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Baldur's Gate 3

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The points at which the game transition between acts seem a bit arbitrary (mainly for Act I to Act II), and I don't see a narrative or mechanical reason to lock us out of previous maps and quests. As far as I remember, previous Baldur's Gate games didn't have this kind of points of no return. Why do you think they did it? Do you like it?

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[–] Alendi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, I found it confusing that sometimes there is a warning which has no consequences, then in anothere you get locked from all previous maps. Also with time-sensitive missions, you can fail a few quests and it is not always specified that there will be consequences if you take too long in your exploration (in a game that is all about exploration)

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe they mentioned that those time sensitive ones are directly related to taking long rests near the location of the quest.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You aren't told this in game, tho. The quests in question don't even apply the pressure to give the illusion time is crucial, the way they do with the worm in your head every 5 minutes. You have no way knowing that these two specific quests have a time limit. It's not like every quest has them.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does your DM tell you the consequences of all your long rests and choices as well, or do you find out after?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does your DM straight up not make it clear there are time constraints, either through context or by just directly telling the party? The story in BG3 emphasizes a time crunch in one thing, that doesn't matter until you progress beyond certain map points, but then you get these other couple of quests that make no effort to say there is any time limit, so you rest after 1 fight and fuck everything up without even realizing wtf happened. Even after it happens, it's not clear it was because you rested and time had passed.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I'm running a game I absolutely tell my players things that I think their characters would be aware of, and that includes time pressures that a reasonable adventuring party would understand through professional experience

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do give you hints with some of them - I did a long rest and everyone was telling me we needed to hurry or the dude trapped under rubble was going to die. I thought that was a good way to handle it.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, all the time critical events I encountered had NPCs clearly indicating it's a time sensitive issue.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does your DM let you re-roll if you don't like the outcome?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, actually. If I have inspiration points. That's what they're there for.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

In act 1, if you don't resolve the druid/goblin/tiefling dispute, and iirc the burning house before reaching act 2, it resolves itself. If you did nothing the grove's ritual finishes, if you killed the druids the goblins invade and kill everyone, and the other options don't matter since you would resolve the quest, oh and karlach's personal quest too, if you don't do it she leaves.