The more annoying aspects of modern gaming are completely absent in Baldur’s Gate 3.
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.
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.
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.)
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’m not into DnD nor fantasy generally, but I am absolutely loving it. 40 hours in so far and I can’t get enough. I have the itch where I’m just thinking about spells all day when I’m not playing
If you feel this way, you should definitely look in to getting into D&D. This game is the closest you’re going to get to playing a D&D campaign in a video game as far as translation to the medium goes.
If you like this game, you will absolutely love D&D.
I will say it definitely has brought up my interest again. My ex used to play and I’ve watched some people play before, but I just feel like I’d have a hard time. I think it’s just my insecurity of needing to be good at things and I feel like I’d be bad at playing. Feels like the pressure would get to me to think of good ideas and such.
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.
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.
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
Except for that game launcher. OOF.
Game is not terrible, just OK. 10/10
You can bypass the launcher and never see it again after 30 seconds of googling. Not a big deal at all.
Not a fan of launchers either. But as far as they go, this one seems pretty benign. Didn’t need to login to an account or anything. Plus --no-launcher (or whatever the cmd us)
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.
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.
I’d argue you have plenty of time for this game. It’s big, but it isn’t filled with bullshit and doesn’t waste your time. Treat it like playing pen and paper D&D. You can play a campaign over many sessions and possibly hundreds of hours spread out over a long period, but if it’s time enjoyed it’s time well spent. You don’t need to sit down for an eight hour session. Just play for an hour or two and come back some other time. It’ll still be there and there’s no battle pass or anything to miss out on.
Most modern games suck because they treat your time like nothing. They have you doing bullshit quests and collecting meaningless items. BG3 doesn’t do that. It treats you like an adult who can make their own decisions. It doesn’t waste your time and everything you choose to do will be fairly meaningful. It is what gaming should be in my opinion.
you’re definitely living life wrong.
Hard to get context across in a post, this was only intended as a playful jab. I know all too well the consequences of aging and how it sucks your time away. Though I got divorced sometime ago and my (adult) kids live with me. I work full time but from home, the time I save on the commute allows me time to cook etc and not having to be up as early allows me to stay up later at night. But because of this isolation I don’t really get out much There’s no “other half” and friends are in short supply, no co-workers to hang out with in my free time. Which leaves me plenty of time for video games. Now is this a good trade off! I don’t think so, would much prefer to be in your shoes.
