I started playing this game exactly a month ago, now I’ve just beat Khetheric Thorm. And I can’t over the how good it is. Totally slept on it. But i guess it simply aged into a finer wine with time. What a great game!’
I had an epic blind honor mode 1st run, was clutch a few times, but it was an experience I'll never forget. Took me 200+ hrs, moving super cautious in every area, every choice, etc. I do look forward to future playthroughs cause there are so many choices & builds I've yet to try yet, haha.
Played and finished the game 5 times now, trying to play a little bit differently every time but that first playthrough will always have the most and best memories. Nothing will ever beat the experience of seeing things for the first time on my drow paladin. I'm glad I kept so many save points on it, because I love to just go back see her progress at various stages of the game.
and then u reach act 3 and evr looks rushed and unpolished. Looked like another game. Still an amazing game but the gap in polish between 1act and the 3rd act is huge. I also got bored fast in the city (u can actually see everything in the city pretty fast, saddly they didnt add a lot of Baldurs Gate city).
Larian Studios making sure to give us Mod support before they leave BG3 forever is a gift, to make the game last well after they leave. How many studios would do that? Making sure the game will continue to thrive for years after they are no longer making money from it.
@@scott2452 Absolutely not. Why would anyone who wants something positive to happen pray to the goddess that wants to undo the world and all its creatures? A prayer to Tymora, the goddess of Luck (also known as Lady Luck), is a lot more appropriate. Or maybe a prayer to Selune (the Moonmaiden, Shar's good aligned sister), to Lathander (the Morninglord, the God of birth, dawn and renewal), Gond (god of craft, smithing, and inventiveness) or Oghma (God of bards, inspiration, invention, and knowledge).
Pre BG3 and Post BG3 Era. It's my standard and the number 1 video game of all time for me. That's a big thing for someone who was the only person who played BG1 in my part of the world in 2000. Also BG3 is what got me to your channel and award winning community!! Awooooo!!! To Larian: Thank you for having a heart to the gamers!
A year ago I knew nothing about this game, had never played a CRPG before, had never heard of Larian. I bought it because I was bored and the reviews were glowing, but I didn't know if I would even like it. Fast forward a year to today, and I currently have 1,235 hours. I went from barely scraping my way through balanced difficulty to soloing tactician and will soon attempt a solo honour run. I spend hours meticulously planning character builds, have memorized the location of almost every piece of loot, have seen the outcome of every major decision. There are some games where you wonder how the devs had the gall to charge $70 for garbage. Then there's BG3, a game that costs $60 but gives you an unquantifiable amount of value.
Then you would love D&D table top gaming (guessing of course). It depends on who you are playing with. And if a 12 year old me can do it. You certainly can.
It's honestly insane how much time you can spend in this game and not discover everything too. I have around 850 hours and only just discovered a ring that you can get from a skeleton above the bibberbang/noblestalk in act 1. It's not a great ring or anything, but it's still crazy that there are so many things just hidden, and that's what makes it so fun to explore over and over again
My man, same here, never even touched DND at all prior to playing bg3. And I love everything about this game, I am obsessed! Yeah it's not perfect, and yes it's got it's downsides, but it's definitely more of a game, than what the gaming industry is supposed to be currently.
To be fair, in recent interview to PC Gamer Swen literally says "The biggest release gets the space, and then the others have to move for it. This has always been a universal truth. So we recognized Starfield as a bigger game than us. So that's why we had to move. Players were not going to be playing multiple RPGs of this size at the same time. That's impossible. So you were going to force players to make a choice, so we said 'OK, we'll take that choice away and move elsewhere" So yeah, they recognized Starfield as a bigger game, because it was supposed to be a bigger game, from a studio with much bigger budget and supposed to a heavy hitter 2023. It so just happened to be... well, what happened to be. I really do think they were trying to get away from Starfield, rather than create a competition or outperform
@@nickrubin7312yeah i dont think Larian realized just how popular their game was going to be. Traditionally Crpg no matter how well made are limited by their niche genre, players like me for example simply dont play crpg, since we were not raised on those games. But my god bg3 was a revolution. Probably the best game i have ever played. Its cause of this game that i even started trying other crpg. Just that good, starfield simply got crushed, or to be more fair, wasnt even in competition. To think i bought bg3 just to tide over the month until starfield release feels hilarious now.
@@kunalsingh4418 they plainly didn't. IIRC, they thought they'd get around 100,000 concurrent players at launch. They got more than 8x that, and apparently a full year after release they're still hovering around their original estimate. In July of last year, I remember thinking BG3 was mostly exciting for a niche audience. I was still a little sore from how the massive buzz surrounding Cyberpunk 2077 turned into backlash due to some gamers' negative experiences (I had a brand new PC and only ever had very minor bugs), so partly I was just being cautious, but mostly I thought there was absolutely no way that a CRPG could have the same mainstream appeal as a first-person action adventure. Then I figured the big surge of players for BG3 was mostly social media buzz over the bear scene and general curiosity that would quickly fade after Starfield came out, and BG3 would be a flash in the pan. I did not expect so many other people to replay the game endlessly just the same as I did.
New vid! Documentary on Larian's pretty crazy history - ua-cam.com/video/trSxzvKXiCI/v-deo.htmlsi=fcvZpjqVSKDHE2NP Time flies... crazy. I feel like it was just yesterday that us early access players were checking out Grymforge for the first time. Or watching the first ever animated Speak with the Dead scene.
Grimforge and level 5 was a huge addition to EA. What a journey, even though EA was very long, Larian kept us "in-the-loop" with Panels from Hell and periodic updates to the game. Thanks, Wolf, for all the amazing BG3 content over the past 4 years. You were certainly a big part of making the EA period as enjoyable as it was. Thanks man!
Yeah, I played it a bit when it came out, only just made it to act 3 when I left it thinking I'll have another go at it after a few updates. It's baffling that this is already a year ago. I really need to finish this game.
Bg3 was game that I was genuinely sad when it ended. I sat and watched the entire credits, and was touched by how much love was put into the game. Can't wait to see what larian does next. Also Sven is a g for wearing his plate armor to the award ceremony.
