Anyone playing with their S.O.?

[Tenor Sounds]

I'm curious, is anyone playing the campaign with their S.O.? Especially as a first playthrough? I've been playing the game splitscreen with my husband we've been having a great time, so I was wondering if there were any other players on here doing the same and what kind of wacky couples adventures folks might be having.

For me, highlights include my Mushroom-loving husband just completely taking the wheel and not letting us go against the Myconids no matter what, having fun judging each-other's companion / romance choices (all in good fun, of course), and even the small stuff like always asking "hey, mind if I use your guidance for this check?" even though I know he'll always say "yes silly, you don't always have to ask :P"

As many warts and missing QoL issues the multiplayer has, I actually think it works pretty well for split-screen co-op. Especially if you're sticking together and communicating, it's a ton of fun to explore the world together and even troll each-other a little bit (I kept wondering why I was accidentally picking up so many skulls until he broke down laughing and admitted he was sneaking them into my inventory every once in awhile just to mess with me, lol)

[Don_Salvatore]

I wish my girlfriend had the gaming gene. Sadly she doesn't, although she likes watching some games I play that are story driven.

Have a warm blanket for a nice post:)

[Orion Invictus]

Sadly, my BF is not much of a gamer and doesn't like this type of game. I wish I could play with him, though.

[[Countess]Vol†z]

I play with my boyfriend and his friends on tactition. I become the team's heal cleric. It's been a lot of fun for me at least. I've already beaten the game solo, but it does feel like a different experience with others.

[Razör]

I kicked Astarion in the balls just to spite my wifes taste for sexy vampires.

[Shroomy]

50hours in with my GF here. The more we play, the more we went to set up rules such as:

- Rule #1: putting a third locker in every camp in which we transfer our "epic" stuff (the things "that glow" mostly), so that we could easily upgrade our characters without having to cross check each other's inventory "by hand"). We haven't found how to share our lockers so we created a 3rd one (we have to move stuff in every camp "location" that "differs", but that's quite quick).

- Then, rule #2 : every piece of crap to be sold and food must be sent to the camp in each others' personal locker (so we don't have overweighted characters to empty himself before a major battle which would lead to chaotic item organization due to the "emergency" factor).

- Regarding the story, same-o, we set up the rules of "'being good and nice" for this first run, keeping the evil sided one for the second we will do (saving goblins for example will be our next start 1st quest).

- It's like every coop boardgame (pandemic style): we communicate before any major actions instead of frustrating ourselves. We communicate for the best tactical option to make during a battle too (if you play oil + fire magician, you better tell your GF not to go into the brawl first...).

- Fun fact: She'll be made at me for a looooong time because her half-elf has lost an eye to Auntie Ethel (the hag) on my suggestion (I had lost mine with Volo - then got it back clean, she couldn't with the hag - but it was her turn to try if it was possible to get rid of the larvae with the worst NPC's ideas of this act, ahah). So she has the ugliest character in our group now, and she is quite mad at me. Maybe i'll be able to buy an eye in town somewhere but don't spoil me we are just at the end of act 1.

[Tenor Sounds]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Sadly, my BF is not much of a gamer and doesn't like this type of game. I wish I could play with him, though.

Yeah, normally my husband isn't into these types of games either, but we do both really like DnD table-top and that made things a lot easier to understand and work with initially. He also doesn't like "isometric" games so I made sure to install that camera mod that makes it more like a 3rd-person game.

Originally posted by CountessVol†z:

I play with my boyfriend and his friends on tactition. I become the team's heal cleric. It's been a lot of fun for me at least. I've already beaten the game solo, but it does feel like a different experience with others.

Aw, that sounds really fun too. I don't think we'd be able to get a 4-person team together, but having played a little bit by myself I can tell it's really different with others. At first I was hesitant and wanted to finish the game myself beforehand, but there's something cool about seeing everything for the first time together too.

Originally posted by Shroomy:

50hours in with my GF here. The more we play, the more we went to set up rules [...]

Oh yeah, setting some ground rules are important for sure. We figured out early on that sticking together most of the time was the best for us, so we generally don't venture off into new territory without letting the other person know.

