Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Salvo]

Maybe I should go back to playing some AoD.

it's a decent book but not a good substitute for playing an rpg

You unironically play Fallout 4.

...no?

show feet

 

[Takamori]

Stadia is shutting down (good fucking riddance, by the way) and the internet is now full of brilliant armchair experts making claims like "It was very shortsighted for Larian to support the platform".

I wonder if they realize that it wasn't a decision made out a kindness toward Google. Larian got a big fucking check to support Stadia. An almost-outrageous amount, in fact, if past rumors are to be trusted.

Kinda funny that they are shutting down before BG3 release, basically fucking free money to Larian.

If anything long sighted to support a trainwreck where you don't even need to deliver the contract.

 

[FriendlyMerchant]

I remember when me and my friends would think that Alucard is just a caricature of a real vampire, because he used guns. And now 20 years later he's on a list being considered "a real vampire".

Funny.

I would use guns if I woke up as a vampire in England. You have to defend yourself from those muslim goyim somehow.

 

[Infinitron]

Stadia is shutting down (good fucking riddance, by the way) and the internet is now full of brilliant armchair experts making claims like "It was very shortsighted for Larian to support the platform".

I wonder if they realize that it wasn't a decision made out a kindness toward Google. Larian got a big fucking check to support Stadia. An almost-outrageous amount, in fact, if past rumors are to be trusted.

Kinda funny that they are shutting down before BG3 release, basically fucking free money to Larian.

If anything long sighted to support a trainwreck where you don't even need to deliver the contract.

They did basically deliver it since the Early Access build is on Stadia:



But yeah.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the stadia port was done by the small spanish branch btw

larian losing their #2 studio at the start of the Great Slavic Butthurt War when they couldn't pay their employees anymore due to financial shit hurt them far more
p. sure swen/larian has completely avoided discussing that topic though

 

[Shrimp]

the stadia port was done by the small spanish branch btw

larian losing their #2 studio at the start of the Great Slavic Butthurt War when they couldn't pay their employees anymore due to financial shit hurt them far more
p. sure swen/larian has completely avoided discussing that topic though

Do you know what Larian's Russian studio was responsible for?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the stadia port was done by the small spanish branch btw

larian losing their #2 studio at the start of the Great Slavic Butthurt War when they couldn't pay their employees anymore due to financial shit hurt them far more
p. sure swen/larian has completely avoided discussing that topic though

Do you know what Larian's Russian studio was responsible for?

not specifically beyond them being important

 

[The_Mask]

Feels like a joke that BG III will take longer to develop than Stadia will be alive.

 

[017]

the stadia port was done by the small spanish branch btw

larian losing their #2 studio at the start of the Great Slavic Butthurt War when they couldn't pay their employees anymore due to financial shit hurt them far more
p. sure swen/larian has completely avoided discussing that topic though

Huh, didn't even notice it. I see that the St. Petersburg studio is no longer among the open vacancies anymore.

Do you know when this happened?

EDIT: Based on LinkedIn profiles it happened in March.

the stadia port was done by the small spanish branch btw

larian losing their #2 studio at the start of the Great Slavic Butthurt War when they couldn't pay their employees anymore due to financial shit hurt them far more
p. sure swen/larian has completely avoided discussing that topic though

Do you know what Larian's Russian studio was responsible for?

Based on the recruitment section, St. Petersburg was used for tech requirements the most - cheap dev & QA. I saw some artists/designers in the bunch, though, so maybe it was supposed to be self-sufficient and fit in the whole "24/7 production loop" Swen and Walgrave have been so excited about a few years ago.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Do you know when this happened?

not shortly after the start of the Great Slavic Butthurt War, they had no way to transfer funds to pay salaries.

 

[BruceVC]

Maybe I should go back to playing some AoD.

it's a decent book but not a good substitute for playing an rpg

You unironically play Fallout 4.

I loved FO4, I spent about 280 hours on it and I played it for the fist time 4 years ago with my new gaming machine, I had an excellent and new video card, an RTX 2080 Ti. And it was also the first time I started using large amounts of mods courtesy of the Nexus website which is undoubtedly my favorite mod website . Can you believe I never really use to mod Bethesda games until then..its true, I was truly lost and confused in those days

Anyway due to my mod inexperience, and lack of respect and usage for mods that are lore friendly and dont unbalance the overall combat challenge, I installed some unhelpful mods that in the early parts of the game unbalanced it and undermined unintentionally my entertainment factor, like this mod that allowed these 3 NPC fighters to immediately join me in the beginning and that meant the first battle in the town I didnt have to fight anyone...they did all the fighting for me which was really boring and pointless, even that first Deathclaw

So I dismissed them and then the game was more fun. Then right at the end of the story I installed more mods in the middle of the game, I now had about 220 mods, and that broke the game and causes crashes so I stopped playing it but I was right at the end so I was fine with not completing it

 

[Cryomancer]

I would use guns if I woke up as a vampire in England. You have to defend yourself from those muslim goyim somehow.

Just mesmerize them to attack each other or to do crimes and bring profits for you.

Feels like a joke that BG III will take longer to develop than Stadia will be alive.

And that people will play Warhammer Rogue trader before BG3 full release...

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One question. If Larian decides to do a proper sequel to Bhaalspawn saga, how they could teach the zoomer critical role crowd about the events of time of troubles?

 

[Desiderius]

And that people will play Warhammer Rogue trader before BG3 full release...

Owlcat takes as long to develop their games as Larian, they just do it after release instead of before.

 

[Swen]

 

[Noct]

CDPR: "Hold my beer"

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

CDPR: "Hold my beer"

"We'll manage to delay it for years AND make it shit anyway, somehow".

 

[Cryomancer]

Owlcat takes as long to develop their games as Larian, they just do it after release instead of before.

True.
Launch = Alpha
Enhanced Edition = Beta

CDPR: "Hold my beer"

Cyberbug 2077 is not bad. It is just not as good as people expected.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Cyberbug 2077 is not bad. It is just not as good as people expected.

Nah, I'd argue that it's genuinely a poorly designed game at its core.
Poor gameplay, bad progression, terrible itemization.

They had a perfectly legitimate template to follow with the Deus Ex games (both the classic and the recent reboot), but they choose to parrot the looter shooter crap instead.

 

[Takamori]

Good core material, really shitty choices on how to do it.
Open world that just serves as a fucking headache to implement quests, forced to implement fetch quests because you don't want to leave the open world souless(But still come out as souless because it lacks interactivity), itemization done by a retard that played way too much diablo 3 and a really coward approach on story telling too much corporate check boxes instead of approaching the themes as cyberpunk.

What save its from being utter shit is the visuals and the core material that even being ignored still ooze through and show it has potential.

 

[Kem0sabe]

 

[BruceVC]

BG3 looks amazing but this video isnt informative. The guy says very little significant and just repeats himself when he says " I dont have much to tell you " ...so why make the video in the first place?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

BG3 looks amazing but this video isnt informative. The guy says very little significant and just repeats himself when he says " I dont have much to tell you " ...so why make the video in the first place?

 

[Reinhardt]

ded gaem iz ded

 

[Fedora Master]

ded gaem iz ded

 

[Cyberarmy]

I predict this will got released just like DoS1 and 2. Good and detailed start, meh mid game and dissapointing ending.
Then super duper ultra uber enhanced edition 1 year later.