Friday, August 4th 2023
It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 Available Today on PC
An epic RPG six years in the making and more than twenty years in the waiting, Baldur's Gate 3 is out today on PC via Steam, GOG, and NVIDIA GeForce Now. The game releases at 8am PDT - see the attached map for the release time in your region. Baldur's Gate 3 is a next-generation RPG from the creators of Divinity: Original Sin 2, set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons and providing a level of breadth and depth unprecedented in a modern RPG.
More than twenty years after the release of Baldur's Gate 2, it's finally time to return to the Forgotten Realms. Your choices shape this tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power.
Choose from 12 classes and 11 races from the D&D Player's Handbook and create your own identity, or play as an Origin hero with a hand-crafted background. Or tangle with your inner corruption as the Dark Urge, a fully customisable Origin hero with its own unique mechanics and story. Whoever you choose to be, adventure, loot, battle and romance your way across the Forgotten Realms and beyond.
Gather your party and take the adventure online as a party of up to four. Caught in a conflict between devils, deities, and sinister otherworldly forces, together you will determine the fate of the Forgotten Realms.
On releasing Baldur's Gate 3 after three years in Early Access, Larian Studios director Swen Vincke says:
"It's hard to express how much love went into creating Baldur's Gate 3. For over six years, more than 400 of us poured our hearts and souls into making this, helped by over 2.5 million Early Access players who spent countless hours giving us feedback.
The result is a beautiful, rich universe where you can escape from your daily worries, experience adventure and wonder, and have many many cool and exciting encounters. It's a place where your identity and choices matter, where surprise lies around every corner, and where your agency is truly rewarded.
I'm super proud of what our team accomplished and I hope you will have an incredible amount of fun exploring what we prepared for you."
Baldur's Gate 3 releases on PS5 on September 6, or September 3 for owners of the PS5 Digital Deluxe Edition. A release on Mac is also targeting early September. Additional platform support is TBD.
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Larian Studios
More than twenty years after the release of Baldur's Gate 2, it's finally time to return to the Forgotten Realms. Your choices shape this tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power.
Gather your party and take the adventure online as a party of up to four. Caught in a conflict between devils, deities, and sinister otherworldly forces, together you will determine the fate of the Forgotten Realms.
On releasing Baldur's Gate 3 after three years in Early Access, Larian Studios director Swen Vincke says:
"It's hard to express how much love went into creating Baldur's Gate 3. For over six years, more than 400 of us poured our hearts and souls into making this, helped by over 2.5 million Early Access players who spent countless hours giving us feedback.
The result is a beautiful, rich universe where you can escape from your daily worries, experience adventure and wonder, and have many many cool and exciting encounters. It's a place where your identity and choices matter, where surprise lies around every corner, and where your agency is truly rewarded.
I'm super proud of what our team accomplished and I hope you will have an incredible amount of fun exploring what we prepared for you."
Baldur's Gate 3 releases on PS5 on September 6, or September 3 for owners of the PS5 Digital Deluxe Edition. A release on Mac is also targeting early September. Additional platform support is TBD.
23 Comments on It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 Available Today on PC
Been out 20 hours ago, glad they have finally finished it of been waiting years :).
Spacebar pause can work "fine" if you're early BioWare, not the current BioWare (which to your complaint about the important focus...) everyone else who tries to do it ends up with a half-assed tactical/action attempt that feels like it belongs in the early 90s and doesn't have a reason for existing. Dragon Age 1 was the last good spacebar pause interface I played.
Im glad larian sticking to thier core strenths - you can see that in the popularity of games like Pathfinder/ Pillars - when you try to clone something you're not that great at, the games are meh. If the last pathfinder came out using the BG3 combat system I would 100% replay that game.
We're talking about Baldur's gate follow-up here, not Divinity Original Sin. You're actually proving my point that this game is a followup of DOS1 and 2. I don't have anything against people enjoying this "tactical" combat system. However, that is not what BG was loved for, so there's no reason to denaturate the game. Make a DOS 3, call a cow a cow, and if you're going to make a BG3, make it the way we like it.
Also Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance was a full ARPG and was more successful than the original BGs -- just because an IP got released on one mechanic doesn't mean it's tied to that forever.
This is your take, and it's not a very good one.
Furthermore, you're still missing the point of a serie. Let's make every shooter license a Call of duty X, every hack and slash a Diablo X, but why stop there. Let's make every action movie a Transformers X or Mission Impossible X, since that's what sells. You don't understand the concept of making "a follow-up".
You seem to think that a "follow up" has to be exactly the same as the original, which isn't even an argument -- it's never been true. Your argument is "it's not a TRUE follow up if it's not exactly the same as BG1 and BG2 using exactly the same mechanics" (ignore all the other Baldur's gate games and content here please otherwise your argument really falls apart).
Can't wait to listen to the new Lizzo-inspired Metallica album, it's going to be a blast!
The same goes for movies. How many movies made today do not use sound? How many movies are made in black and white? Sure there are camera tricks that are still used today just like some game mechanics. But this evolves over time and there is a reason Laryan was chosen to make BG3, and that is because of the success and money that was made in DOS. Why would they change that formula?
The fans of the original will always be like "You should call this something else because this is not the meaning I associate with this name" and they have a point - they were the first fans and their definition of the game existed first, so I get it. Gamer Appropriation.
A much more accurate representation would be movies in the 90s using real props and sets VS modern movies using all green screen and CGI.New Vegas was made by the team that made 1 and 2, 3 survived on just the novelty of being 3d.