Well, guess I may not get to play BG3 until Friday. There is no pre download and no updating early access. Fresh 120 gb install.

My rural 12 mb may get that done by Friday morning.

At least you get it Friday. My understanding, unless I missed it, is that us PS5 users won't get it until September.

yup, this game wasn't even on my radar a couple months ago now it's looking pretty damn interesting. But at least I can sort of see reviews of the game and watch some videos for a month and decide if I really want to buy it or not.

Is BG3 similar to Divinity Original Sin?

2 hours in. So far, I'm loving it.

Have the day off. A 2 liter bottle of water. And my all rush mix tape.

Let's. Go.

Saw a YouTube review on it and it seems unbelievable. The depth of what you can do and the attention to detail get me stoked for it. Need you to provide a review when you get time with your thoughts.

Will do.

i played for a couple hours last night, really liked it and it was kind of different then the early release but a lot of the same stuff. All the new races you can play as is pretty crazy and so far there has been a lot of customization on how you can play. Really can't wait to get into it more this weekend.

First day impressions are really good. There is a lot in BG3 to digest. I felt I went fairly slow as I learned how to to do things and I think I barely scratched the surface. Got about 8 hours in yesterday.

I'm enjoying a lot of the interface and ease of use. There are a lot of abilities and the game does make it easy to auto sort. Abilities buried in abilities took me a minute to figure out. It's a little overwhelming how much you can do. Jumping and shoving is a lot of fun.

I'm making the same mistake as I did in Divinty original sin 1; where I wonder into higher level encounters than I'm ready for. Its always been easy for me to get lost or wander too far in Larian Games starting out. It always takes me a bit to figure out my way around their maps.

Combat has been a lot of fun. The AI is smart. AI is doing things that have taught me some of the systems. I'm playing on regular difficulty and have had a few wipes. Loving the possibilities though. I'm beat Divinity 2 on the second hardest difficulty once I figured out the systems and really enjoyed the difficulty.

I like the animated dice rolls. Those are fun. Conversation choices are well written and offer a good amount of choice.

I need to figure out how to see under the hood a bit more and to remember to inspect enemies. I'm very use to the pathfinder games and how much they let you see dice rolls, modifiers, and and all that. I'm sure the info is there, I just need to make us of it. And learn which spells and abilities are very much needed and to pre buff a bit.

There are a lot of cut scenes and narrative. Writing is top notch. The narrator/DM is a very nice touch. I'm excited to see the story as I get further into the game and the cut scenes that will go with it. The player character is a bit awkward in the cut scenes and there are a few glitches.

I've never fallen in love with larians origin characters. And the same holds true here so far. They are passable and fun to play, but I'm just never liked their personality too much.

For context on my experience:
Pathfinder wrath of the righteous- 450 hours
Pathfinder kingmaker - 300 hours
Skyrim - 300 hours
Witcher - 250 hours
Divinity 2 - 200 hours

I'll also add that the magic system is satisfying. Like some reviews of FPS talk about how satisfying it is to shot certain weapons. That's the feeling I got from the magic system.

Sleep and hold person were fun to cast and watch play out, for low level spells. The animation got a dilemma out of me, especially sleep.

Very good review and thank you for that. Some questions, you mentioned wandering too far and getting into encounters that you weren’t ready for, how easy is it to do there? Does the game try to steer you into areas comparable to your level while giving you the freedom to roam? Also do enemies scale with you? I have never played a Larian game, so not sure on how they do that.

Also from a review I saw on YouTube they mentioned magic takes a while to recover and you have to rest a long time to do that. What’s that dynamic like? What I mean is when it comes to resting, is it a relatively easy thing to do? If not, how prohibitive is it for magic users? Not sure if you are far enough to answer yet and again, appreciate the review.

You get two short rests and then you have to long rest. It's easy to do. The spells will tell you what they take up. Like I believe I get 4 level one spells per short rests and 2 level 2 spells per short rests. I have one spell that I get two uses out of per long rest. You just have a camp that you can go to and long rest. There are travel points all over the map so it's easy to get back to where you were

I find it fairly easy to do until you get a bit use to Larian Games and how they structure their quests. For example, in divinty orginal sin 1, just leaving by one side of town immediately put you a fight above your level. You go out on the other side of town, and you do fine.

I'm kind of getting that feeling here. I went out to explore when I should have stayed and talked and finished some quests in the starting hub. A few levels means a lot.

So far I wouldn't say fights are numerous, so no frustration running into level 5 enemies at level 3. Only downside was going back across the map. There is a way point system, and I need to better learn it.

If you pay attention to your quest log and dialouge, the game will steer you where you should go, but it also doesn't not care one bit whether you do. It has a lot of freedom.

No scaleable enemies.

The magic system is DnD, pathfinder. You have x number of spell slots, which equal 1 use. So, if you want to cast grease more than once a rest, you have to slot it again. It can seem restrictive at first and in early levels, but you learn to work with it. You gave zero level spells that you can cast unlimited. Also, scrolls and potions.

