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

[hivemind]

nooo it doesnt have my favourite meme companion with a hamster noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

its not reaal baldursgate noooooooooooooooooo

Spoiler

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Or perharps beamdog should had done that.

 

[Boomer_007]

28 Years later, and we still have pop-up loot-bags and "'take a couple of boxes and make a pyramid" almost directly from Ultima 7


As Sven said: "Different times, different methods".

 

[Rivmusique]

[Black Hound] was a 3d engine with rotating camera

Declaring this long ago cancelled game decline.

 

[Delterius]

Like I said earlier, Josh Sawyer as the villain of decline was so much better than swen.

maybe because sven isn't a villain

hes a cuddly belgian waffleperson with a cool baldurs gate game where you visit baldurs gate

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

The first thing I'd do is remove all the SFX from the physical feats, that's just silly and not needed. I'd also tone down the spell SFX, it's also not needed for Guiding Bolt to look like a mini nuclear explosion. We don't have too many other visuals to go by, the one valley and the one crypt we've seen don't give us a clear picture. The models are also a bit too "clean", they look very much alike and like they've gone through extensive skincare routine to go out on the catwalk. They need more visual personality, just being a gith is not enough. She doesn't even look like a gith!

this. It triggers the shit out of me how gleaming they are. They look like they have gone to makeup and are on the set of a movie or a play. Their amour is blinding, and looks unused. They look like they bleach their assholes and tweeze their twat hairs. Its fucking triggering as fuck.

 

[Valky]

Like I said earlier, Josh Sawyer as the villain of decline was so much better than swen.

maybe because sven isn't a villain

hes a cuddly belgian waffleperson with a cool baldurs gate game where you visit baldurs gate

Swen sold out for casuals ever since decline edition but he still has the enthusiasm and heart of gold.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

What bothers me about both D:OS games is not the 3d or the turn based with multiplayer (why would it?), or the environmental combos thing. It's the fact that both games are bloated with combat and offer nothing interesting once you get past the first act.

I think being bloated with combat (and also each combat encounter being kind of slow) isn't just something that Larian are doing by accident. They really believe that the combat is a selling point of their games, and that people savor it and want lots of it.

See that 2018 interview with Larian's publishing director that LESS T_T posted earlier in this thread. They see themselves as being more in competition with XCOM than with "true RPGs".

I see myself as lots of things

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

the only thread that matters https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/0/1750150007024924167/

Can we talk about how one of his two examples of a "sexy, femme fatale" woman is this:

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I used spoilers because I like you all too much to spring a jump scare like that on you.

also the only one who looks slightly heterosexual male is

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[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

I only have high hopes for the gameplay and exploration, the writing is obviously made-up on the spot and going to be Tumblr-tier. I also rewatched some parts of the gameplay video right now and I think people are jumping to conclusions about the vampire being gay. He says he tried to seduce the noble to bring him to his master, you don't need to be gay to do that.

God forbid the character is gay might make codexers uncomfortable.

the issue is they are all gay

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

They ruined more lore in 5 minutes

ruining forgotten realms lore after the spellplague, lol

Forgotten Realms in general is quite the infantile setting. Not much that you can ruin.

Exactly. It's a setting where not a single innovation has been created in the last 500+ years.

so add faggots in shiny armour and puffy shirts selling cheese and throwing boots and dipping their balls

 

[Heroic Liberator]

They ruined more lore in 5 minutes

ruining forgotten realms lore after the spellplague, lol

Forgotten Realms in general is quite the infantile setting. Not much that you can ruin.

Exactly. It's a setting where not a single innovation has been created in the last 500+ years.

so add faggots in shiny armour and puffy shirts selling cheese and throwing boots and dipping their balls

Missing the point entirely. Forgotten Realms is a setting which works well for campy adventures. It's neither Tolkien nor GRRM and there's absolutely no problem with that.

