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

Elex

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AwesomeButton said:
Last week I spent an hour playing coop D:OS2 with a couple of friends - casuals who mainly play WoW and consider Warcraft lore the pinnacle of fantasy writing. Paradoxically, this experience confirmed my impression that D:OS/2 is the lowest form of low-brow RPG that you can find on the market. And that probably that's what it owes its success to.

It is intentionally designed so as to be bearable while played together with disinterested casuals, who don't care about story or characters, click through dialogue, don't care about roleplaying, don't care to learn combat mechanics.

The whole game is intended as comfort food for bored people who want to dick around in a generic fantasy world where the story and worldbuilding don't need to be more than an excuse to drive your characters through a colorful 3D area and make things go boom.

And this is what you can expect from BGIII.
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I mean that is exactly the description of what d&d is.
Dicking around in a generic fantasy setting murderhoboing around with a group of friends while drinking and eating trash food.
 
Ontopoly

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AArmanFV said:
Reinhardt said:
So what is this thread about?
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Fuck Larian, those rat bastard bitches.
I will not be silenced with your meme tactics. Larian must be held accountable for the shit they continue to put out
 
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fantadomat said:
Yeah,know that you are prestigious gamer mate :). I am just grinning like a rake reading all those cunts that bitched how rtwp was unreadable,too fast and hard to keep up,bitching now how the game was dumbed down and shit :lol::lol::lol:.
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vortex said:
TB is dumbed down. You focus on your player in turn and the enemy. In RTwP you control 6 party members (4 in BG3) and keep attention on all enemies ready to attack you.
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Everything that present day Larian does is dumbed down.

Sorry to be the one to break the bad news.
 
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Ontopoly said:
ERYFKRAD said:
Ontopoly said:
I'm conflicted. I already hate bg3 and don't want to support anything Larian puts out, but I want to play the game so that I have more ammo to prove that Larian and their games suck. What do?
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Play Realms of Arkania HD
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I'm Confused. Please explain how you came to recommending me roa based on my comment
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You managed to annoy even infi,you are amazing. Maybe i should change my focus from our old drag queen DraQ and make NJClaw my rival. :lol::lol::lol:
 
Ontopoly

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fantadomat said:
Ontopoly said:
ERYFKRAD said:
Ontopoly said:
I'm conflicted. I already hate bg3 and don't want to support anything Larian puts out, but I want to play the game so that I have more ammo to prove that Larian and their games suck. What do?
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Play Realms of Arkania HD
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I'm Confused. Please explain how you came to recommending me roa based on my comment
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You managed to annoy even infi,you are amazing. Maybe i should change my focus from our old drag queen DraQ and make NJClaw my rival. :lol::lol::lol:
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Are you saying you're only here to troll? Sounds like your just here to make every one annoyed
 
fantadomat

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Ontopoly said:
fantadomat said:
Ontopoly said:
ERYFKRAD said:
Ontopoly said:
I'm conflicted. I already hate bg3 and don't want to support anything Larian puts out, but I want to play the game so that I have more ammo to prove that Larian and their games suck. What do?
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Play Realms of Arkania HD
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I'm Confused. Please explain how you came to recommending me roa based on my comment
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You managed to annoy even infi,you are amazing. Maybe i should change my focus from our old drag queen DraQ and make NJClaw my rival. :lol::lol::lol:
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Are you saying you're only here to troll? Sounds like your just here to make every one annoyed
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Ahh there is nothing to talk about,so it is only natural for people here to troll a bit. It is not like people here are not worth trolling,fuck they are hyped for DOS3.
 
Ulysa

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Slaver1 said:
AwesomeButton said:
Last week I spent an hour playing coop D:OS2 with a couple of friends - casuals who mainly play WoW and consider Warcraft lore the pinnacle of fantasy writing. Paradoxically, this experience confirmed my impression that D:OS/2 is the lowest form of low-brow RPG that you can find on the market. And that probably that's what it owes its success to.

It is intentionally designed so as to be bearable while played together with disinterested casuals, who don't care about story or characters, click through dialogue, don't care about roleplaying, don't care to learn combat mechanics.

The whole game is intended as comfort food for bored people who want to dick around in a generic fantasy world where the story and worldbuilding don't need to be more than an excuse to drive your characters through a colorful 3D area and make things go boom.

And this is what you can expect from BGIII.
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Excellent post. Pretty much sums up my view on DOS2 as well. If Larian think they can get away with crafting BG3 in the same irreverent spirit b/c of the "It's fun messing around w/ friends, lol" casuals, more BG fans with a grievance than they're comfortable with will give them both barrels.
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I had a similar experience that haunts me. I played with a couple of friends to play something. One of them is like a casual X-Com fanboy that thinks he is terribly smart because he completed that game. He literally goes AFK at dialogues. So every time it was his turn he overthinked the actions and tried to cheese his move just to kill all he could by himself, never thinking of the party. You can imagine how fun was this playthrough. This guy loved DOS2 and now is, of course, hyped about BG3 although he couldn't get passed the BG EE tutorial. Just because it's a turn based game that lets you kill stuff. And obviously, he will want to play multiplayer because there's have to be someone watching how awesome he is. Here I am an old BG lover being disappointed at everything Larian is revealing. I try to stay chill but fuck .
 
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