Creative forces behind series like Fallout, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, and Pillars of Eternity react to Baldur’s Gate 3.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah, this game is amazing. I don’t think I’ve been hooked by a game like this since City of Heroes lol.

    And I can change my class at any time for $100 gps? Not a batlepass perk or a $5 USD purchase in the Shop?

    Fawkin’ sold, kid.

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      I don’t know if I would go that far. It’s graphically superior to Planescape: Torment but that game was 5 Acts and had a better ending with more variation for the companions. The last really great DnD games used 2e, a vastly inferior system.

      That said BG3 is far and away the best story applied to 5e mechanics (though I do wish Larion had looked at Solasta for navigation and UI).

      The Owlcat Pathfinder games are the best examples of 3.5e/PF1e mechanics but have short comings in UI and navigation same as BG3.

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        but that game was 5 Acts

        Are you implying that because the game had more acts it is in some way better? PS:T has been my #1 game for decades so I’m not exactly disparaging it here, but this argument is ridiculous. A PS:T completion takes probably 50-70 hours tops, depending on your reading speed. I’m 2/3 of the way through bg3 at 80+ hours… More acts does not equal more content or better content.

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    Fun reading the options and remarks of these other game makers. I skipped the part about the spoiler in act 1. I have played probably 40 hours now and I am not sure I have even reached the middle of act 1.

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      Act 1 took me around 20 and I was being careful to look everywhere and search everything, if it’s taken you 40 are you spending a lot of time just standing in the meadows?

      Edit: character creation shouldn’t be counted as part of act 1 guys, I spent an hour or two there as well but that’s not act 1. Act 1 starts when you’re on the beach, that’s the area you’re in until you hit the bubble saying you’re progressing are you sure

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        I spent a whole play session changing classes and choosing a sub class for multiple characters a couple of days ago. So I can see it lol

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          Oh my God, a few nights back I had three hours to play and just spent it respecting everyone and playing with their gear. And by everyone, I mean everyone. Even the people I have not had in my active party outside like a quest or two.

          “Hmm, should this Act 3 companion go Ranger 8 / Barb 4? How best do I build them to dual weild? Which swords should they get? Let me change my party so I can see what everyone else has.”

          I beat the game two nights later only using the characters I ran essentially the whole game with. But honestly, I love messing with builds. The fact that we can just do it all the time to try something new or min-max just a little bit more (“hey, I just got a permanent bump to my main stat, let’s see if I can rework everything to up a bonus somewhere…”) is such a great feature.

          Really glad they added respec and multiclassing, it’s going to extend the life of the game for me for sure.

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            Every time I level up, I spend the time to make sure everyone is too. It takes a while, but I can plug and play them all. I still run my main group of my Paladin/Bard, Shadowheart, Karlach, and Lae’Zel most of the time, though.

            Plus, making Gale learn all the scrolls I’ve squirrled away took a while.

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              Tip for making Gale(or any wizard) learn scrolls. If you open up his spell book, then is a small button that opens a new menu(I think it is an open book with a flame, it is early in the morning for me), and it lists all the scrolls you can learn that you have, tick all the boxes, and then the pay the money. Took me 1 minute to spend over 3000 gold learning spells.

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            1 year ago

            Don’t feel bad at all. An hour spent respecing and rebuilding your characters saves more time that would be spent on reloading.

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        Act 1 is everything up to the Shadowlands. There are more the 20hrs of cutscenes for this. Did you skip the Creche or the Underdark? Each is probably 10+hrs a peace.

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          Ah I didn’t consider the crèche as act 1 I guess and the under dark doesn’t really take that long even exploring all of it unless you have a tough time in combat or making decisions

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          I don’t count character creation as part of act 1, that’s entirely before any part of the story starts

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        I thought I spend 50 hours in act 1 because it’s not very clear where Act 1 actually ends, but it’s a lot sooner than one might initially think. Mostly because you have several options that may even skip a big part of act 1, so you don’t get to see the crescendo moment.