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

[Strange Fellow]

What I saw from the demonstration looked pretty similar to the Solasta demo, actually, just flashier and with a lot more interactivity and contextual actions like push, jump et cetera.

 

[frajaq]

Think I finally realize the uneasy feeling I had watching this gameplay reveal: that they are going HARD on D&D 5E rules and class balance.

When Swen was in character creation and scrolled down the classes and I saw barebone Fighter features a little thread of hope I had inside me was severed, compared to how much fun I had with Warfare skills in DOS:2.

I want to play as a heavily armored motherfucker (so far the game doesnt even have Half-Orcs!) and feel badass/threatening on the battlefield, and so far it doesnt look like BG3 is gonna give this to me

 

[Darth Canoli]

Yes, I was hoping for the Latin incantations - added so much to the atmposphere in BG1/2.

Didn't watch long enough to hear that but i agree, each time some casters in pathfinder say :"i feel pretty" while incantating, i want to give the owlcat team some arsenic to spice up their coffee.

 

[DraQ]

Swen told that tutorial isn't ready yet and it's all about getting out of the ship.

oh my god it's a dos2 clone!!!

Some of my most cherished games started on a ship.

 

[Nerevar]

Does anyone know what 5e is?

Why would they change it so much. I was expecting something with soul. I was expecting 3.5 like NWN1.

 

[Infinitron]

What I think the edgier parts of the Codex are finding it hard to come to terms with is that this is what turn-based RPGs look like when they're commercially succcessful.

Don't you see? This is it. This is what you wanted BioWare to be. This is what BioWare could have become if they'd decided to make RPGs that are "turn-based with lots of C&C!" just like the Codex always said it wanted them to. The Biodocs are looking at Swen Vincke right now and saying, "In another timeline, that could have been us."

And that's why it's so appropriate that this is Baldur's Gate III, as different as it is from the original games.

 

[Ausdoerrt]

i don't get it why people complain about the dialogue as both originals had abysmal writing and plot. They're great only because of the combat and exploration and it seems that BG3 might deliver on that front.

But, but... you get to romance a drow, that's good writing, right?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

so far the game doesnt even have Half-Orcs!

Sven mentioned that not all of the races and classes have been shown and/or implemented yet.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Imagine working at bioware right now
Everything you've put out for years has been shit, your company is tanking, Anthem was one of the biggest failures in video game history
and then some plucky company that just kept at it for years swoops in and steals the one thing your company was known for, and it looks fucking fantastic, way better than your company could have possibly ever done

 

[Oreshnik Missile]

I am not going to play Disco Hipsterium or this soulless normie digital hamster wheel.

 

[Ulysa]

Did anyone ask party size? Is it 4?

 

[hell bovine]

Are they in the under dark? Lmao

And what are those brain thingies?

Intellect devourers. They're Mind Flayer dogs, essentially. MUCH more dangerous in the tabletop. Just one of them should be able to murder an L1 party no contest.

I knew those little brain thingies looked familiar, NWN had them.

 

[Shadenuat]

You actually fight one as boss in NWN1 at something like level 5-8.

 

[ItsChon]

What picture are you waiting for, shitbrain?

Your disgusting, dilapidated face and body. I thought it was obvious, but you're senile old brain must not be capable of understanding. You talk a lot of shit, but I guaran-fucking-tee you're incapable of backing up any of it. What are the chances that you're some three hundred pound neckbeard, living alone in a shitty apartment, shitposting on the internet with cheeto and cum stains all over your wife beater. I'm betting pretty high.

You're irrelevant. You are a fucking teenager. That alone means that anything you say is retarded and useless. Your taste in anything is shit for that alone. You're as interesting as a retard screeching and flapping his arms around. You are literal space filler. But they worst part is you're way, way dumber than the average teenager. A cautionary tale if I've ever seen one

Much wow. Young people are so dumb. You sure got me good.

LMAO. "i'm so much better than you at everything". "ItsChon" is the level of intelligence you have to be to think that wins an internet argument.

Internet argument? Haha, right. Because you calling shit retarded and sperging out is an argument. Note how you didn't deny it? You know I'm better than you at life, and it must eat you alive. Don't @ me faggot, every time I respond to you I feel like you get that much closer to killing yourself, and I don't want that on my conscience.

 

[AliceAlcina]

You actually fight one as boss in NWN1 at something like level 5-8.

it's level 5

 

[Heroic Liberator]

What I think the edgier parts of the Codex are finding it hard to come to terms with is that this is what turn-based RPGs look like when they're commercially succcessful.

Don't you see? This is it. This is what you wanted BioWare to be. This is what BioWare could have become if they'd decided to make RPGs that are "turn-based with lots of C&C!" just like the Codex always said it wanted them to. The Biodocs are looking at Swen Vincke right now and saying, "In another timeline, that could have been us."

Did you conjure that up in the Kabbalah?

 

[DraQ]

Does anyone know what 5e is?

Why would they change it so much.

So... Have you heard about DnD 4e?

 

[whydoibother]

Let's look at the bright side, Larian is doing a lot better than Obsidian...

Spoiler

Didn't you muppets learn to not link to 4chan like that? Its been over a decade.

 

[drgames]

and then some plucky company that just kept at it for years swoops in and steals the one thing your company was known for, and it looks fucking generic

way better than your company could have possibly ever done

No. I think any AAA video game company could pull it better if it wanted.

 

[Shadenuat]

they changed it because D&D 4 tanked.

 

[Dramart]

It's better to not have combat, AKA Disco, than turd based.

At least "turd based" count as a video game, it's ten thousand and fourty two times better than that interactive novel.

 

[Rpguy]

you will be able to ‘romance’ (read: bang) all your companions in Baldur’s Gate 3

 

[I ASK INANE QUESTIONS]

Dogs eat dog food.

 

[NJClaw]

Wondering how they got a chance that's not a multiple of 5% in that pic. Maybe it's a result of advantage (I don't know the math for that off hand).

It's definitely a result of advantage/disadvantage. You can read (almost) everything you need about the math here.

You people are self-sabotaging, joyless catastrophizers. This is the first AAA turn-based D&D RPG ever, and taking into consideration the AAA part this is absolutely surreal and almost tailor-made for Codex tastes. Yes, the visuals can be a bit ...too much, but the combat and verticality, the sozzy-ness of being able to talk to people with all of your companions while your main is skulking around, the faithful adaptation of D&D 5E, the amount of physical feats you can do in combat (jump, dash, push, pull, shove, I think I saw grapple there as well), the itemisation not being random, etc. etc. are all pure incline and almost hard to believe is actually happening. Not to mention we are also getting a bunch of other RPGs, like the new Pathfinder, Realms Beyond, Solasta, Colony Ship, and so on. This is fantastic, we should be overjoyed.

Can we please delete the entire thread and just leave this post? This is honestly the only thing that there is to say on this topic.

 

[fantadomat]

What I think the edgier parts of the Codex are finding it hard to come to terms with is that this is what turn-based RPGs look like when they're commercially succcessful.

Don't you see? This is it. This is what you wanted BioWare to be. This is what BioWare could have become if they'd decided to make RPGs that are "turn-based with lots of C&C!" just like the Codex always said it wanted them to. The Biodocs are looking at Swen Vincke right now and saying, "In another timeline, that could have been us."

And that's why it's so appropriate that this is Baldur's Gate III, as different as it is from the original games.

So when Fallout changes subgenres it is heresy,but when BG does it is incline?!