Baldur's Gate III Announced - ...and it's coming to Google Stadia and PC

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I thought Larian was done with BG3 and cut ties with Hasbro, are they just patching the game on their own? I respect it if so. Haven't played since August so there's been a decent amount of bug fixes since then, doing some honor mode right now.

Shiversblood said:
I thought it was really cool How Roah Moonglow shows up later alive in a different area and still sells stuff if you spare her life by leaving the goblin camp before finishing everybody off.
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When you kill Dror or otherwise make the goblin camp hostile she and her guards should start walking out, same with the priest Abdirak the priest but you never see him again. What I always did was get the priestess into her room and try to one shot her with an ambush, then go take care of Minthara, then go kill Dror and by the time I make it to the south part of the temple she's gone. Maybe if you're too close to her when the goblins get aggressive she becomes hostile instead of leaving, not 100% sure on that.

It sucks missing out on her act 2 stock cause she's got some nice stuff, and then in act 3 she's replaced by a very generic NPC with little dialogue, not that Roah does a whole lot more but she has more lines and interactions at least.
 
Hiphopopotamus said:
I thought Larian was done with BG3 and cut ties with Hasbro, are they just patching the game on their own? I respect it if so. Haven't played since August so there's been a decent amount of bug fixes since then, doing some honor mode right now.
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I believe this is one of the last major patches aside from bug fixes. Two of the biggest highlights are the fleshing out of an evil epilogue as well as letting you apply Honor Mode rules to custom sessions (Legendary Actions, etc...)
 
TragicTiming said:
I believe this is one of the last major patches aside from bug fixes. Two of the biggest highlights are the fleshing out of an evil epilogue as well as letting you apply Honor Mode rules to custom sessions (Legendary Actions, etc...)
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I saw those parts, I just wasn't sure if Larian was continuing development or they were just patching up the game.
So far honor mode hasn't been much more difficult for me, but looking into the gameplay changes it was a lot of cheesing mechanics I never relied on, like bladelock or damage riders, but the save limit is annoyingly always in the back of my mind.
 
MajinGoku said:
How many updates for bg3 are left?

Im still pissed that we arent getting dlc
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I think this patch is the last major patch they're going to do. If Hasbro wasn't so fucking retarded we might've gotten a BG3 "definitive" edition or whatever that finally added upper city and fleshed out more of the companion quests.
 
Hiphopopotamus said:
I think this patch is the last major patch they're going to do. If Hasbro wasn't so fucking retarded we might've gotten a BG3 "definitive" edition or whatever that finally added upper city and fleshed out more of the companion quests.
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seriously fuck hasbro for not letting larian finish this masterpiece. Fallout new vegas was cucked by bethseda and the same thing is going to happen again. Why cant companies learn to give their ip to other companies who will do a better job.
 
MajinGoku said:
seriously fuck hasbro for not letting larian finish this masterpiece. Fallout new vegas was cucked by bethseda and the same thing is going to happen again. Why cant companies learn to give their ip to other companies who will do a better job.
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Seriously, why did Hasbro not let Larian finish this game? I remember there was some drama a while back between the two, but I can't remember what happened; something to do with Hasbro not paying enough money? Or maybe creative control issues?
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Seriously, why did Hasbro not let Larian finish this game? I remember there was some drama a while back between the two, but I can't remember what happened; something to do with Hasbro not paying enough money? Or maybe creative control issues?
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Knowing the retards in charge of WotC it was probably some dipshit that let Larian's success go to their head and went in to make all sorts of retarded demands. Stuff like asking for 70% on all profits, tranny bullshit and to shut down any thoughts of modding support to help with whatever shit virtual tabletop they're going to push out. I'm sure someone got a bug up their butt that they made a lot of solid improvements to 5e in general.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Seriously, why did Hasbro not let Larian finish this game? I remember there was some drama a while back between the two, but I can't remember what happened; something to do with Hasbro not paying enough money? Or maybe creative control issues?
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Knowing Larian it's 100% the latter. Money isn't an issue for them since Divinity: OS2 runaway success and even more so with BG3 on their cap.

One has to wonder what sort of retarded demand WOTC tried to force on Larian.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Seriously, why did Hasbro not let Larian finish this game? I remember there was some drama a while back between the two, but I can't remember what happened; something to do with Hasbro not paying enough money? Or maybe creative control issues?
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From what I recall directly from my brain with no research whatsoever, Hasbro likes to make profits quarterly and will fire existing staff and hire noobs to work for cheaper, it's short-sighted stuff like that which can work if you're just selling plastic toys but with a work of pure art like BG3? Wasteful. Completely wasteful.