Crazy to think that this game and team has accomplished so much in such a historic way. Shaking the current videogame industry in favor of the players so much so that other parties felt the need to defend themselves and their philosophies/practices is so great. And to think that this game was already so good in the EA that I spent about 250 hrs on it alone only for it to completely follow through with what they promised and more. These folks just know how to make a great game and have earned their place in the history books. Okay I think I'm done fangirling. Thanks for the well-presented review
Same. Act 1 and 2 are amazing. Reaching the city feels off? It's as if the momentum abruptly comes to a halt. I have only reached the small town before the actual city and nothing seems to push me any further.
@jandy8911 The cursed forest does feel like an endgame area, but I get bored with my character and start a new one. And have numerous attempts in honor mode with friends. We're doing an all rogue party, and combat is a breeze in act one. Accidenty took out all the goblins outside the temple cause the one friend ran into combat, we said banzai, and the goblins died.
My story with this game was I was missing my D&D group and was looking for a good game to fill that void. I saw the trailer for this game on my PS5 and preordered it. But it wasn’t until it was downloaded and I heard the gentle music and soft vocals on the game selection screen that I realized I was in for something special. Seriously, I listened to the music for a solid two minutes, taking in the faces of the characters I would one day grow to love and said out loud to myself “Uh oh…I think I’m REALLY going to like this game.” It surpassed my expectations.
I, like many other people, are very thankful that Larian Studios did the job that they did for Baulder's.Gate 3. It gave us an immersion level that, even today, is unbelievable. Thanks
I started playing BG3 in October of 2020, and I haven’t stopped. It is truly my favorite game of all time. Even now as I play it I still think back to the first time I encountered an area or fight. It is truly a remarkable game that I probably will never stop playing.
Honestly same, I've finished the game once with my first character, tried multiple co op runs (currently on one that's at moonrise) have my own Durge resist run, that i kinda hate cause sorcerers suck so probably gonna redo that. And when patch 7 comes out there's a whole modding world to explore (i know i could have earlier on PC but i tried once, it didn't work right away and i never bothered again). This game has been part of my life the last year and i love it!
Im happy to have been on this adventure with you the whole way Wolfheart. Cant believe it been a year since release, I remember being excited for year for it to come out.
Best RPG for me of all time. It’s got great replay-ability as well. I can’t wait for patch 7 for my next playthrough. I logged 1000 hours last year playing this game.
I'm on my second playthrough, this time co-op with my brother, so I let him make every decision while keeping the spoilers to myself. I already knew how great this game was, but this second time around, everything goes totally differently, and I mean TOTALLY differently. It is just insane how well it's made! I've never seen anything like this in 30 years of gaming.
I remember getting so excited when i saw the dragonborn race. Playing a vengeance paladin, learning smite could work in silence bubble and playing my first co-op campaign with my best friend where we spent an hour debating who gets to romance who. Love this game.
It was an honor to be along for the full ride for this game. I can still remember the announcement stream in (I think Feb 2020?) and having to wait 1 year to hear anything more.
It's crazy that it's been 1 year already since this masterpiece came out..congrats to Larian and everyone involved! It's sad that we already know that Larian are busy working on their next project and they will probably never touch D&D again, but it was fun while it lasted.
How crazy, I jsut restarted the game 2 days ago and had no idea it was their year anniversary. Thank you for having clear vocals and loud audio, I often listen to videos while I’m doing other things, so I get annoyed when they aren’t loud enough. BG3 is one of the ONLY games that is worth $60 no question about it. The insane amount of work they put into it is so obvious and so very appreciated. I never was into D&D or card things, so this was my first one and so glad I got it
5:38 me I’m one of those persons. I never touched a turn based game. Picked it up like maybe a month before the release. I played the first act of early access and immediately thought that this is one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Then when the official game came out, I never left my room for like 2 days LOL. For someone who never played a turned base game this was a perfect game to start with it wasn’t that complex and it reminded me of those old-school RTS games like StarCraft and original Warcraft where you had to plan your strategies and attacks and defenses. BG3 is easily one of my top 10 fav games and I can’t wait for the new dark endings !!! For my dark urge run
Did you know the twin Drow in BG3 are inspired by a mod for BG1? I have it as a mod collection which introduces various npcs and mini stories into both BG1 + 2. The twin drow can be found in BG1, in BG City outside Three Old Kegs tavern during the hunt for Sarevok ... its a rather saucy ::teXt-ba$ed: interlude ooh la laa. OH Im just guessing that the BG1 mod inspired BG3 ... and not the other way around
This game is so legendary. I have completed this game so many times and I'm still finding new secrets, endings, playstyles etc. Even a year later it's still such a spectacular game! Thank you for another amazing video Wolf! ❤
All the other games in my Steam library have been neglected for a year now. I wish Lairan all the success in the world and hope that other game studios follow their example.
Still have not played it yet. I just know how much i will love it and i'm not playing it just like you would wait to open a special bottle of wine one day. I loved divinity orginal sin 1 and 2. Loved Baldurs gate 1-2. So there is no way i'm not going to fall in love with this game when i do and i know i will finish it after months of playing and doing everything.
I am absolutely loving the growing popularity and space you and other video game content greater like SkillUp, Mortismal and others are carving up for yourselves in discussing the industry and space in the fair, evenhanded and professional way that you guys do…keep it up 🔥
When they forwarded the release date to my actual birthday, I almost went crazy. Having supported the game since early access, I couldn't believe that the most anticipated game was gonna be on my birthday. One year later, I age by one, and so does Baldur's Gate 3. Happy Anniversary to the game and congrats to one of (if not the only) the most respected video game producers out there.
Larian Studios is a shining beacon in the gaming world and industry!!! Hopelijk the world have took notice how it should and could be! Looking forward to the next game of Larian and hopefully games from other good studios that are making games over profit
Damn, kind of felt nostalgic, just a bit, seeing some PfH footage. I truly hope they'll do something like that for their next game. Not necessarily 1 to 1, but same "in-touch with audience/players" experience for showcases in the future (if we presume there will be early access period for one of their games). BG3 back in 2020 on the initial release of EA was kind of wildly different. It is actually crazy how much has changed and how time flies. Happy anniversary! And thanks a lot for years of great content.
