>only a niche community cares about it for years
>releases
>suddenly everyone says how long they’ve been waiting for it and how it’s the best game ever
yea bro… totally organic
>only a niche community cares about it for years. >releases
>only a niche community cares about it for years
>releases
>suddenly everyone says how long they’ve been waiting for it and how it’s the best game ever
yea bro… totally organic
You know, even if the hype wasn't organic at all, I don't really give a frick because the game is excellent. Games like this should be successful and show the industry good example.
if it’s so good post some gameplay then
>I don't really give a frick because the game is excellent
this
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Baldur's Gate 3 is the best RPG I ever played. I already played it in 2020 on day one when you could buy it in EA and I loved everything.
BG3 is perfection for him. I literally give zero fricks about cucks who don't like it. Those cucks can all die tomorrow and this would change literally not even a second in my life.
soooo organic posting
In what way is this janky cringe mess "excellent"? Truly embarrassing shill post.
Try reading some reviews, watch gameplay, read the bazillions of threads, god forbid maybe try the game yourself.
I'll let you figure out later which of our posts were truly embarrassing.
No. You tell us, right now, what makes the game "excellent". Obviously you can't.
BEAR BROKEN
Planescape Torment, NWN, Icewind Dale, BG1 and BG2 are all better games than BG3 and it all comes down to the gameplay not being Original Sin all over again.
You've never played any of those and you're just a bandwagoning moron.
rose tinted glasses, tried to play BG1 last year and frick did it not age well
shit for brains. I just finished it last week and it’s fine. Most stable game I’ve played in years, in fact.
>BG1 and BG2 are all better games than BG3
Nah, BG3>BG1
IWD is one of worst games ever made, you never played any of the games you list.
You have literally never played any of those games if you think this.
I started replaying them months back to eventually move onto BG3, but the turn-based combat is a massive turn-off
I already played Original Sin, I wanted the combat to be rtwp, which it is for both BG1 and 2
That is entirely a (You) problem.
Maybe.
I just think it weird that first 2 games are completely different gameplay-wise than the third installation.
Imagine playing a platformer game series and suddenly the third game becomes a first person shooter. Just doesn't sit right. I guess it's easier to get into when you've never played any other CRPG's in your entire life that BG3 feels like something new.
>I guess it's easier to get into when you've never played any other CRPG's in your entire life
Larian has been making games before BG3, lil bro
Yes, and it's not a Baldur's Gate game. It's Original Sin 3.
I've played Divine Divinity and Dragon Commander. They're at least not the same copy paste like OS1, 2 and BG3
>suddenly the third game
it's been 30 years since bg2, you are fricking loser
>"enhanced" editions
So you hate RPGs? Gotcha.
They all cost me 5 bucks and they were steam keys, so they're just conventient. Also, they run better than the originals right out the gate, no need to download patches. Took me ages to get Arcanum to run properly at an improved resolution and even now you can't alt+tab or the game goes nuclear.
I've lost boxed copies of all of my games I used to have back in the day, some I used to pirate.
The newest game you listed is over 20 years old, if you can't see why people might find a new game that plays at least even somewhat remotely like the classics kinda appealing then you're beyond moronic.
>Icewind Dale
IWD would just be some forgettable retro-pixel gauntlet type game, that the few people whom played it noticed it has a decent story, if released today. Nothing more. And that's not because tastes have declined (they have). That's because it's what IWD is.
Search your heart. You know this to be true.
Oh man, too true, Icewind Dale is a fricking miserable experience. I played it for like 20 hours when it released, and it left such a bitter taste that I nearly wrote off the entire genre. Thankfully, Arcanum released soon after and was phenomenal, reinvigorating my love for it.
Youre trolling. Infinity engine games are worthy for their contribution to RPG genre and what games they led to, but the gameplay itself is super primitive and restrictive
If anything, god bless there are RPGs like Dvinity nad BG3 that allow for serious reactivitiy and tactical options and environment interaction in combat rather than "prebuff and go"
And you’re shilling. When you play old games, after an hour or so you get used to the old design and it doesn’t bother you anymore. And that’s assuming the older game is outdated/worse mechanically than current games. While PoE1 / WOTR could be said to be superior to BG1/2 when it comes to mechanics, BG3 cannot. It is worse than DOS2 because it uses 5e shoehorned into the DOS engine, it’s worse than rtwp bg1/2 because those games understood that turn-based D&D on a computer is moronic, and it’s worse than stuff like DA:O and NWN that did basically what bg3 attempted but did it better.
