I would make a review thread but it seems like reviewers just started playing, so there aren’t many yet.
Hardly any mention of this from Apple or their associated media, despite the fact that an AAA game launching a Mac port on day 1 is virtually unheard-of in 2023.
outside of Apple arcade, I don’t think Apple cares one iota about gaming. As evidenced by your observation. It’s a huge market to miss, but they don’t really seem to care. All they keep doing is adding old mobile remakes of games everyone has played before to their Arcade subscription nobody would ever pay for if it wasn’t bundled into Apple one…
They’ve been investing way more in gaming lately, but I imagine their long-term plan involves setting up Apple Arcade as a premium brand for high-end titles in a way that might be undermined by promoting their “competition” now. Like if Apple promoted a lot of shows that were available on iTunes shortly before launching Apple TV+. No idea, though, I’m just wildly speculating.
I don’t know, they are focusing a ton right now on re-releasing REALLY old mobile games, just with a plus symbol added to the name. That’s polar opposite from premium high end titles. If they do want to go that direction they need to change course immediately!
Announce to what gaming audience?
Because it only launches today on PC to not compete with starfield. Other platforms are the original release date
Except it’s not available on Mac on day one. Larian hasn’t even announced when it will be aside from “at a later date.”
Update: Apparently, the Steam Discussions page has a post that lists it as September 5.
Unless it’s shipped to the App Store and not just Steam, they wouldn’t market it anyway. I don’t believe they publicise third-party marketplaces / appstores (which Steam arguable is).
I just love everything about this whole thing.
I love the game itself, what an incredible feat.
I love how almost naively passionate and nerdy the folks at Larian are.
I love how aside from a few AAA game developers trying to tell everyone that this masterpiece shouldn’t set the new standard for RPGs (LOL) Everyone else just seems so happy these maniacs have actually pulled it off.
I love the freedom this game offers. So many permutations, over 170 hrs of cinematics, most of which the average player will never see. All so that the world can feel almost as limitless as the tabletop D&D. There were no shortcuts to this goal. I’m sure the tech is great, but fundamentally, this wasn’t about clever technology, which can only do so much. It was about the herculean effort of 400+ people making content for over 6 years in some of the most indulgent over-engineering I’ve ever seen in a AAA title.
They could have rolled out the EA Act I a few years ago and it still would have been better than most RPGs out there. Instead, we get an Act I with 33% more content and 2 entirely new acts.
Got two kids under 4 and a demanding job so no idea when I’ll get to play even. But I’m just so happy something like this has happened in this shitty, cynical industry.
It really has been a breath of fresh air. I rarely ever buy EA but I bought this one. Played 236 hours just in that and forced myself to stop because I wanted more. There’s no DLC, just cosmetic stuff, they’re out here doin it.
I can’t wait to get home and play for the first time in a while.
For the first time in years I lost track of time while playing a game. It was 6:15 in the morning when I thought about actually getting some sleep. Kids woke up shortly after that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seriously. The changes from beta have all been incredible (beyond the obvious [character options, et al], the cutscenes are slightly “reshot”, gfx overhaul, voiceover content, etc.) and while I knew key points of the storyline, their delivery or even triggers were fresh to discover. I’m so damn excited to play this full release, I’m doing everything I can just not to run solo instead of getting the gang together for multi sessions. 😅🤘🏼
The friend group tried to play D&D over discord and it was like pulling teeth to get everyone online at the same time. I typically like having multiple players in games like this because it makes it more fun to actually play AS the character because we all have different motives/mindsets.
I’m doing a solo campaign first while I’m impatient, then I’ll do a group campaign when everyone can actually get together.
Me too. 🤓 Shhh.
Damn. That puts me off it rather than wanting to buy it. The kids and Mrs would have no mercy if I get that engrossed.
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I really want to play with my kid, she loves DnD, but I was exploring one place and I opened a barn door to be greeted by an orc rawdogging an ogre. Can’t have that stuff popping up with my kid playing.
Look, the only thing I can say is that I have no regrets :). What I plan on doing is just waking up an hour or so earlier and having some game time in the morning.
Does the game have good controller support? Steam Deck is the only way to get gaming done with the kids around.
Good review by Mortismal Gaming:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8h64EYMoLF8&feature=share9
This guy specialises in reviewing CRPGs and his reviews are really good. Often he reviews games after 100% completing them
He’s great isn’t he…
But regardless of all that may you wander in wisdom and have an amazing day
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What kinks? 🤷🏼♂️
Oh it gets plenty kinky.
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Fair assumption, though you might want to lead with that, rather than imply that you’ve made such a decision based on current issues rather than historical conjecture.
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And we collectively have little patience for low-effort trolls. I hope you can understand. This isn’t that other place.
Only 10 more hours until it is downloaded 😍
Edit: welp, it’s already done lol. See you in a couple of weeks boiiiiss
One for me! I’m averaging 25-30Mbps. Took the day off of work for this lol
Try doing a half day next time. That way it’s downloading while you’re at work and you still get to play for hours
I slept in till 11 so it was worth lol. 35% left to go!
