Act 1: 11/10 holy shit this is the best RPG I’ve ever played and it’s not even close
Act 2: I don’t know what’s going on anymore and it’s boring as shit, holy shit will this shit ever end
Act 3: don’t care anymore, forcing myself to finish based on my dwindling enthusiasm I still barely have from act 1
I look forward to replaying act 1 several more times but I’m just gonna headcanon arriving at moonrise tower as the ending to the game.
Is the lack of threads about this game on Ganker because everyone is either in act 3 or beat it and it left a sour taste in their mouth?
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I dropped the game at Act 3 too, idk why exactly I just found it immensely boring even though I was eager to reach the city.
Compared to you I really liked Act 2.
There is medication for ADHD
Yeah I think I accidentally made a beeline for the end of act 2 without realizing it because it was really short and I definitely wasn’t nearly as invested in anything happening as the game assumed I would be.
There's a lack of threads on Ganker because the Tencent shilling campaign contract ended on Oct 1st
Good evening saar
sars!
kek the farquaad false flag was peak larian moronation.
Imagine thinking that would work after people found out it was a strawman by larian marketers. Desperate shills lol.
Even worse, they are posting confirmation that Tencent really does have that stake.
>the t-type of shares
morons think there is no material benefit given to this type of thing for ~~*some reason*~~ when it applies to this specific entity.
Meds, schizo.
I'm from Wales actually. Never been to the Mediterranean.
GOOOD MORNING SIRSSSSSSS
>Farquaad posting
have you been conditioned into acting like this? It is too ironic to have the Farquaads yelling indian memes at people when anti-larian posting happens. Don't let this be your legacy.
I didn't mind act 3 compared to most of Ganker. It def felt rushed but it wasn't bad
act 2 was a huge downer tho. Uninteresting area, none of the bosses were good, Halsin completely bugged out on me and I wasn't able to do his quest at all
I failed his portal quest and just let it ride because imagining him being stranded in another dimension was pretty funny. The game bugged out and never let him actively join the party and I didn’t really like his camp interactions so killing him in a fairly humiliating way was satisfying
He never join the party unless youu do his portal quest, ...
>area, none of the bosses were good
Not only were they not interesting mechanically, but they were kind of just tossed in mindlessly with very little context. You could have completely cut out the toll collector and the evil doctor guy and literally nothing would have changed.
Act 3 is godlike and the actual payoff.
I hope so but “sell humanity out to Satan, aliens, or just kys” don’t exactly motivate me to finish. My IRL job is all about having to make decisions when every option is the bad option, I don’t want that bullshit in my vidya too.
>sell humanity out to Satan, aliens, or just kys
Huh
I dunno, I was high as shit and having trouble following Raphael’s proposal early in act 3 but it seemed like he and the emperor were both basically saying the only way to stop the brain was to side with one of them or sacrifice myself
lmao you are this dumb, and you have a job where "every option is a bad one"?
is it working at burger king?
You're right, you're forced to side with either the discount head crab, prince frog man or discount satan to finish the game.
Yeah that’s pretty gay. Never gonna side with the devil, not gonna cuck Laezel out of Vlaakith’s ascension, and not gonna side with the mindflayers. Might just not beat it, all 3 of those choices sound like garbage.
>not gonna cuck Laezel out of Vlaakith’s ascension
Wasn't this going to happen anyway? She was always going to die I think, and the game tells you her fate is uncertain even when she rides off on a dragon.
I don’t know, I haven’t been spoiling it for myself, but I like Laezel and am ride or die for her so there’s no way I’m letting Orpheus live, and I don’t care about the ramifications beyond that.
Don’t really care what happens to anyone else in the party after the journey is done but I genuinely want to help Laezel accomplish her goals.
Yeah, that first encounter with the emperor is just insane to rationalize as Lae'zel, someone that was taught from birth to always kill any mind flayer she saw now has to hold back because "if you kill me the game will end lmao".
Complete bullshit. The railroaded plot is what holds the game back, as it is always the case with RPGs.
No you don't. You can betray the Emperor at the end and take the crown for yourself.
Act 3 fricking blows, Black person.
I dropped the game at act 2. I believe in the House of Healing? Idk what it was...I just got too bored, didn't really care.
I really like Larian games. But I always drop them 1/2 though. It's how it went for me in Divinity 1 and 2 as well.
r u me
I'm having a blast at first and halfway through it gets so exhausting for some reason, same story with DOS1, 2 and now BG3
for bg3 what made me set aside is the inventory management, shit is so aids - especially for the game where you can loot whatever's not nailed down to the floor
I'll finish my tactician playthrough eventually, I think it's the harpers inn in act 2 where I left it
u and I r 1 in the same, Anon. Always wishing the best for you/us.
