Baldur’s Gate 3 [Review] : A Modern Masterpiece
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- I just wanted to take a moment and really appreciate that I got to experience something truly phenomenal. Thank you, Larian.
P.S. Shadowheart best girl.
00:00 Introduction
01:16 The History of Role-Playing Games
02:45 Florian, the Half-Elf Druid
03:20 Moral Ambiguity
04:12 Dialogue Options Done Right
05:30 The Pinnacle of Modern RPGs
06:56 Talent Behind Baldur's Gate 3
07:59 Immersion and Replayability
09:21 The Story of Baldur's Gate 3
10:44 I'm No Baldur's Gate Expert
11:39 No D&D Knowledge Required
12:43 Let's Roll the Dice (Yeah)
14:46 Barriers of Entry
15:44 Larian’s Love Letter to D&D
17:09 Raising the Standard
18:19 Conclusion
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❖ Games Shown:
Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) - Larian Studios
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (2021) - BioWare
Divinity: Original Sin 2 (2018) - Larian Studios
❖ Shows Featured:
The Legend of Vox Machina (2022) - Critical Role Productions, Amazon Studios
❖ Music Credits:
Baldur’s Gate 3 OST (2023) - Borislav Slavov
Divinity: Original Sin 2 OST (2018) - Borislav Slavov
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"I wasn't even born when the first game came out"
3d6 psychic damage
Was he born when the second one came out?
3d6? Holy shiet 🤣🤣🤣
I love how this game truly leaned into the “yes, and” of improv
That core idea is what inspired me to make this video! I felt like some choices I made in bg3 would just break other games, but instead bg3 adapted to pretty much everything I decided to do. I never felt like I was being punished for going about a situation in a way the game didn’t intend. Such great game design!
Larian really got the DnD Spirit here for me.
Player: I'd like to.....
DM/BG3: OH GOD YES!
hard agree@@ardentgold
If interested, there is a talk on yt of swen where he talks about their n+1 and even +2 design (or smth).Which was already used in d:os I think and surely d:os2. It's basically 'try to think of everything a player could think of and account for it,make the engine and systems theirselves to accomodte for it. And then add one or two ways extra as kind of failsaves for story progressing quests (or all main quests,don't remember it was a while ago :,) ". Obvi bg3 is a different ruleset since it's dnd licensed but part of the amazingness of the choices is the result of swen and his team just being gamers,loving making games that they themselves would want to play.And for example swen said that he didn't watch metrics about what areas were visited most or not ,or quests seen or not and that in combo with the great system based engine is the real magic (obvi story,va,graphics,... all as well).But i truly think that was how they were to accomplish this masterpiece, because the world is filled with quality content and banana diaglogue/consequence trees behind the scenes. It's also what is imho xD causing BG3 induced sleep depravation for many and/or replayability for others.
As someone who has played BG1 & BG2, I have to say that I love how the BG3 storyline tied back into the first two games in an unobtrusive manner that only veterans of the series would even notice.
Do you think you could further elaborate your thoughts on how it tied back to the first two games here? I'd really like to read it.
@@millicentwood549 SPOILERS!! minsc and jaheira were apart of the main characters party. Saverok( I think that’s how you spell his name) is the half brother of the bhaalspawn( MC of BG2) Orin one of the villains is a bhaalspawn and the main Villains are connected to the Dead Three. There might be more but that’s what I could find out.
@@Kubidubi11oh yes! I put Jaheira and Minsc in my party once I started Act 3. I genuinely think they're the best companions to have roleplay wise when exploring Act 3 since they offer so much insight on different stuff. Bantering with Jaheira as a good-aligned Durge was super fun. Honestly, having the both of them when concluding Durge's personal quest made me enjoy the story all the more. Incredibly satisfying. I've never played the first two games but now I'm curious!
Viconia also appears in Shadowheart's storyline. Irenicus doesn't appear but is mentioned. There's even a reference to the villain of the D&D movie from the talking mirror under the apothecary in the village before the goblin fortress.
