Boulder's Gate 3 (there maybe Droobs ahead)

I think with early access they wipe your progress every patch release, at least I read that on a Steam review. I will definitely buy it at some point.

The hype for this is very odd, but definitely welcome. Hopefully it sells gangbusters for Larian.

Curious to see how it works on consoles too, or if I should just snap it up and play on Steam Deck.
It probably won't get a look in until September due to D4 seasons, so I'll try not to cave in and buy the shiny new thing like I usually do...

I like Baldur's Gate and enjoyed the Divinity: Original Sin games, so at least in theory I should really like the two smushed together. Will most likely play it as long as it gets good reviews, but I haven't seen any early access or other pre release stuff (except the first teaser) so I don't actually know anything about it other than the title and there are mind flayers in it.

Already bought it as soon as it got on Early Access lol.

I've played the first few hours, but I figured there wasn't much point getting too invested since my saves won't carry over. But those hours were good!

The only slight negative for me is that I don't really care for the Spelljammer setting. But that's a minor detail, I'm still well up for it when 1.0 comes around.

Ugh, I see no current Xbox date? That sucks, would have been up for this one.

Already purchased during its early access. Was surprised to see I had put in more than 11 hours into it, as I thought I had only dipped into it for a little bit.

Really liked DOS2, but this seems like a big step up. I played the early access about a year or so ago, I think, and even then you could see the polish above what you had in their previous games.

Edit: should also add that I'm heathen that bounced off the original BG games because of the real-time with pause combat. The fact this is turn based is a big reason why I'm looking forward to it.

Yeah I never really clicked with the original BG games.

Also, I thought many/most/all western RPGs are based on dice rolls going on all the time in the background. This is not unique, no?

They predated the Internet as a reference and I didn't realise you were supposed to pause in between choices so found playing it in realtime a frustrating experience.

I’ll be getting it day one on PS5, will play one tenth of it or 20 hours (whichever comes first) then forget what the story hook was and what I’m meant to be doing, and never play it again, as is tradition.

I did that with Pillars of Eternity, which is mega beard strokey, played a fuck ton, not really having a clue what I was doing, then got to a point where it started to matter and I was getting my arse handed to me, nopped out, will never go back.

So many numbers!

What? Larian will have a turn-based option though, right? Real time with pause can go do one.

Oh no, this one is fully turn based, just like their Divinity games. it’s basically Divinity with a D&D skin.

Sorry for the confusion. Was just adding to the above discussion.

I'm not worried about the mechanics, but I hope the plot is at least decent this time. Larian improved its writing a lot in terms of prose and dialogue from D:OS 1 to 2, and some of the side quests were pretty inspired, but the main plot really didn't interest me in either game.



KotOR still plays out in distinct turns even if different actors can act at the same time. It just doesn't pause by default and keeps queueing stuff automatically. You also only have three people to manage and the pace is pretty slow.

Baldur's Gate and other Infinity Engine games (and Pillars of Eternity) are much messier even though they technically use a similar system. I like those games but I'm not a fan of the RTwP. Trying to micromanage is tedious and especially in Baldur's Gate the "correct" way to play is often to just throw all your biggest AoE spells at the enemy immediately, preferably while they're still off-screen. I understand why people have nostalgia for it, but it's really not a great combat system.