Baldurs Gate 3 announced - Page 8

On October 26 2020 02:04 Manit0u wrote:
I don't mind linear stories. What I mind in case of BG was the illusion of freedom. Sure, you could play/act as an evil character but usually that was super non-optimal and the game was penalizing you for it. And I don't have to mention it being too black and white with the choices where you're either an altruistic doo-gooder or extreme asshole without anything in between really (it's not just BG that's suffering from it, KOTOR also had such problems).

I like a bit of grey in my characters and I really love it when you have the option of playing a more selfish and not-so-nice character without feeling like a total asshat because of the bullshit choices they give you.

What I'm talking about is a hypothetical situation when a bum approaches you and asks for 5 coins in alms and these are the only choices you're given:
1. Give him 10 coins and your best weapon.
2. Kill him and take his 3 coins.

On November 05 2020 03:36 Sbrubbles wrote:
A friend of mine has been saying a lot of good things about the early access, despite (like me) not having liked divinity at all. It's really getting my hopes up.

Anyone here having fun with it so far?

On August 09 2023 19:57 Salazarz wrote: There's virtually no interaction with your companions outside of the +/- opinions and the brief commentary about whatever quest you're doing now and then; they pretty much never say anything during encounters or dialogue which just feels like such a massive fail for a game with a budget as big as this that supposedly focused on interaction and reactive world.

On August 10 2023 03:41 HolydaKing wrote:
I'm playing on the medium difficulty and never had any gold problems, then again I barely ever bought something from vendors aside from potions and trap disarment kits. Very rarely something where I had nothing equipped.

On August 10 2023 03:36 Striker.superfreunde wrote:
Imo the item management isn't too bad. Yes, it takes some time to get a feeling which items are better to be kept and which can be sold. There is also the option to mark the items as goods (dunno if theres a hotkey for it) to make the selling process faster. If you are not sure about an item you can always send it to your camp. And on top of that you have all the time in the world to take care of your item mgmt.

On August 09 2023 19:57 Salazarz wrote:
I don't want to write an in depth review because I haven't even gotten out of act 1 yet, but at this point I honestly don't get what all the hype is about. People talking about 'new standard for crpgs' and stuff, yet it feels like the devs haven't learned anything at all from previous rpg games and pretty much just stuffed as many lines of voice-acted conversations as they could into the game and called it a day. There's virtually no interaction with your companions outside of the +/- opinions and the brief commentary about whatever quest you're doing now and then; they pretty much never say anything during encounters or dialogue which just feels like such a massive fail for a game with a budget as big as this that supposedly focused on interaction and reactive world.

Not only that, but it's just absolutely idiotic that only the character that initiated the dialogue / interaction is available to, well, talk or interact with whatever is going on. Like if my mean githyanki companion was the first to be spotted by some guy that wanted to talk, I have no option to tell her 'hey hold on, let me handle this', nope either the whole conversation is done by a gal with 8 charisma and no persuasion or I have to reload the game. Likewise early on in the game there's a wizard trapped inside some portal who needs a strong arm to pull him out -- you'd think after my little elven bard failed the strength check to do so I could ask the abovementioned githyanki to lend me her 17 str hand? Nope, she's just standing back watching without a care in the world. You're talking to some shifty guy who might be hiding something from you, but your most insightful character isn't the one having the conversation? Too bad, the other dude will never let you know that there's something off about the dude you're talking to. It's just mind-boggingly bad design.

Also, the constant dice rolls and skill checks that are shoved in your face are massively immersion breaking. You're walking through a forest, suddenly a 'perception check: failed!' pops up. Obviously there is a hidden treasure or a pathway nearby. Why are you being told that you failed the said perception check if you didn't spot it? Who knows. Or you're talking to a person who tells you something along the lines of, "I've got nothing to hide, I'm just a dude", suddenly an 'insight check: failed!' pops up. Obviously not just a dude, then. At this point you're either reloading until you pass the check, or move on with your life wondering what the guy is hiding -- but either way whatever surprise there might have been is already subverted. And these aren't one off things, it happens literally all the time.

And then there's the writing... I mean, it's serviceable, for the most part, I guess? People going 'FUCK YEAH!' in a fantasy RPG isn't exactly my cup of tea but whatever, that's mostly limited to one character so far, at least. But overall there isn't anything particularly outstanding, the main quest quickly went from 'this is maybe interesting' to 'jesus christ what a load of crap' imo meanwhile literally every single companion have tried to hit on me within what amounts to... 2 days of time spent travelling together, which is just ???... Like my cleric started telling me I'm the best person she's ever met and I've changed her life by the time we stopped to sleep for a night because like, I didn't let a mean druid feed a child to her snake and uhh, that's actually pretty much it? The tiefling gal is apparently madly in love with me even though I've literally never had her as part of my party and she is just sitting in the camp all day and I'm just confused at this point.

I don't know. I still plan on finishing the game eventually since it's not as if there are many CRPGs around, but the strongest feeling this game has evoked in me so far is, 'gosh how I miss Baldur's Gate 2.'



oh and yeah, that inventory system. in 2023. 10/10 masterpiece new standard in rpg gaming. HAHAHAHAHA.