Gaming

30540 readers

138 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

193

What is up with Baldur's Gate 3? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

141 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This is not a criticism - I love how much attention this game has been getting. I'm just not understanding why BG3 has been blowing up so much. It seems like BG3 is getting more attention than all of Larian's previous games combined (and maybe all of Obsidian's recent crpgs as well). Traditionally crpgs have not lit the world on fire in this way. Is it just timing of the release? Is it a combo of Divinity fans and new D&D fans and Baldur's Gate oldheads all being stoked about this release for their own reasons? Or something else?

Note:I have not played it yet myself, just curious what folks think?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's just a quality Western RPG, the like of which we haven't seen since Bioware was bought.

Good products create buzz; I really think is is simply that.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That and it's a tire-screeching exit from the abusive road we thought gaming was going down. Microtransactions, lootboxes etc. Baldur's Gate 3 is refreshing from that perspective and, like me, I think many are amazed that it's actually working.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I see nothing revolutionary about a game not having things like microtransactions and loot boxes. Those are mostly restricted to multiplayer games, and the industry never stopped making good single-player games without that bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Even a lot of the AAA single player games have day 1 DLCs with skins or 15 different deluxe packages for preorder or something similar though

Doesn't need to be the in-game microtransactions but it's very rare today that everyone starts out with the same stuff in AAA games today

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But bg3 is a multiplayer inspired game.

Bg 1 and 2 set the rpg world on fire. 3 lived up to the hype.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Not just multiplayer-inspired. Fully multiplayer start to finish, if you want

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

DOS 1 and 2 were almost on par with BG3 imo.

Pillars of Eternity was also really good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How about those Pathfinder games? How do they stack up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Only played the first one which was pretty good. It's super big on character customization as it has a million race/class combinations. A bit more extreme than the rest

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is a video about both if interested. https://youtu.be/bQZAg4RwuZU