Baldur's Gate 3 @lemmy.world stopthatgirl7 @kbin.social 11 mo. ago

'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3

www.pcgamer.com 'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3

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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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.
Truly the best cRPG ever made. It surpasses even the golden age of the Infinity Engine.
- 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.
  
  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.
I'm making a note here, huge success.
- It is hard to overstate my satisfaction.
- It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
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.
- 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
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  Some of us spend a truly ridiculous amount of time making different characters. I have a problem.
  
  Lol I am probably doing things you are not. I will go through a place with my team, then swap out my team with different people and go talk to everyone with the new team. I got talk with dead today so I went around the areas again to talk to dead people. They have some great info sometimes. I also been working on selling and upgrading the equipment of the whole time. Oh, and I got level 4 and saved and tried a few different choices before making my final choice.
  
  And there are still mysteries and locked doors I am figuring out. And the books are interesting and funny to read too.
  
  I am really enjoying all the detail of this game. But I haven't found the meadows you are talking about.😁
  
  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.
Fargo was in charge of Interplay back when Baldur's Gate was made.

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