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I'm so happy to see this franchise do so well, I actually haven't played 3 yet and Bg1 and 2 are my most played games ever. I've played through them several times and love them more than any other game..I know BG3 is very different in terms of the playing, but it does seem like they captured the sense of a massive world with infinite paths to goals. Cannot wait to play it, just need to be done with Cyberpunk. I hope my wife understands!

I know we live in an age of hyper rapid consumption, but I genuinely don’t know how Katz just blast through games. Especially games with any sort of depth or complexity. Maybe I’m just playing game slowly but I have never understood how people just rampage through games they have.

BG3 seems like one of those games that should just be savored and explored, exterminated with, and experienced in a deliberate fashion. It should stay on playlists and play time for a long time

I ranted about it on here before but maaaan

Baldur's Gate 3 for me is weighted down so hard by the combat system. The D&D combat system is a result of having to be simple enough so that humans can keep track of it with pen & paper. But we're on a computer now, it can do a lot of math very fast. You can implement actual, modern resource management systems and reasonable levels of variance. Everything being a D20 roll is frustrating me so much, I don't remember the last time I got this mad at a video game so frequently, for real. I've played some really mediocre RPGs but in all of them I enjoyed the combat infinitely more than in BG3.

But everything else is like 9-10/10. The exploration is so amazing, the characters are all lovable, the roleplay-feeling is incredible. If it wasn't for the insanely antiquated combat, it'd be my game of the year for sure.

The only reason why I don't play BG3 more is because it doesn't run on the steam deck all that well.

The second I finally get around to hiring someone to install Ethernet drops in the living room and setting up sunshine my hours are going to skyrocket.

I know people like it, but I just can't get into turn based games. Something about them just makes me feel depressed and isolated.

yeah because I JUST got out of Act 1 and to make matters worse, I'm constantly over-encumbered so I'm constantly spending an hour stopping in the middle of nowhere and going "hmm ok I need all these arrows and scrolls but also I need every book and gem I've ever picked up." but ever since SOMEONE dumped their entire backpack in my inventory and ran off before immediately getting the party into a fight where I was bogged down by an entire extra inventory of shit, I've been trying to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Am I really gonna use the broken wand of fireballs I picked up? Actually yes I probably will so instead let me just make Lae'zel carry all these extra broadswords...

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