>what made me set aside is the inventory management, shit is so aids
I'm a lootgoblin so my inventory is always full if I did not stop to send half of it to camp
tbh i dropped it after act one, waiting for some combat revamp mod
>Is the lack of threads about this game on Ganker because everyone is either in act 3 or beat it and it left a sour taste in their mouth?
It's because shilling money of Larian dried up. No Gankerner cares about this troony-slop besides /lgbt/
>I don’t know what’s going on anymore
So you're a moron who got filtered, got it.
I liked the game but having a gay vampire elf, a bear and a squid man approaching me for gay sex all in less than an hour was gay. There's just a a gay shit load of gay shit rammed into this gay ass game and staring you into your face like a gay hiv positive homosexual gaylord.
I would have loved to have completed the game, but twice now I've encountered a game breaking bug midway through act 3 that hasn't been patched or seems even been recognized by Larian. The idea of starting over again has killed all enthusiasm.
>lack of threads
There's been multiple threads daily about this game every day since it officially released.
Are you mentally ill?
The only interesting thing about act 1 is Ethel questline and her swamp zone though
>meet the hag in the path
>failed perception checks but still realized the hag was something else because duh
>meet her at the swamp, check her dialogue
>she goes on with her daily routine
>put her to sleep
>attack with everyone, she reveals true form but never wakes at all
>gang rape her till she dies
Easiest fight in the game lmao
I could never figure out a path through Act2 that explained what was going on in Reithwin and with all of Thorm's siblings (children?) prior to me literally going in there and meeting them/discovering its history.
All of Act2 feels like a rushed mess with no real cohesive path through it; it's all just ancillary content that you're given little to no reason to WANT to get to or through. I have 250 hours on the game and Act1 is the only part that really ever gave me any enjoyment, all the rest of the time was just me searching for something else to enjoy and not finding it.
There are many, many ways that the game will literally spoil itself -- I had Lae'zel mention Ketheric Thorm by name about 75% of the way through Act1 on a playthrough in which my party had never heard of this man, nor read any books or missives that mentioned him; if you advance to a certain part of Act1 WITHOUT having crossed the bridge to the goblin camp and gotten the initial le prism is saving us cutscene, IT WILL STILL BE MENTIONED and party members will still quip "it's like the prism saving us on the bridge" DESPITE IT NEVER HAPPENING.
The game has a lot of the building blocks in place, but so much of it just feels half-assed and haphazardly assembled. Almost every quest has a binary outcome, and even more quests many players will leave unfinished after seeing there is no suitable dialogue option to complete it, e.g. an Oath of Devotion Paladin will find no real IN ROLE way to finish the quest to find Mayrina. A Paladin would neither present the wand to her and snap it before her eyes nor would they USE THE FRICKING WAND TO REANIMATE HER DEAD HUSBAND, and these are the only two ways, barring allowing Mayrina to die, to actually complete the quest and remove it from your log.
tl;dr the game will have tons of content added at some point when they actually finish developing it and release the inevitable DEFINITIVE EDITION.
>path through Act2 that explained
Rewrites. That should explain everything.
a paladin of any oath would definitely present the wand before snapping it, as both a tough love thing and a demonstration that such bullshit will not be tolerated
>the game will have tons of content added at some point when they actually finish developing it and release the inevitable DEFINITIVE EDITION.
This is cope, their last game didn't have anything added in the definitive edition, they just rebalanced spells and fixed some bugs in arx.
stopped at act 3 too, no reason, just stopped playing
restarted act 1 over and over with different characters, trying to see if this last one will stick
literally me lol
I've replayed act 1 dozens of times, made at least 15 characters. Reached act 2 only 3 times, reached act 3 once.
Idk what it is, somewhere I just get bored of my class archetype and roleplay decisions? sometimes I get tired of my main characters face, or worst of all I realized too late that I'm locked out of a companion's romance.
I both love and hate the amount of choice you're given, it's just endless and unless you replay act 1 5 times you won't get the perfect ultra good outcome.
I finished the entire game while doing every quest in my first dark urge playthrough, you guys are just weak lol
troony game
Act 2 is just dogshit. The cursed lands suck. The shart temple sucks. The story revolves entirely around a lesbian romance and the evil old white man who tried to stop it.
