I'm glad I didn't go back to the game after the initial early access three years ago. I put 30 hours into it but now the locations just seem a bit familiar rather than been there done that.

I'm gonna try the first one first I think. See if I like it. Then go deep on second given folk say that's an all timer. Then see how I'm feeling about trying the third... suspect I'll be burnt out in the short term, but maybe tempted when it's cheaper in a bit, if I've enjoyed the first two. We'll see...

Kernowgaz wrote:

Jesus, this is some game

You only playing on the Deck Charlie?

Yeah deck only and will be until mac version is released

Minnesänger wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

I'm gonna try the first one first I think. See if I like it. Then go deep on second given folk say that's an all timer. Then see how I'm feeling about trying the third... suspect I'll be burnt out in the short term, but maybe tempted when it's cheaper in a bit, if I've enjoyed the first two. We'll see...

1&2 vastly different games to 3, tbf. Did you spend much, if any, time playing Larian's other stuff? Specifically, Original Sin 2?

Nope, not played that (though I have multiple copies on my pile of shame)... What would you recommend as a good entry point??

Divinity OS 2 is a fantastic game. If you don't like it, apart from being a dick, you most likely won't like BG3.

It's hard to state just how much love I have for the original Baldur's Gate games, but you'd definitely be better off checking out D:OS2 to get a feel for how this will play.

tigersgogrrr wrote:

It's hard to state just how much love I have for the original Baldur's Gate games, but you'd definitely be better off checking out D:OS2 to get a feel for how this will play.

If anyone sees it for a decent sale price please let me know.
It was sub£20 for a while but since the interest in BG3 built they've whacked it back up to full price

I have a VPN, not sure what you mean by an Argentine account?

Fuck that, I don't like hosting guests for a week.

And Nazis. I don't like them either

Wookienopants wrote:

I have a VPN, not sure what you mean by an Argentine account?

Have you bought from any region other than the UK before? I do it all the time, you set an address from Argentina and that’s it. Use a ARG VPN and redeem the code on your Xbox account

All using your phone.

This game pulls absolutely no punches at all. The regular balanced difficulty makes Divinity Original Sin 2 feel like a cakewalk. I'm 11 hours in and have had to reload numerous total party wipes and unsalvageable combat situations. I was using high ground to get an advantage in a fight, and a goblin rushed me and shoved my Player Character off the ledge, into a bottomless pit, to her death.

I've stumbled into fights that have decimated me before I can even act, lost characters to action-surging villains who have battered me to death before I can react, had gangs of Gnolls hit me with triple crits from bow flurries, seen my parter taken to half health to one AoE in the first round of combat, had my own spells reflected back in my face, and dozens of other similarly evil combat scenarios.

Really enjoying it, and the scope of the interactions the game allows is just utterly staggering. It's the closest anyone has got to making a game that feels like it has  DM running it, and all the characters are just brilliantly rendered with great writing and animations. It isn't the kind of game I am really very comfortable with because I find myself overwhelmed by the lateral nature of the game, and feel like quick saving and loading is anithetical to living with the decisions you get, but it's impossible to resist the enthusiasm.

There are a few issues that are proving sticking points - mainly around the short and long rest system feeling at odds with the nature of situations the game puts you in - but it's a concession to rendering the whole rulebook into digital form so I am sure it will pass. Knowing that I am basically in the intro still, givne the breadth of what i've seen, is utterly humbling. God knows what's on the way, all I know is I need some more XP as the game has warned me moving on will be "bitterly difficult" for a party of my level. Given how hard it already is... that's pause for thought.

My current tactic at level 4 is to set up Cloud of Daggers in a choke point, and when they breach it have Gale knock them back through it with Thunderwave. I genuinely cannot survive some fights without the free damage it gives.

I started off in the middle, and knocked it down to the easiest after a few brutal fights. Need to recalibrate my brain, and possibly have a proper think about party load out and main character before putting it back up, or settle for a second play through.

Need pics of your characters, guys.