Been playing games for 30+ years. BG3 is easily one of the best games I've ever played, and without a doubt the best roleplaying experience I've had. Spent 150 hours on my first campaign, have seen entirely new things on a new playthrough, and with a co op campaign with my brother.
30+ years of gaming is actually incredible. I hope to have that much exp soon . It says a lot about how highly you hold this game compared to others too. It truly might be one of the best ive ever played as well. Its really changed the game and my perspective on other titles.
I'm 200 hours and haven't even gotten to Baldur's Gate yet!! lmao. But yes it's incredible I get lost in the small details all the time and that's why I am taking so much time. Plus Larian is just one of the best studio's, their updates are always awesome and they pay attention to the community so much.
I hope you get into DnD, it's great. I came at BG3 kinda uniquely. I made a Githyanki/Githzerai character as a table top character, I didn't even have a game to play her in, but loved the character, started writing a huge backstory for my own enjoyment and even commissioned artists to draw her. Then got a game I am currently playing in. Then BG3 comes out and I decided it was a great opportunity to expand her lore and so made her mom in it. This had the effect of changing my characters backstory, so now her mom is in a Githyanki prison for betraying their war against the Githzerai and she is searching for an artifact/silver sword that she could trade for her mom's freedom. So my love for BG3 is beyond just the game, it's lore and depth has really impacted much more of my life.
I have over 2k hours and every achievement in this game, and still find new things. I will be taking a break after this current playthrough. FYI IMO, BEST starting class is 8 levels into sword bard with two hand crossbows and 4 levels into fighter or rouge. With alert for the hole party (if they need it) and sharpshooter for the bard, you have a charismatic leader for roll play who hits like a truck and shreds the enemy.
@@redsagexxv The Bard is so good because of the combination of Charisma for dice rolls during dialog and the raw power you can obtain through Sharpshooter, Flurries (Sword Bard ability), and gear. Diadem of Arcane Synergy from the Gith creche will add your spell-casting modifier to your weapon attacks if you inflict a "condition" on an enemy, which just about everything does. I go with a reverberation build so if the enemy doesn't die, it is CC'ed. Other key gear are Boots of Storym Clamour, Gloving of Beligerent Skies, Ring of Spiteful Thunder, and using the Drakethroat Glave to put Thunder damage on the main crossbow to make reverberation pop like a beast lol. You can unequip the glave after you apply the thunder damage on the crossbow. I've also done a Titan Bow build using the same gear and holding the Club of Hill Giant Strength which averages around 80-90 piercing damage per flurry two attack. With action serge (level 12 act 3) I can blow all my bardic inspirations on my first turn for over 400 in damage. Paired with a Tavernbrawler throw-build fighter and two support classes, Honor Mode is very doable.
@@redsagexxv Bards are a lot of fun, my fav tho is 10 swords bard with 2 paladin, that way you get magical secrets and you can smite using 6th level spell slots. Fighter is super strong though & would probably take fighter to 6 to get the early feat & extra attack, then put 6 into lore bard which get magical secrets at level 6. On any bard build though I would recommend getting the Band of the Mystic scoundrel that lets you cast illusion/enchantment spells on a bonus action after making an attack.
2K? You sir are what is called a True Soul. lol. but seriously Bards are my favorite class in any version of DND, they can do ANYTHING you need at the moment and do it maybe not as well as a Wizard or Fighter or Rogue, but still very well. And for RP quality, nothing matches them. Plus my most epic moment is with a Gnome Bard. Fighting a deep dragon and it had knocked out the rest of the party, so just solo against a mostly full health dragon, rolled bardic knowledge (3rd edition you could default any knowledge skill to it for a higher DC) to geology find a lava vein underground, nat 20, then taunted the dragon nat 19 but because bard's have so high CHA it was still insane. Fully expecting to die for the party, DM gave me a Dex save to avoid going into the lava with the dragon, another nat 20! So I soloed the dragon and somehow survived! BARDS!!!!
