Baldur's Gate III

Sephiroth_dude · 14-09-2020 10:23am

Didn't they release Divinity 2 in the same way ?

Glebee · 14-09-2020 10:42am

I swore id never buy another early access game again.

Glebee · 24-09-2020 3:05pm

Delayed launch till 6th October.

Static M.e. · 24-09-2020 4:26pm

I don't mind the small delays as I think it will be worth it plus it gives me time to finish up on Wasteland 3.

13 days to go..

blackwave · 05-10-2020 6:42pm

So who's getting this tomorrow? In two mind whether to buy or wait a few days and let it get patched a bit.

05-10-2020 6:49pm

Made by Larian; I definitely will pick this up but have other things to finish first

Glebee · 05-10-2020 7:01pm

Only started Divinity:Original Sin 2. Baldurs Gate can wait.

Kiith · 06-10-2020 6:57am

Guaranteed buy, but i'll wait till it's finished. Wouldn't be able to handle only playing the first chapter, then having to wait months.

06-10-2020 4:13pm

What's the story with this being early access? I'll definitely hold off with that in mind

Static M.e. · 06-10-2020 8:20pm

I got it this evening, 59.6 GB, I'll try to give it a go before the end of the week. Genshin Impact has taken up a lot of time...quite good for a free game. Addictive.

degrassinoel · 07-10-2020 12:40pm

worth a punt, or 60..

This is a bioware (when they were great) level, of great RPG.

Voice talent is fantastic, cinematics are amazing and the story, characters, NPC's and game after a few hours in are top notch.
Kind of surprised at how good this is tbh, i knew it was gonna be decent, but yeah.. deadly!

If you're playing, keep an eye and ear out for old Auntie Ethel, she has the best Oirish accent I've heard in a game since "Clover" in Payday2. Probably coz it's actually Irish.

Great stuff, buy it if you're thinking about it.

Mike Litoris · 16-11-2020 9:33pm

Just started this myself and, yeah, it's all kinds of awesome! It's very D:OS 2 which isn't a bad thing, not very BG1/2 which is a bit of a shame but that just goes out the window with how well written, paced, acted it is. The difficulty is perfect. It's rock hard which is refreshing and cant be changed in the current build. Battles need to be well planned out making even the seemingly easiest of battles an event and very rewarding.

Just met aul' Auntie Ethel there. That put a big smile on my face!

Mike Litoris · 21-11-2020 12:46pm

Ah man, Auntie Ethel calling you a

petulant bollocks

:P:P

I can easily say this is the best rpg I've ever played. The amount of detail and the vast amount of characters all individually voice acted is staggering. On top of that the writing and acting is top notch. It's just fantastic!

Icyseanfitz · 20-07-2023 9:17pm

so whos hyped for this? only what, 2 weeks away?

Glebee · 20-07-2023 10:32pm

I thought it had already launched, maybe that was just early access, ment to pick it up but still full price anywhere I look.

Cina · 20-07-2023 10:37pm

everything I’ve read about early access and the previews for the full game combined with the fact that it’s Larian makes me think this will be a genuine 10/10 game. I can’t wait!

Varik · 20-07-2023 10:38pm

Going to wait a few weeks.

See what the general response is to the later acts.

The bear **** trailer is making me think that maybe I'm not the target audience.

Sephiroth_dude · 21-07-2023 7:53am

Why is the level cap so low? 12?

Varik · 21-07-2023 11:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120878300#Comment_120878300

D&D level max is 20, they're probably leaving it at 12 to expand with DLC. There's level of spells and stuff, you can learn 5th level spells at character level 9 (x2-1, 10-1)

Originally they said 10 so you'd have 2 level ups from 5th level stuff, at 11 you get 6th level and pick another set of 6th at 12. At 13 you'd be getting 7th level.

Players hoped it'd be to 14 for the 2 picks from 7th.

Icyseanfitz · 21-07-2023 1:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877685#Comment_120877685

early access (more like a demo imo) was launched a few years back for act 1, everything else (full game) is coming 4th of august i believe.

I have avoided everything about this so i can go in fresh, bg1 was my first pc game way back and ive faith larian are the perfect developer for bg3 so i believe i am for the first time in many years, hyped for a video game :)

Glebee · 21-07-2023 1:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120879500#Comment_120879500

Same as that BG1 was my first real PC game I think. Remember buying it and it came in a massive box, still have it somewhere in a suit case of old games. PC I had would not run it so had to try to upgrade. Loved all the BG games along with the Icewind Dale games as well. Played through that Sword Coast Legends recently enough and enjoyed it.

Icyseanfitz · 21-07-2023 2:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120879582#Comment_120879582

bg 1+2 and the icewind dale games are some of my all time favourite games, never played that sword coast legends, any good? ive been trying to replay bg2 before 3 releases but it aint happening :D its just too big with a 1 year old running riot in the house

johnny_ultimate · 21-07-2023 2:28pm

A tad disappointed there's no crossplay co-op - would've liked to play on PC (feels like the natural home for this sort of thing), but have a few friends keen to play who are all on PS5 so will hold off and wait for that version instead.

Glebee · 21-07-2023 3:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120879907#Comment_120879907

I definitely enjoyed Sword Coast Legends, worth a play through. Reviews were mediocre at the time but I liked it enough to play it throug. Seem to recall something about it being removed from Steam, don't know if it can be got anymore.

Glebee · 03-08-2023 6:01pm

Anyone pick up full release today? No way I'm paying €60 for it though, sort of game though that might not drop much in price.

