I would make a review thread but it seems like reviewers just started playing, so there aren’t many yet.

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Hardly any mention of this from Apple or their associated media, despite the fact that an AAA game launching a Mac port on day 1 is virtually unheard-of in 2023.

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Except it’s not available on Mac on day one. Larian hasn’t even announced when it will be aside from “at a later date.”

Update: Apparently, the Steam Discussions page has a post that lists it as September 5.

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Unless it’s shipped to the App Store and not just Steam, they wouldn’t market it anyway. I don’t believe they publicise third-party marketplaces / appstores (which Steam arguable is).

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What it runs on mac? What the fuck I’m never going to work again.

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Yep - M1 optimized too, so it actually runs well on Mac.

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I assume that means the M2 Air is going to be just fine with it?

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Because it only launches today on PC to not compete with starfield. Other platforms are the original release date

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Announce to what gaming audience?

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outside of Apple arcade, I don’t think Apple cares one iota about gaming. As evidenced by your observation. It’s a huge market to miss, but they don’t really seem to care. All they keep doing is adding old mobile remakes of games everyone has played before to their Arcade subscription nobody would ever pay for if it wasn’t bundled into Apple one…

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They made a big deal about the latest Resident Evil and Death Stranding both coming to Mac at WWDC last year and this year

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Just checked DS and it doesn’t seem to been compatible according to Steam (M2 MacBook Air).

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They’ve been investing way more in gaming lately, but I imagine their long-term plan involves setting up Apple Arcade as a premium brand for high-end titles in a way that might be undermined by promoting their “competition” now. Like if Apple promoted a lot of shows that were available on iTunes shortly before launching Apple TV+. No idea, though, I’m just wildly speculating.

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I don’t know, they are focusing a ton right now on re-releasing REALLY old mobile games, just with a plus symbol added to the name. That’s polar opposite from premium high end titles. If they do want to go that direction they need to change course immediately!

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Oh it gets plenty kinky.

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If you never played the original Baldurs Gate games or the devs original Divinity Original Sin games then you are in for an absolute treat.

This game is basically Dungeons and Dragons with so many ways to play and have fun.

Imagine if you will a half demon and a Dragonborn walk into a bar. The Dragonborn is a bard and the half demon is what is called a Tiefling. The two are best friends ready to take on the world. They meet a dark elf who is a powerful druid that can turn into a spider and a dwarf who is also warlock. The four of them find themselves surrounded by bandits but fret not the Dragonborn sings his tunes to make the Tiefling stronger. The drwarf helps freeze them in place and the druid spins her spindly legs to eat the bandits.

Together they will save the world. Well if your brain imagines all that in your own way then welcome to Baldurs Gate 3.

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I have no idea what this is but after looking around I bought it. it looks amazing

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Hasn’t this been in early access for three years? There’s plenty of material out there if you’re just interested in the gameplay.

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Sure the gameplay is well tested (it has a overwhelmingly positive on Steam already from Early Access), but it’s a huge game, and everything beyond Act 1 is brand new, plus many things in Act 1 have been changed (ex. one origin character was rescripted and recorded).

So while the gameplay and the implementation of the 5e ruleset is well known, the rest of the story and the journey is still mostly new, and that’s a huge part of what will make people enjoy the game or not.

Just my few cents on why it’s still important to see how it reviews. Mortismal Gaming is already reporting that there are some crashes, bugs in the release version, especially in the later acts (even if that is normal for a game of this scope, it’s good to know).

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That’s the main reason i suggested the older stuff. You get an idea of what it’s like without spoilers. It’s what i did when i started hearing about it. I don’t think it’s a game for me just based on the gameplay.

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Who did they rescript? Is it the wizard?

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Wyll, the warlock.

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The early access was only a very small portion of the game

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That’s good to know! I played a little during early access and couldn’t get the controls down on Steam Deck. Probably better with m&k.

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Absolutely. I don’t know how people play complex CRPG’s with a controller. Just the inventory alone would drive me nuts!

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