Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

Pro tip: At some point in the game (prior to act 2), you can enter a chair in the mountain pass area to potentially cure the parasite. If you do...

I’m really liking the OST but….

Played this for an hour and requested a refund. I really wanted to like this but holy shit its so slow moving for a video game. And not very fun playing alone. I forgot how much I dislike click to move games nowadays.

Nola said:

I was reading an article that there is probably no plans for an expansion for BG3 which makes really sad. I’m loving this game. The article said the reason being that it may be impossible to balance the game at higher levels. The higher level spells are really powerful like Power Word Kill, Foresight and Wish. I can’t even imagine how in the hell they would incorporate Wish into the game.

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TJT said:

I don't know if any of you read the CRPG blog thread or if you remember from old BG2.

BG2 had an extremely autistic and deep amount of spell triggers, protections, and so on. But its very complex and the base game doesn't make use of it. But mods do. There's this whole ecosystem of difficulty where the game becomes about identifying and correctly stripping protections off of high level casters so you can ace them.

All of that existed within the 3E ruleset too. Which is just another reason why it was so remarkable for it's time.

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Yeah I'm totally with you on this. I'm wondering if WoTC wouldn't want an expansion because they know 5e high level play is borked. The things Larian would have to do to "fix" it would probably be substantial.

There were great ways to get around a lot of it though. Did you know Mustard Jellies had a 100% Magic Resistance, and you could polymorph into one? Imagine being a high level wizard and some guy turns into yellow slime and beats the shit out of you while you helplessly throw spells at him?

Imagine being a mighty Shadow Dragon and getting laid low by a pile of animated goop.

Cybsled said:

Pro tip: At some point in the game (prior to act 2), you can enter a chair in the mountain pass area to potentially cure the parasite. If you do...

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get the fuck out of the chair as soon as possible if you use it at all, don't do the saving throws at all if you can help it. I tried to make some saving throws. While I won the throws, it gave me perma stat loss every time. You literally get brain damage, it's not worth it lol. I played for an hour after that until I noticed I had more negatives on saving throws than usual, then I saw the debuff

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Success can be pretty nice though:

i havent read a post on this.

I love it and im 2.5 hours in. I went brd like a basic bitch and its so fun. But Im worried on group comp and might need to re roll a tank

That said, great stuff. But damn they went so far on the new lore nad shit

Im not up to date. I played BG1 and 2 for thousands of hours as a teen. Now instead of bandits im fighting 2 bosses fghting each other while i crash a space ship?

They talking spelljammers and im like where is Candlekeep? Tribor trail>

Has there ever been a worse group of NPC party members

Do you want the gay guy or the gay guy or the lesbian lady or the gay guy or the racist lady

I haven't been really been helplessly obsessed with a game like I was with the original BG games and some of the others in years, and ive always assumed its just because I grew out of it. I figured it was just one of those things you can only do when you're a kid. Nope. Apparently it wasn't me, it's just that no one has put out a game of this caliber in a loooong time.

I caught myself looking at the clock last night at 1am thinking "Man, I've got to sleep. Maybe I'll play just a few more mintutes..." Next thing I know it's 4am. Fuck. It's been 20 years since that happened.