Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Fedora Master]

The graphix are great and the facial expressions are especially noteworthy, because in a Bioware game it would look retarded and derpy as fuck.

 

[Latro]

The graphix are great and the facial expressions are especially noteworthy, because in a Bioware game it would look retarded and derpy as fuck.

So you went with penis b eh

 

[Fedora Master]

Ah yes, Gale. Joss Whedon by way of Larian. Great.

 

[gurugeorge]

First impressions after intro, picking up the main companions and helping the refugees.

Yeah, as I suspected, there's a lot to like - mainly the liveliness of the companions due to the nice animation puppet show, the truly excellent voice acting. The world has the same Larian type of virtual world to nose around in as the DOS games have - a good thing - and there's a strong sense of an adventure unfolding. It all makes for strong immersion. The dialogue is excellent - the responses both you and the the characters and NPCs make are fresh, realistic, un-cliched - they're quite bolshy and abrasive sometimes, they don't always like each other, or you. You get a good sense of being a bunch of misfits thrown together by circumstance, not quite trusting each other, there's none of the plasticky kumbaya feel that dialogue options often have in these games, the writing's good. All that side of it, plus the graphics and art design, all just very nice.

And in terms of the combat - mechanics and pace - it's all pretty good too, it has more or less the same clean, un-fussy 5e flow that Solasta's combat has. I started on Balanced but of course it's far too easy, so I will need to crank it up to Tactician tomorrow.

But again, as I suspected would be the case, what lets it down compared to Solasta's version of 5e combat (and build interface too) is the UI - I mean it's pretty, aesthetically, but compared to Solasta's UI it's really quite horrible in terms of functionality and ergonomics, and a let-down by comparison; old-fashioned and obtuse to "read," there's hardly any innovation on that front at all. One is constantly peering at tiny icons and pixel-hunting to click on things, as opposed to instantly, at a glance, having a grasp of what one is doing and what's going on, the way Solasta's UI affords you.

The worst sin by far is not being able to look ahead at upcoming traits and features to plan what you're doing. Some of the music's a bit disappointing and annoying, especially right at the beginning (weird choral caterwauling), but it settles down once the game proper starts.

Overall, happy with the purchase so far and looking forward to getting my teeth into it tomorrow. It's a real gesamtkunstwerk and it has that quarter-to-three addictiveness - you just really want to see what's next, what's around the corner, etc.

 

[dsndo]

I spent more time customizing my Barbarian than I care to admit but thanks to the garbage UI I somehow accidentally skipped over the genital customization section entirely and I fear that one day in camp I will remove my underpants only to discover that Larian has taken it upon themselves to assign me Vulva 36G, or worse, Micropenis D12.

Shadowheart will laugh at me and I will be forced to retire that character out of shame.

 

[Konjad]

Is there any reason to go with the pre made characters instead of customized?

 

[Latro]

The dialogue is excellent - the responses both you and the the characters and NPCs make are fresh, realistic, un-cliched

Next level trolling

 

[gurugeorge]

The dialogue is excellent - the responses both you and the the characters and NPCs make are fresh, realistic, un-cliched

Next level trolling

No I'm being perfectly honest, that's how it is so far - but of course I've just dipped the corner of a toe in the game so far, it could get terrible for all I know later on, but the dialogue introducing the companions was excellent, they seem like real characters not just contrivances to move the plot along.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

You can always trust the Codex for having the biggest collection of autistic angry takes about everything.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

There's bits where the VA seems to change. Also someone mentioned characters getting dirty and they do get dirt on their face, not just blood. It's a nice touch, because in games sometimes NPCs often comment on you and your party stinking.

 

[Turisas]

Dark Urge is a p. cool guy

Pretty groovy times so far.

 

[Herumor]

For a moment there, I thought the game had a bug because the tadpoles in my inventory disappeared after I used the first one, but then I realized you just get another tab in the inventory screen that opens up the Illithid skill screen.

