I am fifty hours into Baldur's Gate 3 and I have only now reached the third act. And I'm only doing some of the side quests!
@andrew I suspect I'm going to pick it up. I was waiting to see where it landed with the Steam Deck. What platform are you playing it on?
@andrew This is a fantastic year for us folks who like relaxing single player games. Between Baldur's Gate and Starfield I don't need anything else for months!
@andrew How do you like the writing – the story, the dialogues? I would love to play a nice RPG, but the writing seems really formulaic and the voice acting bad. Is it something you accept in the genre, get used to, or do you simply like it?
@andrew my only genuine question right now is: how can people find 50 hours to play? 😅 I struggle to find 2-3 hours per week in total (that's why I mostly play platformers and easier stuff)
@andrew same here, not even started third act yet... It’s fairly impressive, good depth to the story, not just huge and repetitive. I’m curious and looking forward to see how replayable it is from other character POVs. At this rate that might be a long way off before I finish even the first play through, though. 😅
@andreagrandi It's been 50 hours over the last four weeks, so that divides down a lot more easily. I'm playing it 3-4 hours at a time.
@zoul I think the writing and voice acting is actually quite good compared to its peers - sure, it leans a lot into classic tropes, but it's also somehow entirely voiced, even for all the things most people won't do (speak to animals! speak to the dead! slowly persuade a boss to kill themselves rather than fighting! etc.)
@webology @andrew as long as you make sure the steamdeck is close to a power outlet and are okay turning down graphics a bit (which doesn’t hurt the game at all IMHO) the Deck is a pretty good experience.
Controls were ported in a way they make sense for a game like BG3. But on battery - I think I got like 80-90 minutes playtime in before the battery was drained, no matter the optimization I tried.
@fallenhitokiri @andrew Thank you for this info.
I'm sure it's not just me, but I'm feeling a bit of multi-system fatigue where it'd be nice to pay a bit more for a game and know I can play it on more than just the Steam Deck or whatever platform...
Maybe that's what Steam is for PCs and the Steam Deck. I just know we prefer playing on the Switch 90% of the time which already limits our options.
@webology @fallenhitokiri Yes, this is already the case for me between my PC, the Steam Deck, and GeForce Now - it's just that the Switch is sort of off in a corner doing its own thing.