BG3 will easily take your between 70 and 100 hours in your first playtrough unless you skip the dialogues. It's very dense in character interactions and very rich in quests, because the idea is to simulate a Table-Top RPG. The best way to experience in first playtrough is to avoid doing everything and accept failure. This is sometimes lock you out of some content, but creates a more immersive experience where your choices matters 

It's only true in mid the very early in Fort Joy (which you can leave in many different ways), mid act 2 and act 4

In act 1 to first half of act 2 you absolutely need to do almost everything available unless you wanna risk to get severely underleveled because the XP curve is ass in early game 

The major differences on DOS2 comes down to who you are using, since you can only use 4 characters some quests and dialogues will only be present when you have those characters in your party. This creates a more interesting mid and late game (act 3 and 4), but still suck in early game 

I'd say early act 1 is beautifully packed yes but also large parts of the rest of it and late act one and the majority of act 2. Act 3 is a siphoning of the experience so I guess we are at odds. I don't remember an act 4. 🤔 

Yep. I see this game is more planescape/wrath of the righteous in approach but with that tight DOS template. I do expect to enjoy it, things so far even to using jump during battle is very emergent feeling even if it's not really simulation but a fine tuned view of it and yeah, I wouldn't even attempt to try to pass checks and rolls, I don't it once and felt badly about it. I wouldn't have it any other way or the whole point of what they created here would be missed and DOS since DOS brought me back so many times I expect I'll be coming back to this too. 

For me the acts are divide by points of no-return:

Prologue = The Merryweather

Act 1 = Fort Joy (all the island)

Interlude = Lady Vengeance

Act 2 = Reapers Coast

Act 3 = The Nameless Isle

Act 4 = Arx and the endgame

Since Merryweather and Lady are very short (basically you travelling in a ship) I don't see them as propers acts, but as prologues/interludes 

Banjo Recomp is amazing. 4k at 120 fps, no glitches or issues. I still maintain Banjo has the best hub world ever created.

Oh yeah, I didn't consider that an act 4 but you're right, it is distinct. Interludes would be a good word for the ship part alright. Although, what about the city? Is that still act 2?

The nameless isle so, is where it dilutes until the final stretch. May I ask did you play DOS1? The structure of that game is impeccable, while it feels small cause of the square instanced maps it always feels so full, there is no space wasted and I hope BG3 has the dungeoning of the beaten path feel of that game particularly. I love how in that game there are things that I could never figure out, I never could figure out how to get one character out of a cage to have her in the party and having two create your own characters feels so much better for choice of character, I felt compelled this time to choose an origion character cause there are so many choices and I didn't wanna blovk a slot oh and that's another thing missing from BG3 is stuff like the extra powers after removing the source collar and the teleporting pyramids that change traversal in interesting ways but I guess the extinct of the jump action makes up for that somewhat. I hope BG3 has those bit's in between like the ship in DOS2 and the end of time in DOS, fingers crossed, camp is a decent substitute so far. 

Is it possible to do all character stuff in one playthough cause of camp or should I steer away from swapping party members and wait for the second run?

Oh, thread has 1k posts, I've never made a thread that passed that before.

While I'm not a fan of the missions nor online combat, I'm finding plenty other stuff to do in Aces of Thunder!







Can't wait for FS2024 to come to PSVR2!

Romeo is a Deadman. I love my Suda51 games so just starting this.