So cool to hear how much you're enjoying it, I can't stop playing either, got 950 hrs in it and am still seeing completely new content and cut scenes, tiny decisions in act 1 can completely change interactions in act 3, it is seriously a masterpiece. I've been playing D&D a long time and played the original BG that can on like 7 CD's that you had to swap in and out as you went into new areas. The original BG was completely groundbreaking though and really set a high bar for realising a D&D world in a computer game, tbh it's still worth playing. I would also recommend larians previous game DOS2 (Divinity Original Sin 2) which was in of itself a masterpiece.
Lone wolf with mods: 1 wizard, 3 spore Druid, 8 (life or war) cleric. One or more npc team mates: 1 barbarian, 1 wizard, 2-3 spore Druid, 7-8 levels open hand monk. All depends on whether or not I want pass without trace. I enjoy being a Gith (male or female) and stealing the legendary gith sword in mid-late act 1. But the sword of balduran with the strange conduit ring and pass without trace is probably stronger.
From a player of D&D for over 40 years, and a survivor of the Satanic panic. welcome to the super nerd club. i just love all the New people finding RPGs through this game. Have fun in the rabbit hole you now find your self in. :)
i feel that. tbh its first one in a while for me like that too. the second i rolled credits i was like i need to play again asap. especially since larian retroactively went back and added new things + expanded on the endings.
I have 700+ hours and still haven't been to act 3 yet. I've spent over 500+ hours in act 1 alone and still finding new things that I didn't know before. Now I'm only playing honour mode now.
500 in act 1 and still finding things? I need to go back towards grove lmao and possibly underdark before i finish Lazaels stuff. ive been chipping away at it back tracking
had stopped playing third person games of this sort, because I prefer first person to the turn based combat of dnd. But baldur's gate 3 brought me back! This is such an amazing game, it is so rich and dense and the options are dizzying!
so far, my fave multiclassing has been Selunite Cleric/Paladin (spicy debates with shadowheart!!), and bard/rogue/gloomstalker ranger (bird mating dance with wyll at 8 pm, killing at 9)!
To all BG3 fans. I would highly recommend Larians last title Divinity Original Sin 2. Great game and you don’t have to play the 1st for it to make sense.
@@redsagexxv With regards to returning cast, the 2 Divinity games are nothing to do with BG3. They are by the same developers, so some of the game mechanics, and certain aspects of the art style you can feel how they're related to BG3, but story/characters are totally unrelated. Still great games though. The original Baldurs Gate games were released 20+ years ago by BioWare, not Larian. There's a few returning characters, and several more Easter Eggs in BG3 for fans of the originals, and obviously the story exists in the same world. They are/were considered some of the best games in their genre, but you can definitely feel their age with regards gameplay/graphics. The stories however, are amazing, and well worth your time. Some other BioWare games that are often considered the best at what they do, are the Mass Effect trilogy, and some of the Dragon Age games. Again, all will be well worth your time, and utterly enjoyable experiences if you choose to. Baldurs Gate 3 is absolutely a pinnacle in the evolution of Larian Studios releases, and also a superbly modernised version of the Baldurs Gate franchise, but just wanted to clear up the difference for you. Between Larian games/Baldurs Gate games/Bioware games & even DnD, that's a lot of rabbit holes open to exploration, so take your pick, and have your fun. Either way, you're unlikely to regret it.
I'm fine playing older games but it's such a direct downgrade in terms of production quality compared to the well performed characters in BG3, not sure I could get into it.
@@JD-xw3tj What comes nearest to BG3, would be Larians Divinity Original Sin 2. The graphics art is very similar and also the PC UI is similar. But of course, when they developed it, they had not so much money to invest $100-150 Mio (what they at least invested in BG3). So what is different in D:OS2 compared to BG3: - D:OS2 plays in a different world, it has nothing to do with D&D (for BG3, Larian had to buy the rights from the D&D owner to use the ruleset and backstory) - Particularly magic is different and also combat mechanics -- no direct "dice-rolling" (randomness is calculated covert like in other games) - Not everything is voice acted as in BG3, many dialogs are just text -- those dialogs also have no cutscenes of course Still you have very similar graphics and rich combat mechanics using the third dimension also. I think, they had not so much jumping in D:OS2. You also have a rich story and interesting characters. But no Bear! Sorry!
