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

[MerchantKing]

I just want my temple of elemental evil kinds of games without all this bear porn and cutscene dialogue garbage. I always skip the cutscenes and dialogue anyways. It's all trash in every single game.

 

[jaekl]

There's a balance to be had when it comes to dialogue, for example in Dark Souls I was excited every time someone had something to say to me and I would carefully listen to every syllable. The dialogue is rare and leaves you wanting. Then there's the 90% of modern games where everyone has diarrhea of the mouth and I'm sitting in the living room shouting "shut the FUCK UP!" at the TV in between daydreams.

 

[Swen]

Infinitron How many % women are there on the codex?

 

[Shaki]

Holy shit, there is so much hype, I legit just saw articles about "devs warning players not to make BG3 a new standard for RPG, as it's an anomaly and 99% of studios can't ever live up to such a high standard"... it's going to be a Cyberpunk level outrage, once it actually releases and people realize it's not anything revolutionary, but just a little more bloated Dragon Age Inquisition with decent turn based combat and barrelmancy.

The comparison to DA:I is wholly retarded the games are nothing alike from a gameplay perspective unless gay companions is enough to qualify in which case I can list a bunch of other modern CRPGs as well.

The only difference between two is combat, for the rest of "gameplay" both are about running around doing quests and romancing companions with reddit tier writing, and watching muh cinematic cutscenes. They even look exactly the same, since Larian wanted to capture that audience. I don't think any other game had that strong DAI vibes since DAI itself. I don't understand what's the point of this cope here.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

The comparison to DA:I is wholly retarded the games are nothing alike from a gameplay perspective unless gay companions is enough to qualify in which case I can list a bunch of other modern CRPGs as well.

Dragon Age Origins would be a far more fitting comparison, in more ways than one. The main difference is the combat being turn-based.

P.S. belated you can go and call retarded your mother, the useless whore, for making the massive mistake of tainting the world with your presence.
What I wrote wasn't even an opinion but factual.

 

[Volrath]

IMO what modders should do to improve BG3 :

1. Faster animations, takes a very long time to attack in this game, the animations takes too long, give me Wiz8 flashbacks
2. A better ruleset, preferentially 2E or at least 3E ruleset instead of 5E. I know that this will be very hard to do
3. Better ways to kill Astarion.

Like Hexxat in BG2:"""ee""", I have transformed her into a squirrel and used imprisonment against her, while I was in the Abyss during the mage stronghold quest.

5E is the closest we've ever gotten to the refined monocled goodness of AD&D, so there's that.

 

[Ryzer]

This game seems to have one of the most boring, uninspired, bland art and character portraits I've ever seen.
There's no original portrait like in Baldur gate 1 and 2.
Decline.
Then again I'm not surprised as it is made by Belgians.
I bet ChatGPT could make a game like this.

 

[processdaemon]

Infinitron How many % women are there on the codex?

If women aren't wasting money funding Kickstarter games that seems sensible of them. It worked out for D:OS but 90% of the time you might as well throw your money out the window, at least then you can get the joy of making a paper plane out of it or something

 

[Junmarko]

He's a vampire spawn, not a full vampire.

Vampire, vampire lord, vampire spawn etc, can only ever be evil - iirc in 3e it was any evil. Only exception was the Blade day-walker race which can be any alignment.

He dies.

 

[Gradenmayer]

Holy shit, there is so much hype, I legit just saw articles about "devs warning players not to make BG3 a new standard for RPG, as it's an anomaly and 99% of studios can't ever live up to such a high standard"... it's going to be a Cyberpunk level outrage, once it actually releases and people realize it's not anything revolutionary, but just a little more bloated Dragon Age Inquisition with decent turn based combat and barrelmancy.

The comparison to DA:I is wholly retarded the games are nothing alike from a gameplay perspective unless gay companions is enough to qualify in which case I can list a bunch of other modern CRPGs as well.

The only difference between two is combat

That’s the difference that matters the most. But I still always find it funny when you dimwits compare Inquisition with it’s 2 dialogue options that say the same thing to games with actual role play.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Holy shit, there is so much hype, I legit just saw articles about "devs warning players not to make BG3 a new standard for RPG, as it's an anomaly and 99% of studios can't ever live up to such a high standard"... it's going to be a Cyberpunk level outrage, once it actually releases and people realize it's not anything revolutionary, but just a little more bloated Dragon Age Inquisition with decent turn based combat and barrelmancy.

The comparison to DA:I is wholly retarded the games are nothing alike from a gameplay perspective unless gay companions is enough to qualify in which case I can list a bunch of other modern CRPGs as well.

The only difference between two is combat, for the rest of "gameplay" both are about running around doing quests and romancing companions with reddit tier writing, and watching muh cinematic cutscenes. They even look exactly the same, since Larian wanted to capture that audience. I don't think any other game had that strong DAI vibes since DAI itself. I don't understand what's the point of this cope here.

Yeah, both are interactive movies to a point, but BG3 seems to have more of a "game" aspect to it than DAI. DAI was just button mashing, and respawning enemies in open areas, which was disgusting. I had to use a trainer when I played through the Heartlands area. I finished it but never played past that.

 

[Kiste]

BG3 can literally force POZ bear loads on the main character

Poz bear loads, you say?

