Baldur's Gate 3 News

Larian gave Baldur's Gate 3 its acclaimed reactivity by approaching it as 'weird Dungeon Masters'

There are plenty of things to love about Baldur's Gate 3, from the way its tactical battles never feel like filler to the best-in-class performances that bring its characters to life. But what marks it out from almost every other RPG, especially those that take 60+ hours to play, is its reactivity. Events and lines of dialogue are constantly referencing specific things you did and said earlier on, choices you made all the way back to the character creation screen, without ever making you feel like it's cheating by collapsing the possibilities down to a more manageable number...
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"Первоклассный косплей": Юные девушки красиво перевоплотились в героинь Baldur's Gate 3

Известные косплей-модели Лада Люмос, Lady Melamori и Зоя Вольф (Zoe Volf) объединились для масштабной фотосессии, вдохновленной культовой ролевой игрой Baldur's Gate III (наш обзор), разработанной Larian Studios.

Baldur's Gate 3 foreshadowed one of its biggest Act 3 twists with music even earlier than I thought—but don't worry if you didn't catch it: 'That was exactly the idea'

In case the headline didn't clue you in—this article will feature spoilers for Act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3, specifically, a set of twists regarding the Dream Guardian and the Emperor...
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You can now play Baldur's Gate 3 on a laptop from the '80s

Fancy playing through Baldur's Gate 3's first act on a notebook from 1983? Me neither, but Alex Bowen over on YouTube has created an incredible demake of the popular RPG, and managed to get working on one of the world's first commercially successful laptops, the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100.

While Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't demand the best graphics card in its system requirements, it was never going to work on hardware from the 1980s, so this project required quite a bit of creativity from Bowen, who posted a video breaking down the project in great detail.

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'Work with the players ... otherwise you shouldn't be doing it': Heads at Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios say you ought to 'really mean it' going into early access

Baldur's Gate 3 had a long early access period—opening its doors in October 2020 before finally dropping in August 2023, almost three years (1,031 days, to be exact) later. It was a vastly different game to what it is now. For instance, I remember my inner D&D rules lawyer being very upset that firebolt made a damaging surface—that misstep, as well as a few others, were corrected for the better, producing what I'll happily call one of the strongest RPGs we'll see this decade...
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