Anyone else playing this? It’s still early, but I’m already pretty sure this will not only be my game of the year but also one of my favorite games of all time. Larian impressed me a lot with Divinity: Original Sin, but this is just a masterpiece so far. Also, it has cross save, so you can play on PC and then move up to five saves over to PS5 via the cloud when that version comes out (although you have to buy both versions to do that).
Yeah I played this for about 12 hours during the EA period, and started my "real" save last night. I initially encountered a number of pretty frustrating bugs, but I should have all of that behind me now. I'm looking forward to really diving in and getting my RPG on.
I'm doing a Human Druid and am going to lean into nature magic. I've already got about 6 characters/playstyles in my head to try on my next playthroughs.
> I've been at the character creation screen for over 2 hours ... this is too much!
lol there's so many options... I just had to go with a character I've played before and I'm having so much fun. Plus your party grows and you get to play more characters anyway.
After hour 3, I bailed. I'll be back. Just analysis paralysis after getting lost in reading.
Largely set on going Warlock, I thjnk.
I've been putting off Burning Shores and Hogwarts. BG3 may sit just a bit longer as I'm assuming it will become amazing and hijack my time aggressively.
I spent probably 10hrs on it yesterday and I struggled to be pulled off of it. I want to play it today but alas I got to work. I might still find some time while at my store... lol
So far the only thing I really dislike is some of the camera angles and the way you move around on the map. I mean, it works best probably (point and click) but I find it clunky, sometimes I click in places and my characters run around randomly. Sometimes I move and my party doesn't follow even though they just did and it's weird. Some bugs I guess. But even with those annoyances I am loving the hell out of this, the story and the combat is really fun for turn based gaming.
I'm having fun with my Rogue. I'm wanting to go back and have an evil play through after this though. I just started Act 2 and am about 50 hours in. I missed stuff from the first area too...
Casting is fun, but you have party members to fill that need. So in the end it really doesn't matter what character you build since you have a party of 4. I'm even enjoying playing the cleric and that's boring AF in a real game.
Had my first super frustrating moment. Chapter 1. No spoilers but basically there is a burning building and figuring out how to get the person out was based on pure luck if I was able to pick a 18 difficulty lock. I think the area was bugged out or something
So far i've put in 43.6 hours on the game and i'm loving every bit of it, i'm still in the first chapter exploring everything i can. The game still have some bugs i'm hoping in time they will work out but nothing game breaking. But if you get the bug where your UI disappears just do a quick save and then a quick load and that will fix it (depending on what keys you have set for each). I've taken care of everything i can find on the main land upto the pass, so now i'm exploring the underdark. Lots of lore to find, read all the books if you can, even if the title seems worthless it may contain knowledge you can use later.
Also you'll find books that reference BG1&2 characters and quests so those are fun reads.
One feature I miss from BG1&2 that is not in 3 is the ability to pause. I know the game is turn based and all "Roll for Initiative". But one does miss having a couple wizards in your party opening with double fireball on a group of enemies to start a fight. :)
Oh and Oil of Speed is your friend in tough fights.
For real. I just got bitten in the foot by a squirrel for being on its territory and negotiated a compromise to pass through as long as I didn’t bother anything. There are so many random little details.
It really does seem like EVERY choice and action matters. I've read some spoilers and some playthroughs are so unimaginably different. This game is going to keep me busy for 100 years I feel like.
I just pre ordered the PS5 deluxe edition. I noticed it has local 2 player mode? That'll slap if I can co-op with my husband and 2 NPCs... or even my 9yr old. He's loving watching me play (but I have had to avoid all the sex scenes) lol
I thought I was about to have the final battle but there's more. I was saving it and hoping to finish yesterday so I could start a dark urge game but no, there's more. lol. This game is just vast. I plan on having all new companions next play through if possible. I know some have morals unfortunately. I guess we'll see what happens.
Can't wait to play this. I think I am done with Diablo, Just can't get into it like I did 3. Maybe I will get D2 or something. But Baulders Gate 3 is a must!
The evil play throughs are pretty brutal. Like... some crap people are having issues doing and turn good, lol. My current character is somewhere in the middle.
Dark Urge playthrough is wild. I actually made two saves so I can play the character on a redemption arc verses completely evil. (Since you lose companions while going all out evil.) I haven't hit that yet but I haven't had time to play this week due to work.
