WotC More info on Baldur's Gate 3 coming February 27 2020

In this brief clip we see some voice acting for Volo and a quote, some motion capture, orchestra, some photography that I'm not sure how it would be used in a video game and lastly a date February 27 2020, which happens to be the date of Pax East.

Speculate away.

 

[ZeshinX]

Gotcha. Didn't know if you were up to date on the interviews, so was just trying to be helpful in case you'd missed that dialogue bit about Larian's work on the ranger informing WotC's design thinking. I found it really interesting.

All good. I had read that interview, and while I find most such things interesting, I'm also skeptical of just talk without anything to show (for most things, but especially so for a product I'm being asked to buy...not personally asked mind you, just as a consumer).

Really, the "meat" of what I'm looking to see is how they've adapted 5e rules, if indeed they've adapted them at all, or just invented their own mechanics and slapped some D&D branding and names on it (as Sword Coast Legends did, with Mearls praising it as 5e all the way).

 

[Istbor]

Man gamers are picky.

Whoa. Don't lump us all in with one loud individual.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Whoa. Don't lump us all in with one loud individual.

Statements like that pretty much never are meant to be taken literally. If I meant all gamers, I'd have said that. Without such, the statements natural meaning is "gamers tend to stand out as being picky, by and large", which I can't imagine you actually disagree with. Wee're talking about a group of people who have loudly and effectively rejected games based on pretty small stuff. Gamers complain about Tifa Lockheart's breast size in a preview of a remake of a game about saving the world while finding your place in it. Picky is being generous.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

All good. I had read that interview, and while I find most such things interesting, I'm also skeptical of just talk without anything to show (for most things, but especially so for a product I'm being asked to buy...not personally asked mind you, just as a consumer).

Really, the "meat" of what I'm looking to see is how they've adapted 5e rules, if indeed they've adapted them at all, or just invented their own mechanics and slapped some D&D branding and names on it (as Sword Coast Legends did, with Mearls praising it as 5e all the way).

Well, considering that they're mechanics are close enough to 5e mechanics that Mearls wants to use thier ideas for the ranger in actual table top 5e, I'm not all that worried at this point.
Also, I'm more worried that they're going to be so far up their own hats with trying to simulate 5e rules that they won't actually make an enjoyable game from the perspective of soemone who has never played table top dnd, judging by the words of the lead developer who proudly talked about their obsessive need to make it as true to the 5e phb as a video can literally accomplish being. I can't imagine many structural elements of a game that could turn me off more than slavish dedication to replicating the game mechanics of a different medium as The Top Priority.

 

[Istbor]

Statements like that pretty much never are meant to be taken literally. If I meant all gamers, I'd have said that. Without such, the statements natural meaning is "gamers tend to stand out as being picky, by and large", which I can't imagine you actually disagree with. Wee're talking about a group of people who have loudly and effectively rejected games based on pretty small stuff. Gamers complain about Tifa Lockheart's breast size in a preview of a remake of a game about saving the world while finding your place in it. Picky is being generous.

No I understood what you meant for the most part. I think most gamers are pretty level headed and chill. As with most groups, there is a vocal minority that tends to color the rest.

I always heard Volo as a very dramatic and theatrical speaker, and this audio plays perfectly to that.

Being a big fan of DD Original sin games, I am pretty pumped to see what they do with Balder's gate.

And as far as the FF7 talk... I think Cloud needed an adjustment to his inseam if anything! Outrageous!

 

[gyor]

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Well, considering that they're mechanics are close enough to 5e mechanics that Mearls wants to use thier ideas for the ranger in actual table top 5e, I'm not all that worried at this point.
Also, I'm more worried that they're going to be so far up their own hats with trying to simulate 5e rules that they won't actually make an enjoyable game from the perspective of soemone who has never played table top dnd, judging by the words of the lead developer who proudly talked about their obsessive need to make it as true to the 5e phb as a video can literally accomplish being. I can't imagine many structural elements of a game that could turn me off more than slavish dedication to replicating the game mechanics of a different medium as The Top Priority.

That is a good point, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if all of that UA was done in conjunction with Larian Studios.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

No I understood what you meant for the most part. I think most gamers are pretty level headed and chill. As with most groups, there is a vocal minority that tends to color the rest.

I always heard Volo as a very dramatic and theatrical speaker, and this audio plays perfectly to that.

Being a big fan of DD Original sin games, I am pretty pumped to see what they do with Balder's gate.

And as far as the FF7 talk... I think Cloud needed an adjustment to his inseam if anything! Outrageous!

Good point, dude should have at least Bowie in Labyrinth level....inseam. I do have to admit that I am kinda annoyed that they made Tifa's chest super jiggly after people complained, though. She looked like a realistic female fighter with large breasts...in a good sports bra. No one wants to fist fight with that much jiggle. It's just fracking blatantly stupid looking. I just don't want characters that aren't meant to look stupid, to look stupid. I feel like that's pretty reasonable.

But anyway, sexualisation of cartoons aside, yes, Volo is a theatrical character, and literally always has been. There are characters in the realms that don't like him for that exact reason. He's kinda a dorky theatre kid on an endless "year abroad" trip.

 

[Todd Roybark]

But I guarantee you there's some game that you or me thinks has "good VA" in Japanese which actual Japanese people are rolling their eyes about and saying is completely awful.

*This is not meant to rude R.E., but I have to ask do you have any support for the statements you have made? Otherwise, your posts have been all opinion, no fact, and as blustery as other posters whom you have requested supporting evidence from.

This is not saying I disagree with your posted opinions. This is video is an advert only, there is no announcement of information. Yet in stating what I quoted above, in essence you said “ I guarantee that one person in a country of 127 million will not like any particular piece of voice acting”....which I think we can all agree is not the pinnacle of prognostication, frankly not even that daring.

As for the quality of the voice acting...the clip is one line. Is it the best ‘read’ of the line....no,
but it is not terrible, I would say the delivery was in the upper echelons of Internet Advert Streaming quality.*

For the record I have no support for the above, it is solely my opinion, fresh from the farm to your screen

 

[Seramus]

BG2 had humor about par with OS2.
BG1 had moderately less humor than BG2.
OS1 had moderately more humor than OS2.

 

[gyor]

BG2 had humor about par with OS2.
BG1 had moderately less humor than BG2.
OS1 had moderately more humor than OS2.

As I understand it the amount of cheesy humour in DOS2 depends on your choices in the game.