Ok boomer
Torment is my favourite cRPG and one of favourite games, but if you're saying its gameplay is better than OS1, OS2, BG3 or most of other cRPGs ever created, then it seems that it is you who's bandwagoning. Yes, people do (rightfully) praise Torment, but never for the gameplay.
You should play it one day, it's an amazing game. The most "paper RPG"-like cRPG.
Most people aren't interested in demos and that one chapter (or however long it was) was a glorified demo. That you have to pay for too.
I was interested and never played it.
But OP said "everyone says how long they’ve been waiting for it", but I haven't seen posts like that.
anyone who played the EA knew this was gonna be good, only bandwagoning homosexuals that learned of the game through bear sex were skeptical
The rtwp feels a lot better than the original sin's 30 minute fights against trash mobs
I know time waste doesn't have much meaning to someone under 20, but just you wait
>last played two days ago
>no playtime
>no achievements
You must realize how suspicious that looks.
>liked NWN
>does not like BG3
explain this.
NWN is not turn based you monumental moron.
Your entire reason for hating the game is something this autistic? Go kick rocks, please.
>hey, let’s make counter strike turn based, it’s only a minor change and it’ll add tactical depth
Wow that was a shit analogy. All of D&D is inherently turn-based. Even the RTWP ones are turn-based. You bouncing in your seat with your tongue out and panting with glee because the turns are automated doesn't change that. You're just
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Round
>Round
>A round is an in-game unit of time that lasts six seconds. In addition to being a general unit of time (such as for the duration of spells), a round is the basic reference time interval for combat.
>Combat rounds are defined per creature rather than being global throughout the module (or even throughout a combat). Each creature's individual combat round is started the moment it makes an attack (melee or ranged) or uses an item. (Casting a spell does not start a combat round. It is possible to attack immediately after a spell is cast.)
Rounds unfold in real time. Big difference. Bu
>even if
>Games with tumblr-tier writing shoud be successful and show the industry good example.
We have hit peak consumerism where liking [BRAND] is your new identity.
we hit that shit over half-a-century ago, Anon
nah you homosexuals call everything tumblr-tier writing, the companions are well written and charming to converse with. idk how you incels enjoy avoiding fun games
Thanks for proving my point, leftypol.
>2023 political brainrot
Post discarded
>had like literally a hundred bugs on launch
>including ones that would brick your save
>the overpozzed woke garbage is excellent
LMFAO, enjoy your women with dicks and men with veganas, cuckold.
how the frick is it good?
the writing is absolutely fricking abysmal and the plot is the mildest, most simple thing in existence, while not even playing itself truthfully to the idea of "yeah the plot is simple/stereotypical but fun, just roll with it!". they really want you to think it's somehow deeper than it actually is.
is everyone seriously THIS fricking starved for something at least bearable to slog through that this is what's considered to be a masterpiece now?
You're organically moronic.
Look at this, people are not allowed to say anything good about the game.
Be at least a bit self-aware, you're the ones trying to control discourse about the game. You don't and you will never get to decide what people like or dislike.
It's the new mother. People are desperate for entertaiment since everything but manga is collapsing
covid dnd surge + big "franchise" for CRPGs (grog power) + LONG early access + trusted developer + MEMES and so WHACKY marvel humor + normie appeal + insane marketing campaign = big success
You morons posted about the bear 24/7 for a whole month, so the so called youtubbers, influencer and other bottom feeders pseudo-shills got catch in the "current thing".
>organic
meaningless buzzword
>The israelites finally activated the mind control device
>To get people to play a European video game
It's over.
Hasbro have a lot of money anon, dont question it, they needed to pay off all those streamers to shill it to the critical role crowd so thewy would forget about the WotC controversy over user content recently. Its like everyone forgot about how they were trying to completely kill shit like Baldurs Gate only a few months ago
Do you want a cookie? No one cares if you beta tested it.
