny either.

The only big thing I’d say it really has in common with D:OS is that it’s turn-based. That’s really it. It plays completely different in almost every way.

 

[MajorMace]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

Dragon Age meets turn-based Baldur’s Gate.

Which part of Dragon Age? The deep roads in DA: O? Or is this more like DA: Inquisition? You guys need to be more specific.

DA:O with pretty much zero trash mobs.

I hereby apologize for wrongly tagging this as fake news and smearing lambchop's name. My bad.

 

[Xamenos]

So how about the feels? Does it feel like Baldur's Gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin 2: D&D edition?

Dragon Age meets turn-based Baldur’s Gate.

You mean Dragon Age meets D:OS2, wearing BG's skin after they flayed its corpse, right?

Nope.

D:OS2 is pretty much just a tech demo by comparison.

There are some environmental effects and spells, but the game doesn’t revolve around shooting explosive barrels.

The dialog isn’t ridiculous or always trying to be funny either.

The only big thing I’d say it really has in common with D:OS is that it’s turn-based. That’s really it. It plays completely different in almost every way.

And what would you say it has in common with Baldur's Gate? Other than the name, of course.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

And what would you say it has in common with Baldur's Gate? Other than the name, of course.

The fact that it’s D&D.

The fact that it’s set in and around Baldur’s Gate in the Forgotten Realms, in Faerun.

That you have a party and you get to chose who is/isn’t in it.

That it’s 3rd person.

Having some weird thing inside you that’s trying to transform you into something for someone else’s purposes, yet it also gives you special powers for the time being.

That it has romances and party interactions.

Care to explain what you’re butthurt about rather than ask passive aggressive questions? Are you even playing it?

If you wanted it to be a direct sequel to BG, there was never any chance of that, since 5e was mandatory and 5e is set over a hundred years after the events of BG.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

TIL baldur's Gate is third person.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

TIL baldur's Gate is third person.

Isometric is effectively 3rd person. Or at least that’s about the amount of effort I really care to put into defining the camera in this game.

I can’t say it’s isometric or even top down because the camera isn’t fixed.

It *can* be isometric then?

Split hairs like a faggot more why don’t you?