Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Louis_Cypher]

How does everyone rank the D&D CRPGs now that Baldur's Gate III is out?

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Greyhawk: Temple of Elemental Evil​

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Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession​

Ravenloft: Stone Prophet​

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Dragonlance: Champions of Krynn​

Dragonlance: Death Knights of Krynn​

Dragonlance: The Dark Queen of Krynn​

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The Forgotton Realms: Pool of Radiance​

The Forgotton Realms: Curse of the Azure Bonds​

The Forgotton Realms: Secret of the Silver Blades​

The Forgotton Realms: Pools of Darkness​

The Forgotton Realms: Hillsfar​

The Forgotton Realms: Gateway to the Savage Frontier​

The Forgotton Realms: Treasures of the Savage Frontier​

The Forgotton Realms: Eye of the Beholder I​

The Forgotton Realms: Eye of the Beholder II​

The Forgotton Realms: Eye of the Beholder III​

The Forgotton Realms: Menzoberranzan​

The Forgotton Realms: Baldur's Gate I (+ expansion)​

The Forgotton Realms: Baldur's Gate II (+ expansion)​

The Forgotton Realms: Baldur's Gate III​

The Forgotton Realms: Icewind Dale I (+ expansion)​

The Forgotton Realms: Icewind Dale II​

The Forgotton Realms: Neverwinter Nights I (+ expansions)​

The Forgotton Realms: Neverwinter Nights II (+ expansions)​

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Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace​

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Dark Sun: Shattered Lands​

Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager​

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Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse​

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Planescape: Torment​

 

[Desiderius]

God, I hate the monk class. Naked dudes that punch stuff harder and have better defenses than any of my fighters decked out in armor. It's such a BS class that I would easily install a mod right now to remove them if there were one. I'm at a point now where I have to fight a bunch, and they are stronger than any kind of warped creatures from hell. Which makes the whole experience feel like shit. Elder demon from hell? Cosmic horror from the black abyss of space? No match for an emaciated githyanki.

There’s a scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood just for you.

 

[Swen]

Another 10/10

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/aug/09/baldurs-gate-3-review-pc-mac-ps5-larian

 

[Kiste]

God, I hate the monk class. Naked dudes that punch stuff harder and have better defenses than any of my fighters decked out in armor. It's such a BS class that I would easily install a mod right now to remove them if there were one. I'm at a point now where I have to fight a bunch, and they are stronger than any kind of warped creatures from hell. Which makes the whole experience feel like shit. Elder demon from hell? Cosmic horror from the black abyss of space? No match for an emaciated githyanki.

Monks should be exterminated, without exception. I fucking hate that chink wuxia bullshit or gay as shit airbender nonsense. Remember that Indiana Jones scene where he casually shoots the towelhead with the swords? That's how all encounters with monks should play out. Monk tard does some Kung Fu bollocks and Chad with a twohander casually cleaves him in half.

Now, if the monk fantasy was drunk English fatass in a brown robe with a quarterstaff, then that would be more acceptable.

 

[Herumor]

Anyone else looked through the art book for BG3?

Here's some early concept art for Shadowheart:

 

[Fedora Master]

Shit that's awful

 

[Louis_Cypher]

 

[Lemming42]

My casual gamer friends have begun playing this and like 70% of them fall for the miscommunication that makes people believe they do *either* Underdark *or* Mountain Pass, and as a result they're underleveled when they reach Act 2.

Is Mountain Pass the Gith creche? Because if so, I missed the whole damn thing for that exact reason. I found the dragon rider who roasts the guards, but when I tried to proceed, it came up with a popup that basically said "don't even try it, you'll get turned to mincemeat, fuck you, get out of here".

After arriving in the Shadow place I came to assume that Gith creche was a standing sidequest, so put it to one side to focus on what was in front of me... after which point it turned out I locked myself out of it.

 

[HammyTheFat]

People are figuring out ways to recruit Minthara AND Halsin. Sounds like bugs but may not be

There was a detailed description on how to do it some 30 or 40 pages back.

All I could find was Darkwind's post on monday, which doesn't say how to do it aside from leaving her alive somehow (?) and getting her in act 2.

 

[Lemming42]

Wtf I left Minthara alive (via KO) for the exact reason of thinking she might show up again. Never saw any sign of her after that and she was never mentioned, did I somehow fuck myself over again?