@@Kubidubi11MORE SPOILERS. If you play as the Dark Urge character you find out over the course of Acts 2/3 that you are also Bhaalspawn.
I think RNG in games that don't handle negative outcomes well is what made people hate RNG in video games. BG3 doesn't give you a negative outcome per say, just a different one, and if all games did that with RNG I think people would be less likely to hate it! I love this game so... dang... much.
It is far better than just a bad ending to a quest, instead you get a entirely different quest
You know BG3 is a great game when a lot of great videos are made by many starting youtubers
they coming out the wood works to share their love for this game ❤
It's the type of game that future game developers 10, 20 years from now will be pointing back to as their inspiration for developing games.
And I think that's a great thing.
I am considering starting a channel based off of BG3. It’s just so …. Damn …. Good.
Huh, this video was made by someone with only 20 subs. I honestly thought I was watching someone with 100K subs because the quality of the video and delivery were top notch. Amazing video. Keep it up and I wish the best of luck.
lol I thought the same
That's really reassuring to hear. Thank you so much!
Agreed, I saw I was 89, not 89k. You’ve got a good sense for this OP
@@silkmonkeyWell it looks like the algorithm is picking it up a bit. That's good.
wait, what? +1
Anytime I describe this game to people, I tell them, "It's exactly like playing tabletop D&D with the best DM ever." Larian has absolutely video-gamed the tabletop D&D experience in almost every possible aspect.
Yes I second that so much! I nudged my D&D group to try the game out and they’re loving it so far
the reason i bought this game was because all the devs that were calling this game an anomaly and not to mark it as a new "standard" and i was like: ok, you just sold me a game you are not happy about.
big thanks to those devs who tried to shit on BG3 and got me interested in
I am playing a Wild Magic Sorcerer.....& in act 2 I essentially managed to talk 75% of the bosses to death via my High Charisma. So much fun.
Also, I too romanced Shadowheart alone.
YES i loved this touch in act 2! I talked all 3 of the Thorm family bosses into dying in various horrible ways without having to even lift a finger.
I was actually getting chills and overwhelmed, having like... A near anxiety attack over the doctor guy jumping on the table and letting his nurses butcher him... I think it was the music for me.
@@alliu6562 i didn't even know they were bosses bc of this
@@codeine69boss is a strong word. They are characters, with history and personality and dreams and regrets. It's not easy to kill zevlor either when you first meet him, but he can be considered a "boss" if you side with gobs
As a bard I can relate. They rather kill themselves than want to listen to me anymore 😔 😂
This games existence, makes me weap. Im 33 and for the last 15 years i assumed the gaming industry died. Died at thr game store, at the launchers at the fact that most games HAVE to have internet.
This game is perfect imo. The first 3 days i had it, i didnt know that my modem was off and i was playing like it wasnt.
I own the game. I own it outright. Theres no store. The company cares about the playera feedback and roles out what they need when asked.
This game was thrown into the face of people who have never ever thought of playing games of this genre, now loving it. Beought awareness to a genre that needs it and is totally underrated.
Its been a very long time since people got good games.(yes i know there are a few that are absolute gems, i mean, the 2 new zeldas are a chefs kiss, but i cant bring myself to own a console to play 1 or 2 games).
Its been far to long that ive felt like i bought a game from a company that gives a fuck whether i enjoy myself or not.
This game is perfection incarnate. Its got something for everyone.
God damn, its got a fucking STORY!
The hardest thing I had to deal with with bg3 at the beginning, which is why I have so many hours with so little to show, is because I was trapped in a "minmax" mindset for so long. The omaythrough I've been streaming on youtube is the one where I said fuck that! I want to play ME! I rerolled thr companions I wanted to play with, not experience a story with. I wanna be a lonely bard that just wanted to make her way to fame in baldurs gate but as soon as she arrived in the city, she was kidnapped. This game is absolutely phenomenal. I also had to stop save acumming and accept that some things cannot change. I still save often before what I assume are pivotal moments. Now we can customize the hirelings and my next pkaythrough im gonna make my favorite team of people lmao!