So happy that Larian got the recognition and success they deserved! I been saying since EA that this game will be phenomenal and it really is! I also love the BG3 community and how a game like this continues to bring so many ppl together. Awesome stuff as always, Wolf, and happy 1 year anniversary to Baldur's Gate 3🎉
Man when this game launched last year I was in the peak of my busy season so I made myself wait until the winter which is my off season to play it. I'm really glad I did because the amount of nights I would stay up until 5am playing, go to sleep, then wake up at 1-2pm and play the game all night were seemingly endless and it was a great month of vacation.
It’s been a grand trip Wolf. I’m still here after all these years. I still haven’t made it to the end a save got corrupted and I started over. I’m so glad you are successful with your channel.
Great video Wolf and glad you made this recap as time really has flown and seems to do more often these days. Larian/bg3 really is deserving of all of its success and praise as I literally cannot think of the last truly immersive escape/experience I had with the game since Witcher three. That feeling of being transported into this experience in such a way that you practically forget you’re in your room and you still need to eat food or go to the bathroom lol. I cannot thank Larian enough for not only having the spine to take risks but also have faith in what they were creating. To have assembled such a team from top to bottom starting with the leadership that was so passionately in love with their job and their project. Truly creative artist, whose priorities from a fundamental foundational level was the game and everything else was secondary in comparison to that sole priority. The kind of authenticity that we were able to experience from this studios focus something I think we all appreciate greatly. As many in this industry attempted to attack or dull the excitement and successful results of this project with consumers to better curb potential standards/expectations being set… I hope as consumers we continue to push back against that lazy notion and demand/expect the appropriate quality/potential to be realized from these developers and other companies when priorities are put in the right place. They want to do to a very subpar expectation/results that bg3 Completely blows out of the water. Don’t fall for it. After all, you get the beast that you feed
As someone who has never played DnD and also was never crazy about turn based combat, I cant believe how much I love BG3. Seemed like the opposite of something i’d be into, and it is probably in my top 3 games of all time.
It is actually crazy what this game means to me, i remember the hype i had when i play‘ed BG 1, i think i was 13 years old, now i‘m playing BG 3 with my 16 year old daughter. I played for over 300hrs and still on it. We both love this game so much. Thanks Larian for this awsome game. 🎉
One of the best games I've ever played. I'm giddy like a little kid every time I pick up the controller. Been so long since I've felt like that over a game. I'm beyond blessed to still be going thru my first playthrough
A year later after release and I'm still playing BG3 and I feel like I've only scratched the surface of what this game can offer, and with official mod support, new evil endings and several other features on the horizon coming with patch 7, I don't think I'll stop playing any time soon.
The game's story wouldnt make sense if they made a DLC. The point of games like this is that theres multiple ending's and infinite approaches if they made a story that takes place after the ending what ending would that be? a lot of them involves the world ending so they cant. if they make the story take place in the past wouldn't that mean your choices doesnt matter because the story is going to lead back to the nautiloid anyways
My friend gifted me with a generous sum of PSN wallet earlier this year. I used it to get a PS+ subscription, and buy BG3, which was on sale at the time. And though I harbor a slight apprehension towards the menu wheel system (I still do, but warmed up to it a little), I played nothing else for the next 2 months, completing 2 playthroughs back to back and almost reaching 400 hours of playtime. Happy birthday, BG3. Can't wait for patch 7.
To your comments at 12:10 and on, since release I've believed that the thing "holding" BG3 back was the 5e ruleset. after playing DOS2 and seeing what the studio is capable of creating I believe that ultimately being beholdent to WOTC actually limited the potential of BG3. Especially now with the turmoil surrounding the 2024 5e.5 revisions I think WOTC is going to need to spend some time learning from Larian. I'm honestly super excited that we are moving away from the BG series for a time and have REALLY high hopes for DOS3. As you said, with a priority for talent retention and a whole suite of improvements that went into BG3 I cant imagine DOS3 being any less of a success; save for another DOS2 "Pursuing Divinity" arc.
It feels like this long journey for you has really come to an end. You did an incredible job covering this game, stuck with it through the absurd amount of early access time, and earned all the success you got. Congrats to BG3 for sure, but also, congrats to you man. I hope you're in my gaming feed for years to come.
I’ve finished the game 3 times in that period. Games I love I will usually replay 3 times but usually over the span of 4-5+ years. Always discovering new things every playthough, truely a special game.
I remember years ago when early access released and how excited I was. I was at work during the day and watched your livestream lol. Love your content bro. You’ve come such a long way since that.
Thank you for all your AMAZING lore videos. I'm late to the game and haven't played BG3 yet, but I will soon. And your videos are really helping me understand the lore, the game and just the D&D universe (I'm new to it all but really getting into it). I've been watching a ton of your videos lately and I just want to say thank you ❤ They're great! You're really talented and a great storyteller. Keep it up!!
im currently trying BG3 for the first time, never played a BG game before either. Im having such a fun time! Im taking it slow and easy, and just enjoying the world around me as well as the chaos on the road lol. So far, 9 hrs in, I can see myself racking up a lot of playtime on this game and already see the potential for replays due to different decision makiing, as well as builds and story. Excited to see what the story unfolds
That means I've been following you for a year! Damn, time flies when you're having fun 😊 you're ace and I know I'll keep tuning into your videos for a long time! Love the Wolfpack ❤️
I still wish we had that DM mode like in D:OS2 but I get that WotC did not want competition to their upcoming, microtransaction filled, Virtual Tabletop
It wasn't a WOTC decision, Larian themselves decided not to implement it iirc Swen said it was too difficult and time consuming for them to implement it. He was asked about it and answered the question on the Dropped Frames podcast a month or so before the game launched.
