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

[Dwarvophile]

This video says these tadpoles are not standard ones:

So, amongst all the guardians of the lore and Larian haters, there haven't been, at least, one to admit that this cinematic intro looked awesome ?

 

[Rostere]

This video says these tadpoles are not standard ones:

So, amongst all the guardians of the lore and Larian haters, there haven't been, at least, one to admit that this cinematic intro looked awesome ?

It's just that nobody cares about shiny cinematics.

There are combatfags, there are storyfags, but I have never heard of cinematicfags.

 

[Lacrymas]

If there's something which doesn't interest me at all, that's cinematics.

 

[Roguey]

They said these are only for early access, they'll be more. 5 companions for a BG game is lame.

Given that there are 8 classes, I'd expect just three more, especially given that each companion has to be playable as an origin and a romance. Minsc isn't happening regardless.

 

[Lacrymas]

They said all base classes are going to be in the game, 8 are only for EA.

 

[Spectacle]

The multiverse is vast and full of terrors. Who is to say this specific group of Illithids hasn't tampered with their own life cycle for whatever reason?

It's always bad optics to retcon long-established lore because it spits in the face of people who have bought the books and learned the lore. It also sets a bad precedent, if they can retcon anything, why bother having an interest in the lore or having any lore whatsoever? Exploring other worlds is only as interesting as the lore sets them up to be (not lore in of itself, but what we do with it). And the established lore is more dangerous, it's harder to escape the illithid so the stakes are higher and thus more thrilling. It's just bad a practice all around.

It remains to be seen if the BG3 plot is a "retcon" or a logical extension of the lore. Things change. Nurgle didn't need to retcon SARS to present us with COVID-19, and you don't need to retcon the established mindflayer reproductive cycle to have a single case where the tadpoles have a different function than transforming the host to a mindflayer.

 

[Roguey]

They said all base classes are going to be in the game, 8 are only for EA.

The sites I'm seeing saying that there will be 6 classes for EA and 8 total.

 

[AwesomeButton]

They said all base classes are going to be in the game, 8 are only for EA.

The sites I'm seeing saying that there will be 6 classes for EA and 8 total.

But these 8 will come with 3 specializations each, so a total of 24?

 

[Lacrymas]

They said all base classes are going to be in the game, 8 are only for EA.

The sites I'm seeing saying that there will be 6 classes for EA and 8 total.

https://fextralife.com/baldurs-gate-iii-everything-we-know-so-far-gameplay-mechanics/

It's not exactly clear where they got their info from, an interview they personally did I guess.

 

[DraQ]

Larian confirmed all companions are romanceable. If Minsc makes it in I expect everyone will hold them to that. Poor boo.

I believe this will be it as far as companions go.

e.g. Look at what they used for D:OS 2

*looks*
Indeed, indeed:

Spoiler

I heard diviner is a weak kit.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The tadpole eats your brain in an hour, the gestating period is one week after that in which the host body is completely immobile and defenseless. You can't rest spam for a week because you are already dead after your brain has been eaten. Duh. Ceremorphosis doesn't work like in that first trailer we got 8 months ago.

 

[Lacrymas]

Then you have a maximum of 20 hours if all of those attributes are at 20. Which they won't be, but I guess you can spam restoration. I'm also not sure if you can even move when your DEX falls to 3.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

The steam forums are going nuts full of people claiming is not BG and at the same time not knowing a jack shit how baldurs gate is supposed to be.
The blistering stupidity of some people is hilarious to watch!

Is not bg is turn based!
Graphic so colorful bg were dark!!!
Muh writings. ((despite bg1 writing to be lazy and silly all the time))

People complaining about turn based games in a game that is based on a pen and paper rpg that is actually guess what? Turnbased!

they should go to format they PC and don't touch a pc ever again.

Go to play on console plebs

 

[DeepOcean]

I doubt they will implement time limits, you sleep 8 hs each rest and as I doubt they will restrict resting on any meaningful way, rest spaming will be in and with 8hs after each rest, you can waste 1 week easy. I have to say it isnt wise to have a condition that is time sensitive and have a fake sense of urgency on your story, people shit all over Bethesda for this bullshit. This is a BG 3 sequel, so you can assume lots of side quests, does it make sense to do side quests with a worm eating your brain? Unless... they will do something worse and use the tadpole as just a contrivance to give you powers. I dont know which of the two options I hate less.

 

[DraQ]

The steam forums are going nuts full of people claiming is not BG and at the same time not knowing a jack shit how baldurs gate is supposed to be.
The blistering stupidity of some people is hilarious to watch!

Is not bg is turn based!
Graphic so colorful bg were dark!!!
Muh writings. ((despite bg1 writing to be lazy and silly all the time))

People complaining about turn based games in a game that is based on a pen and paper rpg that is actually guess what? Turnbased!

they should go to format they PC and don't touch a pc ever again.

Go to play on console plebs

Do post quotes/screenshots/links.

 

[DraQ]

I have to say it isnt wise to have a condition that is time sensitive and have a fake sense of urgency on your story, people shit all over Bethesda for this bullshit.

It's spelled "Interplay".

 

[Grotesque]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with asset recycling. No, I don't need a new bag UI for every game Larian makes.

No, what you need with every Swen's game is his cock in your arsehole because you are a superficial whore that literally begged for a "Larian fanboy" tag around here.

who do I have to message to get a swen fanboy tag

You would say anything, embrace the kitsch, warp logic and backstab common sense only to suck some more on that dick.

