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Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]
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Heroic Liberator
Arcane
It's only for
hell bovine
Arcane
Considering that you will be carrying a tadpole from the same brood pool, that's getting a little bit too close with your future mind flayer siblings, don't you think?
Ausdoerrt
Augur
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Midlife crisis in a nutshell (pun intended)
ArchAngel
Arcane
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This all means nothing if the combat will be still this slow and gimicky and conversations filled with terrible inner thoughts instead of real conversations.Fact sheets:
"Cinematic dialogs, all performance captured across 1.5 million words", "Layered Crime system that holds you accountable for your actions and affects your reputation", "Hundreds of locations true to the lore, spanning over 100 hours of gameplay.", "Choose from 15 D&D races & subraces and 8 classes with more to be announced",
They are paying homage to the canon pairing of Imoen and the Bhaalspawn. And that is awwwright.
Tyranicon
A Memory of Eternity
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"Cinematic dialogs, all performance captured across 1.5 million words"
I know I'm pretty bad at proofreading, but if they couldn't bother to get someone to take a second look at this, I can't be bothered to read all 1.5 million words of Larian drivel.
hell bovine
Arcane
Eddard Stark
Educated
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First impressions: this is horrible. It looks, feels, breathes and shits exactly as a D:OS 2 reskin with BG3 logo unceremoniously slapped on it. Combat, origins, 4-man party, 3d portraits you name it. You can see D:OS 2 cogs and wheels behind every system. Cinematic dialogues resemble DA:I most of all, that is for sure not a compliment. For all the mocap, animations are still janky as hell, work-in progress I guess. Dialogue structure and style are discouraging to say the least. Also UI is horrible, both stylistically and in ergonomy, half of the elements were ripped straight out of Divinity.
TLDR: This has no visible connection to BG-series, not even a hint, neither in essence, nor in spirit.
Dunno what to say to Sven or Larian guys (pretty sure they are reading reactions, here included). Probably too late into development to change design pillars/story/dialogues, but at least try to pay some respect to BG, redo the UI.
TLDR: This has no visible connection to BG-series, not even a hint, neither in essence, nor in spirit.
Dunno what to say to Sven or Larian guys (pretty sure they are reading reactions, here included). Probably too late into development to change design pillars/story/dialogues, but at least try to pay some respect to BG, redo the UI.
DraQ
Arcane
He didn't have to, you know.
But that doesn't worry me. What worries me is blandness and campiness of D&D (and possibly intense butthurt of retards deprived of their RTWP, but that's probably not a significant threat, just free publicity and lulz).
OTOH, even though D&D has never been a good mechanics (and even good mechanics tend to get ugly when translated to cRPG) it will really prevent Larian from tainting their awesome ideas with completely misguided ones in the name of balance or just cluelessness about good design, good mechanics and what works together well.
However this turns out, in enduring let it make them grow strong.
1.2 million of those words will only be hot elves moaning"Cinematic dialogs, all performance captured across 1.5 million words"
I know I'm pretty bad at proofreading, but if they couldn't bother to get someone to take a second look at this, I can't be bothered to read all 1.5 million words of Larian drivel.
Heroic Liberator
Arcane
They could've composed the dialogue by playing scramble and it wouldn't have made a difference. Most combatfags are functionally illiterate anyhow.
Molina
Savant
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1,5 millions ? More than Disco Elysium ? GOTY !Fact sheets:
"Cinematic dialogs, all performance captured across 1.5 million words", "Layered Crime system that holds you accountable for your actions and affects your reputation", "Hundreds of locations true to the lore, spanning over 100 hours of gameplay.", "Choose from 15 D&D races & subraces and 8 classes with more to be announced",
If DOS 2 didn't exist, I think I'd be screaming like a cheerleader at the prom. Except I'm not. And I already feel like I have already played the game. This is gonna be fun, but I'm having a little trouble getting hype. I haven't seen a really new feature. The story's like "boarf" to me. And dialogue... are weird.
Tyranicon
A Memory of Eternity
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1.2 million of those words will only be hot elves moaning"Cinematic dialogs, all performance captured across 1.5 million words"
I know I'm pretty bad at proofreading, but if they couldn't bother to get someone to take a second look at this, I can't be bothered to read all 1.5 million words of Larian drivel.
Okay nevermind I'm back in.
Wait, I just looked at the inventory screen and we can't possibly get a 4 men party, right?
PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO ME PLEASE I WANT TO LOVE THIS GAME SO BAD PLEASE GIVE ME THE FULL 6 PLEASE
PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO ME PLEASE I WANT TO LOVE THIS GAME SO BAD PLEASE GIVE ME THE FULL 6 PLEASE
Volo is going to be in the game. Timestamped.
rusty_shackleford
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fantadomat
Arcane
No,it is lack of principles in the men talking about it! It is the same disingenuous degenerate shit,no two ways about it. When you make a sequel to franchise,you fucking stick to the core parts of it.You know, this depends on the direction of the change.
Incline is just decline backwards.
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Gameplay video comments from me since I obv didn't read the last 50 pages I missed:
- In general "ok"
- A bit more D:OS3 than what I wanted to see.
- I'm not a big fan of the "us - them" turn system but I prefer it than the hardcoded round robin bullshit
- I really like that most rules have been ported faithfully. Didn't expect that
- Seems that the party/camping/adventuring will play a big role which I like
- Itemization SEEMED ok from what I could notice but I was simultaneously watching football so I might have missed stuff. It seemed like the weapons were pretty standard DnD stuff more or less
- I also don't like the dialog system but I guess they have it like that since the protagonist is not voiced? Dunno. Don't like it anyway
- I'll watch again because I think I missed lots of info
- In general "ok"
- A bit more D:OS3 than what I wanted to see.
- I'm not a big fan of the "us - them" turn system but I prefer it than the hardcoded round robin bullshit
- I really like that most rules have been ported faithfully. Didn't expect that
- Seems that the party/camping/adventuring will play a big role which I like
- Itemization SEEMED ok from what I could notice but I was simultaneously watching football so I might have missed stuff. It seemed like the weapons were pretty standard DnD stuff more or less
- I also don't like the dialog system but I guess they have it like that since the protagonist is not voiced? Dunno. Don't like it anyway
- I'll watch again because I think I missed lots of info
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