Act 1 is a masterpiece.
Act 2 is still good quality, but the writing on the wall becomes apparent.
Act 3 is a poorly optimized and content butchered mess.
Act 1 is a masterpiece.
Act 2 is still good quality, but the writing on the wall becomes apparent.
Act 3 is a poorly optimized and content butchered mess.
a3 was literally just as good at worst, better at best, than a1 or 2. dunno wtf these people are smoking.
Act 3 gave me a very strong energy of “someone really liked Novigrad in TW3 and wanted to make an even broader and more ambitious version of it”, despite that not fitting in with where the plot should be (it worked in TW3 because it’s fairly early on so opening up a huge space with a ton of different new directions to go makes sense, whereas being in literally “act 3” where you’re expecting the endgame to be in sight is just exhausting instead) or the tone of the overall story (why would there even still be a “camp” in a city with hotels? Why would you care about random murders or a bank or a circus?).
It felt like something that belonged to another game that got shoehorned in. It would have been enough to cut the entire lower city and half of the sewers, move rivington to the denouement of act 2 with another party, and have the scope of the larger city just implied by the view from the tower and maybe needing to take a boat ride to cazador’s palace with a cutscene of the upper and lower cities going by. There was basically no reason to have a big city in what should have been the endgame.
exhausting is the word for it.
I have no interest in doing any of this shit.
Novigrad is still the high water mark for me for a city in a game. Baldurs gate seems like a flat, boring village by comparison. Where's the density goddam it
I´m having fun but i´m not sure i would call it a masterpiece just yet.
I honestly don´t get why act 1 gets that much praise. I find it really weak storywise. I mean, you find a lot of situations seemingly unrelated to your problem and are expected to get involved for whatever reason. I just don´t get it.
>Look, refugees! literal hobos that can give you nothing for your troubles! >Look! druids! I´m sure this one druid can do something about the extra planar infection in your brain! >Look an old lady! her home remedies are sure to help with a rare condition from another dimension! Oh she is actually a hag! you must kill her because she torments stupid villagers! >Look! they kidnapped this random politician! You´ll help a politician right?! RIGHT?! >Look, goblins with stone age magic and tools! they probably can help you if you help them raid the grove!
Seriously, none of these made any sense. The only leads that made sense were hurrying up to meet the Githyanki, Omeluum and maybe Raphael.
Act 2 is far more involved as it gives a clear destination and source to the PC personal problem; moonrise towers. Yes, a lot of the other situations converge there too but since the player didn´t know how all things were related at that point there would not have been any point on treating those as leads.
Act 1 is overrated. The reason why its good its because of the variety of settings and it feels more classic adventuring. The best part about act 1 is the Underdark, which I think should've been considered part of Act 2 (best act by far).
The writing is pretty basic throughout the whole game anyway.
WOW! True my fellow rebbitor! Nobody has ever shared that opinion before. Thanks for sharing it with us. BG3 is a really unpopular game, your post was truly a breath of fresh air on the landscape of discussion
This is my first DND based game and I love it so far. Don't care much for all the gay shit though. Gale and the gay vampire tried to rape me so I had to kill them.
he's funny and he's the only companion who is full on onboard with dark urge doing insane shit. even minthara questions your insanity but astarion just rolls with it
i don't even care what he can or can't do
he talks like an overly attention starved flaming homosexual all the fricking time, like he's the main host of a gay parade
he's straight up insufferable
I hated Astarion so much that I used him as a Guinea pig for all the sketchy deals like the hag taking their eye and tadpoles and the bard taking their other eye.
By the end of it he looked like a cyborg and I liked him a little.
I have not tried it but can you start the convo with one of your companions and have them get a new eye instead of you? I know that you can take Lae'zel's place in the chair but can this be done with Volo or auntie Ethel?
This. He's prime bullying material too >Nuke him with the laser Canon and he loses his marbles >Force him to Bite that drow and he weeps like a puppy >Send him to the Clown stage and he spergs out >Don't let him turn into a vampire ascendant and he scurries away to the shadows burning while a laugh track plays
It's a good game but I have too many serious issues with it that stop me from really loving it. I had a better time with Kotor and Mass Effect, even if those games were overall less ambitious. I liked this more than Divinity OS2 though.
Qft. It's garbage literally catered to sex pest low-IQ zoomers who need 3D porn in everything. Has absolutely nothing to do with BD1 and 2 which were great.
Qft. It's garbage literally catered to sex pest low-IQ zoomers who need 3D porn in everything. Has absolutely nothing to do with BD1 and 2 which were great.
the difference is, Witcher 3 has - quite literally - 2 minutes of sex scenes.
Divinity Original Sin 3 has 2+ hours of sex scenes recorded.
>Ganker always loved TW3 moron
Fricking have a nice day, tourist Black person homosexual. Ganker hates TW3. Because Ganker has the shittiest taste imaginable to man.
>Witcher 3 at least had decent writing
Get the frick outta here, moron. I'm an OG b***her bookgay who has been defending TW3 for years at this point against your blabbering. And now you zoomer morons flipped and suddenly like TW3? Kill self. b***her books are better than games. And as a trilogy BG is better than TW. Yes, BG3 included. Probably the best RPG game series over made, overall. That's how it is.
The short stories and baptism of fire are good enough. He’s like the opposite of GRRM. He knows how to write an ending but no idea how to take more than 50 pages to get there.
Disagree completely. White frost comes out of nowhere near the very end to justify ciri having a purpose. Its a type of writing where you just write some random shit without any plan whatsoever. The only good thing about witcher are characters, Bonart and Witcher to be precises because everyone else sucks miles of dick.
You probably read them in English. If your read them at all, that is. English translation is very bland and moronic. I personally compared it with the Russian one. The Witcher need to be read either in Polish or Russian. Russian translation is absolutely amazing. Most probably better even than OG Polish.
People keep saying this but there’s nobody trying to make a proper English translation. And I’m not about to learn some dying Slav language to read a middling work of genre fiction.
not him but the books go to shit pretty quickly but that's the point. The game is even worse written especially when looked at as an RPG because where the frick is the roleplaying. It's an adventure game where 60% of the game is a Mario tier plotline of "finding heckin ciri", the crones/velen are the only well written parts but everything else was dogshit.
>Novigrad was just a schizo mess of bland shit to do with politics (the way they butchered Djikstras character, kek) >Skellige I hated because it didn't even feel like a Witcher game at that point >Oxenfurt has barely any content even if the best quest is there (Carnal Sins)
There's a reason people only praised Hearts of Stone, it felt like an actual Witcher story/plot line and not this political dogshit, shoddy game of thrones knockoff Witcher 3 tried to be.
Like, what in the FRICK were the Wild Hunt even? You hear about how unstoppable they are only for you to whoop their ass within the opening hours with Kera Metz and every other time you find them you beat the frick out of them. And what about the great frost? >oh yea, you didn't snowball fight with Ciri? She dies now
Witcher 3s writing as a whole was dogshit. It did well in its smaller questlines like Wild at Heart and other more "WITCHER" like moments, but the story as a whole was fricking ass
>It did well in its smaller [story]lines and other more "WITCHER" like moments, but the story as a whole was fricking ass
Staying true to the books lol
You're a complete moron. You can't say TW games are good without giving due credit to Sapkowski for creating the universe and establishing the world. And that's exactly where Sapkowski excels at. Worldbuilding, atmosphere and small, little details. Ask everyone - the first two books of short stories are their favorite for a reason.
