Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Old Hans]

More from BAFTA:

What a party! Join BAFTA winner Andrew Wincott, and fellow BAFTA-nominated/longlisted performers Neil Newbon, Amelia Tyler, Dave Jones, and Tracy Wiles in a Masterclass where they reveal their acting secrets; what the Baldur's Gate community means to them; and perform some VERY unexpected lines... Hosted by Ali Plumb.

Neil Newbon looks exactly like the untrustworthy type of guy who sells dodgy ecstasy at the rave club

 

[Swen]

The old guy voice acting the devil in BG3 is the GOAT voice actor.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

Cool. Once I finish having my fun with Skald, I'll wrap up my Dragon's Dogma run and then tackle this.

 

[Herumor]

Is there a mod that either adds free camera movement or a photo mode?

 

[Rahdulan]

Arguably a spicy take from a smaller channel. He seems to want a narrower scope of choices derived from pre-fabricated nature of video games as means to offset his problems with tabletop roleplaying? He seems to prefer having to choose between clear cut option A or option B over making up his own choices in a sandbox scenario.

 

[Infinitron]

Borislav Slavov on composing the Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack, including exclusive footage of his pitch to Larian for Down by The River. He discusses how main themes should be scalable and shares an example of an unreleased epic version of Song of Balduran; as well as taking risks when working on music for games and collaborating with the whole team.

 

[Sentinel]

Generic orchestral score #13456546078e09687

very interesting

 

[GloomFrost]

Total decline and nothing compared to Kirill Pokrovski masterpieces. Rest in Peace genius, your music will live on forever.

 

[processdaemon]

Slavov is capable of writing some great music, I always loved the main theme for D:OS2 despite being a bit lukewarm on the game itself, but it's true that a lot of the BG3 tracks are a bit uninspired. I particularly dislike 'Down by the River', 'Song of Balduran' and that nonsense Alfira sings (although at least you can do something about the latter). The music they released as part of the teaser for Patch 7 is pretty good though.

 

[Hydro]

Tbh music is on par with the game itself: bland and generic. Sound design though is great, but only in the act I. Closer to the act III they gave up on quality completely.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Total decline and nothing compared to Kirill Pokrovski masterpieces. Rest in Peace genius, your music will live on forever.

Damn his tracks had so much character

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

congratulations to anybody who was able to play this more than 30+ hours. I will never be fooled into buying another Larian game again. Bunch of overly horny , exploding barrel loving fags

 

[Swen]

congratulations to anybody who was able to play this more than 30+ hours. I will never be fooled into buying another Larian game again. Bunch of overly horny , exploding barrel loving fags

Keep coping, you lost.

 

[Fedora Master]

congratulations to anybody who was able to play this more than 30+ hours. I will never be fooled into buying another Larian game again. Bunch of overly horny , exploding barrel loving fags

Keep coping, you lost.

You're right. SOME of the barrels don't explode even.

 

[destinae vomitus]

Has this gotten any sort of worthwhile balance/difficulty overhaul mod yet, akin to say Divinity Unleashed for Original Sin 2? I'd be willing to finally murderhobo my way through this thing if that were the case.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

It got an Honour mode months ago, which is basically "extra difficulty plus mandatory ironman mode" just in case it was meant as a serious request.
It's also one of the smartest implementations of the idea of ironman, since it doens't entirely wipe your savefile in case of partywipe/gameover.
It lets you continue (still on a single-save mode) and it just disables your achievement/award for completing the "Honor run".

Which is a decent compromise, since having to actually start over in a game that lasts dozen of hours would be too annoying.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

congratulations to anybody who was able to play this more than 30+ hours. I will never be fooled into buying another Larian game again. Bunch of overly horny , exploding barrel loving fags

Overly horny yes, plenty of strategies besides barrels. They don't need to be touched.

 

[Zarniwoop]

It's not even ackshual barrelmancy if there's no deathfog.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

It got an Honour mode months ago, which is basically "extra difficulty plus mandatory ironman mode" just in case it was meant as a serious request.
It's also one of the smartest implementations of the idea of ironman, since it doens't entirely wipe your savefile in case of partywipe/gameover.
It lets you continue (still on a single-save mode) and it just disables your achievement/award for completing the "Honor run".

Which is a decent compromise, since having to actually start over in a game that lasts dozen of hours would be too annoying.

