Tag: Baldur's Gate

Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix declares ‘No more free lunches’ as it stops you bamboozling merchants with boxes, confusingly also makes it easier to literally give people free lunches

Larian is done with Baldur’s Gate 3, but Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t done with Larian. The studio just put out the game’s 23rd hotfix, fixing a bunch of crashes and bugs and, notably, declaring “No more free lunches!” which is—in the case of this specific patch—metaphorically true, but entirely inaccurate in a literal sense. That’s […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix declares ‘No more free lunches’ as it stops you bamboozling merchants with boxes, confusingly also makes it easier to literally give people free lunches

Larian is done with Baldur’s Gate 3, but Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t done with Larian. The studio just put out the game’s 23rd hotfix, fixing a bunch of crashes and bugs and, notably, declaring “No more free lunches!” which is—in the case of this specific patch—metaphorically true, but entirely inaccurate in a literal sense. That’s […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 has at least 24 ways Shadowheart can hurl the main MacGuffin at you as part of Larian’s New Vegas-Style ‘n+1’ system for plot-oblivious players: ‘It might be even more’

Baldur’s Gate 3 is bafflingly reactive. You can’t drop-kick an owlbear without the ripples spreading out and causing some kind of reaction later on down the line. But it goes even deeper than I knew: In a recent interview, Larian CEO Swen Vincke shed some light on the studio’s “n+1” design philosophy, and revealed just […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 has at least 24 ways Shadowheart can hurl the main MacGuffin at you as part of Larian’s New Vegas-Style ‘n+1’ system for players who ignore the plot: ‘It might be even more’

Baldur’s Gate 3 is bafflingly reactive. You can’t drop-kick an owlbear without the ripples spreading out and causing some kind of reaction later on down the line. But it goes even deeper than I knew: In a recent interview, Larian CEO Swen Vincke shed some light on the studio’s “n+1” design philosophy, and revealed just […]

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Lae’zel’s voice actor says that ‘Baldur’s Gate 3 is definitely as good—if not miles better—than any film or TV show I’ve done’

The talent behind Lae’zel in Baldur’s Gate 3, Devora Wilde, is an accomplished voice actor—but she’s also been on TV, starring in programs such as the Channel 4 sitcom Hollyoaks, where I imagine she was considerably less yellow. Though I think I’d probably tune in more if Chester suffered a Gith invasion. Recently, on SlitherineGames‘ […]

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Larian Studios’ Swen Vincke does see potential uses for AI, but: ‘We’re hiring writers, not having ChatGPT write their dialogues’

AI’s been a fraught conversation in videogames. Heck, it’s even reared its head in Dungeons & Dragons, the ruleset Baldur’s Gate 3 was built on top of—especially after some recent comments by Hasbro’s CEO about “leveraging” all of its previous works. Swen Vincke, the founder and CEO of Larian Studios is a lot more level-headed […]

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Once upon a time Baldur’s Gate 3 let you recruit JK Simmons to your side, before Larian snipped it along with a visit to the series’ origins

In Baldur’s Gate 3, the real game is the friends you make along the way. I mean, there is the whole brainworms thing, but really you’re just there to spend more time with its merry band of charming wackadoos. Apparently, that cast list was once even longer, as Swen Vincke revealed at this year’s GDC […]

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Larian CEO has been ‘Reading the Reddit threads’ and wants us to remove our tinfoil hats, says Wizards of the Coast isn’t the reason Baldur’s Gate 3 is finished

Aside from whatever patches Larian has in mind, Baldur’s Gate 3 is donezo, and the news has more than a few people looking for someone to blame. For many, the answer is obvious: Dungeons and Dragons licence-holder Wizards of the Coast (WOTC). Speculation abounds that WOTC did something to scupper its relationship with Larian, dooming […]

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Swen Vincke says your Baldur’s Gate 3 crushes ‘now belong to Wizards of the Coast’ as the studio leaves D&D behind, prompting a collective nervous gulp

Baldur’s Gate 3 is done. Finished. Ended. Wound up and concluded save for future fixes and updates. Developer Larian Studios is onto new and strange things that only it knows the nature of. Frankly? I think that’s all good. I’m very eager to see what the studio does next, and I’m happy to keep BG3 […]

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I’m sad to see the old gang go, but Larian really doesn’t need the Baldur’s Gate IP or D&D to make another groundbreaking RPG