 

[Grunker]

My casual gamer friends have begun playing this and like 70% of them fall for the miscommunication that makes people believe they do *either* Underdark *or* Mountain Pass, and as a result they're underleveled when they reach Act 2.

Is Mountain Pass the Gith creche? Because if so, I missed the whole damn thing for that exact reason.

Exactly. The communication is a massive screw-up on Larian's part - at this point I've seen more people miss it than not. Surprising it went through testing.

 

[Grunker]

New GeForce driver for BG3 out now btw.

 

[Swen]

New GeForce driver for BG3 out now btw.

not bad

 

[Mortmal]

My casual gamer friends have begun playing this and like 70% of them fall for the miscommunication that makes people believe they do *either* Underdark *or* Mountain Pass, and as a result they're underleveled when they reach Act 2.

Is Mountain Pass the Gith creche? Because if so, I missed the whole damn thing for that exact reason.

Exactly. The communication is a massive screw-up on Larian's part - at this point I've seen more people miss it than not. Surprising it went through testing.

It can be even worse, if you fail to repair the lift going directly to the monastery you have to go through the level 6 undead encounter which is far overtuned for most party.

 

[Reinhardt]

God, I hate the monk class. Naked dudes that punch stuff harder and have better defenses than any of my fighters decked out in armor. It's such a BS class that I would easily install a mod right now to remove them if there were one. I'm at a point now where I have to fight a bunch, and they are stronger than any kind of warped creatures from hell. Which makes the whole experience feel like shit. Elder demon from hell? Cosmic horror from the black abyss of space? No match for an emaciated githyanki.

Monks should be exterminated, without exception. I fucking hate that chink wuxia bullshit or gay as shit airbender nonsense. Remember that Indiana Jones scene where he casually shoots the towelhead with the swords? That's how all encounters with monks should play out. Monk tard does some Kung Fu bollocks and Chad with a twohander casually cleaves him in half.

Now, if the monk fantasy was drunk English fatass in a brown robe with a quarterstaff, then that would be more acceptable.

fuck off, nigger. that's proper wuxia setting, with running on the walls, jumping to the roof and roundkicking enemies from there.

 

[Mortmal]

New GeForce driver for BG3 out now btw.

not bad

I have serious doubt on that, it was not tested in act 3, frame rates go much lower.

 

[Fedora Master]

My casual gamer friends have begun playing this and like 70% of them fall for the miscommunication that makes people believe they do *either* Underdark *or* Mountain Pass, and as a result they're underleveled when they reach Act 2.

Is Mountain Pass the Gith creche? Because if so, I missed the whole damn thing for that exact reason.

Exactly. The communication is a massive screw-up on Larian's part - at this point I've seen more people miss it than not. Surprising it went through testing.

It can be even worse, if you fail to repair the lift going directly to the monastery you have to go through the level 6 undead encounter which is far overtuned for most party.

Oh my god I completely forgot there's a path up there on the same map as the monastery.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

The stuff we never got to see ...

Full word map reveal/All Locations

 

[HammyTheFat]

New GeForce driver for BG3 out now btw.

not bad

35fps on a 4060? That seems insane.

Is it because their resolution is so high?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Anyone else looked through the art book for BG3?

Here's some early concept art for Shadowheart:

pictures you can smell

 

[Vic]

just put a helmet on her

 

[gurugeorge]

Christ, the rate at which some of you are tearing through this makes me realize how much of a filthy casual I really am by comparison.

I'm only at a point where I've done everything (well, as much as I could find) on the first map except for the hag.

Some of you must be literally caked in Cheeto dust

 

[Swen]

Well well well

https://www.wargamer.com/baldurs-gate-3/game-of-the-year

 

[Grunker]

Christ, the rate at which some of you are tearing through this makes me realize how much of a filthy casual I really am by comparison.

I'm only at a point where I've done everything (well, as much as I could find) on the first map except for the hag.

Some of you must be literally caked in Cheeto dust

I was on holiday and my girlfriend was in Berlin. 5 days of constant BG3

Now it's back to work and girlfriend comes home tomorrow.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Christ, the rate at which some of you are tearing through this makes me realize how much of a filthy casual I really am by comparison.

I'm only at a point where I've done everything (well, as much as I could find) on the first map except for the hag.

Some of you must be literally caked in Cheeto dust

My current game is around 30 hours and I've already reached the inn where Jaheira is. Clearing act 1 shour take between 20 to 35 hours depending on the time it takes you to do things. I'm still going to try to go to the gith creche though.