I think you’re underestimating Baldurs Gate as a franchise and the amount of hype around Larian as a publisher after the divinity games. This will be massive. Maybe not cyberpunk massive, but still huge. The hype is insane.
600 devs and $200m production cost is pretty massive to be fair.
For this one game, sure, which is the only thing they've done since releasing their wildly successful Divinity: Original Sin 2. They're a strictly one-game-at-a-time studio, though this might change things.
I didn't mean it in a negative way, just as normal viewer numbers for a AAA game release so far. For a CRPG definetly awesome numbers.
! Have fun to everyone who is playing or plans to play!Down, down, down by the river!I didn't mean it in a negative way, just as normal viewer numbers for a AAA game release so far. For a CRPG definetly awesome numbers.
My download is complete, the wait is finally over. It's time to spend 2 hours in the character creation
Balder's Gate was probably the first game I owned on a PC, and was immediately hooked. Played both games to death and Icewind Dale 1 & 2 that was by Black Isle studios.
Feels like this for me too. Downloading for 90+ minutes 52gb remaining. Dunno if its server overload but I feel like others will have finished the game before mine is downloaded.
If anyone in here finishes the game within a week, they should be banned and forced to go outside for a bit.
For sure. Pretty sure the threat of blood clots would be hella real for anyone who pulls that off. Isn't it like 180 hours if you do everything.
80-100 hours I think but apparently playthroughs can be wildly different depending on your character and the choices you make. Sounds like replayability is huge.
Unfortunately(for me) this has nothing to do with the original Baldur's Gate games. I feel this is a rebranded Divinity Original Sin, which is a good game but it's not a Baldur's Gate.
In what way. I adore the originals but they were just as clunky and frustrating to traverse, with the shitty formations and having to get members of the party to the edge of the map to be able to exit. Not to mention party members getting stuck on occasion on objects or pathfinding and double backing on themselves.
I actually wish it was more like DoS to be honest, the fecking combat hit chance is horrible in this (as it is in tabletop d&d) and really eating in to my enjoyment. I find it like playing d&d with a DoS styled skin. Don't find it anything like DoS outside of the visuals.
My character is an idiot, i just accepted theres going to be fails on the way. Inspiration covered me for a couple of bigger checks.
That's the reason I picked Warlock for my first play through, put most of my points into charisma and picked up persuation, intimidation and other talking skills. I thought the worst feeling you can get in this game is by failing in conversations checks. Also it's pretty lore friendly if the group leader leads in charisma. A nice side effect is of course, that Warlock's spells depend on charisma as well.
I wish it had a movement scheme similarly to tw3. My camera pans all over the place and through walls. I have a bit too many performance issues despite having a good rig. Still enjoying it. Its certainly unique but i felt they could spent more time fine tuning it. Graphics are great when talking but otherwise fairly mediocre for a 2023 game.
It's doesn't play like Divinity, and it uses D&D rules (more or less). Obviously it's similar in some ways to their previous games, but I think it's rather silly to claim that it has nothing to do with Baldur's Gate. Those games are more than two decades old, things have changed. We saw the same with Fallout 3 and New Vegas, which very few today would claim is not "real" Fallout - though some did at the time. I am sure people also said the same about every new Elder Scrolls game. And about Starcraft, Warcraft, Deus Ex, Age of Empires and every other series that has had games from very different periods of time.
I pretty much force myself to avoid savescumming in games like this. I might do it if I completely misunderstood a choice or action, but failing is part of the game. It's always tempting to get the "perfect" game, but it's honestly a better gaming experience this way.
I went for balanced and it's not especially easy. You'll have to replay fights a couple of times to beat them at points. They have a story mode difficulty that might be worth checking out. I dont mind being punished for bad choices or bad rolls at times and having to figure out a couple of fights by trial and error.
Going totally blind into this - any recommendations re settings or difficulty? Unfortunately I don‘t have 100s of hours to dump into this so unless it‘s a shooter I go rather easy nowadays but don‘t want to spoil it too.
Had general audio issues in the opening but seemed to resolve itself early on.
Nerd.
fecking love Larian games.
You should. You're a total brute. Love is love.
I hate that!
It‘s mentioned at some point.Runs amazing on my 2060 super which is about comparable to a 1080ti power wise I think? I tried it with the controller layout on the deck and it’s just nowhere near as good, even though they’ve done a good job.
The architecture of the 10 series is so outdated though. Even though the 1080ti is a legendary card in terms of longevity, it's showing its age now with stuttering issues and such on newer titles.
