What I love about BG3 is that there are no wrong decisions. Sure, every decision has a ramification, but nothing will break the game. You get the end you deserve based on the choices that you make along the way.
I talked about my playthrough in the BG3 community, but I also love that I was able to be the best and most heroic hero the world ever saw, and then at the last minute choose to enslave everyone.
That was some of the best “play your way” gameplay I have ever experienced in a game man.
They do a great job of making things feel real and meaningful too. My last playthrough was supposed to be an evil playthrough, but all of the characters are so real that I couldn’t do it. I actually killed Karlach and felt so bad about it that I reloaded and recruited her instead. This playthrough though, which is my 3rd one, I’m forcing myself to make different choices and I’m amazed at how much it changes the game. Like I betrayed the grove and Karlach somehow heard about it before I found her, so she was pissed and fought me instead of trying to join me. I also did the mushroom quests and then fireballed the group when they were all celebrating, just to see if it would let me, and it totally does. I love the freedom that they give you in this game.
I have NEVER been successful in doing an evil play through.
Every time I try to do it, the first evil choice I do makes me nope out, reload, and do it the way I really would if I was my character. I just can’t play as anyone but myself unfortunately. 😭
Me too usually. I’m still being a softy sometimes, but in most scenarios I’m forcing myself to make different decisions because I want to experience how it changes the game. I’m looking forward to recruiting Minthara soon.
There is that, but I feel the changes with Minthara count; I’d have liked to have had her as a companion, but I’d already killed her and was multiple hours into act 2 before the patch allowing her to be saved and recruited into any party was released.
I mean, typically killing a character means they can’t join your party. How were you expecting to recruit her if you killed her? I’m actually doing my first fully evil durge playthrough right now and I’m looking forward to act two when I can recruit her.
Because I was playing a good character, which meant that if I wanted the tieflings to live then Minthara had to die. With the update, there is a canonical path for both the tieflings and Minthara to live.
Because I like having options, and I don’t like missing out on plot or dialogue if I don’t have to. She’s an interesting character that I think would have good interactions with the rest of the party.
I’m about to move into act 2 on an evil playthrough, and I let her live, so I’m eager to recruit her for the first time. I killed her in my first two playthroughs.
No no no. I want a bunch of little tiny plastic and cardboard pieces that take forever to arrange and pack up when I’m done. I want text that’s too small to read. I want a rules book that I need a degree in to properly interpret. And only ever want to play during the handful of times a year I can get everyone around the table together.
I guess ymmv with red dragon, but the one mouse I had from them broke after like 2 hours of use. Normal clicking and the right mouse button just split in half. Figured it was just really cheap plastic or something.
I’ve had good luck with both a wired and wireless version so I can’t say much about that.
Fwiw I’ve use/d a K551 and K552 keyboard, M801p mouse, and a M601 mouse the later of each got handmedowned to my sons. 2021, 2017, 2019, 2015. The K552 is used as a toddler toy…
Tale of Two Wastelands was absolutely the best playthrough I have done of any game in a very very long time. It is truly the only way to play Fallout 3 and New Vegas, in my humble opinion.
I loved reading through the manual for Morrowind with the copy we got on the original XBox. I read all the class descriptions, details about the schools of magic, and had a whole character planned out before starting the game. I didn’t get into tabletop gaming until much later, but looking back, that manual really captured the same feeling of reading through the D&D players handbook and picking out a race, class, background, etc.
I think that feeling is why it’s still my favorite PC game.
This was my exact experience. I read the book and looked through the map it came with. Morrowind was the game that caused me to change from FPS and Sports games to RPGs.
Ahh, the maps were so good. I remember using the extremely detailed hand drawn map to help me locate the Cavern of the Incarnate, and other cool locations. I am sad that I didn’t keep them.
I’ll just wait until it gets the Dark Arisen treatment and all the MTX and pre-order content becomes freely available in the game and the limits on port stones and the random currencies that aren’t just gold for shops are removed.
The original game originally had limited fast travel, too. But it was eventually made non shitty and you can just buy the stones you drop as FT points at a shop in the main city.
God bless David Oshery and all the NB devs who have been working on dusk over the years. Glad dusk HD is here and the SDK is coming along. We are UNWORTHY
thankfully it lets me know what studios to avoid unless it becomes an internet sensation, but I think the AAA/AA studio thing is something the studios started with.
Gamers seem to be a pretty nasty bunch of people for whatever reason. Games have never been better and are absolutely amazing atm. But many people just like to focus on all the negatives and how certain games are bad. I honestly don’t get it - you have lots of choices so just don’t play the bad games, it’s pretty easy…
When you combine entitlement with being incredibly thin-skinned, you get gamers. I try my hardest to distance myself from the title as much as possible while still being someone that enjoys playing video games.
Yep. As an adult that plays video games you can still get lumped in a negative stereotype because of the antics of some. Not the first thing I lead with on dates.
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