I cannot get over how awesome this game is.
This is quite literally the BG3 I dreamed of 20 years ago.
My main gripe is that I cannot play more. And maybe that there are so many containers to check in many scenes.
Last night I spent 20 minutes or so looting a burning building, and now I have so much sausage in my pockets, all the NPCs want to get into my pants to get some.
I now have, like, 2000 supplies or so, and still cannot stop opening all the containers and stealing all the food.
And the quests… the possibilities… I started two additional campaigns to see how different other races/classes play, and even though I act similar (I cannot play a bad guy, I am always nice) it plays more differently than I expected each time.
I couldn’t agree more. I am finding so much depth to the game… along with more loot than I can possibly make use of.
I am also using all my willpower to ‘limit’ the amount of time I am playing. The first week I was spending an ‘unhealthy’ number of hours per day and neglecting the jobs that needed doing.
The wife now (literally) has me on a two hour timer. That is actually a good thing, but it means that I have only just finished Act 1. However It did take me my daily allowance to work out how to defeat the boss at the forge.
Hint: One of the NPCs you can loot has the clue - a hot hammer. He has way too many HP to take him down with a normal hammer though. Lure him into the centre and whack him with the forge’s ‘hammer’. Three hits was all it took in the end.
But in short: when I started playing World of Warcraft I joined a small guild, and shortly after that there was some problem between a few older members, and some (including the leader) left the guild.
I was a relatively new player, but I had already demonstrated that I was eager to learn how the game worked, and liked organizing.
Within a few weeks I first became the guy who explained tactics in raids and organized the raid groups, then someone said the words: “Aginor should lead”. So I was elected guild leader and led. And I overdid the organizing a bit.
I sorted the guild vaults, and did all kinds of organizational stuff.
I wanted to do it “just for some time until someone else wants to lead”. That never happened.
And people laughed a lot about my “typical German traits”. Like my tendency to over-organize, and how I kept explaining efficient ways of playing to everyone who wanted to listen (and some who didn’t want to).
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Too much loot! I have no self control in these kinds of games.
The odds of me crafting anything are basically nil, but god forbid I pass up that mugwort.
Question about the inventory screen, are you supposed to have to sort each time you go back to it? Like if you have the filter set to ‘latest’, when you leave the screen and come back later it won’t show you the last thing you picked up unless you re-choose ‘latest’ again. Think it’s a bug?
Mrs. Troll spent a year in Berlin and being somewhat organizatorial herself, loved every minute of it.
We were at the grocery store register line, when a store employee arrived to open a closed register. The employee told every other customer in line to form a new line at her register… Mrs. Troll nearly fainted from pleasure!
My wife is German and I think one of the reasons she married me is because I am generally chaotic and unorganised so she loves continuously “sorting” me out as she calls it.
On the same theme, have any of you guys ever flown in vatsim in MSFS? The difference in German ATC compared to the rest of Europe is incredible. If you ever want to be micro-managed just fly out of Frankfurt on one of their events it’s scary and I don’t stop sweating until I’m safely in French or Belgian airspace.
Ok so what’s this got to do with Baldur’s Gate 3? Reading all your reports has persuaded me to get the game today that’s what
Prepare to lose lots of productivity time, unless you’re disciplined. At night, I keep telling myself thirty more minutes or just this last quest then I turn around and it’s past my bedtime.
(After watching some show on TV with my wife, at the moment Star Trek TNG)
Wife: I am going to bed now. Good night!
Me: Good night! I am going to play BG3 a bit.
Wife: are you sure? It is already past midnight.
Me: yeah, I know. Just half an hour or so, talk to a few NPCs and search some crates or so.
Wife: OK… but don’t forget to go to bed!
Me: yeah, tonight I’ll look at the clock now and then.
Wife: goes to bed
Me: starts up BG3
Me: does stuff. Other stuff happens ingame.
Me: looks at clock after a short time
Me: WTF, 2AM?!
Big tip before starting Act 2: Depending on what difficulty you are playing, get to Level 5 (at least) before you begin.
Another one, just so you don’t waste a couple of hours and have to revert to (in my case) a much earlier save: At the Last Light Inn, create a save just before talking to Isobel and keep her alive at all costs.
So after several days of adventuring, I’ve experienced a few bugs that are not game-stoppers. The first happened in the Myconid’s Grove when Glut was adventuring with me. After I went to camp and came back I had to ask him to rejoin (expected) but after he rejoined my UI would not return. Exiting and returning to the game fixed it.
Perhaps the most annoying to me is that Shadowheart tends to be stuck in her camp clothes and I have to manually set it to her adventure armor every time. I’ve selected the correct settings but it only happens with her. It’s not a game stopper but annoying. I checked around on Steam and other forums, to confirm that others are having similar issues.
There are other bugs but they are all minor and I ignore them because the game simply is engaging and the bugs are not terrible.
I suspect BG3 will be a top contender for game of the year.
BTW, anyone tried Diablo 4? I was hyped but decided to pass on it. My buddy, who is a Diablo diehard, hasn’t gotten it either.
Starfield is my most anticipated game of 2023, and even though I pre-ordered the deluxe edition and can play as of 01 September, I will be finishing BG3 before I start it.
If you liked or are even remotely interested in RPG’s like Skyrim, Dragon Age, Elder Scrolls, etc then you really need to give this a try. It has a bit of a steep learning curve but is one of the most satisfying games I have played for quite some time.
Can’t stop playing! Not nearly at 70 hours but that’s not for lack of trying.
Last night I was looking at a ‘where’s waldo’ book with my kid, and when I spotted a backpack in some grass I actually thought “should check, might be something good in there”
