My husband and I are on our first play though. We bought it the day it went on sale. We play.. a lot. and just entered act 3. and I still keep seeing things we missed. I don't care if it takes a year. we are doing the play through. LOL
To anyone who says that you should just go through the game just to beat it, bg3 is one of those rare games where it's all about the journey, not the destination. The story is pretty good, but it's not the most mind blowing plot of all time. What makes this game such a masterpiece is pretty much everything else, the world, the people, the side stories, etc. Of you rush through the plot and do nothing else, bg3 might just feel like a 7/10 game. It's the journey that makes it break the scale
I think you're taking time, and in some cases life, a bit too seriously. Most of us understand our time is limited, but if you really enjoy something, it's far from a waste of our time. I took over 6 months off from BG3 after getting to Act 3 in a couple playthroughs, and when my friend and I FINALLY finished our Lolth-Drow twins playthrough this month, it felt just as magical as when we were first experiencing the game in Act 1. Don't limit yourself, especially if gaming is something you and your significant other truly enjoy.
Yea I probably think and worry about time too much tbh I'm near act 3 so it would be a shame to just never finish it, maybe I'll come back to it one day! Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
I have had to start again recently because I didn’t play for months and I’ve fallen in love again , I totally agree you can’t just sit down for an hour , I just lose whole nights playing
agree with you that this game is a time bandit. I've played BG 1 and 2 decades ago and this game is so involved. Just playing it for an hour , I feel like ive done nothing. Sometimes I have to repeat the battles and it's so discouraging to put that much time in, only to be killed off. I want to still complete it but at this rate, this game will take me years. Can you imagine how long it took to develop this game with all it's options? Amazing.
Haha yea I agree, 1 hour is never enough it just feels like your getting started. And it's true the developers dome am amazing job with this game! Thanks for watching 😀
You can save in middle of battles but yeah, we have blackouts in Ukraine and when I have like 3-4 hours of electricity per day it sometimes feels like getting into game, shufing some items in chest and around companions and trying a few dyes and that's it, lights off. I just quick save a lot. 160 hours in going through lower city, haven't skipped any sidequests.
I had time problems just like you and now I overcame the time problems but this time I don't feel mentally ready to play the game for hours, the funny part is that act 3 is almost a quarter of the way through. When you're depressed you can't make up your mind and unfortunately I'm depressed.
Dude, I have the same "problems" with BG3. I bought it right after the release, but since I don't really have time (wife, kids, and whatnot), I’ve managed to put around 60 hours into it in total as of today. So yeah, I'm nowhere near the ending yet. Not to mention that I really tend to take my time with these things-preparation, strategy, story choices-all have to be thought through meticulously. So I just take my time. It'll probably be a decade at this rate, but I'm in no rush. I knew it’d be a slow burner anyway (I've played BG2 for almost a decade too). It's like a good book. I pick it up every now and then and continue with the story. So this is my advice to you: start fresh and solo, and just ease into it. Whenever you feel like it, progress the story a little. I have so many weird and great memories already with this game, and like I said, I’ve kinda only scratched the surface.
Thanks for the advice 😃 I think that's the best way, clearly the coop isn't working and I've heard that most coop campaigns never finish anyway. I need to wait a bit until I feel okay with replaying the 75hrs I've already done and then start a new solo campaign and just take it easy with no pressure
This is very true. I sometimes return to shorter games like Portal, Mafia 1 (the old and superior one ;) ) or CoD 4 SP campaign comes to mind, where you can play through the whole game (or a significant part of it) in one afternoon/weekend and have one short escapist experience.
Oh yea some of the old CoD campaigns are good to go back to. I played the modern warfare 2 remastered campaign when it came out and it was a good change of pace from the other bigger games I was playing. Easy to dip into and completed over a few days of playtime
It's not a task, if this game is still giving you new, novel experiences and a satisfying sense of progression and immersion, why do you want a deadline on it? Play it for 5 years once a week for all it matters. It's strange to me that you put a deadline on it yourself, then complain that you wont meet that deadline. It's literally leisure activity like playing a sport. If you enjoy it, why do you have to move on to something else? Make another save with a different character for non-coop. Just play it more shallow and go with the flow of it. Like the idea that 'it feels like I'm drowning in the game', just take it less intensely. Why if you just play it for an hour, would you not start a quest?! Just start a quest and stop an hour after and come back to continue it. I'm really confused. Literally nothing you said here has anything to do with the game, and 100% has something to do with your own chosen attitude toward doing a leisure activity.
Thanks for listening to my take. What you say is true this video is more of a subjective view of the game and maybe even of gaming as a hobby for me in general. This is not an objective critique of the game, that already exists on youtube so wanted to do something new. I guess you're right this is about my attitude towards the game and gaming in general rather than objective critiques about BG3 specifically that apply to everyone. Why was I struggling to play BG3 when I knew it was objectively one of the best games out there? Thats the question that was playing in my mind and I tried to answer in this video and I guess maybe part of the answer is to do with my mindset and attitude towards gaming at the moment
@@letschatgaming oh, I get you! yea it makes sense. I'm interested in hearing those takes too, but I suppose for me it seems like something that can be amended with a change in approach. If someone who's job was to review Baldur's Gate, I could really understand it. Or even if gaming was partially related to your work, then I can really see it. I suppose there is that feeling like a game's purpose is fundamentally to 'complete it', it's like a unwritten rule of playing a game, that the point of it is to start when you see the start screen and reach the end credits. So I think I do get it. It doesn't exactly present it's self as an endless sandbox, like Kenshi or something.
I quit on my thirst playthrough… There was so much content that my little brain couldn’t handle it 😅 After 6 month or so I began a new playthrough bcs I did not enjoy my thirst account anymore.. there was such to many things I’ve missed and so yeah.. I’m now 430 hours in to the game and I love it!
