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

Well, technically Larian owns a licence, D&D and other things still IP of WoTC. I an perfectly fine with Turn Based. I just wish that Larian will not butcher the classes and spells, will follow the 5e rules and put a option for concurrent turns and a option to speed up animations. ToEE had concurrent turns, and Dark Sun : Shattered Lands which is the best low level D&D game that i have played allow you to skip animations(i only used on final battle which is insanely long and required many tries).

And my guess is that people will mod the game to make more P&P like even if Larian decides to destroy certain classes. See the Spell Fixes for NWN2 which fixes arcane casters.

 

That's correct.

The problem isn't the writing itself, it's the attempt at humor. And not just the attempt at humor, but the quantity of it. I'd compare it to games where devil/death themes are supposed to be overly humoristic and constantly thrown in your face. It's over the top caricature that gets drawn out to the point of not really being fun. The worst part is not that it isn't fun, but that it ends up being tiring instead, because you're constantly bombarded with the supposed "humor". At least that's my impression.

 

Well, why not give Larian a chance? Could be much better than you guys think it will be.

And there's a big chance BGIII will become a success so expect that the franchise will be in Larian's hands for a long time.

 

Yes, i will purchase BG3. And play. Turn Based games are great. BG1/2 is RtWP by a lot of decisions involving the belief that TB is a thing from the past and RTS experience. I loved Divine Divinity, found Divinity II: Developer's Cut good and only din't liked dos1/2. Mainly because i don't like most modern RPG "tropes". Chances are, BG3 will have no cooldown and a 5e itemization, it by itself is enough reason to give a chance.

 

Btw, in what fcking world is Larian equal to Bethesda when it comes to fucking over consumers? Your blind, obsessive Larian hates knows no bounds.

 

This guy is such a blind cultist that he named himself after swen. Or he's just an attention whore. Either way he resembles swen from Larian; absolute dog shit. What a degenerate. A degenerate with a gimmick account is the worst kind of degenerate.

 

The ranking wasn't in terms of fucking over consumers. It was just a general who sucks the most ranking.

 

Its not that hard to nail a good game on the 5e systems, they are very simple. Its not rocket science. I for one am optimistic Larian cant fuck this up, and maybe they will even improve their autistic writing a bit.

 

Or maybe your opinion and taste are dog shit? Oh and Troika is crap compared to Larian, thankfully they're gone. Meanwhile Larina rules the CRPG genre and there's nothing you can do about it except crying like a bitch.

 

The difference between Troika and Larian is that the former made an actual legendary game, with a large cult following that's strong to this day (doesn't it sound it just like Baldur's Gate?). Larian has yet to make one - and we'll see if they ever manage this feat.

 

Well, i don't agree with all hate towards Larian BUT Larian ruling the mainstream CRPG market after BioWare got EAzed, BUGthesda dumbed down, Obsidian sold their soul to M$ and tons of other companies failed, is not that a big deal. Despite not liking DOS2, compared to Dragon Age Inquisition and Fallout 4, DOS2 is a near perfect game. DOS2 is a incline compared to most modern games but still a decline if compared to any 90s/00s game.

Maybe BG3 will be good and use more old school mechanics that makes more sense, maybe Larian will butcher the rules. Who knows?

 

Is this an incredible attempt at self-deprecating humor or are you actually so blind that you can't see you are the epitome of gimmick accounts?

 

Troika made rpg art, not games. They made three wonderful pieces adhering to what roleplaying should be and to pnp tradition and died. And for that, I love them.

 

Troika games was so amazing that if you are a necromancer on Arcanum, you can even speak with the dead to solve quests in a different way. The modern standard of fully voice acting kinda makes it impossible to exist on modern mainstream RPG's. Still can exist on AA and indie RPG's, but...

I prefer CRPG in turns BUT if Larian decides to make a sequel to a 2 decade old franchise, of course fans of that franchise would like to experience something like that franchise. The unique downside of BG3 at this moment is IMO comments from Swen about missing and spell slots AND the lv cap = 10 which is not a big problem since most 5e modules are low level modules. Is not like pathfinder where most modules end up around lv 15~17 and there are some modules which end on mythic levels.

 

You can speak with the dead in D:OS 2 as well, can't you. https://divinityoriginalsin2.wiki.fextralife.com/Spirit+Vision

ToEE uses the Arcanum engine. Their sales weren't good enough to make sequels worthwhile for the publishers.

 

Didn't know that. Still because of different setting and gameplay none of the Arcanum assets could be used.
It was also pretty meh overall so I poor sales were justified.

 

In the game play demo they showed the character still missed, even with a 95% chance of hitting, so I think they may still at least have respect for the source rules unless they pull some fuckery later down the road. I could see them adding lower difficulties with less chances of missing. I don't remember what they said about spell slot.

The level 10 cap is for the campaign or the whole game? While it wasn't confirmed, if the game uses the same engine of D:OS2 then maybe they include the GM mode and scenario editor. They could let players go over ten in that case, but this is just speculation. Perhaps they want to do as the original Baldur's Gate and divide the game into two.

Also, I had been thinking that instead of Baldur's Gate, WoTC should had let them do a Spelljammer game instead. Seems like their writing style would fit the setting more as well as their penchant for impressive and chaotic battles, wouldn't it?

 

I'm so excited about Baldur's Gate 3 that I already can't wait for Larian's Baldur's Gate 4.

EDIT: Baldur's Gate 4: Original Baldur's Gate 2.

EDIT2: Baldurian Baldur's Gate and then Baldurian Baldur's Gate 2.

EDIT3: Baldur's Gate: Drow Commander.

EDIT4: and then the obvious Baldur's Gate 4: Original Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition, where they change the effects of all the feats and completely revolutionize how you gain new spells.

 

And then Baldur's Gate: Tripped Adventurers, which will be cancelled to work on a whole new project, Planescape: Divine Torment, now with more funee talking skulls!

 

What can change the nature of a teleporting talking wishing well?

 

NJClaw did you pick the title ontopolover yourself or were you blessed with it by one of the mods?

 

I'm ontopolyamorous too.

 

Can't wait for Larian to thoroughly revamp the original BGs so that a longsword scrounged from the corpse of one of Gromnir's mooks surpasses Carsomyr + Eye of Tyr in terms of potency and usefulness. They could even improve on the plot by making Noober the actual antagonist! Ha, wouldn't that be lol so hilariously random?

 

Ha, the story writes itself, i already see the sequel unfolding with nefarious Neeber pulling the strings.