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[SkeletonQuays]

Anyone playing split screen? If so, how is it?
Tempted to buy for that.

I'm playing with my fiance in split screen, it's smooth for the most part. Definitely a lot going on but it's not game breaking in anyway, the drop in drop out co-op is a pretty cool feature.

 

[BossLackey]

Game is absurdly good, yes.

Entered my top 10, maybe top 5.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

You for real ? It didn't do too well on the woke chart..

List of woke and non-woke roleplaying games

This thread contains information on how pozzed individual RPG titles are. You might not want to pay any money to game studios putting intrusive SJW content into their games and that's what the list is for. This game list is always incomplete, you can improve it by responding in this thread...

rpgcodex.net

These younger gens are so acclimated to this cringe already and don't even realize it. sad

You're really going to use a source that cites "n***er politics" as a criteria in their scale?

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

I'm sorta rushing through Starfield so me and the wife can finally start this game, won't be too much longer now.

 

[Vol5]

Pretty much agree. Wasn't too on board with the combat - Initially it felt extremely limited, but one you start to level up and take advantage of your powers and the environment, it's killer. Each fight is a challenge. Also, the music. It's absolutely wild. Like Zimmer, john Williams movie level standard.

 

[The Stig]

my GF is playing it right now and absolutely loving it. It looks great. I think I'll buy it too.

 

[VideoGameEnjoyer]

I'm with you, at about 140 hours on Steam, have made at least half a dozen characters. My 'main' is early in Act II and only about 45 hours playtime. I just always get the urge to roll a new character, or do something a different way, or just start a new campaign with a friend.

Easily one of the greatest games I've ever played, just impressive, fun, interesting, etc. at all levels. Easy GOTY and GOAT'd game.

 

[SRTtoZ]

Is it worth grabbing on PS5 for the achievements if I already own it on Steam? Is there a physical edition planned after the success of the PC version?

 

[ManaByte]

Is it worth grabbing on PS5 for the achievements if I already own it on Steam? Is there a physical edition planned after the success of the PC version?

Achievements don't pop with a save transfer. So you'd have to trigger them all over again. Steam is the same. I'd just load a save before an achievement and re-do it.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

So far my top 5 games I've played this year are:

1 - Armored Core 6
2 - Baldurs Gate 3 (only about 10 hours in so this might change)
3- Tears of the Kingdom
4 - Hogwarts Legacy
5 - Xenoblade 3

BG3 is fantastic and I do love it. But there are minor glitches and technical issues that do bring down the experience a bit. Nothing major, but enough and frequent enough to show some blemishes.

 

[Meicyn]

You for real ? It didn't do too well on the woke chart..

List of woke and non-woke roleplaying games

This thread contains information on how pozzed individual RPG titles are. You might not want to pay any money to game studios putting intrusive SJW content into their games and that's what the list is for. This game list is always incomplete, you can improve it by responding in this thread...

rpgcodex.net

These younger gens are so acclimated to this cringe already and don't even realize it. sad

lmao

a woke chart for games

i can smell the mix of dirty socks cool ranch doritos and moldy takeout from here

 

[Alebrije]

It wont be unlees it has a physical release....so greatness awaits.

 

[VideoGameEnjoyer]

Waay too much modern woke/cringe writing to bring it down. I'm sure RejectEra is head over heels with this one.. lol

You for real ? It didn't do too well on the woke chart..

List of woke and non-woke roleplaying games

This thread contains information on how pozzed individual RPG titles are. You might not want to pay any money to game studios putting intrusive SJW content into their games and that's what the list is for. This game list is always incomplete, you can improve it by responding in this thread...

rpgcodex.net

These younger gens are so acclimated to this cringe already and don't even realize it. sad

You should be so fucking embarrassed posting that, holy shit.

 

[crazyriddler]

I'm pretty sure that (while still being a great game) its fame and interest by the general public has been motivated by some unexpected temporary exclusivity accompanied by a big release of a certain game.

I never saw the same interest for other games of the same genre (or even from the same company, like divinity) of great quality and very similar style.

But hey, just a thought.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

game came out of left field for me.

going to play it soon.

 

[Meicyn]

I'm pretty sure that (while still being a great game) its fame and interest by the general public has been motivated by some unexpected temporary exclusivity accompanied by a big release of a certain game.

