Developers and experts in CRPGs give us their takes on why Baldur’s Gate 3 and RPGs in general seize the public’s imagi…
Turns out people like games that are good
Also complete (tech- and content-wise).
Also large AAA budgets and early access are now a good thing as well. Funny how it must took one game to turn those from negatives to positives.
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Please use spoiler tags
I haven’t played it myself (yet) but apparently Divinity Original Sin 2 was similar and the “Definitive Edition” that came about a year later fixed Act 3. So I hope the same thing happens for BG3.
Did owners of the unfinished edition have to pay more for the Definitive Edition?
It came as a free update!
I recall that it was added automatically to my library, as a separate game. But it shared save game files.
I hope they do. Again, I’ve gotten plenty of enjoyment from the game that I’m willing to give Larian the opportunity to fix that last Act.
I loved acts 1 and 2. But, somehow I made it through those without any mention of the names Gortash or Orin, so for them to show up at the end of act 2 and suddenly THIS is the bigger bad beyond ketheric was…weird. and then, the transition into act 3 felt very poorly executed, suddenly Gortash is THE head Duke of all of baldurs gate? Whyls dad is now mind controlled and there was no option to prevent that from happening? Just felt a little railroady after all the branching upon branching of the first two acts
I’m telling this because I assume you have finished the game: Gortash is related to Karlach’s backstory so you can get some hints from before, and Orin is related to Dark Urge’s backstory so yeah, same.
See that’s an issue, I didn’t use karlach and I didn’t play dark urge so I didn’t get any of that
That’s not an issue, that’s an rpg: the ability to make different choices (informed and uninformed) leads to different experiences and different events each with knockon effects for thr story. It’s only a problem if the game isn’t clever enough to account for all of the different things you’ve done.
IIRC you also hear about Gortash from Councilor Florrick in the Last Light Inn. She says she’s going to ask him for help against Ketheric.
I also remember reading about Gortash and Orin while rummaging through Ketheric’s things in Moonrise. They definitely were not featured prominently but they were hinted at if you go looking!
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Ah brilliant, lots of huge spoilers, nice one
What part exactly is a spoiler? That you can fight Raphael? Something that anyone can intuit the moment you meet the character. That the game comes in three acts? That the game has an ending?
Basically everything including and past Gortach becoming the Duke. I’m in the beginning of Act 3 and had no idea there was a Raphael fight until your comment.
Talking about plot points in the last act of the game, yes, is going to be a spoiler.
I mentioned nothing about Gortach nor any plot points for the last act. Over-policing of ‘spoilers’ is getting pretty ridiculous.
Sorry, I conflated your comment with the reply to yours which is full of spoilers.
I still had no idea that there was a Raphael fight until you brought it up. Anything in Act 3 is pretty much a spoiler, since it only just came out on PS5 and a lot of folks won’t have gotten there yet. Just be a little more vague with the details if you don’t want to use tags. Not everyone has finished the game yet.
Just be a little more vague with the details if you don’t want to use tags.
I was as vague as I felt appropriate to express my opinions about the game.
I wonder if Thursday’s patch will help with any of that.
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I think you and I have different definitions of a role-playing game.
Personally, the idea of using persuasion or deception to get out of what could have easily been a fight is way more interesting than simply running around getting into fights.
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What game is the modern take on wizardry? I can’t seem to find it but it sounds interesting
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Often when we talk about “hype” surrounding a release, it’s in anticipation of shared cultural euphoria more than that of a great gaming experience.
Maybe I’m hijacking the discussion, but also I don’t care. That quote is the first line of the article. That’s pretty much exactly what I was trying to talk about the last time I commented about BG3 and called all the excitement surrounding it just “hype” and people were crawling out of the bushes to downvote and dunk on me for criticizing their new favorite game. Every time I looked at my message inbox I was making that “wtf” face the guy made when fucking O’Reilly said “tide goes in, tides goes out, you can’t explain that.”
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