Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Reinhardt]

Just think for the moment if you would play game bigger than D:OS 2 in TB mode how much time it would take to finish it compared to RTWP. Maybe 3 or 4 times longer.

So what? Where is the problem?

 

[Atchodas]

Turn Based combat can get extremely boring if encounters takes too long to solve themselves

 

[Lacrymas]

TB actually has the potential to be faster than RTwP, you just have to be able to skip animations.

 

[Elex]

Look what I found in my local (pretty big) comic book/gaming shop -

It's a comic book. I couldn't tell what Fearun year it is at a first glance and I think it was a Ravenloft story either way, but Minsc is there, soooo. Maybe the girl is Neera, but I'm not sure. I suspect it's something new because I haven't seen it before, or they just haven't displayed it earlier where I could easily see it.

They also stock Descent into Avernus now, I saw 2 versions of the cover, but I really couldn't look over it in any detail. The first one is the widely known one, but the second one, which I liked more, is just the Baldur's Gate skull logo with a few red blood drops here and there.

She is Delina.
that is a tie in curse of stradh comic so it's in Barovia.

 

[Lacrymas]

What is Minsc doing there? And when is it compared to the 2 Baldur's Gates?

 

[Harry Easter]

No idea what people have against cutscenes, I highly doubt the game is going to be a cinematic experience that would go against everything Swen believes in. The older Divinity games had occasional cutscenes for quest triggers especially Divinity 2. I still believe that we are going to get a Dragon Age game with the D&D license that includes 3rd Person exploration with iso camera for combat, animated cutscenes, animated dialogue and may even a few epic pre-rendered cutscenes.

Yeah either that or something like in Dark Alliance (looking down most of the time, but zooming in in conversations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzcjTYpV78g&t=304s

Better looking of course. I hope.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

What is Minsc doing there? And when is it compared to the 2 Baldur's Gates?

Minsc gets petrified at some point and everyone thought it was a statue of him until someone undoes it.

 

[santino27]

Neera seems like an odd guess anyway. Have any Beamdog characters made it into other mediums/official products?

 

[Lacrymas]

She's a pink-haired mage fighting alongside Minsc, so I don't think it's that much of a stretch to assume it's Neera. I'm not sure whether Beamdog's characters have made it in any official D&D stuff.

Minsc gets petrified at some point and everyone thought it was a statue of him until someone does it.

Does what? How did he get to Barovia?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

She's a pink-haired mage fighting alongside Minsc, so I don't think it's that much of a stretch to assume it's Neera. I'm not sure whether Beamdog's characters have made it in any official D&D stuff.

Minsc gets petrified at some point and everyone thought it was a statue of him until someone does it.

Does what? How did he get to Barovia?

Woops, meant undoes.
I liked Neera.

 

[Dodo1610]

She's a pink-haired mage fighting alongside Minsc, so I don't think it's that much of a stretch to assume it's Neera. I'm not sure whether Beamdog's characters have made it in any official D&D stuff.

Minsc gets petrified at some point and everyone thought it was a statue of him until someone does it.

Does what? How did he get to Barovia?

Nope it's not her it's a different wild mage https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Delina
Though she brought him back so she could be a character in BG3

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I think Neera would either be very old or dead at this point anyways sans access to longevity magic(entirely possible)
She's only a half-elf, not sure how old she was at the start of BG1.
BG1 happens in 1368, Descent into Avernus takes place in 1494.

 

[Dodo1610]

I somewhat doubt that Lariam is going to include the Beamdog characters since they were never mentioned outside these games again. Even Swen didn't even mention the enhanced editions in any of the interviews I read. I wouldn't be surprised if WOTC just erased them from their canon.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I somewhat doubt that Lariam is going to include the Beamdog characters since they were never mentioned outside these games again. Even Swen didn't even mention the enhanced editions in any of the interviews I read. I wouldn't be surprised if WOTC just erased them from their canon.

There were two stories about Neera published in Dragon+ along with a character sheet
https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/dragon/22/DRA22_Neera.pdf

 

[santino27]

I somewhat doubt that Lariam is going to include the Beamdog characters since they were never mentioned outside these games again. Even Swen didn't even mention the enhanced editions in any of the interviews I read. I wouldn't be surprised if WOTC just erased them from their canon.

