re: Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)

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but a male player can't simply be agreeable with either Gale nor Astarion (the only males to have been in my party thus far) without them eventually wanting to dry hump your leg.

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I haven't played the game, but just from reading your post, that doesn't really sound "woke" to me. Getting "ninjamanced" has been a thing in RPGs for a very long time, both for heterosexual and homosexual choices. It's basically a game design decision: devs know players get pissy if they "miss" potential content, so they signpost the hell out of it.

In Mass Effect 1, I strategically get certain NPCs killed, depending on playthrough, to avoid the issue

I wanted to keep wyll and karlach but they both noped out on me when I let the goblins into the grove

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Just don’t need or want a rogue or a mage in my party,

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Rogues are pretty needed for picking locks and disarming traps in dungeons. In the open world, probably not so much.

Having some magic though... you're not living until you've stacked at least a couple of Cloud of Dagger spells on top of each other. I stacked three and started calling it "Dagger-nado", just waiting for ScyFy to pick up the rights.

Getting my shite pushed in trying to assault moonrise.

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want to play this but idk if i want to pay full price

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shite ima buy it full price again on ps5 in a month

Have owned i guess since EA came out. Downloading now. My new SSD writes games so fast im 60 gigs in after 5 min.

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Guessing most of you all are lvl 4 or level 5 by this point?

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Spoilers incoming...

I hit level 5 last night. I have taken out 2 of the Goblin leaders, the 3rd is a bit tough due to all the help around him. I might be able to play with some spell usage in order to make my odds better, but then again I may just find other things to get exp from until I hit level 6 then give it another go.

I tried a couple of throw-away fights, in one I positioned myself by the treasure room and started everything off by picking the lock to the door. That triggered the two drow guards so I killed them. After that I locked myself in the treasure room and tried to map out, but they have locked out the ability to use the map to teleport away while in combat.

I did manage to loot it before loading from my last save, all I can say is that one day I will loot that room.

I've talked my way out of having to fight the gith, so that path is open to me but the wording of trying to go up the mountain path seems to indicate that going there will make all of your current quests incompletable.

The only other routes I have are trying to go up the elevator in Grymforge or trying to quickly/quietly take out the Zhent guards in front of what I believe is Halsin's cell.

Also, when you kill other "True Souls" (or just discover their corpse, as in the case of Nere), you can "absorb" their tadpoles to give you access to psychic abilities.

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just out of curiosity. how exactly does multiplayer work in this game? it seems like it would be difficult with all the dialogue stuff.

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2 guys playing co-op (live, as I post this) They are in the very first cut-scene, still on the nautiloid.

EDIT: When a cinematic comes from clicking on something, the other players are locked into the cinematic watching the click-er doing whatever (and then making rolls/choices). No idea yet on what happens if the cinematic comes from entering an area or if the players are far from one another.

EDIT 2: If you don't free Shadowheart from the ship, you end up meeting her at the ruins near where the ship crashes (because the two dudes didn't go back and save her). I wondered what would happen since she's integral to the story.

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I back tracked a bit to get to 7 because the raid on moonrise has made me it’s bitch.

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Once you move into that next phase/chapter, can you go back to the intro area (druid grove, blighted village, etc)?