Icyseanfitz · 03-08-2023 7:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120935767#Comment_120935767

Bought it yesterday, can't wait to get into it 🙂

blackwave · 03-08-2023 9:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120935767#Comment_120935767

Picked it up in pre access, which I wouldn't usually do. You can see from their panel from hell videos that it was a labour of love for them, so was happy to support them.

Icyseanfitz · 03-08-2023 9:20pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqezPwk3vW0&ab_channel=ACG

one of the few reviewers i trust seems to love it

Kiith · 04-08-2023 11:17am

General concensus is its another fantastic release from Larian. Can't wait to play.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120935767#Comment_120935767

Isn't this the exact kind of game we should be willing to pay €60 for? No microtransations, proper early access, really open comms from the developers etc...? I'd say we should be rewarding this kind of release, at least compared to how most games are these days.

I've not gotten it yet, but only cause i'm away this weekend. Monday off and plan to get stuck right into it.

Retr0gamer · 04-08-2023 12:17pm

Yeah I don't get the complaint about price. This one looks like a massive game with insane amounts of content.

Icyseanfitz · 04-08-2023 2:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120938331#Comment_120938331

100%, great to see a fully released game with no bs

degrassinoel · 04-08-2023 2:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120935767#Comment_120935767

bought it for the full whack in 2020, lashed a hundred hours into the first act on two different characters, i was so impressed back then, i gave up (same year)knowing that i'd make the first act stale for myself with the full release. Started again yesterday and already have 8 hours played on a human rogue, though i am glad i quit when i did in 2020. I'd strongly suggest paying the full whack for it if crpg's are your cuppa tae.

Larian did a f**kin great job on it.

brady12 · 04-08-2023 4:18pm

Id love play but iv never played a larian or d & d so I would be lost id say

Kiith · 04-08-2023 7:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120939689#Comment_120939689

You don't really need to know d&d, or have played other Larian games.

There's also an easy mode, where the rules don't matter much outside of "high numbers good".

If you like rpgs, you'll like this.

Retr0gamer · 05-08-2023 8:26am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120939689#Comment_120939689

If you can play a bioware or Bethesda game you'll be grand.

Glebee · 05-08-2023 8:28am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120935767#Comment_120935767

So much for not buying, installing at the moment. Off work for the next week so why not I suppose, Have played all the Baldurs Gate / Icewind Dale style games over the years and reviews of BG3 seem great.

DeSelby83 · 05-08-2023 10:00am

I played Divinity 2 on switch and while I enjoyed it a lot of it I couldn't really get on with the combat, not sure why but I seemed to have some sort of mental block and found it very difficult.

ballyargus · 05-08-2023 9:27pm

I can say as a die hard fan of the old ones that this is excellent. Strong Divinity OS 2 vibes - which is no bad thing either. I paid 60 for it in early access, never got into early access play - felt it went on far too long (3 years) - but they've delivered something very polished.

Glebee · 05-08-2023 10:43pm

I spend 30 minutes trying to creature a new character before suddenly saying in going for a pint, i like it already before even starting, usually go for warrior think im going to try something different.

Varik · 05-08-2023 11:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120944563#Comment_120944563

You can multi class in this, somethings are like 0 level stuff so if you start with that class you get them but if you choose it later you won't. You need set stats to choose them, so the Fighter starting class could pick barbarian later. Multiclassing isn't always good as you might be better off going straight with a class, or getting end level stuff or subclasses by sticking with one.

You can also respec and change everything except race & background for 100 gold, you just need to find this guy at the very start once you're on the beach.

Vicxas · 06-08-2023 7:50am

Bought it on release. Started the game and in my first tough fight I thought it weird I only had 3 party members so I restarted.

turns out I completely missed someone by pure chance. That’s why I love Larian

brady12 · 06-08-2023 9:05am

Kiith and retrogamer ye convinced me 😅 Will download it today . Might as well chance it especially when I have a steam deck .

Sephiroth_dude · 06-08-2023 9:11am

Decided to take a punt on it as well, we should all team up and do some co-op.

Icyseanfitz · 06-08-2023 9:45am

Basically a boards DnD 🤣

Icyseanfitz · 06-08-2023 10:41pm

Just met a certain red devil, I swear it was the best character animation/voice acting Ive seen in a game, simply amazing.

blackwave · 11-08-2023 7:23am

Just through a good chunk of goblin camp and just slowly sniping of goblins with sneak attacks etc. One thing I love about it is the different way to go through encounters, you can go straight in and fight or just sneakily try pick off as many enemies before they initiate combat is cool. Karlach is crazy overpowered for me, the ring of throwing and Tavern brawler feat at level 4 combined with throwing the returning pike is a lot of fun one shotting enemies or taking a big chunk of health from bosses.

El Gato De Negocios · 12-08-2023 11:00am

Never played the predecessors but the review in the Guardian has piqued my interest. Would this be something like Witcher 3 or similar?

Icyseanfitz · 12-08-2023 11:51am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120968613#Comment_120968613

More like dragon age or mass effect with character interactions, combat is a bit more like XCOM in that it's turn based.

Sephiroth_dude · 13-08-2023 11:53am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120968613#Comment_120968613

Never played any of the previous games either and decided to take a punt on it and I'm really enjoying it. Only other game I can think of that is similar to this that I've played is wasteland 3 which I really enjoyed. I'm playing on the easiest difficulty and its been fine so far, very easy to miss things though.

Andrew76 · 14-08-2023 4:25pm

I find myself watching YT videos about it even though I'm not a fan of turn based combat and don't know much about D&D (bought Divinity 2 but never got around to playing it). But I think I'll still pick this up once they release a patch that supports FSR 2 (supposedly coming next month).

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