I played BG1 back in 1999 because it was free with my PC, then played BG2 in early 2000s. Yet, i'm not a fricking beta tester, i only play finished games. Now i play it and i love it.
And to be fair, i mostly talked shit about BG3 during the development, but last year convinced me (especially the pics of the city).
This post isn't even ChatGPT It's literally some budget open source alternative.
I want to create a full custom party. I refuse to even try this, I'm sure it's DoS 2 x a million and I loathe that game and all the Larian mechanics and whimsy design they come up with, if the majority of people like and overhype something, that usually means it sucks
>I want to create a full custom party
It will come at some point
Open 4 instances of the game and host a multiplayer session
its easier than it sounds. you can multibox like world of warcraft clients do. have the other clients run at low fps and sync up while the main client (your main character) runs at full fps and screen.
You only need to host for as long as character creation takes. Afterwards the host account will have full control over all the characters after the other players leave.
You only need two, you can start each one in split screen coop and then drop the other player to control two customs yourself
I have been patiently and excitedly waiting for it but I am not gonna acknowledge early access bullshit.
>900k players on Steam
I blame the trannies.
i refunded it
>Baldurs gate is considered niche
Is this an American thing
So all these people who bought it and played, they're all paid shills? ALL of them?
yep, every single one. larian studios has enough money to pay millions of people to shill their game. they don't care about profit one single bit, they just want to burn money to make their game appear popular. not a single person has played this game for entertainment
Those fiends, those dastardly fiends! Why I oughta...!
This is true they paid me to say the game is amazing (never played a single game in my life)
>Still thinking in $
That's why you're forever a slave.
It's a tool to erode values.
Many things don't make fiscal sense.
Twitter for example, but it's still kept afloat because.... its a tool for influence.
You won't get it until you're one foot in the grave.
i've never liked real time with pause combat, it just feels like a janky version of turn based combat so i'm glad this game is turn based
Ganker is peak contrarian mentality, if game is popular is bad, if nobody remembers the game or care about it it's good, simple as that
The people who keep putting BG2 in their best RPG list is at fault too, I don't like cRPGs and even I've heard of Baldur's Gate. This game is totally riding on its predecessors' name.
I'm not prepared to say it's strictly organic (the shill threads are still coming thick and fast) but it was brilliantly marketed.
Consider also that this is how normies work. They exist to jump on a the latest trendy thing so they can feel cool and not left out, and many will pretend they always liked the trend to cover up how shallow their engagement with it is.
I don't care about shitposting
>how's performance on my toaster (980+4690k)
>how accessible is it for someone who hasn't played a CRPG in over 10 years (Fallout 1, 2 and Planescape)
>how's performance on my toaster (980+4690k)
Good enough for 1080p low.
>how accessible is it for someone who hasn't played a CRPG in over 10 years (Fallout 1, 2 and Planescape)
Just follow the tutorials.
I have a 970 and first gen i7 and I get 60fps on high in most places lmao. Game is optimised great
I have a 10th gen i7 and 3070ti and it runs like shit on high
Good (I have heard, doesn't use dx12 and scales well)
Very, lots of tutorials
it is - the sales prove it
apparently everyone who grew up with old BG bought it
I'll probably never play the game, but seeing you moronic homosexuals scream piss and shit yourselves over it has made me like it.
>niche
You don't know what that word means do you?
>The next game in a franchise that, for better or worse*, launched a studio which set the standard the entire 21st century wrpg genre, and literally every modern tripleAAA rpg is a clone of.
>*Definitely for the worse overall, since only the worst mechanics and trends are being copied, but it's an objective fact that every rpg made in the last 15 years is an attempt to ape classic Bioware (aka before EA bought Bioware and all the good devs quit). Even Final Fantasy is trying to copy that shit now. Final Fricking Fantasy! FF15+16 are Bioshit clones. Think about that for a second.
it seems like this game is extremely buggy and now i'm kinda worried about playing it
It is.
>very first scene of the game where my character is trying to get out of the Mind Flayer pod
>he's just t-posing on top of it
And it proceeds like that throughout.
that always happens during saving, for some reason.
Ganker is an advertisers paradise
How the frick do you stealth kill someone? Is it impossible? I'm hidden, target is out of sight. Random guy spots me from across the room for no reason.