This next patch better fix the letters between Gortash and Franc Peartree or I may riot.
 
Kane Lives said:
One has to wonder what sort of retarded demand WOTC tried to force on Larian.
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Well, their fix to the OGL might have been such a bad move (which happened close to the end of development iirc) that it soured relations going forward.

I would suspect that WOTC-Hasbro insisted on shoving a bunch of microtransactions into the game, the exact thing that it was praised for not having. That has been WOTC's bread and butter with the way they've tried to monetize MTG and especially Arena.
 
There is an NPC Visual Overhaul (WIP) - NPC VO on nexus that prettifies many npcs. Even the butch lesbo looks way better. It is an asian mod so some of the males look a bit k-pop but you can choose and select parts.
 
Male Idiot said:
There is an NPC Visual Overhaul (WIP) - NPC VO on nexus that prettifies many npcs. Even the butch lesbo looks way better. It is an asian mod so some of the males look a bit k-pop but you can choose and select parts.
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Saw that today, the author was made a very good decision not to have an open comment section.
 
I remember Larian saying that by the time they finished BG3 none of their contacts at Hasbro/WOTC worked there anymore. I'm sure all these companies being run by retard boomers that only thing "profit and growth" every quarter with zero concerns for quality or retaining loyal customers didn't help.

Male Idiot said:
There is an NPC Visual Overhaul (WIP) - NPC VO on nexus that prettifies many npcs. Even the butch lesbo looks way better. It is an asian mod so some of the males look a bit k-pop but you can choose and select parts.
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Here is a link to it (Archive just in case) if anyone wants to see this disaster.
I've selected a few prime examples of brainrot tranny shit before I stopped looking:
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This game... I like this game well enough. It's fine. But I cannot understand the abject praise this thing gets. It's nothing I haven't played before. I will say that the game is extremely pretty and the various settings are designed well. The maps are a lot of fun to explore. The everything else is... it's fine. Maybe I am just burnt out on this genre; the 90s and early 2000s were good years for the PC RPG. I think it is mostly just me. I'm running around in the early parts of Act III right now and I'm sort of bored and trying to get through stuff for the sake of not having to do it anymore.

Between this and Cyberpunk (both of which I got around to playing this year) I really don't know where I fit in this hobby anymore. I see heaps and heaps of praise and then I play the game and all I can think about are much simpler (maybe this is the wrong word) games that delivered a much more engrossing and fun experience decades earlier.

Do they have stats on how many people beat Baldur's Gate III? Because by the time I got to that goblin camp in Act I, I was saying to myself that there was no way in hell people finished this game. I'm going to hazard a guess and say that a solid 80% of people that bought this game never finished it. I just don't see it happening.

But I am going to finish it! It's good enough and I am sure that the developers put some really cool stuff in the final bit of the story. I would absolutely recommend that people give this game a try; and then I would recommend that people go play the first game or Neverwinter Nights with the expansions or even Dungeon Siege for something a little different. I know I know there are a dozen great, old RPGs I could have named but those are the ones I picked and I left Planescape Torment out just to piss you off. Yes, you.

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I remember them saying they would have limited console mod support at some point. Is it safe to say that's not happening?
 
IrishGuy088 said:
This game... I like this game well enough. It's fine. But I cannot understand the abject praise this thing gets. It's nothing I haven't played before. I will say that the game is extremely pretty and the various settings are designed well. The maps are a lot of fun to explore. The everything else is... it's fine. Maybe I am just burnt out on this genre; the 90s and early 2000s were good years for the PC RPG. I think it is mostly just me. I'm running around in the early parts of Act III right now and I'm sort of bored and trying to get through stuff for the sake of not having to do it anymore.
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The only reason people praise this game is because the quality of games these days are so low that something average is now seen as amazing. I've seen people praise it for having "a brand new" dialog system because they didn't use the dialog wheel Bioware came out with or for having turn based combat instead of pure action. All they did was just copy the stuff that was already there they did a fine job at it but it's nothing we haven't seen before. That plus the weird sex crap. It's not even the best rpg released in 2023 so it's totally laughable that people claim it the best of all time.
IrishGuy088 said:
Do they have stats on how many people beat Baldur's Gate III? Because by the time I got to that goblin camp in Act I, I was saying to myself that there was no way in hell people finished this game. I'm going to hazard a guess and say that a solid 80% of people that bought this game never finished it. I just don't see it happening.
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I don't know about beating the game but here's a news article claiming that under 50% of players made it past act one.
 
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