Oh my, atm i'm doing my 2 run, I took 250H to do the first, because I really need do "everthing". But I can sometimes play all day, I know its a bit crazy when u are a 48y man. btw, is all about how much times you can expend, and this game can eat all freetime and still have something new to be discovery...
Oh wow 250h that's crazy, yea there is so much to do and see, it feels like there's so many different ways to experience the game that it's replayability is basically endless! Thanks for watching 😁
@@letschatgaming I played it a lot in early Access and after it was released. Together with my 16 year old son recently started a new Game. And it is totally worth it. I am also in a heroic playthrough. Just before grimforge. This Mode ist intense.
Nice, I started early access but thought I'd save it for the full release after learning that I couldn't carry over my save. Ohhh that must be a fun bonding experience playing it with your son. It's so good that this game has co-op and split screen
It is great. Much fun. Of course it helps that my childs all are older so there ist plenty of time to play in the evening. We have already finished one playthrough together last year, and He wanted to start another one two weeks ago.
For me I had to stop because the difficulty curve from acts 1&2 to act 3 was very steep. In acts 1&2 it felt like there were ways of getting around the hardest battles, or cool ways of beating them in a less difficult way. In act 3 it seems like you need to have completely mastered the combat in order to progress any of the main missions
Yes there are many tv series that i really want to watch but probably never will now because the "watch with partner" just doesn't happen (but boy if I'm not available its often all watched at once), to the extent i honestly have trouble watching anything anymore. Sad truth is if you actually want to watch, or play, putting the "only together" on it is just shooting yourself in the foot.
Yep. I kept putting it down because the fighting was so tedious, and such a steep learning curve with all the spells, what works, what doesn't & with your team moves of 2 steps each during a battle, lol. Then in that fight, getting trounced against 12 enemies, then having to re-strategize, or figure out what works online and do it over again. Ugh. I like some challenge, but, the best mod for this annoyance is the ring of movment & health. Move further & get a health buff. You can always pull out the mod later, but it's been much more enjoyable this way. Gotta a real life outside plus how many other 1/2 finished games in the library!
Yea lol sometimes it's handy to just get a couple of cheats and breeze throguh a game if there's loads of other stuff going on and loads of unfinished games, especially if your mainly there for the story!
Bit late for a comment but I also did some long pauses, like weeks between gaming sessions. But I somewhere read that I should treat it like real D&D gaming sessions, which aren't regular, and take a lot of time. As I thought of it like that, I really enjoyed playing it. Everything just comes back to mind, when you quickly read through the questlog, or hear the music, just perfect. When you have the time to jump in again for three or four (or more...) hours, just do it. It really deserves to not be on the pile of shame. :)
Completely agree with the time issue and the depth. I’m only ten hours in, and already wondering whether I’ll ever finish it. I’m really enjoying it so far, but at the rate I’m playing it it’ll take me a year. Having a young family prevents me from playing computer games as often as I’d like!
It actually took me almost 1 year on tactician haha. Started on the first day of release, finished just tonight. I'm a completionist hobo so I've done every quest, checked every crate and talked to every npc lol, and I also don't game everyday, so there's that
I am on my third full playthrough, and every time I play this game with a different character it feels dufferent, I think differently about how I build my characters. I believe Larian designed it with many playthroughs in mind. I have been playing sonce early access and am still engrossed in it. I love this game. Hope you get around to finishing it, the end game is def worth it, espescially once you learn how to synergize all your equipment.
What's putting me off the game at the moment is the FOMO aspect of it. There are so many choices to make - but some confer obvious advantages and disadvantages... with the most advantages often confered by doing something against your characters nature... and the moral grey areas of some of these choices make it much more difficult... Not to mention some characters just can't be saved without roleplaying in a way that you don't want to... You find yourself constantly questioning if a choice was correct... I neglected Astarion for much of my run because I was playing a rogue myself - but I kept him in my camp for much of the adventure for his dialogue options and because aspects of his story were interesting... Only to find that I had an impossible choice to make at the end that would have made him totally evil and drunk with power, or else good but weaker and I either had to unleash another horror on the world or kill a bunch of innocents myself... None of which really felt like the right choice... and given a few spoilers I've seen on the latter part of the game this is a trend that continues... you have to sacrifice someone or something no matter what.
Difficult choices where there's no perfectly good option were a thing since first Mass Effect but in Baldur's Gate 3, GENERALLY, playing goodie two shoes gives the best rewards, maybe until every end, but by the time you're level 10 you're so broken and overpowered (best mage and warlock gear is in act 2, some of best heavy armors are from Grymforge in act 1) you don't NEED another buff for Astarion or Gale who destroy everything anyway.
@RG-Zeldaplayer Ah yes I also don't want to miss anything so I'm always checking everywhere and talking to everyone just to make sure there's not a quest I'm missing. Makes it take longer. And I'm also thinking realistically if I'm only going to play through once, then how can I do as much as possible in one playthrough. Even if I do that there will be things I've missed because of the variations in choices. I would like to do an evil playthrough one day, just to see what Larian studios has in store for me. Thanks for watching!!
I had the issue of not finishing BG3 for the longest time. Then again I also had a huge back catalog of games that were almost completed but never got around to them. When BG3 was released I was obsessed with it and was playing an unhealthy amount. Eventually, returned and just took my time playing an hour or so here and there. Watching some You tube vids to help me remember the story so far. When I finally finished BG3 it gave me that same feeling of satisfaction and joy that I experienced from playing Dragon Age origins. As others have said the main story line itself is pretty basic but best part of this game imo has to be the gameplay and companions. There are so many different builds you can do to role play pretty much any fantasy character you can think of. The wide range of companions of different backgrounds and not to mention the stellar voice work done by the actors/actresses. Pardon, the rant but this game is definitely worth it if you enjoy fantasy games such Dragon age origins or Divinity original sin 2. Just take your time and don't feel the need to do every single thing. You can also look up guides that are spoiler free that heavily hint which missions are essential.
