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[Buggy Loop]

Hasn’t this game been available for like 2 years now on pc?

Early access with chapters sprinkled here and there, nowhere near close to full game

Just a taste of what’s to come, full blown Baldur’s Gate city

 

[Sentenza]

I didnt read the Series S part. I always thought it was coming to Xbox.

It probably is.
They never said it's not coming, they just claimed they are not comfortable announcing an explicit date yet.

 

[Sentenza]

Early access with chapters sprinkled here and there, nowhere near close to full game

Early access with the first chapter (well, Act) alone, actually.
And not even a complete one. The final part of Act 1 is still missing.

To be clear this is by design and it has nothing to do with being late on a schedule.
They didn't want to release the game piece by piece and they always said from the beginning that until the proper release the EA build would remain limited to the first Act.

They did the same exact thing with DOS 1 and 2.

 

[Kamina]

I will play Baldurs Gate. Starfield is interesting, but there is a whole week in between and i can start plying it on GamePass whenever.

 

[Zuzu]

Baldur’s Gate will most likely be the better ‘pure’ rpg wrt to choice and consequence and character building but Starfield will outmatch it when it comes to world exploration and the scope of things you can do. I prefer fps gameplay over turn based isometric combat systems so I think Starfield’s core combat gameplay will be more fun for me as well.

 

[TexMex]

Remember spinal?

 

[Spukc]

Microsoft flight simulator or mortal kombat 1 ?

 

[Sentenza]

Microsoft flight simulator or mortal kombat 1 ?

Do they release less than a week apart, too?

 

[gamerEMdoc]

No, it won't.
Larian is known (or "notorious" if you prefer) for being incredibly conservative with discounts and extremely wary of devaluing their games. It took more than 2 years after release (on top of more than a year of Early Access) for DOS 2 to get its first 40% discount on Steam.
On top of that, Bg3 is projected to be a giant seller by their standards (DOS 2 peaked at 15K concurrent users in EA, only to sell two millions in the first two months at release; meanwhile BG3 climbed at almost 90K concurrent users as soon as its EA started and it's rumored to be past the two millions total sales already) so they are in no rush whatsoever to lower their price.


Are you mad because people here aren't picking what you think should be the most popular option?

Digitally maybe where prices are more controlled, but on disk retailers set the price based on excess inventory and I'd bet that a 5 mo old game will not be $70 on Amazon in December. But if its not, then I'll buy it then at full price. I just don't want to buy a game for $70 and not play it for a few months while I'm playing another game.

 

[Shadowstar39]

BG3, only because I work 10 hour shifts at my home office pc. Not going to spend time there , although I would in the past due to mods, but not worth it now.
I want to play starfeild and can(3060ti so its no prob), but I will need to stream it to steam link, or play it on steam deck (if it works).

No way am I wasting money on a xbss.
I'll wait for it though. I would of gotten it day 1.

BG3, all the way. Besides I will probably still be working on diablo4, FF16 and countless other games then. Hell, I still haven't even finished BOTW or unwrapped TOTK yet. Along with needing to beat fire emblem engage, p5royal, Triangle strategy Octopath 2, and countless more.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Baldurs Gate 3 will have the better story and combat.

 

[invisible_face]

Did not enjoy Divinity 2 at all so Starfield.

 

[Fuz]

I love to death Divinity 1 and 2, but I wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to be Baldur's Gate 3, not Divinity 3.


So, Starfield.

 

[Fuz]

but I will need to stream it to steam link, or play it on steam deck (if it works).