After nearly 3 years in ea im so glad the game blew up for launch. Larian deserves nothing but success
Just finished my campaign today. Masterpiece, indeed.
It is the definition of perfection.
As a veteran d&d player and forever DM who just started playing bg3 a couple days ago .. I am absolutely blown away . The amount of effort and creativity the devs put in is a league of its own . Definitely the most d&d experience I’ve ever gotten out of a video game and D&D is the greatest RPG of all time (and always will be . I mean the freedom is second to none ) . Everything from the cutscenes , the narrator , the voice acting , the mechanics , the freedom and so much more just makes this game incredible . This is what rpgs are supposed to be. You feel the weight and stress in every little choice you make , so many possibilities no way to be sure what will truly happen tho . Brilliant game , I hope more studios learn from Larian
That Dame Aylin music is so fire, I will never forget the first time the nightsong rose from the ashes
I can't believe it was such a high skill check to convince shadowheart to spare her
@@codeine69 so if shadowheart likes you, you can let her decide and she will choose to spare her
@@codeine69 so if shadowheart likes you, you can let her decide and she will choose to spare her
@@stingrayslapper1595 really? I f5'd for a persuasion role 5 times for nothing 😂
@@codeine69Yup. Just be a good person, and treat Shadowheart with a measure of kindness and respect (have reasonably high approval)
150hrs in EA, ordered 2 Collector's Editions. Knew this game slapped from day one.
The soundtrack to bg3 is also incredible. Im about halfway through act one and i have a couple hundred hours, a game like this, with my autism, im gonna take my god damn time and enjoy every second of this good book. I noticed that if you do certain objectives the soundtracks for the areas change with your decisions. Something that goes unnoticed or unmentioned by many
I still lose my shit when I realize my guys are sweating in a hot place or bruised when hurt. Little details that mean so much
@ssgoko88 I always imagine, these little details is from someone on the back pf the writing room, thinking outside the box, but is actually thinking in reality and HAS to say something about it. There's a lot of small details like that sprinkled throughout. There's been times when I've been like "wtf was that!?" Then I realize, "oh damn, I am on a swamp! I'm dumb" lol the fact that it also doesn't hand hold really forces players into accountability to to "check, next time" going on. I for one really enjoy the throwing out of the nest rather than the hand holding.
@@ssgoko88 reading the books in the current areas om questing in gives me WOW vanilla vibes. When you gotta read to learn wtf to do
@@BoinkrNanisdef goes unnoticed as i keep music off
tbh I have played dnd for many years in my youth and stopped when I moved out of my country. BG3 brought back to me the desire of playing tabletop again and on Tuesday I will start my first campaign in years
That’s so nice to hear! I’m glad you’re getting back into it 👍
@@ardentgold I was actually an hardcore player back in the days, I played all editions from the first in the eighties when I was a kid to the fourth. We founded a GDR gaming club, we rented a cellar and we built custom forniture for gaming (tables with manuals and dices spots, a grid map with a glass on top where the dm could paint the maps with a pen, ...)
At the apex, although I lived in a small town of 60k people, we were over 30 people, any evening of the week you could find 2 groups up to 7 people each playing. We had full custom settings as big as FR, custom rulesets... it was glorious.
BG3 is the greatest game I have ever experienced. I really hope this sparks other developers to make more games in this style, though I am concerned they won’t make it nearly as good as this one. (Highest standards to live up to) it seems maybe Larian might be the only ones who can make the next masterpiece…they certainly have the foundation. Excellent concise video about why this game is great, could not have said it better myself! Thank you
Play more games, kid. It's an amazing game, but best ever? Yikes
If the old gaming industry is the beautiful environments of Act 1 in this game and the modern gaming industry is the Shadowcursed Lands, then Larian Studios is Dame Aylin.
