Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Break it down into segments/episodes. You’re playing your hour long episode until the credits roll.
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Baldur's Gate 3 contains 174 hours of possible cutscenes and 17,000 ending variations
BbMajor7th
Member
DOS2 was one of the best gaming experiences of the last generation; I'm more than ready for this.
Guilty_AI
Member
I mean, i heard someone who finished the early access build in around 10 minutes. Games has tons of content but the overwhelming majority of it is missable stuff. Kinda how you can just rush to the end in BotW
Buggy Loop
Member
Yeah, I’m surprised to see so many peoples not getting it
Just the possibilities of you killing 1, or 2, 3… etc members, or they quit because they don’t like your morals, their own quests, who you helped, who you didn’t, which faction is favorable to you, which are not, who you romanced… etc, it’s a staggering permutation of possibilities on top of probably having very distinct endings story wise.
What this means is that the game will have an ending that takes into account what you did. Such things as the importance of not seeing the dude you backstabbed in act 1 appearing at the ending, you know?
Somehow peoples find a way to turn this into a negative
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Second most anticipated game this year. Just hope it doesn't feel like a DOS3 clone. I haven't tried early access and have tried to avoid all spoilers.
I think the point is for everyone to have a different experience & not for everyone to play it until they experience everything the game has to offer lol
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
This could be very special game.
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nowhat
Member
While I doubt the official "75-100h to finish, 200h for completion" figure, I'm not sure if the early access build is representative of the final game. Seeing as the saves don't carry over and all.
I imagine we'll see only like 50 or 60 hours of those cutscenes during a regular playthrough. Perhaps even less if you avoid talking to NPCs unless absolutely necessary.
As for the endings...yeah, the math can be confusing. There's likely only about 5, 6 or 7 radically different endings, but with small variables quickly increasing the numbers in a purely technical sense.
As for the endings...yeah, the math can be confusing. There's likely only about 5, 6 or 7 radically different endings, but with small variables quickly increasing the numbers in a purely technical sense.
Guilty_AI
Member
They did make very clear the act 1 in the release build will be around 33% bigger than the EA one.
Still, this is not an uncommon design approach for their games, or rpgs in general.
Disco Dave
Member
That's way too many endings. How different can they really be?
Guilty_AI
Member
How many bear fur colors are there?That's way too many endings. How different can they really be?
calistan
Member
Surely it's just extrapolating a giant matrix of minor choices and calling that a 'unique' ending.
Like, you were: Good / Evil / Neutral, you chose Race A / B / C, you were Class X / Y / Z. You befriended this character, you killed that one, you did this side quest and ignored another...
There won't be 17,000 distinct individual outcomes, unless "You become king of the world, with your loyal elf wife at your side" and "You become king of the world, with your loyal bear wife at your side" can be considered massively different. I bet there's a reasonable number of crafted endings with a huge number of insignificant variables.
Strangle
Neo Member
I wish the gaming community had more of this mindset
touchfuzzy
Gold Member
It's entirely possible Playstation will have the better reviewed console-exclusive RPG releasing on September 6.
Mahnmut
Member
I guess he is the same guy who will complain about corridor games in another topic...
Strangle
Neo Member
This isn’t the kind of game people should be obsessively meta gaming
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TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
I've never gotten into Baldur's Gate beyond seeing some cool magazine ads or cultural osmosis, but I gotta say, everything I've read in this thread makes it sound like an experience you can't get anywhere else in gaming.
I mean....I can count the number of games I've played that include bear sex on apparently one finger. In.
I mean....I can count the number of games I've played that include bear sex on apparently one finger. In.
March Climber
Member
True, or at least have this mindset for RPGs with multiple choices.
I played games like Witcher 3, Mass Effect, and Skyrim just once. I made the moral decisions that I personally felt were right, which meant sometimes bad option, sometimes good option. Sometimes I made mistakes, but I kept trucking along because those mistakes made the games more interesting to me.