I dont disagree. But I think his stories are god awful, lack focus and all around the place. They have their charm tho.
8 months ago
Anonymous
That's like just your opinion, man.
It’s literally just “fairy tales but grimdark”.
>fairy tales but grimdark
Yeah? However, say what you will about Sapkowski being a massive c**t, the bastard can write. Everything can be good if it's decently written. And Sapkowski has a good balance between "fairy tales" and "grimdark", he doesn't venture too far into either, and, despite everything, his books has good morals buried deep underneath it's cynical appearance. Just like Geralt himself.
>the elder brain…has turned into a netherbrain, something that did not exist anywhere in lore or anything prior to this moment >now someone has to become a squid because uhhh reasons. >also whether you used tadpoles or powers has no effect
GoT tier fricked ending. As soon as I heard the word ”netherbrain” I laughed out loud and put down my controller, and when orpheus out of nowhere said someone needed to become squid as a total asspull I laughed again, shut it down and uninstalled the game.
I just finished Baldurs Gate 3.
Here's the review: >graphics 4/10
faces look well made, but everything else - the locations, walls, trees, dungeons, look extremely weak - the worst ive seen in recent years, actually. >music 2/10
music sounds like it was made by ChatGPT, completely ambient, unnoticable "nothing". There wasnt even 1 moment that made me say "oh damn thats good music". >companion interactions and dialogues 1/10
absolutely sex obsessed, unreal interactions between horny 12 year olds. Halsin told me he want to bed me during our first conversation in the camp, and the shirtless Emperor offering sex was the most pathetic thing i saw in a game. >non-companion dialogues and story 6/10.
its just "ok". Not great, not terrible. Its ok. >combat 1/10
no fast forward button, no "ignore enemy turn" button, way too many filler trash encounters all over the game, just to artificially prolong the game. Combat boils down to just spamming 1 OP skill and clicking end turn. >camera
doesnt work. Gets stuck - for some reason - on eveything, and can only move 15 meters from my character. >map
doesnt work. when you press M it doesnt even have a bracket to tell me what part of the map im looking at. >no weather patterns and no full day/night cycle 0/10
every single DND game ever made has full day/night cycle. Learn to code, Larian.
Especially cringe when playing as a Drow or a Vampire. >UI 1/10
there's barely any UI art at all. It just.... is.
In fact, the whole game suffers from a lack of art direction.
Baldurs Gate is the ugliest city i have ever seen in an RPG. Its just a vomit of beige walls. >4 person squad 1/10
should be 6.
cant even tell you how many times i had to go back and swap teammates for a quest. >item and spell descriptions 1/10 >inventory management 1/10
i couldnt stand any of the companions, i just canceled all their cringe dialogues and didnt talk to any of them throughout the whole game, up until i uninstalled BG3 when i saw how act 3 looks like. >the gay homosexual mage with the accent of the guy from IT crowd >the gay homosexual vampire acting like a princess >the red demon b***h throwing shit-fricks around every second >some dumb Black person >obvious coombait cleric
im just gonna say it: cringe game for pathetic cringe people.
i couldnt stand playing this shit.
I'm still in Act 1 but nearing the end (just killed Grym, got some sick armor) and I had a message saying "your adventure will progress" or some shit.
I still have the Creche shit to do with Leyzel and some other minor underdark shit. Does Act 2 and 3 really drop off? The game is the best game i've ever played so far (if it keeps even a fraction of the quality i've seen so far).
How would Ganker rate the acts? Also, how long are the acts because Act 1 is looking to be around 35+ hours for me. P.S - This boss fight was fricking BULLSHIT on tactician
I haven't reached ACT 3, heading to the final boss there now but so far it's every bit as good as ACT1. The only thing is you don't have as many wildly different environments in ACT 2
Why is it considered act 1 when you get the same warning entering Mountain Pass as when you enter the shadow lands?
8 months ago
Anonymous
That’s act 1
I did the Mountainpass/Creche in Act 2 so they've been comparable although 1 is definitely longer.
how long was Act 2 relative to Act 1?
I personally think that trying to think of this game in the form of ''acts'' is wrong. I think... that zones are more appropriate even if some quests can end up being in multiple zones.
>act 1 10/10 if good 3/10 if evil, boring on easy fun on tactician >act 2 7/10 for either alignment, slightly boring on easy a little rough on tactician >act 2 final final boss impossible for me on tactician, was maybe under leveled >act 3 2/10, companion stuff all drops off, you get sent in a dozen directions that are all stupid, the climax is straight up stupid and needs to be redone
Act 3 is possibly longer than act 1 but act 2 is half the length of either.
>needing potions and scrolls
the fight should be over in a turn or two, there is rarely a need for potions in my experience
scrolls aren't useful unless they have OP spells, which is rarely the case
scolls and arrows are mostly useful to cover for weakness of your comp, in my case I found myself using them only for AoE because of my cleric+3 pitbulls comp
it could be that I've blindly used an OP comp and the game is easy for me due to that reason, I thought the game at it's most difficult between level 1 and 5, by the end of act 2 I was level 9
8 months ago
Anonymous
It’s the avatar of Myrkul battle, it takes two turns just to free the angel lady to make him not invulnerable.
Should have just killed her.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I snuck to the mindflayer by jumping on that little area to the side and then triggered the dialogue.
Killed the mindflayer in 1 turn and freed angel-lesbo using a bonus action sprint+help.
At least that's how I remember it.
I got one character downed because I didn't realize I needed to move back to heal.
imo that fight is a dps check, you need to kill fast.
I forgot to mention this, but I also talked Thorn into killing himself, not sure how it works if you don't.
8 months ago
Anonymous
* it was a jump, not sprint
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I just barged into it and if the dialogue triggers where it’s “supposed to” trigger instead of sneaking it’s a misty step plus another turn just to get to her.
Was worth it to keep her alive to sell her to the wizard for 5k and then kill the wizard though.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Haven't got to that part, I'm 3 minutes into act3 proper.
That’s exactly what happened to me. I either had to go back before the entire moonrise raid to prepare more or just lower it.
Then I never raised it back and it got boring quick.
Is that act 2 final fight really that hard on tactician? When I got there on my multiplayer playthrough (balanced difficulty mind you), my 3 friends and I stomped it going it blind. When Ketheric transformed we had enough damage output that we killed him in 1 turn.
On tactician, if you didn’t kill the nightsong, there are one or two mindflayers and a bunch of skuttlebrains that come in to frick your shit up — if you get bad enough RNG the mindflayer can disable 3/4 players for 1-2 turns before you can do anything. After the first turn the avatar does a big suck, so it’s a CON check for whoever you sent to free the angel as again on bad RNG it will pull them onto the circle platform and get a solid bash in.
In tactician the angel is basically worthless. Anything that isn’t melee is basically worthless. Tactician with a bard a wizard a rogue and a barbarian was just not possible.
>In tactician... anything that isn’t melee is basically worthless
wrong, my Tactician party comp for most of the game was Cleric PC/Shart/Gale/Astarion, and Astarion was far from carrying. Sanctuary is extremely good and unlike tabletop, Haste works on spells.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I’m talking about that one sub-battle specifically. Learn to read.
