Baldur's Gate and how to get into D&D
Plus, a bunch of other games we're enjoying!
This week on The Besties: Baldur’s Gate 3 and D&D
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is humongous, so we spend some more time talking about this incredible CRPG before Starfield and Armored Core 6 take over our lives. We also chat about Hammerwatch 2, an interesting game that makes some puzzling choices.
In the back half of the episode, the crew shares some helpful starter games and tools for listeners curious about getting into D&D. The recs include Quest, Lasers and Feelings, StartPlaying.games.
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Games discussed:
Baldur’s Gate 3, Hammerwatch 2, Wildermyth, Zero Escape, Outer Wilds, Minit, The Sexy Brutale, The Forgotten City, Pokemon Sleep, the original The Legend of Zelda
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Next week on The Besties:
We have a ton of great games to catch up on, including Blasphemous 2. Time to open the grab bag!
Bonus links:
Polygon’s review of Blasphemous 2.
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An LCD de-make of Paper’s Please to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
“Red Dead Redemption works just fine on the Switch.”
The Stop Making Sense re-release looks wonderful!
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For Justin and Griffin: do you expect BG3 to influence how you play TAZ? New-to-you mechanics you’ve discovered to change how you play a PC, new classes you’d like to try, new tricks/story beats/encounter types to incorporate into how you DM, etc? Does the vibe of how Larian have “DMed” this game translate at all to the TAZ setup or is it just hopelessly too much preproduction work?