As a BG 1 & 2 + D&D veteran, I wholeheartedly agree with everything you just said, and I will add that even for a veteran like myself the game exceeded my expectations at pretty much every turn. The amount of love that went into it, especially the ROLE PLAYING part is overwhelming, and I must admit that it brought me to actual tears of joy at times, seeing how much care the folks at Larian put into the whole experience.
Larian Studios is what the old Blizzard used to be... From now on, I consider myself a Cleric of Larian Studios!
Seriously: This is the only game that really could live up to the hype this year. If you look at D4, Starfield, Lords of the Fallen ... man, Larian is like a beacon of hope for the gaming industry right now.
Andre, you nailed it when you mentioned the difference between making games out of passion versus making them for profit. So freaking true. I do feel a lot of passion behind BG3! It's the game I always wanted, and I didn't know it.
I haven’t been playing that many RPGs recently, and I’m glad BG3 decided to come out now and get me back into it
true soulmate thats a good one
tyty i had to sneak in a pun somehow :3
This is a damn good video, glad the UA-cam algorithm brought me here. I agree with pretty much everything you've said. This is my favorite game I've ever played and it completely took me by surprise. I didn't even know it existed until a week before launch. Now it's completely taken over every moment of freetime that I have. Another aspect of it that makes the whole experience even better is how involved with the fans the cast of the game are. Most of the actors behind the game are streaming themselves playing through the game and it's actual gold. I've never seen a cast behind a game this involved with its fans ever. It feels like basically all of the stars aligned in this game and im absolutely here for it
Yeah, the community surrounding bg3 is unreal. And much deserved honestly. Thanks for stopping by!
I romanced shadowheart in my first playtrough, and her arc brought me to tears.. I can't remember the last game with writing and character development on that level. Probably dragon age origins, but even that didn't hit on the same emotional level
i went through the gautlet of shar without shadowheart and she got so mad she left my camp permenantly lol
Oh damn
Can we talk about how AMAZING the music is? God its so good. I listen to the ost all the time.
It's criminal that I totally forgot to say anything about the music. I absolutely agree though, I've been listening to the OST a lot too!
A note about Larian taking a risk and making a D&D game instead of another DOS game, Larian had contacted Wizards of the Coast years ago asking if they could make a D&D game, but WotC told them they were not ready yet, so did not give them the license. After the success of both DOS games, WotC came to Larian and asked them if they were still interested, and offered them the license to the third installment of Baldur’s Gate, and so was born my favorite game of all time
Just subbed, your production value is through the roof and you're bound to blow up kid, good luck.
Can't stop playing it. Can't stop thinking about it
"Upwards of 100 hours"--- It took me 300, and I was rushing at the end to see how it ended. In retrospect, I could have spent a lot less time managing inventory, and I ended with a *lot* of unused consumables that I could have saved time by not collecting; but I was playing the way I wanted to.
I'll be playing this game for years, other studios are gonna have to improve by alot if they want my money.
Thank you for making this video! So well done and thoughtful.
Awesome take on Baldur's Gate!! My life has also been taken over by the game! I do think BG3 gives gamers such a breath of fresh air in the sea of microtransactions and unfinished products. I hope more studios follow suit. Shadowheart is my bestie, but Astarion has my heart
an absolute masterpiece. am roughly 110h in and finishing act 3 hopefully soon so I can start again, go through mountains (instead the underdark) and change completely my character's narrative now that i also understand combat mechanics
I was listening this on a train and I laughed like a madman when you said "how much I like shadowheart"
IT TRULY IS. And the replayablity is so damn good. By the time It I think I'd be completely done there will be DLC hopefully. Honestly every fantasy and sci fi franchise should be given to Larian so they can make turn based RPG's out of those worlds.
i'd love a lord of the rings game made by Larian
KOTOR remake
I played 2nd Ed AD&D in the late 80s, in the time of retro RPGs...The Valley, lol. At that time this was unimaginable. I played Neverwinter around 2019/20. This game is a massive upgrade in terms of role playing experience. I love it.
its amazing you even get to know characters like you know them irl and you can easily guess what they will approve or not. i don't think any other gaming experince can even come close to this level.
