Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Gerrard]

Your problem with it is most likely that a lot of people are playing it and that it has some things that you morally object to

My problem is that it’s another shitty original sin game getting sucked off because they stuffed it with dragon age. By next month it’ll be another forgotten larian game, only remembered because of the surprise sales (cuz its AAA-ish D&D)

Cope, seethe and dilate

"Game journo reviews are good actually*"

*when they speak positively about a game I like

 

[Child of Malkav]

Can you wait for Nere to die by just long resting?

 

[Varnaan]

Can you wait for Nere to die by just long resting?

Yes

 

[Alienman]

Feels weird hitting the big city in the last chapter. I feel that it should have been part of the beginning since now I already have the loot and gold, so there is no real incentive to check out the houses and such. Why would I care about finding 25 gold and a disarm kit at this point? Setting wasted. I have more important things than helping a child find her parents at this point, etc.

Also, the whole refugee thing is a bit on the nose.

 

[turkishronin]

felipepepe's reflections:

Slow advancement of AI is one of the reason the perception changed. People were expecting to leave Turn-Based behind with improved real time systems that never came because talented AI engineers don't work for video games.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Feels weird hitting the big city in the last chapter. I feel that it should have been part of the beginning since now I already have the loot and gold, so there is no real incentive to check out the houses and such. Why would I care about finding 25 gold and a disarm kit at this point? Setting wasted. I have more important things than helping a child find her parents at this point, etc.

Also, the whole refugee thing is a bit on the nose.

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I mean, where's the problem? Sounds pretty based to me. Good newspaper. I heard there's a quest where you can change the headlines tho.

Feels weird hitting the big city in the last chapter.

It's like Baldurs Gate 1.

 

[Forest Dweller]

Interesting take.

 

[Grunker]

It's not a "miscommunication".

You can use either. Only completionist autists (like Codexers) or people who have been burned by Larian's underleveling before (me) would do both.

The game sends you the vibes that it's a fork when it's not. So of course it's a miscommunication. If it communicated "you can totally do both" it would be something different. Also, there are huge main plot relevant story segments in both areas which most people would like to experience. The game lets on that the "supposed" route is to only pick one of the maps, but that's not the case at all. So yes, it's a big miscommunication. Look how many people thought it was one way or the other. The proof is in the pudding.

 

[Latro]

That's a cope

Well, truth is could go either way. But I’m more responding to the charge that I dislike it for moral reasons instead of the fact Larian sucks and shill campaigns piss me off

 

[HammyTheFat]

Did they change children being killable? I noticed that the tiefling kids do a round 1 vanish and so do the goblin kids outside of the temple. However you can still murder and loot the 1-2 inside of it as they run for the door. I also managed to get one of the three gobbo children outside in the party camp by starting combat with magic missile and executing them before combat could begin.

Two of them getting away doesn't sit well with me. I must have total goblin death on my map.

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This Gortash sounds like a good guy.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

It's not a "miscommunication".

You can use either. Only completionist autists (like Codexers) or people who have been burned by Larian's underleveling before (me) would do both.

The game sends you the vibes that it's a fork when it's not. So of course it's a miscommunication. If it communicated "you can totally do both" it would be something different. Also, there are huge main plot relevant story segments in both areas which most people would like to experience. The game lets on that the "supposed" route is to only pick one of the maps, but that's not the case at all. So yes, it's a big miscommunication. Look how many people thought it was one way or the other. The proof is in the pudding.

The game is very clear when and how quests fail. When you get to the inn via the underdark, the quest for the creche is still available.

 

[Zarniwoop]

It's not a "miscommunication".

You can use either. Only completionist autists (like Codexers) or people who have been burned by Larian's underleveling before (me) would do both.

The game sends you the vibes that it's a fork when it's not. So of course it's a miscommunication. If it communicated "you can totally do both" it would be something different. Also, there are huge main plot relevant story segments in both areas which most people would like to experience. The game lets on that the "supposed" route is to only pick one of the maps, but that's not the case at all. So yes, it's a big miscommunication. Look how many people thought it was one way or the other. The proof is in the pudding.

You could be 100% fine with just doing one.

If anyone "wants to experience" it all, they can. Like I said those are mostly players who scour the whole map anyway.

In fact, they can even go back after starting Act 2, which is massive incline over Larian's previous games.

 

[Perkel]

What is your alignment:

 

[Grunker]

well, we're officially in wtf land

 

[AwesomeButton]

Interesting take.

I'll save you 16 minutes: "Devs hate on games that release in a good state and have a lot of content because they don't want us to learn to ask for quality for our money."

 

[AwesomeButton]

It's such a travesty having to install nvidia's new drivers just to get rid of the prompt in the launcher (yes I know how to disable the launcher). They don't contain any optimizations for my ancient card.

 

[Grunker]

my shadowheart is having an identity crisis

"but moooooom, I don't wanna go to school, all the kids there tease me!!"

 

[Perkel]

Feels weird hitting the big city in the last chapter.

It felt even weirder to play Baldur's Gate 2 knowing there wasn't Baldur's Gate in it. Either way Athkatla was much better.

 

[Latro]

well, we're officially in wtf land

Finally, a trve rpg for 60 IQ journalists and trve codex grognardz

 

[Robber Baron]

This warrants a lv20 expansion

 

[Perkel]

If rolling dice game sells bilions and gets highest scores then does it mean that codex is and always was mainstream and rest were grognardz ?

 

[Zayne]

I can't believe myself, but after Githyanki Creche I'm actually starting to trust the Dream Guardian. Sure, she's probably rebel Illithid megabrain, long lost prince Orpheus or some other chthtonic shit, but the scene with sword actually moved me. Imagine my surprise, when I've reloaded and "killed" her to check if there's a way to side with Vlaakith. Still, I've believed in her sincerity before reloading, so I'm gonna stick with that.

(the chthonic shit part is kinda scary, cause in next dream interlude she appeared in her pajamas instead of usual golden armor)

 

[Vic]

If rolling dice game sells bilions and gets highest scores then does it mean that codex is and always was mainstream and rest were grognardz ?

no, dicks and tranny sex sells billions, the dice rolls are incidental

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

Interesting take.

This motherfucker can't even pronounce Larian right.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Interesting take.

This motherfucker can't even pronounce Larian right.

Americans don't understand that different languages have different pronunciation.