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[–] JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Man, BG games are really some of the best! Give it a play!

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I kinda missed the isometric, point and click era of RPG's because I grew up in an Apple household. So I played a lot of Warcraft 2 during that time period. Is Baldur's Gate 3 going to be that same style of game kinda in the vein of Divinty Original Sin?

[–] fqdnDOTcom@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, it feels very much like a dndified version of divinity original sin 2

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I will have to go watch more of the gameplay on YouTube. I'm not entirely sure what the addition of DND mechanics do to change the gameplay loop.

[–] explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve played both casually (BG3) in early access. The ruleset is quite different IMO

[–] SwallowsDick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Dice rolls and punishes out of character choices, seems like

[–] DaCrazyJamez@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It is VERY similar to the Divinity games. It uses somewhat modified DnD 5e rules, as opposed to Divinitys' own system (though that system took a lot of inspiration from DnD.) The RPG and world building elements will feel very familiar.

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 year ago

It's basically Divinity: DnD Edition.

[–] JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 5 points 1 year ago

Yes! It's the same developer as Divinity.

The games don't play exactly the same, but they are the same style.

[–] Lizardking27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've never been a fan of the point-and-click isometric mechanics, but I've been playing some BG3 and it's pretty well done, I'm enjoying it. Definitely feels exactly like Divinity OS 2 but with DnD lore. Granted, I wasn't a big DOS2 fan but that was mostly because the story tried so hard to be miserable all the time and make the player feel like shit for any decision they made. I'm not super far into BG3 but I don't quite get that same vibe from it.

[–] MrBodyMassage@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My only concern is I purchased the collectors edition and it hasnt arrived yet. Havent heard anything about delays, I thought it was supposed to be here on launch day

[–] Reaphenex@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Not sure if Larian managed to reach out to collector's edition owners but they said they would ship at the original August 31st release due to supply chain reasons. However the digital code to the game should have been emailed already ahead of launch.

[–] OrgunDonor@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I thought it was supposed to be here on launch day

Dont forget that launch day was moved forward a month. And unfortunately I dont think that affected the physical things.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Indeed. Minsc and Boo stand ready!

Pretty sure I played it on PC in like 1994