Multiplat BALDUR'S GATE III
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As it should be
Sad that this has become a badge of honor.
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RIP man
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Sucks it was working fine with no problems my pc. Was taking a break from this game then bam this happened after trying turn it back on
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Power it off and remove the power cable, reseat the cables to the hard drive and reboot it. If it still gives you an error get into the BIOS/UEFI and see if the motherboard is even detecting it. If it isn't you need a new hard drive. Hopefully you can recover data from it.
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Saw someone online say it reached 517,000. This weekend it could get even higher.
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My experience with it, first 30 hours, some of it early access, is that its incredible. The voice acting, score, cut scenes, plot, attention to detail, number of classes, sub-classes, spells, etc. all seem to have been crafted with care. As far as RPG's go, its amazing.
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Some people like to play games like a caveman, but if it works for you...
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Mouse and Keyboard are def the best ways to play these types of games, though I do prefer Dragon Age Origins with a controller. Hopefully this plays the same that way, but with the option to play isometrically. I think in DAO you are always third person.
I've been playing for an about an hour, it's freaking glorious. I'm just about to test the controller now as I'll be at the cottage tomorrow and will use my Steam Deck. I popped in here to see if anyone else is playing it with a controller. They just released a 200Mb update, perhaps that's what allowed valve to make it Deck verified now.
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Oh man I forgot how good this game was. I played it like 2 or 3 years ago when it first came out in early access. The polish they’ve put on it is just… amazing. This is going to end up being one of the greatest games of all time
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I'm judging from the UI and others playing, it just doesn't trip my trigger. Maybe I don't like RPGs.
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Maybe, but unless something like Starfield is GOAT level, BG3 will win GoTY. The amount of depth and detail is crazy. The script for BG3 is over 2,000,000 words, that's twice as much as every Game of Thrones episode combined. Over 170 HOURS of cutscenes alone. As if that alone is not impressive enough, the score, attention to detail in the world, and size of the world are all amazing in scope. Just spells alone there are 600+. There are 17,000 permutations of endings. The voice acting is some of the best I've ever heard in a video game. The plot for all the major characters is detailed and engaging. It is so overwhelming, other studios have been butt hurt and are complaining to gamers that they shouldn't judge all RPG's by Baldur's Gate 3 standards because they set the bar so high.
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A review I read gave it one star for being nothing like Skyrim or Witcher 3. Is that accurate?
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No, not really. Skyrim and Witcher 3 are action RPG's and they don't use turnbased combat. Completely different types of games. Right now on Steam with 83,000 reviews its sitting at 91% approval despite a lot of those coming in very early access and bringing the average down. The last 27,000 reviews have it at 95% approval. Metacritic "critics score" has it at 94% with a userscore of 9.3. It is a magnificent D&D based RPG. Probably the best ever made.
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I take it this was a user review?
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Yeah lol
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I'm kind of in paralysis analysis mode. I wanted to play my own custom character, but the face models and malleability are suprisingly limited. And it also seems that even Larian can't make non-cannon faces emote believably, they all end up pulling these weird mannequin-like vaguely surprised or frowned look in cut-scenes, it's pretty immersion-breaking. I'm assuming it would require lots of specific tweaking that they wouldn't be able to apply to arbitrarily made faces by users for that to work. Thinking about maybe just picking Asterion so I can main a rogue, which I usually don't do, but two of the female companions already seem to fullfill the role of tanky fighter. I can pick one of those two and then add Shadowheart as healer and one of the mage guys, for a well-rounded party.
It's accurate, it's also a completely fucking bogus reason to rate a game a 1. So why bother giving it any attention at all?
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Wish Steam allowed a filter for user reviews based on time played in the game.
The problem with user reviews is SO MANY give reviews a few hours or less into a 70+ hour game.
