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jordanlund, (edited ) do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?
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I think there are three vectors going on:

  1. It’s apparently a super good game. I’m just basing it on reviews, I won’t be playing it until the PS5 version launches.
  2. It has nudity and is being described as “super horny”, so, you know, clickbait.

pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-the-horniest-rpg-iv…

rockpapershotgun.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-a-relentle…

  1. They are having problems getting it running on the Xbox Series S, and that’s blocking it from being released on the fully capable Xbox Series X. So nerdrage/console war clickbait.

rockpapershotgun.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-a-relentle…

dom,

You’ve also missed all the hype about the lack of microtransactions. That one is pretty big.

And the bear sex. Although you’d think a sub bullet of point 2, I think its less horniness and more absurdity and “you can do anything”.

It’s the modern equivalent of “see that mountain? You can go there.”

“See that bear? You can fuck it”

jordanlund,
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It’s not REALLY bear sex though, it’s a druid who SHAPESHIFTS into a bear…

OrnateLuna,

Poteto potato

dom,

It’s bear sex without passing Peta off

ChaoticEntropy,
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I was a bit taken aback that, at a certain point in the game during a celebration, neutrality with most companions meant that they all wanted to fuck my brains out. O.o

terkaz, do zapytajszmer w Tor a Vpn

Ja jestem laikiem, ale nie są to dwie różne metody anonimizacji ruchu? Chyba nordvpn ma nawet serwery vpn+tor. Vpn tuneluje ruch przez serwer dostawcy usługi, więc jakość i bezpieczeństwo połączenia zależy głównie od niego. Możesz mieć nastawienie typu “płacę i wymagam”. Tor tuneluje ruch wielokrotnie przez sieć węzłów, które są w większości maszynami amatorskimi, z przepustowością o różnej jakości. Ze wzgląd na swój społecznościowy charakter nikomu nie możesz się poskarżyć na jakość połączenia.
Poza ukrywaniem ip, vpn może oczywiście służyć do współdzielenia danych w wirtualnej sieci lokalnej. Tor natomiast oferuje usługi ukryte z pseudodomenami .onion.
Podsumowując: jak za darmo to bierz Tora - darmowe serwery vpn i tak są przeciążone i wolne jak Tor, przy czym nie darzył bym ich zaufaniem. Jak masz fundusze i musisz zachować anonimowość, to warto sobie wykupić vpn.
Sprawdź też, z czym te usługi działają, a z czym nie. Ja kiedyś czytałem, że p2p nie jest dostosowany do pracy z Torem (coś, że tor działa na protokole tcp, a bittorrent na udp).

DudeBro, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 13th

BG3, yes it’s as good as everyone is saying it is.

Also Pikmin 4. The game is a cozy puzzle/strategy collect-a-thon, I highly recommend it.

circuitfarmer, (edited ) do gaming w Steam Deck VS rivals
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

SteamOS (and Linux gaming in general, thanks to Proton) is absolutely great and has been for at least a year or two now. The reduced overhead and lack of update bullshit honestly makes it better than Windows gaming in every way, IMHO. Getting it running on non-Steam Deck mobile hardware is likely a bit of a chore, though. Frankly I don’t even understand why anyone would waste time with the competitors.

Carter, do gaming w Steam Deck VS rivals

I sold my Steam Deck because the hardware really isn’t good enough. Poor quality screen and no anti friction rings for the analogue sticks, plus the whole thing is just too large.

Stefh,
@Stefh@programming.dev avatar

These are my concerns 🫤 Did you opt for any of the alternatives? Which one and how is it?

Carter,

Not yet. I’m just waiting for the market to develop a little more and hopefully something more up to standard will come along.

Thebazilly, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 13th

My life has been replaced with Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m partially into Act 2 but keep having to take breaks because the spooky atmosphere and crippling decision anxiety are stressing me out too much to continue playing long stretches.

TerabyteRex, do gaming w The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

did you say.. normies?

NightAuthor,

I mean, what’s another way of easily conveying the same idea. “Those people who you might not typically consider to be X”?

I feel like I’ve seen and heard normies used in a variety of contexts, to refer to people outside of a particular group. Not to say they can’t be in the group, or that there’s anything wrong with them.

