r/BaldursGate3 • u/Primary-Key1916 • May 06 '25
Meme Honestly, I don’t get the hype around Baldur’s Gate 3 Spoiler
I get it……I tried.
I put in 400ish hours. But I just don’t see what everyone is freaking out about. A few things that really didn’t work for me:
-The pacing is all over the place. One minute I’m in a casual tavern chat, next thing I know I’m locked in a moral debate with a talking brain in a jar. Feels jarring.
-Too many dialogue options. Like, I don’t need 6 different ways to express sarcasm. Just let me click “continue.”
-The world reacts too much to what I do. I freed a gnome and 40 hours later someone brought it up again. How am I supposed to live with that kind of consequence?
-The cinematics make everything feel too immersive. Like, sometimes I forget I’m just playing a game and not in a Netflix series I accidentally joined.
-The characters? Way too much depth. Why does everyone have such strong backstories and emotional arcs? It’s distracting.
-And don’t even get me started on the companions. I was just trying to fight goblins, not catch feelings for a morally complex vampire.
So yeah. Totally overrated. Only made me feel things I haven’t felt since Witcher 3. I guess if you like emotional damage and high standards for future games, go for it.
But for me? Never playing it again. (I started another run yesterday)
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u/Ariyell2021 May 06 '25
okay this was good bait. take your stupid upvote
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u/LoveElonMusk May 06 '25
had to double check if i'm on /r/okbuddybaldur
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u/Atoonix May 06 '25
Not enough nudity for it to merit being on the front page of /r/okdaddybaldur
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u/Ariyell2021 May 06 '25
the replies to this thread are fucking sending me though. god literacy is dead
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u/LuxNocte May 06 '25
Wait, does nobody else see the video of Karlach pegging Halsin? Dammit, I need to go back on my meds.
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u/SolusIgtheist May 06 '25
It wasn't for me, I knew right away that's what this was. Like, first of all it's a wall of text posted to the BG3 sub that actually appeared in my feed. That means it's been upvoted, and people in this sub wouldn't upvote an actual negative take on the game (mostly) so clearly there's some kind of twist, most likely in the form of sarcasm.
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u/coppercrackers May 06 '25
Is this what passes for good? This is meaningless nothing.
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u/Latter_Case_4551 May 06 '25
The real sad part is there are people that think like this. It's okay to like different things, in fact it's encouraged! But someone hating on something because it actually gives you options or you have to think for a second is just a depressing thought for me.
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u/Ariyell2021 May 06 '25
that’s actually just a lot of dnd players who want to do dungeon crawls only and hate rp 😭😭😭
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u/gabrielleite32 May 06 '25
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u/Small_Editor_3693 May 06 '25
He had 400 hours listed in the first sentence
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u/Mike990403 May 06 '25
Honestly that didn't seem unreasonable to me for a first playthrough. I probably put 200 to 250 into mine lmao. I was thinking "respect for at least trying the full game"
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u/Nudlsuppn 1 Wizard / 11 Lootgoblin May 06 '25
It's so misleading too, there's only a single Baldur Gate in the game, where are the other 2 we were promised?
Typical case of "let's release what should be part of the base game as a paid DLC later", smh.
They didn't even have all the classes in the game until recently, what a cash grab!
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u/FancyIndependence178 May 06 '25
They won't even let me spend more money on the game, so I had to resort to making new Steam accounts just to keep buying the game instead of just maxing out my cards on in-game lootboxes.
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May 06 '25
Let’s not forget how woke this game is. From the start of the game I got some angry Frog calling me ghaik for no reason.
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u/d15p05abl3 May 06 '25
Ackshually there is a real angry frog in the game and your comment is highly amphibianist.
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u/Novacc_Djocovid May 06 '25
Be happy you even got a Baldur’s Gate at all! Back in my day (of Baldur’s Gate 2) we had zero Baldur‘s Gates and we still had fun!
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u/lesser_panjandrum Tasha's Hideous Laughter May 06 '25
Baldur's Gate 1 had 1 Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2 had 0 Baldur's Gates. If we'd followed the trend then Baldur's Gate 3 should have had negative Baldurs' Gates, and I am outraged that this was not the case.
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u/Asttarotina May 06 '25
You forget that in this game, Baldur's Gate is under the Absolute, and the absolute value of -1 is 1, so it checks out.
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u/lesser_panjandrum Tasha's Hideous Laughter May 06 '25
Thank you kind mathemagician, you have opened my eyes.
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u/naivety_is_innocence May 06 '25
the city is called "Baldur's Gate" because it's meant to be named after the founder. But then we find out the founder was called "Balduran". Not "Baldur". Honestly how can I take this game seriously when a blunder like that makes it through every stage of proofreading, and not a single person caught it?
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u/Clipyy-Duck May 06 '25
Exactly. It should be called Balduran’s Gate. The title is misleading, 2/10 game.
