How
Just how
It's been 3 fricking months
This isn't fricking possible
I must have stepped into a nonsensical universe because this doesn't make any sense.
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In before Tencent schizo.
fun game
its an amazing game and people organically want to play it
Yeah, it's not a bait. People are absolutely loving this game. I'm personally on my 3rd playthrough.
I'm just wondering how much tencent pays you to say that
Why would they pay me to shill the best game I've ever played?
imagine getting paid to shill the best game you've ever played. now that's actually a dream job. Sometimes I wish i really was the tencent shill the local schizo acuses me of being
>hurr durr tencent
I have a degree in finance and you're a moron. Just because you've never invested anything in your life but your time in this shithole doesnt mean other companies wouldnt try and get a piece. I dislike tencent as well, but they have zero input on this game. Larry Fink and George Soros surely do, but the chinese do not.
Twice as much as poojetsoft pays you for your posts
How many times have you beaten BG1-2?
I've got 300+ hours in it, so I feel you
lmao, absolutely fricking mindbroken
I have tried like three of four time to get past the grove area and i just end up not giving a frick about anything in the game and quitting because i have nothing to drive me to want to play further
its not that good of a game and dont know what copium and crack people are smoking to think otherwise
plot is shit
characters are shit
world building is about the worst i have ever experienced
combat is mildly interesting
i can only say that the presentation is well done but doesnt make an actually enjoyable experience
That is valid too, you don't have to force yourself to like something. Hell I would say 50% of people playing BG3 only like it because it is the popular thing right now.
that would be starfield, d&d games arent bruteforceable by normies
This game is popular because of normies what are you on about?
sounds like zoomer brainrot burnout
Lol no. Its a one and done. Everyone still playing us a new player or a true shitter.
it has a launcher that doesn't close on quit + multiplayer
>it has a launcher that doesn't close on quit
Yes it does.
>the overmarketed game isn't actually a good game
Woooow. Who could've seen that coming.
The OP pic is implying the exact opposite of what you're saying.
You think so because you're moronic.
>singleplayer game is good enough to keep people playing for 2 months straight
>"actually that means it is LE BAD"
great logic moron.
>from 800000 to 200000 people
>from the population of a town to the population of a smaller town
>this means the game is good
It wouldn't have the best singleplayer player retention in steam history if people didn't like playing it, yeah.
>buy a steam account for 5 american dollarinos
>download game
>open game
>leave game on background
And you too can help the company.
The game is 60 dollars. Even if you're arguing they're stolen account, the original owner or the account thief still have to buy the game in the first place you coping moron.
Which makes you working for free even sadder. At least they get a company copy.
But it's the most successful and most player-retaining single player RPG of all time...
>overmarketed
lol
No one cared about BG3 until the bear sex joke scene was shown
>2,5 million players on early access alone
>I-it was just a niche game before the gay bear!!
Hi, Microsoft market analyst
I am on 3rd consecutive play through. I just like it
I had fun but my issue is more playthroughs seem pointless. Can't imagine what I missed for it to be worth while
All the coomers play it
Cope
Why do you seethe so hard over people enjoying a game?
It's all thanks to my wife! She blessed the Steamcharts 🙂 !
Shadowheart singlehandedly saved gaming
No froglike enough for me
I would also the frog
Her right hand fingers are malformed
>stepped into a nonsensical universe
With two good video game ass video games coming out back to back in BG3 and AC6, yeah, it really does feel that way. Then Starfield exists just to ground us back in reality
What's next for baldie? A new IP, BG4 or DOS3?
They should do Icewind Dale or Neverwinter.
>Icewind Dale with controller support
Funded
Hoping for dos3, as I flat out prefer the way they handled fights in dos2
Fighting is 10x better in DOS2 but the story is worse imo.
I agree but I may be biased due to how it was told. I feel like having bg3 cutscenes in dos2 would make it feel like a whole new game
Good point. It would definitely make it a lot more interesting to follow.
>DIOS2
>better fighting
Bro it's teleportation/jumping spam + race to be the first to break armor so you can apply stuns
combat in bg3 is a joke, so is encounter design. dos2 also had worse combat than dos1 but at least its not bg3 level of bad
i visit Ganker daily and i never see skyrim discussion, so you are either permanently on the bottom half of thread activity on the catalog or the threads don't exist. also so what if it doesnt get any activity?
this was a thread for a few hours ago, 200 replies
To each their own, I enjoyed combat in BG3 way more than DOS2, even though magic is infinitely better in that game.
>this was a thread for a few hours ago, 200 replies
Doesn't look very good, just the usual one autist replying to himself, people calling him a troony, and even the black souls schizo Hispanic from /vrpg/ is in there lol, just an absolute mess
Someone said something about Kotor 3 and that would be the shit.
doesnt ea have the star wars license locked up? i want larian nowhere near EA keep them as free and independent as humanly possible
I hope for some Dark Sun or Spelljammer. Planescape is fine too. Amazing and underappreciated settings.
D&D sadly won't touch Dark Sun for 5E because it's "problematic".
qrd?
Slavery n SHIIIEEET.
Actually finishing making BG3.
Dark Heresy just to shit in Owlcat's cheerios
BG3:DE in 2024
I believe they've already confirmed DOS3 which will probably come out in 2029 because post-success scope creep is going to murder their dev team.
Based Swen got you covered
>At the same time, we wanted to increase the choice, so all teams grew much more than we wanted them to. We didn't expect this growth. So now we want to manage it. We want to consolidate a bit so that we can focus, and then we'll see.
Icewind Dale 3 baby.
>wanting a combat-focused game when BG3 clearly shows that Larian can't make the barebones that is 5e engaging and their AI is moronic as frick
Icewind Dale should be made by a proper action game dev, it'd be a lot more fitting
>action game dev
>make an rpg
no, frick you, frick you, frick you action game Black person just go play that latest drizzt slop
Icewind Dale games are literally just combat focused dungeon crawlers were the story is just an explanation for the various enemies and places you encounter. The plot for most of the game is literally "A mysterious evil has awoken!"
Doesn't matter, it shouldnt be made by some fricking action game dev. If it isn't made to be a dnd game, it should be made at all. Just go play all the other arpg schlock thats out there.
You sound like you were fingered by an ARPG dev
that actually makes sense, yeah
modern remake of bg1 and 2. Jaheira canon romance here I come!
It's a good game and it appeals to a lot of people, that's it.
DOS3 Swen, and make Malady frickable.
They're probably working on finishing off the Divinity tactics sequel to DOS2 they stopped working on when they decided to go full in on BG3.
It's not DOS3 because it's nothing but tactical combat.
As for a BG4 I don't think we're going to see that for years.
This was officially canned in an interview Swen did, he also said they saved a lot of assets from that game however.
Shit
I hope they abandon the DnD ruleset. Dos2 had a much better system
That someone or germany bombs Belgium and Frankfurt
I believe he said he's making DOS3, hopefully they implement what they learned from BG3 and don't regress back to DOS2 field moronation.
Hi, swen here. Currently we are working to bring Minthara pregnancy ending back ASAP.
FINISH THE FRICKING STORY TO DIVINITY 2 YOU BELGIAN FRICK! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR GAY ROMANCES.
Icewind Dale 3 plz Swen
BG3: DE or expansion, followed by DOS 4, followed by a Forgotten Realms game set in Cormyr. I won't live to see the last one.
The power of Grindr, /misc/chud.
Poo and chinks seething itt
It's literally bots
How far can this cope go? Do you really think it is bots anon? This is cope beyond cope, this is borderline delusion.
