Baldur's Gate 3 Random News
 

Seems Larian did another demo presentation of BG III.


A bunch of articles about EA in August as well.

Links

https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs…gust-2020maybe
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/202…-well-excited/
https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/13/b…ess-in-august/

Another Video update was released as well.

Full Baldur's Gate 3 Live Gameplay Presentation

Baldur's Gate 3 Is More Like D&D The More It's Developed

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Baldur's Gate 3 Aims to Take the Best of Divinity and Make it Better

Baldur's Gate 3 - D&D Live 2020

Baldur's Gate 3 Is Far Bigger And Stranger Than We Thought

If I was actually interested in the game, I wouldn't watch all this stuff. By the time the game has come out, there won't be anything new to learn. It is in the 4 million press releases :p

Of course, I have zero interest in party-based games, so I can watch all of them since I don't intend to play the game. I never finished DOS 1 or 2, so don't see the need to play DOS/BG 3.

I'm conditioned nowadays that spoilers don't matter to me anymore. I like to know beforehand if the game/movie sucks before I play/watch. Not everyone does of course.

Larian Answer Our Biggest Questions (Part One)

Larian Answer Our Biggest Questions (Part Two)

Baldur's Gate 3 Live Presentation

14 New Things You Need To Know About Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3: Everything we know - PCGamer

Thanks Couchpotato. This bit was good to read:
Let me just say that we touch upon the story of BG 1 & 2 in meaningful ways, there are returning characters and what happened in BG 1/2/tob leads to what happens into BG3.

I had wondered whether they'd planned to have any connection. I'd hoped you could copy over some save state stuff - eg, name of the bhaalspawn - but I don't get the impression that's the case sadly.

Found one more article about that AMA.:)

Baldur's Gate 3 might not cap player levels to ten after all - RPS

I'd be more than happy with a level 10 cap, that's higher than BG1 which I've sunk hundreds of happy hours into. There's still plenty of scope for progression. In terms of my doubts about BG3, it doesn't make my list at all.

Seems three dark gods might be influencing the current events. Also Based on current information your character from BG II might have became the dark god Bhaal. We'll see.

That's not spoilerish at all… 😉

Nah it's not confirmed just based on a few developer tib-bits, game lore, and my guess.

Anyway another RPS article about dying early.:)

Watch out! You can die in the first 15 seconds of Baldur's Gate 3 - RPS Yes looks like another spoiler.:p

Time for a little humor.:biggrin:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm…950&height=468

Seems Larain is bold enough to write that.

They seem proud of their BG3 IP. :)

On the level cap topic, I'd be happy for a dynamic level cap somewhere between level 10 and 15, with no real hard stop, just limited by the amount of XP you can actually earn, add diminished returns and whatnot. Hitting the point where you stop gaining XP never feels good to me, but neither does getting into DnD high end spells such as Time Stop/Rain of Vengeance etc, which just trumps over all the fun you can have, at least gameplay-wise.

I guess they're just dropping it as a key word for DOSII to be higher on the result list when people are searchin for BG3 in the store.

The official website now has a countdown timer, a list of participants, and a quick overview of what we can expect. Here are the topics which will be covered.:)

Ha just realised that's you Couchpotato - I thought we had a prolific new poster for a minute!

Is anyone going to do the EA? I normally avoid them like the plague but I'm seriously considering this one. It depends on whether I can run it on my PC, and if not, whether they do the EA on Stadia (can't believe I'm saying that but there you go….)

Yep this is my alt account due to being locked out of my main e-mail accounts. Had to do a full reset and re-installing of Win 10 yesterday. So I'm locked out of getting new passwords.

The new avatar and name fits me better as well.:)

As for using Stadia I wont judge we all do what we have to do, As the price of upgrading is harsh for my wallet as well sometimes. Let me know how it plays if you do.

Yep gotta love those announcement of an announcements all week long.

On a negative light it must mean the gaming masses have a very short attention span.
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The stream is live. Love we have flying squid ships now.:cool:



Edit: Those who missed it can still watch the 2 hour show.

Baldurs Gate 3 Full Cinematic Intro from the Panel From Hell

Baldur's Gate 3 - Intellect Devourer Gameplay

Oh and by the way Early Access is coming September 30th to Stadia and PC.:)

Ha ha awesome thanks!
What the hell, reckon I'll give this a go.

Not been following bg3 at all, but from that trailer they have a lot of explaining to do, lore-wise. Above-ground Illithid in teleporting Spacejammer airships, githyanki dragonriders, Blood War setting… it all seems like a jumbled mess that's going to take a lot of liberty with the Forgotten Realms of Baldur's Gate.

Oh no, how dare they!

Who cares? I mean, obviously you do, but I couldn't care less about much they mix elements or change or challenge canon. What's the point of being so attached to that?

Fextralife did a Q&A with Swen after the show. Sorry no YouTube version.

Link - https://m.twitch.tv/videos/714266892

Skip to 1:32:00 it's when it starts.

Because it's the Baldur's Gate setting and if they toss everything out the window, they should have created a new franchise instead.

You mean the same Baldur's Gate setting where you are the spawn of a god, brother to the main villain of the game, who obviously is the son of the same god, because you know, sons of gods casually stroll about by the dozens any tuesday night - and if you don't stop your brother, he'll become a god himself even before he or you hit level 7 or 8. Talk about tossing everything out of the window, because honestly in the typical DnD games I play, by level 7 I'm fighting kobolds or bugbears, and definitely feeling very mundane at that.

Honestly, I find perfectly canon-worthy and credible to be captured by an illithid looking for thralls/vessels for its species and being teleported in a hurry (and probably mistake, as it happens after the dragon breathes fire and makes the tadpole pool explode) into the topmost and most accessible layer of Hell. The fact that a blood war is going on there is taken for granted, as that's what's going on in Avernus pretty much 24/7.

The setting is fine, as for example the PnP canon campaign Descent to Avernus begins with level 1 characters learning that a whole city has sunk into Hell, and they are the ones who have to fix it, and Storm King's Thunder canon campaign has giants on flying castles bombarding the starting settlement when again you are level 1, while you will be riding a flying castle yourself by level 3-4, just to mention a couple.

We could nitpick, but I'm happy with BG3 taking an epic story arc, just as its prequels did.

What is the "Baldur's Gate setting"? The settings of the first and second games are not the same. Why should this one be exactly the same as either one? How does not being so detract from the appeal of this game in any way?

Forgotten Realms?

Anyway, ya'll have fun with the game.

I will. I look forward to reading your posts about the next Neverwinter Nights game. "This isn't Neverwinter! And it's daytime! What's the point?!"

All I know is it's been twenty years since the last game. Sure I wish plenty of things were different but at the end of the day I''ll accept it because this was a long time coming.:)

Frankly I blame WoTC they were only interested in licensing IP for MMO's in the past. So I don't really know what magic Swen conjured to make then finally change their minds.

Now someone contact Obsidian for a NWN 3. Yeah not gonna happen but I can dream.