adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The lower city is where all the shit's happening.
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Baldur's Gate III | OT | Bear in Mind, Your Choices Have Consequences
Mister Wolf
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The longest. After beating BG3 I didn't play videogames for a month.
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amigastar
Member
I have a playtime of 71 hours on BG3 whereas 20 hours i've spent in Early Access. But i still play other games.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I havent played the game yet, but does BG3 hold your hand telling you where all the hotspots are on a map?The lower city is where all the shit's happening.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Some, but not a lot of hand holding, lots of quests don't get appropriate markers until you've spoken to a bunch of people.
Agent_Nobody
Member
If you rush the main objective it’s the shortest, if you take your time it’s the longest (there‘s a huge number of new unmarked quests you get from talking to people).
It honestly felt like half the game to me at the end while wrapping up every questline I could on my first run. So it partially depends on how many quests you have hanging from the previous acts, and how many quests you want to bother with.
First run through playtime for me was 78 hours for act 1 and 2 combined, and it was 110 hours for the end of act 3.
I’m honestly kinda surprised they didn’t pull the title card on the intro to the city like: ‘congratulations you passed the tutorial and welcome to the beginning of the game.’
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Agent_Nobody
Member
The lower city is where all the shit's happening.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
One of the best ones.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Well .. it had to be done, alright?
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
ewww
Mister Wolf
Member
Well .. it had to be done, alright?
Well you are playing as a frog woman. Yall got a Romeo and Juliet thing going on.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The exchange about what's underneath the tentacles was .. well it was something alright
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
The exchange about what's underneath the tentacles was .. well it was something alright
Agent_Nobody
Member
Every playthrough.Well .. it had to be done, alright?
They really should have had an option to bring Halsin into the action though
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
It’s finally happening. I’ve done everything I can and am entering the Mountain Pass.
Agent_Nobody
Member
Welcome to the next two thirds of the game
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
According to the Xbox app, I’m just over 70 hours in, lol.Welcome to the next two thirds of the game
Agent_Nobody
Member
Strap in for another 70
Mister Wolf
Member
You did the Underdark and Grymforge?
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Yup. Everything that I can.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Ok, I do have a question. I get the warning about progressing the story from two different paths, one from the north of the map where you meet the orc folk with a dragon, and the other down in the Grymforge. Does it matter which I choose?
nowhat
Gold Member
Orc folk? You mean the Githyanki, right?
But it doesn't matter, in the grand scheme of things. You'll end up at the same map, albeit in a different starting position.
Agent_Nobody
Member
Do both, you can go back to either if you don’t progress too far in act 2 ; But I’d suggest mountain pass first assuming you have Lae’zel alive and well and you‘ve already cleared the underdark.
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Mister Wolf
Member
No it doesn't matter but I would recommend taking the Underdark path. The path you choose will decide who you encounter first.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
I have my last game save right at that lift.
Agent_Nobody
Member
If he’s cleared the underdark already and gotten to the elevator, it’s probably better to do the mountain path first, then just run back and do the other from the elevator.
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Yeah them. Those no-nose people.
Agent_Nobody
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
FoxMcChief approves
nowhat
Gold Member
I liked Pillars of Eternity (part one and two). Combat is much faster but less creative due to the lack of environmental interactivity; combat is, under the hood, although a bit more complex because there's not only hit or miss, but offers also light hits, and armor has more functions than making you harder to hit (some weapons or damage types have lower base damage but are good in penetrating armor). It's also not as huge as BG3 and is probably not a year's project.
Freelance Yakuza
Member
Always cover the floor with water (double damage for ice and electricity), and then cast ice on it. People fall a lot and don't reach you
Agent_Nobody
Member
Took me 120 hours playing a Bard to figure out that my Bard could whistle the songs if I unequipped my instrument….the game just doesn’t stop giving.
JayK47
Member
This game. So many great things. So many annoying things. So many cringe things.
Great things:
The story. I am almost at the edge of my seat wondering what will happen next.
Combat. Brutal. Just brutal. So very satisfying. I wish there was more.
The cast of interesting characters. Very unique diverse crowd that chills out at my camp.
The gear. I love the weapons and armor. There is so much variety.
Annoying things:
Inventory management. I spend way too much time messing around in my inventory. I really really wish when I throw shit in camp inventory that I do not need to take out and and have it in my inventory in order to equip it.
Loading. Loading takes a long ass time.
Steam cloud. Not sure what the deal is, but it takes like 10 minutes to upload saves to cloud. Must be massive save files.
Me never saving enough.