Patch 3 fricked up cutscenes for me in act 2, I stopped playing more than one month ago waiting for FSR 2 but not only it's not here yet, new patches are messing things up as well. Great game but frick
Why do people pretend that they played BG1 and 2 to discredit 3. I genuinely don't know how you could be a huge fan of those games and then utterly hate BG3. I can get liking the others over it, but ot outright hate it is just wild to me.
Even the entire "Unfinished meme" is hilarious considering how unfinished BG1 was for example. This isn't some fricking situation like Deus Ex or Witcher where the entire core game changed fundamentally (Deus Ex 1 > Deux Ex invisible War being insanely dumbed down, Witcher 1 > Witcher 2 becoming a consolised RPG).
This is what makes me think this is literally a case of "New bad, old that I only pretend to have played good". Shit, I even understood Elden Ring complaints because hey, some people fricking hate open worlds.
But what about BG3 is so different to where you can love BG1 and BG2 but despise BG3? It's still your D&D turn based game, depth wise it's literally mogs them mechanically, classes are also WAY more fleshed out, same with the races.
my DND group plays multiplayer RPG games together really often.
we had a BG3 lan party planned for this weekend but we changed it back to a BG2 ToB lan party.
BG3 has quite literally no content to play around in, BG2 is a much more massive game (so many cities, districts, towns, inns, forests, dungeons, caves).
I honestly think its at least 10 times bigger when it comes to content.
Besides, the music and locations in BG2 are much better and easier to LARP and Role Play with.
Just the ambient sounds of the city bustle, or inns, is a thousand times better in BG2. We often use background noises from BG2 as ambient sounds in our DND sessions.
There's also a night/day cycle in BG2, which BG3 doesnt have for some stupid reason (probably lack of coding skill, incompetence or laziness). At least half of our playtime takes place at night. Its comfy kino.
BG3 is just a very.... meh, game. Nothing stands out, its like a Stock game.
I especially dislike the graphics of BG3 - abandoning the handmade 2D backgrounds was a huge design mistake.
I dont see myself replaying it again, dont really see a reason to.
If content is your main complaint, then just kys lmao. BG2 was on the exact same engine as BG1. They literally just had to make "BG1 but more shit" and they did, like most sequels back in the day (Fallout 1 vs Fallout 2 for example). And still, Bg3 has a longer main story, longer time to beat the main content + side quests, it's just doesn't have as much for "meme completionist runs".
How the frick you gonna use "muh content" as an arguments? >BG3 is a very meh game
Well sadly it's gonna win more awards than BG2, be far more talked about than BG2, sell far more than BG2 and mog it in every single metric that matters.
Because 35+ year old boomers who still try to argue that absolute DOGSHIT like Ultima 4 is a "game that can be played today" need to die out and they are thankfully.
>it takes longer to beat BG3
yeah no shit if combat looks like pic related.
if BG3 was rtwp i could finish it in a few hours, 100%, from start to finish.
im playing BG2 right now and i am 100% convinced BG3 is throwing way more filler trash shit at me. >10 more ghosts, goblins and other filler trash shit just appeared from a portal to waste my fricking time
what a disaster of a game.
8 months ago
Anonymous
post me the location that happens exactly as you described it. One of the big critiques about BG3 is how fewer combat encounters there are lmfao.
You're just a seething boomer
8 months ago
Anonymous
>One of the big critiques about BG3 is how fewer combat encounters there are lmfao.
nta, but how few? I installed the game with the intent of roleplaying, i.e. 'being a character' instead of 'palying a game', and right up until and after you pull thedude out of the magical portal in the beginning is all just slow pacing and turn-based combat. It's really a slog to do everything manually.
8 months ago
Anonymous
There's plenty of combat, but you can go hours without triggering any
8 months ago
Anonymous
I think 5e doesn't work in a singleplayer game. It's too clunky browsing to menus and managing every tiny little thing.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I like it a lot, but I love the minutiae. I could see how it would annoy some players
my DND group plays multiplayer RPG games together really often.
we had a BG3 lan party planned for this weekend but we changed it back to a BG2 ToB lan party.
BG3 has quite literally no content to play around in, BG2 is a much more massive game (so many cities, districts, towns, inns, forests, dungeons, caves).
I honestly think its at least 10 times bigger when it comes to content.
Besides, the music and locations in BG2 are much better and easier to LARP and Role Play with.
Just the ambient sounds of the city bustle, or inns, is a thousand times better in BG2. We often use background noises from BG2 as ambient sounds in our DND sessions.
There's also a night/day cycle in BG2, which BG3 doesnt have for some stupid reason (probably lack of coding skill, incompetence or laziness). At least half of our playtime takes place at night. Its comfy kino.
BG3 is just a very.... meh, game. Nothing stands out, its like a Stock game.
I especially dislike the graphics of BG3 - abandoning the handmade 2D backgrounds was a huge design mistake.
I dont see myself replaying it again, dont really see a reason to.
And that's why you guys are in a BG3 thread (and it won't be the last) instead of making an epic BG2 thread. I'm sure.
I don't give a frick about your RTWP schizo debates. It's turn based to anyone who isn't a literal schizo. Game literally pauses, just because the timings/rolls aren't turn based means literally nothing to me because if I can pause the combat to set up my characters, i'm calling it turn based to simplify it.
Baldurs Gate and Dawn of War are RTWP and RTS franchises respectivelly, and being non-turn based is EXACTLY what made these titles popular and beloved by millions of people, earning millions of $ worldwide.
Making BG3 turn based makes as much sense as making a new Dawn of War turn based.
>but but but but but >its turn based in tabletop! so so so so.... every computer game set in taht universe must me turn based! >because! because!
you low IQ turn based losers need to frick off from franchises that arent turn based. >but but but i want a DND RPG!
thats super cool!
Call it "Tadpole Adventures: Illithid shenanigans" instead of Baldurs Gate.
If it was RTWP, you'd have 5 times as many enemies to pad the length.
Bg3 would have bombed if it were a RTWPsloppa, seethe about it, frog poster. Your reddit combat system is dead and Larian killed it.
im playing BG2 right now and i am 100% convinced BG3 is throwing way more filler trash shit at me. >10 more ghosts, goblins and other filler trash shit just appeared from a portal to waste my fricking time
what a disaster of a game.
modern kids are used to playing mobile games, and 99% of them are turn based and these games play themselves (just like BG3, you just sit and watch).
RTS and RTWP genres died because its just too hard for kids these days.
try selling SC2 to a modern kid, he will screech and shit himself because the game requires actual motherfricking attention, turn based games require zero attention. >click end turn in BG3 >alt tab or do something on the phone for 5 minutes >oh its my turn again >cast smite/eldritch shit or some other nonsense nuke shit >click end turn >alt tab again
turn based BG3 is perfect for low IQ low attention span modern kids.
BG3 is not for me, i need something actually happening in my video games, i dont have the time to just sit and watch.
I got TV for that.
>Baldurs Gate and Dawn of War
And they both sold like shit compared to BG3 and Turn based games. Tabletop games are turn based, BG1, BG2 and Dawn of War are the (unironic) equivalent of consolisation. >its turn based in tabletop! so so so so.... every computer game set in taht universe must me turn based!
This but unironically.
zoomers cant handle RTWP and RTS, its just too hard for them.
