Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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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.
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.
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.
Damn everything about this game sounds exciting.
It is. You also have actual choices with actual consequences too. The "normal" route is to side with the good guys, but I'm pretty confident you can also choose to play evil and have another campaign on the complete opposite side of the fight.
They really push the moral ambiguity thing hard. Especially with the first few companions you get. And especially if you pursue their personal quests.
I wouldn't call it moral ambiguity usually, more that it pushes the idea that previous mistakes don't define a character totally. It's basically the typical TTRPG character tragic backstory. Some of them are more greedy than others, but it's usually just that they did something wrong in the past and are trying to make up for it, or they're a different person now, or whatever. It is strange there's not a single normal character in the party though. I'd love to have some person there who's just wondering Wtf is wrong with all these people.
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 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
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.
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.