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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

210 hours, haven't done act 3 yet...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first (and for now, only) full playthrough was around that ballpark, and I really took my time to wander everywhere, read all the books and such. Now I’m wondering I might’ve missed stuff! Uh oh!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You probably have missed stuff! When I started my second playthrough I couldn't believe how much more content there was. And I haven't even finished act 3 in either playthrough...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Me and my partner started our second play through. We cheesed and got Karlach early, literally when we got to the grove. So there whole bits of dialogue that are new.
We found parts of the map in the forge we missed. Some side quests we missed. Characters.
We are doing things in a different order this time. Like the first time at the forge, nere was already dead. This time he was alive and we managed to get him out from behind the cave in.
We're actually talking to the companions in camp.
We didn't get rejected by astarion at the party, but rejected him instead.
La'ziel didn't reject me at the part. But I rejected her.
So much stuff is different.
Being a bard is fun. I played at the party and volo and alfira joined in on the performance.
So much fun to see all the different stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

264 and I just started it on one of my playthroughs. Yee

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol I'm about there now, halfway thru act 2 but I've been doing a ton of other shit in between main story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit I thought I had dumped a lot of time into it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I put over a hundred hours in the first week I'm pretty sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, Id probably won't be touching act 3 again until the eventual release of definitive edition. The act 3 ending and what happened to kalarch is such a bummer.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm still contemplating if I should lie to myself and say "I can totally do an asshole playthrough this time!" only to end up doing the exact same things as I did last time because I can't stand making lines of code sad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Dark Urge made it easy for me. I kept wanting to do an "evil game" but would always lose heart and pick the nicer choices.

And then my group made me the Dark Urge character on a different playthrough. And once I realized some of the evil shit was beyond my control, I just kinda said "Fuck it" and went evil as possible.

10/10 recommend. It's so OTT it's hilarious.

[–] Piemanding 4 points 1 year ago

Are you me? Haven't played this game yet but I always have to roleplay the good guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, the Skyrim effect – "this playthrough will be different, I won't even touch the beacon!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have started Skyrim around 5 times just to make something other than a stealth archer. I now have the stealthiest orc you'll ever see.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is that because we won't see the stealthiest orc?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just started a new play through, wanted to delete the old one....wasn't going how I wanted.....accidentally deleted my multiplayer save I had owing with friends.....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As long as you don't close the game, your changes don't get synchronized to Steam Cloud. So you can head to your local Steam Cloud folder and copy the savegame from there.

Windows: C:\Programme (x86)\Steam\userdata
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/userdata
Linux: ~/.local/share/Steam/userdata

In that folder the BG3 saves will be under Your_User_ID/1086940

Or you can download your savegame from here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

If you did close the game though, Steam Cloud won't have your savegames anymore either and even the Steam Support won't be able to restore them.

Also take this as your sign to start making regular backups of your files ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've got it on GoG, and honestly, meh. We weren't far into Act 1, so not a big loss, more of a facepalm moment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the thumbnail, the woman on the left looks like some dude with long hair sunglasses and a huge beard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Rock and stone!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

lol ima at the same run and same time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have 161 hours in Cuphead on the Steam Deck, I have about that much on the Switch too. I have spent over 300 hours playing Cuphead. Holy shit. I knew it was a lot, but damn.

I have S ranked every boss multiple times and got every achievement on both Switch and Deck.

That’s absurd, isn’t if?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cuphead is a dope ass game tho, fr fr.

Tbh I haven't played in years...

...I'm about to disappear from my "social circles" this weekend.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have kids and not a lot of free time, 4 hrs logged lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Double load in grad school, 2 jobs including a full time job. I left the game open for days and logged 170 hours while playing exactly making one character in 15 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have 100h with 5 campaigns and haven't finished Act1 yet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Uhm... I just hit 80 hours. With only one campaign. I haven't left act 1 yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same lol. I've been just replaying the first area in a bunch of different ways. I just made it to the Underdark for the first time. Each time I start a new game I find something new it's insane how much stuff is in the first big area.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

laughs in 4 thousand+ New Vegas hours

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most certainly not, but if it's any consolation you can cut that number to about a 3rd and it would be more accurate to what I've actually spent playing the game over the years. I have a habit of alt-tabbing out of games and never closing them for long stretches of time where I'm watching YouTube or looking up mods for said games, lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

5-6000 hours in factorio. 99.9% spent playing. Worst thing, that is normal numbers on factorio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah you guys in the building games sector are on another level. I never have to feel too bad about my Stream library hours knowing there are people out there playing Factorio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pffft, amateurs. I'm at 390 hours in Starfield, started playing on September 15th.

... Help

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude, less than 700 hours have passed. You're averaging over 12 hours a day for the last month?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Seems about right for a Bethesda game

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, you dodged a bullet. Could be so much worse. ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

200 hours? Them's rookie numbers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm seriously considering restarting at my druid grove save tens of hours ago because I missed helping the singer in the grove finish her song

Also to successfully complete "party at the camp" which I have done twice and completed not at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happens if she's finishing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you help her, she offers to let you join a duet, and you get the performance skill