Baldur's Gate III - Spoiler Edition (please read updated OP)

They are hard to play now a days, you got to be a real old school fan to look past the relative clunkiness.

*shrug*  Maybe,  Maybe there will be returning characters (dwarves and elves are long-lived)  It looks like it will also be taking place in and around Baldur's Gate, like the first game.  So there's some connective tissue at least.

Its an interesting phenomenon that numbering things has and you are not the only one.  I keep hearing a study brought up when people are discussing movie sequels where if you put a number in the title people get a mentality that they are required to watch the prior movies to know what is going on.  So when a company does something like BioWare did with Andromeda they leave off the numbers because they want to put a break between it and what has come before.

To those that said they liked Divinity 2 did you play it at release or some time after? For even Larian admits they released the game too early which caused poor sales and reviews for the game.  If that is the case I hope they don't get stuck with a timeframe crunch for releasing their take on a modern Baldur's Gate.

I'm not, and I funded Numenera and felt dismayed with every step afterward (though I like the game, it isn't beyond a 7/10 in my eyes, as a cRPG).

Anything I've heard about BG3 makes it fine by me. But keep in mind that I'm not a BG 'fan'. I've been enjoying it (not even done!), but I'm more of a ME 'fan' if anything.

It doesn't matter the title for me - if there are earlier games in a series, I usually want to play those first, especially if they have remasters/remakes.

Exception being if the games are from like.. the 1980s or maybe earlier 1990s. I won't touch any modern Assassin's Creed game until I've played every major one (and I haven't beat the first..), but I'm okay with the Shin Megami Tensei mainline series since there's likely no way I'll touch the first two or the more spinoffy spinoffs (SMT If... for example, not Persona or Digital Devil Saga stuff). I'm open to trying SMT3 again but that's on its own. I'm open to trying SMT4 (and SMT4:Apoc) again but that's also on its own. I'll be okay with not completing a single mainline SMT game before playing SMT5 on the Switch, if gifted to me sometime.

But DOS there was no way I'd touch DOS2 before beating the first one. But while I have the other old Divinity games, I haven't played them yet.

A good rule is that if there's significant chronology, I'm following that instead of depending on some synopsis or references. KH3 can wait, I'm doing KH1.5, 2.5, 2.8 on PC (and the mobile game?) before even caring to think about touching it.

Well, I've already got my first character planned!

I know I should technically wait until we find out which classes and races are available, but I put it to you that 'dwarf cleric' is a concept so basic to D&D that no game that cannot manage it has any business using the license.

(I am not yet committed to a domain. I'd prefer Tempest, but if we don't get that then War will be fine. The important thing about my dwarf is that she has heavy armor, a big warhammer and the power of the gods.)

Those must be the same people who assumed there was nothing silly in BG to begin with. They must have missed the chicken man and Edwin turning into Edwina. Actually, Edwin in general.  

I can't believe it's actually happening! Nineteen years...I'm so excited. I heard someone mention BG3 a couple of days ago but blew it off as wishful thinking. This is so great.

Depending on what level campaign they give us. Our dragon fights could look like this (much harder of course).