What Baldur's Gate 3 is Like For Someone Who Doesn't Really Play Games
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Baldur's Gate 3 is a game with an unprecedented amount of player choice. There are so many ways to interact with the world, and that made me wonder: what would it be like for someone who learning the ins and outs of video games? So, I had my wife play it to find out, and now you can watch to also find out.
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hope you enjoy this entry of my wife's journey in her gaming education. been a lot of fun to see how she has grown as a player and applied logic learned from other games to this one, and yeah, we had a lot of fun making this, so I hope that shows! anyway, we're gonna have a second kid any day now, so until I'm back, have a good one.
Can’t believe the Lady You Live With has finally evolved from someone who doesn’t play games into someone who doesn’t
- Likes space to think
Wait, Lady did not pick up Gale, Wyll AND Karlach???? She was stuck with the whole Mean Girl clique as a first impression of companions, oh no!! D:
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The actor who plays Lae' Zel has a series of herself playing bg3, and she does not know much about video games. It's a really fun series to watch and made me realize how many things can be confusing about the game that I hadn't even though of.
The Lady >I< Live With has just discovered Stardew Valley. I had to explain WASD controls to her, which of course I didn't realise would be unintuitive to the uninitiated. I'm excited to see how she grows.
It's so funny to me that while playing BG3, removing the parasite clearly felt like a McGuffin plot device designed to move the story forward while you enjoy the game, but your wife very much viewed it as a singular task she had to accomplish
Its crazy to me that older players hate games for hand holding, but like this lady, every person i try to get into games there first comment is "IDK what to do its not telling me a detailed to do list of objectives." Kinda leaves game designers fumbling.
I didn't even think about controlling the other party members...as a DM, I was just grateful that someone was doing the numbers for me.
Your wife's sudden epiphany that she married a massive nerd made me laugh so hard, my partner was the same when we watched the D&D 2023 movie together and I was pointing out all of the easter eggs XD
when a new player joins my campaign, I tell them to think of a character entirely based on aesthetic. It's impossible to expect someone to parse the countless small but important decisions they make when actually making a character sheet. It's much easier to start from vibes, then steadily learn the mechanics after.
I will say as a woman who grew up playing video games I never really understood how hard it was to learn video games until I played Civilization 6, Crusader Kings 3 and Planet Zoo. The kind of system knowledge required to feel confident while playing those games is immense and for some reason my knowledge of most video game genres just didn’t transfer over very well.
"Please don't put that in the video." I hope like any good, and loving husband your very next thought was. "First thing going in the video" and then built the whole video outward from the squirrel death. lol
Lady trying to knock the tieflings unconscious as to not kill innocent folk and then Lae’zel just killing them anyway is so in-character for her
Swapping this to coop was a really good idea. It shows another side of the experiment and it really brings out the best of dnd.
While I appreciate the lessons we can learn from someone new to gaming, the lady you live with doesn't strike me as someone new to games- she strikes me as someone who doesn't enjoy them. Maybe they're just not for her, and that's okay.
My mom, who hasn't played many intensive games, picked up BG3 a little while after released, and now has more hours in it then me and everyone else I know who plays it put together. It took her many, many hours to understand how the game worked and all the options at her disposal, but now she's probably better at it than me. Also, the floor markings from the smokepowder satchel are where it would spread to when it broke. The explosive radius isn't shown, and extends a meter or two from the powder in every direction. The throwing animation doesn't actually move your hitbox.
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A lot of her issues seem to stem from her impatience to experiment and learn what the game is telling her. Yes games can be ambiguous but at the same time you arent meant to just fly through every part of the game. Her getting discoraged from talking to NPCs is a good example, yes not all NPCs are useful but at the same time they help to build a more full world as not everyone is linked to a main objective. Taking your time in games is very important and not being able to do that will hinder someones ability to connect to the game. Also when a character tells her something especially in game like BG3 she should have been told that not everyone is acting in her best interest, a character saying something isnt the same as a prompt in the game telling you something. Which for a new gamer i can understand, i guess but at the same time not every game can be holding everyone hand as if its their first ever experience in the genre. Overall this is an amazing series and i admire both of you for doing it, but at times i feel as if things could go a bit smoother if you helped to fill in the assumed blanks for her when the game doesnt expicitly spell it out for her.