I never saw the same interest for other games of the same genre (or even from the same company, like divinity) of great quality and very similar style.

But hey, just a thought.

Yeah the 5.2 million copies of Baldur's Gate 3 sold on Steam alone was motivated by console wars.

lmao

 

[VideoGameEnjoyer]

Yeah the 5.2 million copies of Baldur's Gate 3 sold on Steam alone was motivated by console wars.

lmao

Yea, that 'theory' seems like a massive stretch. Sometimes a game is just really fucking good.

 

[Edmund]

Try Pathfinder Wrath Of the The Righteous!! It's good!!

 

[Shake Your Rump]

I'm burning to get into it, but my priorities list keeps getting longer and longer.

After Sea of Stars, FFVI (again). Might be able to squeeze it in before Spider-Man 2.

Ack!

Same here. I have had a policy to never pay full price for a digital game. However, the Sea of Stars demo hooked me, so I broke down and bought it. BG3 is next.

 

[Humdinger]

Sounds like a great RPG, and I plan to pick it up eventually. I'm holding off for now mainly because of the time commitment required. I'm not at the point where I want to invest that much time in a game. Maybe later.

 

[Chronicle]

I'm in Elden Ring now. Man I wanna jump ship and get in bg3!

 

[NecrosaroIII]

I'm in Elden Ring now. Man I wanna jump ship and get in bg3!

That's what I did, but with Armored Core VI. Never regreted it. There is good things about Elden Ring. It's mysterious. But it's too stresseful to play.

 

[Dacvak]

I'm absolutely in love with BG3 (which is surprising since I generally don't care for RPGs that much), but HOLY SHIT is the coop janky as hell in this game.

I've been playing through with a friend, and there are just sooooo many small client/server glitches (like UIs refreshing when someone else is going through dialog or their inventory), as well as a handful of game-breaking bugs.

We've softlocked our game at least half a dozen times and had to actually restart BG3 just to get it to work. There have been quests where we set off conflicting flags in the narrative, essentially making them unbeatable or just broken. I bet the single player experience is a lot more airtight, but the jank (both intentional and unintentional) in multiplayer is just insane. Granted, I'm exactly the type of player who will go out of my way to try things that I think will break the game, so I don't expect most people to have this opinion.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Besides the performance, what's wrong with act 3?

Bugs and glitches galore. Here's a part of a post I made in the OT after beating the game with a list of some of the weird things I encountered:

...And the bugs man. I went inside a building that had a security camera which showed footage of prisoners trapped in another facility. But I had already freed those prisoners and the facility had been blown up! Then I saved a guy in this new building and as he was following me around, he stopped me for trespassing and I had to pass an ability check. The prisoner I was rescuing stopped me for trespassing in the prison I was freeing him from. I wasn't able to dig up chests anymore, even though I always carry a shovel since act 1. Eventually I found another shovel and the inventory now says I have a stack of 2 shovels. So I had the shovel all this time? Why couldn't I dig? My wizard has magic gloves that let him cast ranged spells without penalty in melee. But I couldn't find the passive toggle for them anywhere in a battle in the sewers in act 3. I kept checking all the different menus for 5 minutes and eventually gave up. Then after the battle I unequipped and reequipped the gloves and the toggle reappeared.

That wizard also has a magic staff with a glowy bit at the end. But the glowy bit doesn't stay on the staff - it'll just float around in the air. So during cutscenes while characters are talking there's this weird glowy light just floating around behind them. It's a bitchin' staff though so I'm not gonna unequip it. There's a haunted house quest I tried a few times before looking it up online to see if it's just bugged and yep you bet your ass it's bugged. Characters that are supposed to talk to me just aren't talking so I can go back an hour and load the game to try again or just give up on that quest. I'll take give up thanks.

I could go on but you get the idea. I was kind of amazed by how good the early parts of the game were, and then despite being aware of some grumbling, equally amazed that the later parts could be so rough. I guess my love of Larian's other titles like divinity and the orgasmic chorus of praise this game gets with its perfect metacritic score kind of put some blinkers on me, but nothing closes your mind to criticism of BG3 more than playing its wonderful first half. I was on such a magical adventure that I just didn't want to believe they would go full bethesda by the end. That's not a comment on starfield which I haven't played but it is a comment on bethesda's other games lol.