Well frankly, it seems inorganic because nobody is talking about the actual game mechanics.
I am still trying to find out how stealth killing someone outside of combat is supposed to work. Or at least that it is impossible and I should stop trying. Reloading takes a million years, so I am kinda tired of trying stuff out.
But the search results are full of "guides" explaining absolutely nothing except the bare essentials. Not a single organic conversation about it.
I don't think stealth like that is actually possible in this game. The mechanics don't support it at all, this isn't Ass Creed.
>still trying to find out how stealth killing someone outside of combat is supposed to work.
Sneak, go up to person's back, attack. This gives you a surprise bonus
>Reloading takes a million years
I use a SATA SSD and loading takes a few seconds
>Sneak, go up to person's back, attack. This gives you a surprise bonus
Guy, from across the room, with no direct line of sight to the dark, elevated corner where you just killed a guy, turns around looking at you. The narrator announces: "Your act of killing earned you another foe"
Then obviously, through telepathy, the whole room becomes hostile in a heartbeat.
>Guy, from across the room, with no direct line of sight to the dark, elevated corner where you just killed a guy, turns around looking at you.
Bruh. What exactly are you expecting to happen? The NPC just stands in the corner and faces it without moving? Why are you even playing crpgs? Lmfao.
Unrelated question: how would you have felt if you didn't eat breakfast yesterday?
What the frick is that even supposed to mean? I expect an NPC to not react to a crime he cannot have noticed.
Dumbass, NPCs turn around constantly in this game. It took me like 10 attempts to pickpocket the rune from Rath to enter the secret room in the druid library.
Again: how would you have felt if you didn't eat breakfast yesterday?
It was a static NPC that didn't move. Ever. He immediately did the good old "stop right there, criminal scum!" turn. To respond to something he couldn't have witnessed.
Pickpocketing is fine. Victim notices after a few seconds and starts looking for culprits, that's an OK mechanic. Have you actually managed to kill someone unnoticed?
>I use a SATA SSD and loading takes a few seconds
So do I. It's about 35 seconds for me. But that's annoying enough when you just want to figure out how unclear mechanics work.
"Did he hear it? Did he see it? What triggered it? What if I kill him over there? Or there?" And so on. That's 5 minutes loading screen per 10 attempts.
What CPU? I'm using a 7700x on Linux and every reload literally takes under 10 seconds.
Also, try just rolling with your decisions. I find these games more fun if you do that, especially since this game accommodates your decisions pretty well.
How does any genre become popular, anon? You could say the same thing about Elden Ring. If AC6 succeeds, you could say the same thing about that too. What's your definition of "organic" growth be? Your implication is unfalsifiable.
>suddenly everyone says how long they’ve been waiting for it
Any examples of this? Because it looks to me as if you've created a person in your head and now are mad at that person, which is a funny thought, but of course I know it couldn't be true, because nobody would do something like that.
It's the only way he can think of himself as a winner after praying for BG3 to fail for months.
Yes it is marketing
Also look forward to the inevitable netflix/amazon/HBO Baldur's Gate show, since this falls into the same alley as the Witcher and those studios are desperate for IPs with goodwill to leech
Most people who wanted to play it waited for it to be finished. Only a moron would play a giant RPG like this while it's in early access. But I do agree, this game is being astroturfed super hard.
It’s actually gotten much worse since the EA. So it’s weird that there’s all this praise.
Its almost like if you make a good game people will buy it, even without a massive shill campaign before its release. This should be the standard, but because it isnt people like you question why there wasnt a massive hype train going years before release. Let me guess, you bought Cyberpunk day one.
Ganker told me this game would suck. Therefore, if the game succeeds and people like it, it must be a shill conspiracy. Ganker cannot possibly be wrong.
>watch stream of it from people who are involved in culture war shit against wokies
>"the game is actually really good"
personally, if the game had better aesthetics It would be up there with best RPGs ever, the character creation is incredibly limited, but the game itself is stellar, its an actual RPG rather than "your characters build is just how much damage you do with certain weapons".
I think people have been use to shite for so long that they expect it when they see certain things.
>unattractive woman and gay shit
>"This game is going to talk about toxic masculinity and capitalism bad!"
