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The anxiety of the opening watching your coffee mug as you wave your hands around hoping you don't spill it everywhere

I accidently played until 6am on a work night... it just flows man, just flows. Great writing that doesn't take itself too serious. The closest feeling to playing a great pen and paper rpg with friends a video game has created.

How kind and gentle Karlach is even after her story, the depth and payoff of Shadowheart's story, Saving Minthara, Lae'zel's realization about her life... I'm a stoic old man and I often teared up. Crazy feels.

You're so right, Baldur's Gate 3 is a phenomenal game. And the replay ability is endless. In my humble opinion one of the best video games ever made.

BG3 is pretty much the DnD version of DA: Origins, party banter, meaningful character progressions, camp system to talk to companions, an almost identical final battle sequence...

For the majority of BG3 I wasn't that keen on Astarion. I used him because he's handy, but i wasn't a fan..... but. By the time i finished helping him out with his storyline, I found I enjoyed participating in it with him more enjoyable than entire games I've played in recent years. The fact that his story is just one small corner of such a great narrative is mind-blowing 🤯

Loving the background music. Yep I think BG3 might be the best RPG I've ever played. Of course other ones fill me with nostalgic joy, and playing FF7 Remake, for example, provoked a lot of emotions, but BG3, in terms of quality, ambition, innovation, storytelling, immersion, is the best I've ever played. I can't split it any other way.

I had Six cups today. I’ve been playing D&D since 78. Only now learning 5th edition in BG3.

This is the first dnd media I’ve ever gotten into and I’m so addicted. I ended my first play through prematurely and I’m doing a second cause I also skipped a lot of content in act 1. Cheers

Let me know your thoughts on the Coffee Talk format! Is this something people would like to see more of? Looking to beef up and diversify the content here on the Second Channel as well 💪

I'm pretty sure that putting the RNG back into the RPG genre has certainly helped. Harking back to the hay-day of Diablo I & II, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights, and both of the previous entries in the Baldur's Gate series. Modern 'RPGs' feel more like Golden Axe or Streets of Rage than actual RPGs.

Dude, you have struck the nail on the head with all your points on this really, really, really great game. I have to point out one important thing you left out, and that was the absolutely sterling voice acting for those wonderful companions. I'm on my second play through, and different choices make for a really different experience! I think I'll be playing this game for quite some time to come, it's definitely made my short list of go-to games. :)

Gotta agree, verticality in the game is so good. Jump, especially with enhanced leap or some features that allow for insane jumping distance, and Misty Step (fly is also, tho more niche and costly one) are not only cool exploration tools, but also strategy-important skills/spells, make combat much more dynamic.

The ammount of times I thought to myself "wow, this game acts exactly like a living DM would" is very high, and even a single instance of that is mind bogling on its own

Love this format, more coffee talks!

I love this game so much. I've been waiting for years for a game in can invest my time in after work. Baldur's gate Developers needs denote button.

I LOVE mistystep!

I want a Baldur's Gate multiplayer turn-based PvP arena. A mode that would unlock once you reach the city and beat the game.

This was a very good video. The Oblivion music was really, really relaxing. Oh, and the Baldur's Gate 3 discussion made me buy the game on Steam...Heh heh. Only £49.99!!! God help me with Act 3, I hear it has issues though. Note, this is my first Baldur's Gate game since PS 2 and Baldur's Gate : Deadly Alliance 1 and 2! Since oh 2003?

Ive never been to the main channel. Algorithm randomly recommended this to me. Nice vid

Im so glad this game is so great. A breath of fresh air for gamers with good gaming pcs. My rig wont run it and lacks the space but im glad to hear people enjoying it. I still play 1&2 quite a bit. The baldurs gate games never get old. So many possibilities.

Thanks for this, appreciate the opinions, I share a lot of them pretty much. My first playthrough of BG3 has taken ages even with intentionally letting a lot of characters and plots + places not fully explored. Am already psyched to do a 2nd playthrough for sure.

Uh oh. Saying 5e is your favorite edition is a summoning chant for the gate-keeping trolls of Neverwash, in the high region of the Beardneck mountains. Lol. That being said, I agree on 5e, and on Baldur's Gate 3. The game is a masterpiece. After I finished my playthroughs, I actually went back to playing Neverwinter again.

