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This is not a criticism - I love how much attention this game has been getting. I'm just not understanding why BG3 has been blowing up so much. It seems like BG3 is getting more attention than all of Larian's previous games combined (and maybe all of Obsidian's recent crpgs as well). Traditionally crpgs have not lit the world on fire in this way. Is it just timing of the release? Is it a combo of Divinity fans and new D&D fans and Baldur's Gate oldheads all being stoked about this release for their own reasons? Or something else?

Note:I have not played it yet myself, just curious what folks think?

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a perfect digitization of D&D 5th edition - it's like having an automatic dungeon master using the rules and regulations we've been playing with on paper for ages.

It has a massive plot that can vary wildly on playthroughs depending on how rolls go, just like the real version.

It's four-player co-op with PVE in an age where cooperation is increasingly rare outside of competitive team games.

It's a well designed, properly built, finished product that can be expanded on with DLC, rather than using them to address core gameplay issues. (looking at you Paradox)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you imagine what the mod scene for this game will look like in a year or so? It's going to be amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://larian.com/support/faqs/mod-information_77

We loved what our modding community did with DOS2, and we’re excited to see what they’ll do with BG3. Modding will be supported after the full release, though not exactly at launch.

I would expect some news in the coming weeks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@dingus Can't wait to have the first two BG remastered à la Skyblivion. Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My gut feeling is sometime around the original release date? If memory serves, DOS2 got it like the day after launch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mmmm good point! I'm imagine some of the bigger 5e 3rd parties straight porting their magic items, spells and monsters into the game (monsters would be for custom campaign eventually).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, but people were really mad earlier this year because Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns D&D tried to pull some licencing related shenanigans that would have massively fucked over the community. People were boycotting the movie a couple of months ago over that. It's interesting, that Baldurs Gate seems to not be affected by this at all.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah because Twitter is not a real place. The actual D&D community spoke with their wallets and they said "we like a good, finished product without stupid terms of use" and all bought BG3. People who don't even play D&D bought BS3 to play with folks who do play D&D.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First you draw an "S" . . .
then you draw a more different "s" . . .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Trogdor ended up being the big bad of my brother-in-law's homebrew campaign that he ran for our family D&D group

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Image of a big snake and a small snake

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not small, it's just further away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey momma, I'm not small I'm just really really far away, hoo-ha!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I honestly have no idea how that posted, so when I got your reply I was very confused.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I had already bought BG3 in Early Access before the OGL debacle, and before Hasbro (WotC's parent company) sent the Pinkertons to intimidate some small time Youtuber into giving back some unreleased Magic: the Gathering cards that he had been erroneously sold early by a distributor. So I couldn't very well boycott it when I had already purchased it and played like 30 hours of it.

I'm still not buying new D&D books or MtG cards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need to justify your purchasing decision to me. I am not even calling for a boycott of the game. I know people at Larian and I wish them all the success they can get.

I am just surprised that this whole thing seems to be completely absent from the larger discussion about this game. I would have assumed, that it would have been at least a footnote.