Funny you mention Fallout 4 as I actually re-purchased it with all the DLC @Bob_Salat for £8. It was a decent enough character creator from what I recall?
But yeah this character creator for Baldur's Gate III is pretty stellar. Especially because of Mass Effect 1's I was just playing with BG III blowing it out the water on the detail department and then some
Well this was certainly an interesting discussion to find myself coming back to @Ravix & @Th3solution!
I didn't think she looked at that grumpy but now I can't unsee it. I HAVE given her a name now though.
Ciara Léanach. Ciara coming from the irish word Ciar for dark and Léanach meaning sorrowful. So... Yeah that sounded pretty good to me
Even though Drow are inclined to be more evil aligned characters (Especially Lolth sworn) I think I'll be playing Ciara more as her curiosity getting the better of her, wanting more and more knowledge given that she's a Warlock who's then pledged herself to a great old one. So she's probably more a neutral character. At least at the moment...
Also here's my guardian's design. Thought it was kinda funny to have them be a duergar/dark dwarf.
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
I've picked up Shadowheart, Astarion, Lae'zel, Gale and Karlach with my team made up of Sh, As and Ka for the time being. I really like being able to go to camp whenever you like though and switching who you have in your party.
At the moment I'm quite liking Shadowheart and I'll admit as soon as I met Karlach I pretty much said the exact same thing as Shadowheart in that I'd be happy to let Karlach hoist me over her shoulder... To protect me of course and carry me to safety
Astarion is just a delight and I love everything about him. I was surprised at how much I liked Gale despite thinking beforehand he might be rather boring.
Lae'Zel is rather prickly so... We'll see how she grows on me but at the moment she is my least favourite.
I haven't really had a chance to properly flex the combat system at the moment. Karlach's story related fight was pretty good though. Got Astarion to use an ice prismatic orb and managed to knock two of them over and got a good few licks in, killing the one before she even got a turn in and managing to frighten Anders myself.
Good stuff so far. Looking forward to playing more!
@HallowMoonshadow Don't write off Lae-zel just yet...! I only kept her in my party originally due to wanting a strong melee fighter, but as her story develops she quickly became one of my favorites. For me, she is up there with Astarian and Gale!
@HallowMoonshadow@CJD87 Lae'zel is really good to have early I'd agree. I think it's almost weighted that way story wise as she is who you encounter first. I quite liked having a party of people being quite prickly at each other at first, too 😅 so I think I ran with Lae, Astarian/Gale and Shadowheart, but after some time that's when we swapped to Karlach to replace as the beasty tank role for the forever party.
I also did everyone's side stories on my one massive playthrough, so there was plenty of time to weigh up who I liked the most as I moved on with the game 😁
Glad you're enjoying it, and as things are only just getting started for you, and you seem plenty invested early, I know you are going to absolutely love what they do with all the companions.
One of those games I'd love to be able to play again from scratch with no prior knowledge. Fingers crossed for some light amnesia 😛
@Ravix In fairness the only companion I really didn't click with was Wyll.... otherwise the rest are all class! Gale was a favorite of mine also, and his storyline is probably one of the best I think
Yeah don't worry I haven't wrote her off @CJD87. I've got a friend telling me me the same thing.
She's my least favourite out of the group so far but I don't dislike her or nothing. She's still interesting and I don't plan on getting rid of her or anything.
I haven't actually met Wyll yet. At least not fully. I saw him prance about in the fight with the Teifling encampment or whatever it is but never actually went inside as I figured that was main story stuff and wanted to look around some more (Which was how I miraculously found Karlach).
Hopefully I'll make some good progress today though!
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@HallowMoonshadow@Ravix How easy is it to mess up getting characters to join your party? It seems like there are some characters that I read a lot about so it would seem they are automatic companions and others who are maybe missable?
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution I mean, if you play games, I doubt you'd really miss them. There is maybe a specific one that is more unique. But if you're looking around anyway, there's quite clearly opportunities presented.
Unless you're The Dark Urge, then you may miss Gale 👋
It's a game best going in as blind as possible though, apart from learning about how the battles work and how to build different classes
@HallowMoonshadow I'll just add on, I think placement wise it is fairly easy to discover all characters if you explore or follow the hints in the game itself, beyond that, you interact with all the characters in this game (companion or otherwise) as if they are real people rather than game characters, and I know you can do that @th3solution so really it's left up to the player themselves how their game goes.
It's hard to describe it, but it really is up to the player themselves to discover.
@Ravix Ah, I see. I was wondering just because a friend said he missed a whole character story arc because he killed or attacked that character early on. He did say it was fine and he didn’t feel like he got a partial experience because of it, so I guess it’s all good.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Have been rather busy the past week and finally made a decent dent into BG III.