But then again, what do I know.

Jagermo, (edited )

“casual gamers” for example. “average users”, “non-geeks” are others

t3rmit3,

You’d have to say all 3 of those, and then you’d still be missing a ton of the other groups that also fall under “normies”, even in just this specific instance. “Non-hardcore gamers” would work in this context, but the whole point is to have jargon for it as a concept (“someone who is not a member of your specialized in-group”), rather than saying the specific in-group being discussed each time. “Non-Supernatural fandom-nerds”, “non-/a/ lurkers”, “non-r/SocialistRA lurkers”… or just “normies”.

Jagermo,
t3rmit3,

Welcome to the internet, I guess?

TerabyteRex, do gaming w The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

did you say.. normies?

Lojcs, (edited ) do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

Side question:

Is it worth playing if you’re not into dnd? I saw lots of replies mention how it perfectly implements dnd 5e but that has 0 value for me. Is the game itself good not counting the dnd association, lack of anti features, release anticipation etc?

YerbaYerba,

I have no exposure to dnd but am loving the game. I like turn based games in general though.

usrtrv,

If you like RPGs in general, I think it’s worth playing. No need be a fan of DnD.

casstr,
@casstr@lemmy.ml avatar

You’ll be fine. It’d be different if you were familiar with and disliked D&D.

vettnerk,

What of I’m of the unpopular but firm belief that 3.5 was the pinnacle of D&D and therefore am heavily boased against 5e?

Thebazilly,

I’m a Pathfinder fan with vague disdain for 5e as a ruleset and active loathing for Forgotten Realms as a setting. I love this game.

Ashtear,

If you already don’t like 5e, I don’t know if the game will change your mind. It’s not a 1-to-1 adaptation, which might help, but there are also still some bugs here and there (such as the Lucky feat not working correctly).

thelionsredmane,

tldr: This is a great game if you enjoy rich storytelling, compelling character arcs, and actual consequences. This is also a great game if you enjoy turn-based, environment-aware combat of the likes of Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy Tactics. Overall, it’s a well-oiled machine, with polish in all the right places to make it very welcoming to dnd newcomers and veterans alike. If you have played Larian’s older Divinity: Original Sin games (which was not based on the dnd ruleset), there’s a lot of quality of life updates that fix a lot of the gripes that I had with those games.


My wife and I are loving it (individual saves, although co-op is supported in this game). We are not dnd tabletop players; the extent of my experience is the recent dnd movie that came out. I don’t know the difference between 5e and 3e, but I do know I’m having an (eldritch) blast playing this game. I bought it on a strong recommendation from my friends (although, these friends do have dnd experience), and I can confidently say it’s a fun game.

The most overwhelming experience you might have as a newcomer is during character creation, where a healthy amount of reading is involved to understand what classes, races, subraces, spells, and cantrips are (among other things). They provide very neat tooltips that provide the information you need, when you need it, without getting in your way - there is no pause-every-5-seconds-for-a-tutorial-notification deal here. You can get involved as much (or as little) as you wish. If you’ve ever made a character in a game like Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, or Dragon Age: Origins, and messed around with the relevant skill trees, it’s around that level of involved.

If you do get overwhelmed with character creators, fret not - you can choose one of the pre-built characters that come packaged with their own personalities, builds, and stories. Speaking of stories: I personally feel like the writing is compelling and is leagues better than previous Larian titles, if that means anything to you. Make no mistake, this is a fantasy story and you’ll have your fantasy tropes in this game, but I’ve yet to encounter a moment or twist in the story that feels cheap or unearned. It depends on how much you like this sort of genre. There are times when it takes itself seriously and times when it doesn’t, but it has never felt out of place.

Besides the narrative, the other major part of the game is combat, and I think it shines there too. From a non-dnd perspective, it’s a turn-based, environment-aware tactics game. It doesn’t feel exactly like any one type of system I’ve played before, but I feel a lot of different aspects that get utilized in ways that mesh well. Unit placement on the field matters. Typically your party’s makeup plays a role in how you approach encounters. I’ve never felt like my party couldn’t figure out their own way to solve a situation, and it never felt like it was just handed to me. The encounters are flexible enough to allow multiple approaches without depriving them of the depth each approach needs to remain engaging.