I'm sitting here flabbergasted as to am I the crazy here that I can't believe that someone would unironically claim bots just to inflate some game's number for no other person just to make autists on Ganker seethe
The guy has been doomposting about Larian for literal years, BG3 selling 10 bajilion copies mindbroke him
>Post count already starting to outpace IP count
The pajeet schizo is here
This is him from last thread, look at the fricking post / IP ratio
It's easily 100+ hours for a full playthrough and lots of people are doing 2+ of those because there isn't shit else to play right now.
>noo a good game is popular how can this be happening!!!
i know, it's crazy OP, but people outside Ganker actually play videogames instead of typing troony and shill at every game that comes out
The amazing Baldur's Gate 3 cope
>it is too big and ambitious
>there is no target audience
>it will get bad reviews
>it will get bad player reviews
>go woke, go broke
>nobody will buy a game where you can frick a bear
>only gays and blacks and women are buying it
>only coomers are buying it
>5 million sales on Steam is nothing
>record numbers of concurrent players in a single player game mean nothing
>Starfield will steal all the players from BG3
>people playing BG3 will get bored very soon
>this single player game is botted to inflate the number of players
>people will hate act 3
>Larian won't patch the bugs
>all of Ganker hates the game
>all those threads with praises are made by shills
>just two more weeks and everyone will realize the game is bad
>only coomers are playing it
>record numbers for player retention in a single player game mean nothing
>people just forget to turn off the game and/or their PC for weeks at a time
>the threads are botted
>there are chink bots arguing with me right now
-=YOU ARE HERE=-
>they won't update the sales numbers
>it won't win GOTY
>I didn't lose the culture war
>I won't end myself
KEEP SEETHING, CHUDS!
>didn't lose the culture war
I agree with everything you said but this cause I'm as Chud as they come and I love this game. Find me another homosexual genocide simulator and we'll talk.
>won't update the sales numbers
>No sales numbers 2 months after launch
KEK
>has been among the top selling games on steam since it's release
KEK
I'm finding it amusing how people come up with these rants all of a sudden and unprepaired.
2 months homosexual,
>how
bots, shills and drones, do you think a dead series for 2 decades somehow overnight get 850k+ on Steam and 200k for 2 months? you're a moron if you believe that
No sales numbers 2 month after launch, they showed the sales for Dos 2 a few weeks after launch,
Then why won't Starfield bot it's player count? Why won't every game?
BECAUSE BALDUR'S GATE IS A TOOL OF MASS MANIPULATION MEANT TO DESTROY WESTERN SOCIETY
WHY CAN'T YOU SHEEP SEE IT???
and all those other AAA games aren't?
no
Starfield and the like are genuine games
Baldur's Gate isn't
>and the like
There isn't another game as shit as Starfield.
sure there are, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 3, Fallout 76...
And here you show your true, dishonest, jealous colors.
Does it come with a free vaccine? Does it change your vote to democrat? Does it make the frogs gay?
Just play it already it's genuinely lightning in a bottle and I'm loving it
>60 dollars
hell no
>duuur just pirate it
no
if you can't swing $60 for a 200 hour campaign then you got bigger problems than video games going on
I don't buy games that cost more than 15$
It's a principle thing
Because Bethesda doesn't care. They can push dogshit with almost no marketing and it will sell millions based on brand name, which has an enormous number of loyal friends for some fricking reason
Lol. Lmao, even. You're so delusional your case could launch careers for an entire regiment of psychiatrists.
Seek help.
just watched how many copied are sold on PSN, it has been a big success for them.
why doesn't every big AAA game bot its playercount then?
They do, none of the next to million simultaneous player peak games are legit.
so why didn't EA bot Immortals of Whateverthefrick to a bajillion players? Why doesn't Activision bot COD to a bajillion players? Why didn't Microsoft bot Starfield to a bajillion players?
You literally HAVE to take your meds
I think you have to remember that the nice buff gentlemen that bring you to the ward do it for your own good.
>PEOPLE ARE... PLAYING A VIDEO GAME??????
>WHAT THE FRICK HOLY SHIT THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING I'VE STEPPED INTO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE A BIZARRE DIMENSION WHERE UP IS DOWN AND WRONG IS RIGHT HOLY FRICKING SHIT THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE
Fricking fr, the level of "out of touch" this place is capable of is astronomical. I know shills and bots exist and are here already, but goddamn this is high level copium dosages never before seen to assume that is the reason over it just being a good, fun vidya game
>make good game
>people like it
>it has a healthy playerbase
Wowie
It's a fun game
I'm halfway through my 3rd playthrough and still enjoying it
I truly wonder if any of the people here who hate BG3 have even played the previous games
I don't think they play games at all. They seem to spend most of their time shitposting on here about them.
Never understood why people spend so much time posting about games they don't like and trying to shazam them rather than just making threads and posting in ones about games they do like and actually play.
Personaly I just stick to threads about games I like, interested in, or currently playing.
>why does the game of the century have a big player base
You're right, it doesn't, it's botted. You telling me mouthbreathers are putting up with poorly paced, poorly cinematographed turn based jank for months on end just because literal homosexuals on xitter told them to? They can't even pay attention to actual good gameplay for more than a week.
>mouthbreathers
Its not 2001 anymore, normal people play games. Jesus fricking christ you basement dwellers cant see past your own fat fricking shadow
Normal people wouldn't go anywhere near this, you moron.
>almost 900,000 concurrent on steam and largets selling game on ps rn or some shit
>N-no normal people only nerds.
You are high off your ass on that cope bro.
Normies like DND now. The DND movie performed extremely well at the box office, BG3 is one of the best selling games of the year. Die mad.
>le normalgays don't play turn based games
Pokemon is literally one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world.
Pokemon is a masterclass of game design and pacing compared to this. Yes, your "I was too young to go through this in Gen 3 so this is the holocaust of Pokemon" recent gen included.
>so why didn't EA bot Immortals of Whateverthefrick to a bajillion players?
They did.
>Why doesn't Activision bot COD to a bajillion players?
They did, even though they don't need it.
>Why didn't Microsoft bot Starfield to a bajillion players?
They did. Starfield doesn't even run on most people's PCs and you somehow bought that 500k player count or whatever it was? Please.
you sound very moronic
just play it already, this is one of those games that is "lightning in a bottle"
what if i dont really like long-winded rpgs? the character and lore aspect seems nice, but i really dont enjoy turn based combat, and it seems like such a large commitment
not really my problem
>t.Black person
okay but i dont wanna play something if i know i wont enjoy it
this is a bad response
Why would you not enjoy it? I didn't like the combat and I still liked the game.
idunno, im just asking since i really struggle playing rpgs like at all
I don't particularly like RPGs that much either. It's just really immersive. I don't remember the game world sucking me in like that since I was a kid.
so why are you getting so mad? why are you forcing yourself to try to enjoy something you know you wont like thne getting mad about other people liking it?
do you have crippling autism or something that prevents you from going against the zeitgeist?
you can literally just not like thing, it's not illegal
So just pirate it? If you don't like it you haven't lost anything.
>literal unfinished modern railroaded RPG with no world interactivity, player choice, shitty nonsensical writing, nonstop bioware romance garbo
>lightning in a bottle
wut
>modern remake of bg1 and 2
KEK the people who did BG1 EE added a bunch of modern writing to it, just let it go
>literal unfinished modern railroaded RPG with no world interactivity, player choice, shitty nonsensical writing, nonstop bioware romance garbo
All of that is wrong.
>can't join absolute
>can't side with any of the dead 3
>can't save ketheric
>can't kill nightsong unless you are shadowheart
>nightsong doesn't care if you murder isobelle in front of her
>allying with gortesh is the same as killing him
yawn, want me to go on?