Lol that’s works even better! Hope you’re enjoying it now!
Took the day off of work for this lol
Bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for 'em.
For me it downloaded within 40 minutes with swings between 300-170mb/s
Was about an hour 20 total for me! Loving it so far! Except they forgot to remove the version number so it’s always showing lol
2.5h left for me! CMON GO FASTER I NEED MORE INTERNETS
Instant buy. I would buy it due to them making divinity original sin 2 with zero idea about this game. So fucking excited to play it.
Unfortunately, I really really really want to play this with a friend of mine so I gotta find until he has a good slot.
Multiple profiles friend. One for your single play, one for your multiplayer.
You will get different things out of playing solo vs multilayer. I recommend doing both.
I have no idea what this is but after looking around I bought it. it looks amazing
If you never played the original Baldurs Gate games or the devs original Divinity Original Sin games then you are in for an absolute treat.
This game is basically Dungeons and Dragons with so many ways to play and have fun.
Imagine if you will a half demon and a Dragonborn walk into a bar. The Dragonborn is a bard and the half demon is what is called a Tiefling. The two are best friends ready to take on the world. They meet a dark elf who is a powerful druid that can turn into a spider and a dwarf who is also warlock. The four of them find themselves surrounded by bandits but fret not the Dragonborn sings his tunes to make the Tiefling stronger. The drwarf helps freeze them in place and the druid spins her spindly legs to eat the bandits.
Together they will save the world. Well if your brain imagines all that in your own way then welcome to Baldurs Gate 3.
I had the early access on Stadia 😭 will have to wait for the delayed Xbox launch now.
Hey at least you got all the money back
Indeed. They even refunded my Ubisoft+ sub costs which surprised the hell out of me. I got two controllers free from various deals as well, they are decent Bluetooth controllers now. I think I paid for a handful of months of pro that I didn’t get back, but everything else was refunded.
I tried playing it on PC today, but it ran really poorly even on low, so I refunded it and will be waiting for the Xbox version as well.
I sadly have to wait for my partner to install her copy first as this is her only free day, and our Canadian internet is shit. I probably won’t get to play until tomorrow evening. Hope everyone enjoys launch day
If you are using steam, you can just copy all the files from your device to hers. Then let steam validate the files and you are off to the races. My spouse and I do this all the time to save of bandwidth and time.
Damn that’s a good idea. I haven’t installed yet, but will have her copy over to me when it’s done in 4 hours lol
FYI, Steam has a new feature where you can install games over local network for friends if both enable it.
Might be handy in this case.
TO further add onto that, the Source player can’t be doing anything else. As in not downloading and not playing games at the same time.
I started installing at like 11:05am and it still isnt done yet. Why do i pay for 100 dollar internet!
Same boat here
I’ve never played any BG nor DnD. I do know vaguely some basics about DnD. I got the game to play with a friend. How difficult is it going to be for me to get used to? Should I read up on anything beforehand? I play mostly single player RPGs like fallout, mass effect, and occasional turned based stuff like FF, isometric stuff.
You may want to read up on basic terms for D&D. Thus game relies heavily on that jargon to describe game mechanics.
For example AC is Armor Class and the value defines how difficult you are to hit. Not to be confused with Air Conditioning or Assasins Creed.
As with D&D there are no set-in-stone archetypes. A fighter can focus on throwing rocks to be ranged or a sorcerer can do their damndest to be a melee player. Classes and races do have innate traits that lend themselves better to other roles and synergies.
Air Conditioning or Assasins Creed.
Lmao.
Ok seems simple enough. I’m familiar with class based RPGs. I’ll probably check out some getting started videos before diving in. Thanks a lot!
Assuming you haven’t already, Jocat’s “Crap Guide to D&D” series is an entertaining little primer! IIRC the most relevant one would be the character sheet episode, followed by the individual class episodes.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
It starts pretty gentle and has plenty of tooltips.
Ultimately as well like if you’re in combat it’s turn based, if you don’t mind tabbing out to look things up every now and then I don’t think you will run into too many problems.
Probably wouldn’t hurt to watch a 5-10 minute D&D gameplay overview on youtube before though just so you know what to expect.
How is it if I want to try and keep my party minimal? It looks fun but I know I didn’t like having a lot of characters in dungeon siege
It’s very much balanced around having a party of 4 characters. But the game itself is incredibly open ended. You could probably make fewer characters work but the game would be harder.
So there is no equivalent of the Lone Wolf talent from DoS2?
As far as I’m aware, there is not.
I am a bit sad about that lesser degree of freedom, since I prefer smaller parties. Especially during the first playthrough I don´t want to have to learn 4 different classes in parallel :(
I’ve decided to wait for the PS5 version, but will definitely get it then. Thankfully, I still have FF to finish.
Oh hell yeah, been excited for this for awhile now.
Unfortunately came out when I got broke as fuck so I gotta wait a few weeks :x