Hey, always glad to see more people learn to love the bomb, as it were. I started in the early access and have about 2300 hours in this gem. Here are a humble few notes to help you on your journey. If you want to cake walk the dialogue, I'd suggest having a bard in the party. Playing one also works, lol. I have found that an Eldritch Knight throwing build is very strong from act 1 and on, no matter the difficulty level. The best spells don't deal damage, they shape the battlefield to your preference. High ground is stronger than you realize. Do silly and absurd things. lastly, F5 is the quick save. Enjoy!
youre the third person to tell me to get a bard and i love that tbh 😭i really need to start looking respecing someone into it and using the environment spells. I neglect those the most I feel because im silly and always end up catching myself in the terrain or laying oil but forgetting it explodes with fire 😭
Larian brought a lot over from Divinity to BG3. Mostly the terrain stuff. It still gets me time to time, lol! Don't sleep on Druids! TBH, my favorite build for a Tav is 6 lore bard and 6 circle of the land druid. If I can't talk my way through a situation, I can set up the team for victory. The stats are a bit wonky and you either have a 14 dex or 14 con. Pick your poison there. Just stay out of melee with that one.@@redsagexxv
I still not into D&D but Bg3 is by far the best game I have ever seen. Compare Bg3 to games like suicide squad or cod we as gamers should demand more and Bg3 is that shinning example of DEVLOPERS should strive for.
@@redsagexxv @redsagexxv All 3 games are very different, but IMO the first one is the best by far. DA2 had the cRPG mechanics castrated to make room for more action, and was hugely rushed in development, but has great characters. DAI is open-world and the game generally looks great, but a stunning quantity of great art can only carry the game so far due to its often boring and uninspired side quests. The enviroment/model/texture artists can be proud of DAI, but the game is way too long compared to how boring it is.
wait this is actually a crazy set up👀I made astarion monk/rogue before but at time i didnt have a good strategy/balance for using both classes aspects. might have to incorporate this on my current run so i can use them more.
Yea bro I got the Sentient Amulet around my neck at all times and I’m fighting back the giggles the entire time I’m recording. 😭 Let me know if you wanna take it off my hands. Might be cursed or something though. 🥱
I cannot get my friends to play with me and it’s so sad, not for me, but for them, because they are just straight up missing out on one of the greatest games of all time. I’ve put 350 hours in since Jan 3rd and I’ve loved it.
Literally same! I have so many friends still on the fence. And im like JUST DO IT. Literally just buy the game you will have so much fun. Also yea i genuinely feel like this is one of the greatest games ive ever played. It helps too to be able to see myself in so much of the cast. Im approaching 200 myself and still finding things i just completely missed my first go its insane 🥴😭😭
@@redsagexxv I started at first and wasn’t sure I was going to like it, it even took me a couple days. I’m telling you, I cannot get enough. I’m playing right now lol.
@@TaylorONEism93 same ngl. once i got the hang of combat and made it towards moonrise first time I was locked in. It actually might be my favorite part of game besides Raphael's house later.
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Been playing games for 30+ years. BG3 is easily one of the best games I've ever played, and without a doubt the best roleplaying experience I've had. Spent 150 hours on my first campaign, have seen entirely new things on a new playthrough, and with a co op campaign with my brother.
30+ years of gaming is actually incredible. I hope to have that much exp soon . It says a lot about how highly you hold this game compared to others too. It truly might be one of the best ive ever played as well. Its really changed the game and my perspective on other titles.
I'm 200 hours and haven't even gotten to Baldur's Gate yet!! lmao. But yes it's incredible I get lost in the small details all the time and that's why I am taking so much time. Plus Larian is just one of the best studio's, their updates are always awesome and they pay attention to the community so much.