Lol I didn’t realize the shart temple was 90% of the story of act 2 and basically did it first. I didn’t even know last light inn existed when I had Shadowheart kill nightsong, and was really confused when it showed the other dyke flipping out because the shield dissipated. Ditto when I realized that basically triggered the big climax of act 2 and it was basically frickin impossible with zero allies. So I had to rewind a few hours, back out of the shar temple and give the rest of act 2 a cursory once over. God I’m still irritated I had to cuck out and play the game with Reddit morality to beat the moonrise tower fight.
>inb4 git gud at the combat
Lol why? If I want hard dnd I’ll play nethack, wizardry or anything else based on dungeon crawling and 1e/ad&d rules
Act 3 was kino
I hate being some weak little adventurer homosexual
I'm obsessed with low levels in every game. being the grunt in an army, taking orders, wearing a uniform. World of warcraft level 1-30 is the only part of the game I enjoyed.
I don't like how you get stronger to the point of becoming a demi god instead of just being a veteran warrior with stories to tell.
>get minthara
>she absolutely shits on shadowheart, both as a character and gameplay wise
>Act 3
>randomly wandering around paths exploring around the city
>suddenly remember everything about my past as Durge out of nowhere when it was being held above my head for the entire game and destined to be a massive revelation
Act 3 really needs some work. Also two different quests bugged out and I cannot complete them because I skipped a simple step. Definitive Edition when?
Am I blind or does it take awhile for the city to open up? The furthest north I’ve gotten is the palace or whatever that you can sneak into through the prison and so far the actual city is just a straight line. The starting area has the circus I guess and there’s all those paths around the shoreline but the actual urban area is literally just a main thoroughfare
that's not the city, you need to talk to people to get a pass into baldur's gate proper, the most obvious being the open hand murders, I believe
Act 3 is fricking amazing and I literally jizzed when I realized I could climb down the the top of the tower in sorcerous sundries manually from the outside to get a second secret vault room. It's mindblowing how much cool shit there is in that act, I have NO idea how people can complain about it.
>holy shit this is the best RPG I’ve ever played and it’s not even close
How exactly? The movie game "gameplay" where you click something and wait 5 minutes for it to happen? Or the hours of dialogue. So tell me, are movie games bad or not? Fricking Hypocrite homosexual. Kill your fricking self.
I’m not everyone on Ganker. The last time I played a story game wrpg was KOTOR and this feels like a massive update to that style of gameplay.
Even within the dnd universe I can get just as much enjoyment out of this game as I can it’s autistic polar opposite (nethack and other stupidly hard dungeon crawlers)
>>Is the lack of threads about this game on Ganker because everyone is either in act 3 or beat it and it left a sour taste in their mouth?
>act 3
I was enjoying it up until I got to around the 5-6th quest in lower city beating the bhaal chick was fun but the gortash shit just drags on and I hate his fight
I think my romance bugged out since I cant sleep with anyone anymore and I exhausted all party dialogue / quests and im honestly having more fun thinking about a new char for act 1
I've been allowing the dark urge through act 1 but now in act 2 I kinda want to go against it. is it more of a slider that changes on your various actions or is it just a set of a few specific events that determine if you embrace or defy the durge?
Kind of, Act 1 is one of my high lights of the year for sure (although its not perfect), and I had some fun with Act 2 but I ended up losing interest, dropped it after 72 hours
Have you found yourself replaying a game you've failed to finish in the fast and you just happen to feel tired quit where you did last time?
Without encountering a hard boss or level, it just feels tired at that point.
I remember it happening to me with Sunless Skies. Always right before or at the start of the third area.
If I drop a game I'm not going back to it.
It starts strong and then interest takes a dive. In my case, it was just how the narrative was developing that took me out, while theres lot of nice interactions, of course it will never allow for true DM improv, nor will get rid of vidya jankiness, if that makes sense
Act 1: shit
Act 2: shit
Act 3: unplayable shit
>Act 3: don’t care anymore, forcing myself to finish based on my dwindling enthusiasm I still barely have from act 1
This is the main reason I think BG3 should not win GOTY. They baited reviewers with Act 1 but completely fricked over those who purchased and played the full game.
I’m not sure if I literally hate act 3 the way most of Ganker seems to, it’s just that act 2 was absolutely not to my taste at all and the final battles in it were so hard and grueling for me that it killed my enthusiasm entirely. Act 3 seems like a logical progression from act 1 tonally, I almost wonder if the game would’ve been better off having act 2 be some super short railroad module to set up the plot for act 3. The game would still be long as frick regardless and imo wouldn’t be any big loss to cut out basically all of spoopyville
Act 3 isn't as bad as everyone says, but I can see why people wouldn't like it
But damn this shit never ends, feels like I've been in act 3 as long as the first two combined. The end of act 2 was the "absolute" peak for me.