This is where were at, its expected to come hand in hand, and usually it does, but it didnt happen here.
Yes.
>suddenly everyone says how long they’ve been waiting for it and how it’s the best game ever
normalgays do this shit all the time. Frankly, it's quite annoying.
>game comes out
>people like it
>Ganker is bound by law to not like it now
https://youtube.com/shorts/TgG92kWIZfU?feature=share
*secret ring
>markiplier cuckface finger pointing .png meme image
frick off. immediately closed the video.
>only a niche community cares about it for years
over those three years it got 2-5 million sales. What the frick is wrong with you idiots?
>claims 5 million people bought it
>only 500k online??
game must suck, not buying
No controller support, no buy
it has controller support
Oh i see it does now, for some reason it didn't show on the steam page yesterday. I'll buy now
I'm an idiot, someone help tell me which is better.
they're exactly the same
Ok, yeah figured as much. I'll stick with the leathers for the look then. Cheers.
They left it there.
>left the name as Tav
sorry, i obviously should've changed it to Adolf Hitler the Black person Killer
>either default name or hitler
what a bright spark of life you are
Found a similar discrepancy with conditional damage on a weapon. One had a mod that with a sub 50% hp I deal an extra 1d4 and had that reflected in the tooltip, the numbers were higher and in the list of the damage weapon deals there was 1d4 slashing (conditional), another had an extra 1d4 damage to monstrosities and did not have that reflected in the damage number
Is something wrong with me bros? I like crpgs, a lot. Played all the classic titles, starting with the first IW,BG, Neverwinter Nights (SotU, HotU) NWN2 (MotB), to Temple of Elemental Evil. But when I tried BG3 a few weeks ago, I could not keep myself playing more than an hour. I just dont see it. Nothing draws me in the game. And i had this issue with all Larian games (ironically, Divine Divinity is one of my favorite vidya). Im mad at myself cause id love to be hyped and play this but i cant. Are my standards too high or have I become too jaded. Do you feel the same way?
If you don't like it, don't play it lol. But I find it odd how you can go from these old school crpgs with minimal voice acting, janky UI, missing QoL features and limited gameplay mechanics, to BG3 and say that it doesn't meet your standards.
>qol features
>janky ui
>limited voice acting
Neither of those detract from gameplay. BG3 also has a different tone.
Again, if you don't like something, don't play it. We all value different things in games. For me, I like the roleplaying aspect; how everything can be approached in multiple ways that are all accommodated by the design of the game (and not just incidentally). This applies to both combat and quests. I like how dialogue works; instead of just exhausting every dialogue option like in most games, in BG3 many dialogue options are mutually exclusive so you actually have to ask the right questions. I actually like TB combat, though I understand why many don't like it. I like the character building shit. On top of that, the graphics and art design are good, but more impressive is the animations; nearly every second of every dialogue is fully animated. In most games (like Witcher 3 or Mass Effect), the NPC just stands still and occasionally does a generic animation that is shared by all NPCs. In BG3 characters are fully animated, even the completely mundane NPCs. And the voice acting is fantastic, genuinely some of the best I've ever heard in a game.
>nearly every second of every dialogue is fully animated. In most games (like Witcher 3 or Mass Effect), the NPC just stands still and occasionally does a generic animation that is shared by all NPCs
BG3 player character is barely animated and completely mute during conversations. Shepard and Geralt are fully animated and voiced.
I don't see any difference in quality with low tier NPCs between Witcher 3 and BG3. Which, to be fair, is admirable, but it seems strange you'd point out that it is better.
Sorry buddy, you gotta ask them to rework your lines.
>BG3 player character is barely animated and completely mute during conversations.
I was specifically talking about NPCs. Are you moronic?
>I don't see any difference in quality with low tier NPCs between Witcher 3 and BG3
Ok, now I know for a fact you haven't played BG3 LOL.
>I was specifically talking about NPCs. Are you moronic?
Except you didn't:
>In BG3 characters are fully animated, even the completely mundane NPCs.
But let's assume you did: meaning you are 'specifically' leaving out the fact that the player character is mute? Got it. Problem is: it affects the believability of every conversation he is in. Including the ones with NPCs.
>Ok, now I know for a fact you haven't played BG3 LOL.