You get more spell slots as you level up.

Resting takes you to your camp. Not sure on all the mechanics yet, outside party control and talking to your followers. Need supplies to rest.

I don't think you can spam resting like on older dnd games, but there also isn't a timer countdown on some quests, nor tracks time of day as strictly as the pathfinder games.

Like in pathfinder, I'm hoping there are some feats and equipment that gives you extra spell slots.

Thanks for that. Do appreciate that as I like using mages in games and wanted to see if it was feasible, which it seems like it is.

Really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. It's funny that I had for whatever reason never heard of Divinity 1 before you brought it up, but because of another review I saw on YouTube (one of those silly ranking ones) I had heard of and got Divinity 2, but never actually played it.

Reading what you have posted makes me think that playing Divinity 2 while I wait for BG3 on the PS5 might be a good idea and help me some with the mechanics of BG3.

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I beat Rogue Legacy 2 today. Great game in the metroidvania universe. The story isn't as good at the Ori games or Hollow Knight but the gameplay is great.

Decided to try Baldur's Gate 3. Man, it's been a while since I've played a turn based game. Took some getting used to. Got 3 people in my group. Finally figuring out the overcomplicated GUI. Progressing through the map. Found a frog that I could interact with. Got a good roll to communicate with this frog. And it commenced to annihilate my entire party.

:facepalm:

Me ands my friends are having an insane amount of fun on bg3. You can do absolutely anything you can think of.

The more I hear the more stoked I am getting for this game. Can't wait to get it.

Should have read this before I came across that darn addled frog.

Fun times in BG3:

- broke through a floor into a dungeon below, jumped down to surprise a group of enemies. Immediately shot a flame arrow into a oil barrel close by, blew all of them up but one. I then shoved him backwards into the fire that was left, and he burned to death.

- took out a group of enemies from the rafters using my Rouge without them ever seeing me. Sneak attack, hide. Sneak attack hide.

- killed a drow boss. She hit like a truck and wiped my party a few times. I got a lucky break when she stopped kn a wooden bridge over a chasm. I nuked the bridge, dropping her to her death. Though that meant I didn't get any loot.

- the bugbear troll barn scene. They were not happy I opened that door.

how much animal anthropomorphy can I expect in Baldurs Gate?

(not counting stuff like druid spells which is a D&D game feature)

Ok, now I wanna' try it. It's a turn based RPG?

I'm glad this is doing well. The turn based style is nearly dead. I prefer it over the hack-n-slash shit's everywhere ADD style a lot of games have moved to.

Not in the traditional RPG sense.

Its exactly like divinity original sin, or something like the turn based mode in Baldurs gate 1 and 2, Pillars of eternity, etc

Yeah, it's turn based. There's even a short cutscene where you actually roll a 20 sided die for specific interactions. Like communicating with a murder frog.

It's a very smartly developed game. There's a really complex team approval system where your actions in the game can make your companions like/hate you. Little stuff you wouldn't have given a second thought about, like wearing specific jewelry or mask that has some kind of religious or cultural meaning to a specific companion, and they will get all pissy and threaten to leave the group. Many enemy encounters you can talk your way out of. Or just go straight Leroy Jenkins, that works too. You can approach quests just about any way you want, but there might be many different consequences.

It can be frustrating at first, because there's just so many different options. Battle can be really complicated with your many dozens of spells/attacks/actions/etc. And the navigation is kinda weird. You pan the camera around with the normal keyboard keys, and point and click with the mouse as to where you want your characters to go. That took some getting used to for me. And once you enter turn based battle, you fight to the death. Either you win, or your entire party dies. You can't take on a battle, and then change your mind.

You can actually flee, if you get far enough away during your turns and hit the little flee thing on the bottom right of the UI. I have never done it, but it could be done~

I swear I tried that several times, and never made it work. Even with my main character hitting the "Disengage" button. Maybe I need to look into it again, because that was frustrating as hell. Thanks.

You have to be pretty far away

Probably has something to do with my character being a barbarian, so I can't move but within pissing distance. I'll try again. Thanks. Makes me feel better knowing it's possible.

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It's not new, but I'm enjoying Starpoint Gemini Warlords. Anyone ever play this one?

It's a shame the Baldur's Gate 3 is turn-based. I used to really enjoy the Baldur's Gate/Champions of Norrath Games way back when.

You are tricking yourself out of GOTD

Armored Core 6. It's awesome

Watched some gameplay, looked like Anthem on skates lolz

Some of the bosses are just ****ing insane. Incredibly steep skill checks.

Blizzard just needs to remake WoW 2.0 with updated graphics...... People still ****ing rocking that game 20 years later.

I hope it's still around when I'm old. I just wanna play WoW Classic 1 day after I retire.

Same.

/though I woulntd waste as much time just doing nothing like waiting for group or grinding for gold for slight upgrades.

