Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Felicia Day Playing Baldur's Gate 3 is great entertainment

Not only is her enthusiasm fun to watch but its a great model for how new players will approach the game and the kind of mistakes they will make. BG3's broad appeal will result in a lot of folks making these same mistakes but still having fun.

Before I watch, and I know this will sound sexist, but she's not one of those "chatting with 4 guys(or girls) on stream while playing" types is she? I enjoy just watching a single person play and hearing their thoughts, not hearing them chat with a bunch of other people while they play.

No one else's voice is on stream, but she takes suggestions from her twitch channel...and trust me...she needs the help. LOL!

Surprised to see she has such a relatively low number of subscribers.
I remember she used to be a genuine "internet darling" few years back.

Makes me want to re-watch 'The Guild'!

I randomly clicked on 1:04:10 and I hear her exclaim, "Miss?!"

But we're all internet darlings here!

Speak for yourself! I'm mostly reviled everywhere I go and my relationship with the internet is abusive at best.

Not sure darling is the right word, Gremlin maybe, I can take being called a gremlin.

Or Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog! Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion AND Felicia Day?!

Omg yes thanks for the reminder. I loved that scene, definitely worth a rewatch too!

Meh, I am more of a Retcon Raider kind of guy.

Somebody needs a hug!

I ACTUALLY ended up watching this yesterday from bed.

One of the first things she complained about (even if admittedly just briefly as a passing comment) was how annoying the auto-following companions getting in her way were at times.
The second moment she loudly voiced her disappointment was when she met Lae'zel and learned that she could have only three companions with her.

And she's basically the physical manifestation of the abstract "average casual player".
It's amusing then that we have people on this very forum condescendingly implying "that these are improvements only hardcore forum dwellers care about".

I hope her cheque is the post as agreed ;-D

I saw that she had a BG3 Let's Play on YouTube, I haven't gotten around to watching it yet. Funny thing I just finished re-binging Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7 a couple of days ago. I was like, "that's Felicia Day!". I didn't know who she was back then, and didn't know she was in it.

During today’s episode of “Felicia Day plays BG3”:

- Felicia wonders why no one moved except her character while entering stealth

-immediately after she wonders if she can’t put the entire party in stealth

- someone in chat tells her “You can, but you have to put each one in stealth individually”

- her reaction is “That’s very dumb. They need to fix that”.


Man, this silent majority of casual players surely seem to love Larian’a control scheme, uh?

and here is another example with Asmongold. He accidentally murders Shadowheart with Gale's Witchbolt. He doesn't really understand Bonus action or how they can be used. He has probably no D&D experience at all.

Yeah the control scheme needs some work. The intro player tips also needs serious work.

Honestly, YEAH. The control scheme and tooltips need A LOT of work. I have notice there are some who seem to hate the DnD elements mainly cause they don't understand them (there are some who just dislike DnD elements but I digress.)

I suppose a bit like me with dice-rolls. I've never played anything D&D before, coming mostly from a generic RPG background, and was pretty confounded by their prevalence, especially in dialogue where I'm used to PC attributes being the largest deciding factor; where there has been randomness in other games, it's hidden but I'm still not keen, preferring the "x points in SPECIAL determining pass/fail" type approach.

But I've learnt from D&Ders that dice-rolls are a key part of the whole thing. I still don't like them, but I guess at least I understand why they're there and can tolerate them as long as save-scumming remains a thing! Something I rarely use elsewhere, but failing some dialogue options is just too meh to live with.

Not so much a D&D element (well, probably) is the party controls which are much the same as the Original Sins. This I don't mind so much and actually I found it a lot more convenient to use than e.g. the Bioware games or the likes of Outer Worlds; that said, there's a lot to be said for autonomy of party members but in general I'm fine with it. Probably more a comment for the WASD topic really, but "I've started so I'll finish" etc and in that regard it'd be nice to have more typical modern WASD controls when zoomed in on a particular character so you're in essentially third-person mode but to flip back to Larian's current scheme when zoomed out. I guess a bit like Inquisition tried to do, but given that it didn't really succeed, I should probably take that as a warning...

Er anyway, I digress so I should probably admonish myself to stay on topic.