Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

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I’m also impressed what single individuals come up with in mods, and how they do it quickly. I’m not so surprised about large teams being slow and full of stupid decisions though.

One anecdotal observation from my job. There was an initiative at work to improve several processes in a particular underperforming group of machines. They made a large committee of like 20ish people who would all tackle various things they had identified as problems. They would meet weekly for several months and no action items were getting completed, no changes made. They wasted half a year and got nothing accomplished other than identifying problems. I was not apart of any of this, just got updates from those who were.

My boss who was the head of the whole thing, eventually came to me and described all the issues and how there was zero progress and asked if I would take control of it and drive all the changes because he’s seen me fix shit like this in the past. I said yes (didn’t real feel like I could say no) and started. I didn’t have any committee to answer to, I just made decisions and did things myself. I even identified and fixed a few huge problems the committee either missed completely or didn’t make action items for. I had made several large changes within the first two weeks and several more within a couple months. People that work in that machine area are blown away and think I’m some kind of miracle worker and I’m just like no, all it takes is for someone to make a fucking decision and follow through on it. I didn’t have a single meeting, I didn’t ask for permission once I decided on a course of action, I’d talk to a few machine operators to understand what they’re up against and ask for their ideas and then I’d just say “ok here’s what we’re going to try”. When there is a committee everyone’s scared to actually make a decision, it becomes meetings upon meetings discussing shit instead of doing it.

I’m sure that happens a ton in these studios with hundreds or thousands of people and why these huge studio games are 99% dog shit. Unless there is someone with a strong personality and vision driving a huge team to actually do what they’re supposed to be doing and not afraid to make decisions you’re going to end up with shit products. Design/produce by committee is a recipe for failure every time.
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It's kind'a like this one "inspirational" saying I read once.

"Make a decision.

Right or wrong, make a decision.

The road of life is full of flat squirrels who couldn't."
 
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Decisions you say?



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Finally picked this up a couple days ago. Just found Karlach and was able to boot that annoying vampire. She’s great, running around smashing stuff after we beat up the paladins was funny.
 
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Finally picked this up a couple days ago. Just found Karlach and was able to boot that annoying vampire. She’s great, running around smashing stuff after we beat up the paladins was funny.
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Astarion has one of the best story arcs.
 
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ShakyJake

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Maybe I’ll kill him so I’m not tempted to see it.

Is the game set up in a way you can go through all their arcs in one playthrough?
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Pretty much. I don't think any of them conflict. Although, if you try for an evil playthrough Karlach and Wyll won't hang around past act 1.
 
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Larian said at one point durring development that they were going to have all the companions that don't fit your alignment leave in chapter 1 or around the transition to chapter 2. Instead they made it so you can work around it, if you want to keep them.

You can be evil and still keep Karlach and Wyll, you just can't side with the goblins (more in depth evil side spoiler: stealing the Druid's totem and/or letting the shadow druids win then having them kick out the thieflings is the evil path for that).

My first play through was classic Pally goody-two-shoes morals, so I staked Asterion the first chance I got and let Wyll die because of the deal he made. The game was perfectly fine without them and I still haven't finished the game a second time with both of them alive (bugs with mods and patches have killed two evil playthroughs in chapter 2).

I'm now waiting for the "final" patch where they complete chapter 3 that they said they were going to do, way back shortly after the game was released (noble quarter added, maybe). I will probably try to go with Asterion and Wyll in the group full time for that.
 
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Astarion has one of the best act 3 story arcs. Shadowheart is probably the best romance arc. I found Karlach, Gale, and Wyll very annonying in party, but they all still have fun companion quests. The others I was pretty neutral on, though you probably want Lae'zel in for the end of act 1, beginning of act 2 areas.

Being able to reclass them means you can take anyone you want. You aren't locked into them for their class utility.
 
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I hated Wyll...tried respeccing him to a Paladin because it fit his personality better, but I never wanted to use him because I hated every time he talked. My playthrough got bugged somehow with the Shadowheart romance. I looked up the details afterwards and it seems like I did everything right...there was just some scene that never got triggered for some reason. I was annoyed that I couldn't resurrect the "minor" companions if they died before they were officially in my party. NPCs are so fragile that it was difficult to keep the cannon fodder alive until they were in my party.
 
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Astarion has one of the best act 3 story arcs. Shadowheart is probably the best romance arc. I found Karlach, Gale, and Wyll very annonying in party, but they all still have fun companion quests. The others I was pretty neutral on, though you probably want Lae'zel in for the end of act 1, beginning of act 2 areas.

Being able to reclass them means you can take anyone you want. You aren't locked into them for their class utility.
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I used to dislike Karlach but honestly, she's become my favorite. The voice actress does such a great job. Lots of hilarious comments.

Truly, all the companions have so many great little comments. Having Gale try to pick a lock, and he'll sometimes say, "Surely there's a spell for this...." etc.
 
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Djay said:
I hated Wyll...tried respeccing him to a Paladin because it fit his personality better, but I never wanted to use him because I hated every time he talked. My playthrough got bugged somehow with the Shadowheart romance. I looked up the details afterwards and it seems like I did everything right...there was just some scene that never got triggered for some reason. I was annoyed that I couldn't resurrect the "minor" companions if they died before they were officially in my party. NPCs are so fragile that it was difficult to keep the cannon fodder alive until they were in my party.
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I'd have to look into it to remember the details. But you can complete certain quest events/triggers with a console like command or something. Some quest in chapter 2 down in the cave area didnt trigger and it was fucking my whole playthrough, so thats what got me looking shit up. I just cant remember if it was a mod or just a basic console command.
 
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I'd have to look into it to remember the details. But you can complete certain quest events/triggers with a console like command or something. Some quest in chapter 2 down in the cave area didnt trigger and it was fucking my whole playthrough, so thats what got me looking shit up. I just cant remember if it was a mod or just a basic console command.
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Unfortunately I bought it on Xbox instead of PC, so messing with flags wasn't an option. I looked up spoilers after I finished the game to see the scenes I missed, but my best guess at what happened is that there were two scenes ready to trigger and it showed me the other scene...and thought it showed me the Shadowheart scene, but it wasn't marked as complete because I didn't actually finish it. *shrugs*
 
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I actually just bought this yesterday. It's on sale on PSN so I finally said fuck it, might as well see what all the hype is about. Usually not a fan of games like this though.
 
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I actually just bought this yesterday. It's on sale on PSN so I finally said fuck it, might as well see what all the hype is about. Usually not a fan of games like this though.
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If you've never played any D&D before read all the descriptions of spells and attacks well. Some of it gets kind of odd.
 
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Not sure what I did but these asshole tieflings are attacking me whenever I walk by, even if I pass the check. Finally said ok I’ll go to jail, then snuck out, then they just keep trying to kill me. Guess I’m going to join the goblins and kill them all.
 
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