You want the game to be a narrative sandbox or something?
you claimed a supposed lightning in a bottle rpg exist where you can't fricking roleplay LOL
i fricking LOVE how it doesn't matter if you kill everyone but as long as you pick the good choice in the end you're a good guy and people build a statue out of you. typical trash tier modern railroaded "RPG"
>lightning in a bottle
if you want a modern example then FONV is the only recent example we have. i fricking PISS and SHIT on BG3 and i¨'m not even a 'jeet
>if you want a modern example then FONV is the only recent example we have
NV is an awful game and the choices are far less meaningful in that game than bg3. Of course it's a bethesda schizo whining, you people have the worst taste in everything. And for the record, you can join the absolute, siding with goblins is joining the absolute, siding with moonrise against the harpers is joining the absolute. This carries tons of unique benefits. If you actually do an evil playthrough you'll find out the dead three are betraying each other, which positions you to take over and BECOME the Absolute, which is fitting because you are working with Jergal unwittingly and killing off his former replacements.
>NV is an awful game
try harder
NV is dogshit and everything wrong with modern rpgs. I hope this generic first person action adventure game format dies with cyberpunk and avowed.
>siding with moonrise against the harpers is joining the absolute
yeah my favorite part was when I found out that every single playthrough does this. EVERY. SINGLE. the good, the evil, every character is railroaded into infiltrating the moonrise tower. despite the game trying to make it seem like you are undertaking this big moral quandary over joining the absolute to infliltrate them for the greater good but NOPE lol, jaheira will just tell you to go and infiltrate them for them.
my 2nd favorite thing about this is when you go thru grymforge and save the absolute drow, since the game presents the situation as your golden ticket to joining the absolute but it is NEVER brought up again, only later on some other NPC remarks how they killed the guy off screen. what is the fricking point of presenting all these situations when they ultimately lead to the same conclusion? the whole game is full of this kind of dumb shit where your choices don't matter.
In this post Anon discovers that story driven, non-sandbox games, no matter how complex, have limitations. Unfortunately, he is not smart enough to realize that most properly developed people know about those limitations and place their expectations within them. Instead, Anon expect total, true life-like freedom and is angry at the game for not meeting his impossible criteria.
Tl;dr
Anon is a moron.
>story driven
not really. W3 is story driven, vast majority of people i know are going thru larian games in COOP, the polar opposite of story driven, same happened with dos2
>have limitations.
yeah because when you call a supposed "lightning in a bottle" RPG, it's out of question to expect the game to have better RPG mechanics than fricking "HURR KILL EVERYONE, ME EVIL" which ironically, even if you murder everyone, you're still not left out of getting the savior of baldur's gate ending where people worship your statue
>vast majority of people i know are going thru larian games in COOP
And people I know are playing solo, now what moron?
Also just because a game is called a lightning in a bottle doesn't mean the limits of this kind of games just disappear...
you can't just call a game "story driven" ignoring the fact it's made for coop gameplay
OR the fact that the game has about 1hr of the main quest cutscenes, compared to witcher3 with like 10hrs+
>The game can have coop so it's not story driven
moron
>I will not count the dialogue as story because it's not a cutscenes.
Holy shit you are a moron.
>despite the game trying to make it seem like you are undertaking this big moral quandary over joining the absolute to infliltrate them
This shit was the worst. First they present you that game has choices and consequences in with grove conflict in act 1, then it all goes out in the window and consequences are no more after that.
yeah act1 was great, which is what i think is at the core of the player numbers. the game got a big bump of popularity to start off, and act1 being good which creates so much noise it will just permanently drown out any complaints about late act2 and basically the entire act3 which means the game has a constant stream of players checking it out due to good word of mouth from people who are saying good things while going through the early part of the campaign. it feels like a very elden ring-ish effect, where nobody was really talking about the slog the game becomes after you get to about 1/2 or 2/3 way thru
Literally every narrative games will have moment where every playthrough have to do something with 1 justification or another, the only games that avoid this are sandbox game
>Literally every narrative games will have moment where every playthrough have to do something with 1 justification or another, the only games that avoid this are sandbox game
"RPG of the decade" yet the only real choice you get is whether or not to spare the druids, which has no real impact on ACT2/3.
>main villain
cannot interact with them, they just die during the last mission randomly unless you already killed them in a random faceoff
let's see what FONV lets you do with its main villain
>kill them
>speech check them
>dialogue with them about their motivations and argue philosophy with them
>question them without being killed
>work for them
>go on a fricking DLC adventure to find more information about them
Ok? I don't give a frick that you can do shit With the main vilain? Why are you obsessed with this this? Is it because that you point of comparaison to such fun like a moron?
speak english Black person
>RPG
>party
thanks for reminding me how utterly SHIT the party mechanics in BG3 are. i love it when your party members have no influence on the checks in dialogue and whoever you first pick to start the dialogue is referenced for all the skill checks as if your party was never there
>NV is dogshit
>BG3 is good
but less about your zoomer taste
yeah GTA online is story driven too, let me know how much RPG credentials the game has outside of its underage teenager audience. that's who you are in this conversation, your RPG pedigree consists of games like GTA or fortnite.
Does GTA online have a shit tone of dialogue where so spend hours and hours selecting line with stats influencing how the conversation can go?
Also talking about pedigree when you are sucking of fun fnv of all thing is funny as frick. You are just too moronic to have this conversation.
>BG3 rpg mechanics
- collect loot and level your character like in an MMO
- kill bunch of NPCs to prove how evil you are
- world is a disney amusement park full of homosexual NPCs spouting quippy cartoon shit at you
- ?????
>NV rpg mechanics
- side with whoever faction you want that makes sense for your character background
- factions hate you or like you
- quest resolutions have consequences
- your actions have far reaching consequences
- world is rich, grounded and with fully fleshed out lore
>- quest resolutions have consequences
>- your actions have far reaching consequences
They don't though. Like at all.
You sound like the parody of a Fallout new Vegas shills... stop before it to late.
If I didn't new any better I would assume that you are mocking fallout new Vegas fans.
This. Plus, NV factions are actually well thought out and fricking cool. I still roleplay with the NCR and Legion in Hoi4's Old World Blues mod. What factions are there in BG3?
>creation engine
>paraslop gay
damn you are an absolute subhuman lol
>comparing a shooter sandbox "go where you want to" RPG where you control a single character to a semi-linear turn based narrative RPG with 10 times as much dialogue and a fully controllable party
moron alert, moron alert!
are you actually arguing that NV's RPG mechanics in a vacuum don't rape teh shit out of BG3's? bg3 RPG elements are basically larian borrowing notes from witcher3's design book where the point of choices is to just show you an "IDEA" of what you can do, but choosing anything is irrelevnat since you are just railroaded to the single choice the game ACTUALLY gives you.
>NV is trash and nothing you do matters lol
lol
Go away underage homosexual, NV sucks.
NV is probably the only perfect game ever created.
I wouldn't rate it higher than a 3/10, play better games
Starfield sucks, cope more shill. Bethesda style games are barely RPGs, they are slightly above Assassins Creed Odyssey and God of Soi.
NV is trash and nothing you do matters lol, every single quest is extremely minor branching options which lead to 1 of 2 slightly different rewards which have no long term outcomes, whereas bg3 has permanent party member loss and NPCs that can be carried through and continually reappear throughout every act, which significantly effect the plot. NV is oblivion with an Obsidiot wrapper of being some morally grey nitwit MC that goes around a theme park of poorly written highly political factions playing God, and, whats more, only the NCR and Legion matter and of those two only one is even 10% finished, and there's a point in the story that completely invalidates all your previous actions anyways. (Which does NOT happen in bg3 because you will be limited by the characters and items you chose to bring with you in the end based upon your choices) God NV is such an awful fricking game, jesus.