Regarding companions, I love that you have a bunch of evil leaning ones even on a good playthrough - they just happen to be agreeable enough to stick with you even if you aren't being ruthless and evil.

it’s just a 10/10 for me. if they improve the frickin camera adjustment they deserve to be turned to 11.

I admit as I diehard baldurs gate and d&d fan I was worried when I heard a new studio was carrying on the legacy . Oh how wrong I was for that . Larian made this game with so much love and passion . They did a great job not only tying it in to the last 2 pc titles but they even fit in lore names places and events from the console games (baldurs gate dark alliance 1 &2) they did a great job making a d&d rpg set in the sword coast . They did amazing all around . Love this game . Only issue I have are minor ones such as . Why can't we max out approval rating with companions but have a platonic friendship with then instead of everyone hitting on you . But that's not a huge deal as of right now . Game of the year hands down

Talk is good, too. I love the process of analyzing content by talking it out

If anything you get way too many magic items for D&D 😂 I recommend playing a githyanki. For me it turned into a weird buddy adventure story with Lae'zel. She really opens up earlier and there are some unique interactions. Plus with a spellcasting class you get medium armor for free.

I roughly played the PS2 version, years ago with a friend. Though I couldn't remember anything besides resurrection a skeleton.. Built a computer over the holidays just bought this game, 3 weeks later I'm 46 hours in. I cannot stop thinking about this game. This is pure addiction

I'd love to see you make interesting character builds or any type of BG3 content for your main channel, man. I couldn't even finish Act 1 because i don't have much free time these days, but itd be cool to experience the game through your videos!

First time on the channel, love it!

When BG3 was coming out, I knew that Starfield wasn't too far behind it. I chose not to buy BG3 and play Starfield instead. After 100 hours of Starfield, I think I may have chosen poorly... Don't get me wrong, Starfield is a good game. It's just not an amazing game. I do look forward to seeing what the typical Bethesda mod scene is going to do with it though. Baldur's Gate 3 is definitely on my wishlist now though!

In my 1st playthrough, I romanced Karlach and by Act 3, I was legitimately dreading the end because I didn't expect her story to end well. When I saw the option to go to Avernus with her so that she wouldn't be alone, I nearly jumped out of my chair with excitement. I haven't so much about companion characters in a video game since the Mass Effect series.

I’m obsessed with this game in a way I haven’t been for over 20 years, when I was still a teenager. For once, the hype is real. I was a bit skeptic about playing BG3 since I tried but never got into Divinity, but boy, am I glad I took the plunge. 50+ hours into BG3, I keep asking myself “there’s got to be a low point soon”, but it just never happens. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the game of the decade for me, and absolutely one of the top three games of all time. It is the pure essence of RPG:s, where every single choice ACTUALLY matters over the entire game and everything you do has consequences. Spectacular sound design and soundtrack, engaging and fun combat, amazing voice acting and animation. It’s a 12/10 for me. ❤❤❤

I like this video, I like your energy, I like your face. I feel the passion in your voice. Keep making videos that you're passionate about. It's great!

you know a game is outstanding good when you go to sleep thinking about how the story might go on and you wake up and the first thing you think is "gonna turn on my PC and play now"

I like your opinions so I like this video :D but you are a cool dude in general. I feel like I would love retrospective videos from you

Let's do the talks! I like listening to your longer videos while i drive, so having a video less focused on gameplay every now and then would be excellent.

Baulder's Great.

new viewer glad i have something to watch with my morning coffee now !!

Omg! Love the beard!

honestly, this game is really good and you don’t really notice just how good it actually is until you really look around and see all the subtle nuance that there is hidden away. Ultimately the choices you make in the things you do are more or less ephemeral because by the time you get to the end game, not really much matters you have a few options based on a few things you’ve done but that’s about it. However, when you explore all the little nooks and crannies and take different options along the way, it will make sure that by the time you reach and game you will have had a much richer experience and the weight of your choices will bear down on you much more heavily than if you just followed the most direct pass through the game just to get to the ending as quickly as possible. I think one of the biggest joys of this type of game is that each time you enter a combat or even just a different area you have 1 million different ways you could approach those scenarios. Like I said, if you just follow the most direct path, then the payoff will be less. but if you experiment and try different things go different places use different tactics then you will really be amazed by the breast and scope of this game in regards to the choices that you have with the situation.

