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

[Tyranicon]

Larian marketing team + writing team:

I bet whoever handles their social media is seriously pissed off with the amount of related complaints they have to bear.

Spoiler

 

[Tweed]

Suddenly Vampire Bears show up in Moonfall.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Larian marketing team + writing team:

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I bet whoever handles their social media is seriously pissed off with the amount of related complaints they have to bear.

 

[Tyranicon]

Suddenly Vampire Bears show up in Moonfall.

There's already vampire bears in MoonFall.

Related video I guess:

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[Morgoth]

This is Divinity OS III alright.

 

[Zeriel]

My bet is the dark urge is just a way for you to play the "fuck you DM I'm gonna ruin you plan" kind character.

Which is kind refeshing but unltimately it makes you missing bunch of content because you are a murder hobo.

Eh you can kill everything in the game already. That's part of Larian's N+1 design. So you can do that with any character. This seems more like, if you want to experience the Dark Urge storyline, you can't meaninglessly kill everyone at the drop of a hat/when you first meet them, because there will be scripted experiences throughout the game with it. You might still end up killing them anyway, but you might not, and the fact they mention it having romances and stuff doesn't make it sound like a murderhobo route.

I both do and don't like this idea. What I like about it is that "you have the freedom to do anything!" from Larian was always a lie. If I take an N+1 action and there is no consequence/reactivity to it, it's pointless. They might as well not have that option. So that's good if they're offering some reactivity to being a murderhobo. But there are a lot of ways this could end up being retarded depending on how they write/execute it, we just won't know until we play through the whole game.

 

[kirin]

its all so tiresome

 

[BruceVC]

Holy fucking shit. That is awesome.

(The Dark Urge thing, not Zeriel's degenerate sexual fantasies)

https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3/dark-urge

I agree, its got huge potential and some exciting components like " You’ll be guided by Sceleritas Fel, your loyal but depraved servant who wants you to fulfil your darkest desires – but will you listen?"

I am seriously considering this

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

its all so tiresome

>literal demonic whore

The only other time they're this obvious is when it's Halloween.

 

[Takamori]

its all so tiresome

I think the worst part is the question coming out after Dark Urge reveal. Like come on its an open story if you wanna be a virtuous person go for it, if you wanna be a unhinged psycho bear fucking whatever also its open for you.
I hate culture warriors from both sides, people having a retarded fit over the bear, like cool you can say shit is retarded but there is genuinely people wanting this to be removed. Grow the fuck up ass, titties , gay bears and whatever makes you cry? What a fucking little bitch

 

[Takamori]

Holy fucking shit. That is awesome.

(The Dark Urge thing, not Zeriel's degenerate sexual fantasies)

https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3/dark-urge

I agree, its got huge potential and some exciting components like " You’ll be guided by Sceleritas Fel, your loyal but depraved servant who wants you to fulfil your darkest desires – but will you listen?"

I am seriously considering this

I actually wanna make a paladin with Dark Urges Origin and try to avoid Oathbreaking with the fun options available.

 

[jf8350143]

My bet is the dark urge is just a way for you to play the "fuck you DM I'm gonna ruin you plan" kind character.

Which is kind refeshing but unltimately it makes you missing bunch of content because you are a murder hobo.

Eh you can kill everything in the game already. That's part of Larian's N+1 design. So you can do that with any character. This seems more like, if you want to experience the Dark Urge storyline, you can't meaninglessly kill everyone at the drop of a hat/when you first meet them, because there will be scripted experiences throughout the game with it. You might still end up killing them anyway, but you might not, and the fact they mention it having romances and stuff doesn't make it sound like a murderhobo route.

I both do and don't like this idea. What I like about it is that "you have the freedom to do anything!" from Larian was always a lie. If I take an N+1 action and there is no consequence/reactivity to it, it's pointless. They might as well not have that option. So that's good if they're offering some reactivity to being a murderhobo. But there are a lot of ways this could end up being retarded depending on how they write/execute it, we just won't know until we play through the whole game.

You can be a murder hobo and lose a bunch of content when you play as any character, sure. But that's your choice. Playing as Dark Urge requires you to do that to see the exclusive content. Which is why they don't recommend you play it in your first playthrough.

