![[PC, Steam] 20% off Baldur's Gate 3 $71.96 @ Steam](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/62/886262.jpg?h=ac1c1149)
A repeat of the the 20% off sale back in July.
This game has been on my wishlist for a long time now, finally pulled the trigger.
[PC, Steam] 20% off Baldur's Gate 3 $71.96 @ Steam
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Cludo on 26/12/2024 - 13:26 store.steampowered.com (274 clicks)
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Your not alone, i think i read somewhere that lots of people have put hundreds of hours into the game, but very few have actually finished it. I think im one of those people hah
I finished it in about 120hours… So it's possible but it's a serious slog especially towards the end and definitely if you make a decision along the way that puts you on a track you didn't want to go down… Lol you can always put it on easy mode just to finish it…. Definitely worth completing the game…
combat is brutal so I think I'll have to go easy mode when I eventually return to it
Act 3 is a bit of a slog because there’s a ton of content but it’s just a bit disappointing when you compare it to how tight act 1 is. Some of the choices near the end doesn’t make sense
Act 3 - bro I’m still on act 1 last I played, spent freaking like 40 minutes on the opening alien ship alone, and then maybe another 30 minutes searching the alien ship wreckage. was determined to do no walkthroughs/ no spoilers so I was like holy shit what if I miss something important/ stuff up the quest line????
Then the bit in the village with the goblins - I felt so bad when i accidentally yeeted that gnome guy on the windmill - had to restart but failed a check somewhere and had to fight a whole bunch of goblins…
Contrast this to divinity 2, where I pretty much steamrolled like 80% of the game and solved most if not all my problems with the ‘so anyway I started blasting’ method of play
I read somewhere they were on a deadline and had to cut content and rush to finish the game because there was supposed to be a proper upper region for the act 3's city. That's also why some companions quest line isn't fleshed out.
Not to say if they had the time to finish it properly it wouldn't be a slog, but for me who loved the game from beginning to end it still makes me wonder about what could've been sometimes.
It has a very high completion rate for a game as long as it is
I have >240 hours in it and still haven't entered Baldur's Gate itself.
However, I did play during Early Access, and escaping the Nautiloid (the tutorial/prologue segment) use to be about 3-4x longer and you only had act 1 to complete.I finished it the first time in something like 60 hours, but I went back and my second run was 100 hours getting a lot of content that I missed.
You can always leave parts of the playthrough out for next runs. The game kinda does punish you for it story-wise but it's not that big of a deal imo.
I did that with Lae'zels entire questline on my first run, then I finished it the next one.
I do agree with the other comment tho, Act 3 is def the least polished and feels a bit all over the place. Still a great game though I think.
In terms of the gameplay, it's super helpful that you can open tooltips on different key terms and do that within tooltips. Makes it much easier to learn the mechanics.
I did that with Lae'zels entire questline on my first run, then I finished it the next one.
The game actively tells you not to ignore Lae'zels questline. Of the companion quest lines, hers and Shadowhearts (literally the only companion you are forced to interact with past the prologue) are the most directly related to the main story.
By contrast, you can just leave Gale in the Rune, and the others each have paths where you're actively against them prior to encountering them.I agree her questline is one of the ones that are most directly related to the main story, but you can still ignore it with little consequence. Both things can be true. From my memory (Spoilers after here?), you just get a bad ending with her during the final camp and last few cutscenes.
@cr4pm4n: yep exactly what i did but mostly by accident, the ending i got was pertty much perfect and what i wanted… so i have no itch to go back in lol… I avoided the "bad" ending… don't ask me how but yeh that game will give you a different experience each and every time you play it…. it is an astonishing game.
Is this playable on the steam deck?
I want to know how it plays too for the ROG Ally! haha FWIW it is "Steam Deck Verified" on the Steam page and shows up on the recently verified page: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/verified
It is playable on Steam Deck. There's a lot more menus/wheel menus you have to work through (due to the sheer number of abilities and actions, etc) but you do get used to it and it becomes just part of the controls. It will not be at max graphics settings.
Learn from my mistake: if you play as Karlach you can't romance Karlach.
Purchased it a few months back when it was on sale via GOG. Sadly I also purchased another game with it (the Yakuza series bundle lol) and opted to play through that once I hit a snag in BG 3. I think it's just too big and I got overwhelmed by the choices. I actually do want to get into it and actually finish it eventually, but I'll probably have to do it via a play along video walkthrough.
Just a quick note that if you don't like the inconsistent tone early in the game then you should probably just return it while you can. The writing never stops having goofy potentially immersion breaking gags—It's practically a Larian trademark. Additionally, if you find combat boring then it hardly gets better either because 5e D&D is highly streamlined and Larian did a lot to add interest, but you can only do so much, so if puzzles are required to find combat engaging you won't be getting any head-scratchers.
Objectively it's a very good game, but it wasn't one for me as it's simultaneously sillier and edgier than the predecessor games where you are concerned with the succession of the god of murder.Best game!
Good price but I turned myself off it… like there is such an insane amount of stuff to do… just felt totally overwhelmed