Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate III by Larian Studios - Early Access announcement on June 13th

I see you have earned new medals for being retarded.

 

I see you still compulsively care about everything I do.

 

It's a good thing Larian are rushing this derpy co-op garbage into Early Access so we can laugh at it sooner rather than later. I think the odds are good that it releases later this year in EA.

The chances are also good it becomes a commercial hit on Steam for the same reason DOS2 did. The critical reception from users will be markedly inferior though, just watch, as Swen is determined to intertwine the Baldurs Gate fandom into this sordid DOS2 reskin affair. As long as the user score falls between 75-80 or lower we can consider this game a well earned failure.

 

Ow how good the tears of retards like this will taste when BGIII will become a critical and commercial success.

 

Game reviewers are all sell outs with no taste and will all give it 10s. Can't really judge a game when you skip most dialogue, play on easy, speed run through the game, and quit half way through because you've played enough to write a couple of pages for a review.

 

Translating : Campaign and bosses can be NERFED and losing everything that makes then feel epic.

For pure casters. Try beat him without high level spells as a pure caster and lets talk later;

Some people seems to hate fun. D&D is a high level spells are a thing that a lot of people like. The balance cult/Sawyerism is why we are getting things like a perk that gives +1% of only one type of damage on most games and we don't have more RPG's with amazing cool stuff to do.

And will be a success. Larian makes games for people who enjoy "press A for awesome" games. But despite all game journalists "you can't kill a swarm with a sword", Pathfinder Wrath of The righteous got more money on kickstarter than DOS2. Appealing to a much smaller market.

DOS2 raised $2,032,434
PFWOTR raised $ 2,054,339

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/owlcatgames/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/larianstudios/divinity-original-sin-2

 

As long as the game looks pretty, is not scam and there are no technical glitches at the release 85-99% positive review scores are guaranteed. There is no reason to think that somoene who previously managed to get 89, and 96% positive rating on Steam will somehow fall into sub-80 category. The game might be total shit, but the Steam reviews will not reflect that.

 

The only critical success the game will attain will be from degenerate mainstream coverage which will come alongside attempts to disparage the prior games in order to excuse how much Larian diverged from the classics.

Legitimate RPG consumers are going to shred it for being Fake Baldurs Gate 3.

 

No such thing on Steam.
I mean take a look:
Skyrim: 91% (and this was special edition)
Hyperdimension Neptunia 1: 96%
Age of Decadence: 81%
Pathfinder: 77%
Grimoire: 69%

 

Lol at this self ownage, more people cared about DOS2.

DOS2 backers:
42,713

PFWOTR backers:
35,092

The pathfinder autists had deeper pockets, that's all.

 

Good points, actually. The platform is so vast and mainstream that user criticism might be drowned out entirely (provided the numbers do stack up like DOS2.)

 

Hahaha, an anime avatar autist calling anyone degenerate.

WOTC gave Larian the BG franchise because they know Larian will make it better than it ever was. (not hard since RTWP was always shit tier though)

 

You are right. DOS2 got more backers, but PFWOTR got more money. Do you know why? is not autism. Is because people who like item fever, cooldown, stat stickie itemization, lack of in depth progression, ludonarrative dissonance, and other things already have 56165229526552981654 modern games to play. People who like games like PFKM has .... Kingmaker. Pathfinder Kingmaker is the unique decent TT adaptation of the last decade. And people who like pfwotr tends to be older, so have more money.

And with turn based mod, people who hate micromanaging will be playing the game.

I will use RtWP on trash encounters and TB on harsh encounters like Spawn of Rovagug.

 

It's also the difference between appealing to casuals vs people that actually care about systems. Casuals will drop enough to get the game if it looks good enough, but that's pretty much it. More passionate people are willing to put in more money for a product that appeals to them

 

RTwP can only be improved for the better. TB fails on immersive, unrealistic basis. I get bored with TB. I'm on the tip of my toes playing RTwP.

I hope you're right about it. I know that it looks like we have compulsive patterns (no, I'm not saying disorders).

Demo fails on many breaking points. Cutscenes like the one with goblins and orcs destroy immersion and people will skip them eventually. Remove them completely.

