I am buying the game soon. Which platform do you recommend? I have a Geforce 3060 and the game ran 1080p at around 100fps when I tried it at launch. I usually play new games on PS5 with 65” OLED for the 4K HDR graphics, but this seems like a mouse and keyboard kind of game.
Thank goodness. My days of painting the map and min/maxing characters are over. I don’t want to be reloading saves here.
Freudian slip
Just finished the game yesterday, was collecting my thoughts. Wow……just, WOW.
Final stretch was pretty hype. Especially that Avengers Endgame moment where all the people I made allies with throughout the game arrived to offer aid. The final battle outside the brain was a bit unfair, 4 mindflayers spamming Magic Missile mostly at Orpheus was kind of bullshit.
My ending was mostly satisfying. And yes, I did everyone’s quests with them present for it (well, I did mess up and kill Gortash without Karlach present as I honestly forgot her beef with him, but I don’t think that affects the ending).
Only character who wasn’t highlighted was Shadowheart. Weird as she was in my party whole game, and I finished her quest, yet nothing, she just hangs in the background and never said anything.
Orpheus become a mindflayer. No idea why anyone would volunteer themselves (or Karlach unless they don’t know the transformation actually does remove your soul so this is not a happy ending for her).
Had to ask Lae’zel to stay with me as she is my girlfriend. Baffled why I couldn’t choose to go with her to help the rebels (I’m a Dwarf, but it was pretty clear the gith rebels all accepted us), people are saying a non-gith can go with her but I’ve yet to see video proof of this. Still, we’re happy together, just stinks when Orpheus takes his life he believes the gith are doomed to remain essentially slaves (but hey, the rebels can choose to be free).
Astarion’s ending was lame with him running off, partially because Minsc was the only one who made a (dumb) comment and I only found him like five hours before beating the game as I had overlooked where he was initially. So why not have someone who knew Astarion better say something? They should at least had Astarion yell, “well, I’ll see you all at the inn for drinks tonight!”
Gale prepares to return the crown to the goddess. Wish there was an option to tell him to get forgiveness but also move on, but I had to tell him to try to win her romantic favor again as the other dialogue options were dangerous power seeking ones.
Jaihera just called for a celebration.
Halsin didn’t say anything IIRC. Meh, he was the lowest on my favorite companion tier list.
Wyll (freed of his contract and saved his father) chose to go with Karlach to Avernus. Wyll seems more suited for active duty than politics, so this fits him, and Karlach having a good friend (maybe more? She can touch people in that plane, right?) with her should give her hope. And since they’re Level 12 (really, Level 14 with all the extra EXP I had), I pity the fools who cross their path. While I do feel they should have had the final scene be with my MC and Lae’zel, seeing Karlach and Wyll charge forward as the triumphant music plays and smash to credits was pretty cool.
Post credits scene of Withers talking trash to the Dead Three was pretty cool.
People are saying it’s presumptuous to call this Game of the Year already, and look, Spidey 2, Mario Wonder, and Alan Wake 2 do look hype, but this is just on a whole other level for me compared to most games ever. I’ll paste what I said in another thread:
“Baldur’s Gate 3. I want to save my final thought for the OT thread as I’m pretty close to finishing it, but let’s just say, a good deal of games made immersed me and made me feel like I was on an adventure, but none to the extent that Final Fantasy IX did……Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally the game to fully climb that hill and shake FF IX’s hand. It perfectly captures that feeling of going on an adventure through strange lands, not knowing where I’ll be next, with a band of quirky and lovable characters I’ll never forget.
For me in my head, FF IX and BG 3 are all:
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I truly want to thank the whole staff at Larian Studios, the incredible voice cast, and everyone else who made this unforgettable adventure happen! I’m glad to see the game killing it in sales, because they all deserve this success! All the hats off to you fine people!
Already started my 2nd playthrough (Dwarf Rogue was my first, now I’m going Gnome Warlock)
To close, here’s some fun BG 3 videos (I see someone already posted the great Penguins of Madagascar one):
I mean yeah, nothing's wrong with playing the game on easy, but having a piss easy Tactician mode is a clear flaw on the developer's part. The game has 3 difficulty modes for a reason. If they didn't bother balancing the game on the highest difficulty and it becomes a cakewalk after level 5, then they clearly fucked up
That's pretty cool how different your endings were from mine. It would have been great if they'd shown what percentage of people chose each option, like in Telltale games.
Same here have two games going....
I was smart and got through Armored core and like 200 hours of Starfield before getting into BG3. Sea of Stars will have to wait though. Im like 30 hours in and still on Act 1.
Ooo I didn't even know I could progress further there yet, I did find a Dwarf Fortress down there that I never went back to
If you have Gale in your party you want to at least go far enough in the mountain pass to trigger his quest progression. I did the Underdark all the way up to the point of no return and then went the mountain pass route into Act 2. That way you miss less.
This is where i am at too... I didn't want to kill them all (sort of) but somehow not giving up the artifact seemed the only right thing to do!
Yea I was expecting to be able to pull a BEthedsa and talk my way out of it, especially as I had little health left on 2 characters
LOL true we (my brother and I) got there after fighting the cats and the eagles without resting and were in no way ready for a fight... We really tried to get out of it and not give up the artifact.
Having Hope with you makes that battle quite easy. She has a single-use spell that can 'dismiss' any enemy except Raphael himself, so bye-bye big demon thing on the very first turn. Plus she's a supercharged healer, and she has the divine intervention power, which can heal anyone, even dead characters, and restore everyone's spell slots. Raphael didn't stand a chance.
Be prepared to be overwhelmed!
Yeah that power saved my bacon in my attempt where I beat him. I had two attempts that didn't go so well until I took a good look at her powers and used them - well plus understanding that you have to knock down those pillar things.
Definitely, the pillars need to go down first. I had one quick go to see how the fight was going to work, then reloaded and distributed smokepowder bombs among my party. Positioned people in the corners of the room before triggering Raphael, so they were in range of the pillars from the start.
The Inn isn't too far away from where you start in the shadowlands. Go to the Inn before trying to acquire a moonlantern as you'll get a blessing there to prevent the shadow curse affecting you in most places. At the Inn it will also kick of an ambush quest which gets you a moonlantern also.
I’m assuming I have to go back through the Grymforge for that side?
Just beat him. Incredible fight. Used Otto's Irresistible Dance (He didn't dance though!) after clearing the room and recruiting Yurgir. He was a hopeless mess. Lae'zel whittled him down to 6HP and the last strike was from Hope.
Is that Balthazar in the room where you first meet him, or with the Nightsong? If it's the latter then I totally cheesed that by splitting up the party, sneaking them all within range but not so close that I activated his cutscene, then bombarding him with surprise attacks. He lasted one turn.
Not so good if the missing person takes three turns to get there, but ideally you don't want them all active when the fight begins.
Yea I knew you could do that, but she'd got stuck at the top of a Elevator, she could attack with ranged Spells just about, but its still annoying considering I'd been on that Forge area for a while looking at things before the fight, why couldn't she have caught up then? Even Gale did and he can't jump for shit
