Baldur's Gate 3 is defying game industry trend-chasers — and is being rewarded for doing so
The more annoying aspects of modern gaming are completely absent in Baldur's Gate 3.
The more annoying aspects of modern gaming are completely absent in Baldur's Gate 3.
I essentially never pay full price for games but the combination of gameplay and the studio itself being gamer-friendly I think it's gonna be in my library soon.
yeah i was going to wait - and it's not like i don't have other stuff to play.
but for same reasons i bought it.
those other games are now going to have to wait - even longer.
Same here.
I bought it instantly when it was released. Love the studio, what they have done with the game (and DOS2), everything about it screams high quality.
Probably gonna start it this weekend solo, then when my friend buys it, we'll start a run together lets gooooooooooooooo.
Third time's the charm I hope. We had Elder Ring, Tears of the Kingdom and now Baldur's Gate 3.
Big budget big games from different studios with no bullshit attached to them, selling and being celebrated like the hot cakes they are.
Hopefully the industry trend-chasers see the no-bullshit trend and chase it
What a time to be alive!
It's like the early 2000s again and it's great. Wonderful single-player experiences that can be enjoyed offline and no bullshit microtransactions or collectables.
I've never tried one of these games myself, but I'm happy about all the fuzz coming from this game!! I hope other companies take it as an example c:
They will take it as an example. They will release more fantasy crpgs but will not learn not to include micro transactions
Some corpo playing BG3 somewhere right now: "This game would have been so much better with a battlepass!" 😒 "And it need repeatable quests!" 🤨 "Oh, and if we put collectibles in the game, we can sell them the map to find them all." 🤮
I generally have a 1 year delay for Triple-A games, to see if they're still relevant and then maybe look into buying. I might shorten that time for this game.
Given Larian's history with the amazing divinity original sin series I bought this release day and have not been disappointed :)
I too normally have the approach of playing games on a 1-2 (or more) year delay and picking them up for a huge discount versus original pricing, but I picked this up in early access way back when. You won't be disappointed if you decide to pick this one up earlier than normal.
Anyone here liking it? I haven’t played.
If you're into RPGs, or DnD, or general fantasy stuff, I would highly recommend it. I haven't finished it yet, but the first 20 or so hours have been incredibly fun. It's been a long time since I've enjoyed a game this much, the reviews aren't wrong with this one.
I played 72 hours of EA, and now I'm 54 hours into the official release. I'm having a great time. When I'm not playing it, I'm thinking about it.
Seriously, it's invading dreams at this point.
I'm closing in on 80 hours, 2 hours in EA, 77 hours since release.
Send help, can't stop.
I'm an hour into it and it feels like an old school rpg in a good way. I recommend giving it a try.
It feels like how i remember Neverwinter Nights
You are in for a treat! Have fun!
Best RPG I’ve ever played and I’m 95% positive that’s not just recency bias talking.
I was sure Starfield (regardless of quality) would win GOTY most places this year. I didn't expect BG3 to be this successful or even this good. It is definitely the best RPG I've played since at least Dragon Age Origins, but I'm pretty confident ever.
Yeah I didn’t even play the first two, too technical for me at the time, grabbed this one on hype alone and loving it!
I'm loving it. I have only 2 frustrations so far; the camera control is annoying, and the insta kill of getting pushed off cliffs.
My only complaints would be not being able to control the pitch of the camera and sometimes it's hard to walk through corridors because the wall cutaway doesn't happen fast enough.
I got it Sunday night and I'm 35 hours in.
Personally I really want to like it more, having just finished it at 80 hours. But from what I can tell, it just doesn't have much that makes me want to replay it and endgame is very buggy. I have a whole host of issues but after starting very unsatisfying re-run through today (I played 125 with different people in early access a year or 2 ago) I looked up some stuff and realized how few of the choices felt like they actually mattered, or were straight up broken/cut content. Very disappointed. LOVED the first playthrough, though.