Larian Studios, the developer behind Baldur’s Gate 3, has recently announced that it’ll be moving away from D&D games, also citing a general lack of enthusiasm when it came to developing DLC for BG3. And honestly? I’m pleased as punch. Well, for the most part. I am admittedly holding some conflicted feelings about these characters’ […]

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‘Let’s just have closure on Baldur’s Gate 3, it’s been great. We’ve done our job’: Larian CEO says he hit the brakes on DLC plans because the team’s heart wasn’t in it

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a great game. Even that feels like an understatement, though. It’s one of our highest-scoring games in a decade and a half, a landmark RPG so significant it sparked actual debates in the developer community about its own quality. It’s also done.  While the game’s going to keep getting patches and […]

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The mastermind behind Baldur’s Gate 3’s popular TikTok account spills his secrets: The sooner you can ‘make a character look like Shrek and kick somebody off a cliff’ unsupervised, ‘the better’

There’s a lot that goes behind steering a ship as big as Larian Studios, the indie behind Baldur’s Gate 3 (with a team size that goes toe-to-toe with AAA-studios) including running social media accounts on various platforms—such as the bizarre, cryptic, potentially-about-to-be-banned-in-the-US landscape of TikTok.  Mercifully, Larian has a dedicated guy for that, who has […]

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Astarion’s actor was deployed to replace the missing mocap of around 150 lines of Baldur’s Gate 3 dialogue: ‘I just had this dog’s breakfast’

Astarion is a stand-out performance in Baldur’s Gate 3—with his voice actor, Neil Newbon, earning several awards because of his stellar work. That’s not to say he outshines anyone (the game is filled with incredible performances) but in my mind, Astarion is special because of the sheer variety of emotion he portrays, which is as […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 ‘Torch Lord’ transforms a meager torch into a weapon of the gods and sets the hardest enemies in the game ablaze

Sausage weapons are old news. Torches are finally in, thanks to cRPG Bro’s latest creative Baldur’s Gate 3 build. The so-called “Torch Lord” build shares some methods with cRPG Bro’s sausage build from last year: torches are a perfect vessel for stacks of elemental damage types. Add the Shillelagh cantrip from druids and a paladin’s […]

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‘I’ve been disappointed so many times’: Karlach from Baldur’s Gate 3 talks scrapping the lady stereotypes of RPG romances, says Larian just ‘let me do what I wanted to do’

Karlach from Baldur’s Gate 3 is a few things—big, red, strong, and beloved (including by us), but she also bucks a lot of typical RPG trends for leading ladies. She’s powerful, excitable, expressive, outspoken, and often angry without that anger being cast as a character flaw. She’s also incredibly sweet, and has become a fan-favourite […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 players can’t figure out why Astarion sometimes goes full Grinch-mode after patch 6, but there’s a mod that fixes it

One baffling result of Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest patch—which arrived with plenty of bugs and subsequently a bunch of hotfixes—is, well, Astarion turning into the Grinch. It’s only happening under certain mysterious circumstances, but it is certainly happening. Act 3 and Astarion spoilers to follow. This whole debacle kicked off after footage of Astarion’s new […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is so meaty, our Xbox cousins will need to play the Digital Deluxe on 4 disks wrapped in ‘little slips’ and stuffed into a single-disk box

Baldur’s Gate 3 has some meaty patches with some equally-meaty space requirements—and while it might be easy to moan about having to corner off a bunch of room on our SSDs for patches, at least we aren’t playing on the Xbox version of the digital deluxe. It has four disks—twice as many as the PS5 […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 latest patch gives a lovely facelift to Karlach and Halsin’s smooch scenes—but it’s seriously soured kisses with Astarion

Baldur’s Gate 3 received its fourth patch earlier this week, and while it’s added some very important features like AMD’s FSR 2.2, the ability to wash your companions with soap, and letting you erect a naked statue of yourself, it may have also done some damage to your character’s love life. For starters, the Sex% […]

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One of the biggest twists in Baldur’s Gate 3 is blatantly foreshadowed by a humble bit of cutlery and some song lyrics

Before I dive into this little Baldur’s Gate 3 revelation—this article contains big, stonking spoilers for the game’s third act. I’m talking about twists that are of major importance to a key figure in the game’s plot—you have been warned, adventurer. The third act of Baldur’s Gate 3 sees a handful of shocking reveals concerning […]

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