>Baldurs Gate and Dawn of War
And they both sold like shit compared to BG3 and Turn based games. Tabletop games are turn based, BG1, BG2 and Dawn of War are the (unironic) equivalent of consolisation. >its turn based in tabletop! so so so so.... every computer game set in taht universe must me turn based!
This but unironically.
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modern kids are used to playing mobile games, and 99% of them are turn based and these games play themselves (just like BG3, you just sit and watch).
RTS and RTWP genres died because its just too hard for kids these days.
try selling SC2 to a modern kid, he will screech and shit himself because the game requires actual motherfricking attention, turn based games require zero attention. >click end turn in BG3 >alt tab or do something on the phone for 5 minutes >oh its my turn again >cast smite/eldritch shit or some other nonsense nuke shit >click end turn >alt tab again
turn based BG3 is perfect for low IQ low attention span modern kids.
BG3 is not for me, i need something actually happening in my video games, i dont have the time to just sit and watch.
I got TV for that.
but you guys are the zoomers in this instance.
CRPGs are based of tabletop, which are turn based. You guys are the ones advocating for "MUH GOTTA GO FAST" dogshit casualised combat whereas people just want "D&D but video game". Which would be turn based.
Cope! BG3 scored better and sold better than ANY of your dogshit CRPGs!
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but you guys are the zoomers in this instance.
CRPGs are based of tabletop, which are turn based. You guys are the ones advocating for "MUH GOTTA GO FAST" dogshit casualised combat whereas people just want "D&D but video game". Which would be turn based.
Cope! BG3 scored better and sold better than ANY of your dogshit CRPGs!
im calling the police guys, it appears dawn of war is illegal.
it was supposed to be turn based and bore people to death.
and the damn thing sold millions of copies, too! jesus christ, everyone who bought it must be put in jail, too.
thats it, im calling the god damn cops on them.
8 months ago
Anonymous
BG3 sold more in its first week than Dawn of Wars lifetime sales.
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modern kids are used to playing mobile games, and 99% of them are turn based and these games play themselves (just like BG3, you just sit and watch).
RTS and RTWP genres died because its just too hard for kids these days.
try selling SC2 to a modern kid, he will screech and shit himself because the game requires actual motherfricking attention, turn based games require zero attention. >click end turn in BG3 >alt tab or do something on the phone for 5 minutes >oh its my turn again >cast smite/eldritch shit or some other nonsense nuke shit >click end turn >alt tab again
turn based BG3 is perfect for low IQ low attention span modern kids.
BG3 is not for me, i need something actually happening in my video games, i dont have the time to just sit and watch.
I got TV for that.
we will never get a new RTS because of this.
zoomers dont play games, they watch games.
How do these homosexuals survive the real world, do they have a mental breakdown everytime they see a black or gay person?
Oh, they never leave their house
it avoids the slop problem prevalent in RPGs where you have filler content that lowers the quality of the game by stretching it out
more games should just cut non-content
I was filtered by the graphics of BG3.
Why did larian use the same 20 year old mobile game engine for a game in 2023 is a mystery to me.
It looks fricking dogshit.
It was the only place where I had no fricking idea where I was and relied on quest markers and opening the map every few seconds. Every building looked the same.
and the map doesnt work, either. >it doesnt show a bracket indicating at what region of the map im looking at >cant even click on the map to make the team go there >when you click on the map, it just makes a marker
yeah man, seriously, such shit game design really is filtering out a ton of people.
cant really blame them.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>why yes I blame my crippling moronation on "game design" how could you tell
I could tell by your drooling agape mouth morono
8 months ago
Anonymous
why are you seething, troony? are you triggered because somebody pointed out the Black folk at larian cant even program a working map in their pathetic little game?
8 months ago
Anonymous
8 months ago
Anonymous
I'm triggered that your mother didn't flush your moronic Black person ass down the drain when she had the chance.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>well yes the map doesnt work but but but >you you you you >moron and and stupid and drooling and and
i accept your concession.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>the map doesnt work
Works for me. Try growing a brain, moronic Black person.
8 months ago
Anonymous
it does?
press M and post screenshot, lets see if it shows a bracket.
8 months ago
Anonymous
and try clicking somewhere on the map, and tell me if the party goes there.
Cry harder, filtered Black folk.
8 months ago
Anonymous
let me guess, you pressed "M", and noticed there's no bracket, and clicking doesnt make the party go there?
out of all the concessions ever given on this board, i think this is one is the hardest.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Bracket for what? When I press m I can fast travel to the fast travel points by clicking on them. What exactly do you expect?
8 months ago
Anonymous
and try clicking somewhere on the map, and tell me if the party goes there.
Never being in a situation you cant back out of completely killed the mood for this game, fast travel is a fricking blight. >Be careful in the Underdark! Its a treacherous and awful place that will kill you if you take one wrong step! >flee combat, teleport to safety and restock materials
Why the frick is there even a food mechanic in this game? Are there people out here that rest so much they actually run out of food, ever?
I dont understand why devs are so terrified of giving you some resource scarcity once in a while on the higher difficulties.
BG3 is not only the worst out of all three games, its also the worst RPG i ever played.
The mix of mobile graphics, shitty music and cringe dialogues killed it completely for me.
I wish the game was more upfront with how linear it actually is instead of acting like "you can act like this OR you can be like this" when it's clear that unless you're playing Dark Urge you only ever benefit from being a goody two shoes. Evil route feels like you're just getting way less content with no real benefit
It might have been, but it's painfully obvious acts II and III are still early access tier. I guess you can't develop forever, but few years more would've done the game a world of good. Now it's just fine
baldurs gate 1 is better
...said no one under 35 ever
Let's wait until you turn 35 in 25 years and you'll be saying the same thing the anon said.
Way better.
Act 1 is a masterpiece.
Act 2 is still good quality, but the writing on the wall becomes apparent.
Act 3 is a poorly optimized and content butchered mess.
Pretty much. I'm still 95% sure its going to win goty. Are there bettings on this anywhere? I'm willing to bet 1k bucks
i dont give a shit what wins le gotty
Bros, I'm getting really close to Act 3, heading to the rooftop now. I really love the game I don't want it to suddenly turn bad
a3 was literally just as good at worst, better at best, than a1 or 2. dunno wtf these people are smoking.
It isn't bad. Just moronic armchair critics regurgitating what they've been told.
Act 3 gave me a very strong energy of “someone really liked Novigrad in TW3 and wanted to make an even broader and more ambitious version of it”, despite that not fitting in with where the plot should be (it worked in TW3 because it’s fairly early on so opening up a huge space with a ton of different new directions to go makes sense, whereas being in literally “act 3” where you’re expecting the endgame to be in sight is just exhausting instead) or the tone of the overall story (why would there even still be a “camp” in a city with hotels? Why would you care about random murders or a bank or a circus?).
It felt like something that belonged to another game that got shoehorned in. It would have been enough to cut the entire lower city and half of the sewers, move rivington to the denouement of act 2 with another party, and have the scope of the larger city just implied by the view from the tower and maybe needing to take a boat ride to cazador’s palace with a cutscene of the upper and lower cities going by. There was basically no reason to have a big city in what should have been the endgame.
Ironically Novigrad was by far the worst portion of TW3
I liked it
exhausting is the word for it.
I have no interest in doing any of this shit.