With the recent PCGamer article confirming that Larian WAS, in fact, working on BG4 (and even had "something playable", according to Sven) before things between them and WotC went sour, I remain hopeful that time will heal the rift and the two of them collaborate again on another D&D project. My dream is that Larian, taking all the knowledge and experience they've learned from BG3, goes on to make Neverwinter Nights 3, with a full working DM client and possibly a module creator as well. :) This kind of D&D CRPG project has not been attempted since NWN1 (NWN2 made a half-hearted attempt, but it fell far short in the DM client and module creator side of things), and I think if anybody could pull it off AND do it justice (and without poisoning the well with all kinds of predatory microtransactions and subscription/season pass tomfoolery), it would be Larian.
I'm a little late to comment this, but it was such a good "revisiting summary" video, you addressed everything, from "A" to "B" then to "C"! I found out about BG3 thanks to my friends last August and I gave it a chance last September - no regrets 😄 I can't wait to see new games Larian is working on 😍
Been a hugs fan of Larian since Beyond Divinity. Bought all their games since then and watched them get better and better. Sven has such drive and passion for their games which seems to rub off on everyone else that i wish he was my boss. Congrats on the 1st year of BG3 and look forward to the next game.
BG3 is one of the few games that i actually got to play the FIRST TIME twice. Its cuz of all the massive content and the unpredictablilty of it. It never felt as if i was playing the same game. So goood! I will do my 3rd play through when mod support shows up.
my first playthrough of bg3 was on honor mode. My friends that had already beaten the game got back on when honor mode got added so I bought the game. Playing as a barbarian, not knowing what to do other than hit shit with my sword is still one of the best gaming experiences ive ever had. I play a lot with mods now, and they add so much more variety to the game. I cant wait for official mod support. edit: yes we beat honor mode. using the steam trophies as a reference we estimated that we were at least one of the first 2000 parties to beat it.
@@Em3r1c4 vortex is the website for all bg3 mods. I use collections which are modpacks made by other people. usually I like mods that add a lot of race and class options since thats more enjoyable to me then harder enemies
They learned and improved upon Original Sin 1 & 2 .. then made this beautiful magic gem BG3 and also learned .. if they could improve even that in DOS3 I guess our heads will just go 🤯🤯 .. 😅
This is a great feelgood story about a company that treated gamers with a ton of respect. A massive game created with passion at every corner. No predatory greed or reliance on the modern business models in gaming. After playing but still not beating this massive game, I am impressed it's like games of yesteryear that didn't count on the internet to allow them to finish the game after release. I wish them luck in their next creations and will absolutely be ready to consider their next releases with interest.
The Panels From Hell were THE BEST. I legit felt like a kid on Christmas morning every time, just so incredibly giddy and excited :') I miss that. Such a wonderful surprise to see they've made a new UA-cam channel! I can't wait to see what the Channel From Hell gifts us with 😈 Thanks for the great video, Wolf!
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BG3 is one of the few games where I genuinely wish I could play again for the first time. That first 160 hour playthrough was absolutely magical.
I started playing this game exactly a month ago, now I’ve just beat Khetheric Thorm. And I can’t over the how good it is. Totally slept on it. But i guess it simply aged into a finer wine with time. What a great game!’
I had an epic blind honor mode 1st run, was clutch a few times, but it was an experience I'll never forget. Took me 200+ hrs, moving super cautious in every area, every choice, etc.
I do look forward to future playthroughs cause there are so many choices & builds I've yet to try yet, haha.
Played and finished the game 5 times now, trying to play a little bit differently every time but that first playthrough will always have the most and best memories. Nothing will ever beat the experience of seeing things for the first time on my drow paladin. I'm glad I kept so many save points on it, because I love to just go back see her progress at various stages of the game.
and then u reach act 3 and evr looks rushed and unpolished. Looked like another game. Still an amazing game but the gap in polish between 1act and the 3rd act is huge. I also got bored fast in the city (u can actually see everything in the city pretty fast, saddly they didnt add a lot of Baldurs Gate city).
Right?! Every play since I’m just chasing the dragon…
Larian Studios making sure to give us Mod support before they leave BG3 forever is a gift, to make the game last well after they leave. How many studios would do that? Making sure the game will continue to thrive for years after they are no longer making money from it.
Some studios do that, but only if they can make even more money from it (like Bethesda)
Every now and then, I just wish I could forget about BG3 so I could play it again for the first time. I can't wait for the next Larian's project.
Worth a quick prayer to the Lady Shar?
Divinity 3 is going to be amazing. Check out owlcat games as well if you like crpgs
@@scott2452 Absolutely not. Why would anyone who wants something positive to happen pray to the goddess that wants to undo the world and all its creatures?
A prayer to Tymora, the goddess of Luck (also known as Lady Luck), is a lot more appropriate. Or maybe a prayer to Selune (the Moonmaiden, Shar's good aligned sister), to Lathander (the Morninglord, the God of birth, dawn and renewal), Gond (god of craft, smithing, and inventiveness) or Oghma (God of bards, inspiration, invention, and knowledge).
@@Hauke-ph5ui Haha because OP wanted to forget their first play through to play again afresh. She is the Goddess of forgetfulness is she not?
Don't touch it for 2 years and then go back to it, you'll have forgotten a bunch of stuff.
Pre BG3 and Post BG3 Era. It's my standard and the number 1 video game of all time for me. That's a big thing for someone who was the only person who played BG1 in my part of the world in 2000. Also BG3 is what got me to your channel and award winning community!! Awooooo!!! To Larian: Thank you for having a heart to the gamers!
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where is that part of the world? I played BG1, 2 All Never Winter Nights, Icewind Dale, Torment Planscape
@@mightylordkuba Trinidad and Tobago...Caribbean
A year ago I knew nothing about this game, had never played a CRPG before, had never heard of Larian. I bought it because I was bored and the reviews were glowing, but I didn't know if I would even like it. Fast forward a year to today, and I currently have 1,235 hours. I went from barely scraping my way through balanced difficulty to soloing tactician and will soon attempt a solo honour run. I spend hours meticulously planning character builds, have memorized the location of almost every piece of loot, have seen the outcome of every major decision. There are some games where you wonder how the devs had the gall to charge $70 for garbage. Then there's BG3, a game that costs $60 but gives you an unquantifiable amount of value.
Then you would love D&D table top gaming (guessing of course). It depends on who you are playing with.
And if a 12 year old me can do it. You certainly can.