I've only finished Jaheira's quest and now I have another huge side quest for Wyll.
And thank frick Orin kidnapped Halsin, I could not give less of a shit about that guy. It was actually nice not having him bum around my camp for so long.
Act 3 was good purely because it gave me rooms full of enemies to murder
I am really not looking forward to repeating the Druid Grove everytime
yup, and all the normalgays stopped in act 1 and still act like that's the entire game
>t. beat it a while back
Same. When I first get to act 2, not-Gandalf will tell Gale to kill himself, he’ll commit sudoku right there, and that’ll be the end of the story.
Wouldn’t that actually be a viable ending at that point for Gale to blow himself up before the events of Act 2 really take off? Kill kethric, the brain, and the army that’s planning on marching to Baldurs Gate before they actually have a chance to take off?
Act 1 was kino.
Underdark and Mountain Pass were poorly handled. Both Mountain Pass and Underdark should've led to Grymforge. Instead you get one being x10 better than the other. I was hyped for a 2nd playthrough going through the Mountain Pass only for it to be 10% of the Underdark + Grymforge. B-b-b-but do both moron. No moron. The whole point was you were supposed to take one path.
Act 2 was dogshit.
Whole right side was completely barren and boring. Dark Souls town was honestly a joke. Moonrise was also dogshit. Temple of Shar was kino.
Act 3 outside city was good.
Act 3 inside city was bad.
Minthara being locked to Act 2 was dumb and stupid. Frick Larian.
I hate that I’m such a contrarian that I did the mountain pass literally only because everyone in the game kept saying “you should totally do the underdark”, only to find out that the underdark is apparently one of the best segments of the game
They don’t get any better the deeper into the game you get. The beginning of act 3 is a rehash of all the refugee shit from the grove but with even worse dialogue options when people ask you what you think about it. The writers clearly don’t understand what would motivate an actual human being to be anti-migrant because you always get like 2-3 variations of California shitlib, one giga-hitler cartoon response and one “kill ‘‘em all and let god sort ‘em out” edgelord response. It’s really irritating.
Underdark is a complete let down.
I hate the choices in Act I. It's such a binary choice between the nature loving society and opressed refugees vs. violence-loving cult. Underdadk is the exact same when you think about it. Then act II the same again.
The druids are buttholes and half of them are actually evil. Also one of the c**ts there tells you to have a nice day with poison if you go to her looking for help about the parasite.
>Also one of the c**ts there tells you to have a nice day with poison if you go to her looking for help about the parasite.
C'mon, this is disingenuous. She straight up tells you she has no idea how to fix it but gives you a vial of poison and makes you promise to drink it if you feel yourself starting to turn, to prevent you being a danger to others. That's a very reasonable stance, I think.
And if you say you don't like the idea of drinking wyvern toxin she immediately attacks you. I understand what you're getting at but there's no shocker that I killed her right after, even though she did have a nice personality.
>Indians now shilling for BG3
You love to see it.
Are you talking about divinity original sin 1, 2 or baldur's gate 3?
act 2 is absolute shit, nothing is interesting about muh cursed lands
Act 1 :s 8/10
act 2 : 8/10
act 3 : 9/10
Act 3 is a 5/10 at best. It's unfinished shit with a memory leak problem.
Works on my machine.
I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed in Act 3. The lower city is so fricking big with shit basically around every corner. Going into the House of Hope and killing Raphiel after combing the entire place took forever.
>The lower city is so fricking big
It's not, actually. Once you'll learn your surroundings you will realize that it's not.
But enough about Cyberpunk
Honestly the pacing of the game is just out of whack.
Funny enough, that was my concern initially because it was my biggest issue with DOS2 (the other Larian game I've played), where the first 2 acts are kino and then the last 2 are utter dogshit you want to speed through.
Holy kek, this is literally me. I dropped the game in Act 3 when I realized it would be more shit like Act 2. This game literally run out of content in Act1. Companions stop bantering, conversations with NPCs become one line cutscenes and everything just screams low effort like DOS1 did after Cyseal
>hey it's us larian, a no name dev, we're going to do an early access game again
>give us 60 dollars upfront for this early access, but it's only the first act!
anybody that fell for this is moronic, actually
Act 2 and 3 really start to rail road you and the way you can handle situations and it's clear that so much of the non-linearity of Act 1 is due to early access feedback