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Turn based is boring based. Bleh.

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I mean, she also voiced a psychopathic companion in a CRPG, she knows that kind of player lmao.

That's a lot of people who should be considering therapy.

Amelia Tyler*

@@Kylesico912x exactly. yall have issues.

That is because she picks on the voice actor. They have a thing.

that's real asf. spent an hour and a half perfectly tuning my beautiful half orc paladin with max charisma, and then they hit me with another character. i almost closed the game lmao

Had the exact same thing with my boyfriend, We were both spending AGES making our character (together) and then BOOM. We couldn't stop laughing

My strategy is to just generate until I get the class/race I want, tweak a little bit, and then go. I did far more tweaking with my main character but my guardian was just like: click generate until I get a half-orc, make her bright pink hair brown instead, good to go lol.

bard gang rise up! 🗣‼

laughing is temporary, death is forever, god bless machines.

Why? Cause she won't stfu??

And in this game it is a much more OP choice than wizard (and they kick ass). so for once, Shelby is owning her boyfriend. time for revenge for all those mortal kombat and SMB rounds. lol

“Bard is definitely the perfect class”. FTFY

@@TwoLeftThumbsExactly.

Shebly*

Why did you just list the same group twice?

I keep playing Monk multiclass characters, so I have an excuse to avoid the "romance" options. Even with that...fkn Gale. That's all I'm saying on that!

Normal people? LoL probably not

Apparently normal people like Astarion. He's THE most raved-about character.

@@autumnatic I've seen a few other videos...just wait for it.

considering the time ive sunk into bg 1 bg 2 icewind dale etc all....i really really want this game. it seems like they just did everything right. if only my wallet wasnt empty. lol still hopefully "soon" i will be able to pick this up because god damn do i want to blast some stuff in the face.

Music is beautiful, I usually have a podcasts in background for most games but for this title have nothing in the background and crank up the music to be fully immersed.

@@darkvisiongothacked Larian really nailed the mix of goofy humor and grander tones of the originals. The switch from RTWP to Turn Based takes a bit of getting used to, but I'm really enjoying it.

@@JaredTakesTime i still remember for shits and giggles making a build that was just pure magic missile, or magic missile upgraded with various buffs. it was surprisingly powerful and tons of fun, reprised the build in NWN and could kill a dragon in 3 casts. but yeah it was so much fun to build in ways that you never would in an actual D&D campaign just for shits and giggles. been debating reinstalling nwn cuz i miss that style of game then this came out...so im just waiting to get some cash so i can go do dumb stuff while enjoying what appears to be a great story, with awesome mechanics.

Pirate then buy it at a later date. I recall seeing Larian comment on a pirate site years back hahaha they're insanely reasonable

How did that happen? 😢I'm so sad for you

Very sad hours ​@@jamimunchkin7041

Vicious Mockery is a hell of a drug.

I think its so ironic so many people treat him like just eye candy/an object when thats the whole moral of his story :,,)

I genuinely don't understand the hate for him. He's hilarious and his story is really good.

Balls deep

I think Astarian is a well written character & pretty entertaining - he's definitely an asshole at first (or the whole time depending on your playthrough), but he has a lot of depth & a great redemption arc if you go down that route. I am surprised he's one of the most romanced companions tho tbh lol.

⁠@@ayeyuh6920I feel like he gets lot of hate because of his fans. It was revealed that the top 3 romances was the women, and Astarion fans wasn’t happy.

I played xcom enemy unknown and love it, is it like that? Cause I don't see that I can take cover in these games so not being able to avoid attacks is a bit stupid to me

How many CRPGs are like this tho? I remember seeing Divinity 2 and I didn't think it looked as impressive. Baldurs Gate 3 pretty much dosent even have to be a CRPG, that's how detailed it is.

And also to TTRPGs :)

@@amirphoenix2327 No, this is more like Dragon Age, but throwing back more in design to the top-down RPGs that came before them (Neverwinter Nights, Diablo, Fallout 1&2, Arcanum etc). A good top-down RPG experience with turn-based based team tactics like XCOM, though, is the Shadowrun trilogy from around 10 years ago (Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun Dragonfall and Shadowrun Hong Kong)

I know,right?I literally had 3 "ugh,turn based games" friends to play it and at least 2 of the 3 love it 🥹

Yeah it was defo one of the funniest 😂

I thought this was one of the better ones too, but then I think, they've just been really average for a couple of years now, so now I'm surprised when they don't take 2-4 weeks to post something that isn't mid while 20% of its run time is an ad.

Honestly

@@olivernalen tell me you’re still bitter about The Last of Us 2 without saying you’re still bitter about The Last of Us 2.

@olivernalen you trippin

Do you not remember the earworm songs she sang in the past? Certified bangers.

weird al, flight of the conchords, garfunkel & oates, tenacious D, and flo&joan are comedian musicians, and good at singing. You can sing well for comedy!

You can always just play it through again...

​@@garwynrosser8907You mean...Playscuming?

It ended very abruptly

That's what she said

Neither was BG3.

That was my first thought. We need to talk to Larian Studios on who they modeled their default faces off of

I swear, my 1st thought was what, she's in the game???? lmao.

@@freikugel663 yeah ikr?? The resemblance is so uncanny lol.

