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

[Curratum]

I see Codexers are discovering denial as a coping mechanism. That's cute.

Pressing a reaction button is not going to take the pink-haired SJW man out of your favorite game, I'm afraid.

 

[Curratum]

But I think it's more a movement that's American. In Europe, especially through our libraries, they are more like everyone else.

Fair enough, but are we going to pretend America isn't D&D's biggest market?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

BG3 must be really good if it's already someone's favorite.

 

[Molina]

But I think it's more a movement that's American. In Europe, especially through our libraries, they are more like everyone else.

Fair enough, but are we going to pretend America isn't D&D's biggest market?

Of course it is. For Americans, tabletop role-playing is D&D.

 

[Curratum]

BG3 must be really good if it's already someone's favorite.

I was referring to D&D.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Fascinating. Close to 3/4 of the people answering have pronouns on their bios.

You may not like it, but this is what peak D&D fan looks like:

Spoiler

Glad to see people waking up to the harsh reality of actual, current, real-life D&D fans that I've been talking about for months. The people that this game will be tailored to and cater to.

In case anyone's wondering, DMs Guild (from the guy's twitter profile) is the official, WotC-approved outlet for community-generated D&D content. If you want to publish anything D&D-related, whether for free or paid, you go there.

Doubt it, more likely he's one of the modern D&D fans that just uses it to larp. A D&D CRPG has zero appeal to this group because it's not why they "play" D&D.
a quick scan of his twitter has zero mentions of baldur's gate whatsoever, so, probably true.

Don't doubt it. I have been involved in large D&D groups of actual tabletop players on Facebook, Google+ and forums. This is EXACTLY what the overwhelming majority of present-day D&D fan is like, which is also why I either left those communities or got banned from them.

If you think autists on the Codex are the main audience of BG3 and not the thousands upon thousands of people like this guy, I have bad news for you.

Here's the problem with this: There aren't enough people who play D&D for it to be worth targeting. The tabletop RPG market is pretty small, way smaller than people on the codex seem to realize.
In 2017, the US/Canada tabletop RPG market was about $45 million. Not D&D — the entire tabletop RPG market.
2017 happens to be the same year Larian released D:OS2… which sold a million copies in about two months.


And just to really hammer it home: How much do you think a self-identified communist that wants to "eat the rich" is willing to spend on a digital entertainment product?

 

[Xzar]

Edouard Imbert has just set his Twitter account to private mode.

 

[Saerain]

Just in case you're wondering, this is one of the most influential people in the world of D&D and tabletop roleplaying at large on the internet:

Fucked up thing is he's a damned good DM. Noticed a trend of the most insufferable people taking to the role of a god most easily. I think I want to play D&D with historical dictators and serial killers.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

imagine being so stupid you don't realize how massive the videogame market is compared to nerds playing tabletop games lol

 

[Curratum]

Here's the problem with this

You're just a dumb kid who googled "rpg market share" and pasted the first result in here. I, on the other hand, have been monitoring the industry for nearly a decade now.

First of all, ENWorld, faggots that they are, decided to publish numbers from ICv2 - more or less a non-source.
Secondly, there's been around a dozen D&D 5E-centric tabletop Kickstarters that collected upwards of 1 million USD each, which equals about a quarter of your "total RPG market share" figure, which as you can see is complete bullshit.

Lastly, as Lord Bertrand Russell said, "never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe". Know more of facts before you spout your nonsense.

 

[Dodo1610]

(nice that it just happened to be after the other)

It seems arbitrary to me if centaurs are classified as monstrosities. And are all yuan-ti considered monstrosities? Are purebloods immune to the tadpoles then?

They are actually a good example the Yuan-ti purebloods are humanoid while the half-bloods and abominations are monstrosities.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Here's the problem with this

You're just a dumb kid who googled "rpg market share" and pasted the first result in here. I, on the other hand, have been monitoring the industry for nearly a decade now.

