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

[Jezal_k23]

If the maps aren't too linear, this has quite a lot of potential. The writing is going to be cringe, no doubt about it, but everything else looks fine. This being an AAA game is surreal.

Yeah doom and gloom is annoying. As long as they've moved on from their mistakes in DOS2, I think they have potential to make a competent game.

 

[DeepOcean]

Never seen such a majestic slam dunk since Feargus glorious days.

 

[Reinhardt]

Not picking every piece of loot as lvl 1 character triggering me!

 

[Aemar]

It’s anything but Baldur’s Gate.

The only thing this game seems to have in common with the previous games is the name itself. Other than that what we've been shown here is pretty much generic Larian gameplay. I'm expecting Realms Beyond and the next PF release to be much closer to the BG spirit.

 

[Xunwael]

At least these characters are significantly less obnoxious than the DOS ones so far.

 

[Lyric Suite]

The combat looks like a faithful adaptation, why are you people not content? The set-up is too epic, but you win some, you lose some. I'm hoping you get to do more typically adventurous things after you get away from the illithids.

Just the fact the games STARTS with the Illithids is retarded in itself.

Even the interface has a Lovecraftian aesthetic. It's industrial fantasy syndrome at work. Everything in it has to scream "fantastic" there's no room for anything normal or mundane which would make the Illithids feel fantastic within the world itself.

I mean, with the Drow and Giths as playable races we have already crossed that threshold a long time i ago but it's just amusing how they spent not even a micro second of time trying to play on the nostalgia of the original.

 

[ADL]

 

[Heroic Liberator]

So you already have two companions sharing your fate of 'ocular penetration'.

 

[Sacibengala]

For someone that was just being raped by Illithids they are pretty well dressed and with their hairdo impecable.

 

[Alienman]

Gay vampire

He's gonna suck you dry, bro.

In more ways than one.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

consider the following:
you're actually the illithid tadpole, it's why all the dialogue choices seem so odd and you have to roll to convince "yourself"

 

[Shaewaroz]

Story and characters 1/10 so far.

 

[Delterius]

For someone that was just being raped by Illithids they are pretty well dressed and with their hairdo impecable.

another side effect of the tidepole, hair lubrication

 

[Heroic Liberator]

For someone that was just being raped by Illithids they are pretty well dressed and with their hairdo impecable.

He's a gay vampire, so of course. Twilight 3: Baldur's Sin.

 

[deuxhero]

So you already have two companions sharing your fate of 'ocular penetration'.

I'll say one positive thing about this: Putting the party members under mutual impending doom is a great way to justify working with characters who would normally be out of character.

 

[sullynathan]

Wow, even small shadow stealth. Most RPGs can't even get that right.

 

[Tyranicon]

consider the following:
you're actually the illithid tadpole, it's why all the dialogue choices seem so odd

Cosmic brain.

I'm taking this as gospel.

Well... this and bad writers because Larian.

 

[Lindire]

Ah yes, the time tried method of scaling cliffs - jumping on them.

 

[Alienman]

Now I'm mostly curious if the map feels "theme-parky" like in original sin... hard to tell so far.

 

[vonAchdorf]

The music right now is pretty atmospheric.

 

[Jarpie]

They haven't answered the two most important questions yet, will there be romances, and where's Minsc?!

 

[Theodora]

He's a gay vampire, so of course. Twilight 3: Baldur's Sin.

But Twilight is horribly straight. (Just not intended for men.)

 

[Orma]

Not gonna lie, game looks really good

 

[Lacrymas]

Why is everyone assuming he's a gay vampire?

 

[Strange Fellow]

Come on, this stuff is seriously cool. Light level for stealth, jumps, featherfall, all the D:OS environmental interactions? Brilliant.