It's honestly insane how much time you can spend in this game and not discover everything too. I have around 850 hours and only just discovered a ring that you can get from a skeleton above the bibberbang/noblestalk in act 1. It's not a great ring or anything, but it's still crazy that there are so many things just hidden, and that's what makes it so fun to explore over and over again
My man, same here, never even touched DND at all prior to playing bg3. And I love everything about this game, I am obsessed! Yeah it's not perfect, and yes it's got it's downsides, but it's definitely more of a game, than what the gaming industry is supposed to be currently.
Should head outside for a bit.
Pretty sure mfr spent a thousand of those hours making characters
To be honest, Starfield didn't really stand much of a chance against BG3.
To be fair, in recent interview to PC Gamer Swen literally says "The biggest release gets the space, and then the others have to move for it. This has always been a universal truth. So we recognized Starfield as a bigger game than us. So that's why we had to move. Players were not going to be playing multiple RPGs of this size at the same time. That's impossible. So you were going to force players to make a choice, so we said 'OK, we'll take that choice away and move elsewhere"
So yeah, they recognized Starfield as a bigger game, because it was supposed to be a bigger game, from a studio with much bigger budget and supposed to a heavy hitter 2023.
It so just happened to be... well, what happened to be. I really do think they were trying to get away from Starfield, rather than create a competition or outperform
@@nickrubin7312yeah i dont think Larian realized just how popular their game was going to be. Traditionally Crpg no matter how well made are limited by their niche genre, players like me for example simply dont play crpg, since we were not raised on those games. But my god bg3 was a revolution. Probably the best game i have ever played. Its cause of this game that i even started trying other crpg. Just that good, starfield simply got crushed, or to be more fair, wasnt even in competition. To think i bought bg3 just to tide over the month until starfield release feels hilarious now.
@@kunalsingh4418 they plainly didn't. IIRC, they thought they'd get around 100,000 concurrent players at launch. They got more than 8x that, and apparently a full year after release they're still hovering around their original estimate. In July of last year, I remember thinking BG3 was mostly exciting for a niche audience. I was still a little sore from how the massive buzz surrounding Cyberpunk 2077 turned into backlash due to some gamers' negative experiences (I had a brand new PC and only ever had very minor bugs), so partly I was just being cautious, but mostly I thought there was absolutely no way that a CRPG could have the same mainstream appeal as a first-person action adventure. Then I figured the big surge of players for BG3 was mostly social media buzz over the bear scene and general curiosity that would quickly fade after Starfield came out, and BG3 would be a flash in the pan. I did not expect so many other people to replay the game endlessly just the same as I did.
Yeah in hindsight... But if you asked me to compete with the company that made Skyrim a week before it's release I would push my launch forwards too.
Starfield failed in every metric and most gamers hate that game.
A job well-done by Larian. I still come back to check mods and do a little bit of "Barbie dress up".
New vid! Documentary on Larian's pretty crazy history - ua-cam.com/video/trSxzvKXiCI/v-deo.htmlsi=fcvZpjqVSKDHE2NP
Time flies... crazy. I feel like it was just yesterday that us early access players were checking out Grymforge for the first time. Or watching the first ever animated Speak with the Dead scene.
Grimforge and level 5 was a huge addition to EA. What a journey, even though EA was very long, Larian kept us "in-the-loop" with Panels from Hell and periodic updates to the game. Thanks, Wolf, for all the amazing BG3 content over the past 4 years. You were certainly a big part of making the EA period as enjoyable as it was. Thanks man!
Remember when our early access game was just born?
Yeah, I played it a bit when it came out, only just made it to act 3 when I left it thinking I'll have another go at it after a few updates. It's baffling that this is already a year ago. I really need to finish this game.
Funny how quick time passes following release, while waiting for it felt like a slog
I remember not being so frustrated I couldn't use fireball or extra attack.
1 year? feels like its just been 5 months ago
crazy right
Right it does
Yeah, like holy shit.
Indeed. Took a break for about 8 months apparently (thought it been like 3). Third playthrough atm and I'm having even more fun now.
Bg3 was game that I was genuinely sad when it ended. I sat and watched the entire credits, and was touched by how much love was put into the game. Can't wait to see what larian does next. Also Sven is a g for wearing his plate armor to the award ceremony.
How much gay love you mean?
@@loveboat The celebration with the tieflings before - I hope I didn't come over too strong.
Crazy to think that this game and team has accomplished so much in such a historic way. Shaking the current videogame industry in favor of the players so much so that other parties felt the need to defend themselves and their philosophies/practices is so great. And to think that this game was already so good in the EA that I spent about 250 hrs on it alone only for it to completely follow through with what they promised and more. These folks just know how to make a great game and have earned their place in the history books. Okay I think I'm done fangirling. Thanks for the well-presented review
I have 400 hours in BG3, I have not been in Baldur's Gate...
Who needs Act 3 anyway?
Same. Act 1 and 2 are amazing. Reaching the city feels off? It's as if the momentum abruptly comes to a halt. I have only reached the small town before the actual city and nothing seems to push me any further.
I have yet to reach the city myself and am in Act II. It’s been a while since I’ve played and may start another file 😂
Almost 200 hours and I also always stop in ACT 2.
@jandy8911 The cursed forest does feel like an endgame area, but I get bored with my character and start a new one. And have numerous attempts in honor mode with friends. We're doing an all rogue party, and combat is a breeze in act one. Accidenty took out all the goblins outside the temple cause the one friend ran into combat, we said banzai, and the goblins died.
I was completely blindsided with how amazing this game was.
My story with this game was I was missing my D&D group and was looking for a good game to fill that void. I saw the trailer for this game on my PS5 and preordered it. But it wasn’t until it was downloaded and I heard the gentle music and soft vocals on the game selection screen that I realized I was in for something special. Seriously, I listened to the music for a solid two minutes, taking in the faces of the characters I would one day grow to love and said out loud to myself “Uh oh…I think I’m REALLY going to like this game.”
It surpassed my expectations.
I, like many other people, are very thankful that Larian Studios did the job that they did for Baulder's.Gate 3.
It gave us an immersion level that, even today, is unbelievable.