This was a good video and summary, pretty much agree on most of the observations.
And the perfect clip to end upon. the 'teeth-ling' and then the roll of the eyes... I love Lae'zel.
After seeing what Shadowhearts V.A. looked like, I fell in love with Shadowheart even more.
84hrs in i played until act 3 then felt i rushed through it so I started a new game, starting act 2 again 😁
This game does not allow you to persuade through every single combat encounter... no matter what you do you have to kill the avatar of myrkul... probably you finished the game just once.
Chaotic good is the best type of character for first playthrough because it allows you to expirence the most of content that game can offer and it masks all illusions of choice that are obvious when you finish the game as an evil character (especially in act 2). Choosing evil character is just choosing less content because many important characters dies and their questlines are blocked. There is no separated evil path and evil character has to beat the same bosses and visit the same locations as a good character. On top of that no ending is blocked depending on your decisions and you still can choose to be hero at the end even if you was extremely evil through the whole game.
I had to pinch myself when i realised your channel is so small. The quality of the video is on par with what I see from content creators with over a million times your subs.
I've only (only... lol) gotten to play about 80 hours of this game so far, but the sheer breadth of this game has astonished me. There is SO MUCH to do, and so many different ways to do each thing, that I ended up making a completely different character to play through Act 1 again before I'd even finished it. This is the first game that has sucked me in and made me realize that I'd just spent an entire day playing without even noting the passage of time since World of Warcraft back in 2007. Truly a masterpiece.
Tysm that means a lot to me! And I feel the same way. I beat the game for the first time in about 100 hours, but I already have 200 hours in the game just restarting a few times to experiment until I finally got a character I wanted to take all the way
Very great video! I agree so much, the people who made this game just had the biggest goal to make a FUN game and that is because they know what's it like to play D&D with real people, what they need to have a fun session. Every good DD master knows that the most important thing to let people have their freedom and joke around in the same time as they are able to connect with a well build world and deep characters. I can't emphasize enough how important it was that they got great writers for all those companions, because it helps so much to connect to the fantasy world if you have characters that grabs your hand and take you seriously as a player.
Every time you start a game the player asks: why should I care about you. And baldur's gate3 response will always be: because I care about you. And people respect and enjoy that.
bru i watched this video thinking this is a big channel but then noticed the subs and shit. you're great dude, really high quality vid and great explanation of your opinions on the game, underrated asf
Thanks man, I appreciate it
To me, Baldurs Gate 3 is the culmination of a ton of great RPG games made over the last 30 years. Be it old masterpieces like "Planetside: Torment" or "Arcanum: Of Clockworks and Magic", more Action based RPGs like Dragon Age or even cult-classics like Fallout New Vegas, Larian took all the lessons learned by those games and more and put it into Baldur's Gate 3.
I HOPE that it raises the standard for RPGs, because glorified loot-shooters like Starfield don't even deserve the title "RPG".
Larian treats you like a grown-up an respect your intelligence, and this, created one of the most immersive RPGs of all times. And I already know when Divinity: Original Sin 3 or Baldur's Gate 4 come out 5-10 years from now, they will be even better.
I've just entered act 2 and loved every second. Masterpiece
i love how you talk about DOSII but that game itself was largely in part designed to be a sort of resume/job-application to WOTC to let Larian make BGIII. that's why they are so similar: DOSII is a proof of concept.
I read a comment down below that said you only had 20 subs at the time of the comment. Now you have 340 because I just subscribed. But honestly, you deserve a lot more. The quality of the video is top notch. I love RPG's, I used to play D&D in college 30+ years ago, and your coverage of the game makes me want to buy it now. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words!
I do hope you get into Baldur’s Gate 3. I think it’s a worthwhile time investment.
