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

[commie]

Witcher 3 meets Baldur's Gate.

Open world, icons, clearing out nests of Illithids...

My body is ready.....

 

[Gerrard]

Remember the last time a different studio was making a part 3 of an RPG series?

I'm sure Larian are quivering with fear over a Fallout 3 style result oh wait...

Oh, I'm sure the libcucks at Larian have no fear. All those Bioware refugees are just waiting to be milked.

 

[Lord Andre]

99% sure this was gonna be shit. Saw J_C shilling hard. Now 100% sure. Thanks dum-dum.

 

[Sentinel]

What is wrong with saving the world

The world isn't worth saving.

 

[turkishronin]

What is wrong with saving the world

The world isn't worth saving.

Forgotten Realm is nice

 

[Life of the Party]

The world is a flat circle.

 

[FeelTheRads]

99% sure this was gonna be shit. Saw J_C shilling hard. Now 100% sure. Thanks dum-dum.

J_C's opinion is only worth 1% to you? I have a lot more respect for him. There's at least 50% chance of shit if he's shilling.

Spoiler

He didn't even shill that hard. Yet.

 

[Thonius]

Probably the most poorly-drawn or animated trailer I've ever seen. I thought I was watching the BG 1 intro, except without the memorable lines but the same graphical fidelity.

Don't believe you.

It's up to standards, nothing more. Regular shit in other words.

 

[alyvain]

What is wrong with saving the world

The world isn't worth saving.

Forgotten Realm is nice

It isn't. Have you played mask of the betrayer?

 

[Curratum]

Witcher 3 meets Baldur's Gate.

Open world, icons, clearing out nests of Illithids...

My body is ready.....

If you actually took the time to read a bit, you'd see that it's going to be heavily party-centric and maybe you wouldn't go likening it to Witcher 3.

 

[DalekFlay]

Why do people here think that Larian would ever make it into Dragon Age? BioWare cashed in on Mass Effect and made a “spiritual successor” to Baldur’s Gate that modelled itself on Mass Effect and borrowed a few loose elements from the Infinity Engine, like party-based combat and RTWP (unthinkable for RPGs at the time).

Larian, after proving that turn-based RPGs can sell very well with DOS 2, will certainly model the game on that. The question is how much of the original BG are they going to incorporate to stretch their DOS model—ultimately is it going to look more like BG or DOS? That’s why TB vs RTWP is a legitimate question to worry about, but isometric vs 3rd person is not.

If WotC wanted a 3rd person Baldur’s Gate they wouldn’t have asked Larian. They’d have turned to CD Projekt Red or Square Enix or whoever makes those kind of games nowadays.

It's not like there's been a ton of big budget D&D games the last 15 years because they just rake in the dough. I think your premise is flawed in that if EA, Ubisoft and the like had interest in spending a massive budget on this stuff then it would have happened already, but I also don't think it'll be a smaller budget title. Think in the middle. A large increase in team size and budget over DoS2 is going somewhere. It's not going to be the same type of game, and expectations for sales will be higher. Like everything else, the more mainstream your goal, the more mainstream the game. It's not going to be Pillars of Eternity, and it's not going to be a reskin of DoS2. It's SOMETHING else, whatever that is.

Dragon Age Origins is a good example of a game trying to be an IE homage and a mainstream modern game at the same time. I don't think anyone expects this to play the same as that, especially since the RtwP combat wouldn't really work well online IMO, but I think it's just a good framework to keep in mind when wondering how you take Baldur's Gate and make it a mid-tier title in 2019.

 

[Roguey]

Lol this thing is a writer for larian.

Who did what and how should we feel about it?

Kevin is a big loud bear like Tim Cain's husband and wrote the dwarf in D:OS 2. It'd be more beneficial to look at/criticize that particular character instead of his tweets. Not like he's running the show.

Additionally
https://twitter.com/fiddlecub/status/1009044203937116160

Side note: One of the situations I wrote in DOS2 was a fairly obscure side quest involving a lich called Xhaxh. One of my goals was to test how far a player would go for an intangible reward.

https://twitter.com/fiddlecub/status/942138334427664389

Then there is me. I wrote Beast and a variety of other things. My favourite situations I wrote are Beast's sex scene, and the executions in the Blackpits.

https://twitter.com/fiddlecub/status/954358992784052225

There are a few scenes I wrote for DOS2 that I am sort of proud of. The sexy Beast scene is one. The quest with the family in the Blackpits (and Gwydian Rince/the White Magister/Jonathan). Gareth's... digging scene. (Keeping things spoiler-free.)

A personal favourite is the Driftwood poet, Barstan Tungs. After you answer his questions, he composes a poem. I made it all rhyme no matter what the player choices were, which was... a complicated thing to do. It ended up really nice.

Despite Kickstarting it, I still haven't played D:OS 2 yet so I can't speak for the quality or lack-thereof of any of this.

Just one quick example: within the second novel, Abdel Adrian has sex with Bohdi.

I wish this were an option in the game. Baby got back. https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/9/90483/1428321-baldurs_gate_2___bodhi.jpg

 

[ArchAngel]

Oh, one more thing: the way they word it, the writers clearly left it open whether Abdel Adrian and Viekang are actually the last two Bhaalspawn. Considering Imoen is alive, it makes sense.

Also, although Bhaal is once more alive, he is extremely weak.

Apparently this Imoen is a clone of the original one. I doubt she has any of her divine spark left. Also didn't Irenicus take all her divine spark from her?

 

[LESS T_T]

Hey, so member that ilithid paladin concept art and how we all laughed? Right? Now we know that's not paladin that's ex flaming fist. Soo, looks like Beamdog already had a plot. So it's either plot is provided by wizards, larian stole it, or it's a collaboration of larian and beamdog.

Bonus:

 

[commie]

Witcher 3 meets Baldur's Gate.

Open world, icons, clearing out nests of Illithids...

My body is ready.....

If you actually took the time to read a bit, you'd see that it's going to be heavily party-centric and maybe you wouldn't go likening it to Witcher 3.

Because there never were party ARPG's....

 

[Dodo1610]

I hope we get the option to welcome the mind flayers refugees. Their culture and traditions will enrich Baldurs Gate.

 

[Curratum]

Witcher 3 meets Baldur's Gate.

Open world, icons, clearing out nests of Illithids...

My body is ready.....

If you actually took the time to read a bit, you'd see that it's going to be heavily party-centric and maybe you wouldn't go likening it to Witcher 3.

Because there never were party ARPG's....

There were party ARPGs and all of them had very little in common with Witcher 3.

 

[Sentinel]

 

[Infinitron]

Hell yeah, they're gonna do Swencasts.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/larianstudios/divinity-original-sin-2/posts/2530057

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[turkishronin]

I hope we get the option to welcome the mind flayers refugees. Their culture and traditions will enrich Baldurs Gate.

I, for one, welcome our Illithid overlords

 

[Kutulu]

What is wrong with saving the world

We dont want to take away the nr1 job of japanese children.

 

[Cael]

This is going to be one of those "We come in peace, running away from our oppressive fellows! Don't hurt us! Let us live in peace together!" *introduces illithid seme- I mean, tadpoles into the town's water supply*

 

[Sykar]

Wait, Gaider said: "I gotta admit: I have a real nerd boner for illithids. Always have."



Yes, makes sense now to me.

 

[alyvain]

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• What? Boo is outraged! See his fury! It's small, so look close. Trust me, it's there.