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Baldur's Gate 3 became the best-selling game on both Steam and GOG.com on the day of its early access launch. [89] On Steam, the game had about 537,000 concurrent players on release day and peaked at 875,000 two weeks after release. [90] [91] [92] It sold more than 2.5 million copies during its early access phase. [93]
Baldur's Gate is a series of role-playing video games set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. The series has been divided into two sub-series, known as the Bhaalspawn Saga and the Dark Alliance, both taking place mostly within the Western Heartlands, but the Bhaalspawn Saga extends to Amn and Tethyr.
Minsc / ˈ m ɪ n s k / is a fictional character in the Baldur's Gate series of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing video games developed by BioWare and Larian Studios.He originated from the pen-and-paper Dungeons & Dragons sessions held by the lead designer of Baldur's Gate, James Ohlen, and was expanded upon by the game's lead writer, Lukas Kristjanson.
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior is a 1987 video game developed and published by Palace Software for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. The game was ported to many other systems and was licensed to Epyx who published it as Death Sword in the United States. Barbarian is a fighting game that gives players control over sword-wielding ...
[8] [58] There are also many new NPCs who may join the party: Aerie, a winged elf who has lost her wings and was sold to the circus by slavers at a young age; [59] [60] [61] Keldorn, an older paladin and a powerful and respected member of the Most Noble Order of the Radiant Heart; [62] [63] Mazzy, an honorable halfling fighter and "the nearest ...
Barbarian II adopted an adventure format in which the protagonist explores locales to reach his goal, fighting monsters in his way.. Unlike its predecessor which offers sword fighting action to one or two players, Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax features only a single-player mode, in which the player assumes the role of either sword-wielding Princess Mariana or the titular savage, who is ...
The game received "mixed reviews" on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. [17] [18] [19] Many video game websites and publications gave earlier reviews and average scores on the GameCube and Xbox versions in late 2002, months before the release dates for both of those versions were canceled in the U.S. due to mediocre reception for the PS2 version.
In December 2023, James Whitbrook of Gizmodo highlighted "D&D's continued social influence" with the release of related media such as the film Honor Among Thieves, the Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures FAST channel, and the video game Baldur's Gate 3 with the video game's "blockbuster success" credited "for a 40% increase in Wizards of the Coast's ...