shinymcshine Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Any longer and it'll miss that all important Stadia platform.... (probably). Wonder how many play the early access on Stadia, and whether Larian are contractually committed to put it on Stadia, regardless of how viable it is in the future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofloyd Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Coming August 2023. https://www.eurogamer.net/baldurs-gate-3-has-a-sort-of-release-date-finally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 I should at least make the effort to get back to Divinity before this comes out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Wonder how close it is to any console release (Xbox S/X or PS5)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofloyd Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 August 31st. Mark it down. https://www.destructoid.com/baldurs-gate-3-ps5-release-date-announcement-trailer/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Looked a bit rough around the edges, but I think there's potential for it to be good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 It looks decent imo but I really prefer text based dialogue for games like this I think. The wooden cutscenes take me out of it, just give me a book's worth of dialogue to read instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 Probably an easy Day 1 for me this, hope it gets a retail release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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one-armed dwarf Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Sounds like they are trying to get it on xbox too, but apparently split screen co-op on series S might be a challenge https://kotaku.com/baldur-s-gate-3-ps5-release-date-exclusivity-series-s-1850157922 iirc DF said before that memory bandwidth causes development challenges with S. Going to guess this comes up next week in DF direct. Sounds like it will still come out tho but maybe after PC and PS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Take it MS won’t not allow games to be SX only too? I’ve been happily using my SS while the house is a shit tip but I’ll be really disappointed if it prevents games being released on the Xbox in general or holds them back going forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Their tweet or whatever literally says X and S.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 To me, the tweet reads like they are trying to get it to the same standard on 'both', eg that the feature is working less well on S than on X I can't see another way to interpret it tbh Quote We’re seeing a lot of varied interpretations of what that means, so we wanted to clarify further. We’ve had an Xbox version of Baldur’s Gate III in development for some time now. We’ve run into some technical issues in developing the Xbox port that have stopped us feeling 100% confident in announcing it until we’re certain we’ve found the right solutions—specifically, we’ve been unable to get splitscreen co-op to work to the same standard on both Xbox Series X and S, which is a requirement for us to ship 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 Yeah, actually that makes sense.🤦♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 DF talk about it here They seem to think it's a mandate from MS that S and X must have feature parity, which makes sense. That said it seems like one of those things they could end up rolling back on in the future if it causes these kinds of issues. Like, it doesn't make much sense to me that split screen is so important to block a release on the platform entirely. That shouldn't have to be the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted March 7, 2023 Author Share Posted March 7, 2023 40 minutes ago, one-armed dwarf said: Like, it doesn't make much sense to me that split screen is so important to block a release on the platform entirely. That shouldn't have to be the case. Yeah I completely agree, just take split screen out the S version so it can release on Xbox, then make sure folks are told the S version doesn't have this in plenty of time before release, I would've thought that would've been problem solved. Seems better than the game not releasing on the platform at all, but I guess if they have this feature parity clause then they're sticking with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 It's a weird one, as I never myself bothered with online multiplayer for either of the previous BG games, or split screen on Divinity OS 1 or 2. So I do wonder just what percentage of gamers actually use these features, compared to how many just play, like myself, as single player solo ? It's certainly very different if we were talking about something like Diablo, but I'm not really sure how many people want to play a 30+ hr CRPG as a multiplayer experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted March 7, 2023 Author Share Posted March 7, 2023 I would've thought the folks who played Divinity in MP (local or online) were quite a low percentage but I'm guessing some of the data they've got from those indicates it's worthwhile to do in this? But who knows lol, I can't imagine playing this split screen with Char, I just don't see it as particularly user-friendly to a non-gamer, I can however see myself playing it online if it's drop in drop out and randoms can just kind of come and go as they please, if I have to set up a group, party up and all that then it's not likely unless someone from here wants a sesh together. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofloyd Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 Release date bumped forward nearly a whole month to August 3rd. https://www.eurogamer.net/baldurs-gate-3-pc-release-date-jumps-forward-to-early-august-but-ps5-gets-slight-delay I’ll be getting it day one. I really hope I don’t have the technical issues I had with Divinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 I might get it day 1. I hope it's a little easier than Divinity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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