Baldur's Gate 3 (Zero Punctuation)

This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Baldur's Gate 3.

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[wakeangel]

You weren't save scumming, you were just roleplaying a chrono mage

[armedwombat]

Side note: There is a command to turn your entire party into stealth mode: shift + c

[Sonn]

If you're not familiar with Yahtzee's review style, he liked it.

[rebellyanmagic]

"Get in the fucking party bus, Teddy Ruxpin" made me inhale my tea, cheers

[theslimcreeper]

Props for him, for not mentioning the willy customization even once in the entire review. Not even as joke. That's a character arc right there.

[alantyndall]

Another option for the Goblin murder problem is to recruit a surprisingly intelligent Ogre by promising he can eat the corpses of the dead. Then, once you've killed half the map and want to do the other half, promise them 1000g to kill the other half. Let them all die and pay nothing.

I love this game.

[pokemonmanic]

Yahtzee in his 20s: Friendless, single, misanthropic cynic
Yahtzee in his 40s: DnD playing, married father, willing to give shit he used to not like a chance

[Metal_Maoist]

So, Baldur's Gate 3 has just enough support for non-combat options to make you forget about the fact that, at its core, it's still primarily a combat sim? Damn, it really does capture the essence of D&D doesn't it

[Windowsprodukt]

I spent the entirety of the first act intimidating people while running around in my underpants.
10/10

[dh]

So, you didn't find the button that puts your whole party into stealth mode yet? I'd tell you where it is, but it's doing such a good job at hiding, and that's what stealth is all about.

[derekstein]

"I shove people off by day and get people off by night."
Sounds like a motto you would see on Yahtzee's family coat of arms.

[jacobsedlack]

Eloquence Bard really is Yahtzee's style given how fast and verbose he is.

[Zettabyte]

I think the freedom of choice in BG3 really becomes apparent once you've also watched someone else play it. Comparing two different playthroughs can be like night and day. Really been enjoying it so far.

[DavidMFBowie]

I do think it is a super flexible game. In the scenario yahtzee was describing where you have to kill the 3 leaders. 2 of them, you can convince them to go to a private room where you can fight them without alerting the rest of horde (you have to kill the alerting eyes first). The third one is harder because he's on his throne being cheered by like 7 other goblins. For him, I cast crown of madness, he went berserk and absolutely murdered all of his party members. Then I swooped in with my party and finished him off. I love this game

[ravenmage]

"It was vaginas!" being so enthusiastically exclaimed has to be in contention for best ending line to a review ever.

[PwnageXD]

Super useful tips the game didn't tell me right away

- Shift C for your entire party to sneak :D

- ` to highlight all creatures near by including your party, non hostile nps and enemies

- alt for highlighting items on the ground

[antman]

The game did have a lot of times where you can talk bosses into killing themselves, which is always a positive.

[Jayblaze]

The Silence spell is pretty handy for alarms as well as spells. Also two of the goblin fights can be stealthed pretty well with the right planning/dialog options.

[Gorbz]

I think the whole "roll with it" is for non fatal encounters, when you fail a check or step on the 14th trap in a row. For combat encounters you can run away, but only if you are not shorter than your opponent as they will just keep dashing up to you and get reaction attacks when you try to flee.

If only there was some sort of morale check or something to give monsters a chance to flee and save themselves if a combat encounter was going badly, rather than fight to the death in the hope of getting that lucky last hit off.

[undertone]

The druid situation did have an alternative solution. You could have sided with the goblins, which is why the druid said don't recruit him unless you're sure because it'll turn everyone hostile.