In demo orcs and goblins slowly approaching barricades and someones from the party says: 'Look, it's ambush!' . What ? In the daylight? Mindless goblins and less intelligent orcs successfully doing an ambush during the day? They could have done it in the night by the command of some powerful sorcerer. Maybe then I could believe it. C'mon.

Writing fails to deliver in many areas. Cringy, progressive on the nose and embarrassing for the successor. When the noun 'protocol' appears in Disco Elysium and BG3, it is clear proof that writers of BG3 are utterly ignorant what kind of fantasy does it stand for.

 

DOS2 was hugely popular because most people have garbage taste. That absolutely has not changed in the last few years. BG3 will be at least as beloved.

 

Lol at comparing garbage like Pathfinder with DOS2.

"Buh..muh user scores!!!!!" LMFAO

 

Look to reviwers

"Perhaps a bit more troubling is the fact that within Pathfinder's ruleset, many monsters and creatures require very specific tools to kill. Swarms of small creatures like rats, for instance, can't be effectively fought with a sword and shield. Sometimes Kingmaker warns you, but other times it simply expects you to know how to handle the problem. Rust monsters, skeletons, ghosts, and so on all have specific tools that you need to understand and be able to use with relative ease. That's made easier by having a diverse party, but then you have to take far more time aside to learn the ins and outs of your band of characters than a traditional tabletop player." https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/pathfinder-kingmaker-review-the-classics/1900-6417006/

Kingmaker received poor reviews due the average BRAINLET millennial. NOBODY IS DENYING that dos2 is popular among game journalists and press A for awesome gamers.

Why not compare the number of spells? Build diversity? Story? Consistency of mechanics and lore?

 

Your average reviewer today:
"What's this? A low-budget rpg from a russian studio? That has created NO BUZZ? *Plays the game for 10 minutes (spider cave) and assumes none will like this because his own brain exploded, or never plays the game and copies some bad generic review comments from another game journautism site that has done exactly the same thing*.

Game journalism today is mostly about people who don't give a shit about games, trying to predict the reaction of the crowd and its alignment with game trends, so that their sorry-ass magazine agrees with most people reading it and gets more clicks, and is far less about actually reviewing something and speaking their opinion, justifying it, based on what they experienced.

And as for the user score, it's a miracle this modern Baldur's Gate even got a 7.5, as unforgiving as it is, with so many technical problems plaguing it for so long.

 

I like how people put themselves on a pedestal for liking Kingmaker but hating D:OS2, all the while not realizing that Kingmaker is only a tiny step above D:OS2. If you want complex games, this is not it, go play that space battle simulator that has been making the rounds lately.

 

There is no reason to hate DOSII. It's a pretty good non-dnd crpg. Yes, it's riddled with Larian humor, may not have the variety of a dnd crpg and its difficulty can make you fall asleep if you don't play on tactician solo, but its systems are decently intricate, innovative even, skills/spells do feel unique, its production quality is great and has many interesting stories in it. I guess, many hate it because it is overpraised, while at the same time a gem like P:K got a lot of undeserved shit from the press and the "I hate anything that makes me use my brain" crowd.

 

Honestly, dos2 is not a complete trash game, but has most of the same problems of D3. On gameplay mechanics. Cooldowns, stat stickie gear, huge inflated numbers... What makes me hate dos2 was the guys saying that it is the "new baldur's gate". I purchased expecting everything that i liked on games like Baldur's Gate 2, Icewind Dale, Nox. Deus Ex. VtMB, Arcanum and ... Got everything that i hate on Diablo 3, WoW and other modern games.



Vincke comments like "missing obvious not work"(worked since 1988) and "spell slots aren't intuitive"(i saw nobody complaining even on console games which uses it like FF1 and Dark Souls 1/2) made me hate BG3 but the gameplay seems interesting. I was expecting DOS2 + Sword Coast Legends but saw a good gameplay. Still prefer WotR and will probably only play BG3 at discount.

 

I'd rather have a solid combat system with interesting options even if it comes at a price of not having 8 different varieties of "cure wound" spells and 5 different kinds of arcane caster.

 

You have progression on cure wounds and can cast as different circles. There are a huge difference between cure wounds for a lv 1 cleric and mass cure serious wounds. As for 5 different kinds of arcane casters, they are differents. Play as a arcanist, sorcerer and wizard is a complete different experience.

 

Is it just me or does the quality of the so-called discussion in this thread seem rather low?