First of all, ENWorld, faggots that they are, decided to publish numbers from ICv2 - more or less a non-source.
Secondly, there's been around a dozen D&D 5E-centric tabletop Kickstarters that collected upwards of 1 million USD each, which equals about a quarter of your "total RPG market share" figure, which as you can see is complete bullshit.

Lastly, as Lord Bertrand Russell said, "never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe". Know more of facts before you spout your nonsense.

Did you really just respond to my data with anecdotes then accuse me of not using facts?
Holy shit you are retarded.

 

[Storyfag]

Why would you consider a centaur to be humanoid?

Why would you not? The upper body is certainly a humanoid and I'd wager they have a humanoid brain.

Really Lacrymas? I had thought better of you.

 

[FranticDistortion]

Here's the problem with this

You're just a dumb kid who googled "rpg market share" and pasted the first result in here. I, on the other hand, have been monitoring the industry for nearly a decade now.

First of all, ENWorld, faggots that they are, decided to publish numbers from ICv2 - more or less a non-source.
Secondly, there's been around a dozen D&D 5E-centric tabletop Kickstarters that collected upwards of 1 million USD each, which equals about a quarter of your "total RPG market share" figure, which as you can see is complete bullshit.

Lastly, as Lord Bertrand Russell said, "never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe". Know more of facts before you spout your nonsense.

Congrats, you have 10 year experience of being wrong. Keep bragging.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

I liked this thread better a few days ago when we all found something we could agree sucked and we shit on it mercilessly.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

10 years experience of monitoring?

I may have a job for you...

 

[Sensuki]

That's cute. You guys call your friends to fight your battles for you. Usually you just parrot what they say instead.

Haven't read the thread otherwise and I'm not going to get into an argument about it but consider the opposing viewpoint: that instead of movement being penalized in some way and requiring the 'mover' to pay in health, skill points or action points that the movement should be 'free' and that it should be up to the opponents, who want to hamper/stop the movement to spend their action economy to do so - e.g. using a disable/debuff.

I think this is the best method for real-time and turn based with split action and movement point pools and AoO is ok in turn-based where movement and non-movement action 'points' use the same action point pool, and in D&D technically they do.

 

[BING XI LAO]

D&D is full of soyboys now though, also gaming is full of fags now especially devs, especially California devs. Swen is even a Swedecuck! Therefore I don't see how Curratum is wrong.

 

[FranticDistortion]

With origin story offering shit tons of unique content, which one you are going to pick? Walking nuke wizard and discount Lucian seem fun, but Gith has more ties with main story.

 

[Mud']

D&D is full of soyboys now though, also gaming is full of fags now

Now? It has always been that way for both.

 

[Thonius]

D&D is full of soyboys now though, also gaming is full of fags now

Now? It has always been that way for both.

CODEX PRIDE...
But really vidia gay? Maybe journous and influential twatters personas maybe. And some devs, and cooomsumers, and codexers, writers, editors ....

Still it's tiny minority, I hope.

 

[Dramart]

D&D is full of soyboys now though, also gaming is full of fags now

Now? It has always been that way for both.

No, they were just fat and burger eaters

 

[Saerain]

Tabletop got infiltrated by the LARP crowd and it was all decline from there.

 

[Xzar]

CODEX PRIDE...
But really vidia gay? Maybe journous and influential twatters personas maybe. And some devs, and cooomsumers, and codexers, writers, editors ....

Still it's tiny minority, I hope.

Gays are different. Karl Lagerfeld was gay but did what he could to uphold high standards for bitches and kept fatties away from modeling his entire life. There's a lot of gays and bisexuals who want hot women in games.

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[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

back on topic:

the only thing I want to know about this game is more about the story and characters.

the writing is the biggest weakness in every Larian game, so if it's decently written, it should be equally decent. especially after what I've seen in the gameplay demo.

using featherfall to jump all around the map, climbing up buildings, throwing things - I'm really impressed by how far Larian went here as far as gameplay is concerned.