I loved divinity original sin 2 and completed that during the covid lockdowns. And I have games in my backlog too that I've started and want to complete but haven't yet, like kingdom come deliverance. I want to complete that before the 2nd one is released.. I feel I will come back to BG3 eventually for sure, just because of how good it is. Like you said its so deep and there's so many possibilities! Thanks for watching matey 😁
i finished this game one year ago when released, and i m trying to finish for the second time. I think this game like skyrim. You can play everytime and you don't get bored.
when I crossed 100 hours and barely got to act 3, I was just simply overwhelmed. I feel like this game shouldn't be rushed but at the same time, an hour a day, you won't be able to do anything. Sometimes just the management of inventory and conversations around the camp takes an hour. Ill go back to it one day but for now, I don't have the patience.
i played three playthroughs. 1. Normal mode Solo 2. Tactician solo and 3. Honour mode Speed run. I've played a few co-ops but those never finish. The beauty of this game is like chess. you can comeback years after fire up the save ffile saved on steam....and boom you back at it when you get time. I'm trying to do an honour mode Divinity Original Sin 2 and it's tough with other games and priorities now. So i'll just wait and jump in that save to try to beat it finally.
Wow thats alot of playthroughs! Yea im finding it hard to finish the co-op one as my proper playthrough maybe that was my main mistake. Maybe one day I'll start a new solo one and finally bang it out lol thanks for watching 😀
This game took me like 7 months to complete with as much side quests as I could possibly do and 250+ hours. I highly recommend trying to finish! Even if its an hour or two a week. For me, it was like a TV show that I returned to every week
@markadair7338 wow 250 hours 😲 that's crazy. I'm in act 2 at 75 hours. Yea if I treat it like a TV show that would help. I think I will complete it in my life at some point cause I want to see the actual city in act 3
This made sense. The logic behind your reasons make sense. It's a very time consuming, expansive, demanding and overall, brilliant game that doesn't just suck you in for the main story, but for everything else more than anything. Those who claim that doing just the main story is enough don't understand why everyone takes so long to finish it. I'm one of those people that managed to finish the game after spending 430 hours on it because I absolutely refused to finish the game without doing everything that I thought I needed to do, even if it had absolutely 0 consequences by the end of it. It's not one game you speedrun and wow it's over you can do something else, no. It's a game where there's so many different ways to play it and around its mechanics that you HAVE to play it thoroughly even if your playstyle doesn't change from one playthrough to another, and even if it is very possible to allocate time to play a that is so expansive, it'd still require a lot of time to get to play still in the end. There's too much to learn and too much to explore to just simply skim through all of it. Thus, I find this video very intriguing and extremely relatable for those who have day jobs or other circumstances and unlike me, don't have the whole time of day to play a game like that everyday. Especially when I know there are certain areas that are very time consuming if you don't know the work arounds.
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you can relate! Yea it's aimed at people with kids or day jobs or both, that's when its harder to finish such an expansive game like this 😀
I agree with a lot of your points. Sessions feel like full-on D&D sessions, which are quite long. I'm a fan of the Final Fantasy series, so I thought it would be quite similar. FF is grindy at times, but it is quicker-paced. What got me was the amount of missables. I feel awful if I can't go back and obtain an item that is vital for my builds. I didn't even get to the MR invasion on my first playthrough because of how many items I had missed in the previous acts.
If you're on PC, just cheat. Add the item via console. And keep many hard savegames in case you want to go back to see a cutscene you missed (I skipped past Elfsong on entering Lower city and when I finally got there detective was gone).
@erichohnke706 Ah yes there's so many things you can miss and I guess Larian achieved their goal if each playthrough does feel like a full on dnd session, but it does mean it can take ages to complete. I haven't played much dnd but I assume its rare to casually sit and play just for an hour, similar to this game. I've played magic the gathering before and that's always a whole deal of setup and mental prep before you even play. Thanks for watching mate 👍
for how much this game costed, the amount of content and hours is worth it. the problem is people are so used to paying $60-70 for games that take 5 minutes to finish that y'all can't appreciate a game that is full of content.
I bought the game the other day. But, now I want to wait for Patch 7. I'll play it on the easiest settings and with, hopefully, decent cheat mods. I'll look for a poly romance mod, inventory limit raising mod, party number raising mod, and essentially a God mode. I'm in it for the adventure, not the challenge, lots of saves, etc. co-op,unless you are conjoined twins, I don't think how it's really possible.
Why wait? Also only limit in inventory is weight, just drink elixir of Hill giant strength. Hag sells a lot and refreshes inventory. Also it's pretty easy on Balanced especially if you increas party size and cheat in other means tho beginning is harder than everything later.
@@KasumiRINA You are right. Maybe I am a little intimidated by the game. I'll prepare to do it, and record it for my page. It will be my first my providing commentary during a game. Not sure anyone wants to see my face though, maybe in a tiny window. Have to figure the tech details. Thanks for the encouragement. It probably looks great in 4k.
Yep. I kept putting it down because the fighting was so tedious, with your team moves of 2 steps each, lol, & getting trounced in a battle against 12 enemies, then having to re-strategize, or figure out what works online and do it over again. Ugh. I like some challenge, but, the best mod for this annoyance is the ring of movment & health. Move further & get a health buff. You can always pull out the mod later, but it's been much more enjoyable this way. Gotta a real life outside plus how many other 1/2 finished games in the library!
Only 75 hours? Those are rookie numbers Far as time to play goes... Play a couple hours a week. There's no rush to finish. And I really don't get the notion that you can't play it solo.
I started the talos principle 2 last night which was pretty cool, and played a few games of insurgency sandstorm too over the weekend. I did play a couple of quests of kingdom come too recently but I haven't managed to get back into the flow of that yet. I want to complete it before the 2nd one comes out but can't seem to get back into it after a long break
trying to do everything in a first playthrough is in my opinion absolutely impossible, except someone is metagaming a lot. I'd still say. play the game like a dnd campaign. blind. no safe scumming, no metagaming, no guides. and you'd see your first playhthrough is not that long as you think. then play something else and if you think ok, now I wanna play another campaign, you can play it differently. and maybe see more stuff the next time. You can have several playthroughs of this game without burning out on it.
