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For anyone else who is wondering - the game works great on the steam deck. I actually prefer it over my macbook pro because it’s easier to read the screen. I’ve gotten hours logged into the game so far.

It is a perfect update of the franchise. The storylines and writing are top notch, and the technology is blowing me away with how they managed to update everything while keeping the feel.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Baldur's Gate 3 just hit half a million concurrent players, and is already on track to challenge mega-franchise Harry Potter's Hogwarts Legacy for this year's Steam sales crown.

While old-school tactics franchises like XCOM vanish from purview, series like Final Fantasy drop turn-based gameplay altogether chasing broader audiences, and classic names like Diablo go always-online rammed with in-app purchases — Larian said no.

It's also a turn-based RPG that follows cRPG traditions carried forward by a shrinking number of studios who seem to have convinced themselves in various ways that players don't want this kind of game.

Forget for a moment that the game is just insanely good, with great writing, endless Dungeons & Dragons-inspired depth, and quite polished, optimized PC performance.

As such, I'm similarly nervous for Dragon Age 4, which according to leaks, has dropped tactical play in favor of chasing more action-oriented combat, doubtless with trend-chasing in mind.

Larian's respect for its audience, the relentless pursuit of quality over quarterly targets, and the rejection of trend-chasing in favor of elevating classic gameplay conventions are being rewarded by gamers in droves.

I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Do what people want and they buy your game?

Lets get those fucking MBAs out of the gaming industry.

Fuck you bobby kotik for creating this mess.

EXCEPT it uses a launcher, that’d be my only complaint. When I click ‘Play’, I want my game to launch, not take me to another screen where I have to click ‘Play’ yet again.

The paradox of homogeneization... The more the industry trends towards chasing what's considered to work and be safe, the more room it leaves for the truly bold like these guys to be successful by doing what's considered to not work anymore.
Always beautiful to see.

That's how you succeed, you make a great game, and be pro customer. Not complicated.

Divinity OS2 had a dungeom master/builder and workshop support. Im assuming that will be expanded upon and put into BG3. I cant wait for peoples custom campaigns. The game is pure creative excellence and exactly what gamers have been wanting for a long time. A game you buy once.

This is great news. Hopefully their success will inspire more studios to hold onto the genre.

Great to see baulders gate 3 doing well. A perfect storm of development conditions and we get rewarded at the end of it with a fantastic game. Hopefully heaps of extra extra content down the track to keep it going

Do people know this game was in early access for more than a year. They were fine-tuning and really paying attention.

A lot of factors lead to this reward. But Imo, it's them building what could have been a 7/10 game (Divinity games), spending a lot of time polishing and then Publicly releasing a 10/10 game

Would you guys recommend this for a casual gamer I love playing Zelda but rarely progress the story because I just like exploring. I know they aren't the same game but just giving an example of how I play games. Also, never played the other games before.

Does anyone know if you had to have played the first two games to understand the story? Or is it standalone, or do they catch you up on lore?

I'm very happy to hear that make fantastic video games without any nonsense attached is still a business model that works today. Good to hear Larian and BG3 are doing great. Very well deserved.