Starfield review by pc gamer is out. Relatively spoiler free.

https://www.pcgamer.com/starfield-review/

I'll probably try it when it's not freaking 70 dollars, but I just haven't been able to get that excited for it. This review confirmed that.

Well if it's anything like your standard Bethesda game you know that it will be buggy, have countless patches out for it which fix minor things. Eventually the mod community will get tired of it and create mods to fix all the issues Bethesda couldn't/wouldn't.

Time to fire up the piracy device!

Your first Bethesda game? The real gem from these games are the mods and modders. They just release the playground and the community makes the game amazing.

Oh gosh no.

Morrowind was my first and true love. Ah, the early days of modding. My college roommate was not happy I modded in dragons.

I've played em all since then except for the newest multiple player one.

Fallout 4 was good, I got 80 hours out of it, but it just didn't hit me what way my 300 hours of skyrim have.

I'll play for sure. Between BG3, cyberpunk expansion, and city skylines 2, there is a full plate of great gaming to keep me busy while the molders do their thing.

I've been modding since the Daggerfall days, Bethesda games are best enjoyed that way.

I play warlords 2 with my dad and brother. Game was made in 1993.

Then when it’s just me and my dad we usually play Axis & Allie’s. I think 1997?

Both are such fun nostalgia games for us and it’s been really hard to find games as fun and simple as these.

Edit : from the pc, and are turn based games. Fun with a cocktail in hand.

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No lie, but I have no clue what that means.

It means it was cracked in the sense that you can pirate it.

BG3 turning out to be best game of all time~

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I'm really digging this

For those who game with their kids on PC, big recommendation from me for Sackboy: A Big Adventure. Basically seems like a Super Mario 3D World clone.

It's also 50% off on Steam right now for the PC Playstation games sale.

I played Private server for years, and was around for Classic Launch. Was in top teir raiding guidl and killed KT multuple times (last boss)

BUT

Blizzard in the their wisdom decided to move my characters to Classic Wrath (I selected to remain in vanilla)

So now I have my warrior and mage (Fully geared) sitting in wrath waiting to die. (RIP)

That sucks ass. Loved Burning Crusade but wrath was the beginning of the end for me.

I mean my Characters were geared to gills with the shit guilds fight over. But NOOOO blizzard advanced them.

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Just came out around midnight, free to play if anyone is interested.

If Steam has a sale on this game over the winter I may purchase it just out of curiosity. I'll probably never finish it but I haven't seen reviews like this for a PC game for a long time.

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This might be the next Valheim, very fun survival game.

I played the original Doom decades ago, and for whatever reason, never played any of the newer games.

Since Doom Eternal was a PS Plus game, I downloaded it........and now I'm hooked. Im playing on one of the harder settings, and it's definitely one of the tougher games I've played (beyond Souls/Bloodborne).

I know I'm probably way late to the game with it, but I'm glad I tried it out. fun stuff

Doom is one of the very few games left I'll sit down and play, but even with that said, I never finished Eternal. I would LIKE to finish it so I can play Doom: Ancient Gods pts 1&2, but that idea seems further and further away.

Fish may have finished the game?

Apparently after 2 years of a DDoS attack on its servers rendering the multiplayer dead, EA decided to randomly fix the Titanfall 2 servers! If you haven't tried it, you definitely owe it to yourself to try out my favorite FPS of all time. And it's only $3 on Steam right now.

Anybody pick up Lies Of P? Free on XBox Gamepass and it's a soulsborne inspired game. Mix of Bloodborne and Sekiro.

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Crossplay beta is on steam/playstation/xbox for a week starting today if anyone wants to check it out. This is originally what I thought Destiny would be like, much better IMO.

i finished doom eternal on easy i honestly can't remember how i did it because I suck at video games.

Yeah, I finished it. But that shit was brutal. I rage quit so many times I lost count. I'd stop playing it for weeks, only to pick it up again. There were still 2 gore nests I never managed to clear despite many attempts. I tried to do a Nightmare run, but I gave up. The stress was just too much. The game can be crazy intense.

I’m in the home stretch and I’m playing on brutal mode. It’s taken me 20-30x to clear certain areas.

I’m addicted but it’s provoked plenty of f bombs for sure

Just couldn't get on with Eternal's gameplay loop of having to kill in certain ways to maintain resources. I kind of hated it.

Baldur's Gate 3 is so good. Highly recommended.

As we approach gaming season this one is on my list. Weird, Victorian, puppet setting. I like it.




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Years out but Division 3 is coming, should be amazing.

I've been checking out some videos on it, although I'm now at the point where I don't want anymore spoilers.

I had given up on gaming because of deteriorating hand/eye skill and lack of interest but being turned base this has caught my eye.

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Looks interesting and it's out now in Early Access but only on Epic Games or console.

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How about a little Chris Berman Football? Cringe? lol

The first Helldivers was incredible but this looks like several notches better and with a $40 price tag.

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I'm playing The Quarry, solid game.

First one was pretty good, I logged a couple hundred hours in it.

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Of course you did; I would expect nothing less than you having great taste!