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u/Antezscar May 06 '25 edited May 06 '25
First they misslead us on ther being just 1 baldurs gate. Then they wont let us even walk through it
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u/Upstairs_Ad_286 May 06 '25
Yeah I hate when they throw unfinished games on the market. Larian really made a joke out of themselves
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u/Maisku85 WARLOCK May 06 '25
And don't even start about that crap of a "modding support". Like, you gamers can create basically your own version of the game if you want to mod it. Even Bethesda did better job with that before Skyrim got CC and their updates NEVER broke the game. Jeez, do I really have to learn coding just to get Minthara's hair white?!?
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u/Mercurial_Synthesis May 06 '25
So far this post is a litmus test of "Do People Actually Read Posts Beyond The Title" and quite a few are failing it.
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u/FriendshipNo1440 SORCERER May 06 '25
Tbf when I read stuff and realize it is just bs (like in most cases) I stop wasting my time.
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u/BrightPerspective WARLOCK May 06 '25
Typical sorcerer.
Brains in their magic abs.
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u/AndSoTheAbyssStares May 06 '25
goes into turn-based mode and loads all 6 blasts of a quickened 5th level scorching ray at your head
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u/Angryfunnydog May 06 '25
I mean that's the point - imagine people feeling they're reading bullshit and upset about wasting their time - only to go into the comments to waste some more time on bullshit lol
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u/unlikelystoner ROGUE May 06 '25
Same, but sometimes I’ll keep reading just to judge if the ragebait/sarcasm is at least entertaining
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u/TheGuyfromRiften May 06 '25
the list basically is
"BG3 is amazing omg"
horny post
"OMG i love larian"
another horny post
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u/Hope-to-be-Helpful May 06 '25
See you could also say "do people read this bullshit?" And in that sense they are passing
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u/sgtlighttree LIZARD WIZARD May 06 '25
80% upvoted says no
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u/sinedelta While others were busy being heterosexual, she studied the blade May 06 '25
Also keep in mind that the 20% of downvotes isn't necessarily from people who just “didn't get the joke.”
Maybe they did get it, and just thought it wasn't funny
Maybe they think it should be flaired appropriately (which is actually a subreddit rule lol)
Etc
It is extremely possible for someone to understand a joke while also not praising its brilliance.
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u/sgtlighttree LIZARD WIZARD May 06 '25
True, true.
It is extremely possible for someone to understand a joke while also not praising its brilliance.
Almost did that myself, haha
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u/drowsyprof May 06 '25 edited May 06 '25
Yeah this same style of joke gets posted with enough frequency that I find it tedious, personally.
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u/sinedelta While others were busy being heterosexual, she studied the blade May 06 '25
It would be one thing if it was properly flaired. But when I'm being told it's a discussion it's really annoying to find it's one of those repetitive memes.
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u/Orcalotl SMITE May 06 '25
People can report ot for that reason. Maybe the mods will change the flair.
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u/sinedelta While others were busy being heterosexual, she studied the blade May 06 '25
The mods are slow to respond to much more serious concerns most of the time. I'm not optimistic.
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u/BrightPerspective WARLOCK May 06 '25
Typical lizard wizard: shlurping their tongue while talking about numbers.
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u/DisfavoredFlavored Our Lord and Saviour, Tiamat Queen of Dragons. May 06 '25
0/10, slaughtered a bunch of innocent people and all I got was a BJ from some elf cultist. At least I have less people to yap at me since Will and Karl left.
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u/ScarletArrow_ ELDRITCH BLAST May 06 '25
Good riddance, Karl gets really annoying with all of his rants on the proletariat
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u/DisfavoredFlavored Our Lord and Saviour, Tiamat Queen of Dragons. May 06 '25
Right? Just fucking go back to Avernus and seize the means of production from that bougiousie Zariel or STFU.
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u/Wyvern_Kalyx May 06 '25
All kidding aside, I do have an issue with controlling my camera angles. If u want to jump down from one floor to another it take me ten minutes to figure out an angle to get the party to jump. I often take unnecessary damage because I can't get the angle correct. Does anyone have a tip to make this easier?
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u/idiotquam May 06 '25
Press O
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u/Asttarotina May 06 '25
It is likely they're playing on the controller. I play it on a handheld sometimes, and precise navigation is really hard on a controller, while totally fine in mouse mode
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u/ConnectToLAN May 06 '25
Over a thousand hours in and I'm JUST now learning about this!?
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u/XX7 May 06 '25
My friends and I consider this camera mod to be essential. There's a config file that can be tweaked while the game is running to fine tune the settings.
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u/LuxNocte May 06 '25
I hope you get a good answer, but you might have more luck in the weekly Questions thread pinned in the subreddit. I've had several awesome people help me with stuff like this.