Yea I think thats one of my main problems, I'm playing my campaign like I only have one chance to do a much as possible because after this playthrough I'm probably never going to play through a whole campaign again. That means guides, researching decisions to see which is best rather than just doing whatever I feel or whatever I want to roleplay. I guess it applies pressure if I limit myself to saying 'this is my one and only bg3 playthrough so I have to make it count and do everything' 😀 Thanks for watching!
That's a good way to split it out and make it more manageable and approachable. I liked the mass effect games although I haven't played mass effect 1. I want to play through the legendary trilogy at some point! Thanks for watching and commenting 😃
Honestly took me like 60 70 hours to finish everything in the game you can just spend 1 hour every few days or every week or if you are on vacation it's not that big of a deal also the game values your time with a very high quality gaming experience
lol whata heck ur on about just act 1 alone tooke me easily more than 70h and playing the game just once u havnt seen half od the game simply playing 1 good one evil playthough alrerady makes 2 complete different games and the les thourough u wher in ur first playthrough the better every following one will be
You're not meant to see everything in baulders gate 3 or divinity 2. You're meant to just play enjoy what you see and when you come back in 5 years or so to play again you pick it up and do a different run knowing you want to do a different character or a good or evil run and just go "shit that didn't happen last time" enjoy those moments, stop trying to be a commpletionist you're actually ruining it for yourself not because you'll see everything at once but because you're now overwhelmed with what you "have" to see instead of naturally discovering.
This is exactly it, I think its just how my brain works and not sure if I can change it but it is like it's putting all these rules and limitations, like I need to do this before I go here, or I have to make sure I research this decision to make sure this playthrough has the best outcome and that's what makes it overwhelming, rather than just doing whatever the hell I feel like and going with the flow and accepting that I will have to play it multiple times to experience everything
Sure it is. You just play an hour a day or every other day like I do. RDR2 took me a year to beat. Just how it goes. I'm 70 hours or more in and only just left Act 1. Been playing since release. So I'm way behind still
Work too live don't live to work. you can make the time to spend once or twice a week like a real D&D group. You can save at any point in the game. lightn up.
I dont get it what you say is dumb if go about time god just go slowly you dont need beat game in few days go bit by bit its great when game dont end fast you can enjoy game very long
You absolutely nailed it. BG3 was sooo expansive that, by the time I got to the Elder Brain confrontation at the end, instead of playing it through I just told Gale to use his atomic bomb to blow himself up so I could get the game over with. I was soo checked out at that point. And yet, every quest I did was engaging, made sense to my roleplay, and I have nothing but good things to say about the game.
Creating this kind of video and answering to random comments are certainly not the best way to spend your "so precious" time. I like content, but this video is not about content on RUclips or Baldur's Gate 3, it's about someone getting older, trying to convinced himself that he is an adult by talking alone in front of a camera. It's like a therapy but you are not paying someone to listen to your problems. Also, someone telling you "normal people with a life" cannot play it, that's not true. It's simply a projection of himself.
Lol it did feel like that while making this. It took hours to edit and write the script and I was thinking I could have completed BG3 twice by now haha but I'm glad I did cause the alogrithm seems to like this one better than my other vids tbh. If in the end I have a successful youtube channel to me that would be better time spent and if I dont maybe I would have wasted my time. But to me its worth the risk. I guess writing your thoughts and expressing them out there to the world in video format is always a kind of therapy. Tbh this channel is early days and I think my content is focused on me and my personality and my journey or opinion on gaming in general and maybe it is therapy for me who knows, rather than just me sharing information and facts about a specific game. I think thats the direction my channel is going anyway but again it's still early days so it could morph into something else eventually. Thanks for watching matey 👍
Do you need a reason? 😂 there’s like 50 games in my steam account that I have like 50 hours in and I love them but will never fukn finish them… But… that’s probably because I have 1900 hours in bg3 and am still playing it…
!!! 3 hours a week? You don't have time to play video games. I play minimum 3 hours a DAY. Replying... I am playing 5 different runs at the moment. Including one HM. Oh, and obvious one...Stop making RUclips videos, go play BG3 instead. Much more rewarding.
My husband and I are on our first play though. We bought it the day it went on sale. We play.. a lot. and just entered act 3. and I still keep seeing things we missed. I don't care if it takes a year. we are doing the play through. LOL
Lol well good luck, hope you enjoy act 3! Thanks for watching 😀
Same. I am 150 hours in and just working on Act 3 (200 hours in overall) on my first playthrough.
To anyone who says that you should just go through the game just to beat it, bg3 is one of those rare games where it's all about the journey, not the destination. The story is pretty good, but it's not the most mind blowing plot of all time. What makes this game such a masterpiece is pretty much everything else, the world, the people, the side stories, etc. Of you rush through the plot and do nothing else, bg3 might just feel like a 7/10 game. It's the journey that makes it break the scale
Well said, it would feel silly to miss all the great stuff even if it isn't part of the main story, thanks for watching 😀
i ended up making like 4 different saves because i didnt want to reach the end and get spoiled if i made the right choices
Ive played the whole game and it's a 5/10. Theres so much wrong with the game if you stop being dazzled by the shiny graphics and combat.
Larian created a masterpiece and destroyed player's social life.
Finishing this game as an adult with a job is very demanding, lol
lol yea definitely!
I will have to agree with you. Especially if you work 3rd shift.
