It's d and d the videogame basically.

Do yourself a favour and find a way to make time. My wife, my friends and I all have full time jobs but we've been playing every other Friday or Saturday night for the last 3 years and it is spectacular to do. The outlet, the comraderie, the sheer fun of it all. Its worth losing few hours sleep at least once a month!

Same here, after 30 its impossible to find a DnD group so Crpgs are our best option. BG3 will probably be the best Trpg to date. Multiplayer should give you almost real DnD experience, without the GM

As a d&d 5e player in the past (played for 3 years) and big fan of witcher 3(similar in scope/depth). This game looks amazing.

You need to find time to get a group going for D&D. I was the same way, always wanted to play but never had the time. The five of us in my group all have kids, less one person. We find time to play once or twice a month. The stuff that happens while playing are memories that'll last me the rest of my life. One example: Our DM uses these critical fail cards, so you roll a 1 you pull a card. We were fighting a Red Mage boss in a dungeon and our warrior rolled a crit fail. The card told them that their minds swapped bodies, so the boss now was put into his warrior and vice versa. We were level 2 at the time and gained a character with 60 HP when we all had around 20. So for the first few months of the campaign, this dude is just an absolute tank rolling around in the bosses body. With that change, he brought many other difficulties while playing. Like concealing the fact that he was a red mage but a "good guy". It was glorious and stuff like that makes DND amazing. Find time, bro.

Other developers arent doing that, that is what some idiot gamers whose reading comprehension skills are no where near their social media THINK those devs were saying. The whole outrage thing makes it thoroughly embarrassing to be a gamer.

@@byghostlight1 I seen the vid myself, I've not read a thing or anyone elses opinion. I think you are mistaken dude.

But it’s fair for those devs to be upset since most are working at small studios that have like 40 devs vs larian studios which have over 400 devs

@@chrismcnuggett larian has been a small studio until it took up bg3. Also, no sane person is saying this is the new standard for small devs. Larian had to become big to tackle bg3. But bg3 absolutely is a game changer for Bethesda, bioware, the like.

Even jumping into it blind, it's pretty easy to get really immersed into the world since there's so much content and player exploration

@@bebemax95 Thank you. Looking forward to it.

Too bad they didnt make it with Xbox players in mind.

@@werdle92 They did... Xbox is coming later this year

@@werdle92Playstation user base isn’t split between two devices and is a lot bigger. Microsoft brought this upon themselves, can’t blame the developers for that.

Somebody is getting their Drizzt on.

I've never played dnd and have no idea what the 'Underdark' is, but you make me excited to explore it!

@Saffron831 well then, I have one peace of advice for your first delve. Don't be scared. It can and will hurt, but save often and treat it like a soulsbourne game and you'll be grand. Also, the robots like poetry.

I think it’ll deserve it. But traditionally… “swing swing kill” games are very likely to get it because it appeals to the… ‘ahem’ simpler crowd.

you would think, but that award never goes to games like this, too complex. itll probably go to either FF16 Zelda or Starfield, really whatever company bribes the VGA people more

This is not beating Zelda. CRPGs are way too niche. Definitely might win best rpg.

How is it goty, you have to play in turbs 😂😂

@@TheAbstracteDyou clearly haven’t played early access for the past 3 years. Or payed attention to the game much in general 😂😂😂

man i'm so hyped for it, can't wait for the release was also considering trying to play EA, but probably best to wait for the release

@@cluelessclown6562 EA is just Act 1, but the EA build is already 9 months old. Larian Studios said that Act 1 will have 33% more content in the Full Release. And that Act 1 is less than 25% of the Full Game. Which is crazy since people have 100+ hours in EA alone.

@@bebemax95 Yees. That's why I'm thinking it's probably better to wait. It's soon anyway, but the last weeks are the hardest:)

@@cluelessclown6562 Honestly BG3 has had a great early access, the replay value + the full release differences will make your first full playthrough fresh. It didn't hamper the experience jumping in and seeing what feels good to play, though i did only play 40 hours or so 3 years ago

Three AAA companies said Larian setting bar too high. Haha

@archangelgabriel5316 honestly it made me laugh so hard. Reminded me of the Ubisoft devs that were ripping into Elden Ring 🤣

@@runicknight1151 I mean, those Ubisoft devs were right. Elden Ring had tons of issues that reviewers glossed over.

@horkborkm5818 I'd disagree. A lot of their complaints were maybe correct from a 'good game design' perspective but ignored exactly what makes fromsoft games special in the first place.

The "Eye of the Beholder" games were fun, too

game development in general has shaped up alot since then- we're not llooking for pixel sized pebbles to solve puzzles any longer. you'll enjoy this one.

I remember the game, but can't remember it even though I played it

@@aaronlc7948 No, it's not. 2e was not clunky and it was hella intuitive. LMAO

​@@volourn9764errr no, Thac0 system for example is really unintuitive.