Thanks
I started playing BG3 in October of 2020, and I haven’t stopped. It is truly my favorite game of all time. Even now as I play it I still think back to the first time I encountered an area or fight. It is truly a remarkable game that I probably will never stop playing.
Hell yeah Joe!
Thanks for the anniversary wishes, the missus and I got hitched 11 years ago this day!
Congrats!
wow! happ anniversary! also thanks for all the BG3 vids Wolf ;) x
Happy anniversary Garf
I played early access six different characters around 120-150hrs and four full play throughs and planning my next game for update 7
I will never not be playing this game in some capacity.
Honestly same, I've finished the game once with my first character, tried multiple co op runs (currently on one that's at moonrise) have my own Durge resist run, that i kinda hate cause sorcerers suck so probably gonna redo that. And when patch 7 comes out there's a whole modding world to explore (i know i could have earlier on PC but i tried once, it didn't work right away and i never bothered again). This game has been part of my life the last year and i love it!
Im happy to have been on this adventure with you the whole way Wolfheart. Cant believe it been a year since release, I remember being excited for year for it to come out.
Thanks for that. We shall start a new adventure soon enough. Larian said they will likely be doing early access again.
Best RPG for me of all time. It’s got great replay-ability as well. I can’t wait for patch 7 for my next playthrough. I logged 1000 hours last year playing this game.
best Crpg
I'm 1300 hours into BG3... I keep putting it down for other games and coming back again.
CAN NOT WAIT for everything Larian does going forward!!!
Did you play Divinity Original Sin 1&2? They are also very good games, although BG3 is the best of them three.
@@dr.embersfield1551 I did!
Dos1 ages ago, DOS2 last year waiting for BG3!
Thats something, probably not healthy
I've never played an RPG's before but I'm just addicted to this game
It has taken my top spot of all time. Now I just need to not die on this(5th) honor run
I'm on my second playthrough, this time co-op with my brother, so I let him make every decision while keeping the spoilers to myself. I already knew how great this game was, but this second time around, everything goes totally differently, and I mean TOTALLY differently. It is just insane how well it's made! I've never seen anything like this in 30 years of gaming.
I remember getting so excited when i saw the dragonborn race. Playing a vengeance paladin, learning smite could work in silence bubble and playing my first co-op campaign with my best friend where we spent an hour debating who gets to romance who. Love this game.
BG3 has become my favorite game and my new standard, period. Thank so much to Larian for respecting the players and for having made this game.
It was an honor to be along for the full ride for this game. I can still remember the announcement stream in (I think Feb 2020?) and having to wait 1 year to hear anything more.
It's crazy that it's been 1 year already since this masterpiece came out..congrats to Larian and everyone involved!
It's sad that we already know that Larian are busy working on their next project and they will probably never touch D&D again, but it was fun while it lasted.
How crazy, I jsut restarted the game 2 days ago and had no idea it was their year anniversary. Thank you for having clear vocals and loud audio, I often listen to videos while I’m doing other things, so I get annoyed when they aren’t loud enough. BG3 is one of the ONLY games that is worth $60 no question about it. The insane amount of work they put into it is so obvious and so very appreciated. I never was into D&D or card things, so this was my first one and so glad I got it
5:38 me I’m one of those persons. I never touched a turn based game. Picked it up like maybe a month before the release. I played the first act of early access and immediately thought that this is one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Then when the official game came out, I never left my room for like 2 days LOL. For someone who never played a turned base game this was a perfect game to start with it wasn’t that complex and it reminded me of those old-school RTS games like StarCraft and original Warcraft where you had to plan your strategies and attacks and defenses. BG3 is easily one of my top 10 fav games and I can’t wait for the new dark endings !!! For my dark urge run
Will be talking about it for the rest of my life. Thank you for the video.
Cheers Christopher
Larian has the reputation now where whatever they make next I'm not even thinking twice, instant purchase
I just hope they don't pull a CDPR, who have went down the DEI rabbit hole with gusto.
Time flies indeed! This has been such a great ride!
Yes it has Brian... yes it has 🍻
Did you know the twin Drow in BG3 are inspired by a mod for BG1? I have it as a mod collection which introduces various npcs and mini stories into both BG1 + 2. The twin drow can be found in BG1, in BG City outside Three Old Kegs tavern during the hunt for Sarevok ... its a rather saucy ::teXt-ba$ed: interlude ooh la laa. OH Im just guessing that the BG1 mod inspired BG3 ... and not the other way around
This game is so legendary. I have completed this game so many times and I'm still finding new secrets, endings, playstyles etc. Even a year later it's still such a spectacular game! Thank you for another amazing video Wolf! ❤
All the other games in my Steam library have been neglected for a year now. I wish Lairan all the success in the world and hope that other game studios follow their example.
This game will forever have a special place in my heart.
Still have not played it yet. I just know how much i will love it and i'm not playing it just like you would wait to open a special bottle of wine one day.
I loved divinity orginal sin 1 and 2. Loved Baldurs gate 1-2. So there is no way i'm not going to fall in love with this game when i do and i know i will finish it after months of playing and doing everything.
yeach, great game, i'll probably give it another go after patch 7 lands
I am absolutely loving the growing popularity and space you and other video game content greater like SkillUp, Mortismal and others are carving up for yourselves in discussing the industry and space in the fair, evenhanded and professional way that you guys do…keep it up 🔥
I wish I could erase my memory and see Shadowheart spare the nightsong for the first time again. And the subsequent cutscene…mind blowing.
When they forwarded the release date to my actual birthday, I almost went crazy. Having supported the game since early access, I couldn't believe that the most anticipated game was gonna be on my birthday.
One year later, I age by one, and so does Baldur's Gate 3. Happy Anniversary to the game and congrats to one of (if not the only) the most respected video game producers out there.
Happy birthday!
@@WolfheartFPS Thanks!
BG3 has been my most played in the year, and one of my favorites of all time
Larian Studios is a shining beacon in the gaming world and industry!!! Hopelijk the world have took notice how it should and could be! Looking forward to the next game of Larian and hopefully games from other good studios that are making games over profit
11:34 - Larian Studios is from Europe, and I believe we're slightly less greedy here than in the US, might be one of the reasons :)
Thanks to you for covering this beloved game so well! I found your channel during pre-access, and have been a fan since!
