Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[La vie sexuelle]

I really hate this game. I guess the joke is on me for thinking this would be different from the previous Divinity games (which I also hated).

This has all the hallmarks from Larian's previous games that I personally hated:
- overly cartoony graphical style
- terrible writing for the most part
- bad puns and humour all over (yes, I prefer more grimdark settings/stories)
- annoying inventory system, with crates all over the place with useless loot
- terrible camera, especially in places with a lot of vertical spaces
- terrible companions

It certainly does not feel like a proper sequel to BG1/BG2 (which I played back at release). It feels like a Divinity game. But maybe I'm just getting old and bitter and don't enjoy how they make RPGs these days...

Heh, "it's too colourful" argument again.

Look, even colourful things are diverse. Larian is from Belgium, and francophonic bandes dessinées (comics) have this same silly/flashy/macabresque feeling.

 

[Konjad]

I was also going to argue that goblin design makes them look too humanized, but then...

The goblins' accents and design remind me of British chavs, and as anyone who has ever spent time in the UK will attest that actually makes them easier and more satisfying to kill than if they looked more animalistic

i had to google "british chavs" and the first result were some goblin looking females:

so seems legit

If goblins looked like this I wouldn't side with them.

 

[Swen]

GameStar.de just released the final review, which is only publically accessible until later today.

They gave it a score of 95% (with a current deduction of 5 points due to heavy bugs in Act3). That's the highest score *any* game ever got in the magazine's 25 year existence.

Bravo Swen !

Based.

Like I said I made the best CRPG ever, a couple of codex incels crying on a fringe forum about "muh woke!" and "the end of muh western civlization!" won't change that fact.

To the haters (and there are many on here):

COPE, SEETHE and DILATE

 

[Lemming42]

Back at Act 3 in my second playthrough after aborting the first and uuugh I can't be bothered. It really does run out of steam pretty hard towards the end, and I don't care about the main plot at all so I don't even have that as a motivattion to continue.

First act is absolutely outstanding, second is decent, but after that it's just so hard to give a shit. I hate my character too, she's a fucking gnome.

Also, I know other people have confirmed it, but: yeah, the reactivity/C&C is almost entirely illusory in this game. To make the comparison yet again, we're pretty much talking Dragon Age tier.

I think Larian have made one of the best RPGs in the past decade... and it's called Baldur's Gate 3 Act 1.

 

[Swen]

Swen on suicide watch

Eurogamer review knocked it down a point

...Luckily one of my other games is still high:

 

[Lemming42]

BG3 deserves to beat Disco Elysium but only because Disco Elysium is very shit. The scores for all these are so wildly inflated it's utterly unreal. 98 for DOS2!

 

[Grauken]

BG3 deserves to beat Disco Elysium but only because Disco Elysium is very quality shit. The scores for all these are so wildly inflated it's utterly unreal. 98 for DOS2!

ftfy

 

[turkishronin]

A visual novel doesn't deserve such high score for an RPG

 

[Larianshill]

Replaying the game on the evil Dark Urge route, so I can fully appreciate it. Lost my mind when I find out that if you have Sharpshooter, you can destroy the cave-in at Nere's with a hand crossbow.

 

[Grauken]

A visual novel doesn't deserve such high score for an RPG

Thankfully its an RPG and not a visual novel

 

[turkishronin]

RPG bosses should be immune to vast majority of spells

 

[Lemming42]

No way, getting past insanely dramatic shit in laughably mundane ways is part of the game's appeal. Casting Sleep on the guy guarding Nightsong and then stamping on his balls to KO him before he can wake up, letting you skip the whole boss fight, was one of my favourite parts of the game.

Same for getting past the fat devil guy by luring his automatons out to the chasm with Minor Illusion then just having Karlach run around shoving them all into the abyss.

 

[AwesomeButton]

It's funny in retrospect, how basement connoiseurs screeched that there is no reactivity to being Drow in the Emerald Grove area, but when you go into Grymforge as a Human, everyone comments on your race.

 

[Gradenmayer]

It's funny in retrospect, how basement connoiseurs screeched that there is no reactivity to being Drow in the Emerald Grove area, but when you go into Grymforge as a Human, everyone comments on your race.