Bg3 has become my favourite game ever I’ve always loved Skyrim, and Dragon age and I’m just glad that RPG’s still have passionate game developers ^~^

Lazel in Grymforge, I don't use any levers, simple jump to end, it was interesting exploring, and that traps can be jump over helps.

Baldur's Gate 3 is the best game of the history

PLEASE play more baldurs gate my guy! i know you're all about morrowind and all things elder scrolls but id love to see you branch out to some other stuff but still stick to your roots. one of my favourite youtubers and i'll watch no matter what you do man. just keep being cool.

One nitpick I have about BG3 is how easy you can access the different approaches to a situation. A bit hard to put into words what I mean, but I'll try with some examples. You mentioned how mobility plays into exploration, and a very useful tool for that is misty step. The issue I have is that I never got into a position where I thought "oh, I wish one of my party members had misty step right now", because there always would be someone. The gith get a misty step as a racial ability, nine of the classes can access the spell (though not all of their subclasses), and there are two items that grant you the spell. It's similar when it comes to jumping. I either have characters with high strength to jump far, or with the enhanced leap spell (or a potion of vaulting). How about talking to animals? Well, quite a few classes and one race can do that, but there are also enough potions of animal speaking in the game that you can go through an entire playthrough speaking to every single animal without ever needing anyone with the actual spell for it. A similar point can be made about speaking to the dead, thanks to a certain very early game item. Let's just say that I like how the game gives me a variety of tools to deal with every situation, but that it gives me too many of them. I'd like a little more moments where I'm limited in my options because of my party composition and what I have in my backpack. Pretty long comment for a nitpick, but it really is just a nitpick.

ahhh morrowwind oh yes that was a badass game.

I'm 36. Been playing games since I was able. Bg3 is probably the greatest game I've ever played and easily the favorite.

Well spoken.

I was expecting better looking cofee like proper espresso from the Coffee Man. Other than that I do agree with you, this game is the best game I played sicne The Witcher 3. The characters you injteract with feel alive, teh story is gripping and the gameplay is great. The cherry on top is meeting the characters that were in previoous games for those, like me, who played and loved them way back when they were the best CRPG around.

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I finally convinced myself to stop picking up rotten food and bones. It turns out I probably won't need them later. LOL!

for some reason while watching you, I’m getting Peter Griffin vibes. “ do you know what really grinds my gears?”… like I was waiting for you to say that. 😂

Have you tried playing the Owlcat Pathfinder games (Kingmaker, and Wrath of the Righteous)? I'd be interested in your thoughts about them

This video wouldn't load for me, i tried watching it a couple hours ago. I tried back to back, and going between this and other videos. Even restarting the app. What could have caused that?

In 3 dimensional space, vertically is the Z axis. Lol. 😝

you know, one of the things I thought about years ago as games were evolving and growing, and the various systems were becoming more powerful. Is that games? Don’t need to be necessarily these ultra realistic, huge things that rewrite the wheel all the time. Instead you can just make, a more focused game so much deeper and more complex with the interactions and the options and the different things you can do where that wouldn’t be possible before

Mighty fine beard

On the point of loot, the most important thing in BG3 is, the loot is meaningful. Any magic item you get is useful at least once or in a certain circumstance. There is this ring in act one that just gives you +1 to religion and +1 to arcana. Absolutely nothing special. But if you keep it around until act 3, it will come in useful when you get to a certain artifact beneath the city of Baldur's Gate. Yes, mundane loot is just a different kind of gold reward, but that ties into it's own minigame of selling items to vendors and as such it's a different kind of reward.

still have not finished a single playthrough am lost on where to go. stuck at road to Baldur's gate, and cant figure how to get past it. yea could look it up but no fun in that.