My problem is i make characters and
As soon as i see a character that looks better then mine or i see a cool build on yt i start over😭
I think you're taking time, and in some cases life, a bit too seriously. Most of us understand our time is limited, but if you really enjoy something, it's far from a waste of our time. I took over 6 months off from BG3 after getting to Act 3 in a couple playthroughs, and when my friend and I FINALLY finished our Lolth-Drow twins playthrough this month, it felt just as magical as when we were first experiencing the game in Act 1.
Don't limit yourself, especially if gaming is something you and your significant other truly enjoy.
Yea I probably think and worry about time too much tbh I'm near act 3 so it would be a shame to just never finish it, maybe I'll come back to it one day! Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
I have had to start again recently because I didn’t play for months and I’ve fallen in love again , I totally agree you can’t just sit down for an hour , I just lose whole nights playing
Ah yea once you get into it it's hard to stop! Thanks for watching 😁
@@letschatgaming no problem , I was surprised you don’t have more followers tbh , the video was very well made
Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for subscribing 👍
agree with you that this game is a time bandit. I've played BG 1 and 2 decades ago and this game is so involved. Just playing it for an hour , I feel like ive done nothing. Sometimes I have to repeat the battles and it's so discouraging to put that much time in, only to be killed off. I want to still complete it but at this rate, this game will take me years. Can you imagine how long it took to develop this game with all it's options? Amazing.
Haha yea I agree, 1 hour is never enough it just feels like your getting started. And it's true the developers dome am amazing job with this game! Thanks for watching 😀
You can save in middle of battles but yeah, we have blackouts in Ukraine and when I have like 3-4 hours of electricity per day it sometimes feels like getting into game, shufing some items in chest and around companions and trying a few dyes and that's it, lights off.
I just quick save a lot. 160 hours in going through lower city, haven't skipped any sidequests.
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I had time problems just like you and now I overcame the time problems but this time I don't feel mentally ready to play the game for hours, the funny part is that act 3 is almost a quarter of the way through. When you're depressed you can't make up your mind and unfortunately I'm depressed.
Dude, I have the same "problems" with BG3. I bought it right after the release, but since I don't really have time (wife, kids, and whatnot), I’ve managed to put around 60 hours into it in total as of today. So yeah, I'm nowhere near the ending yet. Not to mention that I really tend to take my time with these things-preparation, strategy, story choices-all have to be thought through meticulously. So I just take my time. It'll probably be a decade at this rate, but I'm in no rush. I knew it’d be a slow burner anyway (I've played BG2 for almost a decade too). It's like a good book. I pick it up every now and then and continue with the story. So this is my advice to you: start fresh and solo, and just ease into it. Whenever you feel like it, progress the story a little. I have so many weird and great memories already with this game, and like I said, I’ve kinda only scratched the surface.
Thanks for the advice 😃 I think that's the best way, clearly the coop isn't working and I've heard that most coop campaigns never finish anyway. I need to wait a bit until I feel okay with replaying the 75hrs I've already done and then start a new solo campaign and just take it easy with no pressure
This is very true. I sometimes return to shorter games like Portal, Mafia 1 (the old and superior one ;) ) or CoD 4 SP campaign comes to mind, where you can play through the whole game (or a significant part of it) in one afternoon/weekend and have one short escapist experience.
Oh yea some of the old CoD campaigns are good to go back to. I played the modern warfare 2 remastered campaign when it came out and it was a good change of pace from the other bigger games I was playing. Easy to dip into and completed over a few days of playtime
It's not a task, if this game is still giving you new, novel experiences and a satisfying sense of progression and immersion, why do you want a deadline on it? Play it for 5 years once a week for all it matters. It's strange to me that you put a deadline on it yourself, then complain that you wont meet that deadline. It's literally leisure activity like playing a sport. If you enjoy it, why do you have to move on to something else?
Make another save with a different character for non-coop.
Just play it more shallow and go with the flow of it. Like the idea that 'it feels like I'm drowning in the game', just take it less intensely. Why if you just play it for an hour, would you not start a quest?! Just start a quest and stop an hour after and come back to continue it.
I'm really confused. Literally nothing you said here has anything to do with the game, and 100% has something to do with your own chosen attitude toward doing a leisure activity.
Thanks for listening to my take. What you say is true this video is more of a subjective view of the game and maybe even of gaming as a hobby for me in general. This is not an objective critique of the game, that already exists on youtube so wanted to do something new. I guess you're right this is about my attitude towards the game and gaming in general rather than objective critiques about BG3 specifically that apply to everyone. Why was I struggling to play BG3 when I knew it was objectively one of the best games out there? Thats the question that was playing in my mind and I tried to answer in this video and I guess maybe part of the answer is to do with my mindset and attitude towards gaming at the moment
@@letschatgaming oh, I get you! yea it makes sense. I'm interested in hearing those takes too, but I suppose for me it seems like something that can be amended with a change in approach. If someone who's job was to review Baldur's Gate, I could really understand it. Or even if gaming was partially related to your work, then I can really see it.
I suppose there is that feeling like a game's purpose is fundamentally to 'complete it', it's like a unwritten rule of playing a game, that the point of it is to start when you see the start screen and reach the end credits. So I think I do get it. It doesn't exactly present it's self as an endless sandbox, like Kenshi or something.
I quit on my thirst playthrough… There was so much content that my little brain couldn’t handle it 😅
After 6 month or so I began a new playthrough bcs I did not enjoy my thirst account anymore.. there was such to many things I’ve missed and so yeah.. I’m now 430 hours in to the game and I love it!
Oh my, atm i'm doing my 2 run, I took 250H to do the first, because I really need do "everthing". But I can sometimes play all day, I know its a bit crazy when u are a 48y man. btw, is all about how much times you can expend, and this game can eat all freetime and still have something new to be discovery...
Oh wow 250h that's crazy, yea there is so much to do and see, it feels like there's so many different ways to experience the game that it's replayability is basically endless! Thanks for watching 😁
You should Not Quit.
This Game is a gem and worth to bei played.
Ah I know, maybe one day I'll find the time! Thanks for watching the vid 👍
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I played it a lot in early Access and after it was released.