Top tier video, I liked and subbed. Do more videos like this! 👍
this video was as much a masterpiece as BG3 you seem to love this game as much as i do, its definitely in my top 3 games of all time. great work my friend
Thanks for the high praise I appreciate it
nice vid! surprised to see how little subscribers you have for such a high quality video
I just made it into act 3 earlier today. Man finishing act 2 was amazing, tense. Being rid of the shadowlands feels good, being outside the city is amazing finally feel more safe, currently have a bunch of crap to do haha. I will probably take a break but this game sucks me in for hours at a time
Amazing review!
Only 82 subscribers? Nah we gotta change that bro, you deserve more. Awesome video
Great video! DOS2 is also one of my favorite games of all time, and so I was looking forward BG3. Amazing job done by the team, once again. By the endgame I was so invested in the characters that some stories made me emotional. I've also played DnD for a while, so the see how well they made this adaption to the game was great. Seeing spells and skills we use on the tabletop translated to animated action was great. My literal only complain about BG3 is the epilogue, I felt it was rushed. Even so, 10/10 game.
The first time I saw a fireball be cast in-game I was in literal awe. And I absolutely agree; There are def things Larian can iron out in Act 3, but it never took away from my experience. Absolutely amazing game
I would go a couple steps forward and complain about the lack of an ability to make turn based mode automatically trigger on trap detection (is a pain)(from a v sad necromancer who has been fucked over by "Careful a tra- BOOM" 5 too many times), as well as the issues I have with being unable to pass off ability checks to other characters in your party (My face warlock should not have to stand there trying to figure out what this magical artefact is with my +3 to arcana while Gale with a +9 is twiddling his thumbs behind me, you just know he's ready to infodump about the fortnight he spent hyperfixating and researching this exact type of blue pebble.)
I just feel like it would help give the idea that dnd is a party game, because at the moment it's like, "Here is the hero of the forgotten realms... and their 3 lackeys" if you could press a button and wave your hand to the big stone door as you side step to let Karlach step forward and crack her knucles with a smile so she can roll her athletics, or have shadowheart roll her religion and have the camera pan over to her and tell you what this idol to whomever means, or have astarion step forward and lockpick something and then bow a bit in that way you never know if he's being sarcastic or actually flirty to let you through? it would bolster the feeling that you are a team so much more
Obviously, there are times when this wouldn't make sense, but in those times, it does, it is sorely missed. As it stands now they are entirely static behind you unless they have preprogrammed interjections that are important to their story, or they will talk in an aside that somehow the person right in front of us doesn't react to. I feel like I'm walking around with ghosts that only appear in combat (or to get hurt by traps grrr) and when someone does address them in convo it's like "wait you can see them too!?"
Still a fucking amazing game and the only game that can consistently hold my attention in single player without even background noise on my second monitor (although act 3 can get a bit overwhelming with all the things that happen at once so i had to take a break for a while)
I play a half drow. The conversation options I get and my companions ' responses are surprising
Playing BG 1&2 today would probably be disappointing for new players and rightly so;
You have to look at them as the foundation for the massive house that released in 2023.
Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect and Divinity also laid bricks on top of these foundations.
As a veteran of the CRPG genre, I'm overjoyed to see this genre getting the public recognition it always deserved.
Hey great video nicely edited and very good quality for a starting youtuber. Supporting you the way i can with my like and subscribing the channel. Keep up the good work
Me roleplaying my neutral good character, who cares about the wellbeing and life of others more then himself due ot deep seated trauma:
Also me when Astarion doesn't want to drink the Drow girl with a vampire fetish's blood: YOU'RE GONNA GET ME THAT PERMANENT STRENGTH POTION ISTG.
Moments later when with Gale (he's trying to kill himself again): I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH TO LET YOU DIE, STAY WITH ME.
Deep seeded. As in a seed planted deep in the ground. Deep seated doesn't make any sense.
This is a TRUE masterpiece!
You know whats the sad part of this?
We had games like this one, legendary amazing games... they were dime a dozen in the 90s.
Now we get one per year if we are lucky
you said we all were thinking it. Great vid
Great video my dude
Amazing video and well said! You have my Like and my Subscription.
