Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Zarniwoop]

“In a time of decline, incline is a revolutionary act.”​

-George Orwell

 

[Orud]

Re. the question of "what devs can learn from this," it's a double-edged sword. They'll probably take the wrong lesson. Instead of thinking, "Hmm, it turns out that huge well-made (in a technical sense) RPGs do sell well after all, let's make a huge, well made RPG" they'll probably think, "Hmm, games with sluts and faggots sell well, let's make more games with sluts and faggots and kowtow even more to the woke agenda."

The glimpse of the abyss here is that the latter is probably correct

I'll bet you 50 codex potato's that this is exactly what Bioware will learn from this.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Shipping a new dragon age under a hallowed IP in the era of critical role was probably the recipe

It's surely part of the recipe for high sales, but in addition it's also a good RPG.

There are so many players you can’t say it’s because Larian was secretly a top tier developer, or that divinity original sin was a masterpiece.

What I'm saying is that underneath the hype, the game is actually a good RPG - there is exploration, reactivity, good combat.

 

[Latro]

Re. the question of "what devs can learn from this," it's a double-edged sword. They'll probably take the wrong lesson. Instead of thinking, "Hmm, it turns out that huge well-made (in a technical sense) RPGs do sell well after all, let's make a huge, well made RPG" they'll probably think, "Hmm, games with sluts and faggots sell well, let's make more games with sluts and faggots and kowtow even more to the woke agenda."

The glimpse of the abyss here is that the latter is probably correct

AAA production values and ESG faggotry for maximum journalist shilling. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at BioWare, I can’t think of a reason why a D&D BioWare game wouldn’t succeed like this.

 

[Latro]

Shipping a new dragon age under a hallowed IP in the era of critical role was probably the recipe

It's surely part of the recipe for high sales, but in addition it's also a good RPG.

There are so many players you can’t say it’s because Larian was secretly a top tier developer, or that divinity original sin was a masterpiece.

What I'm saying is that underneath the hype, the game is actually a good RPG - there is exploration, reactivity, good combat.

And what I’m saying is that 700k people don’t give a shit about that at launch day and the numbers are coming from people who always wanted a AAA D&D game after the movie and critical role made it popular with nerds again (ok not the movie kek). I’m not even saying BG3 sucks here, this is a reading from an unbiased analysis of the big numbers.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Me after the giant spider boss fell down TWICE and crushed other spiders in the process:

Is this... is this the mythical... En Counter De'Sign?!

 

[Lacrymas]

Some devs are pushing the narrative that BG3 is some kind of one-in-a-lifetime anomaly and that we shouldn't expect anything even remotely like it from other devs.

Yeah, the same devs that have been telling us that "you think you do, but you don't really want numbers in your RPG's".

I'm not particularly convinced BG3 is the numbers game we want ;d

Even though I haven't played BG3 yet, I doubt it can hold a candle to even BG1 because Larian don't have the self-control to pull something like that off. On top of that, I haven't been impressed by anything their 7-man cuck squad of a writing team have thrown into our eyeballs. Hopefully the combat encounters are capable of delivering a modicum of challenge.

 

[AwesomeButton]

And what I’m saying is that 700k people don’t give a shit about that

I know, and I don't dispute that.

I can’t think of a reason why a D&D BioWare game wouldn’t succeed like this.

In other words, we should consider ourselves lucky that Swen got the license and not Microsoft or EA.

 

[Kiste]

Bros... I hadn't even thought about pickpocketing.

Guess what I am doing for the next two hours...

I pickpocketed something from an NPC was later supposed to be given to me as a quest reward. The game acknowledged that and adjusted the dialogue at the end of the quest accordingly. Pretty cool.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Bros... I hadn't even thought about pickpocketing.

Guess what I am doing for the next two hours...

I pickpocketed something from an NPC was later supposed to be given to me as a quest reward. The game acknowledged that and adjusted the dialogue at the end of the quest accordingly. Pretty cool.

