Baldur's Gate 3

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I used knockout mode against some people that were under the charms of an old hag, but they were all dead after. Not sure what occured.
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If you hit NPCs with unarmed high strength characters, you can still kill them. :)
 
Is Gale worth keeping in the group? I’m a high half elf paladin and currently got lae’zel, astarion & shadowheart in my group with Gale back at camp. Just about to go into that first ruins, no idea what the best combo is like just winging it :D
 
I still found knocking out some people that should have recovered, didn't. They still were dead in the end and that was using melee and having them show as unconscious. So I do think some of it is a bit buggy still from that pov. Most people get put to the sword though in fights :D
 
So I've been thinking about how the ps5 release is going to go. I think it will be interesting to see how the game is received by that audience.
First off the hype is already way higher than on the pc release, where it was all just people going, "hey Check out this cool game." ps5 players will have been bombarded by a month of "this is the best game ever, all other games should cower in fear!!!!"
And, I hope our console brethren will forgive me for this, PC gamers tend to be more used to a wider variety in games and genres. Like if you just play big popular games on PS5 many of them are mechanically quite similar. God of war, tomb raider, assassin's creed, uncharted, spiderman, the last of us, red dead redemption, even to a certain extent gta and the witcher. For the most part if you've played one of them, you have a pretty good grasp of what to expect in the others.

Baldur's gate isn't that. Even though with a controller it almost looks like it will be right up till you try to do something. Then it's all action wheels and waiting your turn.

I'm not saying all console players won't get on with it, probably not even most, but I have a feeling more ps5 players will bounce off it than PC players have. Though I guess the flip side is that for some of the people who have only ever played your big AAA console games before it might introduce them to a whole new idea of what games can be and do.

Anyway just a rambling thought. I am interested to see how it goes on PlayStation
 
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StarShock said:
So I've been thinking about how the ps5 release is going to go. I think it will be interesting to see how the game is received by that audience.
First off the hype is already way higher than on the pc release, where it was all just people going, "hey Check out this cool game." ps5 players will have been bombarded by a month of "this is the best game ever, all other games should cower in fear!!!!"
And, I hope our console brethren will forgive me for this, PC gamers tend to be more used to a wider variety in games and genres. Like if you just play big popular games on PS5 many of them are mechanically quite similar. God of war, tomb raider, assassin's creed, uncharted, spiderman, the last of us, red dead redemption, even to a certain extent gta and the witcher. For the most part if you've played one of them, you have a pretty good grasp of what to expect in the others.

Baldur's gate isn't that. Even though with a controller it almost looks like it will be right up till you try to do something. Then it's all action wheels and waiting your turn.

I'm not saying all console players won't get on with it, probably not even most, but I have a feeling more ps5 players will bounce off it than PC players have. Though I guess the flip side is that for some of the people who have only ever played your big AAA console games before it might introduce them to a whole new idea of what games can be and do.

Anyway just a rambling thought. I am interested to see how it goes on PlayStation
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I agree, it seems like one of those great old PC-first games of yore which is probably why PC gamers are finding it so refreshing. I'm not sure what console players will make of it. I tried using a controller today in the game and although Larian have done quite well it's not easy to translate that interface to a controller.
 
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StarShock said:
So I've been thinking about how the ps5 release is going to go. I think it will be interesting to see how the game is received by that audience.
First off the hype is already way higher than on the pc release, where it was all just people going, "hey Check out this cool game." ps5 players will have been bombarded by a month of "this is the best game ever, all other games should cower in fear!!!!"
And, I hope our console brethren will forgive me for this, PC gamers tend to be more used to a wider variety in games and genres. Like if you just play big popular games on PS5 many of them are mechanically quite similar. God of war, tomb raider, assassin's creed, uncharted, spiderman, the last of us, red dead redemption, even to a certain extent gta and the witcher. For the most part if you've played one of them, you have a pretty good grasp of what to expect in the others.

Baldur's gate isn't that. Even though with a controller it almost looks like it will be right up till you try to do something. Then it's all action wheels and waiting your turn.

I'm not saying all console players won't get on with it, probably not even most, but I have a feeling more ps5 players will bounce off it than PC players have. Though I guess the flip side is that for some of the people who have only ever played your big AAA console games before it might introduce them to a whole new idea of what games can be and do.

Anyway just a rambling thought. I am interested to see how it goes on PlayStation
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I'm expecting it to get a more dampened reception on console, its a game that requires a certain degree of brain thought to play and of course as we PC exclusive gamers know console exclusive gamers are lesser lifeforms with smaller cranial capacity :D
 
Still persisting on, my latest gripe is how bloody awful the title music song is lol.
Not confident I'll finish this before Starfield and that will be a shame as I'll likely not return to it
 
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Noxia said:
Still persisting on, my latest gripe is how bloody awful the title music song is lol.
Not confident I'll finish this before Starfield and that will be a shame as I'll likely not return to it
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You never know, Starfield might end up being an overhyped AAA buggy mess of a release and you can be back in BG3 after a couple days after growing tired of glitching through the planets terrain and having your saves become unloadable and your ship being erased :D
 
Been mainly streaming to my deck but played locally tonight and managed to find a really nice sweet spot that looks good but still holds 30fps, by the sounds of things though if I ever get to act 3 I’ll have to stream that.
 
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Tombstone said:
You never know, Starfield might end up being an overhyped AAA buggy mess of a release and you can be back in BG3 after a couple days after growing tired of glitching through the planets terrain and having your saves become unloadable and your ship being erased :D
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Don't think so, not from the early hands on impressions.
Didn't BG3 stop players saving due to a bug though.
 
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Noxia said:
Don't think so, not from the early hands on impressions.
Didn't BG3 stop players saving due to a bug though.
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I recall the early hands on impressions for Cyberpunk being good too ;)

I'm hoping for the best, but I'm acutely aware of the utter shambles of Bethesda games at release, so my expectations are low which should in theory mean I can be pleasantly surprised if they havent done a Bethesda.
 
Anyone else having their graphics settings reset/set themselves to whatever the hell they want at random? Seems some days i load it up and the game has decided i want to be on Ultra even though my PC struggles in some areas at that. Struggling to make it save and keep the settings i set.

Also question for anyone who has been through the shadow places safe area:
What happens if Isobel is carried off? I saved her because I'm a dirty save scummer, but i didn't think to wait and see what the cut scene had in store when she's carried away and what happens next in that scenario
 
Seems like I've run in to a crash bug and looking at the game forums, many others have to :/

In the Grymforge area the game crashes constantly. Usually dx11 errors or similar for Vulcan.

Going back out and taking the mountain pass route instead, no crashes.
 
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