There were two stories about Neera published in Dragon+ along with a character sheet
https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/dragon/22/DRA22_Neera.pdf

The bar is really fucking low these days apparently.

 

[Dodo1610]

I somewhat doubt that Lariam is going to include the Beamdog characters since they were never mentioned outside these games again. Even Swen didn't even mention the enhanced editions in any of the interviews I read. I wouldn't be surprised if WOTC just erased them from their canon.

There were two stories about Neera published in Dragon+ along with a character sheet
https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/dragon/22/DRA22_Neera.pdf

Interesting that was in 2018 so Bg3 was already in development at this point could be a coincidence or not...
Half-Elfs can live for more than 180 years so it's not completely impossible.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Not sure why you guys are so upset unless you haven't actually played it. Neera was a fairly well written clutz of a wild mage.
She was written by Dave Gross, a veteran of TSR.

 

[vortex]

So what? Where is the problem?

To find the time for that.

Deadfire is faster to finish around 2 or 3 times in RTWP mode.

 

[Lacrymas]

Well, I guess you can see how I can confuse two pink-haired elf wild mages who fight alongside Minsc :p

 

[Thonius]

Game is not in development. Wake up people!
On a serious note I doubt they thought it trough to that degree. IMO they just tossed shit to see what sticks, somehow she stuck around. And I think that game was kind of in limbo before whole stadia curse come around. That's why we don't have screenshots or even god damn art. Now If we assume that game was nothing but a pile of paper and trailer before stadia deal it will be clear as day that main focus is - controller. Ergo game will be console shit. And it all again make sense.

 

[LESS T_T]

I'm rather curious about that their cinematic department now has over 10 people according to Linkedin. 1 director, 7 cinematic artists, 1 vfx artist, 1 animator, and is looking for a lighting artist dedicated to cinematics. This is smaller than Witcher 3's (which was more than 20), but it seems obvious they're going for a lot of real-time cutscenes that are out of player's control.

More, more! Approaching the scale of Witcher 3's: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cjri...ian-studios-activity-6591235677021630464-9riE

Larian Studios, Dublin is hiring additional Cinematic Artists!

Our Cinematics team has grown considerably over the last few months and have a team of 11 Artists working from our Dublin Studio!

We would love to hear from Cinematic Artists, ideally from games, but are also happy to speak to artists from animation and film.

We are open to hearing from graduates/Juniors as well as those more experienced.

There are also several open positions for other departments. Sounds like they're ramping up the production: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cjri...ian-studios-activity-6591294497152385024--oXR

Its been an awesome year for Larian and RPG fans with the announcement of Baldurs Gate 3.

We couldn't make the games that we do without the dedicated and passionate teams @ each of our Studios in Gent, Dublin, Quebec and Saint Petersberg.

We've been adding to all of these teams over the last while and are continuing to do so. Larian has positions open in Art, Cinematics, Design, Programming, Publishing, QA and Audio.

We are looking for highly motivated individuals with ever-evolving skillsets and passion for player experience. If you want to contribute to making amazing RPG experiences, we would love to hear from you.

Visit our careers page for all current openings.

https://www.larian.com/jobs

 

[Lacrymas]

They are definitely making an isometric TB RPG based on 5E, no doubt about it now.

 

[LESS T_T]

If it literally is, the closest precedent is Firaxis XCOM series, the turn-based strategy with not insignificant amount of cinematics. Especially XCOM 2.

 

[Thonius]

My theory confirmed.

 

[Dodo1610]

I have seen absolutely no reason why this is isometric even the official press release says: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/344218/Larian_Studios_Announces_Baldurs_Gate_III.php

“Baldur's Gate means so much to so many people. It's a great responsibility but I think we're ready for it,” said Swen Vincke, Creative Director at Larian Studios. “We're all about creating reactive, systemic worlds that respect player agency and having a chance to apply our team's skillset in a universe as rich as Dungeons & Dragons is a lot of fun. We're working very closely with Wizards to bring an unprecedented level of immersion to the realm of Faerun and I can't wait to show the world what our team cooked up."

No one uses the word immersion to describe a game with an isometric perspective. I don't understand why people are still arguing 17 after NWN and 10 years after Dragon Age Origins about whether 3rd Person and party RPGs work together.