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What is up with Baldur's Gate 3? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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This is not a criticism - I love how much attention this game has been getting. I'm just not understanding why BG3 has been blowing up so much. It seems like BG3 is getting more attention than all of Larian's previous games combined (and maybe all of Obsidian's recent crpgs as well). Traditionally crpgs have not lit the world on fire in this way. Is it just timing of the release? Is it a combo of Divinity fans and new D&D fans and Baldur's Gate oldheads all being stoked about this release for their own reasons? Or something else?

Note:I have not played it yet myself, just curious what folks think?

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[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Sure, but people were really mad earlier this year because Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns D&D tried to pull some licencing related shenanigans that would have massively fucked over the community. People were boycotting the movie a couple of months ago over that. It's interesting, that Baldurs Gate seems to not be affected by this at all.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Yeah because Twitter is not a real place. The actual D&D community spoke with their wallets and they said "we like a good, finished product without stupid terms of use" and all bought BG3. People who don't even play D&D bought BS3 to play with folks who do play D&D.

[–] Draft@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

[–] oo1@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First you draw an "S" . . .
then you draw a more different "s" . . .

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Consummate vees

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Trogdor ended up being the big bad of my brother-in-law's homebrew campaign that he ran for our family D&D group

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