40+ here ;-) I'm not a grandmother, but I've got the silver hair now and look the part ;-)
I hope you get into DnD, it's great. I came at BG3 kinda uniquely. I made a Githyanki/Githzerai character as a table top character, I didn't even have a game to play her in, but loved the character, started writing a huge backstory for my own enjoyment and even commissioned artists to draw her. Then got a game I am currently playing in. Then BG3 comes out and I decided it was a great opportunity to expand her lore and so made her mom in it. This had the effect of changing my characters backstory, so now her mom is in a Githyanki prison for betraying their war against the Githzerai and she is searching for an artifact/silver sword that she could trade for her mom's freedom. So my love for BG3 is beyond just the game, it's lore and depth has really impacted much more of my life.
It's always refreshing to see people express genuine enjoyment. I hope you'll keep having fun playing the game ❤
THANK YOU! Yea omg its so much fun ! Its really become one of my comfort games ngl.😭😭
I have over 2k hours and every achievement in this game, and still find new things. I will be taking a break after this current playthrough. FYI IMO, BEST starting class is 8 levels into sword bard with two hand crossbows and 4 levels into fighter or rouge. With alert for the hole party (if they need it) and sharpshooter for the bard, you have a charismatic leader for roll play who hits like a truck and shreds the enemy.
i might actually have to try this one out. I still have yet to try bard out at all actually. i hear its crazy op tho 👀
@@redsagexxv The Bard is so good because of the combination of Charisma for dice rolls during dialog and the raw power you can obtain through Sharpshooter, Flurries (Sword Bard ability), and gear. Diadem of Arcane Synergy from the Gith creche will add your spell-casting modifier to your weapon attacks if you inflict a "condition" on an enemy, which just about everything does. I go with a reverberation build so if the enemy doesn't die, it is CC'ed. Other key gear are Boots of Storym Clamour, Gloving of Beligerent Skies, Ring of Spiteful Thunder, and using the Drakethroat Glave to put Thunder damage on the main crossbow to make reverberation pop like a beast lol. You can unequip the glave after you apply the thunder damage on the crossbow. I've also done a Titan Bow build using the same gear and holding the Club of Hill Giant Strength which averages around 80-90 piercing damage per flurry two attack. With action serge (level 12 act 3) I can blow all my bardic inspirations on my first turn for over 400 in damage. Paired with a Tavernbrawler throw-build fighter and two support classes, Honor Mode is very doable.
@@redsagexxv Bards are a lot of fun, my fav tho is 10 swords bard with 2 paladin, that way you get magical secrets and you can smite using 6th level spell slots. Fighter is super strong though & would probably take fighter to 6 to get the early feat & extra attack, then put 6 into lore bard which get magical secrets at level 6. On any bard build though I would recommend getting the Band of the Mystic scoundrel that lets you cast illusion/enchantment spells on a bonus action after making an attack.
Sword Bards get an extra attack at level 6. The four in Fighter is mainly for the action surge and fighting style.
2K? You sir are what is called a True Soul. lol. but seriously Bards are my favorite class in any version of DND, they can do ANYTHING you need at the moment and do it maybe not as well as a Wizard or Fighter or Rogue, but still very well. And for RP quality, nothing matches them. Plus my most epic moment is with a Gnome Bard. Fighting a deep dragon and it had knocked out the rest of the party, so just solo against a mostly full health dragon, rolled bardic knowledge (3rd edition you could default any knowledge skill to it for a higher DC) to geology find a lava vein underground, nat 20, then taunted the dragon nat 19 but because bard's have so high CHA it was still insane. Fully expecting to die for the party, DM gave me a Dex save to avoid going into the lava with the dragon, another nat 20! So I soloed the dragon and somehow survived! BARDS!!!!
So cool to hear how much you're enjoying it, I can't stop playing either, got 950 hrs in it and am still seeing completely new content and cut scenes, tiny decisions in act 1 can completely change interactions in act 3, it is seriously a masterpiece. I've been playing D&D a long time and played the original BG that can on like 7 CD's that you had to swap in and out as you went into new areas. The original BG was completely groundbreaking though and really set a high bar for realising a D&D world in a computer game, tbh it's still worth playing. I would also recommend larians previous game DOS2 (Divinity Original Sin 2) which was in of itself a masterpiece.
