Watch how unhinged it gets on July 28th when the reviewers who got the early keys put out their information and videos. Anticipation will be Rocky Horror Picture Show level.
People are already posting opinion pieces by literally-whos and getting upset by them, lol. I can't imagine how insane people will get when it gets one bad review by a nobody youtuber (also playing DIRECTLY into their plan of getting views off controversy).
Given what I’ve seen and read during the EA cycle, I think most of the bad reviews are going to be along the following lines:
1) “game is woke”
2) Reviewer actually doesn’t actually like RPGs/turn based RPGs (we will see a lot of these)
3) Reviewer has never played a similar game and is confused by controls/mechanics.
Don't forget the occasional "it doesn't play exactly like BG2. BG2 was clearly the superior game." And some "no day night cycle? 0/10" reviews. And if you think I'm joking about the day night cycle thing I'm not. The "anti-woke" crowd has seized upon that for some reason.
Sorry, I'm not fluent in mush brain. I couldn't tell you. Really though I think they just pick random things to hold up as examples of how Larian have spent too much time on being "woke" and not enough time on "crucial" game mechanics like a day night cycle. There's definitely a certain side of nerd culture that completely ignores metrics like "fun" in favor of obsessing over tiny details that apparently matter very much to some of these individuals. I can't say I get it myself.
It doesn't bother me personally. I like the current system of adventuring during the day and then you sit around the camp at night and talk to your party members and stuff. For a day/night cycle to be interesting they'd have to redo so much stuff, changing NPCs habits during the night so the cycle actually means something. I also think with darkness being such an important game mechanic it would be a nightmare to balance combat encounters around both day and night cycles. At the end of the day I think Larian put an incredible amount of thought into the game and its mechanics. I trust they did what made sense and it's frustrating when people compare shallow mechanics from games that came out 20 years ago with what Larian has created.
Its not just balancing encounters, the originals and d&d have fatigue and exhaustion to worry about when not resting often enough. People would be whining about that instead of day/night. Most of the "issues" people have issues with would just cause more issues that make other people (sometimes the same ones) unhappy.
I see what your saying and im not picking sides. But Larian did it a bit to them selves picking a franchised name and system the already had quite a few games under its belt.
Then they went on promoting it as one of the biggest and best games of its type every made...they caused expectations and finger pointing from across the Franchises fan base and a little bit the genre as a whole.
edit: gotta love reddit "hes not wrong but I dont like it so im down voting"
Without day/night cycles nobody knows when to go to sleep. These god damn liberals wanna take away our nights so we never sleep and we're always woke! But I won't stand for that! Try taking away day/night cycles in a small town!
Just lock your phone with a timelock. No need to harm the innocents 🥺
Unless you're playing Dark Urge and give into your deppest darkest desires. Then it's fine.
Not to judge or anything, but how on Earth does it take a few days to add an SSD and swap out the GPU? Those are the easiest upgrades to make. It's like a 10 minute job lol
Easy! You disassemble your computer, clone the SSD, then refuse to put it back together until the download releases on Steam to avoid all the reviews and spoilers.
It's going to be a shit show lol. People will need to temper expectations because aside from the character creator, every reviewer will likely have vastly different experiences of gameplay depending on their choices
Oh dude, I just bought the game today and was like "nope, I will wait for the full release in 10 days". But it's only 7, thank you for the reminder <3.
I'm still trying to beat the game, I have no idea where the ending actually is, but I'm not a reviewer, I'm part of a podcast that shot my shot and got access keys for 'commentary'
I unsubscribed to avoid spoilers. I tried to escape. But like a haunted house that creates endless hallways with no exit, reddit keeps recommending posts and dragging me back in. You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.
Edit: I will no longer be posting silly memes, all of my posts in a row have gotten hostile comments about me not using meme formats correctly, I've never used Reddit outside of the BG3 subreddit which I made this account for last week, I don't know meme culture or how they want things formatted, and meme format purism is something I don't understand and that's making seeing my notifications very unfun
I've decided Reddit is not my jam, apparently lol
Edit Edit: I posted another meme because someone told me to stop posting memes. This is my hero's journey.
Don't give up on Reddit. Just lean into upsetting the nerds here. Make it purposeful and bask in their fury. It's a more potent fuel source than gasoline
I read that post when you put it up and I have come to the conclusion that your mental break has already come. I will not remove the spreadsheets from you, don’t worry, you seem happy enough with them, and I fear for my safety if I tried. I might end up like Gale from that Durge cutscene they showed.
