Hundreds of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players somehow beat the game in its opening weekend Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a whole lot of game. Players have praised its massive scope and mechanical depth so it\u2019s a big surprise that hundreds then managed to rush through it during its opening weekend. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 had one of the biggest launches of the year surprising even its own developers with its success. Players have taken to the game with unchecked vigor, pushing Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s concurrent player count to soaring heights. Twice. Larian celebrated their successful launch with something only the D&D nerds who love Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 this much could appreciate: stats. In fairness, a game like Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 can have some pretty hilarious extrapolations. We\u2019ve already mentioned some of the more outstanding ones like the fact that players spent 88 years in the character creator or the fact that nobody can smash Asterion, despite their best efforts. What shocked us the most is that 368 absolute mad folk beat the game in its opening weekend. To put things in context, this is a game that has prompted hundreds of posts on its subreddit about spending tens of hours in its introduction alone. Players are claiming to have spent 50 hours in the first act of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 with no end in sight. So, how did the intrepid adventurers in Larian\u2019s stat dump get through the game\u2019s extensive story in a brief 70-hour window that we hope included sleep and potty breaks? The answer is they probably skipped a mountain of the game\u2019s impressive side content. We like to imagine that they also adopted temporary insomnia and have a room full of suspiciously colored Sprite bottles but it\u2019s impossible to tell. Jokes aside, for a game this size and a player base of over 2 million, being one of a few hundred to beat the game this quickly is impressive. Hopefully, they\u2019ll be able to experience Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s rich side content in a second playthrough. Particularly all the companion quests that flesh those characters out so well. Since Larian published the stats, 1.2% of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players have been awarded the All\u2019s Well That Ends Well achievement. This marks the successful completion of the game\u2019s campaign. We\u2019re not saying we did the math or anything, except that we totally did. Turns out that\u2019s around 30,000 people. Almost 10 times the amount that finished before the opening weekend was out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hundreds of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players somehow beat the game in its opening weekend Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a whole lot of game. Players have praised its massive scope and mechanical depth so it\u2019s a big surprise that hundreds then managed to rush through it during its opening weekend. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 had one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}