Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Fedora Master]

The way the game forces companions on you is pretty cringe.
Wyll and Karlach go from "GRRR IMMA KILL U" to "Sowwy best buds now" in one conversation. Come the fuck on.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

It's sad when people can't recognize gems like D:OS 2 for what they are because of nostalgia glasses. Baldurs Gate 1&2 had way less C&C and reactivity than D:OS 2, not to mention worse combat. They were good games, but far from perfect.

I'll concede that BGs story is superior though, no doubt. Although D:OS 2 has its moments.

I'll agree with the general idea that the Codex is way too negative on new stuff just to be cool/hipsters, but good lord. I'd rather replay BG2 a hundred times than go through Div:OS2 again. I liked it at first but it turned into a horrible slog, fine for a single playthrough but now I can't even get through the prologue. The combats take way too long and consist of blanketing every area in firey smoke lightning water, the writing is unreadable word vomit, the characters are hideous, the world is tiny and has no sense of coherence, and I don't even remember the story it was so boring.

I replayed BG2 just a bit ago and it was still as good as ever. Still, I bet if you comb through archives you'll find plenty of people here saying BG1/2 were casual decline compared to Wizard's Crown or whatever.

 

[Alienman]

The swearing is a bit off-putting by that Karlach chick, and I just met her. Think I only heard "shit" once in the first 10 hours, now I have heard every swear word on earth (faerun?).

 

[turkishronin]

600K peak player count? Seriously?

 

[OttoQuitmarck]

It's sad when people can't recognize gems like D:OS 2 for what they are because of nostalgia glasses. Baldurs Gate 1&2 had way less C&C and reactivity than D:OS 2, not to mention worse combat. They were good games, but far from perfect.

I'll concede that BGs story is superior though, no doubt. Although D:OS 2 has its moments.

I'll agree with the general idea that the Codex is way too negative on new stuff just to be cool/hipsters, but good lord. I'd rather replay BG2 a hundred times than go through Div:OS2 again. I liked it at first but it turned into a horrible slog, fine for a single playthrough but now I can't even get through the prologue. The combats take way too long and consist of blanketing every area in firey smoke lightning water, the writing is unreadable word vomit, the characters are hideous, the world is tiny and has no sense of coherence, and I don't even remember the story it was so boring.

I replayed BG2 just a bit ago and it was still as good as ever. Still, I bet if you comb through archives you'll find plenty of people here saying BG1/2 were casual decline compared to Wizard's Crown or whatever.

BG2 made the mistake of popularizing companion romance degeneracy in RPGs. I will never forgive it for that.

 

[gurugeorge]

After eight hours of playing:

+Good combat
+ Many ways to reach places
+Allowing to set custom class markers
+I like the look of the game environments. Divinity OS2 on steroids
+Lots of secrets

-UI looks like MMO junk
-Companion writing has been worse than previous Larian games
-I son't really care much about characters
-Lacks D&D feel/mood
-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.

Good encapsulation. Yeah this is pretty much how I'm seeing it now, after having good initial first impressions then absolutely hating the stupid luxury camp and Larian constantly pushing you into some kind of globohomogayplex mass orgy in the camp dialogues; now after playing some more I'm warming to it again.

Whatever else you might say about the game, the exploration and combat are good. Bumping up to Tactician also hits a sweet spot - it could stand with being a bit more difficult even than that, but at least Tactician does force you to occasionally look at all your options and problem-solve.

I'd even be slightly more positive about the characters than you - as someone said above, say with Astarion, you think you're going to hate him, and you do at first, but then he kind of grows on you as a complex personality. On the other hand Shadowtits is as dull as dishwater. And so on and so forth.

It's a game of two halves really, there's a decent-enough exploration and combat game, with mostly dull-to-average, but occasionally surprisingly good writing, characterization and voice acting, and then there's like this woketard Loverslab Lite trash tangled up with it. Reactivity is also inconsistent - again, sometimes it surprises you in interesting ways, but a lot of the time the vaunted reactivity is AWOL. It's a bit of a roller-coaster experience.