Together with my 16 year old son recently started a new Game. And it is totally worth it.
I am also in a heroic playthrough. Just before grimforge. This Mode ist intense.
Nice, I started early access but thought I'd save it for the full release after learning that I couldn't carry over my save.
Ohhh that must be a fun bonding experience playing it with your son. It's so good that this game has co-op and split screen
It is great.
Much fun. Of course it helps that my childs all are older so there ist plenty of time to play in the evening.
We have already finished one playthrough together last year, and He wanted to start another one two weeks ago.
Ah yea would be easier with them a bit older. Oh wow a second playthrough, hope you enjoy 😀
For me I had to stop because the difficulty curve from acts 1&2 to act 3 was very steep. In acts 1&2 it felt like there were ways of getting around the hardest battles, or cool ways of beating them in a less difficult way. In act 3 it seems like you need to have completely mastered the combat in order to progress any of the main missions
i quit because of shars gauntlet sooo frustrating!
You can skip it. YT it. So easy, just need the Knock spell
Yes there are many tv series that i really want to watch but probably never will now because the "watch with partner" just doesn't happen (but boy if I'm not available its often all watched at once), to the extent i honestly have trouble watching anything anymore. Sad truth is if you actually want to watch, or play, putting the "only together" on it is just shooting yourself in the foot.
Yep. I kept putting it down because the fighting was so tedious, and such a steep learning curve with all the spells, what works, what doesn't & with your team moves of 2 steps each during a battle, lol. Then in that fight, getting trounced against 12 enemies, then having to re-strategize, or figure out what works online and do it over again. Ugh. I like some challenge, but, the best mod for this annoyance is the ring of movment & health. Move further & get a health buff. You can always pull out the mod later, but it's been much more enjoyable this way. Gotta a real life outside plus how many other 1/2 finished games in the library!
Yea lol sometimes it's handy to just get a couple of cheats and breeze throguh a game if there's loads of other stuff going on and loads of unfinished games, especially if your mainly there for the story!
Bit late for a comment but I also did some long pauses, like weeks between gaming sessions. But I somewhere read that I should treat it like real D&D gaming sessions, which aren't regular, and take a lot of time. As I thought of it like that, I really enjoyed playing it. Everything just comes back to mind, when you quickly read through the questlog, or hear the music, just perfect. When you have the time to jump in again for three or four (or more...) hours, just do it. It really deserves to not be on the pile of shame. :)
Completely agree with the time issue and the depth. I’m only ten hours in, and already wondering whether I’ll ever finish it. I’m really enjoying it so far, but at the rate I’m playing it it’ll take me a year. Having a young family prevents me from playing computer games as often as I’d like!
Ah yea I can imagine with a young family this would be hard to get into, can't really dip into easily for a quick session 😁 thanks for watching mate!
It actually took me almost 1 year on tactician haha. Started on the first day of release, finished just tonight. I'm a completionist hobo so I've done every quest, checked every crate and talked to every npc lol, and I also don't game everyday, so there's that
I am on my third full playthrough, and every time I play this game with a different character it feels dufferent, I think differently about how I build my characters. I believe Larian designed it with many playthroughs in mind. I have been playing sonce early access and am still engrossed in it. I love this game. Hope you get around to finishing it, the end game is def worth it, espescially once you learn how to synergize all your equipment.
It's a game you take your time with. You can't rush it.
What's putting me off the game at the moment is the FOMO aspect of it. There are so many choices to make - but some confer obvious advantages and disadvantages... with the most advantages often confered by doing something against your characters nature... and the moral grey areas of some of these choices make it much more difficult... Not to mention some characters just can't be saved without roleplaying in a way that you don't want to... You find yourself constantly questioning if a choice was correct...
I neglected Astarion for much of my run because I was playing a rogue myself - but I kept him in my camp for much of the adventure for his dialogue options and because aspects of his story were interesting... Only to find that I had an impossible choice to make at the end that would have made him totally evil and drunk with power, or else good but weaker and I either had to unleash another horror on the world or kill a bunch of innocents myself... None of which really felt like the right choice... and given a few spoilers I've seen on the latter part of the game this is a trend that continues... you have to sacrifice someone or something no matter what.
Difficult choices where there's no perfectly good option were a thing since first Mass Effect but in Baldur's Gate 3, GENERALLY, playing goodie two shoes gives the best rewards, maybe until every end, but by the time you're level 10 you're so broken and overpowered (best mage and warlock gear is in act 2, some of best heavy armors are from Grymforge in act 1) you don't NEED another buff for Astarion or Gale who destroy everything anyway.
@RG-Zeldaplayer Ah yes I also don't want to miss anything so I'm always checking everywhere and talking to everyone just to make sure there's not a quest I'm missing. Makes it take longer. And I'm also thinking realistically if I'm only going to play through once, then how can I do as much as possible in one playthrough. Even if I do that there will be things I've missed because of the variations in choices. I would like to do an evil playthrough one day, just to see what Larian studios has in store for me. Thanks for watching!!
I had the issue of not finishing BG3 for the longest time. Then again I also had a huge back catalog of games that were almost completed but never got around to them. When BG3 was released I was obsessed with it and was playing an unhealthy amount. Eventually, returned and just took my time playing an hour or so here and there. Watching some You tube vids to help me remember the story so far. When I finally finished BG3 it gave me that same feeling of satisfaction and joy that I experienced from playing Dragon Age origins. As others have said the main story line itself is pretty basic but best part of this game imo has to be the gameplay and companions. There are so many different builds you can do to role play pretty much any fantasy character you can think of. The wide range of companions of different backgrounds and not to mention the stellar voice work done by the actors/actresses.
Pardon, the rant but this game is definitely worth it if you enjoy fantasy games such Dragon age origins or Divinity original sin 2. Just take your time and don't feel the need to do every single thing. You can also look up guides that are spoiler free that heavily hint which missions are essential.
