Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[TempleOfArcanumBloodlines]

i don't mind the rp style dialogue but the past tense feels weird

why wouldn't it be like "I don't trust this man, I draw my weapon" or "Ask where he appeared from"

the way it is makes it sound like you're recounting a story after the fact

 

[Jimmious]

There is almost no way they are going to make back their budget with a TB RPG.

did you just fall asleep during D:OS2?

He is the definition of pessimism

 

[Salvo]

When does this D:OS2 expansion release?

 

[Desolate Dancer]

I can see the writing is going to be god awful. How can they hire so many people and spend this much money and have it be so bad? Its like they have a certain shit filter they just apply over their writing. Its sort of incredible.

You cannot buy soul... people tend to forget the circumstances and the zeitgeist in which the original BG was created. You cannot reproduce something like that artificially.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Well, at least Owlcats could sleep peacefully now. No competition on IE cloning field for them now - after Obsidian and Larian both went out of the subgenre.

I actually think that realms beyond might be pretty good. But I don't know if it will have an legs. I hope so.

 

[Shadenuat]

So even if you don't completely hate the look there are other things to hate.

But even more things to love. It's basically the perfect recipe: D:OS without all the retarded systems from Larian but with DnD ruleset

5th is kinda streamlined, and what do we know about larian adapting it and in what way?

 

[Lacrymas]

did you just fall asleep during D:OS2?

...they didn't have 350 people working on D:OS2. We've been over this.

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

Hopefully these are placeholders, not even going to touch the game if this retardness is still what we are getting for dialogue choices. Fckn Wankers!

The first screenshot even looks like it's from DOS what a pos. I was hoping the game would look like Pillars of Eternity, whatever fault that game had it looked good.

Fckn Lazy Ass Larian reusing fckn assets. After that bullshit video about how only LArian was good enough for Baldur's Gate 3 what they give us is a fckn asset-code/flip game. Wankers!

 

[Jimmious]

So even if you don't completely hate the look there are other things to hate.

But even more things to love. It's basically the perfect recipe: D:OS without all the retarded systems from Larian but with DnD ruleset

5th is kinda streamlined, and what do we know about larian adapting it and in what way?

Yeah this is what I'm waiting to see. But anyway D:OS 2 was not far from awesome, it basically fucked itself up with all the retardo decisions like armor, initiative and loot system. I'm just HOPING that with the given ruleset these issues will not carry over.
I already see that there is no "magical armor" bullshit and that HP are not 92334234 but logical small numbers

 

[Lacrymas]

This is what we are getting for dialogue choices, the same as D:OS2. The graphics look like DA:I btw.

 

[Q]

TB is the way!
I'm hyped already

 

[NJClaw]

Well, at least Owlcats could sleep peacefully now. No competition on IE cloning field for them now - after Obsidian and Larian both went out of the subgenre.

How can you forget the almighty, all powerful and omnipotent Beamdog?

 

[Daidre]

Well, at least Owlcats could sleep peacefully now. No competition on IE cloning field for them now - after Obsidian and Larian both went out of the subgenre.

I actually think that realms beyond might be pretty good. But I don't know if it will have an legs. I hope so.

I would not qualify Realms Beyond as IE clone but still hope for decent-to-good game with TB combat based on best version of D&D.
...Unlike BG3.

 

[Orma]

Well, at least Owlcats could sleep peacefully now. No competitoin on IE cloning field for them now - after Obsidian and Larian both went out of the subgenre.

Love how codex larps that people outside of it even know owlcat exists, let alone competing with larian

 

[Shadenuat]

So even if you don't completely hate the look there are other things to hate.

But even more things to love. It's basically the perfect recipe: D:OS without all the retarded systems from Larian but with DnD ruleset

5th is kinda streamlined, and what do we know about larian adapting it and in what way?

Yeah this is what I'm waiting to see. But anyway D:OS 2 was not far from awesome, it basically fucked itself up with all the retardo decisions like armor, initiative and loot syste

and dialogue and companions and story and choices and world sliced into mmo pie and

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

I can see the writing is going to be god awful. How can they hire so many people and spend this much money and have it be so bad? Its like they have a certain shit filter they just apply over their writing. Its sort of incredible.

You cannot buy soul... people tend to forget the circumstances and the zeitgeist in which the original BG was created. You cannot reproduce something like that artificially.

but there are many decent writers, what happens if they write decent stuff at larian? Does swen come in and say "NO! that is way too complicated and highbrow! put more asterisks'! and change the tense! and make only one line of thought! Throw in some food and body humor!" How does this happen to so many people? These people are educated?

 

[Tytus]

This is what we are getting for dialogue choices, the same as D:OS2. The graphics look like DA:I btw.

Yeah DA:I fused with Original Sin 2. I think I puked a little.
But dialogue options suggest we will have a silent protagonist. And if I'm correct - it's a feature I like. You can actually save a lot of money this way, and put it into something more important.

 

[Daidre]

Well, at least Owlcats could sleep peacefully now. No competitoin on IE cloning field for them now - after Obsidian and Larian both went out of the subgenre.

Love how codex larps that people outside of it even know owlcat exists, let alone competing with larian

Love how you think that any competition is about money, fame and copies sold. Especially on Codex.

EDIT: I do not know what citation is expected of me, but I always thought it is all about reaching for unachievable dream of the true incline.

 

[Jimmious]

and dialogue and companions and story and choices and world sliced into mmo pie and

All these were good enough for me IF the gameplay was without all the aforementioned bullshit

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

I regret ever shit talking Sawyer. Villains always become worse and the steaks always become higher.

Joshua is still an omega-level autist, and self-absorbed, and tasteless no doubt about that, but yes... his crap at least managed to follow some clues, and keep the apparent form and frame of its supposed spiritual master, at least superficially.

This new guy though... nope, they're not even trying. They literally just bank on the IP, and refurbish their own engine/game with 5e ruleset. That's about it.

I agree with this. I don't like joshs home brew system he did with PoE, but I think if he was forced to make an AD&D game he would do a much better job. I actually think he is very talented at making an artistic good looking game. All his games have looked professional and artistic and even beautiful. I just wish he had not gone off and designed his own gaming system for PoE. But Icewind Dale and IWD II and both pillars games were extremely good looking and well put together games, even more so than BG. I think he would design a much better game than Larian honestly given the same challenge and the same constraints, if he were willing to do it and work within the AD&D rules system.

 

[Grotesque]

I am also very happy to not see a bullshit armor bar

But that's what BA stands for in those screenshots

Bullshit
Armour

people tend to forget the circumstances and the zeitgeist in which the original BG was created.

Or people never knew about them in the first place so that's why it would be appreciated if you may be bothered to enlighten us.

 

[Desolate Dancer]

Does swen come in and say "NO! that is way too complicated and highbrow! put more asterisks'! and change the tense! and make only one line of thought! Throw in some food and body humor!"

Actually, I can totally imagine him doing that.

 

[mibbles]

Githyanki waifu 0/5
Dialogue asteriks 0/5
Turn-based 5/5

Otherwise ambivalent.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

hey literally just bank on the IP,

More like WotC is trying to bank on the Larian name lmao
what was the last D&D-branded game that didn't sell like shit?

 

[Lacrymas]

I like how Josh Sawyer is already being exonerated for his crimes.