Well I just finished it in tactician, so thanks for the info. Might as well give it a go.
Or I could look for some mods first...

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

congratulations to anybody who was able to play this more than 30+ hours. I will never be fooled into buying another Larian game again. Bunch of overly horny , exploding barrel loving fags

Keep coping, you lost.

I totally agree, that is my point. I lost 30 hours I will never get back playing a hoarding simulator that had no focus or direction. I was hoping being constrained by D&D rules might make the game bearable, but 5th edition sort of sucks for video games and Larian can't overcome their leader/ceo's goofy and embarrassing humor, unfocused game direction and cringe horny nature and general overly woke inclinations.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

congratulations to anybody who was able to play this more than 30+ hours. I will never be fooled into buying another Larian game again. Bunch of overly horny , exploding barrel loving fags

Overly horny yes, plenty of strategies besides barrels. They don't need to be touched.

I never use the barrels in any of their games unless they make sense for why they might be there, which I am not sure has ever actually happened. More than I don't like the strategy of them is I hate how much they break my 'immersion' or ability to take the game seriously. By that I mean why in the world would there be so many barrels filled with crap exploding or corrosive crap everywhere? Even worse, how can a barrel of oil and some barrels of acid be explained to be on some deer path in the middle of nowhere? BG 3 was not as bad at this as Larian's Divinity Sin games I will admit, but it just turns me off. Also the hoarding, I hate the type of hoarding that exists in BG3.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

I know a lot of people on this forum can't get over their own crippling autism, but under several metric there are multiple aspect of this game that are genuinely of exceptional quality compared to pretty much anything else on the market.
This is the type of game some of you nutjobs would have begged to get 15 years ago. At a time before senile dementia started to kick in and some of you mongoloids started to revise more fondly your memories of complete shitstains like NWN 1 and 2.

The production value is stellar for a title in the genre, the engine is very solid (and I'm glad there's still some developers around who aren't just swapping to Unreal), the combat is MOSTLY tight and enjoyable in any of its parts (bar a couple of annoying "Larianisms" that could have been easily avoided, but that's beating a dead horse at this point) and interestingly enough for all the rabid spergning some you people love to raise about the inadequacies of D&D 5th edition, very few of the problems with the game actually come from it (maybe the relatively poor variety of "builds" offered, but there's still more than you'd get in a lot of titles in the genre in the end).

For all its over-simplifications, after both Solasta and this one it turns out that 5th edition actually works great in a tactical videogame, with a relatively quick pace and still enough depth to be enjoyable. it surely beats the pre-buffing and the over-reliance of "lucking out with the rolls" considered a mandatory part of the Pathfinder videogames, for example.

Party controls outside of combat are trash, but that's also beating a dead horse given that I complained about them since BG3 was in EA in the first days. No, since DOS 1 and 2 in fact.

The story is whatever. The premise could be intriguing and there are occasionally great character moments, but there's also a lot of missteps in the final attempts to tying everything together and I genuinely hate some of its keypoints (i.e. "the emperor" and almost everything tied to him as a character).

Characters and in particular companions are also a mixed bag, with the latter in particular being almost uniformingly a bunch of annoying sex pests.
I'm not even annoyed at the fact that everyone in the main cast is "playersexual" and romanceable as I am toward the "minor detail" that everyone is actively pestering me about it all the time.
The fact that most of the dialogue options with them seem to assume a flirty back-and-forth almost by default and that I have to CAREFULLY avoid triggering some sweet, sweet buttfuckery when conversing with companions feels genuinely grating after a while.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

pm_675 the only people you are in the legitimate position to label as retarded are the two senile raging spastics who made the unfortunate decision of shitting you into this world.

 

[0sacred]

This is the type of game some of you nutjobs would have begged to get 15 years ago.

Strong doubt has entered the chat.

You are clearly the autist here, like others of your kind you can't see that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Shit writing = shit RPG.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

This is the type of game some of you nutjobs would have begged to get 15 years ago.

Strong doubt has entered the chat.

You can go and tell that slimy faggot to fuck off. Also, follow him as we are on it.

Shit writing = shit RPG.

That's just something a wimpy, whiny storyfag would say.
Not to mention I'd be ready to bet big money on the fact you couldn't tell what count as "good writing" if Victor Hugo was shitting on your chest while finishing Les Misérables.