Just got to Act II and am 39 hours in. There is so much to do in this game, and I’m already curious about the paths I didn’t take. (I alienated one potential party member and killed another. There’s also one member who I realized I just lost and couldn’t find again. I can easily imagine how things would be very different with a different set of party members.). I’m playing a high elf wizard who started out mostly good but now is going fairly evil (with occasional good acts to keep one party member from leaving).
It's easy for one character to just stop following you which is annoying. I spent around 80hrs in act 1 in my first play through and even with that, one my second play through just about everything I encountered was quite different (but the overall story was the same, except I still chose different options so got other options.)
We haven't started a co op play through on PS5 yet (no time) but I'm still playing on PC and barely through Act 2 on my 2nd play. Things are about to get super evil and point of no return. I gotta stick it out no matter how bad it is I guess. lol
I'm on the final bits of act 2 and absolutely adore this game. I'd guess my primary character has about 60 hours on it.
I did not expect anything to rival Tears of the Kingdom this year, but Baldur's Gate is definitely getting close.
I'm super excited to start my second playthrough so I can do everything differently. I've considered doing an evil playthrough but playing as the bad guy always hurts my soul too much to keep it up.
Why oh why do cutscenes trigger on the nearest ally and not always on your player character? Has anyone else encountered this? I’ve had it happen twice and it’s annoying as hell having to restart a combat encounter and work on making sure my character is close enough to the NPC when combat ends. I don’t want to make choices using one of my companions!
50 hours in and just finished act 1. I’m speechless. I haven’t been this obsessed with a game in a very, very long time. I have definitely spent more time playing this game than I have spent on actual work this past week lol.
Does anyone know if you can fully side with the bad guys? I tried to do an evil run, couldn't do some of it (just not that evil I guess) and am getting into act 3 now. I guess I'll have to try again next time. So much still left undone that I know I can do on another play through, lol.
I’m through act 1. My only complaint is the difficulty “curves” are strange. Pretty tough early, then too easy, then you feel pretty useless, then too easy again. I’m looking pretty closely at resistances etc but certain fights the rolls are way off it feels- don’t match up with ranges at all. Some of the “forced” M rated content is super corny / cringey and even a bit uncomfortable. More to the imagination would have been preferable for me.
@Feeb The difficulty definitely goes through some weird parts. I think being able to enter encounters at various stages of power makes the difficulty inconsistent. I'm a bit over leveled currently so the game seems easy, but I know I'm going to hit the level cap way before act 3 ends so I imagine enemies will have caught up to me by the time at the end of the game.
I don't think this is your problem, but if you feel that the rolls are weird, be sure to disable "Karmic Dice" from the options menu.
I've not seen much "Forced" m rated content, but that might be because I was going after shadowheart and she is a bit of a prude. Astarion and Gale were ready to jump my bones really early but i friendzoned them to focus on everyone's favorite priestess of Shar.
I had an encounter with a drow lady- it was a lil S&M a lil fellatio and a lil grudge F. It was a bit strange. Then the devil lady needs to drop f bombs a little much. That one feels like an attempt to connect with the cool kids.
What I meant is my rolls are not feeling like they add up despite no res etc. just feels like often it throws the rules out the window to make it “difficult.” Tactician mode. Otherwise it feels mostly fair and definitely cheeseable.
Nah if you ignore any sexual advances early on, you might never see M rated content. My first play through I ignored everyone's invitation at the party because my 9yr old was watching. Then never again did any opportunity ever present itself, lol.
Just picked this up today. Not sure I have ever spent this much time in a character creator. I haven't even gotten to the game yet. I keep over thinking and changing my mind. And then spending 30 minutes making something. Then changing it and spending another 30 doing something else. The indecision is killing me.
> Just picked this up today. Not sure I have ever spent this much time in a character
> creator. I haven't even gotten to the game yet. I keep over thinking and changing
> my mind. And then spending 30 minutes making something. Then changing it and spending
> another 30 doing something else. The indecision is killing me.
Ha! Same thing happened to me. Legit took me 3 hours to create my character. It was ridiculous lol. But thankfully they’ve now released an update that puts a magic mirror in your camp so you can change your character’s appearance in game.
This game is amazing so far. Its like Baldurs gate meets dragon age origins meets divinity original sin 2.
