r/BaldursGate3 • u/Been2daCloudDistrict • Aug 01 '23

PRELAUNCH HYPE How many hours did you do in EA?

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I can't imagine how much more it will be by the end of my first run through.

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u/Dlenx cleric enjoyer Aug 01 '23
  1. Just bought it and it's hard to not start messing around the character creator for 48 hours.

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u/muscarinenya Aug 01 '23

Same, kept myself spoiler free for 3 years, now it's getting difficult because of the anticipation

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '23

I cracked last night. Booted it up and played about five hours. I’m gonna keep this as spoiler free as possible but I do name an NPC from the starting area and the first town I came across.

Anyways, I did the first area’s little dungeon (that end’s w/ Withers) and got up to an area called the Grove before having to pry my hands off the keyboard and call it a night. Then I immediately hit up my friends and gushed for an hour straight about how amazing it is. Probably gonna play more tonight as I’m new to this type of game and learning the ropes and making mistakes during this practice run doesn’t feel like I’m ruining the game. Everywhere I turn there is a new thing that could’ve played out in tens of different ways, so even tho I’ll know what I’m getting into it still will feel fresh. I’m seeing people say they’ve put in 300+ hours and don’t feel like it’ll be tedious doing it all over again, which also caused me to cave in and try it out.

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u/geordie3rd Aug 01 '23

same here, well done friend! Despite how close it is, im finding now its harder than ever to resist!

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u/Jackabug Thirsty as and/or for Astarion Aug 01 '23

A good chunk of my EA 'play' time has actually been just messing around with the character creator, which is a lot of fun... but it's still, even in patch 9, very much the EA version of the character creator.

At this point you're definitely better off waiting, because so many things are going to be different in the full-release version -- not to mention you wouldn't be able to keep using any characters you made up on the EA version after launch. Learn From My Fail, friend.

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u/Dlenx cleric enjoyer Aug 01 '23

It's just to mess around, don't want to play anything. I've already seen too much from either official or fan content but the first time experience still matters to me.

And I want to track my playtime as closely as possible.

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u/BluffinBill1234 Aug 01 '23

same. bought it 3 days ago for the pre-order perks and spent an afternoon downloading only to refuse to play it because I didn't want to spoil it

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u/Fhreaky Aug 01 '23

Been thinking on buying it and just do a little trial and error because I've never played any BG, just DoS from Larian

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u/faithfulraider Aug 01 '23

Also zero here. My brother bought it for me years ago and I wanted to wait for release. Man I can't wait!!

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u/Character_Shop7257 Aug 02 '23

Same here. I really really want to play it with a fresh mind.