 

[Readher]

its all so tiresome

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Spoiler

Fauda, season 4

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

People are making such a fus over a larian joke. I played the early access and again was good.
-Quests are multiple way to get solved
-Quests can fail
-Rolls check on your actual abilities.
-Fantastic fun on turn based combat with even pen and paper abilities usually don't get translated in to videogames.
-Solid stealth system
-Solid way to solve problems or making your stealthy characters to move around.
-Challengin encounters.
-You can fail such checks sometimes they create interesting situation sometimes total screw up.
-Lot of exploring to do is not just scenery you can find secret passages that often can lead you to some mini dungeons.

And people bitch about an obvious joke with a party member that was meant as a joke in the first place.

 

[Late Bloomer]

I hate culture warriors from both sides, people having a retarded fit over the bear, like cool you can say shit is retarded but there is genuinely people wanting this to be removed. Grow the fuck up ass, titties , gay bears and whatever makes you cry? What a fucking little bitch

It should be removed. And you are a disgusting furry.

 

[Late Bloomer]

And people bitch about an obvious joke with a party member that was meant as a joke in the first place.

Which part are you talking about that was an obvious joke?

 

[BruceVC]

I hate culture warriors from both sides, people having a retarded fit over the bear, like cool you can say shit is retarded but there is genuinely people wanting this to be removed. Grow the fuck up ass, titties , gay bears and whatever makes you cry? What a fucking little bitch

It should be removed. And you are a disgusting furry.

Why shoud it be removed?

 

[BruceVC]

Holy fucking shit. That is awesome.

(The Dark Urge thing, not Zeriel's degenerate sexual fantasies)

https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3/dark-urge

I agree, its got huge potential and some exciting components like " You’ll be guided by Sceleritas Fel, your loyal but depraved servant who wants you to fulfil your darkest desires – but will you listen?"

I am seriously considering this

I actually wanna make a paladin with Dark Urges Origin and try to avoid Oathbreaking with the fun options available.

I was wondering about something similar, how would Dark Urges influence a Paladin?

 

[RegionalHobo]

played the e.a and i m surprised writting is far better than larian usual shit, game difficulty is pretty high for a default one, game is gorgeous, expected companions to be retarded tier but they are actually more mature than average crpg shit, loot tries to be creative instead of a direct + x boost...

the only thing i disliked is that character customization is waaaay lower than what we have in pathfinder

again with how much i ve heard about companions i was expecting a pile of shit, turns out gale and shadowheart are pretty good and wyll is at least above average vs other characters with his tropes. can t speak about the others because i did not try they at all

i rarely comment on codex but i lurk here for more than a decade and i think this is easily the game with the bigger gap in opinion between me and what ppl here say

 

[Takamori]

played the e.a and i m surprised writting is far better than larian usual shit, game difficulty is pretty high for a default one, game is gorgeous, expected companions to be retarded tier but they are actually more mature than average crpg shit, loot tries to be creative instead of a direct + x boost...

the only thing i disliked is that character customization is waaaay lower than what we have in pathfinder

again with how much i ve heard about companions i was expecting a pile of shit, turns out gale and shadowheart are pretty good and wyll is at least above average vs other characters with his tropes. can t speak about the others because i did not try then at all

i rarely comment on codex but i lurk here for more than a decade and i think this is easily the game with the bigger gap in opinion between me and what ppl here say

Companion wise I always made sure its a me thing the critique, I dont like the style oh this character has this mystery behind and so is special, when every character has a mystery behind it turns into a bland experience.

When simple backgrounds can be more appealing used on the right occasion, like this is farmer Joe before this shit went down he had a simple farm life and he could tell you stuff about farming before he was forced to kill monster or whatever.

 

[Cnaiur]

1. Dark Urge PC
2. Minthara
3. Gale
4. Shadowheart

No bears.

 

[Jermu]

this is good some/all attribute distributions were pretty retarded

 

[Larianshill]

This is good. You don't want Lae'zel and Karlach to compete for the same turf of magical two-handed weapons.

 

[d1r]

So how many companions do we have now?

Gale
Shadowheart
Astarion
Wyle
Lazael
Jaheira (??)
Minthara (??)
Minsc (??)