So console players beware. I don't want to spoil your fun but I would be shocked if act 3 doesn't have major problems on console and the more prepared you are for them the less painful they'll be... so try to expect the worst and you'll be pleasantly surprised. I was gonna play the game again immediately after beating it with different classes and characters and making different choices, but after seeing act 3 I just want to be done.

So is this game of the year? Yeah...in 2026. When they release the enhanced edition so it's not so buggy and chuggy in act 3, this will be game of the year that year. I might even play it again after they do that. But right now the thing ruining the new Baldur's Gate game is Baldur's Gate.

 

[Bkdk]

The biggest shock of awe from larian is when I play Divinity original sin, such interesting turn base combat mechanics. Dragon age inquishition winning so many GOTY titles back in 2014 is one of the most shameful moment of gaming media sites of all time. Inquisition is basically the starfield of that year, perhaps even worse.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

So far my top 5 games I've played this year are:

1 - Armored Core 6
2 - Baldurs Gate 3 (only about 10 hours in so this might change)
3- Tears of the Kingdom
4 - Hogwarts Legacy
5 - Xenoblade 3

BG3 is fantastic and I do love it. But there are minor glitches and technical issues that do bring down the experience a bit. Nothing major, but enough and frequent enough to show some blemishes.

Do you mean Future Redeemed? Xenoblade 3 came out last year

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Do you mean Future Redeemed? Xenoblade 3 came out last year

I didn't get to it until this year though. But yeah, Future Redeemed was pretty good.

 

[Slicker than your average]

Easily best game of the year and one of the best for all time. But I do find the world abit small. You essential have, a forest/swamp, some dark forest with a castle and underground temple and a city.

The areas are jammed packed with things to do but some of them also feel like padding. Your quest is basically return to the city.

Also I feel like when an option appears for a significant story chain, the game kinds explains the consequences of what might happen before you do it.

Regardless,it has so much replay value.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

In other words, you dislike CRPGs and had fun with a game made for people that dislike CRPGs

Go play Morrowind, Gothic 2, Deus Ex, Arx Fatalis, Darklands or some other actual good CRPG.

You mean play ones that are actually worse CRPG's.

 

[cortadew]

It's ok but boring as fuck for huge chunks of the game

 

[Syphon Filter]

bg3 is woke trash.

 

[Hugare]

Its probably in my Top 5

Playing through it in co-op with my girlfriend was one of the best gaming experiences that I've ever had.

Act III is too much tho, and burned us out. I still have to go back to it, but as Evilore has mentioned already, you have to invest too much of your time on it, so I expect to go back at it during my vacation.

Again about Act III: its too overwhelming. Up to Act II it was GOAT material, hands down.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

If Fromsoft souls games didn't exist, BG3 would be my all time fav game. I also don't get the criticism for act III.

 

[geary]

Did you play Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2 ? BG3 is basically Divinity: Original Sin 3

I want a new fallout game in the same style!

Thats Wastelands.

 

[Hudo]

Thats Wastelands.

Wasteland 3 is pretty good.

 

[Fess]

It's ok but boring as fuck for huge chunks of the game

I fell asleep during combat. Spent 25 hours on it in total before accepting that it wasn't for me.
I don't think turn based is my thing anymore. I gave up on Expedition 33 after one evening too.

 

[Buhaj]

How are controls on PS5?

 

[cortadew]

I fell asleep during combat. Spent 25 hours on it in total before accepting that it wasn't for me.
I don't think turn based is my thing anymore. I gave up on Expedition 33 after one evening too.

I have 250 hours and I am at near the end of the game and it's been a pretty good game but I would be lying if I said it has been mindblowing or extraordinary. Then again, great game but at this point some parts are tedious enough that I feel like a chore more than just a game.

 

[The_hunter]

How are controls on PS5?

They're very good. The targeting works well, as it has a magnetic cursor so it's easy to target stuff.

My only gripe with the game is the screen tearing in performance mode that was never addressed.

 

[Zathalus]

Even better these days with all the patches and content Larian has added. Certainly one of the best RPGs released.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I felt this way about their previous game DOS2. I always knew BG3 would be a banger because of DOS2. Lohse's song is up there with any content in BG3 too, hahahahaha. Loved both games, 100000000000000000/10.