I'd also agree with what you say about it not feeling like D&D, and what someone else said above: it never really feels like a Baldur's Gate game, it's still relentlessly Larianesque throughout (and too influenced by late-stage BioWare as well). It only has a faint dusting of D&D, mainly just because there are so many fucking Tieflings floating about (I guess because modern degenerates find Tieflings schmexy or something).

 

[Alienman]

By the way, what do guys think of the difficulty in tactician mode? Some fights go well for me, but most end up in wtf-just-happened land. Often something explodes, or some random crit gets someone out of the blue. Often from archers. My mage is a pin-cushion in battles it seems. Also, all those "X-com" misses. Miss Miss Miss *puts a gun in mouth*... MISS. Or I just get stuck on everything. Mud, acid, webbing. If my warrior gets anywhere, it's by jumping, lol.

But I prefer it being a challenge than breezing through the fights at least. Having to actually think about buffs and potions. Are you finding it easy, too hard, or just hard enough?

 

[Arbiter]

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

How is the combat compared to Solasta's ? Also, are the feats better than in that game?

Combat in BG3 is similar to Solasta but much clunkier. This might be largely due to the poor user interface, supplemented by the lack of a combat grid. AI is probably worse, as well.

The graphix are great and the facial expressions are especially noteworthy, because in a Bioware game it would look retarded and derpy as fuck.

the facial expressions are pretty impressive have to admit

There seem to be a number of derpy expressions placed on the player-character even a short while into the game. We had an earlier discussion about the impressive character appearance customization in Dragon's Dogma, which had the unfortunate side effect of resulting in expressions that were frequently derpy, but BG3 doesn't seem much better in this regard despite the lack of facial customization and despite being released 11 years and two console systems later.

- Companions suck. At least first few of them are fucking terrible. Getting rid of them is not that easy, especially if the only logical outcome(Dark Urge) should be potential companion death and my options end up on on being mean.

You can dismiss a companion from your party and kill them in camp, which is how my paladin put Wyll out of his misery, following the demonic episode. Even before that, the game gives you options to kill both Astarion (died on the first attack, from my paladin PC) and githyanki girl (my paladin also placed the killing blow) in regular combat upon meeting them; also the meeting with Karlach had a dialogue option that must have resulted in combat, though I recruited her instead.

 

[OttoQuitmarck]

After eight hours of playing:

+Good combat
+ Many ways to reach places
+Allowing to set custom class markers
+I like the look of the game environments. Divinity OS2 on steroids
+Lots of secrets

-UI looks like MMO junk
-Companion writing has been worse than previous Larian games
-I son't really care much about characters
-Lacks D&D feel/mood
-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.

100% agreed. I would like to add though that the game has very good reactivity. Seems like for every class there's a lot of unique dialogue options that lead to different outcomes. And different outcomes based on skill checks etc. There's also some race and traits based reactivity here and there.

Also it lacks a bit in terms of truly unique loot. Haven't found any cursed items or whacky magical items yet. Maybe that'll come later in the game though.

 

[Cohesion]

Of those 472k people, at least 300k will never finish Act 1

More like 400



Also lol that shit is out. Shame....that i am too tired from harlots and white thus i will sleep the next few days and won't play Baldur's gape 3 ,the biggest gay game out there. Heard that in between the main game mechanics of the game aka gay sex,you could also fight. Weird

Shame, I was really interested in fanta's takes on the game, but it's too large for him to pirate, and too demanding to play.

So now all he will talk about will be gay shit.

Watching download bar not moving is the real game. Remember, it's that experience. It takes 3-5 days with modern big games... And then... Then you play for 3 hours.
But is it good, is it bad, or is it just combat with under baked story?

Slow internet notwithstanding, you can easily download this illegally at full speed, available for everyone. But I'm not allowed to say where because forum rules

I am downloading it lol. Just too much white and sluts for me to play it. Decided to spend the summer at the beach lol.

