Yeah, I am really upset about the decision to make it turn-based combat. They completely lost me with that decision. It should be real-time like the other BG games and Bioware/Black Isle D&D games.
Larian said no for current-gen consoles, but I think they'll eventually port to next-gen in a few years.
Welp, I did something against my principles: I bought the Early Access.
The hype for this game and my love of the franchise were too big to resist... Sure, I was disappointed with the turn-based combat but I passed the Denial stage and been on the Acceptance stage for some time now. I bought the game on GOG and they have a 30-day refund policy so if there's anything I can get my full money back.
Took a couple of hours to go through the available classes and races last night. Behold my beautiful ginger dwarf!
They were real-time with pause (RTwP) similarly to Icewind Dale and Dragon Age Origins. Sure if you paused enough to micro-manage your party and study the battle field, you could say it's "turn-based".
I did the same today and played for couple of hours. To be fair, while it doesn't feel like BG1-2, it has it's own incredible charm. Fantastic art direction (something that wasn't in Divinity games, imo) and old school gameplay - I needed something like this after Cyberpunk debacle. It's a true RPG through and through. Even silent protagonist is old school AF.
From hot vampire to hot demon...
The release got bumped up a month (away from Starfield) so this finally gets released next week. 20 years waiting...
Larian also improved the character creator. Dragonborn and half-orc looking sexy AF!
Seriously, congrats to Larian for their success!
Okay, you and Chris Pine have convinced me to buy this against my better judgment and longstanding distaste for turn-based combat. If it fails to live up to my expectations, I am going to personally hold you responsible.
Yeah, the story, characters, DnD mechanics, etc. look very promising and convinced me to give this a try even if I wish they had kept the combat more like the originals.It reached a peak of 593k concurrent players on Steam today. Not bad for a niche, turn-based CRPG sequel in a 23-year-old dormant series.
I spent like two hours last night in the character creator. Larian really did a fantastic work with the dragonborn.
As for my playable character, it'll be a half-orc barbarian with the following look (minor tweaks TBD):
Hopefully you'll like the story, characters, role play, DnD mechanics and whatnot. Enjoy your epic adventure, buddy!
I'm a little overwhelmed currently, but my experience so far can only be summed up with:
Hopefully you'll like the story, characters, role play, DnD mechanics and whatnot. Enjoy your epic adventure, buddy!
Yeah, I was very skeptical because Larian was not in any related to Bioware and I was worried about a mismatch like Bethesda taking over the Fallout rights and totally missing the spirit and soul of the series. There were also those horrible Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance hack and slash games that Hasbro made for the early 2000s consoles which tried to cash in on the series name. So I think it is fair to say there were a lot of reasons to be skeptical.Glad you've been enjoying the game! BG1/BG2 are also some of my faves but having played the early access since 2020, I had no doubt Larian would deliver again. You are right, it is basically a DnD simulator.
In a way, this is a spiritual successor to Dragon Age Origins and the latter is a spiritual successor to the first two BG games. So, it's a full circle?
What class and race did you go with?
I hope they're party companions!
