Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

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Fadaar

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Evil playthrough makes some encounters easier and some harder.

Act 2 is harder. You need to take out Last Light losing the Harper vendor, you never see the Tiefling vendor either. Then in Moonrise Tower you have to fight the place without allies (I forsaw this and killed the place bit by bit before Nightsong), you have to fight the Drider with Ketheric and the have to fight Ketheric the second time with Isobel on his side.

Act 3 is easier, House of Grief and Temple of Bhaal (as Dark Urge) are solo battles and you can skip all three of the Gortash quests if you want. I assume the end sequence is harder as you'll have less allies, but not done that as evil yet.

When I did my only finished playthrough I cleared the entirety of Moonrise other than the vendor(s?) before even doing the majority of the rest of act 2. For being a group of goody two shoes I sure was murderous.
 

Chris

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When I did my only finished playthrough I cleared the entirety of Moonrise other than the vendor(s?) before even doing the majority of the rest of act 2. For being a group of goody two shoes I sure was murderous.
Yeah if I do a 3rd playthrough I'll be doing this regardless of if I'm good or evil, the big battle with the Harpers is really epic but it's a long awkward battle.
 

Byr

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My favorite experience with that fight was my honor mode run where I had an ice storm aoe going off at the base of the stairs when the fight ended. It proceeded to tick and hit all the Harpers who immediately turned on me and added a fight to the sequence.
 

Caeden

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Welp, thanks everyone. I last pugraded my PC in 2016 and it has primarily been used to play old games, FFXIV, Last Epoch, Path of Exile, and WoW. Sometimes Skyrim so nothing really taxing for a great machine built then. That said, I'm starting to desire to build something.....I usually use a game to spur that build. PoE 2 was going to be that game. I'm very tempted then to say fuck it and go PS5 for this and enjoy my couch and giant fucking TV.
 

Palum

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Welp, thanks everyone. I last pugraded my PC in 2016 and it has primarily been used to play old games, FFXIV, Last Epoch, Path of Exile, and WoW. Sometimes Skyrim so nothing really taxing for a great machine built then. That said, I'm starting to desire to build something.....I usually use a game to spur that build. PoE 2 was going to be that game. I'm very tempted then to say fuck it and go PS5 for this and enjoy my couch and giant fucking TV.
So you're going to replace an 8 year old PC with a 5 year old PC?
 

Slyminxy

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212 hours in the game so far, haven't finished a playthrough, no honor or tactician mode yet :p I love games where I can just have fun.
 
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212 hours in the game so far, haven't finished a playthrough, no honor or tactician mode yet :p I love games where I can just have fun.
I got stuck in a cave underground with some big king ogre. Couldn't figure out how to get out so I switched back to Company of Heroes 2
 

Burns

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I got stuck in a cave underground with some big king ogre. Couldn't figure out how to get out so I switched back to Company of Heroes 2
lol, big king Ogre? So you were playing like some sperg action game clicking through everything and have no idea what's going on, eh?
 
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Bandwagon

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lol, big king Ogre? So you were playing like some sperg action game clicking through everything and have no idea what's going on, eh?
Precisely. I shoot arrows and cast fireballs at anything that's made out of meat. When the meat stops moving, I pick up all of its trinkets and then go look for more meat to shoot arrows and cast fireballs at.
 
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Burns

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Precisely. I shoot arrows and cast fireballs at anything that's made out of meat. When the meat stops moving, I pick up all of its trinkets and then go look for more meat to shoot arrows and cast fireballs at.
Have you tried Elden Ring? It's real time, but more suited to that kind of gameplay.
 

Bandwagon

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Jokes aside, I really do use video games as my braindead relaxation time. I almost never pay attention to the story and I usually am not looking for any kind of challenge. I have enough work and hobby stuff to tackle when I want that kind of thing.
 
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Chris

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Jokes aside, I really do use video games as my braindead relaxation time. I almost never pay attention to the story and I usually am not looking for any kind of challenge. I have enough work and hobby stuff to tackle when I want that kind of thing.
Get gud.
 
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Slyminxy

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I got stuck in a cave underground with some big king ogre. Couldn't figure out how to get out so I switched back to Company of Heroes 2

I've finished Act 1 on multiple different characters and I've finished Act 2 with my cleric. Sometimes I get into a situationship with my party that I'd want to re-test otherwise with other toons. For example, on the cleric I didn't pre-kill anything in Moonrise Towers, while on the bard, pretty much all of the major players in the towers are dead and I haven't even explored the Temple of Shar yet.

Cleric playthrough finished Act 1 with about 12k gold. Bard playthrough finished it with 30k (no stealing involved, just lootwhoring/selling). Also, Bard has like 76% discount while Cleric only has 44ish.

Edit: Oh and I'm mostly goody-two-shoes, haven't done any evil murderhobo or dark urge yet. The options and fun keep on giving.
 

k^M

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I've finished Act 1 on multiple different characters and I've finished Act 2 with my cleric. Sometimes I get into a situationship with my party that I'd want to re-test otherwise with other toons. For example, on the cleric I didn't pre-kill anything in Moonrise Towers, while on the bard, pretty much all of the major players in the towers are dead and I haven't even explored the Temple of Shar yet.

Cleric playthrough finished Act 1 with about 12k gold. Bard playthrough finished it with 30k (no stealing involved, just lootwhoring/selling). Also, Bard has like 76% discount while Cleric only has 44ish.

Edit: Oh and I'm mostly goody-two-shoes, haven't done any evil murderhobo or dark urge yet. The options and fun keep on giving.
Do murderhobo + dark urge, you may as well just enjoy the blood bath together.
 

Voyce

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