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

[User0001]

I can't wait until tomorrow. When all the people who don't even care about the game that much come into this thread and tell the actual fans who have been here the whole time what is and isn't a big deal.

"the actual fans"

 

[Desolate Dancer]

It'll be a big nothingburger, and 'Dex shall be disappointed bigly.

 

[Taxnomore]

I just realized Bioware still exists and they were not given the license.

 

[d1r]

And thank god for that...

 

[Curratum]

Is codex cool with 5e? Last time I brought it up it was like heresy

Only sweaty, overweight neckbeards are not cool with 5E.

 

[Dodo1610]

I just realized Bioware still exists and they were not given the license.

Bioware wasn't interested in the forgotten realms after Jade Empire, instead, Gaider and friends wanted to create their own medieval fantasy world, which then became Dragon Age. They are probably the only CRPG dev that never tried to make BG3 since they thought the story was over.

 

[Crispy]

Only sweaty, overweight neckbeards are not cool with 5E.

Gregz?

 

[Grotesque]

Congratulations, you described 90% of combat in every RTwP RPG ever released.

And there are lot of turn based games that have trash mobs that conform to my description.
Thus, making a former rtwp game into a turn-based game, it's not a guarantee of a quality gaming experience just because now it's turn-based.

Must've been 5-10% of all combat encounters in the game, max.
In D:OS2, pretty much every encounter is a close call like that (on higher difficulties, obv.)

so 10% (which is too low but as you wish) was good quality combat experience but the rest 90% was bad because rtwp and skewed difficulty because by definition rtwp is bound to have an artificially inflated number of poor quality encounters?
or because poor design of which can suffer even a TB game?
Turn based combat is not even a remotely guarantee of a quality gaming experience and neither rtwp.

 

[Delterius]

what if Minsc is the second to final bhaalspawn and half brother of the protagonist

 

[Mud']

And there are lot of turn based games that have trash mobs that conform to my description.

I cant recall D:OS2 having any trash mobs at all, then again i doubt that BG 3 is going to be TB or something like D:OS2 linear map.

 

[luj1]

Is anyone doubting that Minsc is going to be make at least a cameo? I predict him being a companion.

When there is a crisis of creativity, expect people to milk the IP to the max and regurgitate stuff from the good old days.

 

[Jarpie]

Is this the first game ever whose gameplay reveal was such a huge deal and so advertised? It somehow leaves a bad taste in my mouth but I'm not sure why. It's like it's being held hostage for marketing reasons, but those marketing reasons are insulting. I don't know how to explain it.

My prediction: Codex hates gameplay reveal, but Minsc/Boo makes a cameo and is somehow still alive, so everything balances out.

There are very few people on here who like Minsc, sooooo I don't know how that balances out anything.

Who is more disliked, Minsc or Imoen?

 

[jungl]

its going to be real time. Turn based fans are going to be really disappointed.

 

[Grotesque]

I propose another combat type poll for Larian to "ignore" like the cucks at inXile did. It really turned out good for them.

The poll was 7,267 voters for turn-based, 7,052 for real-time and 782 indifferent people
"We have decided to go with turn-based combat," Project Lead Kevin Saunders wrote in a Kickstarter update. "Ultimately, there are no losers here. This is all part of the process of making an RPG we are all passionate about and we think you'll like Torment's combat even if you voted for RTwP. While we have not been looking forward to disappointing half of our backers, we were happy to find that many of the reasons people gave for disliking TB and preferring RTwP can be addressed through the details of our combat system and encounter design."

i doubt that BG 3 is going to be TB or something like D:OS2 linear map.

 

[fantadomat]

My prediction is that their pc bugs out and there is no gameplay footage and we spend 200 more pages talking about it !

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Swen dabbing on butthurt boomer grognards

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Regarding the whole motion capture and all the details they put on characters. I won't be surprised if the end result will be something like this:

I saw this game and thought the same thing

 

[deuxhero]

Is anyone doubting that Minsc is going to be make at least a cameo? I predict him being a companion.

Wasn't there some shitty comic that established he was petrified then depetrified to be alive after a time gap (where, in FR tradition, absolutely zero innovation happened)?

I'd be perfectly OK with one cameo like a painting, supposedly of a great hero, that depicts him or a miniature giant space hamster seller. Odds are there's going to be a dozen.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Consider the following:
Milf aerie companion

 

[Lacrymas]

Regarding the whole motion capture and all the details they put on characters. I won't be surprised if the end result will be something like this:

I saw this game and thought the same thing

I don't want to watch a short film every time I give an order. I'm not sure why nobody gets that.

 

[Mortmal]

Is codex cool with 5e? Last time I brought it up it was like heresy.

Of course not ! Codex is only officialy cool with 2E and disgruntedly maybe 3.5 pathfinder, especially amongst those who never had a group . Playing said systems is not mandatory to express loudly an opinion of course. I played pretty much everything , i appreciate 5e as being back to the roots if not flawless yet.

 

[Gregz]

Only sweaty, overweight neckbeards are not cool with 5E.

Gregz?

0 - 13

Spoiler

Total number of women Crispy has slept with - Total number of women Gregz has slept with

 

[Grotesque]

Regarding the whole motion capture and all the details they put on characters. I won't be surprised if the end result will be something like this:

I saw this game and thought the same thing

I don't want to watch a short film every time I give an order. I'm not sure why nobody gets that.

of course the devs will allow you to disable the camera zooming in

 

[Sentinel]

Regarding the whole motion capture and all the details they put on characters. I won't be surprised if the end result will be something like this:

I saw this game and thought the same thing

I don't want to watch a short film every time I give an order. I'm not sure why nobody gets that.

of course the devs will allow you to disable the camera zooming in

...rendering their hundreds of hours of mocap worthless

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

itz gonna be card system

Honestly I was referring to the Gold Box games which were released in mid-late 1980s?

Gateway to Apshai, a 1983 RT RPG running on an actual toaster. And it didn't even have a pause, which by your standards is even more progress, right?[/QUOTE]

exactly. No pause means the super quantum C64 computer chip which we have forgot how to build now did not even have time to catch up to the mathematical calculations and physics going as the player played and the game progressed.

It had to do it all on the fly. I remember on those cold days back in 1984 in the bay area in my drafty house I could keep my cup of hot chocolate warm by placing it on the keyboard/computer terminal of the c64 as it worked at break neck speed to keep up with me playing Gateway to Apshai. Unfortunately that was a bad design, and I ended up spilling the drink inside the C64..but 2 weeks later after it dried out it worked again, even with a colony of fucking ants living in it..fucking epic.