I loved divinity original sin 2 and completed that during the covid lockdowns. And I have games in my backlog too that I've started and want to complete but haven't yet, like kingdom come deliverance. I want to complete that before the 2nd one is released.. I feel I will come back to BG3 eventually for sure, just because of how good it is. Like you said its so deep and there's so many possibilities! Thanks for watching matey 😁
i finished this game one year ago when released, and i m trying to finish for the second time. I think this game like skyrim. You can play everytime and you don't get bored.
when I crossed 100 hours and barely got to act 3, I was just simply overwhelmed.
I feel like this game shouldn't be rushed but at the same time, an hour a day, you won't be able to do anything.
Sometimes just the management of inventory and conversations around the camp takes an hour.
Ill go back to it one day but for now, I don't have the patience.
Yea I agree, sometimes if you only play an hour all you'll be doing is levelling up your party and managing inventory and stuff 😀
i played three playthroughs. 1. Normal mode Solo 2. Tactician solo and 3. Honour mode Speed run. I've played a few co-ops but those never finish. The beauty of this game is like chess. you can comeback years after fire up the save ffile saved on steam....and boom you back at it when you get time. I'm trying to do an honour mode Divinity Original Sin 2 and it's tough with other games and priorities now. So i'll just wait and jump in that save to try to beat it finally.
Wow thats alot of playthroughs! Yea im finding it hard to finish the co-op one as my proper playthrough maybe that was my main mistake. Maybe one day I'll start a new solo one and finally bang it out lol thanks for watching 😀
This game took me like 7 months to complete with as much side quests as I could possibly do and 250+ hours. I highly recommend trying to finish! Even if its an hour or two a week. For me, it was like a TV show that I returned to every week
Oh man… I have no life. I just completed an honor mode run in 8 days
@markadair7338 wow 250 hours 😲 that's crazy. I'm in act 2 at 75 hours. Yea if I treat it like a TV show that would help. I think I will complete it in my life at some point cause I want to see the actual city in act 3
This made sense. The logic behind your reasons make sense. It's a very time consuming, expansive, demanding and overall, brilliant game that doesn't just suck you in for the main story, but for everything else more than anything. Those who claim that doing just the main story is enough don't understand why everyone takes so long to finish it. I'm one of those people that managed to finish the game after spending 430 hours on it because I absolutely refused to finish the game without doing everything that I thought I needed to do, even if it had absolutely 0 consequences by the end of it.
It's not one game you speedrun and wow it's over you can do something else, no. It's a game where there's so many different ways to play it and around its mechanics that you HAVE to play it thoroughly even if your playstyle doesn't change from one playthrough to another, and even if it is very possible to allocate time to play a that is so expansive, it'd still require a lot of time to get to play still in the end. There's too much to learn and too much to explore to just simply skim through all of it.
Thus, I find this video very intriguing and extremely relatable for those who have day jobs or other circumstances and unlike me, don't have the whole time of day to play a game like that everyday. Especially when I know there are certain areas that are very time consuming if you don't know the work arounds.
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you can relate! Yea it's aimed at people with kids or day jobs or both, that's when its harder to finish such an expansive game like this 😀
I agree with a lot of your points. Sessions feel like full-on D&D sessions, which are quite long. I'm a fan of the Final Fantasy series, so I thought it would be quite similar. FF is grindy at times, but it is quicker-paced. What got me was the amount of missables. I feel awful if I can't go back and obtain an item that is vital for my builds. I didn't even get to the MR invasion on my first playthrough because of how many items I had missed in the previous acts.
If you're on PC, just cheat. Add the item via console. And keep many hard savegames in case you want to go back to see a cutscene you missed (I skipped past Elfsong on entering Lower city and when I finally got there detective was gone).
@erichohnke706 Ah yes there's so many things you can miss and I guess Larian achieved their goal if each playthrough does feel like a full on dnd session, but it does mean it can take ages to complete. I haven't played much dnd but I assume its rare to casually sit and play just for an hour, similar to this game. I've played magic the gathering before and that's always a whole deal of setup and mental prep before you even play. Thanks for watching mate 👍
for how much this game costed, the amount of content and hours is worth it. the problem is people are so used to paying $60-70 for games that take 5 minutes to finish that y'all can't appreciate a game that is full of content.
I bought the game the other day. But, now I want to wait for Patch 7. I'll play it on the easiest settings and with, hopefully, decent cheat mods. I'll look for a poly romance mod, inventory limit raising mod, party number raising mod, and essentially a God mode. I'm in it for the adventure, not the challenge, lots of saves, etc. co-op,unless you are conjoined twins, I don't think how it's really possible.
Why wait? Also only limit in inventory is weight, just drink elixir of Hill giant strength. Hag sells a lot and refreshes inventory.
Also it's pretty easy on Balanced especially if you increas party size and cheat in other means tho beginning is harder than everything later.
@@KasumiRINA You are right. Maybe I am a little intimidated by the game. I'll prepare to do it, and record it for my page. It will be my first my providing commentary during a game. Not sure anyone wants to see my face though, maybe in a tiny window. Have to figure the tech details. Thanks for the encouragement. It probably looks great in 4k.
It's analysis paralysis. I should just dive in now. It's my FOMO OCD.
Yep. I kept putting it down because the fighting was so tedious, with your team moves of 2 steps each, lol, & getting trounced in a battle against 12 enemies, then having to re-strategize, or figure out what works online and do it over again. Ugh. I like some challenge, but, the best mod for this annoyance is the ring of movment & health. Move further & get a health buff. You can always pull out the mod later, but it's been much more enjoyable this way. Gotta a real life outside plus how many other 1/2 finished games in the library!
Only 75 hours? Those are rookie numbers
Far as time to play goes... Play a couple hours a week. There's no rush to finish. And I really don't get the notion that you can't play it solo.
So what other games are you playing if you have only 3 hours a week to play?