Damn, kind of felt nostalgic, just a bit, seeing some PfH footage. I truly hope they'll do something like that for their next game. Not necessarily 1 to 1, but same "in-touch with audience/players" experience for showcases in the future (if we presume there will be early access period for one of their games).
BG3 back in 2020 on the initial release of EA was kind of wildly different. It is actually crazy how much has changed and how time flies.
Happy anniversary!
And thanks a lot for years of great content.
So happy that Larian got the recognition and success they deserved! I been saying since EA that this game will be phenomenal and it really is! I also love the BG3 community and how a game like this continues to bring so many ppl together. Awesome stuff as always, Wolf, and happy 1 year anniversary to Baldur's Gate 3🎉
Man when this game launched last year I was in the peak of my busy season so I made myself wait until the winter which is my off season to play it. I'm really glad I did because the amount of nights I would stay up until 5am playing, go to sleep, then wake up at 1-2pm and play the game all night were seemingly endless and it was a great month of vacation.
Man time flies, been a blessed run from the first announcement to every step of EA and the launch and post patches and polishing
Can't wait for the next announcement Rag!
It’s been a grand trip Wolf. I’m still here after all these years. I still haven’t made it to the end a save got corrupted and I started over.
I’m so glad you are successful with your channel.
Great video Wolf and glad you made this recap as time really has flown and seems to do more often these days.
Larian/bg3 really is deserving of all of its success and praise as I literally cannot think of the last truly immersive escape/experience I had with the game since Witcher three.
That feeling of being transported into this experience in such a way that you practically forget you’re in your room and you still need to eat food or go to the bathroom lol.
I cannot thank Larian enough for not only having the spine to take risks but also have faith in what they were creating. To have assembled such a team from top to bottom starting with the leadership that was so passionately in love with their job and their project. Truly creative artist, whose priorities from a fundamental foundational level was the game and everything else was secondary in comparison to that sole priority.
The kind of authenticity that we were able to experience from this studios focus something I think we all appreciate greatly.
As many in this industry attempted to attack or dull the excitement and successful results of this project with consumers to better curb potential standards/expectations being set… I hope as consumers we continue to push back against that lazy notion and demand/expect the appropriate quality/potential to be realized from these developers and other companies when priorities are put in the right place. They want to do to a very subpar expectation/results that bg3 Completely blows out of the water. Don’t fall for it.
After all, you get the beast that you feed
Hell yeah! Well said Grimm
Thank you larian for DOS2, i freaking love CRPGS thanks to them. looking forward to whatever they do next!
Love everything about this. Great video Wolfster!!
Thanks as always Mitch!
You know what, it's been one year since i sunk 300 hours into the game! Time to return for my 2nd full playthrough!
BG3 is my FFVII of the modern era. Something i assumed Elden Ring or Dragon's Dogma 2 would do but both those didn't.
We all hoped dd2 would be DD2 instead we just got DD1 again. The same problems. The same issues. Almost the same kind of game.
Maybe 3.
As someone who has never played DnD and also was never crazy about turn based combat, I cant believe how much I love BG3. Seemed like the opposite of something i’d be into, and it is probably in my top 3 games of all time.
So happy birthday to you all, fellow Tavs !
I will wait for the next patch to try a honor mode run, I'm not done yet... if I ever will
🤝
It is actually crazy what this game means to me, i remember the hype i had when i play‘ed BG 1, i think i was 13 years old, now i‘m playing BG 3 with my 16 year old daughter. I played for over 300hrs and still on it. We both love this game so much. Thanks Larian for this awsome game. 🎉
One of the best games I've ever played. I'm giddy like a little kid every time I pick up the controller. Been so long since I've felt like that over a game. I'm beyond blessed to still be going thru my first playthrough
A year later after release and I'm still playing BG3 and I feel like I've only scratched the surface of what this game can offer, and with official mod support, new evil endings and several other features on the horizon coming with patch 7, I don't think I'll stop playing any time soon.
I'm waiting for Patch 7 to jump back in for my evil playthrough. Amazing game.
1:00 "Speaking of moving into good directions - for food it is Factor!"
yeah yeah, I know, but hey, still got one
The game's story wouldnt make sense if they made a DLC. The point of games like this is that theres multiple ending's and infinite approaches if they made a story that takes place after the ending what ending would that be? a lot of them involves the world ending so they cant. if they make the story take place in the past wouldn't that mean your choices doesnt matter because the story is going to lead back to the nautiloid anyways
All you have to do is use the canon endings for a DLC and expand upon that.
My friend gifted me with a generous sum of PSN wallet earlier this year. I used it to get a PS+ subscription, and buy BG3, which was on sale at the time. And though I harbor a slight apprehension towards the menu wheel system (I still do, but warmed up to it a little), I played nothing else for the next 2 months, completing 2 playthroughs back to back and almost reaching 400 hours of playtime.
Happy birthday, BG3. Can't wait for patch 7.
To your comments at 12:10 and on, since release I've believed that the thing "holding" BG3 back was the 5e ruleset. after playing DOS2 and seeing what the studio is capable of creating I believe that ultimately being beholdent to WOTC actually limited the potential of BG3. Especially now with the turmoil surrounding the 2024 5e.5 revisions I think WOTC is going to need to spend some time learning from Larian.
I'm honestly super excited that we are moving away from the BG series for a time and have REALLY high hopes for DOS3. As you said, with a priority for talent retention and a whole suite of improvements that went into BG3 I cant imagine DOS3 being any less of a success; save for another DOS2 "Pursuing Divinity" arc.
Been watching this channel since the presale was released and the community has come a long way!
It feels like this long journey for you has really come to an end. You did an incredible job covering this game, stuck with it through the absurd amount of early access time, and earned all the success you got. Congrats to BG3 for sure, but also, congrats to you man. I hope you're in my gaming feed for years to come.
Thanks much!
I’ve finished the game 3 times in that period. Games I love I will usually replay 3 times but usually over the span of 4-5+ years. Always discovering new things every playthough, truely a special game.