There is almost no reactivity for halflings outside of jokes about being short. Drow got a lot, comparatively.

 

[Kiste]

There is almost no reactivity for halflings outside of jokes about being short.

How else would you react to a fucking Halfling?

 

[Larianshill]

I really don't know how I feel about Tavern Brawler. I don't think a single feat should dictate how a Monk allocates his stats.

 

[Grauken]

There is almost no reactivity for halflings outside of jokes about being short.

How else would you react to a fucking Halfling?

Talk about hairy feet

 

[Zarniwoop]

Back at Act 3 in my second playthrough after aborting the first and uuugh I can't be bothered. It really does run out of steam pretty hard towards the end, and I don't care about the main plot at all so I don't even have that as a motivattion to continue.

First act is absolutely outstanding, second is decent, but after that it's just so hard to give a shit. I hate my character too, she's a fucking gnome.

Also, I know other people have confirmed it, but: yeah, the reactivity/C&C is almost entirely illusory in this game. To make the comparison yet again, we're pretty much talking Dragon Age tier.

I think Larian have made one of the best RPGs in the past decade... and it's called Baldur's Gate 3 Act 1.

Act 2 is better than 1 tho.

Shadow lands > Larian Island

 

[turkishronin]

There is almost no reactivity for halflings outside of jokes about being short.

How else would you react to a fucking Halfling?

No reactivity because manlets are supposed to be insignificant

 

[Reinhardt]

I really hate this game. I guess the joke is on me for thinking this would be different from the previous Divinity games (which I also hated).

This has all the hallmarks from Larian's previous games that I personally hated:
- overly cartoony graphical style
- terrible writing for the most part
- bad puns and humour all over (yes, I prefer more grimdark settings/stories)
- annoying inventory system, with crates all over the place with useless loot
- terrible camera, especially in places with a lot of vertical spaces
- terrible companions

It certainly does not feel like a proper sequel to BG1/BG2 (which I played back at release). It feels like a Divinity game. But maybe I'm just getting old and bitter and don't enjoy how they make RPGs these days...

Heh, "it's too colourful" argument again.

Look, even colourful things are diverse. Larian is from Belgium, and francophonic bandes dessinées (comics) have this same silly/flashy/macabresque feeling.

ok, i'm kinda interested. what is it and can you read it in human language?

 

[Zarniwoop]

OK so maybe those rumors about people completing it in a weekend are true.

Record is under 9 minutes

Spolier alert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKfvMnTPfTs

 

[Larianshill]

That isn't the whole game, though, it's the special act 2 "ending".

 

[Rhobar121]

RPG bosses should be immune to vast majority of spells

I hate that approach because it literally kills all the creativity you can have in a fight. Sure you can give them high saves but making them immune is cheap.

 

[Smashing Axe]

Replaying the game on the evil Dark Urge route, so I can fully appreciate it. Lost my mind when I find out that if you have Sharpshooter, you can destroy the cave-in at Nere's with a hand crossbow.

Or just eldritch blast

 

[Van-d-all]

I really hate this game. I guess the joke is on me for thinking this would be different from the previous Divinity games (which I also hated).

This has all the hallmarks from Larian's previous games that I personally hated:
- overly cartoony graphical style
- terrible writing for the most part
- bad puns and humour all over (yes, I prefer more grimdark settings/stories)
- annoying inventory system, with crates all over the place with useless loot
- terrible camera, especially in places with a lot of vertical spaces
- terrible companions

It certainly does not feel like a proper sequel to BG1/BG2 (which I played back at release). It feels like a Divinity game. But maybe I'm just getting old and bitter and don't enjoy how they make RPGs these days...

Heh, "it's too colourful" argument again.

Look, even colourful things are diverse. Larian is from Belgium, and francophonic bandes dessinées (comics) have this same silly/flashy/macabresque feeling.

ok, i'm kinda interested. what is it and can you read it in human language?

In polish it was called Pelissa, but the original title is something like "The Quest for the Timebird" by Serge Le Tendre. Egmont used to translate them around Europe, but I don't know if it was translated to english.