Baldur's Gate 3 News

Here's a Baldur's Gate 3 mod so that characters can hug each other

clear and obvious oversight in the smash hit video roleplaying game Baldur's Gate 3 is that the big weird family of characters you build cannot give each other more hugs. One brave modder by the name of Cerberry has fixed that...
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Baldur's Gate 3 once featured an even deeper co-op conversation system, but Swen Vincke said their 'dialogue trees blew up so hard, we just couldn't manage it'

In a recent RPG roundtable I hosted for the PC Gamer Chat Log podcast, something Larian founder Swen Vincke said caused my ears to perk up: the already impressive multiplayer roleplaying in Baldur's Gate 3 was once even more involved than what made it into the final game...
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If you complete this gaming survey you can win up to $500 in prizes

What are you playing right now? Are you embroiled in the ongoing galactic war courtesy of Helldivers 2, or maybe partway through yet another run of Baldur's Gate 3? Counter-Strike 2 might be your Steam shooter of choice, or maybe you're more into Gray Zone Warfare. Whatever your pleasure, international games marketing firm Dialect wants to know how videogames fit into your daily life in exchange for a chance to win hundreds of dollars' worth of prizes

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Following up 'one of the greatest RPGs of all time' had Baldur's Gate 3 devs in a cold sweat: 'A great honour and a lot of pressure'

It's become a running joke that any studio that picks up where Larian left off with Baldur's Gate is pretty much doomed. Baldur's Gate 3 is already a classic, one of those games we'll look back in a decade or two the same way we now look at the great titans of '90s and mid-2000s game development...
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Baldur's Gate 3 initially had an entire mechanic where you'd go to the fugue plane if you died, but it was scrapped

Death in Baldur's Gate 3 is final—if you're playing Honour Mode, that is. For everyone else, returning to the land of the living is but a revivify scroll away. This is a streamlining of D&D 5e (the system the game's built upon) and its resurrection mechanics—which typically require powerful magic that grows costlier and more advanced the longer the poor sod in question has been dead...
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