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Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games
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Oblio
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I need more to go on, that description covers a third of our members and we still like most of them.
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Oblio
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Only the me I ever watched him was for a review of Monster Hunter.
Edit: thanks for the clarification!
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Ukerric
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The only time I heard about him was back when he was shilling for that Pantheon game scam.
Maul
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Yeah I'm just experiencing this now, missed the shadow heart sex scene in the water but somehow she's asking me about learning to swim now? I think it's because I banged mizora the night before and bugged the shit out of the game, Mizora was worth it though!
Act 3 feels like it's been made by a totally different company and I've stagnated on finishing because it's so unpolished.
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cyrusreij
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This is actually a step up for Larian! It is usually only Act 1 that is polished and the rest feels like a different game. This time they only made three acts and polished two of them. See, Progress!
TJT
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Well the bad marks for this game are (when compared to Baldur's Gate 1/2/TOB):
- Insufficient spread of companions. While the ones you get are mostly well done it is very clear they spent much more time on Astarion and Shadowheart compared to others. Lack of class spread is of course supplemented by reclassing being directly in the narrative. But you had a massive companion roster in the previous games. Yes some were more fleshed out than others there too.
- Inconsistency through the acts. Act 1 amazing, Act 2 really really good, Act 3... well it has issues. Old series was consistent beginning to end.
- 5E I was not too familiar with before playing it here. It definitely has problems. It feels very streamlined and lacks the complexities of previous editions. 2E and 3.5E will forever be near to my heart.
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TJT
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I will add that, while BG2 had but didn't use it in the base game, 5E would very much benefit from higher level complexity of Spell Contingency, Sequence, and so on. Gives the game design room to breathe in higher level encounters as you don't just have earthshattering spell drops on everything but can kind of play around it. Counterpsell here is a low complexity example of it.
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Probably, I think you could go slaughter everyone if you were so inclined. I'm sure some twitch dip shit has done it.
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Cinge
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I've seen a lot of solo videos. They just tell the companions to wait in camp. Sure most are just from act1, where people have it memorized. But I have seen some that go into later acts also.
The thing I noticed though is it requires basically carrying, using, switching out items constantly to get certain stats, spells, and do certain things. And probably a lot of save scumming, so you know when to switch in say str stat weapon, the int headband, dex gloves etc. Also knowing when you are about to go in combat and making sure you get the surprise for double turn or talking to get out of combat, then starting the fight afterwards for the surprise.
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Still dont like casters in this game.IMO they take way to fucking long to come online. YOure basically babysitting this dude until act 3 lol. And once they do, ok, they do AOE dmg is like the only thing they have going for them which is highly situational. Any properly built melee/thief/archer can dish out tons of dmg as well.
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Harshaw
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I rarely use aoe spells at all. Mostly loads of MM and Walls.
Speaking of AoE, I have finally ran into a bug/crash that I can replicate. Apparently this game, or my pc, really hates when you drop a Blade Barrier on top of other effects.. or at least burning ground.
