Baldur's Gate III

You'd have to wait until the end of time to decide what the best games of all time are. 😁

Is there a demo for this? My CPU is pretty ancient (i5 3570k)

Not a fan of turn based, but even my interest is piqued here. Hopefully there's a demo on PS5 and I'll give it a whirl.

I love this game, I managed to break into a basement, 5 mins rummage around i reckon. Turns out i found a way into a massive underground section. I've been there for 6 hours.

10/10

I do have a problem with save scumming tho. Need to try and stop myself

10/10 reviews all round for BG3, still an act 1 after about 30 hours, im never actually going to the city of Baldurs Gate.

The correct call in fairness. Split screen co op is nice to have but shouldn’t be at the expense of the whole release.

I wonder if we’ll see more of these parity exceptions as the generation goes on. With BG3 being a massive hit, MS policy on the series S essentially gave Sony a free timed exclusive.

100% agree. but it is interesting none the less.

Xbox have previously been fairly strong on parity between X and S, and were strong on that messaging when selling the S. They were clear there would be visual differences - resolution, FPS, Ray Tracing being the tradeoffs for the lower cost entry point. Spencer quoted yesterday (or day before) saying differences between the consoles aren't new, I think in either reaction to this news or to get out ahead of it - and that first party titles have had differences, but he used Ray Tracing as the example. To me, ray tracing and split screen are completely different types of feature. One is gameplay, and it is far harder to accept a gameplay feature difference, given their previous messaging.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is the right call. It would be insane for Xbox to miss out on Baldurs Gate 3 on both consoles cause SplitScreen is proving difficult on the S. If given the choice I would assume 100% of S players would say 'give us the option to play BG3 without split screen rather than not at all', but where do Xbox draw the line now? What are acceptable features to drop?

I think they need to accept that there may be some instances for third party games where there may not be feature parity(I think first party should still strive to offer this).

It looks unlikely that there’ll be a mid-gen refresh from MS, asking devs to develop to 3 different specs seems a bit much. But we will probably see a PS5 pro, so as devs start to develop for increased specs there’s a chance that there’ll be more challenges developing for the S - better to allow features to be excluded than be continually releasing games after the PS5.

Where can I preorder this for ps5? None of the usuals seem to have it available and I don't buy games digitally.

Time wise I doubt many will play much splitscreen but being able to just drop into a game and join someone on the couch is a great feature for how social D&D is.

However minor this disparity between X & S version is, it's only going to get worse as devs try to get more out of the systems and the likely release of a PRO / X^2 mid gen.

I’m about 20 hours in and I think it’s really good.

I've never played the series.

The voice acting is excellent.

I'm not going to play it immediately as there will undoubtedly be bugs but I recently picked up Diablo 4 so will bang away at that for a couple of weeks til a few updates / patches come through.

Played a bit this morning, runs pretty well but had to stop because of a bug(screen froze on speech selection so I didn’t know what was happening!), hopefully they can be sorted quick enough.

But I enjoyed what I did play, I can see putting a serious amount of time into it.

I play the game solely with controller tbh, I play PC/steam deck, it's very good

Anyone know how to get rid of the '!' Speech bubble above one of your group. Cannot get it to go away. Tried talking to them, very quest items, etc nothing works.

You can manually select whichever character you want before starting the conversation and the conversation is then based on your selected characters strengths and weaknesses.

For example: it’s easier to intimidate someone if you use a barbarian than a wizard.

What’s the issue you’ve encountered with character swapping?

Personally I'm only about 2 hours in on PS5, but no complaints so far in terms of controls or performance, particularly where combat is turn-based and so you're not trying to cycle through different radial menus trying to find the right icon in a panic. From a video I watched it's definitely a bit more input required to do some simple options (like moving inventory items from one character to another on PC looks like it's just drag and drop, whereas on PS5 you have to highlight the item, open Actions sub-menu, then send to the character you want).I haven't gotten too deep into figuring out the best ways to do things though. There's not a lot of tutorials or hints when you're doing things for the first time, I think there's an actual tutorials menu/log you have to go through yourself.

Haven't played much on PS5 yet, but keep getting a (known) sound bug. Theres a workaround (turn off 3d sound) until patched.

Played through the prologue three times, trying to find class I like the feel of. Thought it would be Warlock, but didn't click.

Probably try a couple more before getting on with the rest of the game.

Been selling the same 3 spears to a shifty merchant and stealing them back and then repeating.

Stole a set of gloves that give advantage for sleight of hand first, but they do realize they've been robbed a short bit after and if you're caught you get one of those pop up saves where you don't see the dice. Depending on the area and if it's the thief or not or if your just looking shifty the response is different from being attacked or having to bribe them.

First few times as I'd them in separate group with main party to the side, and when the guard ran up to them since the thief was gone I could answer honestly that I didn't have it.

Now I'm having 3 member party cast stuff on thief and then go to camp, while thief stays behind and once he's done stealing he does a couple of double rouge dashes to get away, you pretty much have to play fully in turn based for a lot of stealth stuff to be safe.