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.
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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
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
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'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.
Can I use a controller?
I'm playing using moonlight to stream to my shield and an Xbox controller and it's intuitive and works really well. They add controller friendly UI and features for controller use. It's handled exceptionally well. Would recommend 10/10
50hrs+ playtime at time of posting. Not enjoyed a game this much in a very long time.
For what it is, it works exceptionally well on a controller. There's a reason most of the genre doesn't even bother, though. There are enough options that you will need to navigate through more than one layer of menus at times.
It's absolutely worth it, and I've played it a lot of hours exclusively on steam deck, but the nature of the genre is that it can't be quite perfect.
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.
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.
Best RPG I’ve ever played and I’m 95% positive that’s not just recency bias talking.
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.
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'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.
No Icewind Dale??
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.
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)
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.
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