I knew letting bethestards nest here was a mistake.
>every single quest is extremely minor branching options which lead to 1 of 2 slightly different rewards which have no long term outcomes
hmm, let's see if your argument stands scrutiny agains THE LITERAL FIRST SIDE QUEST IN THE GAME
>side with powder gangers
>they help you later in a quest in primm
>side against them
>you antagonize the powder ganger faction forever
>you now have to fight them in 2 locations in the game
lol oops, guess i don't have to bother with the rest of your post
>these guys will help you later.
Well bg3 does that too if that your standard moron.
Literally all you get for siding with the powder gangers is a bunch of dead quest npcs and maybe a free stick of dynamite lol
liar, they let you take primm's sheriff without a fight from NCRCF, you also get to kill ringo for his armor, and loot goodsprings. you said quests have no consequence, you better not start backsliding when talking about the literal first quest in the game because i can bring up a whole lot more quests into this discussion.
>side with legion
>they take out forlorn hope
>side with ncr
>they take out the stragglers
i will forever shill and tell bg3 zoomers to kill themselves because they think their meme game is worthy to be called "lightning in a bottle"
>they think their meme game is worthy to be called "lightning in a bottle"
You're calling people that have been here since before you were born zoomers. If BG3 shows people how mentally ill and moronic NV gays are then I love it even more. Looks like RPGs are finally healing.
BG3 shilling should be entirely in its own category of "moronic shit zoomers do" like drinking fricking nail polish on tiktok for likes.
Shill the game because it's a meme game and you love recency bias, but i will fricking rape you if you try to shill it as a good RPG. The game is a FRICKING INSULT to good RPGs like NV.
You aren't raping anybody you keep repeat the same dogshit argument like a moron , ignoring every choice in bg3 and only mentioning that the end of the act is the same. You are just stupid, the perfect example is when you complained that only shadowheart can kill nightsong when that a good thing.
>ignoring every choice in bg3 and only mentioning that the end of the act is the same
i mentioned the druid kill/save choice, which btw has no gravitas towards the rest of the game, also RPGs are not graded by the amount of their shitty binary choices, but by how interactable the world is. i can side with 2 major factions in NV, and 2 minor factions, all of which have their unique quest paths. I CAN SIDE WITH ONLY THE DEFAULT PLAYER PATH that EVERYONE goes through who plays the game in BG3. it's utter trash.
wait, am i forgetting the goblins? you can side with the goblins. that solves everythin- nvm it's just another illusionary choice like being able to side with gortesh
Why are you obsessed with factions?? Bg3 is not a sandbox Black person , are you too stupid to get it? Faction is a thing do you consider Starfield a masterful rpg too because of the faction?
>NV has morally boiled down to the choice of 2 equally morally grey factions, one of which is nonsensical and incomplete.
>BG3 allows for the entire spectrum of DnDs alignment and you can do anything from being a do gooder adventurer to becoming the son of bhaal God king
*morality boiled
i doubt people will be talking about BG3's narrative elements in a year, meanwhile people are still intensely debating house vs ncr vs legion to this day, i could probably start a thread right now and get it to 300+ replies by just mentioning ancap and elon musk in the same context as mr. house
>intensely debating
You mean having embarassing thinly veiled /misc/ meme spam threads where people pretend to be moronic and copy paste wiki articles and wojak pics at each other? Those?
i have no idea what you're talking about, the biggest nuisance to FONV threads recently some made up FO3 indian shitspam that seems to have died down
NV threads are no different than skyrim threads arguing over stormcloaks or imperials. Next you'll say skyrim is a well written game.
just did a cursory archive search, "stormcloak*" was mentioned 10 times in the last 10 days, "legion" was mentioned 10 times in the last 1 day, safe to say not many people are discussing skyrim compared to NV, feel free to prove me wrong though
How new are you? There was a stormcloak vs imperial thread every day for years that just stopped when starfield released.
>Talk about Zommers while shilling New vegas.
Ok moron
Siding with the powder gangers does absolutely nothing, what do you mean?
>Which does NOT happen in bg3
lol lmao even
>you are railroaded into a single way of solving act2
>act3 is literally the same down to extreme moronation of mandatory mindflyer, even if you free orpheus
>act1 choices doesn't fricking matter outside of companions fricking off, which they do by disappearing from the plot entirely
>illithid powers are entirely consequence free and basically a fancy alternative progression, there are zero reasons to not make all of your active party half illithids
>act3 is literally the same down to extreme moronation of mandatory mindflyer, even if you free orpheus
i did that paulie stare IRL at my screen when the mortal enemy of the squid people drinks a squid potion to turn himself into a squid for me just because i told him to and he just takes my word for it
source for webm
Eureka Seven.
How does one not recognize Eureka Seven immediately? It looks so unique.
Oh right, Bald Gays thread.
Haven't watched it, haven't heard the name.
You don't have to do anything to decide to become the absolute other than pick it at the end you fricking moron
There are companion and item specific endings "fricking moron"
Damn maybe that would matter if the companions weren't all fricking terrible?
Astarion's great though.
>If I can find thing you can't do then this means that the game is linear
moron , if you want a sandbox go play mount and blade.
but imagine:
>bg2 jaheira romance
>she turns into a bear
>you can frick her
It's a WEG with 5E combat, a bad game even by CRPG standards
some people have lives outside of gaming and take a while to beat a long game. i still havent beaten it.
BG3 alrdy losing steam and is 100% forgotten by the time creation kit comes out, and nobody will be talking about it by the time starfield DLC starts droppin which will be its death gargle. Remember how many people were talking about DOS2 be4 BG3 launched? 0. People are still talking about bethesda's 20+ year old games, it's inevitable SF will have longer staying power compared to larian's meme game. It's like trying to compare hogwart's legacy meme game to a cultural juggernaut bethesda IPs.
Sar, Starfield is already dead and forgotten. It's over.
all me btw 🙂 romancing astarion on thousands of different steam accounts on 100 computers at once.
Turbo virgins are treating it now like it's the digital, go to dungeons and dragons game.
That's pretty average and the game couldn't even go to 900K.
Please point me to the other CRPGs that get these kind of numbers on average.
You are an idiot with no sense of scale or you don't know what "concurrent" means. BG3 has better player retention than fricking Elden Ring. The only games played more on Steam are eternal multiplayer giants like Dota 2 and CS.
>than fricking Elden Ring
Why would that be an achievement? Cucking rang was just a fotm garbage.
>
>has no argument
>changes the topic from the number of players to the game's quality
Idiot confirmed.
What argument? Beating a fotm garbage is not an achievement. That anon had no argument to begin with.
The topic of the thread is the number of players andbtheir retention. Do you know how to read, Rajesh? Or is the poo clogging your eyes? You say that beating one of the best selling games of the last decade is nothing and try to shift the discussion from facts (numbers) to opinions (you disliking a game). In plain words, you're a shithead.
Oof @ that goalpost move
Get rekt moron
looks like it's following a pretty similar trend to Elden Ring, just peaking slightly higher towards the end
also it's hilarious to me that Cyberpunk and Hogwarts Legacy's lines are almost identical too
Seems pretty neck to neck on their way down. Except that ER was actually retaining and selling far more than your troony shit early till day 30.
>I will ignore and twist the facts that do not match
Nice fricking fallacy you have there.
Why are you so defensive? LOL Are you Belgian by chance?
2006 called, it wants it's
>no u
back, you've been holding to it for much too long.