And you gonna keep the reason a secret? Because, strangely, you copied an exact talking point about why people loved Witcher 3 (detail regarding side quests and NPCs). Except you said it about BG3 IN CONTRAST to Witcher 3. Odd. Unless you never actually played Witcher 3 and are reading from a script.
>nearly every second of every dialogue is fully animated. In most games (like Witcher 3 or Mass Effect), the NPC just stands still and occasionally does a generic animation that is shared by all NPCs.
Reading comprehension must be hard with a sub-90 IQ.
Even still, the player character is still fully animated, just not as much as the NPCs. The player character's face is more animated than their body (though this is not always a good thing because the facial expression may contradict your own reaction to an event).
>you are 'specifically' leaving out the fact that the player character is mute
Again, your reading comprehension is so painfully abysmal that I'm beginning to think you're a troll because no one can be this stupid. I was intentionally listing the things I LIKE, not the things I DISLIKE. The fact that you somehow don't understand this is mindboggling. I would have LIKED if the player character was voiced, but because they are not, I simply did not mention it. Somehow, this is a difficult concept for you to grasp.
>you copied an exact talking point about why people loved Witcher 3
I have never once heard someone praising Witcher 3 for having fully animated minor NPCs because it literally does not. I genuinely can't tell if your inconceivably stupid or trolling.
>player character is still fully animated
>fully animated minor NPCs
Explain 'fully animated' then. We are apparently not talking about the same thing. I've seen minor Witcher 3 NPCs - which are apparently laughably bad - do things an equally 'fully animated' player character cannot. Like emote, open their mouth and talk.
BG3 PC often does the good old "cross my arms while I listen to your monologue" during, well, the monologues others have 'with' him.
And that's fine for me. It is a stylistic choice, it is what it is. But:
> I was intentionally listing the things I LIKE, not the things I DISLIKE.
That's what is so odd about your posts. It's like me saying "in many RPGs combat feels too much like a rhythm game. That's why I love Witcher 1!". It's not just wrong, that alone would be fine. It is wrong in a very peculiar way. You know: "how do you do, fellow kids?"
I don't know about you, but I do know that Buldur's Gate 3 is the video game experience of a lifetime. Real gamers need to stop wasting their time on games masquerading as RPGs, like Zelda and Final Fantasy and spend your hard earned money on Baldur's Gate 3, a game that ups your gamer cred.
Be sure to purchase Baldur's Gate 3 or you can't call yourself a hardcore gamer. Remember, Baldur's Gate 3 isn't just a game, it's a lifestyle.
The bear fricking meme really put this game on normies radar. It's sudden popularity isn't that big of a surprise. The current hate train is just typical Ganker being made because popular game is popular
this, can't believe this is all it took
normies are normies for a reason
only homosexuals giving a frick about the bear are mindbroken poltrannies malfunctioning from trying to suppress their homosexual urges
I played the original two games on release and pulled many an allnighter playing them to death, not played any of bg3 yet but 2bh i'm kinda turned off by all the sex/romance stuff etc, I don't really want it in a BG game. I'll likely play it at some point but i'll not be expecting much
WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET BALDUR’S israeliteS 3 BANNED
Mate, there is a line between going "this popularity is inorganic" and just straight-up living under a goddamn rock. Have you been into contact with the normalgaysphere at all? Stranger Things and Critical Role have made DnD popular as shit now. The jocks play DnD now.
It's the same thing that happened with diablo IV. Astroturfed garbage
Diablo 4 didn't have a hugely positive reception unlike BG3, so your comment is as moronic as you are
Damn, just like the Diablo IV markers with the insults. Thanks for proving my point
Hype is born from early adopters confirming the hype is real.
People on Ganker want to hate on this game, but are failing at it because the game is that good.
>People on Ganker want to hate on this game, but are failing at it because the game is that good.
Something tells me you're a person who really enjoys corridors. In that case, it's no wonder that Corridor's Gate 3 is your game choice!
And yet every single battle and dialogue encounter can have vastly different outcomes that can be felt later on in the game; it's called reactivity and I dare you to name a single RPG that does the mechanics BG3 has better.
Back in the 90s, corridor shooters were more popular than Windows itself