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

Seari

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Larian should hire Beamdog as consultants, they've got plenty of experience on milking Baldur's Gate.
 
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Lacrymas said:
If only you had played 1 roguelike (let's say ToME) in your entire life
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Life is short :P I'm only interested in fully fledged RPGs and something not present in those(apparently ever) is not a concern for me or for any fully fledged RPG...like BG3.
 

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Let me outline the issue here. You want to play the D&D you know and love from the late 90s and early 2000s, perhaps from even further back.

This D&D is gone. You will never get that D&D back in computer form. Even Kingmaker is not that thing, regardless of how much you may love it because of its fiddly bits and combat-heavy design.

The new D&D is indeed Critical Role. It's flashy, colorful and over the top, it's flamboyant. It's not dark, it's not gritty, it's not flavorful, it's not finely crafted or paid much attention to. It's a heavily branded, heavily corporate product that is intended to sell to as many living souls as possible. Back in the 80s TSR knew it was selling to nerds, they never made an effort to present the game in a way that would appeal to everyone.

At the moment, WotC, faggots like Critical Role and even Matt Colville who would seem amicable at first glance, and Larian are pushing for maximum exposure and maximum sales to everyone. Tabletop D&D has been extremely vocal about how it wants to make the game enjoyable for everyone, whether you're 8 or 80, a boy, a girl, a tranny or a socially disabled furry. As long as you have a wallet and can pay money, they want you to like the game.

Which is exactly why Baldur's Gate 3 is what it is - an overly colorful, bland, flavorless, visually overtweaked game of dandies wearing Renaissance-era doublets and retarded hairdos, instead of actual metal armor and dusty, tattered adventurer's clothing. The visual style of the game is 100% the style you see in 50-dollar retarded art commissions on D&D 5E's reddit where sexually confused young adults ask deviantart to draw their party of other equally confused companions.

This is what Baldur's Gate 3 is going to be and you will never get the D&D of your memories and dreams, ever again.
 
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Kruno said:
Tweet isn't loading for me. What does it say?
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The Codex Tweeter account posted that Codex image of the codex troll choosing his dialogue options while talking to Swen.
Swen replies: Only 3 options?

Black said:
There are no good balanced crpgs.
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Of the top of my head I can think of Startrail and Dark Sun. Which are also one of the best cRPG's unlike any Baldur's Gate.
 
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Turuko

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Curratum said:
Let me outline the issue here. You want to play the D&D you know and love from the late 90s and early 2000s, perhaps from even further back.

This D&D is gone. You will never get that D&D back in computer form. Even Kingmaker is not that thing, regardless of how much you may love it because of its fiddly bits and combat-heavy design.

The new D&D is indeed Critical Role. It's flashy, colorful and over the top, it's flamboyant. It's not dark, it's not gritty, it's not flavorful, it's not finely crafted or paid much attention to. It's a heavily branded, heavily corporate product that is intended to sell to as many living souls as possible. Back in the 80s TSR knew it was selling to nerds, they never made an effort to present the game in a way that would appeal to everyone.

At the moment, WotC, faggots like Critical Role and even Matt Colville who would seem amicable at first glance, and Larian are pushing for maximum exposure and maximum sales to everyone. Tabletop D&D has been extremely vocal about how it wants to make the game enjoyable for everyone, whether you're 8 or 80, a boy, a girl, a tranny or a socially disabled furry. As long as you have a wallet and can pay money, they want you to like the game.

Which is exactly why Baldur's Gate 3 is what it is - an overly colorful, bland, flavorless, visually overtweaked game of dandies wearing Renaissance-era doublets and retarded hairdos, instead of actual metal armor and dusty, tattered adventurer's clothing. The visual style of the game is 100% the style you see in 50-dollar retarded art commissions on D&D 5E's reddit where sexually confused young adults ask deviantart to draw their party of other equally confused companions.

This is what Baldur's Gate 3 is going to be and you will never get the D&D of your memories and dreams, ever again.
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Tell'em!
Back in the day we would roll the dices uphill in the snow!



I agree btw
 
Reinhardt

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Curratum said:
Reinhardt said:
Curratum said:
dusty, tattered adventurer's clothing.
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Have you ever seen any high or just mid level mage in IE games?
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The IE games have sprites the size of my thumb nail, you can't convey anything through an image of that size. In current year, you can do whatever you like, visually and stylistically, and they went for the worst option.
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What about Imoen in PINK thief armor? Or any fighter in colored AND luminescent metal armors?
 
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Meh, BG sprites convey all that they need to:

monk%2Bunarmed%2Bmaximum%2Bdamage.jpg


vorpal%2Bhit.jpg


assassin%2B21%2Bmage%2B24%2Biron%2Bfist%2Bbackstab.jpg


baldur%2527s%2Bgate%2Bmaximum%2Bmelee%2Bdamage.jpg


celestial%2Bfury%2Bkai%2Bcritical.jpg
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Quillon

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Lacrymas said:
Roguelikes are "full fledged RPGs" lol.
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whatever, they are also Idontlikes, Cantbebothereds. If there is a faster and better TB system I'll play it when its implemented in game I'm interested in. It isn't relevant itt.
 
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I'm belatedly watching the gameplay reveal. It's an epic fail. On account of the numerous hiccups, bugs, errors and so on, the game should flop. Also it doesn't seem like Swen knows how to play his own game.

I know that it's pre-Alpha but maybe I'll check again in 2023 or something.
 
Lacrymas

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It's expected to have bugs in a pre-alpha, Swen said as much, especially in an RPG like BG3. I can't believe I'm defending Larian, but credit where credit's due. If someone doesn't like BG3 for some reason, you have Pathfinder to look forward to.
 
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Grab the Codex by the pussy Pathfinder: Wrath
holla_cabezas_de_mierda said:
conan_edw said:
70 pages in a day? that's very hard to catch on. Anyway, it doesn't seem to have anything to resemble Baldur's Gate so I don't know why did they bother with using it rather than having their own ip in FR. With that said, I'm really impressed with what I saw, I'm not that of a fan of BG anyway.
The writing doesn't seem to be that interesting but I really didn't care that much either, the gameplay really seem to be solid. Sneaking in D:OS wasn't that useful and I really like the new system. The dynamism and environmental interactions seem to also be a steup up from D:OS, and most importantly now we have a way better ruleset that's faithfully implemented. I may not be in the majority here but I really prefer the 3D environment with verticality, I think they add a lot to the gameplay.
As much as I hate Early Access but I will get into this day one :D, it could the most excited I have been for an upcoming game.
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Hmmm--lets see..lets sum this up...

-70 pages, did not read...
-Its called BG, but does not seem to be anything like BG. That is okay, you don't like BG anyway...... are not a fan.
-Writing does not seem to be that Interesting.... Thats okay, you don't into writing that much anyway....






- Verticality.


-Go Zoomer Go.
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:butthurt:


Well rather:

-No one plays BG for writing anyway
-Turn based > RTwp
-faithful implementation of DnD
-3D environment where much more could be done
-Shouldn't have been named BG3 but it's a majestic incline nonetheless
 
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