Novigrad is still the high water mark for me for a city in a game. Baldurs gate seems like a flat, boring village by comparison. Where's the density goddam it
They optimized act 3 last patch and it's really, really good. Might be time for a new script.
Sad they did it 2 months after release
I´m having fun but i´m not sure i would call it a masterpiece just yet.
I honestly don´t get why act 1 gets that much praise. I find it really weak storywise. I mean, you find a lot of situations seemingly unrelated to your problem and are expected to get involved for whatever reason. I just don´t get it.
>Look, refugees! literal hobos that can give you nothing for your troubles!
>Look! druids! I´m sure this one druid can do something about the extra planar infection in your brain!
>Look an old lady! her home remedies are sure to help with a rare condition from another dimension! Oh she is actually a hag! you must kill her because she torments stupid villagers!
>Look! they kidnapped this random politician! You´ll help a politician right?! RIGHT?!
>Look, goblins with stone age magic and tools! they probably can help you if you help them raid the grove!
Seriously, none of these made any sense. The only leads that made sense were hurrying up to meet the Githyanki, Omeluum and maybe Raphael.
Act 2 is far more involved as it gives a clear destination and source to the PC personal problem; moonrise towers. Yes, a lot of the other situations converge there too but since the player didn´t know how all things were related at that point there would not have been any point on treating those as leads.
act 1 isnt that good
pleb opinion
Act 3 > Act 1 > Act 2
It was like that with DoS2 aswell. Seems like a Larian tradition.
Act 1 is overrated. The reason why its good its because of the variety of settings and it feels more classic adventuring. The best part about act 1 is the Underdark, which I think should've been considered part of Act 2 (best act by far).
The writing is pretty basic throughout the whole game anyway.
Sure on a first playthrough, replaying the game and Act 1 is dull as fricking dishwater. Act 3>2>1
>the brain has become…a netherbrain!!!
WOW! True my fellow rebbitor! Nobody has ever shared that opinion before. Thanks for sharing it with us. BG3 is a really unpopular game, your post was truly a breath of fresh air on the landscape of discussion
This is my first DND based game and I love it so far. Don't care much for all the gay shit though. Gale and the gay vampire tried to rape me so I had to kill them.
rip, astarion is a bro and the best companion by far.
dude was trying to suck me off. i'm playing it safe and keeping an all girl harem now instead.
That's a quick way to outyourself as a redditor and/or some LGBTQA+ freak.
he's funny and he's the only companion who is full on onboard with dark urge doing insane shit. even minthara questions your insanity but astarion just rolls with it
Sounds like reddit.
i don't even care what he can or can't do
he talks like an overly attention starved flaming homosexual all the fricking time, like he's the main host of a gay parade
he's straight up insufferable
your loss
Astarion is fricking hilarious you uptight chud.
I hated Astarion so much that I used him as a Guinea pig for all the sketchy deals like the hag taking their eye and tadpoles and the bard taking their other eye.
By the end of it he looked like a cyborg and I liked him a little.
That's fricking based. Gonna do that on my next run.
You can't take both eyes out, but nice story bro.
I have not tried it but can you start the convo with one of your companions and have them get a new eye instead of you? I know that you can take Lae'zel's place in the chair but can this be done with Volo or auntie Ethel?
Yes, but the Hag will not take your eye if you're already missing one, same with Volo. You can only lose one.
No, i am asking if you can initiate the Hag convo with one of your companions and have them give an eye instead.
Yes, as I said in the literal first word I wrote.
This. He's prime bullying material too
>Nuke him with the laser Canon and he loses his marbles
>Force him to Bite that drow and he weeps like a puppy
>Send him to the Clown stage and he spergs out
>Don't let him turn into a vampire ascendant and he scurries away to the shadows burning while a laugh track plays
I wasn’t expecting him to break up with me after I made him bite the drow for some reason.
>flirting == trying to rape
Woman detected
Congrats you cut out 20% of the game
It's a good game but I have too many serious issues with it that stop me from really loving it. I had a better time with Kotor and Mass Effect, even if those games were overall less ambitious. I liked this more than Divinity OS2 though.
It really is
my beautiful frog wife 🙂
she cute
BG3 is the modern Witcher 3. Loved by normies for the simulated sex acts. It's the only safe game for liberals to play on their ps5/xbox/steam.
>modern Witcher 3
low IQ take
it's Divinity reskinned
AHAHAHAAHAHAH
dumb fricking moron
low IQ AI botpost
Qft. It's garbage literally catered to sex pest low-IQ zoomers who need 3D porn in everything. Has absolutely nothing to do with BD1 and 2 which were great.
the difference is, Witcher 3 has - quite literally - 2 minutes of sex scenes.
Divinity Original Sin 3 has 2+ hours of sex scenes recorded.
its absolutely insane to compare both of them.
Witcher 3 at least had decent writing, even if the gameplay and world design were shit.. BG3 has nothing.
and there it is.
Ganker is now defending fricking Witcher 3 "ITSA ME, GERALDD, CIRI IS IN ANOTHER-A CASTLE! LETSA GOOOO". UTTERLY mind broken from BG3.
Utterly
>now
Ganker always loved TW3 moron
ofc they did zoom zoom!
lmao imagine not being here for the TW3 release, that was what, 3 years ago?
see
Last I checked, it ain't 2015. Nobody gives a frick about the Witcher 3 nor CDPR on here and both games get shat on constantly.
make a thread on TW3 right now.
Tell me how long before every comment turns into
>not an RPG
>bamham vision
>dogshit combat
>not an RPG
>Ganker always loved TW3 moron
Fricking have a nice day, tourist Black person homosexual. Ganker hates TW3. Because Ganker has the shittiest taste imaginable to man.
>Witcher 3 at least had decent writing
Get the frick outta here, moron. I'm an OG b***her bookgay who has been defending TW3 for years at this point against your blabbering. And now you zoomer morons flipped and suddenly like TW3? Kill self. b***her books are better than games. And as a trilogy BG is better than TW. Yes, BG3 included. Probably the best RPG game series over made, overall. That's how it is.
>Bitcher books are better than games
You cannot be real.
Books are complete mess.
The short stories and baptism of fire are good enough. He’s like the opposite of GRRM. He knows how to write an ending but no idea how to take more than 50 pages to get there.
Disagree completely. White frost comes out of nowhere near the very end to justify ciri having a purpose. Its a type of writing where you just write some random shit without any plan whatsoever. The only good thing about witcher are characters, Bonart and Witcher to be precises because everyone else sucks miles of dick.
You probably read them in English. If your read them at all, that is. English translation is very bland and moronic. I personally compared it with the Russian one. The Witcher need to be read either in Polish or Russian. Russian translation is absolutely amazing. Most probably better even than OG Polish.
People keep saying this but there’s nobody trying to make a proper English translation. And I’m not about to learn some dying Slav language to read a middling work of genre fiction.
not him but the books go to shit pretty quickly but that's the point. The game is even worse written especially when looked at as an RPG because where the frick is the roleplaying. It's an adventure game where 60% of the game is a Mario tier plotline of "finding heckin ciri", the crones/velen are the only well written parts but everything else was dogshit.
