The more annoying aspects of modern gaming are completely absent in Baldur's Gate 3.

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[–] 81 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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:

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They will take it as an example. They will release more fantasy crpgs but will not learn not to include micro transactions

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    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." 🤮

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (15 children)

    Anyone here liking it? I haven’t played.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (16 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Damn everything about this game sounds exciting.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You can bypass the launcher and never see it again after 30 seconds of googling. Not a big deal at all.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    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)

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    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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