It's literally on the loading screens: PICKPOCKETING IS A QUICK PATH TO PROFIT

 

[Grunker]

Barbarian whydoibother

Spoiler

Exactly where did you get the idea that you would have to make multiple hard Wisdom saves in a row to resist killing a lot of people/hulking out? I'm well into Act 2 and I've seen nothing even remotely close to that.

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[AwesomeButton]

You can tell that her nipples are almost piercing through the leather.

 

[ropetight]

Interesting.

This is above all expectations.
It will be interesting to see how Starfield will do.
On one hand, Bethesda/Microsoft marketing machine working for it.
On the other hand, SF often sells less than fantasy.

 

[Darkwind]

The writing has been a mixed bag, but there is definitely some Larian cringe that comes on pretty strong at times. Lae'zel describing herself has already been posted here with this over the top serious bizness prose.

But I was waiting for some millennial erotic fanfic type shit and they didn't disappoint. This is after knowing Lae'zel for about a week of game time and she just flatly states she wants to fuck me in front of the entire party. She is down to sex a nigga already! I suppose there is something to be said for hoes that get right to the point. But the reply from my character? Yikes. See below.

Also, I decided to respec Wyll into something more realistic and 'race appropriate' for his negroid face, pimp just fits...

 

[ItsChon]

Every time I check into this thread someone is writing about some sort of romance. Does this dogshit game have anything other than porn in it? How's the combat? Character creation? Writing/story? World building? If someone has already summed up their thoughts in a nice way would appreciate a link or least a username so I can find it myself.

 

[Volrath]

Every time I check into this thread someone is writing about some sort of romance. Does this dogshit game have anything other than porn in it? How's the combat? Character creation? Writing/story? World building? If someone has already summed up their thoughts in a nice way would appreciate a link or least a username so I can find it myself.

Perkel

Has a good summary.

 

[whydoibother]

Barbarian whydoibother

Spoiler

Exactly where did you get the idea that you would have to make multiple hard Wisdom saves in a row to resist killing a lot of people/hulking out? I'm well into Act 2 and I've seen nothing even remotely close to that.

From people saying as much who played it at Larian's event. They said The Urge will force Intimidation checks against you, which will get progressively harder the more you resist them.

 

[Grunker]

Barbarian whydoibother

Spoiler

Exactly where did you get the idea that you would have to make multiple hard Wisdom saves in a row to resist killing a lot of people/hulking out? I'm well into Act 2 and I've seen nothing even remotely close to that.

From people saying as much who played it at Larian's event. They said The Urge will force Intimidation checks against you, which will get progressively harder the more you resist them.

They may have removed it last minute, then. I have rolled to resist exactly once, and it was a minor thing.

 

[Larianshill]

Racist bow

 

[Lacrymas]

Where's Minsc?

 

[Grunker]

Where's Minsc?

Recruiting hun and Jaheira comes Way, waaaaaay late in the game. It’s very Odd that Larian called them companions. They’re not, really

 

[Zarniwoop]

I just broke the game. Thought I made a mistake, deleted my last 2 saves, tried it on another computer, then went back to the first one and broke it again. They should play the kazoo music for this.

Used flight to go to a secret entrance to the creche, then my current XP on all my characters went from very near the next level, to zero.

Reloaded, same thing. zero

Quit the game, tried to load, it crashed to desktop at 60%.

After all the uninstalling and deleted saves, tried the same thing again and got the same result.

 

[Orud]

I just broke the game. Thought I made a mistake, deleted my last 2 saves, tried it on another computer, then went back to the first one and broke it again. They should play the kazoo music for this.

Used flight to go to a secret entrance to the creche, then my current XP on all my characters went from very near the next level, to zero.

Reloaded, same thing. zero

Quit the game, tried to load, it crashed to desktop at 60%.

After all the uninstalling and deleted saves, tried the same thing again and got the same result.

Does turning off cloud saves help?

 

[Lacrymas]

Where's Minsc?

Recruiting hun and Jaheira comes Way, waaaaaay late in the game. It’s very Odd that Larian called them companions. They’re not, really

Ah, so they didn't make him an origin character, that's good.