Stop barking at me. I can see you're chained to the wall. lol
Why are you so defensive? Are you from india by any chance?
>Bark! Bark! Bark!
Is that in your native language? Or are you a son of a b***h?
>Or are you a son of a b***h?
Is that the basic english they teach you in India? "b***h lasagna"?
I'm sorry, I don't browse Reddit, I don't understand what you mean.
How about you post your hand. I'm sure I'm whiter than you.
>fat frick
>brown skin
Yep, I knew it. Pablo, go mow my lawn.
I can't help but notice that you didn't post your hand. Are you so ashamed of being a dirty lying Paki? Because you should be. Anyway, I accept your capitulation. Now go eat mud or whatever you subhumans do for entertainment.
I don't have to dox myself when you did it first and you're brown.
>brown
Wipe the shit off your monitor and look again.
>dox myself
The only way you could dox yourself (as a lying homosexual) is by showing your poo skin. So you won't post shit. GG, no RE, go frick a cow Rajesh.
what, exactly, is your issue?
what is nonsensical or impossible
pls explain in detail your issues
single player games do not, EVER, mantain such longevity after launch
It's not a single player game. It's a co-op game.
The Witcher 3 did.
exceptions to the rule don't disprove the rule, just because this game is record breaking doesn't mean it's going to set any trends for that kind of behavior
what's the issue? statistical outliers aren't allowed?
But most single player games don't have the amount of replayability that BG3 has.
You have all the origin characters, Tav, and Durge. Then you have all the different classes and races and all of the different options and decisions you can make.
Makes sense to me, games are supposed to have longevity
i don't understand the issue with it, granted i haven't paid a ton of attention to it besides a lot of AAA companies shitting themselves in rage that it exists
why does Ganker think it's "Bad" and why are they excitedly waiting for it to fail
Because it ruined my entire narrative that woke games don't sell
Now here we have a game with trannies and gay sex that is being played by every normie.
How am I supposed to live with myself now knowing that woke shit is now popular?
Become more nuanced
The game may be woke but i wouldnt say it is to the point of being annoying or ruining the experience. In my first play playthrough everyone was a homosexual that flirted with me, which is bad for roleplaying but it seems it was a bug and as of Patch 3 no one made any advances on me on my second playthrough
>why does Ganker think it's "Bad" and why are they excitedly waiting for it to fail
The bear joke killed some people in the brain and they never recovered.
>still monitoring the player count of this game for 2 straight months (it released exactly 2 months ago)
Christ, OP. You've been seething for this long?
I don't understand. Are you saying it's too high? Or too low?
Game has been in beta for years, every beta player is running the game right now
The average Gankerirgin's opinions are spite driven and prefers to seethe over games instead of playing them because they're mind broken by culture war nonsense/imageboards. The average normal person just plays games because they're fun.
In the end, this game promotes creativity rather than difficulty. The game isn't hard even at highest difficulty but players can deal combat in many ways. Unfortunately, /v only chases difficulty to prove they are true gamer, while cannot appreciate its gameplay with normal IQ.
The game is much less strategical than DOS games.
BG3 is all about stacking stats and unga bunga enemies ignoring their resistances, shields or gimmicks
>he game is much less strategical than DOS games.
Agree. but it is still better than most of games right now since I still can use firewood bottle to kill bosses
How exactly it promotes creativity with non-existent difficulty? Lack of any challenge doesn't stimulate you to try anything different.
Tactician difficulty is so damn easy it makes it look like they didn't expect anyone but casuals to play it.
Its a 150+ hour game, not the kind you finish in a week unless you are a n autist
>Game does well
>Not Real, bots, shills, paid reviews
>Game does bad
>Expected, shazam always wins, reviewers are based.
I'm starting to think you guys don't really like video games.
Larian won
Pathtrannies lost
It's a genuinely fun game I'm halfway through my third playthrough and absolutely loving it
>128 posts
>57 IPs
OP is having another schizo meltdown
Diablo4 still has 4 million players 5 months later...
Just make good games
The real answer is because of romance
It's no surprise to me that the average poster on Ganker literally cannot comprehend people playing video games.
its fricking bots but gabe got a blank check, fat frick
cope and seethe
tencent bot
Frick off Farkquad
People put MMO level of hours into TES games they'll do it for better games
It shows there's a big market for AAA quality porn games.
>Niche franchise played more by pc gamers
>unappealing artistic style because western art is at an all-time low
I mean anime style was created in the west but
The fact that it sold over 100k copies is crazy. PC gamers will spend horrors on lawnmower simulators and their money on Chinese F2P than RPG games that had some kind of success in the 90s and unlike Diablo Bauldur Gate didn't have multiplayer.
Hello sirs
wokeism won
It's an amazing game I'm on my third playthrough already genuinely lightning in a bottle
it's a 100-200 hour campaign anon
I couldn't get into the combat. I got filtered by the turn based move system.
I really like the roleplaying aspect of the game but the combat is just so complicated.
Maybe because it's fun?
it's fun
i finished my first playthrough after 130 hours and I'm starting a second durge character right now
>cope posts about game failing to have choices and railroading you regardless of your decisions
yikes
It's an ok rpg and we haven't had a decent rpg in more than a year. Could be bots but I'd say it's just as likely that there just isn't anything else new to play. It's also very mainstream.
I finally beat it last night. 300 hours but that's with early access. I started over like four times because I'd get bored of my build and want to start a new one rather than push to the end. Only 12.6% of players have reached the end credits kek
>over 12%
When I finished the game, it was 6,5%
>Industry experts estimate that a new game will only be completed by 10 to 20 percent of its players.
Anything above 20% is a miracle. Let's aew how high this will get.
>Industry experts estimate that a new game will only be completed by 10 to 20 percent of its players
People often say this but I feel like that number is kinda skewed by people getting a game for $10 or so in a humble bundle years after release and deciding it's not for them after a few hours. Alternatively, games like BG where it's so long that even people who like it get burnt out near the end. Skimming through my games the only ones that have below 20% completion are precisely older niche and/or long games that have gone on sale for incredibly cheap. Even a lot of those have more than 20%.
Its a big game with a lot of replayability.
I keep it running on the main menu before I leave for work to keep the number up
See? See?!?!?!
I fricking knew some frickery was going on
How much is Tencent paying you to do this?
How many agents like you are there?
ANSWER ME NOW
I am paid twice as much as your average Ganker janny
> Sony Interactive Entertainment (a subsidiary of Sony behind the PlayStation brand) holds 14.09 percent of FromSoftware's shares; Sixjoy Hong Kong Limited (a subsidiary of Tencent) owns 16.25 percent, bringing the collective stake to 30.34 percent. Kadokawa still maintains majority ownership at 69.66 percent
it depends how many souls fans on /v
I completely forgot to do the end of the Raphael story in my first playthrough so I'm doing an entire new one just for that
i gave him the crown and that was the end of his story
My playtime is 400 hours and I never finished Act 3. I just keep restarting to try a new build like a fricking autist
I did that twice because I was unhappy with my build and was too autistic to just respec
Same.
same, bro. i got the farthest in my latest playthrough. got into bg, did jaheira's and astarion's quests, but dropped the game for now. will pick it up again later, but more likely than not will restart again 🙂
it's for the best
the end of act 3 is a farce rn
You can respec whenever?
my autism forbids it
You can't convince me these people aren't bots
cope and seethe
You can't convince me you aren't a moron.
If I'm a bot how did I get past captcha? checkmate, schizotard
Seethe
>How
Women. Unironicallly.
Elden Ring won.
Pure copium.
>half the relevancy of Elden Ring = cope
FS got Tencent/Sony/Kadokawa three big publishers to support the game.
