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Proof of Life

by John Cole|  August 5, 20239:01 pm| 40 Comments

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is amazing.

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  1. 1.

    gwangung

    August 5, 2023 at 9:07 pm

    Didn’t expect you back for at least another five days.

  2. 2.

    Trollhattan

    August 5, 2023 at 9:08 pm

    Fristicuffs.

    Segundocuffs.

  3. 3.

    Bostondreams

    August 5, 2023 at 9:08 pm

    What’s your class and race? I took a Tiefling ranger bounty hunter with a criminal background. So fun so far. SO many different ways to approach things!

  4. 4.

    Victor Matheson

    August 5, 2023 at 9:12 pm

    Little known fact, but Baldur’s Gate players have undergone evolutionary advances over the years that allows them to survive for up to two weeks solely consuming Cheetos and Red Bull. (Earlier evolutionary offshoots were only able to consume Mountain Dew whose lower caffeine content doomed this evolutionary line to extinction.)

  5. 5.

    JustRuss

    August 5, 2023 at 9:12 pm

    I asked for a John Cole BG3 review, and here we are.  Guess I should be grateful he stopped playing long enough to post even this.

  6. 6.

    Ken

    August 5, 2023 at 9:17 pm

    May I recommend Neil Gaiman’s short story “Virus”? It’s in his Smoke and Mirrors collection.

  7. 7.

    John Cole

    August 5, 2023 at 9:20 pm

    @Bostondreams: drow warlock

  8. 8.

    GregMulka

    August 5, 2023 at 9:23 pm

    Found and entrance to the Underdark and just got my second tadpole.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 5, 2023 at 9:24 pm

    @Victor Matheson:

    Little known fact, but Baldur’s Gate players have undergone evolutionary advances over the years that allows them to survive for up to two weeks solely consuming Cheetos and Red Bull.

    That’s an evolutionary advance?

  10. 10.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    August 5, 2023 at 9:25 pm

    Yeah but we need to see pix of the cats. How are Maxwell & Steve?
    now that will be proof of life.

  11. 11.

    Kristine

    August 5, 2023 at 9:26 pm

    @GregMulka:

    Found and entrance to the Underdark and just got my second tadpole.

    Nominated

  12. 12.

    J R in WV

    August 5, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Second Tadpole..?? WTF?

  13. 13.

    MagdaInBlack

    August 5, 2023 at 9:32 pm

    @J R in WV: Yay! more proof of life. How are you doing?

  14. 14.

    Luther M. Siler

    August 5, 2023 at 9:38 pm

    It is an absolute Goddamn crime that the PS5 version doesn’t come out until September.

  15. 15.

    wombat probability cloud

    August 5, 2023 at 9:40 pm

    How do we know this isn’t just a Baldur’s Gate 3 AI talking?

  16. 16.

    Walker

    August 5, 2023 at 9:41 pm

    Gnome bard. I have talked my way out of so many fights.

  17. 17.

    dmsilev

    August 5, 2023 at 9:56 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: It’s a specialized niche.

  18. 18.

    Fraud Guy

    August 5, 2023 at 10:02 pm

    So is it first-person, third-person, or isomorphic view?  The pictures are confusing, and I can only play the last.

  19. 19.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    August 5, 2023 at 10:14 pm

    Don’t be fooled, it’s an experimental AI and it’s trying to trick us! Emphasis on the “mental’ part… ;)

  20. 20.

    Yutsano

    August 5, 2023 at 10:15 pm

    OT: A video of a MAGA Republican facing the reality that he is the actual mark. I’ve never seen someone deconstruct live before. I hope his brain will be okay. Maybe.

  21. 21.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 5, 2023 at 10:39 pm

    @Bostondreams: Half-drow Charlatan Bard here. It’s lovely.

     

    Favorite bard moment so far: When a True Soul threatened me, I told him I’d enjoyjmg calling him a “twat-soul” at his eulogy.

    The bard options are a great mix of juvenile, clever, and fabulous. They’re even better when talking to another bard.

  22. 22.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 5, 2023 at 10:42 pm

    @John Cole: Oooh. I’m guessing Eldritch Pact? You seem like a Great Old One kind of guy.

    @Fraud Guy isometric, but you can wiggle the camera lower sometimes.

  23. 23.

    Edmund dantes

    August 5, 2023 at 11:01 pm

    So trump is just daring the judge to do something. This stuff at the rally is pretty cut and dried.