 

[Nerevar]

These perks are pretty good. Hmm could be some builds here.

 

[Zarniwoop]

The graphix are great and the facial expressions are especially noteworthy, because in a Bioware game it would look retarded and derpy as fuck.

So you went with penis b eh

You could always go with D or E for that "clean cut" look

 

[Lemming42]

Anyone got any good ideas for taking out the Drow raid leader in the goblin camp? I fucked it up twice as hard as I could have done because I saved Sazza and she accidentally ratted me out and got the raid underway, so it looks like I'm in a position where my only hope is to try and ambush them en route which is surely the dumbest fucking way to handle this.

 

[Sunri]

So i made wood elf ranger with anti mage bonus to hunt some nerdlings damm the character creator is super bare bones in this game anyway my char

123ppalert

 

[LizardWizard]

Anyone got any good ideas for taking out the Drow raid leader in the goblin camp? I fucked it up twice as hard as I could have done because I saved Sazza and she accidentally ratted me out and got the raid underway, so it looks like I'm in a position where my only hope is to try and ambush them en route which is surely the dumbest fucking way to handle this.

Ally and then bang her.

 

[Tyranicon]

I do have to congratulate Larian for making the companions so annoying that I refuse to take anyone besides Shadowheart (who's nice, meek and obsequious), thus making the combat an absolute nightmare even on balanced.

I scraped by every single setpiece fight by the skin of my balls, and since I'm RPing a rage paladin run, this means I start fights everywhere like an asshole. Fuck you goblin temple.

 

[Morgoth]

To the true RPG gamer, nothing is more distressing than the sound of a woman. How dare those Belgians cause us such anguish.

Shadowaifus angelic voice is telepathic penis massage you brute.

 

[jf8350143]

Those kids in the druid camp are the most insuffable buch in any video game I've ever played. It's even worse than Skyrim, at least in skyrim they don't fucking steal stuff from me. Also my 16 str paladin grabs one of the kids' hand, and he manages to shake it off, it's so dumb. The first time I tried to attack child in video game and surprise surpise you still can't kill them. So much for giving player choices.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Finished downloading the game. I hated the origin character system in DOS:2 and I hate it here, but I'm glad that they added a fully customisable one that has some connection to Bhaal at least

 

[AwesomeButton]

gets magnified by 10 by just having it plugged in.

That's what she said.

provoke the blade... and suffer its sting

again...

BTW, whoever's tried couch coop - 1st you can only do it with two controllers - no controller + M&KB option like D:OS2, and 2nd - When characters are close together, the split screen stays split, instead of turning into the normal screen you know from single player, as it used to work in D:OS2.

Can you have a male DM voice? Whoever thought there are good female DMs that we want to listen to when there are so many cool male voices that could be used for this?!
Also VO in general is pretty bad and hard to listen too at every step.

The female DM sounds like a phone sex line, which may be intentional in this game, but it comes off too slow and buttery for my preference.

Oversaturated color palette doesn't help too.

Funny, I actually had to turn the saturation up on my LG OLED C11.

Why make me run through so much empty space that has fuck-all in it.

Whoa, have you played Deadfire? You want those cramped maps?

 

[Turisas]

Those kids in the druid camp are the most insuffable buch in any video game I've ever played. It's even worse than Skyrim, at least in skyrim they don't fucking steal stuff from me. Also my 16 str paladin grabs one of the kids' hand, and he manages to shake it off, it's so dumb. The first time I tried to attack child in video game and surprise surpise you still can't kill them. So much for giving player choices.

Ahh, the good old days.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Paladin has a lot of appeals of authority you can make through the game. It feels nice, because while it's clearly meant to be a lawful good character, you can tell miscreants that you *are* the law and that they should listen to what you say. Usually Pallies are like choirboys and that's it.

 

[Yosharian]

So has anyone figured out what the fuck is going on with the multiclass spell slot progression?