 

[user]

On one hand, it is nice and... "wholesome" as the kids say.

But on the other hand, I'd SHIT TALK so hard if I was one of these guys. Also because I know this is all a load of shit. The reality is every time Swen had a bug or glitch or something wrong happened, Owlcat was laughing and giggling and doing prisyadka dances. I'd love it if more developers were honest and direct and did some good old fashioned Sega vs. Nintendo rivalry hijinks. Owlcat does what Larian don't, make up some bullshit like blast processing, claim BG3 has ransomware hidden deep in its code that will sell your information to drug cartels, give us a good fight. You think Swen is there going, "I sure hope Pathfinder's new game is a smashing success!" Hell no. He saw Owlcat's response there and was FUMING at their compliment.

Nope, that level of stupidity is reserved for fans. There is some comradery between devs. Surely, they wouldn't be excited to see the other game becoming more successful than their own, but they actually want it to succeed, because a flop influences the whole market and a success may even boost their own sales. They are not exactly rivals like ISSPro and FIFA would be, or nintendo and sega, which is usually one or the other.

And from a practical perspective, it is nice that it happened when Owlcat tweeted about BG initially, indulging Sven to tweet about them as well so that Owlcat gains more coverage.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The steam forums are going nuts full of people claiming is not BG and at the same time not knowing a jack shit how baldurs gate is supposed to be.
The blistering stupidity of some people is hilarious to watch!

Is not bg is turn based!
Graphic so colorful bg were dark!!!
Muh writings. ((despite bg1 writing to be lazy and silly all the time))

People complaining about turn based games in a game that is based on a pen and paper rpg that is actually guess what? Turnbased!

they should go to format they PC and don't touch a pc ever again.

Go to play on console plebs

Meh, I think what's happening in normie world is a rerun of what has been going on in the Codex around the time of PoE's release - people trying to define, in the Codex' case "what's an Infinity Engine-style game" and in the current case "What's a BG game". At the same time it's a battle between "The game should continue the story/"spirit " of the past games" and "The game should continue the past games themselves, together with/conserving their gameplay, writing style, and visual style".

 

[soulburner]

I had to quit reading forums and comment sections where BG3 is mentioned. The amount of stupidity out there is immense.

People say "but BG wasn't turn based, it was all in real time!", "why is it 3D?", "it looks like a mobile game", "no console version is lazy and unprofessional", "why doesn't it continue where BG2 left off?" :D

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

I had to quit reading forums and comment sections where BG3 is mentioned. The amount of stupidity out there is immense.

People say "but BG wasn't turn based, it was all in real time!", "why is it 3D?", "it looks like a mobile game", "no console version is lazy and unprofessional", "why doesn't it continue where BG2 left off?" :D

Yes riight? Like the people that pretended to continue as the Bhaalspawn because the game is called baldurs gate 3.

Seriously what happened to the gamer community? This crippling stupidity is hilarious to watch.

:D

 

[user]

I had to quit reading forums and comment sections where BG3 is mentioned. The amount of stupidity out there is immense.

People say "but BG wasn't turn based, it was all in real time!", "why is it 3D?", "it looks like a mobile game", "no console version is lazy and unprofessional", "why doesn't it continue where BG2 left off?" :D

Asking why it is 3D instead of using some 2D art which can afford to be way more detailed than a mesh texture instead of having that useless camera zoom, is a legit question. Rest are troll material.

BTW isn't it possible that we see our main char's cannon ending in BG2 since the dead three are involved here?

 

[Thonius]

Swen/WOTC changed the lore apparently there are different forms of ceremorphosis now (form an interview from last June) https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2019-baldurs-gate-3-aims-to-do-what-no-other-rp/1100-6467440/

Then you see that there's been conflict clearly. There's dead bodies everywhere and then something's happening to this knight and he's actually undergoing a version of what we would call accelerated ceremorphosis, which is basically a way of reproduction that these creatures called the mind flayers have.

And that's why you should not care about lore as in reeeeing over it when it "suddenly" changes.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Swen/WOTC changed the lore apparently there are different forms of ceremorphosis now (form an interview from last June) https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2019-baldurs-gate-3-aims-to-do-what-no-other-rp/1100-6467440/

Then you see that there's been conflict clearly. There's dead bodies everywhere and then something's happening to this knight and he's actually undergoing a version of what we would call accelerated ceremorphosis, which is basically a way of reproduction that these creatures called the mind flayers have.

And that's why you should not care about lore as in reeeeing over it when it "suddenly changes.

Bioware made your character in BG killing Driitz if you wanted. Not to mention Klauth and Mephistophele in the the NWN saga. Is not like bioware never took their liberty in such matters. All you have to do is compare the picture of the 3.0 monster manuals and then watch the models of the first nwn. You will notice many monster were changed drastically by design. The only game that actually made 3d models following closely the monster manuals were NWN2

 

[AwesomeButton]

I had to quit reading forums and comment sections where BG3 is mentioned. The amount of stupidity out there is immense.

People say "but BG wasn't turn based, it was all in real time!", "why is it 3D?", "it looks like a mobile game", "no console version is lazy and unprofessional", "why doesn't it continue where BG2 left off?" :D

Yes riight? Like the people that pretended to continue as the Bhaalspawn because the game is called baldurs gate 3.

Seriously what happened to the gamer community? This crippling stupidity is hilarious to watch.

:D

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