Actually explored the Emerald grove. Saved the Tiefling girl from the druids, saved the Tiefling boy from the Harpies, got the contract for the... Nightsong(?) from the mercs, did a bunch of other small things.
Fought the hyena's & Gnolls on the road. That made me rather uncomfortable as I knew of Gnolls but did not know THAT'S how they came about.
Finally got Wyll after I made camp, defused the tension and got him a-ok.
Because I'm a Drow I've got it really easy with the Goblins and wandered into the blighted village without a problem. Persuaded the crap out of the Ogre to become my ally. Fought most of the spiders in the tunnels under the village. Ciara is dying to open that necromancy tome...
Made it to level 4 and just upped everyone's ability scores for now as I couldn't decide on any actual feats and skills.
That's about all the progress I've made so far with 15 or so hours I've put into it. Can't wait to play more
@HallowMoonshadow Reading all of that makes me want to replay the game, which I think I’ll do this weekend. It’s been on my mind a lot, too, as I’ve been playing Dragon Age Veilguard.
I got my ass kicked by those spiders in the beginning. When I do another playthrough I’ll try and think of some better tactics—I kept getting ambushed and poisoned and could never get properly healed or make any headway without getting attacked by more spiders, and unable to move due to the spiderwebs.
I went through the wall in the Blacksmith's and using the web (sending only Karlach over it) I was able to get the two creepy humaoidy spider things to come by themselves and get them before dispatching the two phase spiders as well @Kraven.
Upon scounting ahead and seeing the "Queen" spider down there I ran the other way as I still only level 3 at that point. But now that I'm level 4 I might see if I can do it now.
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
But to cut a long story short act 1 is pretty much all done.
I am in the underdark and have very few things left to do here.
Oh and I romancing Karlach because how could I not after what she does at the camp when she says she likes you. That fist pump she does of having successfully asked you out is too precious. I was very tempted by Shadowheart though.
And admittedly when I met Minthara she was swaying me a little to become evil. I didn't kill her though, I only knocked her out so... I'll be interested to know if she turns up at any point in Act 2 or something.
My party is still Karlach, Shadowheart and Astarion and relationship values with everyone are as such
Karlach & Shadowheart: Exceptional
Lae'zel & Gale: High
Astarion & Wyll: Medium
Oh and I was VERY surprised on Halsin's appearance. All I knew of him was he's a druid with a bear form but did not expect him to be so... Built. I just assumed he'd look like the stereotypical druid so I was quite pleasantly surprised. Seems like quite the nice chap too.
@HallowMoonshadow good to hear of your journeys 😁 I hope you've been going to camp a lot, as that is a good way to advance all companion relationships and interactions to make sure everyone remains engaging, even those not in your party.
Has Astarion provided any... interesting... camp moments yet? 😛 and Gale must be told "no means no" every 10 minutes, at least 😅
When it seems you're out of luck.
There's just one man who gives a f*************ck
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Yeah so I only had 4 long rests for the most of Act 1's map and probably missed out on a tonne of conversations @Ravix
I did go to camp a few times regardless of resting or not so I'm not sure how much I missed but I've been long resting much more frequently now.
I've had Astarion's event revealing his vampirism (Though that was kinda obvious already). I had Wyll come to camp to confront Karlach, I've met Wyll's patron, I've had Shadowheart and Lae'zel try to kill each other. I've had Gale's weave teaching event. I've had the Owlbear cub show up once. I've had dream guardian appear twice.
And okay now I'm nearly done with Act 1. I didn't realise there was a second area for the Underdark... All I gotta do is the forge.
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
Did you let Astarion take a good bite? 😛 I sure did, and then it went on, and on, and on and then uh oh 😂 it led to a surprise trophy though, proving Larian thought of quite a few possibilities.
Ah you've seen quite a lot then, I think. Must have crammed it all in to each rest. I take it you have started doing each companion's "side quests" which can be thought about as their actual main quests tbh, due to the size and quality.
I can't really remember if it's possible to miss stuff like that or not, I just remember being told to rest a lot early on to trigger a bunch of stuff. But they may have patched it long since to make it all happen in a way that doesn't require as many rests.
Did you visit a very pleasant glade with it's very own tea room, by the way?
Ah, I miss the natural discovery in this game, and how things would pop up on the way to other things and usually lead to vast, unexpected quest chains
When it seems you're out of luck.
There's just one man who gives a f*************ck
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Now that I'm over that illness I had back over November/December and not playing Mass Effect 2 I should be back to restarting my save at the VERY beginning of Act 2 after a little palate-cleanser or two from a big RPG~
Of all things though I got hit by that weird 1.8 patch accidental upload that happened two weeks back or whenever and so have had to delete my data and reinstall & redownload it all which is rather annoying
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