I think if fallout series continued as it is back then... it should be like BG3

the best way to find out if a player is an old school player Is by asking them how they feel about THaCo

funnily enough the last time I enjoyed a game this much it was divinity original sin 2. I'm 100% Larians target audience and I'll be there every step of the way. they are masters of their craft.

Good format, good points. I would be one that disagrees with this game and how good it is .... but, i mean some people like Red Snapper, i do not. Doesnt mean its bad, just means i dont like it lol.

One word, THAC0

Juat subbed. Coz you look like a rpg romance option. 😊

Our Lady of Silver. Hear me! She who guides, the Moonmaiden Selûne MOTHER OF THE SO-CALLED NIGHTSONG THE NIGHTSONG IS NO MORE! 😱😂❤ WTF, i cried man, i cried. The origin characters Minthara Jaheira Minsc and Boo Afira Raphael Lakrissa Zevlor Isobel Dame Aylin Orin the Red Malus Thorm Ketheric Thorm The Emperor The Absolute Ansur the bronze dragon Mizora Queen Vlaakith Orpheus Kith'rak Voss Withers / Jergal Incredible characters.

Great video. Great game. Swen Vincke is the GOAT. Swen also has the most mispronounced name in history.

BG3 is both the best dating Sim of all time and the best rpg of all time

Destroying the toxic image twitter had built up sounds like a good idea to me. I wont use it either way, but the people who do will continue to.

I feel like I have 1 million comments I need to just make a channel where I react to everybody. But I grew up playing dungeons and dragons to me. I love D&D, but it feels kind of antiquated to me like compared to just modern gaming in general. I feel like as of now what are we up to fifth edition the world has gone so weird with little things as far as the DND setting is concerned. I mean we got all the different weird stuff going on with your party members which I won’t get into to avoid spoilers. I mean I guess in the world of dungeons and dragons anything can happen and that’s kind of what BG three encapsulates, but I will never get tired of simple people, and with no crazy history, somehow going on a heroes journey and getting wrapped up in larger than life adventures

hottest viking ive ever seen

When will Levitate come back to The Elder Scrolls?

Im listening and thinking, yeah theres a game that won trophys and then you mention Disco Elysium.. uuh thank god cause that was/is Masterpiece still.. narratively kind but still.

It just

I have zero interest in whatever social media, Twitter, Facebook tick-tock any of that crap I just kind of sort of got into Facebook a little bit and other than that I just watch KZfaq that’s pretty much it if it doesn’t exist on KZfaq, I could care less about it. Watching people play video games or do anything else for that matter it’s pretty boring to me. The only exception was when I was watching Bob Ross paint on TV but even then I can only watch that shit for so long before falling asleep. I am a grab life by the horns kind of guy who gets out there and does what he wants and takes what he wants Mr‘s game I want to play. I’ll go out and play if there’s a thing I want to do I’ll go out and do it. So yeah, bottom line is Twitter change its name whatever I didn’t grow up in an era where social media even existed I kind of opted out of it and ignored it for the last 10 years or so.

i'm so fkn gay, and this man confirms it haha

Tried it Didn't care

Personally I barely consider skyrim an rpg. There's almost no actual role playing built in past character creation and The world is so unreactive it's weird. The fact that you can join the dark brotherhood and kill the emperor and it has no effect on the civil war is hilarious

If you love RPG games, but don't mind reading a lot, just like morrowind, you should check out Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous by Owlcat. It's a better rpg than bg3 imo. It does all the rpg aspects much better, but it's smaller production compared to bg3. but not really that indie either. i m surprised that you said no other rpg holds a torch to bg3 in the last 5y.. i m not saying bg3 is bad, i just think wotr executes on all the important rpg features a lot better. but it's less accessible cause it barely has any voice acting and the game mechanics are complex. but for a morrowind fan these shouldn't be an issue. so yeah, check it out!

I feel sorry that you enjoy mediocrity, playing other crpgs's free me from being fed slop like the little piggie i was from the bethesda trowel. Playing other games like dragon age origins, kenshi, wrath of the righteous, and monster hunter dos has opened my eyes as if i was on some kind of stimulant. I can tell tes vi is going to suck, imagine starfield without space; painfully bland slop from the slop factory.

moar playing (live!), less talking, i'd say! :D