Point being, Larian's rendition will (mainly) suck not because it supposedly breaks the already established lore, but because of Larian's vision (including your complaints about "faggots in shiny armour and puffy shirts selling cheese and throwing boots and dipping their balls").

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

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 ?

cool. are they going to make a full length D&D movie? I would be down for that. Otherwise, what I am to do? Watch a 4 minute video 600 times?

 

[Space Satan]

Classic

 

[Black]

They're playing both sides to max exp and loot gain.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Considering the references to Spelljammer, this game should have fewer Gith and more Giff:

The giff are a race of powerfully muscled, hippopotami mercenaries. They are civilized in that they understand the basics of spelljamming, though they lack mages among their own race. Instead, they hire on with various groups throughout the universe as mercenaries, bodyguards, enforcers, and general leg-breakers. They are pretty good at it, too.

The basic form of the giff is humanoid, with stocky, flat, cylindrical legs and a humanoid torso, arms, and fingers. The chest is broad and supports a neckless head that looks like a hippopotamus's. Giff come in colors ranging from black to gray to a rich gold, but many have colorful tattoos that leave their bodies a patchwork record of past jobs and victories. Giffs speak their own language and the common tongue.

The giff are military-minded, and organize themselves into squads, platoons, companies, corps, and larger groups. The number of giff in a platoon varies according to the season, situation, and level of danger involved . A giff "platoon" hired to protect a gambling operation may number two, while a platoon hired to invade an illithid stronghold may number well over a hundred.

- Spelljammer Campaign Setting Box Set (art by Jim Holloway)

 

[Saravan]

How thoughtful of you to meme yourself.

 

[Dramart]

Gnome - Given their unpopularity, I think they'll be cut

I'm not surprised I never cared for gnomes either except svirfneblims.

nooo it doesnt have my favourite meme companion with a hamster noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

its not reaal baldursgate noooooooooooooooooo

Spoiler

But it's kind of true.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Go to play on console plebs

Coincidently TB will sell more because console player can play it

How about you play this awsum TB game on console

 

[Saravan]

I only have high hopes for the gameplay and exploration, the writing is obviously made-up on the spot and going to be Tumblr-tier. I also rewatched some parts of the gameplay video right now and I think people are jumping to conclusions about the vampire being gay. He says he tried to seduce the noble to bring him to his master, you don't need to be gay to do that.

God forbid the character is gay might make codexers uncomfortable.

the issue is they are all gay

It's not even clear at this point whether Astarion is gay as his reference to that man was in the context of luring a victim to drink blood.

Regardless however there are far more interesting parameters to judge character writing besides sexuality but of course if you are a raging neckbeard you might be afraid to catch the gays if you are playing a video game in close proximity to a fictional one.

 

[DalekFlay]

Classic

The pro-RtwP editorial is basically just a nostalgia jack-off for the originals, like half the posts in this thread.

 

[AwesomeButton]

“So if you sleep with Liselle one night at camp, the next night you might well just find her sleeping with somebody else. And she’s going to be like, ‘oh, that was a bit of fun, wasn’t it? How are you doing?’ And you’re just like, ‘oh!’ Heartbroken!” - Adam Smith lead writer

https://www.vg247.com/2020/02/27/baldurs-gate-3-romance-all-companions/#below-article

One look at this guy was enough for me to know he likes such shit.

I pity the poor souls that think that a single asset from the alpha will get changed for something new / not reused in final.

Years of watching "first look"-s, "previews", "early access"-es, etc. has taught them nothing. Such innocence.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The sensible thing is to use whatever assets you already have,

This applies always.
Graphics whores need to fuck off.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The insistence on making games 3D in the early 3D era was such a fucking mistake.
IWD still looks amazing, NWN still looks like trash.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

"It's early alpha, it'll be fixed by beta."

"It's closed beta, it'll be fixed by open beta."

"It's open beta, it'll be fixed by release."

"It's release, it'll be fixed in a few patches."

"It's a few patches, it'll be fixed in the enhanced edition."

"It's enhanced edition, it'll never be fixed."