Just so you can gauge how well my suggestions will apply, I love playing tactics games but don’t always have a lot of time, so I typically adjust the difficulty when possible to emphasize story progression over tactical difficulty. I’m not a maddening-difficulty Fire Emblem: Three Houses player (more power to y’all out there); I just casually enjoy combat puzzles. I think games like Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Final Fantasy Tactics, Advance Wars, Tactics Ogre, Brigadine, Battle for Wesnoth, etc., are fun to play, and I don’t necessarily need to “win” every combat encounter to feel like I had a good time either. I really enjoy is a story that presents fresh ideas, even if it means remixing some old tropes here and there; Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age: Origins, etc. - any game that gives you characters who mesh well (or “contrast” well) with one another usually can maintain my attention.

Lojcs,

Thanks for the in depth response! It’s probably too early to answer this, but does making your own character instead of choosing from the pre-built ones result in a more generic storyline? Are there stuff that are exclusive to those characters that you know of?

bigevildan,

The pre-built characters are all recruitable party members, so you’ll be able follow their stories once you find them.

thelionsredmane,

As @bigevildan said, they’ll all be recruitable. There is also the option to play as an amnesiac custom character that gets their own origin background. No spoilers as to what that is like, but it’s a possible option if you’re not quite sure. (I’ve seen it recommended to avoid that for your first playthrough, however).

verysoft,

Still has the shitty locked camera though and lots of the same little issues DOS2 had. They are great games, so the small problems stick out a lot more.

Squirrelanna,
@Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Whatcha mean by locked camera? Not disagreeing, just not sure what you’re referring to.

verysoft,

The camera is very restrictive. Dos2 had a mod that unlocked the camera allowing you to zoom in or out as far as you wanted or tilt it as much as youd like and it made the game infinitely more enjoyable. It still got stuck on terrain like, but it was still better.

BG3 has the same camera, constantly getting stuck on or in terrain, cant handle elevation changes, cant zoom out, cant tilt far. The game just needs a free cam where I can look wherever I like without it colliding with terrain and objects, there's no reason for it to be so restrictive. Why build this beautiful world and then dont even let us look at it?

Squirrelanna,
@Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Well clarified. Thank you for that. While that doesn’t bother it nearly as much, it does find itself battling the camera more often than it’d like so it can definitely see where you’re coming from.

Star_FOX_dew_HOUND, do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

Yeesh, I’m a “Baldurs Gate Oldhead” XD man I’m getting old.

I could just cry at the fact that BG3 is download only. If they never release it hardcopy I will never be able to play it. Being out in the boonies. Even if they could just put what they can on a disc ya know?

Been looking for a good split screen to play with my gal, and yet what I’m sure is a masterpiece is out of reach.

There’s also the Dark Alliance Oldheads, they don’t need to be quite as old as me to have played those. Just replayed Dark Alliance II with my gal and it was well worth the heavy price tag for such an old title. Unlike the new Dark Alliance garbage. Which I bought to play split screen and it is not.

WagesOf,

Buy it on gog, head into town and download the installer to a usb stick.

Ashtear,

Gonna need a fast connection in town or plenty of time. The GOG install is 108GB.

entropicdrift,
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Not to mention it’s in 28 parts if you’re downloading the standalone installer and not using Galaxy.

WagesOf,

Yep, probably a good two hours on a coffee shop wifi. Be sure to drink lots of coffee and leave a nice tip!

Star_FOX_dew_HOUND,

What’s gog? I was hoping for it on PS5, don’t have a powerful enough computer I imagine. Just a 10 year old laptop.

WagesOf,

PCMR knows what GoG is, console users don't need to know.

Have fun on ps5 when it releases!

theangriestbird,

Yeesh, I’m a “Baldurs Gate Oldhead” XD man I’m getting old.

Sorry pal 😂 for what it’s worth, I’m old enough that I played part of BG2 on PC as a kid. But I was too young to understand THAC0 back then. Lol

I could just cry at the fact that BG3 is download only. If they never release it hardcopy I will never be able to play it. Being out in the boonies. Even if they could just put what they can on a disc ya know?