Most completionists would instead do one playthrough all good, one playthrough all bad, and maybe a third playthrough selecting middle of the road options they never chose before. It just sounds off when you think about it because it makes the main character look more robotic or sociopathic in nature.
Guilty_AI
Member
I wouldn't count on this being a console exclusive for long tho. Xbox version is fully in development and they're just figuring out the Series S split screen.
And who told you that?How can a story be any good if there is no story? It’s generated by variables.
Is my character or the other character this or that? It’s whatever you want it to be and I don’t see the appeal. But I guess that’s a different topic
17000 endings is just possible states that you influenced the world during playthrough.
Real endings, meaningful ones will be much much less.
I find it strange that such things needs to be explained.
AlteredForms
Banned
touchfuzzy
Gold Member
I've read that as well, kind of an inadvertent / fortunate temporary console exclusive for Sony. If it does review well they should lean into that a bit though.
After all this hype though I watched some gameplay videos and it does definitely not seem like my type of game.
amigastar
Member
That would not be advisable since you enter full Baldurs Gate City in Act 3 but the devs already said it can be played in Chunks.
nowhat
Member
The thing is though, by the time you've completed something like this (assuming it is really is as huge as the devs have said it is), you've spent quite a bit of time with various characters. And while there may only be a handful of "actual" endings, there will a lot more of "where they are now" type of cards.
And that's fine by me. If I've invested dozens of hours into a game, I want to know what my companions are up to. Even if it is just a static image and a bunch of text/voiceover.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The ones who love farming content.
Fess
Member
He’s still right though, no release date is announce on Xbox, might come next year.
But the release strategy is kinda perfect tbh. I bet MS don’t mind the Xbox delay, they want the RPG fans to play Starfield.
And I bet Sony don’t mind the delay til september 6 either, they don’t want RPG fans to look too closely on what Xbox gamers are playing.
On PC the release date is less optimal, different game but I know I want to focus on Starfield and doubt I would be able to finish BG3 in a month so will probably get it later.
Hummm??? that amount of endings are a bait..will end like those clone pirate cartdiges that claim have 500 games and most of them are small variations of the original.
Of course, the video says so.
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Kokoloko85
Member
I thought cutscenes were a bad thing last month with Final Fantasy 16…...
Skifi28
Member
I didn't realise Gaf was a hivemind.
Guilty_AI
Member
They're good if they're an actual part of the game
Not like cutscenes are bad by themselves. Only if the content stretches on for too long and/or its not interesting to justify being there in the first place.
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Kokoloko85
Member
Never said it was
Buggy Loop
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Guilty_AI
Member
NecrosaroIII
Banned
That's too much.
Barakov
Gold Member
Skifi28
Member
Then why would cutscenes be universally a bad thing? Obviously some people don't like them while others do.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
And of course, don't forget, on PC there are always mods. You can go to Nexus and I am sure there are a bunch of tittie mods already and the game isn't even out of EA yet.You have 17.000 variations of them
StereoVsn
Gold Member
It's probably worth watching a YouTube 10-15 min summary... Or just play the games, they are excellent.
Guilty_AI
Member
StereoVsn
Gold Member
You can just start Starfield a few months post initial release. Gives enough time for some big fixing from Bethesda and modders.
GymWolf
Member
Infinite titties FTW.
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Kokoloko85
Member
I never said they were a bad thing
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
You know someone is going to try to get all 17,000 variation endings.
YouTube title
Baldurs gate 3 compilation all endings... And the face of a badass character.
GymWolf
Member
Don't get fooled by its squishy look, a warm apple pie still feels like a better surrogate.
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Skifi28
Member
Kokoloko85
Member
I meant people complaining they were a bad thing with FF16. Not My opinion. Pretty sure you could understand that with the…. At the end of the sentence
Ill put a question mark from now on for people who dont understand……
And deleting half the sentence doesnt make it point lol
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