Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

I'm going for the early access. Hardcore for me might be like 3 hours a night at this point.
25 hours or so of gameplay is a good enough chunk to justify playing it.

Dashel said:

Anyone else hyped for this. I haven't played a PC game in a while. or any game really.
I have a GeForce GTX 1080. Its 3 years old at this point but I think it should still do the job yeah?

I know it's above minimum spec or even recommended but I'd like it to run smoothly with at least some eye candy on.

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Ya man.. i have a 1070 still and nothing I can't max.

Meh. For all of those people thinking that the people over there at WOTC have some great R&D dept, I have three words for you. Sword Coast Legends. I'm not saying that this game will be anything like that. In fact, I'm hoping that, if it's anything like DOS:2, it'll be actually good.

But jeezus.

If anyone wants to multi-player this let me know i would be down

Utnayan said:

Yep - I just don't like the trend. Want to do an EA and we all test your game and ggive feedback? Give us a financial incentive to do so. We are basically paying full price for a game at this point now and while some won't do anything but play it, they will still be generating crash logs off those folks and still not have 70% of the game there. Should bring the price down to $39.99 from $59.99 for those willing to help and play an incomplete game knowing full well they will run into the issues they did the last half of DOS2.

Also, agree with Cal once more. WoTC doesn't give a shit. They have not given a shit - for a long time.

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i mean it's a much better alternative to to GaaS. they spend years developing a game with no revenue. putting a game out for EA allows a developer to extend the amount of time they can continue polishing it before "release" without gouging the audience with MTX.

i also saw an article a while back that said based on steam stats, the vast majority of players don't play more than 25% of a game's story. it absolutely makes sense that developers frontload their polish

Fuck, you need an article to tell you that? All that I've looked at is one game's stats. The Witcher 3. Look up Family Counselor in your achievement list. Only 45.4% of players have found the Baron's Wife & Daughter. Everything beyond that is all downhill from there. It doesn't matter how polished a game's front end is. The Witcher 3 is polished af. But for some reason, only half of the players got done with one of the first story quests that were presented.

EDIT : I'm sorry if this comes off as sounding "edgelord"-ey. I'm just bleh. Didn't have enough coffee this morning, I guess.

One aspect I LIKE about EA is how it leverages a communities' most insane members. Early Access combined with community engagement guarantees that any great game idea gets playtested like crazy by the autists. Hades is an incredible game that I didn't buy till launch. But it is clear that it had some passionate playtesting, far beyond would they could have done inhouse. I don't think the complexity and interactions across Hades weapons/powers could possibly be pressed without a fleet of addicted basement nerds. The flip side is promises never delivered. There are plenty of corpses of shells of ideas and weak promises, but that is a weakness of EA that just comes with the strengths.

I rarely play anything in early access, when I do, I want the game to survive to launch and I'm ok with my partial purchase.

BG3 is a game that I don't mind having act 1 playtested over some insane man hours. Where the hyper pationate will report everything from spelling errors, bugs, to overpowered interactions that were never thought of. The finished product will be far better for EA utilized well. Larian doesn't need to launch this game to survive. They have swam in their own ideas and money. They aren't beholded to WotC for the future here, but they have massive incentive to hit his out of the park. I think the only way to push a game as expansive as I hope BG3 turns out to be is through having it played so many more times than would ever be possible inhouse. The purchase invests testers in a way free beta testers wouldn't be. Any game I've ever beta'd that felt like shit I just didn't play again.

I think what it really comes down to is this. "Is the company gonna use the early access money wisely? Are they going to complete the features that the beta testers (because, let's face it, that's really what early access is) mentioned?"

Or are they gonna fuck off with the money and pay themselves, thereby swindling everybody? *cough*pantheon*cough*

Hateyou said:

I’m not doing EA with this one. I did with OS2 and it burned me out of the beginning and I still can’t get far without stopping. I’ve never beaten it. I’ll play this after it’s out and patched up.

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Usually I'd never consider EA for a story driven game, but same decision either way - and if the reviews are even a little lukewarm, I'll just wait for the "Finisheditive Edition"

They are saying over a year after tmw for the full version.. that 60 up front is looking more annoying now ...

Izo said:

Wonder how it'll run on ps4.

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hopefully not like PoE

After you send the meal back a half dozen times to get it prepared right.