sigmaZ
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Depends what turned you off about the other games. I found the combat in this much more enjoyable than Original Sin 2. Feels more streamline and the dice aspect adds a unique flair to things.
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Gamesradarès Baldur's Gate 3 preview is pure hype
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Fess
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It’s the same in Cyberpunk, the choice is there but it’s like maybe C cups at most, and a flat ass. Meh. It is a strange omission. Nice curvy ladies can’t exist in gaming apparently. In some games you have a body form slider that make the whole character bigger or can choose a preset bulky muscular body but it’s rare to be able sculpt a character like you want.
But you can give a lady a schlong now and choose the size and there are pubic hair choices too!
Modders are the true heroes of our world.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
that's a one-way trip to burnout-city if I would do that
Ploopmonster832
Member
I've been dying for a good isometric rpg. Loved Pillars of eternity 2 but unless you played the first it was hard to understand what was going on. I think ill have to play BG2 before launch.
darth.shrimp
Member
Wouldn't be much point. Completely different ruleset, completely different gameplay, just a couple of old characters there for fanservice. It will still be a great game, that I'm sure of, but it might as well not be called "Baldur's Gate" at all... If anything I'd say it's closer to D:OS + ToEE.
(also, I've played BG2 way too much already lol)
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
Finally someone agrees with me, I was going to mention Cyberpunk as an example of that but forgot.It’s the same in Cyberpunk, the choice is there but it’s like maybe C cups at most, and a flat ass. Meh. It is a strange omission. Nice curvy ladies can’t exist in gaming apparently. In some games you have a body form slider that make the whole character bigger or can choose a preset bulky muscular body but it’s rare to be able sculpt a character like you want.
But you can give a lady a schlong now and choose the size and there are pubic hair choices too!
Modders are the true heroes of our world.
There's just a certain female body type you do NOT do anymore if you're a western dev, part of this is laziness, you'd have to remodel all the clothing, armor so it'd look natural, I remember in Saints Row 3 and 4 you could have absurdly huge breasts but it'd make all the clothing look unnaturally warped.
But it's also because there's this political phobia of large breasts in a video game, it's seen as the ultimate symbol of "sexism" in games (even though it really shouldn't) and therefore you just don't do it anymore.
In particular there were political slap fights I remember over the removal of "breast sliders" when localizing certain Japanese games years ago, because the "wrong" type of gamers voiced displeasure about that, therefore you just don't give an inch to the "wrong" type of gamers.
But it's crazy that you can have a female penis (which to be clear, is fine, the more options the merrier) but you can't have breasts above a certain size.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Nah, you need to go full on BG1&BG2 (with expansions) play through.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
You really should play Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous. It's an amazing game and best CRPG on this side of BG2. At least till BG3 releases.
But yeah, I strongly recommend it for anyone who loves CRPGs.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Steam doesnt have pre-load option for EA games. And Larian isn't just updating EA but pushing a completely new build.
amigastar
Member
Ah, i see. Makes sense. thx for clarification.
Guilty_AI
Member
Story-wise, yes
Gameplay-wise, debateable. Its fairly approachable for beginners as far as crpg are concerned, but its still a DnD based ruleset.
Mister Wolf
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struggler_guts
Member
Wait so launch is really going to be when everyone will be downloading all at the same time?
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Yep, it's going to be a madhouse.Wait so launch is really going to be when everyone will be downloading all at the same time?
Faust
Perpetually Tired
I am currently playing through Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 (original versions). I think the Enhanced Editions additions from Beamdog really hampered the experience and felt very, very poorly written. So I will avoid those when possible.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Eh, I think the EE were fine and there are bunch of mods on top of that. You don't have to use additional characters if you don't want them. That BG 1.5 though seemed meh.
Faust
Perpetually Tired
I don't use mods, so none of that really had me interested. The additional characters you don't have to use, but you still get that whiplash when you run into them and how poorly written those stories are when you go through it one time just stays with you.
Siege of Dragonspear is some of the worst writing in any CRPG I have ever seen. A disservice to the franchise written by people who would rather railroad their hamfisted views in your face than provide a quality adventure.
Sentenza
Gold Member
I wonder why every time there's a notable turn-based game coming, it seems to be almost some sort of legal obligation that the thread has to be swarmed by at least one dimwit who can't really keep for himself how much he dislikes the genre.
Ok? Go and play one of the hundreds of action games out there. It's hard to overstate how much of a shit no one gives.
Ok? Go and play one of the hundreds of action games out there. It's hard to overstate how much of a shit no one gives.
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sigmaZ
Member
There's an easy mode so gameplay you'll be ok. Just make sure you like tactical turn based.
Buggy Loop
Member
Not a time that matter since i'll be working but anyway, those are global launch times for PC.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
No, but you can just spent literally a few $ on GoG copy, it gets super cheap especially on sale.
Can you choose dick size though? From what I've seen you just choose between a few genital presets.It’s the same in Cyberpunk, the choice is there but it’s like maybe C cups at most, and a flat ass. Meh. It is a strange omission. Nice curvy ladies can’t exist in gaming apparently. In some games you have a body form slider that make the whole character bigger or can choose a preset bulky muscular body but it’s rare to be able sculpt a character like you want.
But you can give a lady a schlong now and choose the size and there are pubic hair choices too!
Modders are the true heroes of our world.
Edit: Ah, I guess you were talking about Cyberpunk.
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Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
I finished BG1 the other day (and most of TotSC), now half way through BG2 - prob not gonna finish though tbh, not by launch.
Good primer and getting back into the Faerûn vibe is my jam!
sigmaZ
Member
Oh, yeah. It's great. I love how you have so many options in how you approach different situations and they have long term consequences throughout the game. It's truly a roleplaying game.