I still have to find the time to complete this game one day.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I think the biggest draw toward BG3 is the replay-ability!
I think I had 200+ hr on my first play through, but I made decisions, that I won't say for spoiler reasons, that cut off multiple entire story lines that I have read are another ~80hrs + of playtime! Super cool, in my opinion.
The players actions CHANGE the world, many games have strived for this, although few have achieved. BG3 achieved!
I had completely discounted ever playing a story-driven game like an RPG in early access. And now I've played BG3, and I know there's enough systemic nonsense that I'll be lined up for day 1 of their early access for their next game.
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It deserves it. It's not a perfect game, but it's a hell of a good one and it is incredibly satisfying to play.
My biggest gripe is that save scumming often feels absolutely necessary because you'll unknowingly get yourself into situations that you just can't push through without reloading or your whole party dying.
A good DM knows that games are most fun when the party barely scrapes by, but doesn't die until the end game. If they could have implemented some sort of dynamic difficulty that adjusted background rolls and enemy decisions to keep the player pushing forward, it would have felt much more satisfying.
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Just gonna hang back for that first big price drop.
Honestly it's worth it at full price.
Probably, but that's a lot of money that I don't really have to spend.
Definitely BG3 earns the rare title of 'a complete game' and presents a great experience.
It's not that rare. You just have to expand your horizons beyond the AAA games with the most marketing.
That's a fair counter. Indie games definitely hit above their weight class more often. But for a project of this scale it's refreshing.
Agreed. This is one of those situations where I actually want to vote with my wallet if I can. They made a stellar game, it want them to make a shitload of money. That's the only way we're going to get another game of BG3 quality.
This is one of those situations where I actually want to vote with my wallet if I can.
I pirated this game, and after about 4 hours I bought it at full price for that exact reason.
It's worth it full price. On GOG. Play it with a 4 player party on one copy. Then buy more copies once there is a sale / once you want to support the devs.
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4% of people are completely uncultured and don't realize "You can literally talk to animals!"
You can do other things with animals too.
Don't tell the forums that, they're convinced it's an unplayable woke government ops pathetic remake zoophilia kissing simulator insult to d&d. It's got so many bugs you can't play it on anything short of a super computer, and is targeting children with it's addicting gameplay and low system requirements.
Every day there's a new 3 page screed expanding each of the above adjectives into paragraphs of garbage. Yet somehow most of the authors don't own the game, and it's has a overwhelmingly positive rating...
Lemmy is the opposite. Don't dare criticize or say you dislike BG3 or else they will come for you.
Video game forums are always garbage.
But partially in their defense, it makes my 4070 work and the only other time it gets that warm is when I'm running stable diffusion on it constantly.
It did have a "literally unplayable" save deletion bug on Xbox until recently. I just waited for them to fix it before spending my money.
I played 100+ hours on Xbox before that was patched and never had a problem so "literally unplayable" is really a bit much.
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I love BG3 as a video game, but I feel like Hasbro is going to take a lot of the ideas and try their best to translate them into the trrpg space and shittify both on the way through.
I mean, my partner and I actually did stop our play through because it was too buggy and it was effecting our enjoyment. Been meaning to get back to it after all the patches, but like... It was pretty buggy around launch by my standards.
Act 3 is pretty janky at times and they seriously need to give you vertical camera controls (xcom figured this out like 15 years ago!) but it’s still a fantastic game. Lots of valid critiques, but still a great game
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Don’t tell the forums that, they’re convinced it’s an unplayable woke government ops
This is far too many Steam forums lately, and I don't know why or what hurt these people. If you ask the Steam forums, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League failed because it went woke and hired some diversity consultancy firm that only these people know the name of and hold up as the antichrist.
You mean to say that you didn't already know what Sweet Baby Inc. ~~really weird name by the way~~ is before some chuds declared them to be the biggest bad influence to human culture?
Right. I'm afraid to start googling for the answer, but I suspect there's an Alex Jones type, or the equivalent that cares about video games, basically painting them as the George Soros of video games.
You don't leave a detailed review unless you want to support the artist in question or you fucking hated it so much that you would take the time to warn others away or you want to be intentionally confrontational and act like a troll. In a huge game like bg3 or Suicide Squad the artist support is fractured at best so all your left with is the bile
These aren't the reviews, they're the forums. Used to be you could ask a question and get an answer from a fan or often times the developers. Now it's just people crying about games being "woke", as though that word actually means anything anymore, even in a game as near-universally beloved as BG3. But you can find the same thing happening in Starfield, Suicide Squad, or even Skullgirls.
Forums have always had losers and trolls dwelling there, the issue is the helpful people went elsewhere like discord, reddit, and the fediverse.
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