  24. 24.

    kalakal

    August 5, 2023 at 11:04 pm

    I’m much happier with 1st person view.

    On a countdown for Starfield right now having already shelled out the cash

  25. 25.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 5, 2023 at 11:08 pm

    @Edmund dantes: Was there anything new? He was out insulting and intimidating Pence earlier, and he called Smith “mentally ill” an hour or two ago IIRC. But he pretend backed off yesterday’s threat with a laughable excuse.

  26. 26.

    J R in WV

    August 5, 2023 at 11:14 pm

    @MagdaInBlack:

    I’m doing OK. Several more chemo days scheduled,  2 sessions a week apart,  then 2 weeks to the next day of drippage. It takes about 7 hours to get the whole process done.

    The first several hours are drugs to protect from the actual chemo drugs which are quite toxic. They do blood work at 7am to adjust the doseages. Cisplatin and gemcitabine are the actual chemo drugs,  but there’s a couple dozen IV infusions around the two actual  doses. .

    I have had some serious side effects in the past  but more recently things have pretty smooth.

    My family’s doctor is our age, well known to be an expert curmudgeon to people who aren’t moving to treat his patient. He’s been a rock since this started last December, has been our family doctor for 40 years. Board certified Gerontology as well as the the Family Practice cert. Has told me to call him 24/7, he’s there for me.  So far always during regular business hours,  will visit him in person soon to review a recent CTscan I had, and review all my maintenance meds etc.

  27. 27.

    Avalune

    August 5, 2023 at 11:22 pm

    I have no idea wtf I’m doing but my half elf paladin did eventually put a hurt on some goblin bosses to save a Druid.

  28. 28.

    Dane

    August 5, 2023 at 11:24 pm

    @John Cole: It’s so gratifying to see a game company truly attempt something unique rather than packaging a few mechanics from multiple successful games together in a bewildering mutant synthesis.

  29. 29.

    Edmund dantes

    August 5, 2023 at 11:27 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: yeah the stuff about pence and smith at the rally definitely blows through her admonition.

  30. 30.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 5, 2023 at 11:35 pm

    @Avalune: Paladins are a great class – lots of fight, utility and they get a lot of unique dialogue options.

    Also, you WILL break your oath at some point. Everybody fucks that up eventually

  31. 31.

    Fraud Guy

    August 5, 2023 at 11:39 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: Much thanks.  I’ll stay high, otherwise I get migraines.

  32. 32.

    BigJimSlade

    August 6, 2023 at 1:05 am

    If the first 2 gates didn’t last, I don’t have high hopes for the third.

  33. 33.

    BigJimSlade

    August 6, 2023 at 1:06 am

    Perhaps this was more of a proof of half-life post?

  34. 34.

    Ripley

    August 6, 2023 at 2:22 am

    Good enough for me.

    Here’s some live REM ( a nod to the day when you asked about it on Twitter).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSe1dQBOuu4

  35. 35.

    Tim in SF

    August 6, 2023 at 3:51 am

    @John Cole: This looks like I can play it on my M1 MacBook Pro. That might take some of the sting out of the fact that I can’t play Diablo 4. I feel like Blizzard betrayed us Mac users.

  36. 36.

    MagdaInBlack

    August 6, 2023 at 4:32 am

    @J R in WV: Thank you for the update. Bless the curmudgeon Dr for taking good care of you ❤️❤️

  37. 37.

    Nina

    August 6, 2023 at 5:09 am

    I broke my oath several times, restarted several times, and I’m almost through Act 1 without oathbreaking.  Worried that I chose the wrong NPC to romance, though.  Gale is a bit of a drip.

  38. 38.

    Denali5

    August 6, 2023 at 8:58 am

     

    @J R in WV,

    So good to hear from you! And good news also that your doctor is with you all the way!  Keep us posted!

  39. 39.

    Bostondreams

    August 6, 2023 at 2:55 pm

    @Luther M. Siler:

    my understanding is they had planned to release both versions next month, when the PS5 version is ready, but didn’t want to compete with Starfield. A good decision. My fave game series, Horizon, dropped the original and sequel in competition with Zelda and Elden Ring and I think suffered for it a bit. Though it’s awesome!

  40. 40.

    Bostondreams

    August 6, 2023 at 2:57 pm

    @J R in WV:

    you ever see Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan? When they put that bug in Chekov’s ear? It’s kind of like that, only it has teeth and goes in through the eyeball. And eventually you become a mini-Cthulu. Kind of.

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