Baldur's Gate 3 announced

[crazy canuck]

So rather than just apologizing for the spoiler and removing it you triple down.

[The Minsky Moment]

Well...if cc isn't going to finish the game except at the very end of our natural lifespans (how do you play the game anyway, do you log in, advance 10 yards, loot a carrot on the way, decide that's enough excitement for the day, log off) then maybe not ever visit this thread except once you're sure via obituaries/implied silence that all the rest of us are dead and cannot spoil one tiny piece of the whole tapestry? 

I assume he plays like most normal people play BG games.

Start a character, get halfway through Act 1, think to yourself how it would be interesting to play class X, get that character halfway through, rinse and repeat a dozen times. 

[Legbiter]

Start a character, get halfway through Act 1, think to yourself how it would be interesting to play class X, get that character halfway through, rinse and repeat a dozen times. 

That's what Withers is literally for. Shadowheart respeccing into a Light Cleric makes perfect sense given the story progression and I turned Astarion into a lockpicking Ranger because the stealth mechanics for a rogue was turning my hair gray.

[The Minsky Moment]

You can't change race or appearance, and you can't undo certain in game choices.  And you can't know what it's like to play an origin without playing that origin.

[Razgovory]

I haven't even gotten the game yet.  I need a new PC.  I have started Solasta which is kinda the same thing.  I also have started playing Table Top at my local game store.

[Valmy]

I just cannot seem to get out of Act 1. Every time I am like "ok I am about ready to go, I just want to check that one corner of the map" and then 8 hours later after some amazing adventure "that was cool...wait what was I doing again?"

[Solmyr]

Apparently if you bring up relocating, at least temporarily, to Avernus while you scrounge up a cure, Karlach will live.

In my game I didn't want to force Avernus on her, so I didn't really bring it up much if at all, but she lived because Wyll suggested going there with her.

[mongers]

I haven't even gotten the game yet.  I need a new PC.  I have started Solasta which is kinda the same thing. I also have started playing Table Top at my local game store.

I should really do something like that, but the store in my local city is in the only scuzzy part of town.

[Jacob]

Please don't spoiler new games. Not everyone plays a game immediately on release. Not everyone plays at the same pace.

[Sophie Scholl]

Start a character, get halfway through Act 1, think to yourself how it would be interesting to play class X, get that character halfway through, rinse and repeat a dozen times. 

Guilty as charged. 

[Valmy]

If you want a bigger party, then this mod works pretty well: https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/327

You don't need to use the exe tweak if you don't play multiplayer, just put the mod into the installation Mods folder.

Ok I finally got tired of being limited to four people and used this and now roll with six like Gary Gygax intended and wow it makes me so happy. I don't even care that I now have to ungroup people and move them around to stop them from getting stranded on cliffs or blown up by traps and now I have too many people for the fights.

It is just wrong to have four people adventuring parties. It should be six. And I am so glad the game UI supports this.

[Caliga]

Please don't spoiler new games. Not everyone plays a game immediately on release. Not everyone plays at the same pace.

This.  Not all of us are losers who just play video games all day, people.  I like, have a very demanding job and travel for it.

[Syt]

Not really making much progress in this. I love the game and its interactivity, but I also feel weirdly stressed by the game's constant choices and (more importantly) the lack of a proper pause button? (I know I can activate turn based mode as a workaround.) Not a fan of wanting to check my equipment or read stats and ability texts in an area with roving NPCs/enemies that might trigger an encounter. I feel I always have to be "switched on", something I normally associate with Soulslikes.

(I know that I'm kinda weird )

[Jacob]

That's not "kind of weird", that's a legit gameplay preference (that I share).

[Zanza]

Finally reached Act 2. I guess I found most stuff in Act 1, but probably not everything. But I fund myself wondering how it would play with a different class and different companions...