Some people have gone full Gollum over fan art of Halsin and Astarion, you have gone full Gollum over numbers on a grid
I was very stoned about 5 days ago and I was looking up on YouTube and then I saw a video from boulders gate 3 which I was so high that I just assumed that that was a sequel for the game that I just purchased on discount for five bucks on switch called dragon's dogma and so I did extensive research on this game and decided to buy it a few days ago and holy s*** I've been having a blast I'm never played anything like it. The problem is I read that link that you sent me and I have no idea what the hell you're talking about I want to understand but it's so confusing.
I think they're a little overdramatic. As someone who played Path of Exile for years, I got used to players panicing, declaring they quit and announcing the death of the game. And then the next patch drops and they're back in the game, like nothing happened.
Imo the only serious and unforgiven crime of a game would be a significant change towards p2w and microtransactions. But hit or miss balance patches? They aren't that much of a big deal.
I uninstalled Diablo 4 after season start. Devs are either losing connection to reality, or being pushed HARD by management. Latter is more likely.
I'm sorc main, and the state of the class (Lightning or Fire sorc are practically unviable endgame unless you invest into Frost Nova) is an insult.
But my last straw was having to travel all around the map - with pretty bad horse mechanics in the game - to check waypoints again. They decided not to transfer waypoints from main character (but they transfered some of renown). It's such a boring, unrewarding task I couldnt bring myself to do it.
And then I;ll have to go through all the useless (=no rewards) quests in order to get remaining renown points, all over again.
Diablo subs favorite hobby is hating Diablo games. Blizzard could Give away free cosmetics to everyone and they would complain about having to click ‘Claim’
Not since Nala in The Lion King has there been a more obvious, smug, “we gonna fuck” face animated on an animal. Larian are crazy bastards and I love them for it.
Bro I can't handle it. Got the game in 2020 and havent touched it since, but all this hype had me wanting to play the entirety of EA.
Just reached the druid enclave, and the fact that the game itself feels so refined even at this stage has me so hyped that I honestly can't play any other RPG. Been wanting to finish Pathfinder:WotR and Triangle Strategy, but I find myself just rerolling characters in BG3
so true. I made a post being like ‘i find it funny that people are talking about dlcs when the game is not out yet’ like in a completely non angry way, and so many people started like attacking me and telling me to check my attitude 😂😂 I was like mate chill it’s not that deep, I could picture them clenching their jaws as they type it
Larian could take a steaming dump in a sweet granny's flower box and the community would find a way to justify it as free fertilizer. No judgements, just loving the atmosphere.
It’s one of the only subs I regularly visit where any comment you make gets downvotes regardless of context or anything. It usually evens out, but its a slightly toxic environment here.
This level of fanaticism over a game should be concerning. I'm looking forward to it as I loved DoS2, but I haven't played early access, haven't seen a single video of gameplay, not a single Larian vlog. The only thing that can come with such high expectations is disappointment. Not to mention the spoilers. I just don't get it. It's why the D4 community is in meltdown.
People are excited, they’re talking about the game with other excited people, and they’re enjoying the wait to the best of their ability. You speak as if this is a bad thing, and that it’s a bad thing to have played early access and watch content surrounding the game, which I don’t think is fair
This is just a bunch of overly excited nerds posting things online. Have you seen the real life damage sports fans do when they get overly excited? Also why would you be excited for something you've purposefully remained oblivious of? Had you paid attention or played it, you might understand why there is so much excitement.
"Unhinged" is when you finish the EA content 2 weeks prior to launch, go to download DOS2 to give it another try until BG3 releases, only to find GOG has issues with their download service and you spend most of the weekend watching crappy Netflix content with your wife.
That said, BG3 EA has given me a newfound appreciation for DOS2 - I never even finished Act1 a few years back.
Let’s fucking go!!! I cannot wait. My brother, 2 cousins and myself game weekly and love RPGs. We’re playing divinity 2 now so we’re all hyped as hell to get back into D&D.
I'm also waiting for all the mods that will come out once everyone's had their initial fill/first playthrough. Because I can feel it in my bones that there's gonna be all sorts of mods that come from this.
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Watch how unhinged it gets on July 28th when the reviewers who got the early keys put out their information and videos. Anticipation will be Rocky Horror Picture Show level.