I don’t exactly love these kinds of top down, turn based, save scum games, but the D&D 5e mechanics pulled me in. I will say the game is quite fun even as someone who gets burned out quickly on this style. I’ve played about 20 hours so far and there have been plenty of bugs and crashes, but I can definitely say I’m enjoying it
Yeah it’s great. I encounter bugs here and there but non are game breaking. Worth the buy, if your unsure pirate it first. By far the best DND game I’ve tried.
Just got done with a 5 hour session, eating dinner and doing another 5. Gonna have my wife design my second campaign
Haven't finished Tears of the Kingdom and moving into a new house so I will get it during a sale.
Nice. Care to please share more intimate info about your personal life here since your comment is essentially off topic af
If you want a good single player RPG with bullshit, collectables, or microtransactions that you can play offline if you want, it's great. If you want a modern game with all that stuff, it would suck. I don't know why you'd want that stuff, but some business people think we do.
I've played BG1, BG2, and a shit ton of NWN. I am an hour or two into BG3 and I'm happy so far.
Feels somewhat like 'Divinity OS does DND' but I enjoyed the system before and it seems to fit well enough to the setting.
Nwn gang
I remember when all these games were just coming out and the hype surrounding them. My favourite was always Minsc and his hamster companion Boo from BG1.
I adore Minsc but feel like WoTC has started flooding him into stuff once they realized that he was popular. He's in a comic, in Magic the gathering now, and I think even showed up in modules and games. Their involvement in any of this has made me trepidatious, tbh. It sounds like Larian may have made a good game despite them. (I have my own nitpicks there but I'm a very inflexible and nostalgic person, so that's to be expected.)
Wasn't he also in BG2 or Icewind Dale? I have vivid memories of him but never played BG1
I'm really tempted to buy it, but I have little time to play nowadays. It seems like the kind o game that you need to invest time to enjoy.
It is incredibly long. I've got over 50 hours now, and I'm not even seemingly anywhere near the titular city that is the game's namesake. I know it's in the game; I have quests to visit people there. I don't know how many acts there are, possibly 3; I've not even finished act 1 and I've been glued to this game super hard.
But you can also save literally at any time. Mid combat, mid sentence of dialogue, wherever. So you can always stop exactly where you are, at least.
I'm probably mid way through act 2 (hard to tell, but it feels like it won't be too long) and it seems like Baldur's Gate is still a long way off. I'm assuming after taking care of the main act 2 thing Baldur's Gate will be right around the corner though. Still, if that city is anything like the rest of the game so far, it's going to have a lot to do.
I've played it for 50 hours and I'd estimate I'm about half way through. So you are right. Though I've enjoyed every second of those hours. Also if you're constantly so busy you can't play a game or have you time, you're definitely living life wrong.
Have you ever heard of Capitalism?
I work most of the day and when I finish I have little time to share between studies, chores, family, partner, friends and games. Maybe during the weekends I can play more but I don't have the time I had during uni.
Edit: Fuck I'm mad with the
you’re definitely living life wrong.
Pay me a salary and I'll stop wasting my time going to work so I can go play games.
50 hours in? No, you aren't half way through I'm pretty sure. I'm not done yet, but apparently it's around 200h. Are you done with Act 1 yet?
How is it on SteamDeck?
It runs very well. The control defaults are not impairing the gameplay too much. Being quite new with SD, I'm progressing slower than on PC with mouse and keyboard. Graphics are a bit fuzzy but I didn't tweak the settings and left them as per default.
pretty good actually if you use proton experimental: https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940
Solid. I'm playing it docked, so M&K and a 21" and not 7" screen, but the device runs it fairly well.
30-40 FPS in normal gameplay (without really having to turn the settings way down), running in native 800p upscaled to 1050p, and it really only chugs during a handful of cutscenes that have a trillion elements moving around in the background. I could probably worsen the graphics to get more FPS if I wanted, but this seems like a good balance. Very enjoyable experience so far.
