Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Mojobeard]

So I click half-elf, make her cast Guidance, then click fifteen times to get back to my character.
Fuck, Larian. You click a guy, you go to that guy.

 

[Shaki]

11th all time and still climbing. I didn't think it was possible for CRPGs to sell this well.

Were you in a coma for the last decade? Witcher 3 is still one of the best selling PC games of all time. All the Bioware titles which BG3 is based on, also always did great, probably hitting similar numbers but they won't be included in steam stats since they used to only be available on Origin. This isn't really anything new for this type of RPG.

 

[Raghar]

-I son't really care much about characters
-Lacks D&D feel/mood

That's bad.

-You can hear reused samples from the DOS osts. I'm a fan of those, but this is BG

Overall, I like exploration and combat, writing is meh. Too early to say anything about itemization, haven't gotten much yet. I'm now at level 3, doing stuff in the dungeon below the ruins.

Well, writing was average in BG, I wonder how they managed to go to the meh area.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

I hope that now everyone can see why I've defended the game for so long (despite the trannyism).

The RPG elements are very solid. Reactions within reactions.

The ruleset is, of course, garbage, but it's 5E, so it's not like we could expect much.

 

[Avarize]

11th all time and still climbing. I didn't think it was possible for CRPGs to sell this well.

Were you in a coma for the last decade? Witcher 3 is still one of the best selling PC games of all time. All the Bioware titles which BG3 is based on, also always did great, probably hitting similar numbers but they won't be included in steam stats since they used to only be available on Origin. This isn't really anything new for this type of RPG.

Are you really comparing Witcher 3 to isometrics?

 

[antimeridian]

11th all time and still climbing. I didn't think it was possible for CRPGs to sell this well.

Were you in a coma for the last decade? Witcher 3 is still one of the best selling PC games of all time. All the Bioware titles which BG3 is based on, also always did great, probably hitting similar numbers but they won't be included in steam stats since they used to only be available on Origin. This isn't really anything new for this type of RPG.

"Witcher 3" "CRPG" lol, lmao even

BioWare games might sell big but Mass Effect is a third person action game with RPG elements (like Witcher 3), and I'm not sure DA ever sold as big as Mass Effect (could be wrong??). One thing's for sure, clearly your RPG needs to reach BioWare levels of cringe to pull numbers this big.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

All of you have been making fun of Astarion as the flaming gaylord he is, but I don't think you've been noticing he was always a vampire. A disease carried through one's blood.
What did they mean by this?

 

[Shaki]

11th all time and still climbing. I didn't think it was possible for CRPGs to sell this well.

Were you in a coma for the last decade? Witcher 3 is still one of the best selling PC games of all time. All the Bioware titles which BG3 is based on, also always did great, probably hitting similar numbers but they won't be included in steam stats since they used to only be available on Origin. This isn't really anything new for this type of RPG.

"Witcher 3" "CRPG" lol, lmao even

I want to remind you that Codex voted an action-adventure slasher as a best cRPG last year

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

-Companion writing has been worse than previous Larian games
-I son't really care much about characters

Less likeable than previous games maybe, but I think their writing is better than most Larian schlock.

Each of the characters is basically a typical D&D example of their race/class, but with a twist.

The only negative about them is that several of them are jerks, at least when you first meet them. (Though Gale seems to have been rewritten to be more flattering less of a douchebag, and Wyll seems to have been rewritten into less of a dumbass and more of a Mary Sue.)

 

[Larianshill]

What the fuck, why isn't this a part of the Shield Master feat

 

[Jenkem]

everyone who is playing this will transition before the end of the decade.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

everyone who is playing this will transition before the end of the decade.

If by that you mean transition into a fan of turn based, c&c-filled rpgs, then yes, you are right. I do hope so.

I just noticed your companions do realize and worry that Astarion is a vampire. I love this game, but I already knew I would.

 

[Volrath]

There.are.so.many.skill.checks

Just passed PALADIN JUSTICE™ in the Druid grove

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

lot of retards think they can tell the difference between 60 and 100 frams per second..you cant fat ass, you also wear glasses fatso

Spotted the 50 IQ mongrel. Try playing CSGO or any other arcade FPS locked to 60, it feels like a fucking slideshow compared to 100+, and that's not even touching on reduced input lag from higher framerate. Just because you're an eyelet, doesn't mean others are.

You're right that something like BG3 is perfectly playable at 60, but you're still a retard.

WTF is CSGO? is that like fortnite or some crap? BG3 is my first foray into gay zoomer shit, so I don't speak whatever language it is you are babbling on in...

 

[Endemic]

Met Raphael. Again, the presentation is top-notch. Even I can't fault them there.

The voice acting is generally good for key characters, but Raphael’s actor and especially the sound mixer really killed it. Good stuff

Probably outsourced to a casting agency in the UK like Side.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I can confirm there is split screen for PC, in case you want to play with your wives, girlfriends or gay lovers.

But in a super boneheaded move, the only way I got it to work was plugging in two controllers and creating a LAN session.