>Novigrad was just a schizo mess of bland shit to do with politics (the way they butchered Djikstras character, kek)
>Skellige I hated because it didn't even feel like a Witcher game at that point
>Oxenfurt has barely any content even if the best quest is there (Carnal Sins)
There's a reason people only praised Hearts of Stone, it felt like an actual Witcher story/plot line and not this political dogshit, shoddy game of thrones knockoff Witcher 3 tried to be.
Like, what in the FRICK were the Wild Hunt even? You hear about how unstoppable they are only for you to whoop their ass within the opening hours with Kera Metz and every other time you find them you beat the frick out of them. And what about the great frost?
>oh yea, you didn't snowball fight with Ciri? She dies now
Witcher 3s writing as a whole was dogshit. It did well in its smaller questlines like Wild at Heart and other more "WITCHER" like moments, but the story as a whole was fricking ass
>It did well in its smaller [story]lines and other more "WITCHER" like moments, but the story as a whole was fricking ass
Staying true to the books lol
You're a complete moron. You can't say TW games are good without giving due credit to Sapkowski for creating the universe and establishing the world. And that's exactly where Sapkowski excels at. Worldbuilding, atmosphere and small, little details. Ask everyone - the first two books of short stories are their favorite for a reason.
I dont disagree. But I think his stories are god awful, lack focus and all around the place. They have their charm tho.
That's like just your opinion, man.
>fairy tales but grimdark
Yeah? However, say what you will about Sapkowski being a massive c**t, the bastard can write. Everything can be good if it's decently written. And Sapkowski has a good balance between "fairy tales" and "grimdark", he doesn't venture too far into either, and, despite everything, his books has good morals buried deep underneath it's cynical appearance. Just like Geralt himself.
It’s literally just “fairy tales but grimdark”.
>the elder brain…has turned into a netherbrain, something that did not exist anywhere in lore or anything prior to this moment
>now someone has to become a squid because uhhh reasons.
>also whether you used tadpoles or powers has no effect
GoT tier fricked ending. As soon as I heard the word ”netherbrain” I laughed out loud and put down my controller, and when orpheus out of nowhere said someone needed to become squid as a total asspull I laughed again, shut it down and uninstalled the game.
filtered
So you shut it down and uninstalled the game at the end of your 90 hour playthrough? You really couldn't power through the remaining hour?
Farquaads always say it's good but they are literal Larian spokespeople.
I just finished Baldurs Gate 3.
Here's the review:
>graphics 4/10
faces look well made, but everything else - the locations, walls, trees, dungeons, look extremely weak - the worst ive seen in recent years, actually.
>music 2/10
music sounds like it was made by ChatGPT, completely ambient, unnoticable "nothing". There wasnt even 1 moment that made me say "oh damn thats good music".
>companion interactions and dialogues 1/10
absolutely sex obsessed, unreal interactions between horny 12 year olds. Halsin told me he want to bed me during our first conversation in the camp, and the shirtless Emperor offering sex was the most pathetic thing i saw in a game.
>non-companion dialogues and story 6/10.
its just "ok". Not great, not terrible. Its ok.
>combat 1/10
no fast forward button, no "ignore enemy turn" button, way too many filler trash encounters all over the game, just to artificially prolong the game. Combat boils down to just spamming 1 OP skill and clicking end turn.
>camera
doesnt work. Gets stuck - for some reason - on eveything, and can only move 15 meters from my character.
>map
doesnt work. when you press M it doesnt even have a bracket to tell me what part of the map im looking at.
>no weather patterns and no full day/night cycle 0/10
every single DND game ever made has full day/night cycle. Learn to code, Larian.
Especially cringe when playing as a Drow or a Vampire.
>UI 1/10
there's barely any UI art at all. It just.... is.
In fact, the whole game suffers from a lack of art direction.
Baldurs Gate is the ugliest city i have ever seen in an RPG. Its just a vomit of beige walls.
>4 person squad 1/10
should be 6.
cant even tell you how many times i had to go back and swap teammates for a quest.
>item and spell descriptions 1/10
>inventory management 1/10
Overall:
4/10 RPG game.
1/10 Baldurs Gate game.
So you spent a 100 hours playing a game you didn't like? Sure bro.
It's a pasta, xer is still seething about BG3 being better than xer favorite boomsloppa
Is that supposed to be alot?
i couldnt stand any of the companions, i just canceled all their cringe dialogues and didnt talk to any of them throughout the whole game, up until i uninstalled BG3 when i saw how act 3 looks like.
>the gay homosexual mage with the accent of the guy from IT crowd
>the gay homosexual vampire acting like a princess
>the red demon b***h throwing shit-fricks around every second
>some dumb Black person
>obvious coombait cleric
im just gonna say it: cringe game for pathetic cringe people.
i couldnt stand playing this shit.
I'm still in Act 1 but nearing the end (just killed Grym, got some sick armor) and I had a message saying "your adventure will progress" or some shit.
I still have the Creche shit to do with Leyzel and some other minor underdark shit. Does Act 2 and 3 really drop off? The game is the best game i've ever played so far (if it keeps even a fraction of the quality i've seen so far).
How would Ganker rate the acts? Also, how long are the acts because Act 1 is looking to be around 35+ hours for me. P.S - This boss fight was fricking BULLSHIT on tactician
I haven't reached ACT 3, heading to the final boss there now but so far it's every bit as good as ACT1. The only thing is you don't have as many wildly different environments in ACT 2
how long was Act 2 relative to Act 1?
I did the Mountainpass/Creche in Act 2 so they've been comparable although 1 is definitely longer.
That’s act 1
Why is it considered act 1 when you get the same warning entering Mountain Pass as when you enter the shadow lands?
I personally think that trying to think of this game in the form of ''acts'' is wrong. I think... that zones are more appropriate even if some quests can end up being in multiple zones.
>act 1 10/10 if good 3/10 if evil, boring on easy fun on tactician
>act 2 7/10 for either alignment, slightly boring on easy a little rough on tactician
>act 2 final final boss impossible for me on tactician, was maybe under leveled
>act 3 2/10, companion stuff all drops off, you get sent in a dozen directions that are all stupid, the climax is straight up stupid and needs to be redone
Act 3 is possibly longer than act 1 but act 2 is half the length of either.
>le act 3 parroted critiques
Post your hwinfo with the thread in the background
>Act 2 half the length of Act 1 and 3
wut
I played the entire game on tactician until the final act 2 fight where I had to lower it because I ran out supplies and was basically soft locked
>running out of food
is that even possible? there is more of it to loot than you can use on the available fights
not food, I meant potions, scrolls, and shit like that
>needing potions and scrolls
the fight should be over in a turn or two, there is rarely a need for potions in my experience
scrolls aren't useful unless they have OP spells, which is rarely the case
scolls and arrows are mostly useful to cover for weakness of your comp, in my case I found myself using them only for AoE because of my cleric+3 pitbulls comp
it could be that I've blindly used an OP comp and the game is easy for me due to that reason, I thought the game at it's most difficult between level 1 and 5, by the end of act 2 I was level 9
It’s the avatar of Myrkul battle, it takes two turns just to free the angel lady to make him not invulnerable.
Should have just killed her.
I snuck to the mindflayer by jumping on that little area to the side and then triggered the dialogue.
Killed the mindflayer in 1 turn and freed angel-lesbo using a bonus action sprint+help.
At least that's how I remember it.
I got one character downed because I didn't realize I needed to move back to heal.
imo that fight is a dps check, you need to kill fast.
