Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Heroic Liberator]

Obviously, not everything is gonna be brought back into the game with the Definitive Edition that we're all expecting to see, but it'd be nice to see Act 3 reworked like the last act in Divinity: Original Sin 2. It just feels too small for being in Baldur's Gate, as a city.

Not to mention that it massively fucks up the narrative flow. Even if we don't get an act for each of the Dead Three's champions, at the very least having a Bhaal-centered lower city and a Bane-centered upper one is a must. And since they presumably had the upper city mostly complete and just had to scrap it due to rushing the release, who knows if they won't bring it back.

Also, Gortash is a total bro. If you accept his proposal for an alliance, you can read his thoughts and he's earnest about it. Shame that it amounts to nothing in the finale. Such a 'path' deserves its own ending akin to the one for making a pact with Raphael, as barebones as the latter itself is. Ending slides could probably carry a lot of that sort of reactivity for relatively little dev cost if they intend to dedicate time to adding content for a definitive edition, so who knows.

 

[RangerBoo]

Okay, so Sarevok doesn't mind you joining the cult of Bhaal despite you running around gathering netherstones, one of which his granddaughter has. But once you kill her and visit him again he talks something about it's okay, because you are now the chosen one, and now he's gonna become the chosen one because he's going to kill you (homie, if you wanted you could've become one before), because if you kill the chosen you become one (why won't all Bhaal worshippers kill one another then?), then fights you. Meaning entire room turns against you, including the trader. I thought they worshipped Bhaal, not Sarevok.

This is just one of many examples why writing in this game sucks.

TBF, Bhaal worshipers are actually morons. They don't really have any endgame beyond Step 1: murder, Step 2: ???

Orin and her entire quest is bonkers retarded.

Ball himself is a retard and a jobber, what do you expect from his followers?

But there needs to be a god for edge lord murder hobos. So what if Bhaal's plans make no sense in the grand scheme of things. Retarded edge lord murder hobos need some kind justification for being edge lords who go on murder sprees.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

But there needs to be a god for edge lord murder hobos. So what if Bhaal's plans make no sense in the grand scheme of things. Retarded edge lord murder hobos need some kind justification for being edge lords who go on murder sprees.

Talos is Bhaal minus the cringe as another deity of wanton destruction tbh. And Bhaal's followers could just as easily switch to worshipping him (as had happened with most followers of Myrkul switching to the worship of Cyric and then of Kelemvor).

 

[AwesomeButton]

Zeltak , stop being a passive aggressive little bitch! Come out and shitpost like a man, weak wristed manlet.

 

[Grauken]

But there needs to be a god for edge lord murder hobos. So what if Bhaal's plans make no sense in the grand scheme of things. Retarded edge lord murder hobos need some kind justification for being edge lords who go on murder sprees.

Nothing edgy about being a murder hobo. We do it for the good of the realms and loot. Murder hobos are a natural function of any fantasy setting, we keep evil motherfuckers on their toes

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Why not just hire a real writing team

Oh yeah the mythical good writers that exist somewhere. I've been 5 steps ahead of you years ago when I've started my anti-storyfaggot genocide crusade.

Typical writer who's out there on the job market has a literature degree of some kind. What kind of stuff is he being taught there you can figure out yourself. Typical recent, new published author, and that includes genre fiction is a woman in her late 20's to early 30's writing ultra woke slop(did you know about this trope-ridden story? How about it, but the MC is a lesbian?). Those who will want to adjust themselves to work with a game dev studio in multi-writer team are also on the lower end of the already abysmal quality there. Outside of them you will have gigantic problems finding people who's skill as a writer or an ability to deliver a finished script on time can be confirmed in any sort of objective manner.

This doesn't even touch the fact that you may pick up the most skilled and talented writer in the world but due to the particularities of a creative process you're not guaranteed good output, but again that's like me in 2016 writing anti-storyfaggot screeds all over this website and getting thrown into prosperland as a reward for telling the truth.

 

[Parabalus]

The fights are easy if you're trying even a little bit. Especially since the good path has you likely to have killed the drider already.

You fight the drider at the end if you didnt kill him earlier? That's actually pretty cool. Hopefully the definitive edition cleans up the final act, it was basically my only issue with the game.

act1 = 10/10
act 2 = 8/10
act 3 = 3/10

That drider is nasty in Kethric's fight, goes first with >10 initiative and dropped 90 damage, then sanctuaries.

 

[Reinhardt]

just uninstalled it. stopped playing around grymforge section few days ago and had zero desire to launch it again.
i guess nu larian games are not for me after all. did pretty much same in dos and didn't even bothered to install dos2.
combat and exploration are ok, but around level 5 game difficulty breaks and becomes too easy. and then you realize that despite exploration is gud 99% of the things you find are shit.
and story and companions are just painful to watch.
maybe will check in a few years if mods will fix it. maybe not.