Speaking of Volo's eye, my husband had picked up on the internet somewhere that you did benefit if you let him try his surgery so he jumped at the chance. Neither of us knew what was going to happen exactly, and we were both just wincing and laughing and gaping in horror and going "oh dear god!" the whole time, lol.

[Aurichu]

I'm playing with my SO and he's so chaotic lol
We both control our companion of choice for romancing purposes, but he's more of a "♥♥♥♥ around and find out" kinda of gamer. This isn't my first run, so seeing him make choices I know would have funny consequences is really entertaining.

[Tenor Sounds]

Originally posted by Aurichu:

I'm playing with my SO and he's so chaotic lol
We both control our companion of choice for romancing purposes, but he's more of a "♥♥♥♥ around and find out" kinda of gamer. This isn't my first run, so seeing him make choices I know would have funny consequences is really entertaining.

Both of us are pretty deliberate with our actions since it's our first time, but I definitely have a bit of that "it's not my solo playthough so I can play a bit more loose" feeling which has gotten us into some...interesting situations. Mostly me playing my Rogue as a bit more mouthy and snarky than I would otherwise, which can piss off some NPCs apparently >.>

We're being relatively thorough but not exactly scraping the map, so I'm pretty excited to go through on my solo playthrough and really dig into things and make different choices.

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No, I don't want anyone to interfere with my games, once I tried to pass DoS2 with 2 "friends", it was terrible

[Aegix Drakan]

I cracked up at the "He was sneaking skulls into your inventory" XD

THAT'S a fun troll move lol.

[lawjax]

I enjoy playing with my friends as we have much in common and know one another all too well, and so we cannot help but have a remarkable time together. There are some people who, in fits of envy or jealousy, have called them "imaginary". That my dearest companions only make themselves known to me makes our relationship all the more special.

[Argonaut]

Yeah we played those games when we where kids but BG3 unfortunately has left a sour taste in both of our mouths. A lot could have been overlooked but once be got to Act 3 and the massive retcons with zero effort and crapping over the previous games and legacy lore everything just fell apart.

[guard65]

My wife and I play via local Lan connection and vpn. We are both programmers so we mod the game quite a bit to enhance the challenge.

[zilannoj]

I'm playing the game with my husband too. Astarion and I are the chaotic duo. I actually ended up changing from bard to barbarian after letting Abdirak torture me (that buff is really nice). Husband decided to romance Karlach, and I really love how all four of us interact with each other. Karlach reminds me so much of a golden retriever, and Astarion is definitely a cat. We've decided to make this run our good one and the next one our evil/dark urge run, especially since we want more Minthara content.

We really disliked Astarion when we first met him, but I think even my husband is falling in love with him.

[Tenor Sounds]

Originally posted by Don_Salvatore:

I wish my girlfriend had the gaming gene. Sadly she doesn't, although she likes watching some games I play that are story driven.

Have a warm blanket for a nice post:)

Aw, thanks :)

Yeah, my husband isn't a capital "G" gamer really, but he does get into certain games (Skyrim, Spiritfarer, the Zelda series, etc.); BG3 is a bit of an anomaly because we're both D&D nerds, normally our co-op games are more simple than CRPGs, usually a roguelike or something. Recently, I've been replaying the Telltale Sam and Max games and he enjoys watching me putz around while he's crocheting or sculpting.

Originally posted by 𝓶𝓲𝓵𝓴𝔂𝔀𝓪𝔂:

I kicked Astarion in the balls just to spite my wifes taste for sexy vampires.

xD

Originally posted by Aegix Drakan:

I cracked up at the "He was sneaking skulls into your inventory" XD

THAT'S a fun troll move lol.

I grumbled a little at the time but yeah, he's got a good sense of humor ^_^

Originally posted by Argonaut:

Yeah we played those games when we where kids but BG3 unfortunately has left a sour taste in both of our mouths. A lot could have been overlooked but once be got to Act 3 and the massive retcons with zero effort and crapping over the previous games and legacy lore everything just fell apart.

We got off easy, he's not familiar with the old games and I barely remember the lore, lol