I started the talos principle 2 last night which was pretty cool, and played a few games of insurgency sandstorm too over the weekend. I did play a couple of quests of kingdom come too recently but I haven't managed to get back into the flow of that yet. I want to complete it before the 2nd one comes out but can't seem to get back into it after a long break
trying to do everything in a first playthrough is in my opinion absolutely impossible, except someone is metagaming a lot. I'd still say. play the game like a dnd campaign. blind. no safe scumming, no metagaming, no guides. and you'd see your first playhthrough is not that long as you think. then play something else and if you think ok, now I wanna play another campaign, you can play it differently. and maybe see more stuff the next time. You can have several playthroughs of this game without burning out on it.
Yea I think thats one of my main problems, I'm playing my campaign like I only have one chance to do a much as possible because after this playthrough I'm probably never going to play through a whole campaign again. That means guides, researching decisions to see which is best rather than just doing whatever I feel or whatever I want to roleplay. I guess it applies pressure if I limit myself to saying 'this is my one and only bg3 playthrough so I have to make it count and do everything' 😀 Thanks for watching!
Just consider each act a separate game. Like playing Mass Effect Legwndary.
That's a good way to split it out and make it more manageable and approachable. I liked the mass effect games although I haven't played mass effect 1. I want to play through the legendary trilogy at some point! Thanks for watching and commenting 😃
Honestly took me like 60 70 hours to finish everything in the game you can just spend 1 hour every few days or every week or if you are on vacation it's not that big of a deal also the game values your time with a very high quality gaming experience
Oh wow how did you manage that? I'm near the end of act 2 after 75 hours 😬
lol whata heck ur on about just act 1 alone tooke me easily more than 70h and playing the game just once u havnt seen half od the game simply playing 1 good one evil playthough alrerady makes 2 complete different games and the les thourough u wher in ur first playthrough the better every following one will be
You're not meant to see everything in baulders gate 3 or divinity 2. You're meant to just play enjoy what you see and when you come back in 5 years or so to play again you pick it up and do a different run knowing you want to do a different character or a good or evil run and just go "shit that didn't happen last time" enjoy those moments, stop trying to be a commpletionist you're actually ruining it for yourself not because you'll see everything at once but because you're now overwhelmed with what you "have" to see instead of naturally discovering.
This is exactly it, I think its just how my brain works and not sure if I can change it but it is like it's putting all these rules and limitations, like I need to do this before I go here, or I have to make sure I research this decision to make sure this playthrough has the best outcome and that's what makes it overwhelming, rather than just doing whatever the hell I feel like and going with the flow and accepting that I will have to play it multiple times to experience everything
Games just not for normal people with life. Good games especially. We just need to understand that.
Sure it is. You just play an hour a day or every other day like I do. RDR2 took me a year to beat. Just how it goes. I'm 70 hours or more in and only just left Act 1. Been playing since release. So I'm way behind still
@@jonny-b4954 In this mode, you can just get bored. But it depends on the person. And if there is no other option to play - why not.
Work too live don't live to work. you can make the time to spend once or twice a week like a real D&D group. You can save at any point in the game. lightn up.
As someone already pointed out, you are taking this too seriously, its supposed to be joyful, not stressful, just play casualy
Wtf did I just skip trough?
I dont get it what you say is dumb if go about time god just go slowly you dont need beat game in few days go bit by bit its great when game dont end fast you can enjoy game very long
You absolutely nailed it. BG3 was sooo expansive that, by the time I got to the Elder Brain confrontation at the end, instead of playing it through I just told Gale to use his atomic bomb to blow himself up so I could get the game over with. I was soo checked out at that point. And yet, every quest I did was engaging, made sense to my roleplay, and I have nothing but good things to say about the game.
haha well I guess maybe they put that option there from people so people could just get it done quicker if they wanted 😅 Thanks for watching!
I love the editing, and your voice, but you really need to just sit down and play the game! Got a sub from me though, I see potential in your channel.
lol thanks for the pep talk, and thanks for the sub I'm glad you like the vid 😁
Mods. Mods are what's keeping me from beating this game. I can't stop downloading.... HELP ME
Ah I've gone a bit crazy with modding Skyrim in the past but haven't tried BG3. Might have to check out BG3 on nexus
Play it on console. Problem solved.
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Creating this kind of video and answering to random comments are certainly not the best way to spend your "so precious" time. I like content, but this video is not about content on RUclips or Baldur's Gate 3, it's about someone getting older, trying to convinced himself that he is an adult by talking alone in front of a camera. It's like a therapy but you are not paying someone to listen to your problems. Also, someone telling you "normal people with a life" cannot play it, that's not true. It's simply a projection of himself.
Lol it did feel like that while making this. It took hours to edit and write the script and I was thinking I could have completed BG3 twice by now haha but I'm glad I did cause the alogrithm seems to like this one better than my other vids tbh. If in the end I have a successful youtube channel to me that would be better time spent and if I dont maybe I would have wasted my time. But to me its worth the risk. I guess writing your thoughts and expressing them out there to the world in video format is always a kind of therapy. Tbh this channel is early days and I think my content is focused on me and my personality and my journey or opinion on gaming in general and maybe it is therapy for me who knows, rather than just me sharing information and facts about a specific game. I think thats the direction my channel is going anyway but again it's still early days so it could morph into something else eventually. Thanks for watching matey 👍
Do you need a reason? 😂 there’s like 50 games in my steam account that I have like 50 hours in and I love them but will never fukn finish them…
But… that’s probably because I have 1900 hours in bg3 and am still playing it…
I failed the challenge of time trying to get through this video. Absolute drivel.
!!! 3 hours a week? You don't have time to play video games. I play minimum 3 hours a DAY.
Replying... I am playing 5 different runs at the moment. Including one HM.
Oh, and obvious one...Stop making RUclips videos, go play BG3 instead. Much more rewarding.
Cringe misleading video.