Also a question, no spoilers please. What was with me making a guarding? I'm only just over 4 hours in, so not that far. But it just dawned on me that I made them. And have yet to encounter them. I figured it would be right after the intro.
I still haven't decided which class to roll. I was originally going with a Lock, then a Sorc, then a Bard ... gotta just make a decision and commit. Yet, this is still behind on the backlog, gotta get through a couple more before I get set on this.
About to lose my entire weekend to this game. I have nothing to do/going on this weekend. So I'll most likely sit around and play this for 10 hours both days, lol. And still probably not get out of act 1.
Been a long time since a game has me taking hours to make a decision. And reloading saves to test the waters of all the choices to see which one I feel is more correct for my character. And even after hours, I still don't feel like any of them are the choice they would make. So I guess its just pick one and move on time.
The acting in this game is unreal. I don't want to just say its voice acting. Because its far more than that. Its on another level in this game. These all must be real actors, and not just your typical run of the mill voice actors. Because they are all bringing something to their delivery you just don't get from a standard voice actor in a video game. Its very impressive.
And sure enough, looking some of them up, they don't just do voice acting. They act in movies/tv shows and plays as well.
> The acting in this game is unreal. I don't want to just say its voice acting. Because
> its far more than that. Its on another level in this game. These all must be real
> actors, and not just your typical run of the mill voice actors. Because they are
> all bringing something to their delivery you just don't get from a standard voice
> actor in a video game. Its very impressive.
>
> And sure enough, looking some of them up, they don't just do voice acting. They act
> in movies/tv shows and plays as well.
Yeah man, the voice work is exceptional. I think the quality of the facial animations/expressions helps make the performances so believable and takes it to a whole new level.
I just remembered that when this game first came out on PC, everyone was talking about how it was nothing but sex and nudity everywhere. It became a meme. And all the jokes about sex starved gaming nerds. Yet, I'm at the end of act 2 and I've yet to see a single second of any of that stuff. Granted I'm not going out of my way to see it either. Which makes me think all those people went out of there way to find it. No one has hit on me or tried to fudge me. Its been very pg-13.
Was that really a thing? Weird. Because yeah you definitely have a choice in how your relationships with other characters evolve. And if you are seeing a bunch of sex/nudity then you are 100% looking for it. At least that was my experience. But @Archer you should have had a couple of people hit on you for sure or at least had interactions where your choices could lead down the “more than companions” path.
For me there was only 1 character I had any interest in romancing and it was a slow burn and it was handled really tastefully, imo. That’s so wild that people were saying it was just sex and nudity everywhere lol. I’ll have to look that up because that wasn’t my experience at all.
> Was that really a thing? Weird. Because yeah you definitely have a choice in how
> your relationships with other characters evolve. And if you are seeing a bunch of
> sex/nudity then you are 100% looking for it. At least that was my experience. But
> @Archer you should have had a couple of people hit on you for sure or at least had
> interactions where your choices could lead down the “more than companions” path.
For a while it was. It was the most content you would find about the game. Articles, youtube videos, memes on twitter and reddit. You don't see it anymore unless you look for it. But upon the PC versions release in August it was everywhere. It was hard to miss. I was not looking up stuff for the game, but I was made aware of it everywhere I went online.
As for being hit on and the romance stuff, I tend to not do that stuff unless I have to for a trophy to get the plat. Otherwise I pretty much ignore that stuff. And all the stuff for that in this game, save one character, is platonic stuff you can get out of the way early and doesn't lead to any romance dialogue from what I can tell. And I messed up being able to go on a date with karlach because somehow the game thinks I like shadowheart, who I actually can't stand. That may be from giving her the flower for the trophy. But there has been no romantic conversations between us. Nor have we spent time together. So I'll do that in my second playthrough for that trophy. I also never talk to or use the vampire guy, because I assumed he was evil and was going to save using him for my evil playthrough. But I also thought that about karlach and that wasn't the case there.
I’ve only encountered one moment that wasn’t expected or worked for- the barn scene. I thought they were fighting. I got a BJ from a drow too. Had to slaughter all my friends for that one.
> I’ve only encountered one moment that wasn’t expected or worked for- the barn
> scene. I thought they were fighting. I got a BJ from a drow too. Had to slaughter
> all my friends for that one.
That must be from the Drow chick that is a leader in the goblin camp? I just straight up murdered all of them when I got there. Didn't talk to any of them. It just felt like the right thing to do.
