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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Eight of the 14 reviews in for Baldur’s Gate 3 are 10/10s. Nothing is below a 9.

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[–] WhosMansIsThis@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

80 hours in, still not out of the starter area. 10/10.

[–] RonSwanson@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haven't played it myself but that sounds insane, what takes so long?

[–] Infinite_Indecision@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well first you need to pick a race, and build your character 7 times. Then you need to pick a class which leads to rebuilding your character more times. Of course then you realize that your main character stats and background would really be better a different way with a different class, which means you need to readjust your look.

And Ect for 80hrs

[–] Radio_717@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a respec option in the first area. You don't need to do this. :)

[–] Clown_Tempura@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

BUT MY GOLD hisssss

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This game isn’t all… death and darkness everywhere like Divinity OS2 was, is it? In that game, it felt like I was fighting the undead and horrible meat monsters everywhere.

[–] Oldmandan@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well... it is a Baldur's Gate game (as much as I've seen claimed otherwise), so the story is centered around the usurper gods of death, their legacy and their attempts to gain power and influence in the world.

The first act is reasonably light (with exception of mindflayers and some light occular body horror :P), just normal dnd stuff, goblins, druids, etc.

The second... well, to avoid spoiling too much, let's just say it goes dark. :P Haven't seen the third yet, personally.

I lost both my eyes in the game lmao

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The game still needs a lot of UX improvements to be considered perfect, but TotK did too. For everything TotK fixed from BotW it had new problems.

[–] xHoudek@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nintendo managed to make an open world action-adventure more tedious than a turn based cRPG

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get your downvote ready everyone, I haven't played the new Zelda but I did play and beat botw and it was just okay for me. I found it to be very over rated. It's not even close to my top 10.

[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I definitely had to push to finish the game

Have no desire to touch Total if I’m being honest.

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

TotK makes BotW feel like an unfinished Beta. This is coming from someone who didnt complete BotW but beat TotK with all shrines and such. The fact that you can make a custom airbike and even use it in some dungeons makes all the difference, IMO.

[–] JdW@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I realize on an intellectual level I live in a world where Zelda games are revered for some reason. Don't play them, can't stand console/j- rpg's and don't know anyone that plays them but especially online they seem to be the Alpha and Omega. THAT's why this is such a big thing, you can't compare games but to surpass the ultimate internet fanboy dream game by just making a great RPG is ballsy and just what gaming needed right now.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The reason they are revered is that over the last 27 years, the Legend of Zelda franchise has consistently put out one good game after the next with few, if any real blemishes on their record. After almost 3 decades of consistently putting out games that are fun, innovative, and kinda familiar all at once, the fanboys may have a minor point with their obsession of the games.