I was impressed at the character creation they looked exactly how I imagined them

"Assault on the senses" is pretty accurate

I admire his tenacity. personally, I couldn't look at his character for more than 2mins before my brain refuses to engage anymore. a gnome with his choice of colourings is a constant attack on the system

yes

This is not a review of your Grandma, this is a review of how it is to live without your Grandma(???) 🤔

@@nickgotvyak5890 nigga, what?

????????? the cc isn't even that extensive how can you possibly waste that much time

course u can

I'm seeing Shelby all over the game.

the John Mulaney bit had me litterally falling out of my chair.

Welcome the party

Any spellcasting class is better than wizards 😂

​​@@clanakahatiWizards are great...if you have a GM that actually gives you a ton of spells, which is their primary advantage. They have access to far more spells than any other class, and can swap them out daily, but they're supposed to have to find them beyond their allotment through leveling. Too many GMs completely forget that, which removes the biggest reason to use them over a different class.

In BG1 and BG2 Bards were great because they got decent access to wizard spells and weapons which meant they were reasonably functional in the early game before you got a full party. In BG3, and 5e, they are way more specialized but still very good. They get overlooked way too much.

Wizards are actually extremely strong. You just need to know what you're doing. They've got the best spell list in the game

tbh, a bard with eldritch blast and spiritual weapon is the only perfect organism.

Astarion is the best companion ✨

@@malikVAR Well Karlach is the best companion but go off I guess

@@mejhdhhicbfshihids652 vampire papi stays on top

​@@malikVARI bet he does.

Im too afraid to try it and like it and spend hours and hours deep into it

It took me weeks to find the perfect combination of mods to get Astarion the tiny murder twink he deserves. All hail TMTS, my Dark Urge monk is the smallest male character in the game 🎉

I have 24 in and have restarted 4 times already.

There’s rumors of Critical Role shopping around for a game developer, and they already have a relationship with Larion. So we might get Exandria next…

If we get Baldur’s Gate 4 in eight years, that will still be a faster turn around than Dragon Age. Inquisition came out in 2014.

​@HenriqueErzinger don't think that's likely at all. Larian is probably past the point where they'd pay for a license let alone pay twice(DnD and CR). In a similar way we'll never see Fromsoft make another Bloodborne because Sony owns the rights and Fromsoft has no reason to limit creative freedom, sales or profits when they know they'll be successful without anyone else's creative or financial backing.

@@CC-of5xlI mean, they’re probably quite flush with cash off the BG3 sales, so if they wanted to do an Exandria game they could- I’d prefer if they went to an original setting, though, since the D&D rule set kinda feels limited compared to DOS2

@@laurelkeeper yeah but why would they pay someone else for their IP when any IP they create now will have similar if not higher value? The only IPs that would increase their audience size at this point would be Disney level IP. If it's a smaller IP they'd either want full creative control or be given funding to make it with an offer of a percentage of sales back. Now that is something I could see though. A crowd funding and early access with CRs backing might actually be big enough to increase the scope of the game which could help offset a long dev cycle their costs now are probably 5-10x a year higher than when they 1st started developing BG3 due to the increase in team size.

hope you get some sleep at least!

Well Matt pulled an all nighter to finish this video, so you're probably in the right mind set lol

If you don't know the game's universe too well or it's your first time in the setting, that's recommended.

It's much easier for me at least. You still have party of 4, you just control every one of them, so there is no misunderstandings. I also prefer it, because companions like to tell something in dialogues and I want to hear as much as I can. They are really great broken people and I can't think of them as friends of sorts, like after reading really good book. Coop, on first playtrough at least, with all of its goofiness, seems like inviting Ronald McDonald to one of the most beautiful stories you'll ever play. You can, but some things, some atmosphere and decorum, tastes best in solitude.

@firion666 that's actually very nice to hear, I just have to really dive into the mechanics and hope I don't get lost hehe, that's the only thing I'm concerned with

@@Nokard Game does good job with explaining as long as you don't exit tutorials. Also, there is many beginner friendly DnD mechanics videos on KZfaq, if you still feel a little lost. Generally, you roll d20 everytime when you want to check if you can do something. Rolled number + modifiers must be at least equal to DC of the roll - in dialogues you see it as a number over the dice, in a battle as a percentage showing up. When you deal damage you roll types and number of dices defined in weapon or spell description (1d12+1). The brackets (in this example 2-13) shows you exactly the same info, so you don't need to know every single dice type. Learning about possibilities is also big part of the game, so here I'm going to stop, but, as I said, if you prefer to know, you will find those who teach :3 I hope you will have fun and love this game as much as I do.

You can always lower the difficulty. No shame. It's a single player game and about what you want to experience. You can adjust the difficulty anytime as well. I recommend you watch some BG3 tips and tricks tutorials or the "things I wish I knew" etc etc.

Not really, the game is easy if you just Google the shit you don't understand. 😂

To this day my gaming buddy and I quote to each other “No one has as many friends as the man with many cheeses!!”

(That may have been Divinity 1 tho?)

@@pmarreck Hilarious! Yes, it's from the marketplace in Divinity 1))

it’s the Mass Effect of this decade

We are the DM's now and we declare thou shall have easily identifiable affinity bars through mods!

It's the squirrel's reaction that does it.

​@@KenS1267 yeah it was absolutely the squirrel's fault 😂