Cringe things:
The developers are more obsessed with lesbians than I was as a young man. Damn. So many lesbians. I just laugh now when I come across yet another lesbian couple.
Great things:
The story. I am almost at the edge of my seat wondering what will happen next.
Combat. Brutal. Just brutal. So very satisfying. I wish there was more.
The cast of interesting characters. Very unique diverse crowd that chills out at my camp.
The gear. I love the weapons and armor. There is so much variety.
Annoying things:
Inventory management. I spend way too much time messing around in my inventory. I really really wish when I throw shit in camp inventory that I do not need to take out and and have it in my inventory in order to equip it.
Loading. Loading takes a long ass time.
Steam cloud. Not sure what the deal is, but it takes like 10 minutes to upload saves to cloud. Must be massive save files.
Me never saving enough.
Cringe things:
The developers are more obsessed with lesbians than I was as a young man. Damn. So many lesbians. I just laugh now when I come across yet another lesbian couple.
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Freelance Yakuza
Member
be careful, at some point Halsin will say he will leave the camp if you travel back
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I'm already in Act 3 and I haven't seen him around camp for a while. I don't know what happened, I'm not sure if he's supposed to join your party but he never did, I only had the same 2 dialogue options for him through act 1 and 2 ever since getting him, and now he's just not in camp anymore as of Act 3.
Ah well.
Freelance Yakuza
Member
To be honest, aside from an orgy, I don't think he has any interesting interactions in Act 3. I never used him.
To obtain him, you need to find that ghost kid and talk to Halsin before fighting Nightsong. You will get big battle to defend a portal
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
If you're talking about the ghost kid quest that starts off as a hide and seek mission, then yeah I did that successfully. I don't recall if I went to the camp quickly after that or something, it's way too many hours behind, but the opportunity to recruit him never really came up in all of my conversations with him.
I'm pretty steadfast on my main 4 party squad right now anyway so I doubt I would have made room to slot him in.
bitbydeath
Member
I’m in act 3, tempted to play again and just kill everything that moves. Shame there’s only 12 levels, I could double or triple my levels if I wiped everyone out.
nowhat
Gold Member
That's what "The Dark Urge" origin story is about. And it's fucking fantastic. But do play the game to the end at first, so you'll see what a "normal" ending is.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Speaking of expansion, I bought the $80 version. Is the extra content already included, or is that coming later?
Mister Wolf
Member
I've been watching this guy's channel for a while. He has good D&D Lore vids. Like this one:
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gow3isben
Member
As long as 1 and 2 combined if you do everything which you will if 1 and 2 took 72 hours
I took a break after 1 and 2 for Spiderman 2 and it was a great decision
Made me appreciate 3 more.
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
I think I may take a break before proceeding to Act 2. Split the game up some. Jump back into Starfield, play some more Quest 3. My prescription lenses arrive on Thursday!!!!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It *feels* like I'm in the thick of the end-game quests, fights have definitely gotten much more tougher.
Just did a couple of quests
Just did a couple of quests
destroyed the watcher robot facility, saved the duke and some of the gnomes from the underwater prison
CashPrizes
Member
Playing the game a 2nd time on Tactician. Durge Sorc, wiped out the Grove so now I only have Laeel+Shart+Astarion. Having a lot more fun with Astarion in the early game understanding stealth better, just toggle hide and get sneak ranged sneak attacks non-stop.
Actually having an easier time then my normal difficulty play thru Just knowing the encounters, how best to initiate them. Beat the burrowing ant eater thing in Under dark in 1 turn, beat the Observer in 2 turns even tho it ambushed me because i set off a proximity explosion near it by accident.
Could be a factor of I am less reluctant to long rest, so am much more willing to commit all my spell slots and cool downs on any given encounter. Also I am not hoarding potions and scrolls like I was on normal (altho not a ton of useful scrolls in act 1 so far). Only fight that I died on was the Gityanki at the bridge once, just missed a ton of my initial rolls and they were all still up and focus fired/killed Shart before 2nd turn.
Actually having an easier time then my normal difficulty play thru Just knowing the encounters, how best to initiate them. Beat the burrowing ant eater thing in Under dark in 1 turn, beat the Observer in 2 turns even tho it ambushed me because i set off a proximity explosion near it by accident.
Could be a factor of I am less reluctant to long rest, so am much more willing to commit all my spell slots and cool downs on any given encounter. Also I am not hoarding potions and scrolls like I was on normal (altho not a ton of useful scrolls in act 1 so far). Only fight that I died on was the Gityanki at the bridge once, just missed a ton of my initial rolls and they were all still up and focus fired/killed Shart before 2nd turn.