Great video😊 subbed for sure😊
about to finish my 3rd campaign and starting on my 4th, my mind will literally not rest until I play all the classes.
Somebody help me
Not possible, you can rest after you 30-something-th playthrough😂
What’s your favorite class to play so far?
@@nancygraves3378 Bard/Cleric lol but currently I'm doing a full monk :)
@@danielvictor3262 I'm just now starting the game. I love animals, so I was thinking of creating a ranger or druid, but I haven't heard much positive about those classes.
@@nancygraves3378 Druids are severely underrated especially when Spore Druid build is actually one of the best "broken" builds in the game
480+ hours in, i’m on my 5th playthrough and i still keep finding quests and secrets that i’ve missed
this game is an absolute masterpiece
While it's my favourite game of all time. it's hardly a masterpiece. The UI is litteraly the worst I've ever seen. Why do your action bars reset every time you throw or drop your weapon? Then there's the rediculous amount horniness is so uncomfortable, and not to mention unfulfilling. A 1$ R rated dating Sim on steam handles relationships better. In BG3 everyone just instantly wants to F you at every time. Then there's random timed things that they give you no idea you could miss. Long rest after you discover the Inn and it burns down. Long rest after you enter the grove and the harpies kill the kid. Long rest after Roland leaves last light and turns into a shade with no way to save him. 99% of the time larien shows you that you can long rest as much as you want... untill you can't. And there's much more you could point out. My point is when you love something calling it a masterpiece doesn't help it improve. It will never get better as long as it's considered flawless.
The gnome on the windmill went flying! And in my next play through, I'm going to leave my main character at home to see if the story progresses with only the companions :D
Let me know how that goes! Sounds like a fun test
The thing about this game "raising the standards" of the industry overall, is that if most AAA studios attempt to make similar games of such quality, those attempts will likely come at the expense of the workers who create them. I agree with your assessment: BG3 is one of if not THE best games I've ever played. If I could exchange its existence to improve the working conditions of the people who made it, I would instantly. Jim Sterling has made a few videos recently that elucidate this point, and I'd recommend checking them out.
That’s an amazing and valid point. Of course I’m speaking from an entirely consumer point of view, as someone who just wants good games, but you’re right that the game industry still has a long way before that can happen, and not at the expense of the devs
I have finished my 1st playthrough after 150 hours this weekend and promptly started with my 2nd one - the dark urge. And boy it's so different, I love it! (Also recommend trying as a drow - everyone talks about your race, it's so fascinating!). Cannot imagine ever loving a game more than bg3 (but I hope I will be proven wrong :D)
Oooo I’ve been meaning to play durge on my second run! I’m still stuck b/w gith and drow, but honestly ill be playing this game for a long time so I’ll prob try allll the combinations eventually
Can’t spoil things for myself, so I’m going to put you on the watch soon list
Playing as wyll and rizzing up Karlac is the best relationship arc.
My drow necromancer is pulling some shinanigans on bosses by dogpileing them with a football team of undead
My gm has implemented how Spirit Guardians works in BG3 into her campaign. Now our druid really feels like a powerhouse during certain encounters. Before it felt a lot more hit or miss on whether it was useful.
Awesome quality video
Honestly wasnt sure if i wanted to get this game but im sold. rpgs that dont treat me like im a damn toddler and forces me to play a certain way with the illusion of choice
I find it funny how common Shadowheart is persuade. I wasn't even interested in her at first. I was planning to persude Karlach, but Shadowheart made a move on me and I couldn't resist. Now I am on act 3 and can't stop simping.
Act 3 shadowheart hits different
The game gets better and better the more you advance through it, certainly one of the better releases for a long while, combat, characterization, music, voice acting all top notch. Bring on BG 4.
Never had any experience with DnD. The only turn based games I've played is Final Fantasy and pokemon gold. So I was a little skeptic if this game would be a little overwhelming. But holy sweet jesus am I glad I gave this a try!!!! Almost 50hrs in and about to finish act1 and cannot believe how good this game is!!!! I havent been this captivated by a game since my childhood.