White as in cocaine? What white are you talking about lol?

Also, camera is really bad, nwn vibes.

 

[Raghar]

Sun?

 

[Mojobeard]

Patch broke my game completely.
I thought this was Larian, not Owlcat.

 

[Raghar]

Patch broke my game completely.
I thought this was Larian, not Owlcat.

You know what we are saying:

1. Never preorder.
2. Avoid early untested patches.
3. If developer used three sexes during character creation, scream loudly at developer.

 

[gurugeorge]

By the way, what do guys think of the difficulty in tactician mode? Some fights go well for me, but most end up in wtf-just-happened land. Often something explodes, or some random crit gets someone out of the blue. Often from archers. My mage is a pin-cushion in battles it seems. Also, all those "X-com" misses. Miss Miss Miss *puts a gun in mouth*... MISS. Or I just get stuck on everything. Mud, acid, webbing. If my warrior gets anywhere, it's by jumping, lol.

But I prefer it being a challenge than breezing through the fights at least. Having to actually think about buffs and potions. Are you finding it easy, too hard, or just hard enough?

It's where "hard" would have been in good past games, I think. You can't faceroll it, but it's not like you have to squeeze out every +1 mug of ale you can possibly find.

 

[vitellus]

Having to actually think about buffs and potions

my hangup is, and has always been, when it comes to buffing and pots a good encounter design (on a normal difficulty) should let me walk in buffless and unprepared and through the knowledge of the class build i have set and by using smart tactics either be able to win that fight buffing in combat and sacrificing a turn all the while with judicious usage of pots. i absolutely think having to save scum after the first run through a fight to even be able to win so you can pre-buff properly for a fight your characters should have no foreknowledge of is dog shit. this is why i hated serpent in the staglands because every fight was this.

bad game design is making me run around recasting expiry buffs so i am not caught unawares and get donkey fucked because i don't quicksave a lot.

 

[Raghar]

Folks, since when DnD spell grease can be put on fire by a simple fire cantrip?

 

[Alienman]

Patch broke my game completely.
I thought this was Larian, not Owlcat.

What happened?

 

[Mojobeard]

Patch broke my game completely.
I thought this was Larian, not Owlcat.

What happened?

Reboot fixed it. I guess. It didn't start at all.
Now it's working, I hope.

 

[Frozen]

Just watched some streamer and omg this game is so fucking ugly. You have people with Napoleon era hats and cowboy hats at the same time in forgotten realms lmfao

Voice acting is cringe same as the story, its like written for retards. Zero atmosphere and art design is pure trash. A Korean MMO is classy compared to this. Must be designed by pink haired woman.

Good thing about true BG games was that you can't make an ugly pixel even if you tried.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

(it's labeled as spoilers but it's from the first 10 minutes of the game)

If you have AMD gpu- use Vulkan version, not dx11. Gave me 12 FPS without any setting changes.

Apparently this is what caused the massive performance problems I had playing co-op.

 

[Larianshill]

I fucking hate le stealth sections. Hey, fucker, how about you deal with our genius crime and stealth systems? What are you saying? Your party is not built for that? Too fucking bad. Have fun killing scrying eyes and dealing with magical psychic guards.

 

[Mojobeard]

No wait, now the sound mix is weird. Can't hear what people are saying, it's like playing a Bethesda game without Windows' "Loudness Equalization".
I wish Steam had a feature where you could skip patches.

 

[Forest Dweller]

 

[AwesomeButton]

Folks, since when DnD spell grease can be put on fire by a simple fire cantrip?

Combat in the Old Chapel can be trivialized by casting a fire cantrip as well.

I am getting slightly miffed.
Perception Check Success- Okay, cool for WHAT?
Also the freeform approach to adventuring means Ive mostly been running around aimlessly trying to find things I can actually solve, of which there aren't many.

Here is something you can solve - find a scroll of remove paralysis. I've been looking and I can't find one, and it's needed for a little sidequest.