Lone wolf with mods: 1 wizard, 3 spore Druid, 8 (life or war) cleric.
One or more npc team mates: 1 barbarian, 1 wizard, 2-3 spore Druid, 7-8 levels open hand monk. All depends on whether or not I want pass without trace.
I enjoy being a Gith (male or female) and stealing the legendary gith sword in mid-late act 1. But the sword of balduran with the strange conduit ring and pass without trace is probably stronger.
From a player of D&D for over 40 years, and a survivor of the Satanic panic. welcome to the super nerd club. i just love all the New people finding RPGs through this game. Have fun in the rabbit hole you now find your self in. :)
Bg3 is the only game that genuinely made me experience for a second for a third play through
i feel that. tbh its first one in a while for me like that too. the second i rolled credits i was like i need to play again asap. especially since larian retroactively went back and added new things + expanded on the endings.
I have 700+ hours and still haven't been to act 3 yet. I've spent over 500+ hours in act 1 alone and still finding new things that I didn't know before. Now I'm only playing honour mode now.
500 in act 1 and still finding things? I need to go back towards grove lmao and possibly underdark before i finish Lazaels stuff. ive been chipping away at it back tracking
had stopped playing third person games of this sort, because I prefer first person to the turn based combat of dnd. But baldur's gate 3 brought me back! This is such an amazing game, it is so rich and dense and the options are dizzying!
this game has the most refreshing turn based combat ive experienced in awhile tbh. it makes me wanna go back and play more like it too
so far, my fave multiclassing has been Selunite Cleric/Paladin (spicy debates with shadowheart!!), and bard/rogue/gloomstalker ranger (bird mating dance with wyll at 8 pm, killing at 9)!
wait I don't think I've ever entirely considered how rocking certain classes would change interactions with some party members 👀
@@redsagexxv yesss do give it a try! playing as a sorcerer also has some great interactions with gale too!
Welcome to the dnd fandom. As a dm its touching to get more people into the table top roleplaying scene
To all BG3 fans. I would highly recommend Larians last title Divinity Original Sin 2. Great game and you don’t have to play the 1st for it to make sense.
ngl ive actually been thinking of downloading both divinity games to learn more about returning cast
@@redsagexxv With regards to returning cast, the 2 Divinity games are nothing to do with BG3. They are by the same developers, so some of the game mechanics, and certain aspects of the art style you can feel how they're related to BG3, but story/characters are totally unrelated. Still great games though.
The original Baldurs Gate games were released 20+ years ago by BioWare, not Larian. There's a few returning characters, and several more Easter Eggs in BG3 for fans of the originals, and obviously the story exists in the same world. They are/were considered some of the best games in their genre, but you can definitely feel their age with regards gameplay/graphics. The stories however, are amazing, and well worth your time. Some other BioWare games that are often considered the best at what they do, are the Mass Effect trilogy, and some of the Dragon Age games. Again, all will be well worth your time, and utterly enjoyable experiences if you choose to.
Baldurs Gate 3 is absolutely a pinnacle in the evolution of Larian Studios releases, and also a superbly modernised version of the Baldurs Gate franchise, but just wanted to clear up the difference for you.
Between Larian games/Baldurs Gate games/Bioware games & even DnD, that's a lot of rabbit holes open to exploration, so take your pick, and have your fun. Either way, you're unlikely to regret it.
I'm fine playing older games but it's such a direct downgrade in terms of production quality compared to the well performed characters in BG3, not sure I could get into it.