I forgot to mention this, but I also talked Thorn into killing himself, not sure how it works if you don't.
* it was a jump, not sprint
Yeah I just barged into it and if the dialogue triggers where it’s “supposed to” trigger instead of sneaking it’s a misty step plus another turn just to get to her.
Was worth it to keep her alive to sell her to the wizard for 5k and then kill the wizard though.
Haven't got to that part, I'm 3 minutes into act3 proper.
That’s exactly what happened to me. I either had to go back before the entire moonrise raid to prepare more or just lower it.
Then I never raised it back and it got boring quick.
Is that act 2 final fight really that hard on tactician? When I got there on my multiplayer playthrough (balanced difficulty mind you), my 3 friends and I stomped it going it blind. When Ketheric transformed we had enough damage output that we killed him in 1 turn.
On tactician, if you didn’t kill the nightsong, there are one or two mindflayers and a bunch of skuttlebrains that come in to frick your shit up — if you get bad enough RNG the mindflayer can disable 3/4 players for 1-2 turns before you can do anything. After the first turn the avatar does a big suck, so it’s a CON check for whoever you sent to free the angel as again on bad RNG it will pull them onto the circle platform and get a solid bash in.
In tactician the angel is basically worthless. Anything that isn’t melee is basically worthless. Tactician with a bard a wizard a rogue and a barbarian was just not possible.
>In tactician... anything that isn’t melee is basically worthless
wrong, my Tactician party comp for most of the game was Cleric PC/Shart/Gale/Astarion, and Astarion was far from carrying. Sanctuary is extremely good and unlike tabletop, Haste works on spells.
I’m talking about that one sub-battle specifically. Learn to read.
I haven’t felt it drop of mid way through act two. Its jut a long ass game and you have to keep in mind zoomers attention spans.
Patch 3 fricked up cutscenes for me in act 2, I stopped playing more than one month ago waiting for FSR 2 but not only it's not here yet, new patches are messing things up as well. Great game but frick
Why do people pretend that they played BG1 and 2 to discredit 3. I genuinely don't know how you could be a huge fan of those games and then utterly hate BG3. I can get liking the others over it, but ot outright hate it is just wild to me.
Even the entire "Unfinished meme" is hilarious considering how unfinished BG1 was for example. This isn't some fricking situation like Deus Ex or Witcher where the entire core game changed fundamentally (Deus Ex 1 > Deux Ex invisible War being insanely dumbed down, Witcher 1 > Witcher 2 becoming a consolised RPG).
This is what makes me think this is literally a case of "New bad, old that I only pretend to have played good". Shit, I even understood Elden Ring complaints because hey, some people fricking hate open worlds.
But what about BG3 is so different to where you can love BG1 and BG2 but despise BG3? It's still your D&D turn based game, depth wise it's literally mogs them mechanically, classes are also WAY more fleshed out, same with the races.
because BG3 is a sad parody of BG 1+2, its like literally the opposite of these games.
Any arguments beside your impotent screeching, benchod sir?
my DND group plays multiplayer RPG games together really often.
we had a BG3 lan party planned for this weekend but we changed it back to a BG2 ToB lan party.
BG3 has quite literally no content to play around in, BG2 is a much more massive game (so many cities, districts, towns, inns, forests, dungeons, caves).
I honestly think its at least 10 times bigger when it comes to content.
Besides, the music and locations in BG2 are much better and easier to LARP and Role Play with.
Just the ambient sounds of the city bustle, or inns, is a thousand times better in BG2. We often use background noises from BG2 as ambient sounds in our DND sessions.
There's also a night/day cycle in BG2, which BG3 doesnt have for some stupid reason (probably lack of coding skill, incompetence or laziness). At least half of our playtime takes place at night. Its comfy kino.
BG3 is just a very.... meh, game. Nothing stands out, its like a Stock game.
I especially dislike the graphics of BG3 - abandoning the handmade 2D backgrounds was a huge design mistake.
I dont see myself replaying it again, dont really see a reason to.
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/809
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If content is your main complaint, then just kys lmao. BG2 was on the exact same engine as BG1. They literally just had to make "BG1 but more shit" and they did, like most sequels back in the day (Fallout 1 vs Fallout 2 for example). And still, Bg3 has a longer main story, longer time to beat the main content + side quests, it's just doesn't have as much for "meme completionist runs".
How the frick you gonna use "muh content" as an arguments?
>BG3 is a very meh game
Well sadly it's gonna win more awards than BG2, be far more talked about than BG2, sell far more than BG2 and mog it in every single metric that matters.
Because 35+ year old boomers who still try to argue that absolute DOGSHIT like Ultima 4 is a "game that can be played today" need to die out and they are thankfully.
>it takes longer to beat BG3
yeah no shit if combat looks like pic related.
if BG3 was rtwp i could finish it in a few hours, 100%, from start to finish.
If BG3 was rtwp then it would be dogshit.
Stay mad boomer
If it was RTWP, you'd have 5 times as many enemies to pad the length.
im playing BG2 right now and i am 100% convinced BG3 is throwing way more filler trash shit at me.
>10 more ghosts, goblins and other filler trash shit just appeared from a portal to waste my fricking time
what a disaster of a game.
post me the location that happens exactly as you described it. One of the big critiques about BG3 is how fewer combat encounters there are lmfao.
You're just a seething boomer
>One of the big critiques about BG3 is how fewer combat encounters there are lmfao.
nta, but how few? I installed the game with the intent of roleplaying, i.e. 'being a character' instead of 'palying a game', and right up until and after you pull thedude out of the magical portal in the beginning is all just slow pacing and turn-based combat. It's really a slog to do everything manually.
There's plenty of combat, but you can go hours without triggering any
I think 5e doesn't work in a singleplayer game. It's too clunky browsing to menus and managing every tiny little thing.
I like it a lot, but I love the minutiae. I could see how it would annoy some players
I've played MoTB, I am thinking of trying BG1 and 2.
How difficult is it really?
I don’t believe a word of this.
> (so many cities, districts, towns, inns, forests, dungeons, caves)
Its like you’ve played neither game.
the only thing playing BG3 did for me, was make me remember how fun BG2 was and i had to reinstall it.
And that's why you guys are in a BG3 thread (and it won't be the last) instead of making an epic BG2 thread. I'm sure.
See you guys in the next BALDUR'S GATE 3 thread.
he cute
>Why do people pretend that they played BG1 and 2 to discredit 3.
Likely the same reason they all kept saying that act 3 was the shortest part of the game at launch, they hope you don't play games either.
>It's still your D&D turn based game, why dont you like it?
honey, BG 1+2 werent turn based.
I don't give a frick about your RTWP schizo debates. It's turn based to anyone who isn't a literal schizo. Game literally pauses, just because the timings/rolls aren't turn based means literally nothing to me because if I can pause the combat to set up my characters, i'm calling it turn based to simplify it.
RTWP is fricking dogshit anyway
Baldurs Gate and Dawn of War are RTWP and RTS franchises respectivelly, and being non-turn based is EXACTLY what made these titles popular and beloved by millions of people, earning millions of $ worldwide.
Making BG3 turn based makes as much sense as making a new Dawn of War turn based.
>but but but but but
>its turn based in tabletop! so so so so.... every computer game set in taht universe must me turn based!
