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Baldur’s Gate 3 will (maybe) hit early access in August… and that trailer got me well excitedConsider your predicament
Consider your predicament
You really should watch the trailer before we discuss it, so you can get yourself up to speed, and get the aforementioned pump-up music stuck in your head - it’s right here:
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It’s good, right? I’m not as up to speed on BG3 as I’d like to be, as it’s Alice Bee and VidBud Matthewwho’ve been keeping tabs on itfor the most part, but I’ll have a stab at explaining what’s going on. There’s this devil man, see, who’s got a lovely dinner set out, and he’s taking the piss out of you because you’ve got two brains and you don’t know what to do with them.
Those cinnamon rolls in the bottom left look well nice.
He tells you that you’ve got no chance of sorting out your double brain problem, and we know this because we see a quick shot of a Shakespeare looking really sad at a bit of burning paper.
Awww man, that was my favourite hamlet.
After showing you loads more people looking dismayed, the devil man (who I’m now presuming cut the trailer together) says that eventually you’re going to have to go to him about a solution, because he’s some sort of amazing brain doctor. But he’s also, importantly, a devil man, and sounds really smug about your inevitable visit to him. I suspect he charges loads of money.
Anyway, whatever his deal is, it really pisses off everyone else in the trailer, because as soon as he says it they all start getting out swords in slow motion. There’s a guy who looks like if Frodo Baggins got really into Sisters Of Mercy, and an elf who looks like he’s about to absolutely trash a massive octopus, and the Shakespeare again, who’s now just sort of gesturing helplessly at the air because he doesn’t know what’s going on.
Seriously lads what’s happening?
My favourite thing about this already lovely bit of Swennage is watching his colleagues do their best not to burst out laughing while their boss goes bananas with a foam sword.
Recovering swiftly from his antics, he said that Larian have made a decent go of adjusting to the new normal, and that performance capture for the game had resumed. There were some reassuring shots of people fiddling with sound levels, and actors in black suits covered in golf balls, to prove it and all. If I’m any judge of tone, his excitement made it sound like the “Maybe” caveat might actually be more of a “Probably”, but that he didn’t want to get a load of peoples' hopes up. Which is fair enough!
We still don’t know exactly what’s gonna be in BG3 in its Early Access form, but apparently we’ll find out soon. So hold onto your owlbears, and we’ll give you more as we have it.
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