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ravnelis

Prophet of Regret
Member
Jan 1, 2018
651
I'll be there for the release. Hopefully EA will be shorter than with D:OS2.
 

AWizardDidIt

Member
Oct 28, 2017
1,461
Not asking in bad faith here, but the story was wrapped up really well, no?

The player character's story wrapped up completely yeah. However Bhaal, the god of murder whose resurrection was thwarted through events of the games, ended up getting resurrected anyway recently in the Forgotten Realms setting (roughly 100 years after the end of BG2 iirc). BG3 will likely be concerned with how that happened and move forward from there.
 

Shodan14

Banned
Oct 30, 2017
9,410
The player character's story wrapped up completely yeah. However Bhaal, the god of murder whose resurrection was thwarted through events of the games, ended up getting resurrected anyway recently in the Forgotten Realms setting (roughly 100 years after the end of BG2 iirc). BG3 will likely be concerned with how that happened and move forward from there.
Interesting, I wonder how that plays into the Mind Flayer stuff.
 

Athrum

Member
Oct 18, 2019
1,340
I guess. I think I remember something about the Cyric-Myrkul-Bane triumvirate? Or was it Bhaal-Bane-Myrkul?

Bhaal-Bane-Myrkul, all were killed during the ToT and their portfolios were either mainly absorbed by Cyric or distributed to other individuals (Kelemvor turned into god of death for example).
Bhaal predicted his death so he went around spreading his seed, like a tornado in Arkansas. You played as one of these "spawns" in the older games
 
Jan 4, 2018
4,020
What are the odds I can roleplay a Great Old One Warlock Githyanki with stockholm syndrome who's kind of into the whole brainslug thing?
 

GearDraxon

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,786
It's up, baby!

...anyone else having trouble purchasing it? Never seen this before with Steam - could BG3 really have broken it?
 

eddy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,741
My Steam is stuck on "Working" when trying to purchase. Sad face.

"Your transaction cannot be completed because you have another pending transaction on your account.". Double sad face.
 

modestb

Alt-Account
Banned
Jan 24, 2019
1,126
What are the odds I can roleplay a Great Old One Warlock Githyanki with stockholm syndrome who's kind of into the whole brainslug thing?

I'd put it at 95%.

Early impressions by Easy Allies.

youtu.be

Baldur's Gate 3 - First Steps Into Early Access

Baldur's Gate 3 is finally here (in Early Access) and Ben has plenty of stories to share from his brief time in the Forgotten Realms.Support us through Patre...

Ben Moore is the fucking man.
 

Crowboy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
168
My Steam is stuck on "Working" when trying to purchase. Sad face.
Me too. Got this after a few minutes.

Your purchase has not been completed. Your credit card information has been declined by your credit card company.

Note that in some cases, your credit card company may put a 'hold' on funds in your account, but you will not be charged. After correcting any errors in the information displayed below, please try your purchase again.
 

99humanity

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,996
Any chance this is playable on intel integrated graphics? My friend is able to run DOS2 and wants to get this
 

Vault

▲ Legend ▲
Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,613
£50 for Early access

PC games have become really expensive the last few years
 

AlanOC91

Owner of YGOPRODeck.com
Verified
Nov 5, 2017
961
Is steam being hammered over this? Honestly a bit surprised. Didn't think the demand would be massive for it.

Been trying to to purchase for 6 minutes now.
 

samred

Amico fun conversationalist
Member
Nov 4, 2017
2,585
Seattle, WA
Ars Technica's lead CRPG tester Jim Salter has this up:

arstechnica.com

I played 15 hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 early access, and I want them back

Answering the question nobody asked: “What if Michael Bay made a D&D 5e game?”

The new entry in the Baldur's Gate series is, unfortunately, not cut from the same cloth. The game's rendering engine is incredibly beautiful, but the characters it renders are shallow, trite, and frequently downright hateful—and the storyline, at least for the first 15 hours, is pretty similar.

What this game misses the most is tabletop camaraderie—even the ersatz version you get from a good computer RPG. Even if lawful good and chaotic neutral characters butt heads on the other side of a DM's screen, an adventuring party should feel as though it has real bonds and a unified purpose. That sense of togetherness didn't emerge in the first 15 hours of Baldur's Gate 3—and maybe that matters more to me than to you, but I imagine I'm not alone in wanting a D&D quest to feel like a shared experience.