>because! because!
you low IQ turn based losers need to frick off from franchises that arent turn based.
>but but but i want a DND RPG!
thats super cool!
Call it "Tadpole Adventures: Illithid shenanigans" instead of Baldurs Gate.
Bg3 would have bombed if it were a RTWPsloppa, seethe about it, frog poster. Your reddit combat system is dead and Larian killed it.
modern kids are used to playing mobile games, and 99% of them are turn based and these games play themselves (just like BG3, you just sit and watch).
RTS and RTWP genres died because its just too hard for kids these days.
try selling SC2 to a modern kid, he will screech and shit himself because the game requires actual motherfricking attention, turn based games require zero attention.
>click end turn in BG3
>alt tab or do something on the phone for 5 minutes
>oh its my turn again
>cast smite/eldritch shit or some other nonsense nuke shit
>click end turn
>alt tab again
turn based BG3 is perfect for low IQ low attention span modern kids.
BG3 is not for me, i need something actually happening in my video games, i dont have the time to just sit and watch.
I got TV for that.
>Baldurs Gate and Dawn of War
And they both sold like shit compared to BG3 and Turn based games. Tabletop games are turn based, BG1, BG2 and Dawn of War are the (unironic) equivalent of consolisation.
>its turn based in tabletop! so so so so.... every computer game set in taht universe must me turn based!
This but unironically.
RTWP will ALWAYS be casualised GARBAGE
Stay
Le
Mad
zoomers cant handle RTWP and RTS, its just too hard for them.
cope
but you guys are the zoomers in this instance.
CRPGs are based of tabletop, which are turn based. You guys are the ones advocating for "MUH GOTTA GO FAST" dogshit casualised combat whereas people just want "D&D but video game". Which would be turn based.
Cope! BG3 scored better and sold better than ANY of your dogshit CRPGs!
im calling the police guys, it appears dawn of war is illegal.
it was supposed to be turn based and bore people to death.
and the damn thing sold millions of copies, too! jesus christ, everyone who bought it must be put in jail, too.
thats it, im calling the god damn cops on them.
BG3 sold more in its first week than Dawn of Wars lifetime sales.
Turn based. Stay mad
we will never get a new RTS because of this.
zoomers dont play games, they watch games.
Balding boomers are so fragile
there is still hope, BG3 is already a forgotten title.
Yes totally. Making a game turn based when it's based of D&D, a turn based game, is really going to affect sales. RTWP homies be trippin'
yeah
I'm convinced everyone seething over BG3 had to drop it at Baldur's Gate City because their PC sucks
Nah they're tradcucks seething over baldurs gate featuring blacks and gays
How do these homosexuals survive the real world, do they have a mental breakdown everytime they see a black or gay person?
Oh, they never leave their house
Yes they do
I'm convinced anyone seething over BG3 is either a 'jeet or a troon. Maybe both.
it avoids the slop problem prevalent in RPGs where you have filler content that lowers the quality of the game by stretching it out
more games should just cut non-content
>"Gods, you... you betrayed us! Why? Why in the hells would you do that??!?!?!"
>"It's who I am. Sin incarnate"
What do you wish for the inevitable "Baldur's Gate 3 Definitive Edition" free upgrade that Swen will deliver in a year?
Tadpole/[Illithid]. Consequences.
I was filtered by the graphics of BG3.
Why did larian use the same 20 year old mobile game engine for a game in 2023 is a mystery to me.
It looks fricking dogshit.
Yeah the visual jank was unreal for current year. There was a stiffness to it that I haven’t seen in years in a modern game.
i am pretty sure the City of Baldurs Gate is the ugliest god damn city ever made in an RPG.
even Oblivion had better cities than this shit.
It was the only place where I had no fricking idea where I was and relied on quest markers and opening the map every few seconds. Every building looked the same.
and the map doesnt work, either.
>it doesnt show a bracket indicating at what region of the map im looking at
>cant even click on the map to make the team go there
>when you click on the map, it just makes a marker
what the frick was larian doing the last 6 years?
imagine getting filtered so hard lmao
yeah man, seriously, such shit game design really is filtering out a ton of people.
cant really blame them.
>why yes I blame my crippling moronation on "game design" how could you tell
I could tell by your drooling agape mouth morono
why are you seething, troony? are you triggered because somebody pointed out the Black folk at larian cant even program a working map in their pathetic little game?
I'm triggered that your mother didn't flush your moronic Black person ass down the drain when she had the chance.
>well yes the map doesnt work but but but
>you you you you
>moron and and stupid and drooling and and
i accept your concession.
>the map doesnt work
Works for me. Try growing a brain, moronic Black person.
it does?
press M and post screenshot, lets see if it shows a bracket.
Cry harder, filtered Black folk.
let me guess, you pressed "M", and noticed there's no bracket, and clicking doesnt make the party go there?
out of all the concessions ever given on this board, i think this is one is the hardest.
Bracket for what? When I press m I can fast travel to the fast travel points by clicking on them. What exactly do you expect?
and try clicking somewhere on the map, and tell me if the party goes there.
Never being in a situation you cant back out of completely killed the mood for this game, fast travel is a fricking blight.
>Be careful in the Underdark! Its a treacherous and awful place that will kill you if you take one wrong step!
>flee combat, teleport to safety and restock materials
Why the frick is there even a food mechanic in this game? Are there people out here that rest so much they actually run out of food, ever?
I dont understand why devs are so terrified of giving you some resource scarcity once in a while on the higher difficulties.
BG3 is not only the worst out of all three games, its also the worst RPG i ever played.
The mix of mobile graphics, shitty music and cringe dialogues killed it completely for me.
indeed
We know , dude. I rank it equal to BG2, with one lsight minus.....not much philosophical dialogues with Djinss and ghosts.
>shittier budget version of dao
nuh huh
I wish the game was more upfront with how linear it actually is instead of acting like "you can act like this OR you can be like this" when it's clear that unless you're playing Dark Urge you only ever benefit from being a goody two shoes. Evil route feels like you're just getting way less content with no real benefit
Overpozzed LGBT propaganda platform made for redditors, kys shill and frick your woke slop too. This is the last time I purchase anything from gayian.
You sound like you're in the closet.
reddit music
Seethe and cope troon.
Why are they singing like it's a musical?
Why not?
because it's moronic and distracting
For me it's kino.
Why did Orin hate Dribbles so much?
How often do you guys use bonus actions? I feel bad ending the turn with one unused, but outside of rogues, I struggle to find uses for them
Don't let your autism lead you on. As long as you manage getting your fights done it does not matter if you have perfect action economy.
I play War Cleric so constantly. Also once your Ithilid powers become bonus actions there's no reason not to spam them
Ah, I've been doing a no-illithid run
>Rampant satanism
>Beastiality
>Sodomy
WAOW GOTY MY FELLOW GAYMERS!!.
>Rampant satanism
>in a fantasy universe
I hate tradcuck larpers so much it's unreal.
Fun game. Friends and I are having a great time.
>masterpiece of writing
>six year old twitter screencap
>meaning anything
Pic one.
So you agree with him?
You were saying, Black person?
>tfw your wholesome trad virgin waifu was written by the most degen gay imaginable
>the best writers in gaming
It might have been, but it's painfully obvious acts II and III are still early access tier. I guess you can't develop forever, but few years more would've done the game a world of good. Now it's just fine