>implying tencent doesn't have a hand in BG3
FS are bought by tencent and Sony just after elden ring released. This is reward for their excellent marketing.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/tencent-sony-take-stake-elden-ring-publisher-fromsoftware-2022-08-31/
tencent bought larian share because of DOS2 success (2020) unless you want to argue tencent know bg3 will be a big success.
>Tencent buys From after the blockbuster game of the decade is released
>Tencent had stake in larian before BG3 shilled troonyshit FOTM garbage came out
>Elden Ring is being shilled goy!
I will play the white man's game, thank you.
this. i'm sure everyone believes valorant is a really popular and successful game lmao
Now read how that tool you used works, because the only thing that picture has killed is your credibility.
>205 posts
>82 IPs
Fricking end yourself schizo op
They manage to hit the target demographic of women that want a western erotic game that panders to them with hot dudes. If you look at social media it's all women talking about BG3 right now. On Ganker it's mostly just women that's talking about who's wiener is better Astarion or Halsin.
There's really no secret behind it, it's just women finding a game they enjoy.
Ironically I think this is true
Just a bunch of yaoishit with hot guys and female romance to rope chicks in.
This is true.
Dragon Age was arguably the biggest western RPG franchise and most of it's diehard fans were women (just peruse videos about it most of them were made by women), but DA is dead as frick and has been for a long time. BG3 is where those people are hanging out now. Nowhere else to go.
its fun, cope
What a mogging it's been. Smooth, full-bodied flavor, with a robust and long-lasting aftertaste. American moggings are such a sugar-rush by comparison.
I loved the game on my first playthrough, but I think my enthusiasm for it was poisoned by being able to see all the seams from where content was pulled out and the gaps awkwardly stitched back together. Act 3 feels like half of what it was supposed to be because of all the hanging threads that were supposed to lead into the Upper City. Act 2 is railroaded as frick and feels barebones comparex to the other 2 acts. Act 1 is incredible though and the variety of encounters, locales, plot threads, and reactivity really sets up expectations for the rest of the game that it just can't meet.
It looks like the modding community is piling on the content though and Larian is patching the game constantly, so I'm excited to come back to the game in a couple years and see how it has changed.
i was fine with act 2 being kind of linear
act 3 was just messy as frick and it just felt like a boss rush. It needs a lot of work
>act 3 was just messy as frick and it just felt like a boss rush
What lol
Every single companion storyline just resolves by going to the boss lair without any other leadup in act 3. For most of them you're pretty much railroaded into a fight as well.
>Every single companion storyline just resolves by going to the boss lair without any other leadup in act 3.
What?
You just have to start a couple of runs and get through the opening and jump around between them when you get the restart itch
but anon, i had the saem waifu on all 7 (incomplete) playthroughs
Since Ganker is apparently full of paid shills where do I apply to become one? Surely with how often accusations are levied you Black folk know where to go to get the job, right?
Some npcs killed frog
I can’t remove her lifeless corpse from the party and I don’t want to resurrect her. Help pls? She keeps coming back on long rests
(She got killed on the crèche and it was very fitting)
>make a good game
>people play it
somehow this concept is incomprehensible to the average Ganker user
Has any game come out between BG3's release and now?
Starfield
Look kids, it's The Moggler!
"Moggle, moggle", says The Moggler, as he mogs you.
Replayability, so many different types of characters and ways to play each and every scenario. Then add to that the ability to be your own DM with the addition of mods.
whats the matter? cant comprehend that people can like things that you dont? i fricking hate one piece and i dont understand how people find it so enjoyable, and yet its consistently in the top for most popular. grow up. not everything revolves around you.
Its a good game.
D&D is incredibly popular right now because the current generation of adults in the 18-30 bracket are ridiculously lonely and it gives them a chance to hang out with other people and also escape their miserable lives.
It's also filled with special snowflake drama kids, queer attention seekers, and perverts. BG3 leans into all three of these.
>hire a billion chinks to idle in your game on steam
>your entire marketing strategy is "look how many people are playing it!"
So why doesn't any other game do that?
I'm so glad that a turn-based CRPG has been this incredibly popular in modern day. I knew it still had enough of an audience to not go the way of the RTS, but figured it'd still be very small numbers of people and remain completely niche.
it's a long ass game, it's gonna take normies a while to finish it
I actually did start playing GTA Online again once I finished BG3. I miss glitching, I still have my speed-modded North-Yankton sportscar and duffel bag outfits on the Xbox.
it's a very long game with a lot of replayability
dnd sells
it is casualized and also caters to the thot streamer demographic
larian viral marketed it hard with that release show they did
it's not really that complicated op
Marketing can't and doesn't affect player retention. D4 and Starfield had way more marketing and both plummeted, especially D4 with a 99.4% drop on active players.
>play bg3
>its okay, gameplay carries it for me because most the writing is dogshit and i hate every character
>classic larian/wrpg moment when most of the choices dont matter and you just pick your ending in the last act
zoomers would have a fricking field day if an rpg with actual compelling writing, themes and characters like planescape came out today with tolerable gameplay
>zoomers would have a fricking field day if an rpg with actual compelling writing, themes and characters like planescape came out today with tolerable gameplay
Disco elysium is zoomer PST, BG3 is zoomer BG2. Both are better than their predecessors.
disco seems nice but im a fantasy genre gay
Disco is fantasy of a sorts, the world is split into isolas surrounded by a matter devouring supranatural anomaly from which corporations can pull future tech. It's a very surreal and strange setting and with the proper build the MC can kind of bend reality even. Give it a look.
The normie factor cannot be understated. My wife bought this game just because TikTok kept talking about how you can frick a vampire rogue. She spent 70USD to play a game that she has no idea how to play, because of the horny. Not that I'm complaining about that last part.
Why do trannies always want to talk about New Vegas? Is that the only RPG you’ve ever played?
Chinese bots. The game has practically 0 replayability cause choices don't matter and there are no alternate questlines or routes.
Is there a rape mod yet? I don't want to have to romance any of the female characters in camp I just want to bend them over and have my way with them.
its full of debauchery and gratuitous sex with animals and homos so yeah. Almost any AA or even AAA game can do that if you load it with this game's content. Not saying BG3 is a bad game, its probably great. However lets not kid ourselves as to why its mega popular all of a sudden.
Were just in the midst of people coping with this cultural zeitgeist. Too bad zoomies are going to be sent to the meatgrinder next year. At least they can enjoy something before they get droned.
Why are you still posting this?
because it's funny to see the anger it causes on bethesdrones
Now why are you bringing up fricking Betheshit? Why are you obsessed with random bullshit?
because it's bethesdrones that get irrationally angry at this game's success
You're obsessed and projecting.
no I don't think I am
here's hoping OP keeps doing it for weeks
Every time this shill thread happens, the number is at 200K. Definitely bots
>Fortnite is the best game in the world
THEY ARE ALL BOTS AND SHILLS! NO ORGANIC DEMAND!!!!!
>bg3 thread
>every single fricking time fnv and/or bethesda shills show up in force completely unprompted
who are the real bots here
is the bethesda boogeyman in the room w you right now?
funny how that parity keeps getting reached, and projecting pajeet shills call the "other" side pajeets.
BG3 isn't even a Sony game. The fact they have to associate it with the brand just becasuse of console exclusivity says a lot about how desperate ponies are this year.
I'm not reading any of that
You're ESL. You can't read it anyway.
you are unfortuantely too mentally raped by imagery of bestiality gay orgies and homosexual mindwash if you don't think NV is the superior game in every aspect, besides the amount of gay bestial orgies and cuckold fetishes
>SISTERS HOW IS A GAME THATS ACTUALLY MADE FOR PC FIRST AND FOREMOST STILL GOOD AFTER ALL THE PAID ACTORS AND INFLUENCERS STOPPED PLAYING IT????