 

[VerSacrum]

just uninstalled it. stopped playing around grymforge section few days ago and had zero desire to launch it again.
i guess nu larian games are not for me after all. did pretty much same in dos and didn't even bothered to install dos2.
combat and exploration are ok, but around level 5 game difficulty breaks and becomes too easy. and then you realize that despite exploration is gud 99% of the things you find are shit.
and story and companions are just painful to watch.
maybe will check in a few years if mods will fix it. maybe not.

I found Grymforge a boring slog. Game picks up again in the aforementioned Discount-Yharnam that comes after, but at the end of that I got filtered for the time being as well.

 

[BruceVC]

just uninstalled it. stopped playing around grymforge section few days ago and had zero desire to launch it again.
i guess nu larian games are not for me after all. did pretty much same in dos and didn't even bothered to install dos2.
combat and exploration are ok, but around level 5 game difficulty breaks and becomes too easy. and then you realize that despite exploration is gud 99% of the things you find are shit.
and story and companions are just painful to watch.
maybe will check in a few years if mods will fix it. maybe not.

Sounds like you prefer games that are more woke? Thats fine, just be honest and say " BG3 is not woke enough for me "

 

[Reinhardt]

just uninstalled it. stopped playing around grymforge section few days ago and had zero desire to launch it again.
i guess nu larian games are not for me after all. did pretty much same in dos and didn't even bothered to install dos2.
combat and exploration are ok, but around level 5 game difficulty breaks and becomes too easy. and then you realize that despite exploration is gud 99% of the things you find are shit.
and story and companions are just painful to watch.
maybe will check in a few years if mods will fix it. maybe not.

Sounds like you prefer games that are more woke? Thats fine, just be honest and say " BG3 is not woke enough for me "

meh attempt. you can do better, brucie.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

And despite all the the whiny kids bg3 keeps winning!

 

[turkishronin]

Oh yeah the mythical good writers that exist somewhere

Chris Avelltwo will be released soon

 

[Zayne]

What I really don't get is why on earth after 6 years of development and 3 years of early access Larian decided to cut all unfinished(but cool and important) stuff and release the game with buggy ending a month early?

Okay, if you're scared of Starfield - just postpone to december, you're self-published, you audience will troll you with cyberpunk.jpg, but ultimately understand.

 

[Grauken]

What I really don't get is why on earth after 6 years of development and 3 years of early access Larian decided to cut all unfinished(but cool and important) stuff and release the game with buggy ending a month early?

Okay, if you're scared of Starfield - just postpone to december, you're self-published, you audience will troll you with cyberpunk.jpg, but ultimately understand.

Most of you assume the cut content was a last minute cut, could easily be stuff that got cut during normal development to keep scope under control (especially since the normal scope was already massive) or just for being not a good fit in the end.

 

[processdaemon]

just uninstalled it. stopped playing around grymforge section few days ago and had zero desire to launch it again.
i guess nu larian games are not for me after all. did pretty much same in dos and didn't even bothered to install dos2.
combat and exploration are ok, but around level 5 game difficulty breaks and becomes too easy. and then you realize that despite exploration is gud 99% of the things you find are shit.
and story and companions are just painful to watch.
maybe will check in a few years if mods will fix it. maybe not.

I found Grymforge a boring slog. Game picks up again in the aforementioned Discount-Yharnam that comes after, but at the end of that I got filtered for the time being as well.

It's a bit late for you but if anyone else is bored of Grymforge you can just Misty Step/ enhanced jump to the bit directly before the forge from the area near the cave in, cuts down on faff time

 

[janior]

And despite all the the whiny kids bg3 keeps winning!

does it mean they won't fix the game?

 

[Grauken]

does it mean they won't fix the game?

Definitive Editions and patching for years has always been Larian's MO

 

[Konjad]

If you choose a polearm mastery it gives you an opportunity attack when an enemy approaches you...

...it also gives enemies an opportunity attack whenever you approach them!

What the hell, how do you even end up with such? The code must be a complete gibberish.

 

[Jermu]

If you choose a polearm mastery it gives you an opportunity attack when an enemy approaches you...

...it also gives enemies an opportunity attack whenever you approach them!

What the hell, how do you even end up with such? The code must be a complete gibberish.

actually you can decide if enemy attacks you with opportunity attack just click no to reaction when u move closer to enemy
and yeah its obviously bug and annoying

 

[Reinhardt]

polearm mastery is an euphemism for ghey seggs.

 

[volklore]

Speaking of AOO the game completely spazes out with invisible characters. Basically even if you have AOOs on ask, invisible characters can't actually AOO, the game lags for a few seconds and nothing happens.

 

[Parabalus]

So for becoming unholy assassin you just get access to a shitty shop?

 

[Infinitron]

 

[processdaemon]

How do people feel about being able to play a male cleric of Lolth from Menzoberranzan? The only male Lolth cleric I can think of in canon was from Ched Nasad before it was destroyed, it seems odd to make it explicit that the BG3 Lolth Sworn drow hails from Menzoberranzan given that that's the place where I would have thought the female drow would be least likely to cede power, and they could easily have made the exact part of the Underdark you're from more ambiguous so it would make more sense. Is there some 5e lore that I'm missing here that justifies it?