It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now

outside of Apple arcade, I don't think Apple cares one iota about gaming. As evidenced by your observation. It's a huge market to miss, but they don't really seem to care. All they keep doing is adding old mobile remakes of games everyone has played before to their Arcade subscription nobody would ever pay for if it wasn't bundled into Apple one..

Announce to what gaming audience?

Because it only launches today on PC to not compete with starfield. Other platforms are the original release date

Except it’s not available on Mac on day one. Larian hasn’t even announced when it will be aside from “at a later date.”

Update: Apparently, the Steam Discussions page has a post that lists it as September 5.

Unless it’s shipped to the App Store and not just Steam, they wouldn’t market it anyway. I don’t believe they publicise third-party marketplaces / appstores (which Steam arguable is).

What it runs on mac? What the fuck I'm never going to work again.

It really has been a breath of fresh air. I rarely ever buy EA but I bought this one. Played 236 hours just in that and forced myself to stop because I wanted more. There's no DLC, just cosmetic stuff, they're out here doin it.

I can't wait to get home and play for the first time in a while.

One for me! I'm averaging 25-30Mbps. Took the day off of work for this lol

can't believe it's so slow to download :'(

2.5h left for me! CMON GO FASTER I NEED MORE INTERNETS

Seriously. The changes from beta have all been incredible (beyond the obvious [character options, et al], the cutscenes are slightly "reshot", gfx overhaul, voiceover content, etc.) and while I knew key points of the storyline, their delivery or even triggers were fresh to discover. I'm so damn excited to play this full release, I'm doing everything I can just not to run solo instead of getting the gang together for multi sessions. 😅🤘🏼

Damn. That puts me off it rather than wanting to buy it. The kids and Mrs would have no mercy if I get that engrossed.

He's great isn't he...

But regardless of all that may you wander in wisdom and have an amazing day

Multiple profiles friend. One for your single play, one for your multiplayer.

Sure the gameplay is well tested (it has a overwhelmingly positive on Steam already from Early Access), but it's a huge game, and everything beyond Act 1 is brand new, plus many things in Act 1 have been changed (ex. one origin character was rescripted and recorded).

So while the gameplay and the implementation of the 5e ruleset is well known, the rest of the story and the journey is still mostly new, and that's a huge part of what will make people enjoy the game or not.

Just my few cents on why it's still important to see how it reviews. Mortismal Gaming is already reporting that there are some crashes, bugs in the release version, especially in the later acts (even if that is normal for a game of this scope, it's good to know).

The early access was only a very small portion of the game

You have to use proton experimental to get it to boot, but I've been getting a pretty solid 30fps with decent visuals

The early access well for me. Pretty stable graphically. I used the track pad mostly with a few keybound shortcuts

Have yet to try but I've read you need to turn on proton experimental for it to work. I've seen that people are getting roughly 30fps with medium settings and FRS. Also, the final release has gamepad support.

I'm probably going to give it a try later tonight and can update then if you're still interested.

I'll report back tonight or tomorrow and let you know. Gonna binge on the main PC for a bit with some associates first.

Liam wrote about his experience with Baldur's Gate on Steam Deck on GamingOnLinux.

I’d like to find this out too. My main computer is a Mac, so I will likely just buy it and try it out on there, but I hope it works cleanly on the deck.

I read just a couple of days ago that they’re committed to supporting the deck, but as of now I don’t see the supported icon.

I have had issues with some “works great” games - cyberpunk in particular has an issue with things like text size so I’ll try it with the deck hooked to a monitor and with a keyboard and mouse - but I’m hoping that BG3 will work out of the gate,l (so to speak).

Hey at least you got all the money back

I tried playing it on PC today, but it ran really poorly even on low, so I refunded it and will be waiting for the Xbox version as well.

RPGs aren't my style generally so I can't really put my finger on anything specific with storytelling but I can at least say , for someone that (unfortunately) finds it difficult to get into stories, I found bg3 much more intriguing and easier to get sucked into then divinity 2.

I'm also currently playing on a build from 2 years ago and seeing all the updates since then, I'm really exited to pick it up today and see how it's improved.

Aside from the writing style, it's much more cinematic than the div games. I'm finding it a lot easier to get sucked into the story

I think the writing is overall better than it was in Divinity Original Sin 2. The world is darker and more sinister. There is also a deeper emphasis on what your character is thinking, with a narrator describing things more regularly to you.

That being said this is unmistakably a Larian game. I’d suggest watching some gameplay online to see if it’s for you.

Hit the nail on the head with this question, felt exactly the same.

If you are using steam, you can just copy all the files from your device to hers. Then let steam validate the files and you are off to the races. My spouse and I do this all the time to save of bandwidth and time.

I started installing at like 11:05am and it still isnt done yet. Why do i pay for 100 dollar internet!

Could be worse.

Glances over at the Xbox

I went ahead and bought it for the Steam Deck. Might buy it again for the PS5 next month if I really like it.

macOS getting a new game before PS5 does is downright cruel.

You may want to read up on basic terms for D&D. Thus game relies heavily on that jargon to describe game mechanics.

For example AC is Armor Class and the value defines how difficult you are to hit. Not to be confused with Air Conditioning or Assasins Creed.

As with D&D there are no set-in-stone archetypes. A fighter can focus on throwing rocks to be ranged or a sorcerer can do their damndest to be a melee player. Classes and races do have innate traits that lend themselves better to other roles and synergies.

It starts pretty gentle and has plenty of tooltips.

Ultimately as well like if you're in combat it's turn based, if you don't mind tabbing out to look things up every now and then I don't think you will run into too many problems.

Probably wouldn't hurt to watch a 5-10 minute D&D gameplay overview on youtube before though just so you know what to expect.

It’s very much balanced around having a party of 4 characters. But the game itself is incredibly open ended. You could probably make fewer characters work but the game would be harder.