Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Alienman]

If Larian had no intention of implementing ESG, but it's here anyway, imagine how much worse it'll get in the future once they do. lmao...

Might get better.

ESG - "A little bit excessive there Larian"

 

[Falksi]

Have to say, I think this is a great thing for the genre...

Approximately 21.22 million copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 have been sold on Steam, according to SteamSpy stats acquired by Steamdb.info.

https://dotesports.com/baldurs-gate/news/baldurs-gate-3-sales-numbers-how-many-copies-has-bg3-sold

Regardless of if you love or hate the game, seeing a CRPG trounce all over stale and sub-standard shit like Zelda & Final Fantasy is very encouraging. I just love that it's gonna piss a fuckload of normies off when their beloved baby games fail to take GOTY.

 

[Alienman]

Depends on what they take. Making more tactical RPGs = good.

Inserting even more romances = pretty bad.

 

[Falksi]

Depends on what they take. Making more tactical RPGs = good.

Inserting even more romances = pretty bad.

Romances can always be ignored, so I'm more than happy to see D&D gameplay get the exposure.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Have to say, I think this is a great thing for the genre...

Approximately 21.22 million copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 have been sold on Steam, according to SteamSpy stats acquired by Steamdb.info.

https://dotesports.com/baldurs-gate/news/baldurs-gate-3-sales-numbers-how-many-copies-has-bg3-sold

Regardless of if you love or hate the game, seeing a CRPG trounce all over stale and sub-standard shit like Zelda & Final Fantasy is very encouraging. I just love that it's gonna piss a fuckload of normies off when their beloved baby games fail to take GOTY.

Which Pool of Radiance are they talking about here?
Also, it's more likely to get a Zelda/FF to play BG3 than anything else. If anything, BG3 reeks of JRPG stuff, because it's been made following Bioware's template. It's been discussed before, jrpg fans are more tolerant to turn based stuff than westerners.

 

[VerSacrum]

Depends on what they take. Making more tactical RPGs = good.

Inserting even more romances = pretty bad.

Romances can always be ignored

Can they? The companions are extremely in-your-face with their homogay affections in BG3.

 

[StrongBelwas]

Have to say, I think this is a great thing for the genre...

Approximately 21.22 million copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 have been sold on Steam, according to SteamSpy stats acquired by Steamdb.info.



https://dotesports.com/baldurs-gate/news/baldurs-gate-3-sales-numbers-how-many-copies-has-bg3-sold

Regardless of if you love or hate the game, seeing a CRPG trounce all over stale and sub-standard shit like Zelda & Final Fantasy is very encouraging. I just love that it's gonna piss a fuckload of normies off when their beloved baby games fail to take GOTY.

Steam Spy numbers have been complete nonsense since Steam caught onto the man running it working for Epic and shut down his methods for getting data.

 

[Hagashager]

Depends on what they take. Making more tactical RPGs = good.

Inserting even more romances = pretty bad.

Romances can always be ignored

Can they? The companions are extremely in-your-face with their homogay affections in BG3.

That's more in the beginning than anywhere else. I have found, post-Tiefling party, that whoever you're not romancing just backs off after that.

 

[Xelocix]

Depends on what they take. Making more tactical RPGs = good.

Inserting even more romances = pretty bad.

Romances can always be ignored

Can they? The companions are extremely in-your-face with their homogay affections in BG3.

Just fucking kill them and be done with it then.

 

[Padzi]

BG3 has invaded South Park

 

[Yuber]

Are races in this game live happily together or do they live seperated each having their own areas?

 

[jf8350143]

Are races in this game live happily together or do they live seperated each having their own areas?

No matter what race you choose, you always come from Baulder's Gate, unless you are black(drow, duergar) or yellow(githyanki).

 

[Zurbo]

do they live seperated each having their own areas?

That would be racist

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Have to say, I think this is a great thing for the genre...

Approximately 21.22 million copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 have been sold on Steam, according to SteamSpy stats acquired by Steamdb.info.

Idk if the success of BG3 going affect other CRPGs studio.. How likely people that really enjoyed BG3 going to also want to play a isometric exclusive camera rpg w/ half as much voice acting and blocks of text.

 

[Black]

Have to say, I think this is a great thing for the genre...

MR. SCHLOMBERGSTEIN, THAT ONE NEW TURN-BASED RPG SOLD FAT MILLIONS!
IT DID, HUH? WE CAN'T LET THIS OPPORTUNITY SLIP, ADD MORE ROMANCES AND GAY BEAR SEX TO OUR GAMES AS WELL!

 

[Infinitron]

BG3 has invaded South Park

 

[Fedora Master]

Depends on what they take. Making more tactical RPGs = good.

Inserting even more romances = pretty bad.

Romances can always be ignored, so I'm more than happy to see D&D gameplay get the exposure.

JUsT cLoE uR eyEs aNd ittL go aWYa

 

[Swen]

 

[Falksi]

Depends on what they take. Making more tactical RPGs = good.

Inserting even more romances = pretty bad.

Romances can always be ignored, so I'm more than happy to see D&D gameplay get the exposure.

JUsT cLoE uR eyEs aNd ittL go aWYa

I bet you say that to all the boys.

 

[Junmarko]

This is the truth.

BG3 is rated the best PC game of ALL TIME on metacritic.

LOL.

Metacritic

...also in Clown World, Black Panther is rated 96% on Rotten Bananas...right next to Citizen Kane!

No one cares retard.

 

[Desiderius]

Are races in this game live happily together or do they live seperated each having their own areas?

Well there is a nice drawing of a Goblins, Drow, and Ogres (? don't remember the third one) living in happy harmony, but it's on a corpse.

Thieflings and Tree Huggers tho are best buddies. Gnolls and fallen Paladins alas had a falling out. Gnomes and Duergar and Myconids live together with a genius Hobgoblin and his trusty Illithid sidekick.

Gith seem pretty rayciss tho.

 

[Hagashager]

Are races in this game live happily together or do they live seperated each having their own areas?

The Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Halflings are indistinguishable from each other. There is functionally no difference between them socially. If there is any distinct Elven or Dwarven diaspora culture you wouldn't know it from this game.

The Tieflings are refugees from Enturel, their social status and acceptance is unique to them. I found, after act 1, there really isn't much to say of them. They all go to places that accept them.

In the Underdark the Duargar enslave the Deep Gnomes, they very clearly hate each other. The Duargar also, generally aren't a part of the Absolute Cult, but more allies of convenience.

The really weird one for me is the Myconid colony. You befriend Myconids and they have a whole sociey.

You can encounter The Societ of Brilliance there too, a group of mages and adventurers who usually comprise monster races.

 

[Cryomancer]

The Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Halflings are indistinguishable from each other. T

That in 5e.

In 2E, each race is vastly different. For example, every single gnome which studies magic becomes illusionist. Dwarves can't be mages, no matter what. Each race had a distinct government type, culture, religion and so on. Even the ships in spelljammer where different. But is not only in D&D which races are more and more homogenized. See Elder Scrolls for another example, how much stuff Nords get in Morrowind and compare with Skyrim.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

I didn't like that most races acted like humans. It removes a large part of what makes fantasy settings interesting. Only the githyanki had some originality with characteristic behavior due to their race/culture. The rest was disappointingly bland.

 

[Shig]

I didn't like that most races acted like humans.

This seems to be the MO for WotC moving forward, they're really sensitive about races all of a sudden, especially "mixed" races, to the point where they're trying to erase the concept entirely from the setting. This is the consequence.