Great video 💪
Great video. You deserve a lot more likes for this - well made.
I love this game. Best game I've played in the last decade. I beat it last weekend and will probably start a new play through this weekend. Prolly go Dark Urge this time around. My only issue is I'm sure I'll just use the same strat I used in most fights so I assume they will go pretty much the same way. I also think that there should be a companion of each class. I know you can just use a hireling, which is what I did, but they can't use tadpole powers. As for shadowheart I think we all were trying to mack on her, I even gave her her favorite flower and still never did get to bed her.
BG1 was my collage freshman game, the way divinity is to you. A gf crpg game is lifechanging.
Couldn't agree more!
I can’t wait for this to come out on xbox!
Nice vid keep up the work man!
ive done two 150+ hour playthroughs and im still finding meaningful new things on my third which im now on act 2 of. idk what other game i can praise like that
I can relate, but i have not finished the game yet, I am only 20h into act 1. But that is enough time for me to judge the game, and i play a lot of rpg games. The only game in recent time that i have played that gives me this level of "i want to play more, explore more" was TWC 3 when it came out. I have close to 300h in TWC 3 (including the expansions).
I also enjoy Skyrim, fallout games, dragon age series, mass effect so on so on... But BG3 and TWC 3 are masterpieces, both release as full games, with hours upon hours of great story telling and worlds to explore. BG3 the first game in ages where i actually hoped for announcement of expansions. I get to play about 2 hours a day, after work, after everything that i need to do after work.. before i need to go to sleep .But for the first time in years, i stay up way to late to play. I even enjoy to go through NPC dialogs, get to know the characters.
I also play starfield, and enjoy it, its a great bethesda game, and yes its a totaly different game compared with BG3, so no need for a "is this better than that". but i have set it aside for now, i bought BG3 just this weekend, so yes i was locked in my apartment the whooole weekend playing BG3.
Agreed 100%. I had also a pleasure of playing BG1 and BG2 soon after its release, so I can 100% say that BG3 is a 100% successor of old games. Sadly, the level that BG1 and BG2 achieved was NEVER repeated, until BG3.
BG3 will surely inspire many new games, but there is a high chance, but none of them will be as good. Still, we got enjoyable games like Icewind Dale or Neverwinter Night, but... BG is just on another level across the board.
I used to love Shadowheart, but then I found my ride or die girl, Minthara.
When I finally play a full dark urge run I’m 100% recruiting Minthara
I completely agree. The game is so so sooo good.
You got me at Shadowheart
Great video.. paladin devotion path 210 hours still in act 2 i don't want to finish this masterpiece. 😊
Some of my friends are in the exact same position as you. They pretty much reached the end of the game but they refuse to finish it because of the post-game depression.
I just started a new campaign after I beat it. Problem solved LMAO (but I totally get where y'all are coming from. the first run is always something special)
My 2 cents on gaming in general is that gaming is as much of an art as it is a feat of engineering, rarely do things mix such that 2 practically opposing fields require such intricate cohesion to make a final result.
My experience: getting items with too advanced affixes that i dont understand.
Getting into situations where i have to choose between losing my characters which i want to keep or get slaughtered. Had a quite horrible experience with this game, trying to figure out how to advance the story and having to sacrifice the characters i grew to like. Quit the game after having to sacrifice Shadowheart after a grueling quest series where i had to fight a battle i could not win and lose her.
Your druid tav looks a lot like Dragon Age Anders👀 was that by accident or a conscious decision?
What a good review! I'm enjoying BG3 so much. I'm on my second pt doing Astarion's origin and I've already seen a lot of new things I didn't see on my first one. I'm totally new to D&D so there was a little learning curve at the beginning to get familiar with the many spells, mechanics and tactics, but Larian has made the game very beginner-friendly so that's great.
I sadly haven't played a Dragon Age game, so def by accident! (I do see the resemblance though)