​@ChampionshipBetterThenPL same here I remember nothing of it I might play this one though

This obliterates Diablo 4 easily lol

​@@ryanwood6006as an action rpg BG3 sucks.

@@Animehermit but it isnt an action RPG. Its a traditional RPG. Its a create your own adventure game to the highest degree

@@ryanwood6006 I know, I was pointing out that comparing bg3 to Diablo is fuckin dumb

@@Animehermit so does Diablo 4 lol

I heard about it before, but stranger things series was my wake up call to really get to know this universe. Almost every monsters in that series is taken from d&d, especially the mind flayers

The studio also made Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2. Might want to check them out before this game's release. Should be on the cheap and are turn-based.

@@joshuacole917You’re talking about a few extra hours of gameplay before playing BG3. 😂

Who are you? No one cares.

Have you enjoyed it? I'm seriously considering buying it for ps5 but have no experience with D and D whatsoever

Good for you for only "dabbling." I went overboard on it and regret it. I wish when it releases it would feel newer for me.

Never played a pen and paper rpg, so I wouldn’t know. But isn’t part of the charm that you HAVE to interact with other people? I know the chemistry of the group is essential, but still, there is something special about having to find common ground with other individuals. You could almost say it teaches you skills you can use in real life.

Wil it be available for ps5 ?

@@kuja5809 Yes, but it releases a month later on September 6th. I think if you preorder of PS5 you get early access on Sept. 3rd, but I may be wrong on that.

I believe it's co-op, so you could each play a character in the same party & campaign.

@@nightcatarts When I say newb, I will have to hold her hand through *everything*. And to be completly honest, I look forward to seeing it through her eyes.

Yes, you can play co-op. I played early access of BG3 with my sister and we had a great time. I have also played it solo. To my surprise, events played out differently between the playthroughs. The characters you have in your party and the choices you make along the way can completely change major events and minor events.

@@MrDamnLag Have fun :)

I never did either, neither bg1 and 2. Having a blast with bg3. It takes a little time to get a full grasp of things but you will do fine just messing around until you do.

@@rogadip yeah I am thinking to give it a try.

If you want to play d and d and kind of can't this is d and d the game.

There are a huge number of TTRPG systems out there, so perhaps another one would appeal more to them. Call Of Cthulhu & Blades In The Dark are my faves; the former putting players in normal people who are facing horrible situations they're in no way prepared for (and probably won't survive), & the latter having players take on the role of criminals in a Dishonored-like post apocalyptic world (where they can even end up in prison). CoC has a lot of skills (real life stuff) to use & can look a little daunting, but it uses a very simple percentile die system where you roll at or below your skill score to succeed. BitD uses one or more of your normal d6 dice & determines how well an action goes depending on your highest roll, with you getting more dice with more proficiency. They're much simpler to learn & there's less weight of lore to scare off newcomers, plus combat isn't as drawn out & tedious as D&D's can be.

Just the name really. Nobody seems to want to make realtime isometric RPGs anymore except in the online space, but I went from the old Baldur's Gate games to Diablo to Path Of Exile & that's the one I'm still playing this many years later. It's not a singleplayer narrative-led experience, but it provides something of the same kind of joy. There was, however, a sequel to Dark Alliance called Dark Alliance II. Whether you can get that to run on current hardware, I have no idea.

Doesn't have it at the moment, but Steam Input will let you map things to controller buttons & sticks so you can (in a bit of a clunky mouse emulation with hotkeys way) use a controller.

They're supposedly going to change the beginning so it won't be like playing through the same thing twice, but progress won't carry over, so.. kinda depends on how much time you have & how invested you get in a particular character creator setup.

Yes. You get the deluxe edition upgrade for free and it's worth playing around with the classes to find your preferred class/build.

You can mess a bit with the classes to get an idea.

if you want your first experience to be the best, wait until August 3rd for full release

I've not found a definitive answer yet, but since everyone seems to be save scumming, I reckon you just reload the last save. There doesn't appear to be any way to get out of a fight once it begins.

Choosing which abilities/spells to use in which scenario is a lot of it, & working out how using one thing can then cause the next thing to become more powerful or useful. The idea is to basically let you play it as you would play at the tabletop, from character creation through picking how to level, whether to multiclass, etc.

Also the whole rpg aspect. A female voice will describe what you see and give you different approaches, like a dungeonmaster does.

@@DionysosDrinker ah yeah I guess I miss that. I played divinity original sin 2 its gonna take a while to get used to this new voice

​@@EauxzThe narrator is actually Malady from DOS2 haha The narrator for DOS2 is in the game but he plays a demon in the Dark Urge origin.

Ooh it is? That's good news.

I believe Aoife mentioned during a stream that they had character artwork all done, and they were just trying to figure out filming schedules, so fingers crossed!

Shhh.. no spoilers

Feed me seymour...

Pretty sure he says you have 2 days to revive him before [REDACTED] when you speak to his ghost

Gale was locked in his pocket dimension though.