Its just one of life's greatest mysteries, Jamal.
STOP THE COUNT!!! STOP THE COUNT!!!
It's a actually good going into my third playthrough already and 400 hours in
It's the biggest femcel game in years. You wouldn't believe how horny they are for Astarion.
Kek, this. Astarion is literally the femcel thirst trap. Pair that with shitty writing a woman's favorite past time. You have a solid winrar among females. I bet out of all the 200k players at least half are females playing this shit making characters while romanticizing how each character fricks Astarion.
People like this are killing themselves over BG3, and that's fantastic.
so how do they know it was him and not his mother
Kek is this real?
Police love to arrest 4chudders but not kids groomed online by FBI agents to conduct mass shootings?
shhhh you don't want to suddenly go missing do you?
Yep the first one was in NJ and I'd pull up the bans on his posts on my phone from time to time. Stopped once he got arrested. Very mentally ill and moronic fellow.
those slippers look /comfy/
wow he is literally me
>bond
why do americans do this, to keep prison upkeep down or something?
to make jail optional for rich people and get a little cash on the side
What the frick kind of PCs do you guys have? I had to refund BG3 cause my PC sounds like a jet engine unless I tone down the graphics to look like playdough.
A 2060s with an i7 and it runs on ultra at 1080p. Are you trying to play it on an apple ii or something?
No, I have 3060TI / R7 2700x, I literally don't know what's happening.
>R7 2700x
lol
What is that CPU bad or something? It should be decent at least.
AMD is memeshit for console games.
What are some good CPUs to pair with my 3060TI? I don't wanna go overboard since I'm not made of money.
You don't really need to upgrade your CPU with a GPU like that, but if you insist, you should get 5800X3D or whatever it's called, that's as good as AM4 gets. Again, rather insignificant gains for your case.
It's acceptable for 1080p, though it aged badly. This pile of shit hammers CPU for no gain.
Upgrade to at least a 5600
>2700x, I literally don't know what's happening.
>2700x
I know what's happening
is it super pozzed? should i pirate it, or wait for the definitive edition
It will make you wanna suck wieners, be careful bro
>It will make you wanna suck wieners
thought being a gay wasn't a choice though sister.
Nah the numbers are probably genuine. It's literally just a babbys first. We have a lot of those recently which is signaling a generation shift.
I am personally responsible for 4 of those numbers
halsin's lift the shafow curse quest bugged out when we failed to protect isobel so the curse isn't getting lifted i guess lul
captcha tavdta
Big number = China is involved.
Unironically wished Larian took cyberpunk IP instead of CDK
Is it true that bg3 is a softcore porn game for LGBTQI+ cúmbrains?
Unironically yes
But then again, what kind of western product isn't nowadays?
>Unironically yes
is the story actually intriguing though? seriously, the only time i ever heard anyone i know talk about the game is rolling to have sex with someone.. is that seriously the only thing worth mentioning about the game is having sex with a character?
About as intriguing as bg2, yes, insofar as it's a campy adventure with drama and plot twists where you do cool stuff.
>About as intriguing as bg2
thanks, maybe i'll pick it when it's onsale. the injection of western propaganda troony shit puts me off from buying the game at full price, but i know i can just kill them all, and there's a mod that makes the game less of an eyesore.
Fair enough. Although I would genuinely recommend pirating it to participate in discussion now and maybe just buying the invetible definitive edition if you like it. It's fun to play big games like this totally blind, it's something you'll remember for a long ass time.
wtf established developerbros a game that isn't mindlessly chasing trends or is cynically exploitative is doing well?!? How the frick did this happen? Mr. Shekelberg assured me it was impossible!
There really are 250,000 cucks, sois and predditors on this planet anon. The kind of "person" who shouldn't be allowed outside.
I played it
it's mid as frick
fr fr
astarion kinda spicy tho
Lot to do, lot to explore. Im very tempted to do an achievement run.
OP if you "aren't getting it", just pick barbarian and kill literally any NPC you don't like. Thank me later.
I have a theory, and it seems to bear out:
Normies play video games in two ways. Either they play for 5 minutes a day max, or they basically play in brain-off mode. The former is kind of obvious, but the latter is the interesting one. People will take an hour to do a 5-minute fight, they'll wander around without ever really figuring out what to do or where to go, maybe pressing buttons but usually not really accomplishing anything. Maybe in a 5-hour play session they'll move a few feet or they'll be stuck on one fight because it takes them 10 tries. They'll tab away from the game to talk on Discord or text or something, they'll leave and come back, etc. etc.
Look, I damn near 100% completed BG3, I did literally every sidequest, dungeon, and fight in the game. And it took me maybe a couple of days. But for a lot of people, somehow just getting what you'd call an "Any %" run, where they just barely scrape through the end of the game and somehow missed tons of quests, content, and playtime, that takes them months.
How, I have no fricking clue. But it is what it is.
>Look, I damn near 100% completed BG3, I did literally every sidequest, dungeon, and fight in the game. And it took me maybe a couple of days
Anon, that's over a hundred hours easily. Even if you're a neet don't you play anything else? Like I just don't drop everything when a new release comes out.
>Even if you're a neet don't you play anything else?
At the same time? Not generally, I usually focus on just the game that is currently in front of me. Sometimes I'll play Path of Exile also, but I haven't really been able to invest as much in that the last few leagues.
Also, I don't take any time off work or anything just to play games, I'm literally a full time illustrator and somehow I can finish a game in a few days without much difficulty.
>At the same time?
I mean, I don't stop playing comp games like CS or drop an arcadey game I'm grinding like doom wads or something to just consume a 100+ hour long rpg in a few days. I'd rather take my time to think about things.
>I don't stop playing comp games like CS
You really should, though. Just in general.
Having some comp experience is important, I hope you at least play real sports or something instead.
Honestly, I believe you. I picked up the game after a friend told me to get it as it's the next "big thing" I beat the game before him while retaining more knowledge on the lore than him. Normies are literally braindead moronic when it comes to retaining anything about a game, majority of them play it because it's the popular thing to do.
>more knowledge on the lore
boy I sure hope this post is ironic
No.
>Look, I damn near 100% completed BG3, I did literally every sidequest, dungeon, and fight in the game. And it took me maybe a couple of days.
Yes, it took you a couple of days to play through like 100 hours at minimum.
>Game has (relatively) attractive waifus
>Sells like hotcakes
simplest explaination: its a good game that people enjoy
>people play LoL for hundreds of thousands of hours
>"good game"
>people play DoTA for hundreds of thousands of hours
>"good game"
>people play L4D2 for hundreds of thousands of hours
>"good game"
>people play Payday for hundreds of thousands of hours
>"good game"
>people play BG3
>NOOOOooooOOOOOooooOOOOOOooooo TENCENT SHILL VIEWS
play LoL for hundreds of thousands of hours
>>"good game"
Black person this is fricking addiction, league is a fricking cancer game
t.league addict that barely got out
post yfw frog game won
>Bought BG3
>Expecting a fun opened world adventure where I can do anything
>Get bored of it pretty quickly, nothing gripped me
>Talk to people irl about it
>They just talk about how horny the game is and all the weird sex shit you can do
Is that really why this game is doing so well? I have no interest in any of the romance shit, is his game just not for me?
>Bought starfied
>Expecting a fun opened world adventure where I can do anything
>Get bored of it pretty quickly, nothing gripped me
>Bought BG3
No you didnt
It's unironically the best RPG since New Vegas which was over a decade ago christ how vidya has fallen
Its way better than NV.