 

[Ryzer]

Holy shit, there is so much hype, I legit just saw articles about "devs warning players not to make BG3 a new standard for RPG, as it's an anomaly and 99% of studios can't ever live up to such a high standard"... it's going to be a Cyberpunk level outrage, once it actually releases and people realize it's not anything revolutionary, but just a little more bloated Dragon Age Inquisition with decent turn based combat and barrelmancy.

The comparison to DA:I is wholly retarded the games are nothing alike from a gameplay perspective unless gay companions is enough to qualify in which case I can list a bunch of other modern CRPGs as well.

The only difference between two is combat, for the rest of "gameplay" both are about running around doing quests and romancing companions with reddit tier writing, and watching muh cinematic cutscenes. They even look exactly the same, since Larian wanted to capture that audience. I don't think any other game had that strong DAI vibes since DAI itself. I don't understand what's the point of this cope here.

Yeah, both are interactive movies to a point, but BG3 seems to have more of a "game" aspect to it than DAI. DAI was just button mashing, and respawning enemies in open areas, which was disgusting. I had to use a trainer when I played through the Heartlands area. I finished it but never played past that.

Wait, you finished DAI.

What's wrong with you?

 

[Gradenmayer]

He's a vampire spawn, not a full vampire.

Vampire, vampire lord, vampire spawn etc, can only ever be evil - iirc in 3e it was any evil. Only exception was the Blade day-walker race which can be any alignment.

He dies.

Yep, vampire filth is no different from brain eating Illithids, besides being less intelligent that the latter.
Kill him.

 

[Cryomancer]

The amount of reactivity and actual role playing IS revolutionary, nothing comes close.

Disagreed. For linear games, sure, but for more sandbox type of games like M&B, is not.

5E is the closest we've ever gotten to the refined monocled goodness of AD&D, so there's that.

Disagreed. Monsters lost a lot of nasty abilities, bounded accuracy making a lv 20 legends char just +20% likely to succeed than a lv 1 nobody, hp bloat to the point that low CR mobs/pcs can soak multiple cannonballs and zero new interesting settings. AD&D brought to us Dark Sun, Spelljammer, the realms of dread, spelljammer, planescapem Mystara, Birthright and so on. 5E is too focused in sword coast.

 

[Kem0sabe]

BG3 vs Starfield

Which way white man?

BG3 has, probably, the best character models and faces in a crpg. It's not uncanny valley but also not cartoony. Really like the aesthetics.

 

[Gradenmayer]

BG3 vs Starfield

Which way white man?

Guy on the right is perfect for Dark Urge origin.

 

[Saravan]

Holy shit, there is so much hype, I legit just saw articles about "devs warning players not to make BG3 a new standard for RPG, as it's an anomaly and 99% of studios can't ever live up to such a high standard"... it's going to be a Cyberpunk level outrage, once it actually releases and people realize it's not anything revolutionary, but just a little more bloated Dragon Age Inquisition with decent turn based combat and barrelmancy.

The comparison to DA:I is wholly retarded the games are nothing alike from a gameplay perspective unless gay companions is enough to qualify in which case I can list a bunch of other modern CRPGs as well.

both are about running around doing quests

Wow it’s practically the same game!

 

[Kiste]

BG3 vs Starfield

Which way white man?

Guy on the right is perfect for Dark Urge origin.

He looks exactly like your avatar.

 

[AwesomeButton]

BG3 can literally force POZ bear loads on the main character

Poz bear loads, you say?

Bears can't be HIV positive afaik.

Sorry to intrude on your fun though

 

[AwesomeButton]

Wait, you finished DAI.

What's wrong with you?

Lrn 2 read bro. It says "I finished it [the Heartlands area] but never played past that"

 

[Ryzer]

Wait, you finished DAI.

What's wrong with you?

Lrn 2 read bro. It says "I finished it [the Heartlands area] but never played past that"

I was afraid for a second.

 

[Shaki]

Wow it’s practically the same game!

Idk why the cope on codex, when reddit BG3 and Dragon Age fanboys overwhelmingly agree that BG3 is inspired by Dragon Age and it's a good thing

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/w0dhbu/does_bg3_remind_anyone_else_of_dragon_age/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/iykl68/if_you_are_a_fan_of_dragon_age_consider_giving/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/qopa5k/anybody_coming_from_the_dragon_age_fandom/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/jal2y3/baldurs_gate_3_is_making_me_feel_very_nostalgic/

Some comments from the threads:

My wife has been dying for Dragon Age 4 for years, she's a hard Solas shipper and every game event she gets super disappointed about the lack of news. I let her play BG3 and now she could care less about dragon age

From the amount of horny posting i was feeling that the fanbases overlapped lol

Me! DA:O remains one of my favorite video games of all time. The story, the characters, the mythology, the gameplay, etc. have left a lasting impact on me. I can’t wait for DA4!

I was drawn to BG3 in large part to how much it reminded me of the DA series

Yeah, BG3 is basically turn-based Dragon Age Origins. I love it.

The first time I played origins I quit immediately because it was too old and different than what I was used to (DAI, Skyrim, the fallout games) then I tried it again a year or two later and tolerated it. I wonder if my love for bg3 would change my view on DAO

Are all the conversations done cinematically, Origins style? I hate CRPGs for their text boxes and half-voiced efforts.

 

[Swen]

>Game has big budget fantasy graphics

"OMG, it's totally DA!!!!"

 

[Shaki]

>Game has big budget fantasy graphics

"OMG, it's totally DA!!!!"

Don't understand you, you need to show that dialogue more cinematically