re: Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)

If you get the opportunity, try to talk your way out of fights, you get more exp that way (and can just attack them after, to double-dip on getting exp from them ).

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Yeah I fricked that up this play thru highest charisma I have is 10

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That's one thing I love about this, there are tradeoffs all over instead of one or two uber stats you dump everything into (making every character play pretty similarly). Want more strength to do more weapon damage? You have to sacrifice it somewhere else.

My bard's primary stat is Charisma (17) so I have been able to talk my way through a LOT of stuff. My melee attacks aren't for shite though.

Killed Astarion for trying to bite me. No more gay vamps to worry about.

Luckily ghis is not my first BG game and have been quick saving often. F5 if you dont want to look it up.

i bought it, i dont know when im going to play it, but i'm voting with my wallet. seems like these folks did it the right way for a change.

also, this quote from the D4 Designer made it an easy buy

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Diablo IV senior designer Chris Balser also agreed with Nelson Jr., saying that it is important to remember that not all studios operate under the same conditions. He compared Baldur’s Gate 3 to Ultima VII, the favorite RPG of Larian founder Swen Vincke — “that’s a game that had 12 years of prior games feeding into it.”

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AAA gaming companies gnashing their teeth makes me happy

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Reading how shook and uncomfortable the rest of the industry is over this game is what pushed me over the edge too.

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I can't deny that it appealed to me as well. I've never seen competitors come out about a product saying (essentially) "don't expect our stuff to be that good" and even "don't expect it to set a new bar for quality in the industry".

I have to wonder if they regret those statements now.

Still level 3 and getting my arse kicked most places. Need to find like 160 more xp to reach lvl 4.

gonna have to use the Internet to find some sources of xp.

Probably need to spend some of this gold I’m sitting on for some gear too

Finished finding the druid and killing the 3 leaders. halfway to level 5. Got the bionic eye because it didn't have negative effect on shadowheart.

I guess I will take underdark path to moon and decide if i want to find the item to finish reading the necromancy book or not.

I never even partied with the bitchy orc, her mood towards me was low neutral, and she still got in her feelings about me getting romantic with shadowheart. Bitches be crazy.

Never got my gear back from mol or finished the side quest of saving the child thief. Even with reduction spell my smallest larty member won't fit in burrows.

I only accidentally figured out there's a separate skill tree for eye boogers, and unfortunately each character has their own separate one.

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Killed Astarion for trying to bite me. No more gay vamps to worry about.

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I told the monster hunter where he was and then told him I told the monster hunter where he was. He stormed off and left the party permanently. I lol'ed and forgot him. Such an annoying character.

I wanted karlach but she noped out on me. Laz is annoying so I recruited the generic barb from the skeleton.

still insanely impressed with this game.

in act 2 now and hit a major point (no spilers) but i could see how events in this one scene could play out in multiple ways and greatly affect play through.

i dont play through games more than once very often. i can see myself going through this one twice, maybe 3 or 4 times.