This is my first hearing this. Damn this seems like a big deal for a game of this scale?

Star_FOX_dew_HOUND,

Yeah I was teenager playing Baldurs Gate and 2 on PC. I only knew THAC0 because I was a D&D enthusiast and read my uncle’s old books.

I’m still new to Beehaw not sure how y’all are clipping pieces of the conversation, and replying.

It seems like a big deal to me, but everyone has been saying the industry is moving to online only anyways. Like the new Diablo.


<span style="color:#323232;">I read that BG3 is upwards of 150gigs and plenty of reasons and excuses for digital only. They can't fit it on one disc is the main one but still. 
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Sonotsugipaa, do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?
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I’m being peer-pressured into playing it with friends, it’s an ok game. The quality is there, it’s full of content, though I wouldn’t say my lack of hype was misplaced - I’d still rather play some other niche games in my library.

What rubs me the wrong way is it’s GPU load even with lower graphical settings, and the hundred gigabytes of mandatory high-res textures and whatnot;
I find the UX clunky and infuriating at times, which is not ideal but acceptable for the genre.

What I really respect BG3 (and Larian) for is that its overall a very solid game and it’s making the AAA industry seethe, apparently.
It’s also DRM-free, but I would definitely buy it rather than Steam-Familying it if I were into its subgenre (and if it wasn’t a GPU hog).

essellburns, do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

Are you aware of what a big deal Baldurs Gate series, especially 2, were when they launched back at the millennium?

Mothra,

No, I’m not OP but I’m on the same bandwagon and for me this is the first BG game I hear about.

mojo,

Okay don’t fall off your rocker grandpa

Glide, do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

It’s just a quality Western RPG, the like of which we haven’t seen since Bioware was bought.

Good products create buzz; I really think is is simply that.

DarkDarkHouse,
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That and it’s a tire-screeching exit from the abusive road we thought gaming was going down. Microtransactions, lootboxes etc. Baldur’s Gate 3 is refreshing from that perspective and, like me, I think many are amazed that it’s actually working.

lolcatnip, (edited )

I see nothing revolutionary about a game not having things like microtransactions and loot boxes. Those are mostly restricted to multiplayer games, and the industry never stopped making good single-player games without that bullshit.

bezerker03,

But bg3 is a multiplayer inspired game.

Bg 1 and 2 set the rpg world on fire. 3 lived up to the hype.

entropicdrift,
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Not just multiplayer-inspired. Fully multiplayer start to finish, if you want

hh93,

Even a lot of the AAA single player games have day 1 DLCs with skins or 15 different deluxe packages for preorder or something similar though

Doesn’t need to be the in-game microtransactions but it’s very rare today that everyone starts out with the same stuff in AAA games today

Ricaz, (edited )

DOS 1 and 2 were almost on par with BG3 imo.

Pillars of Eternity was also really good.

Thintalle,

How about those Pathfinder games? How do they stack up?

Ricaz,

Only played the first one which was pretty good. It’s super big on character customization as it has a million race/class combinations. A bit more extreme than the rest

kembik,

Here is a video about both if interested. youtu.be/bQZAg4RwuZU

sirico, do gaming w Steam Deck VS rivals
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Steam deck has the community. There’s more powerful single card computers than the raspberry pi but the pi has the community so everything works better and for longer. I wouldn’t be surprised if the decks support outlives the others not to mention the third party market.

MicTEST, do gaming w The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

Maybe don’t call them normies.

DebatableRaccoon,

Would you prefer ‘filthy casuals’?

loops,

“Peasants.”

but you have to spit the ‘p’.

DebatableRaccoon,

That’s what I call anyone with anything less than a 3070/6700XT, not just the technologically illiterate

datavoid,

I feel personally attacked

DebatableRaccoon,

If it makes you feel any better, it took effort to lean into my Master Race side that hard 😂

loops,
Hadriscus,

Pheasants

loops,

bang!

oo1,

"gooeys"

teawrecks,

In my day we called 'em n00bs.

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