@@JD-xw3tj What comes nearest to BG3, would be Larians Divinity Original Sin 2. The graphics art is very similar and also the PC UI is similar. But of course, when they developed it, they had not so much money to invest $100-150 Mio (what they at least invested in BG3). So what is different in D:OS2 compared to BG3:
- D:OS2 plays in a different world, it has nothing to do with D&D (for BG3, Larian had to buy the rights from the D&D owner to use the ruleset and backstory)
- Particularly magic is different and also combat mechanics -- no direct "dice-rolling" (randomness is calculated covert like in other games)
- Not everything is voice acted as in BG3, many dialogs are just text -- those dialogs also have no cutscenes of course
Still you have very similar graphics and rich combat mechanics using the third dimension also. I think, they had not so much jumping in D:OS2. You also have a rich story and interesting characters. But no Bear! Sorry!
I have spent 1000 hours on bg3. This is a game like no other
Hey, always glad to see more people learn to love the bomb, as it were. I started in the early access and have about 2300 hours in this gem. Here are a humble few notes to help you on your journey. If you want to cake walk the dialogue, I'd suggest having a bard in the party. Playing one also works, lol. I have found that an Eldritch Knight throwing build is very strong from act 1 and on, no matter the difficulty level. The best spells don't deal damage, they shape the battlefield to your preference. High ground is stronger than you realize. Do silly and absurd things. lastly, F5 is the quick save. Enjoy!
youre the third person to tell me to get a bard and i love that tbh 😭i really need to start looking respecing someone into it and using the environment spells. I neglect those the most I feel because im silly and always end up catching myself in the terrain or laying oil but forgetting it explodes with fire 😭
Larian brought a lot over from Divinity to BG3. Mostly the terrain stuff. It still gets me time to time, lol! Don't sleep on Druids! TBH, my favorite build for a Tav is 6 lore bard and 6 circle of the land druid. If I can't talk my way through a situation, I can set up the team for victory. The stats are a bit wonky and you either have a 14 dex or 14 con. Pick your poison there. Just stay out of melee with that one.@@redsagexxv
I still not into D&D but Bg3 is by far the best game I have ever seen. Compare Bg3 to games like suicide squad or cod we as gamers should demand more and Bg3 is that shinning example of DEVLOPERS should strive for.
yo thats what im saying. especially for yearly releases id much rather wait a couple of years and get something on the scale of this game.
If you have not played Dragon Age Origins yet, it is definitely worth doing.
I’ve been lurking over the fence looking at Dragon Age for a while. 👀 it looks fun !
@@redsagexxv @redsagexxv All 3 games are very different, but IMO the first one is the best by far. DA2 had the cRPG mechanics castrated to make room for more action, and was hugely rushed in development, but has great characters. DAI is open-world and the game generally looks great, but a stunning quantity of great art can only carry the game so far due to its often boring and uninspired side quests. The enviroment/model/texture artists can be proud of DAI, but the game is way too long compared to how boring it is.
8 - Monk, 4 - Rogue. Tavern Brawler, Strength potions. Easy game.
wait this is actually a crazy set up👀I made astarion monk/rogue before but at time i didnt have a good strategy/balance for using both classes aspects. might have to incorporate this on my current run so i can use them more.
Why are you laughing while talking i’m sorry do you have a condition?
Yea bro I got the Sentient Amulet around my neck at all times and I’m fighting back the giggles the entire time I’m recording. 😭
Let me know if you wanna take it off my hands.
Might be cursed or something though. 🥱
@@redsagexxv hahaha you’re so funny I like you ❤️🫡
I cannot get my friends to play with me and it’s so sad, not for me, but for them, because they are just straight up missing out on one of the greatest games of all time. I’ve put 350 hours in since Jan 3rd and I’ve loved it.
Literally same! I have so many friends still on the fence. And im like JUST DO IT. Literally just buy the game you will have so much fun. Also yea i genuinely feel like this is one of the greatest games ive ever played. It helps too to be able to see myself in so much of the cast. Im approaching 200 myself and still finding things i just completely missed my first go its insane 🥴😭😭
@@redsagexxv I started at first and wasn’t sure I was going to like it, it even took me a couple days. I’m telling you, I cannot get enough. I’m playing right now lol.
@@TaylorONEism93 same ngl. once i got the hang of combat and made it towards moonrise first time I was locked in. It actually might be my favorite part of game besides Raphael's house later.