Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Console Exclusive To PlayStation 5

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a console exclusive for the PlayStation 5.

Sony unveiled the role playing game in their recent State of Play event. This reveal was significant because Baldur’s Gate 3 was seemingly going to stay a PC only game right until this announcement. For now, we don’t know if Baldur’s Gate 3 will also make its way to other platforms, such as Xbox or the Nintendo Switch.

Now, for those who don’t know, Baldur’s Gate 3 is actually a part of the Dungeons and Dragons’ license. As opposed to the live streaming version of Dungeons and Dragons, which is a virtual recreation of the board game pen and paper experience, Baldur’s Gate 3 is an adaptation, or translation, of that experience, in the form of a turn based RPG.

Although it doesn’t follow of Dungeons and Dragons piece by piece, Larian Games has resolved to make a version of the world that feels real to that experience. They have announced that Baldur’s Gate 3 will be following the latest Dungeons and Dragons rulebook, and that includes adding the latest classes in an upcoming update.

For now, we do have quite a lot to look forward to, as Baldur’s Gate 3 is set 100 years after Baldur’s Gate 2, leaving the events of that game behind as your Fae’run faces a new threat: the illithids, or as they are most commonly known, the mind flayers.

The mind flayers are a classic stock Dungeons and Dragons enemy, essentially mental vampires. With their squid heads and human bodies, they are certainly evocative of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu, but instead of imagining a giant flying spaghetti monster, think of an army of human sizes squid men, eating humans or taking control of them to do violence unto others.

We won’t go through the whole history of it here, but since Bioware was forced