They excel at different things. BG3 has nothing even approaching Beyond The Beef but is a comfy DND adventure.
>Beyond The Beef
Beyond the Beef only has two outcomes, BG3 had both more ways to solve and quest in general and more outcomes. NV is just bad.
SOMEONE STOP THE COUNT!
And to think he chose to mortgage his house to avoid releasing DOS1 before it was ready. Good for him, let's hope his passion for gaming lasts a couple more years.
Chad, the creator of Cuphead, did the exact same thing.
People would call both of them fools, but sometimes you have to take risks to realize your dreams.
I don't think BG3 is the best thing ever but I can't hate Larian. They've been around for decades making their niche Eurojank and sticking to their guns the whole time. Bioware sold out to EA and tried to chase after the mainstream audience and now they're circling the drain, shitters like Obsidian and the other 20 spinoffs of the old WRPG dev studios keep making these defeatist "anyone remember baldurs gate???" borderline indie games that seem to be more concerned with looking like an Infinity Engine game from 1999 than anything else, meanwhile some autistic Yuros just kept working on their shitty discount DnD series for 20 years and making it bigger and better until they somehow achieved this unprecedented and frankly unbelievably level of success.
>kept working on their shitty discount DnD series for 20 years and making it bigger and better until they somehow achieved this unprecedented and frankly unbelievably level of success.
Did you miss the part where they stopped making a custom series and sold out to Hasbro to run goyslop realms in 5e?
Original Sin 2 was good enough that I don't think any Divinity gays are going to feel cheated, and more than anything I'm glad they took the chance to make something as big as BG3. A sequel to the eternal pinnacle of the genre, and a golden chance to revive the genre at an unprecedented scale during the whole DnD resurgence we've been going through over these past several years.
Thnx for reminding me to go back to the game
>How it is possible that one of the greatest games ever made breaks insane numbers?
I have absolutely no fricking idea. But it has absolutely no connection with all other games being utter shit. Nope. Must be shills or bots or people being wrong. How could it happen to me? Save me Black person man.
Bg3 is utter shit though, you're not making any sense?
>Bg3 is utter shit though
clearly, everyone else must be wrong, couldn't possibly be (You)
I'm not a pleb so yes, I am the one that's right
Maybe stick to reddit if you think normalgay opinions matter
There is no interest
Nobody talks about the gameplay
Nobody talks about the story
Most people didn't even finish the game, because they aren't actually playing it
Because it's a dogshit game
Fabio you should have a nice day you are not even deranged, you are full on insane
Yeah its utter shit.
Thats why it has phenomenal player retention and interest which is literal anomaly in the market, which will be studied for decades to come in an attempt to learn its secret "ingredients" and imitate its success.
Because its a shit game.
Its not even a random phenomena, a stroke of luck.
Its just shit.
It makes so much sense.
>Thats why it has phenomenal player retention and interest which is literal anomaly in the market, which will be studied for decades to come in an attempt to learn its secret "ingredients" and imitate its success.
but less about genshin impact and LoL
It's "but enough about". Get your memes right
Genshin was lighting in a bottle mixed with some of the largest shilling every produced in internet history.
Mihoyo had made games prior that no one really cared for.
Those are multiplayer games. Does bringing chink mobile shit helps you to cope with reality where everything was mogged by a single-player turn-based rpg which we were told for years and years being something of the past, too slow for adhd zoomers and something nobody wants?
I wonder how Todd feels right now being mogged by a full-fledged rpg after dumbing down all his games non-stop since morrowind for absolute bottom of the barrel morons. And now noone wants to play his later masterpiece which literally has no mechanics whatseoever even compared to fallout4, a shooter with less rpg elements than bordeerlands (at least borderlands had skill trees and wpn stats). I bet hes really happy.
bg3 is multi player too
Its a pve multiplayer, how attractive or long-living could it be?
didn't like the game, didn't like the story, didn't like the characters. starting to think you all have bad tastes in games and only like jackin off to women
>Thats why it has phenomenal player retention and interest which is literal anomaly in the market, which will be studied for decades to come in an attempt to learn its secret "ingredients" and imitate its success.
you talk like a gay and your shit's all moronic. it's just advertising. there is no ingredient that sets this game apart from all the other trash on the market
If its just advertising why no other game were able to replicate it? I heard there was one game this year, what was its name? Demonic? Demon? Dishonest? Dilat... Diablo! Oh yeah, DIABLO! A game which was omega shilled with incredibly costly marketing campaign. Wait, how was it called again?
baby's first crpg
not really a crpg since its a full 3d game
Neverwinter Nights blocks your path
Blackrock accidentally added a zero to their Chinese bot order.
>5 million copies sold
>no it must be the bots
daily reminder
elden ring won
baldur's gate won
At this point I genuinely believe that the data is fricky, Elden Ring dropped below 200k by month 3
>5 mil copies sold
>on a turn based game
>but its just advertising
>just throws around buzzwords
You're not actually looking for an honest discussion are you?
good timing really
d&d at apex of cultural relevance thanks to critical role
total death of bioware leading the very normie market of mass effect / dragon age fans to not have any harem simulator to latch onto
a recognizable name for zoomies "hey my big brother played that game when i was a kid"
+ a couple dozen actual crpg players playing the game because we play all the crpgs
oh and forgot the "le barrel falls on boss xD" DOS fans who only came in in DOS1-2 for the wacky hijinks coop aspect
>d&d at apex of cultural relevance
The what now, what did I miss?
Black person there was literally a DnD movie that came out this year. DnD blew up among the normalgay epic nerd audience with celebrities streaming their campaigns and shit like that.
Shows how much I care about films lately.
Wasnt there a terrible DnD movie 20 years ago, was that considered an "apex of cultural relevance" too?
I want to propose toast for great games
Sven won
Shadowchud won
Froggie won
Karl - ACK! won
Minthy won
Astarion won
Gale won
Wyll won
Orphy won
Durge won
Halsin lost
Emps lost
Todd lost
Fabio lost
Starfield lost
>it's a troony game
>i-it's a chink psyop
>bear fricking!
>forced gay romance
>tencent bots
God Ganker anons are such sore losers.
>>it's a troony game
it is though
Wtf I love trannies now
so did we ever find out how many copies bg3 sold on ps and pc so far? or are we still looking at this steam number?
Should be safe to assume it sold about the same as ER given the numbers and graphs we're seeing. But no, not yet.
Elden ring was not very appealing to normies
bg3 is extremely appealing to normies
huh
>Elden ring was not very appealing to normies
20 mil copies sold says otherwise
Its just that good for non-normies
One is gameplay driven the other is a storybook? Is that your point?
You don't sell tens of millions of copies without appealing to normalgays, normalgay.
Both games are appealing to normies.
I like ER, and had a good time with it but what is its metacritic? 97? It wasn't that good. BG3 is likely the same. I was blocked by morons for saying the game is shilled by people who haven't probably haven't played it.
5 MIL copies sold so far
where is this number from?
are you talking about just the pc numbers? elden ring sold a lot of copies on consoles too
https://wccftech.com/baldurs-gate-3-topped-5-2-million-units-sold-on-steam-says-belgian-embassy/
>aug 19
>says belgian embassy
yeah its a little unreliable data
its the best info out there currently
cool thanks
the most copies were likely sold in that two week timeframe since most of the legacy fans had early access already
wonder how it did on ps and how it will do on xbawks
> people are still saying it bots despite no proof
Just admit you're mindbroken.
I'm not mindbroken
This world is
It's impossible that a niche game like this is actually popular
>check the player count on a daily basis
>get upset over it
lmao