Maybe it tricks the PC version into thinking it's a console.

Yes, I've been already ranting about this, though posts get buried quickly.

Only two controllers, no controller + M&KB option, like it already was in D:OS2

And most horrendously - no uniting of the split screen when the two characters are standing close enough to each other, like it already fucking was in D:OS2

Can you at least use two monitors separately or will we have to wait for a Nucleus Coop fix?

I have a second display, but I'm too lazy to play around with it, and even if it works, I don't have where to place it.

You can just press buttons of the partner’s controller during character creation in single player- second player will pop in D:OS style.

Yeah, my gripe is that it has to be two controllers, can't go with one controller and mouse-keyboard for the other player.

11th all time and still climbing. I didn't think it was possible for CRPGs to sell this well.

Were you in a coma for the last decade? Witcher 3 is still one of the best selling PC games of all time. All the Bioware titles which BG3 is based on, also always did great, probably hitting similar numbers but they won't be included in steam stats since they used to only be available on Origin. This isn't really anything new for this type of RPG.

Witcher 3 is an action RPG, duh.

 

[Kiste]

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Looks like your average troon.

You don't even get a scroll bar in the options menus, just mousewheel. The local BG3 simps are a sight to behold, fucking Console Peasant Codex right here.

There is a scrollbar. It's on the left side of the screen. Blind fuck.

 

[Mojobeard]

Thiefling barbarian giantess mommy is working pretty well, I'm surprised.
Am I failing skill checks? Yeah, but they're mostly flavor, and there's enough "be dumbass with big muscles" to compensate. Something like Warlock or Ranger or whatever would definitely be better, but this is enough and straightforward.

Still not a fan of inspiration, people pick skills they need from the backgrounds, so half the playerbase is probably Guild Artisans.

 

[vitellus]

let iolo fuck you up in camp. hilarity ensues and you get something out of it

 

[Shaki]

Witcher 3 is an action RPG, duh.

That's pretty irrelevant tho, whether it's DA:O rtwp, or Mass Effect fps, or Witcher 3 slasher or BG3 turn based, no one plays these games for combat, and outside of combat they all have the same selling points that make normie crowd like them. Witcher 3 spices it up a little by having your "companions" not travel with you in a party, but instead be more involved in the narrative and offer more quests, but otherwise they're pretty much the different flavours of the same core experience. 99% of people liking one of these games, will also like others.

Same way you can say PST and Disco Elysium are pretty much the same type of game, and most of storyfags who liked one will also like the other, even tho the difference in combat here is even bigger, eg. one of the games don't even have it. But it's not important, since no one cared about PST combat anyway.

Actually I think you could take the typical Bioware-like RPG, and also remove combat completely, just replace it with the Mass Effect style QTE where you press a rightclick in a cutscene and pew pew the bad guy like a badass, and I doubt it would make any difference for the normie gamers, they would lap it up like Witcher, DA, ME, BG3.

It might make a difference for some Codexers and other niche audiences, but the main consumer of these games absolutely won't care.

 

[Takamori]

So I started the game on balanced and at the same time I didn't really like human racials they are complete dogshit, so I'm rerolling on tactician and seeing this game in theory at its fullest.

Now I'm creating another character started wondering if the single asian face is that chinese man guy that I even made a joke He man out of it.
But it seems like there is other asian faces and japanese profile people are half elves they decided to separate ethnicity per race. Like if you are just going face scan people just make it global in theory they are not adding any creative artwork in the different races. Larian seems to imply something else here

 

[Kiste]

WTF is CSGO? is that like fortnite or some crap? BG3 is my first foray into gay zoomer shit, so I don't speak whatever language it is you are babbling on in...

Hello, fellow Boomer. CSGO is like Quakeworld but with terrorists and no rocket jumps.

 

[Fedora Master]

Met Raphael. Again, the presentation is top-notch. Even I can't fault them there.

The voice acting is generally good for key characters, but Raphael’s actor and especially the sound mixer really killed it. Good stuff

Probably outsourced to a casting agency in the UK like Side.

I believe I recognize some of the voices from Black Library productions. Minthara especially.

 

[Takamori]

Holy shit Handsome squidward is in the game

 

[Elthosian]

I can confirm there is split screen for PC, in case you want to play with your wives, girlfriends or gay lovers.

But in a super boneheaded move, the only way I got it to work was plugging in two controllers and creating a LAN session.

Maybe it tricks the PC version into thinking it's a console.

Yes, I've been already ranting about this, though posts get buried quickly.

Only two controllers, no controller + M&KB option, like it already was in D:OS2

And most horrendously - no uniting of the split screen when the two characters are standing close enough to each other, like it already fucking was in D:OS2

Can you at least use two monitors separately or will we have to wait for a Nucleus Coop fix?

I have a second display, but I'm too lazy to play around with it, and even if it works, I don't have where to place it.

Similar situation here. I've got two monitors but my current layout doesn't work for two people playing. Have to find the time to set it up more properly.