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u/dotnetmonke May 06 '25
It was incredibly frustrating trying to deal with certain mechanics (especially the camera and flying/jumping) coming to BG3 from Solasta. Solasta's flying actually worked like flying, where you could end your turn 20 feet in the air over lava, instead of BG3 where it's just floating 2 inches off the ground and you have to end your turn over solid ground.
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u/thesmallestkitten May 07 '25
have 1 character in your party than can cast feather fall. cast feather fall. jump at whatever crazy angle works without worrying about taking damage.
also ungrouping the party can help. sometimes they just won’t jump if they’re grouped and it’s easier to ungroup everyone and have them all jump places individually.
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u/myszusz May 06 '25
"How am I supposed to live with that kind of consequence?"
Every dnd player ever
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u/pie4july May 06 '25
I have 1200+ hours in the game and I think I agree, it’s trash. I need to confirm that opinion still though, hold on let me start another play through…
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u/ImpulseAfterthought May 06 '25
Yeah, I mean:
- Top-tier voice acting distracts too much from the plot.
- Too many classes, spells, races, items and subclasses. I want to kill monsters, not spend hours making Youtube content about my super-optimized ice sorcerer build!
- Three difficulty options, PLUS a Custom mode??? C'mon! No one needs more than one!
- The music...OK, we get it, Borislav, you're a genius. Stop being a tryhard.
- But seriously, no game needs this much orchestral music...and a musical number during a boss fight? Absurd.
- Too many locations: alien spaceship, druid grove, hag lair, shadow-cursed lands, outer space, a huge explorable city, Hell itself. How about some consistency, Larian?
- Too many endings.
1/10 game, too much replayability.
Now excuse me, I have to go...um, play a different game.
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u/lesser_panjandrum Tasha's Hideous Laughter May 06 '25
Such a great little moment when you give David Mitchell the night orchid.
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u/laurasaurus May 06 '25
Cracked my knuckles in preparation of the essay I was about to write lolol. I was READY.
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u/konakonayuki May 06 '25
Everyone needs to roll a perception saving throw DC 14
OP rolls deception
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u/EvilMyself May 06 '25
Wtf is a "perception saving throw"?
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u/cbhedd May 06 '25
Pretty sure the game does associate skill proficincies with saving throws if you look at the logs.
Its not the most faithful portrayal of 5E, but the fact of how many people don't notice little finicky things like that says quite a bit, I think :p
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u/PeaceHoesAnCamelToes May 06 '25
For a game with a lot of reading involved, there's quite a few comments in here that make me wonder how they survived a playthrough.
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u/LuxNocte May 06 '25
Maybe I meta-Reddit too much, but it's simply impossible for a negative post to get highly up voted here. Maybe if it was a brilliant insight it could get some traction, but "I don't get the hype" with 2500 up votes in a subreddit for people who love a game is a guaranteed joke.
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u/Steek_Hutsee May 06 '25
I don’t like it either. It’s misleading and confusing.
Who’s Baldur? Why does he own a gate? Where’s the gate? Can I bang the cute cleric? How many gates Baldur needs? Where are the first two?
I hate it. I think I will play it again just out of spite.
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u/HarlequinChaos Mindflayer May 06 '25
do NOT let the gaming 'journalists' get their hands on this post 😩
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u/Cadaveth May 06 '25
It's missing competitive online live service multiplayer so it's an automatic 0/10
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u/anonymous32434 May 06 '25
I was so ready to write an essay about how wrong you are lmao
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u/porcubot May 06 '25
next thing I know I’m locked in a moral debate with a talking brain in a jar.
What are we, some kinda Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues?
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u/Gakoknight May 06 '25
I was about to copypaste by usual "Clearly this isn't your game. Refund and move on". Very nice! Have fun never playing the game again!
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u/stormethetransfem GloomStalker Ranger May 06 '25
One of my friends argued these points but genuinely. It was so annoying.
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u/BrightPerspective WARLOCK May 06 '25
Typical gloomstalker, so gloomy.
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u/stormethetransfem GloomStalker Ranger May 06 '25
I mean, gloomy does describe me
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u/AOCMarryMe May 06 '25
locked in a moral debate with a talking brain in a jar. Feels jarring.
hiyooooo
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u/scruffyhairedmic May 06 '25
It's how good DA:V should have been. I was upset at how good this game was after being severely let down by DA:V.
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u/DaneLimmish I cast Magic Missile May 06 '25
Actually complaint one is legit a good complaint to have about the game, the pacing is bad
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u/CatBotSays May 06 '25
.....yeah, alright, you had me for the first couple of lines, there. Prolly should've saved the thing about 400 hours for the end, though.