I just remember playing this game in early access imagining how awesome it will be when it releases. It exceeded every expectation, like, wow...
I remember years ago when early access released and how excited I was. I was at work during the day and watched your livestream lol. Love your content bro. You’ve come such a long way since that.
Bewildering that it’s already been a year. I need to do a replay
12:01 Strqight up the truth🗣🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for all your AMAZING lore videos. I'm late to the game and haven't played BG3 yet, but I will soon. And your videos are really helping me understand the lore, the game and just the D&D universe (I'm new to it all but really getting into it). I've been watching a ton of your videos lately and I just want to say thank you ❤ They're great! You're really talented and a great storyteller. Keep it up!!
Marina! So sorry for noticing this so late. Thank you so much. I am excited for you to start your BG3 journey & I hope you keep me updated. Cheers.
@@WolfheartFPS No worries! And I will 😁
Thanks for sharing your passion! I wish Larian will make another turn base RPG but a Sci-Fi one with their own IP.
Thanks Jean. Who knows what they are up to with these next 2 RPGs. Your wishes could come true!
im currently trying BG3 for the first time, never played a BG game before either. Im having such a fun time! Im taking it slow and easy, and just enjoying the world around me as well as the chaos on the road lol. So far, 9 hrs in, I can see myself racking up a lot of playtime on this game and already see the potential for replays due to different decision makiing, as well as builds and story. Excited to see what the story unfolds
Enjoy your run
That means I've been following you for a year! Damn, time flies when you're having fun 😊 you're ace and I know I'll keep tuning into your videos for a long time! Love the Wolfpack ❤️
Thanks a lot!!!
Been a wild ride, man!
I still wish we had that DM mode like in D:OS2 but I get that WotC did not want competition to their upcoming, microtransaction filled, Virtual Tabletop
Yea that would have been incredible
It wasn't a WOTC decision, Larian themselves decided not to implement it iirc Swen said it was too difficult and time consuming for them to implement it. He was asked about it and answered the question on the Dropped Frames podcast a month or so before the game launched.
With the recent PCGamer article confirming that Larian WAS, in fact, working on BG4 (and even had "something playable", according to Sven) before things between them and WotC went sour, I remain hopeful that time will heal the rift and the two of them collaborate again on another D&D project. My dream is that Larian, taking all the knowledge and experience they've learned from BG3, goes on to make Neverwinter Nights 3, with a full working DM client and possibly a module creator as well. :) This kind of D&D CRPG project has not been attempted since NWN1 (NWN2 made a half-hearted attempt, but it fell far short in the DM client and module creator side of things), and I think if anybody could pull it off AND do it justice (and without poisoning the well with all kinds of predatory microtransactions and subscription/season pass tomfoolery), it would be Larian.
So happy for Larian studios. BG3 is awesome. Can't wait to see what's next.
I'm a little late to comment this, but it was such a good "revisiting summary" video, you addressed everything, from "A" to "B" then to "C"! I found out about BG3 thanks to my friends last August and I gave it a chance last September - no regrets 😄 I can't wait to see new games Larian is working on 😍
Glad you gave it a try & thanks for watching!
Been a hugs fan of Larian since Beyond Divinity. Bought all their games since then and watched them get better and better. Sven has such drive and passion for their games which seems to rub off on everyone else that i wish he was my boss. Congrats on the 1st year of BG3 and look forward to the next game.
i actually googled baldurs gate 3 game of the year edition when I woke up today by coincidence hoping there was some updates lol.
Hands down BG3 was so life changing. A breath of fresh air. It's been a great year.
BG3 is one of the few games that i actually got to play the FIRST TIME twice. Its cuz of all the massive content and the unpredictablilty of it. It never felt as if i was playing the same game. So goood! I will do my 3rd play through when mod support shows up.
That early access period was magic ✨ hope Larian do something similar for their next game ❤
Yes it was. I bet you they will.
my first playthrough of bg3 was on honor mode. My friends that had already beaten the game got back on when honor mode got added so I bought the game. Playing as a barbarian, not knowing what to do other than hit shit with my sword is still one of the best gaming experiences ive ever had. I play a lot with mods now, and they add so much more variety to the game. I cant wait for official mod support.
edit: yes we beat honor mode. using the steam trophies as a reference we estimated that we were at least one of the first 2000 parties to beat it.
yo what mods do you use? are there any content mods? :)
@@Em3r1c4 vortex is the website for all bg3 mods. I use collections which are modpacks made by other people. usually I like mods that add a lot of race and class options since thats more enjoyable to me then harder enemies
They learned and improved upon Original Sin 1 & 2 .. then made this beautiful magic gem BG3 and also learned .. if they could improve even that in DOS3 I guess our heads will just go 🤯🤯 .. 😅
I'm still obsessed with Baldur''s Gate 3
I hope Larian is able to stay as they are and we'll be able to enjoy playing the games they make for many years to come.
This is a great feelgood story about a company that treated gamers with a ton of respect. A massive game created with passion at every corner. No predatory greed or reliance on the modern business models in gaming. After playing but still not beating this massive game, I am impressed it's like games of yesteryear that didn't count on the internet to allow them to finish the game after release. I wish them luck in their next creations and will absolutely be ready to consider their next releases with interest.
The Panels From Hell were THE BEST. I legit felt like a kid on Christmas morning every time, just so incredibly giddy and excited :') I miss that.
Such a wonderful surprise to see they've made a new UA-cam channel! I can't wait to see what the Channel From Hell gifts us with 😈
Thanks for the great video, Wolf!
Well said. Thanks!
Wolfheart: They are JUST a bunch of 1 and 0
Me: THEY ARE REAL TO ME!
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I can't wait to see what Larion has in store for its fanbase next.
I will absolutely be watching any project they are working on!
:D
I loved BG3, no doubt! But i still feel that divinity 2 is their flagship of games! :D
Been such a fun ride in this game with the Wolfpack!
This brought a tear to our eye, thank you 🥺🥺
I bought it at launch and now one year later I am living IN VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER
Great video Wolf!!! always top quality and fun to watch
Thanks a lot Glenn