What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

canis_majoris, 10 months ago

It’s a perfect digitization of D&D 5th edition - it’s like having an automatic dungeon master using the rules and regulations we’ve been playing with on paper for ages.

It has a massive plot that can vary wildly on playthroughs depending on how rolls go, just like the real version.

It’s four-player co-op with PVE in an age where cooperation is increasingly rare outside of competitive team games.

It’s a well designed, properly built, finished product that can be expanded on with DLC, rather than using them to address core gameplay issues. (looking at you Paradox)

ivanafterall, 10 months ago

Can you imagine what the mod scene for this game will look like in a year or so? It's going to be amazing.

Neato, 10 months ago

Mmmm good point! I'm imagine some of the bigger 5e 3rd parties straight porting their magic items, spells and monsters into the game (monsters would be for custom campaign eventually).

superkret, 10 months ago

There’s going to be soooo much beastiality.

teawrecks, 10 months ago

There’s going to be soooo much more beastiality.

ftfy

Vittelius, 10 months ago

Sure, but people were really mad earlier this year because Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns D&D tried to pull some licencing related shenanigans that would have massively fucked over the community. People were boycotting the movie a couple of months ago over that. It’s interesting, that Baldurs Gate seems to not be affected by this at all.

canis_majoris, 10 months ago

Yeah because Twitter is not a real place. The actual D&D community spoke with their wallets and they said “we like a good, finished product without stupid terms of use” and all bought BG3. People who don’t even play D&D bought BS3 to play with folks who do play D&D.

Draft, 10 months ago

Ss

imPastaSyndrome, 10 months ago

Image of a big snake and a small snake

Draft, 10 months ago

I honestly have no idea how that posted, so when I got your reply I was very confused.

ivanafterall, 10 months ago

It's not small, it's just further away.

imPastaSyndrome, 10 months ago

Hey momma, I’m not small I’m just really really far away, hoo-ha!

oo1, 10 months ago

First you draw an "S" . . .
then you draw a more different "s" . . .

imPastaSyndrome, 10 months ago

Consummate vees

entropicdrift, 10 months ago

Trogdor ended up being the big bad of my brother-in-law’s homebrew campaign that he ran for our family D&D group

ryven, 10 months ago

Well, I had already bought BG3 in Early Access before the OGL debacle, and before Hasbro (WotC’s parent company) sent the Pinkertons to intimidate some small time Youtuber into giving back some unreleased Magic: the Gathering cards that he had been erroneously sold early by a distributor. So I couldn’t very well boycott it when I had already purchased it and played like 30 hours of it.

I’m still not buying new D&D books or MtG cards.

Vittelius, 10 months ago

You don’t need to justify your purchasing decision to me. I am not even calling for a boycott of the game. I know people at Larian and I wish them all the success they can get.

I am just surprised that this whole thing seems to be completely absent from the larger discussion about this game. I would have assumed, that it would have been at least a footnote.

Fiivemacs, 10 months ago

No in-game store

The game isn’t shit

People are beyond bored of 95% of the absolute trash that’s being pumped out by the asinine asshole accountants. (AAA Studios)

It’s nice seeing something that isn’t even close to trash be released.

Stillhart, 10 months ago

Hey, leave the accountants out of this! We count things, we don’t set policy.

Blxter, 10 months ago

My understanding is that it is a complete game with no microtransactions to shove along with it. After that I believe it is because it is really really good and not a common genre to get the spot light. Mainly the first part.

Lazerbeams2, 10 months ago

There’s also the reaction from other developers claiming that the game “sets an unrealistic standard for what to expect out of a game” despite it being exactly what people want from a triple A studio. Just a complete, well made, functional game with no microtransactions

andrewrgross, 10 months ago

That seems like a good question.

I guess the marketing team did a really good job?

Franconian_Nomad, 10 months ago

Yes, that too.

And dungeons & dragons is incredible popular at the moment.

And Larian did a very good job with the last games and gained a big fanbase.

And the original Baldurs Gate Games are considered cult among older pc gamers.

No micro-transaction bullshit.

And last but not least: It’s an incredible game.