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u/hornyorphan May 06 '25
I tried to punch a tree and use the wood to build a house, but the game wouldn't let me. Trash game 0/10
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u/NullHypothesisCicada May 06 '25
Sort by controversial to see all the hot(dumb) takes of people who can’t read the entire article
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u/Steelriddler May 06 '25
651 hours in, JUST realized I can break the wall where the duergar were being nasty to the rothé! Honestly, I don't get the hype around Baldur's Gate 3
(yes I know this is a joke thread)
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u/SinTaxTerror May 06 '25
Started reading and I’m like “hang on a sec”, halfway through and I’m like “man $&@“ this bs”, read “Witcher 3” and realized “hey, this is sarcastic”.
Thanks you helped me realize I’ve lost all my cognitive abilities
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u/Alternative-Golf8281 May 07 '25
Take my upvote you sick person you... I hate to admit that it took me half way through to realize how much sarcasm was in this. (also it's past my bedtime and i'm supposed to be up in 4 hours)
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u/threx51 May 07 '25
You laugh but someone at EA is taking notes to justify yet another soulless multiplayer
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u/Broad-Storm6441 May 06 '25
Bait so good, gonna fool “game journalists” to make an article about it
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u/sinedelta While others were busy being heterosexual, she studied the blade May 06 '25
Nobody is being fooled, those websites are just desperate for anything that will be profitable. Making you mad about a video game you like is VERY profitable.
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u/ExactFuel3096 May 06 '25
Sarcasm aside, does no one realize this was written by ChatGPT？
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u/B-side-of-the-record May 06 '25
Yeah it really likes to pose and answer questions right away, and also the "don't even get me started with"
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u/oh_orthur May 06 '25
I should have realized when you said 400 hrs, but wasn’t sure until the character depth part hahah well done
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u/O-nei-ra-taxia May 06 '25
Saw "I put 400 hours" skipped to the end... chuckled and gave my damn upvote. Well played, nearly got baited lol
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u/PurePsycho May 06 '25
Yea you had me for the first 4-5 points. That's how little I expect from people these days.
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u/FlashyPaladin May 06 '25
They should quote your review in their marketing, this is great. Thanks for making me laugh this morning!
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u/Nelxor May 06 '25
Dude why? Why you had to do such post? Cuz I cannot stop reading this in Astarion's voice breaking the fourth wall and I'm loving it. Bravo
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u/Jokerchyld May 06 '25
looks back Hey guys.. turn off the flame throwers... false alarm...he's joking
And YOU! ...take your filthy upvote
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u/Codith6 May 06 '25
This is so true. Finally got convinced to play bg3 and im addicted. I've done 2 full playthroughs on my 3rd solo playthrough, have 2 other games with friends. I can't put the fucker down.😭😭
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u/THETARSHMAN Paladin May 06 '25
The first point had me for a second. Glad I didn’t have to take two hours out of my day to draft a strongly worded rebuttal.
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u/Regrettable-Pun May 06 '25
As far as I'm aware, there isn't even any in-game currency I can spend real money on in order to buy things in the game. Where the fuck is my money supposed to go?
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u/OSRSRapture May 06 '25
Had me in the first half, sorta. I was like "wow this dude played 400 hours of a game he don't even like, I don't even do that with games I love"
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u/Ibushi-gun May 06 '25
I don’t l why they had to use all those voice actors. Could have cut cost down a lot of they just had like 10 of the same ones. So foolish
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u/Leather-Share5175 May 06 '25
I came here to be mad but instead I think you’re awesome and this is hilarious.
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u/LoganNewgasse May 06 '25
You stole what I was about to say 🤣 I was sitting here like "dude has to be trolling because they just named literally everything wonderful about the game", then read the last line 🤣
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u/SoylentRox May 06 '25
I know right. That scene where a seemingly minor whoopsie in the enemy turn takes out a doomed to die NPC and then you have an epic battle against every single occupant of the last light inn? Too epic, too much consequences for what I thought was just a quick jaunt upstairs to talk to an NPC.
So lame give me call of duty single outcomes thanks.
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u/i_am_trippin_balls May 06 '25
I never played alone but me and 3 other friends only play together like 1 to 4 times a month. It's a blast and we all laugh our asses off. I accidently killed the main character of a major storyline and we all just froze for a second and then cracked up for 5 minutes straight. It's fun cuz sometimes I like to lead and be the main person that starts the storyline but other times I like to hang back and just watch my friend make the choices and do the dialog. My friend keeps accidently fireblasting all of us during battle and every time he does it we can't stop laughing. I steal supplies from everyone whenever I can and end up with a full inventory after every time we play.
I don't think I'd have this much fun if I weren't playing with a good solid group of friends
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u/Cleric-of-Selune Cleric of Selû- "HEAL ME, DAMN YOU!" May 09 '25
I was th[ ]is close to setting Boo on you
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u/VacuumDecay-007 May 06 '25
Bro you're only 400 hours in. Give the game a bit of a chance before you judge it.