CHICAGO – The physical release of Baldur’s Gate 3 on the Xbox is fast approaching and local gamer Gina Hartley is reportedly struggling to determine which of the game’s discs she will romance. The self-appointed, ‘Hopeless Physical Media Romantic’ confirmed her latest dilemma in a Twitter thread.
“I’m a one disc kind of girl. I can’t make room in my heart for four discs,” Hartley tweeted. “I haven’t owned a piece of physical media in 20 years. After trying to pick between the 10 discs of Everquest 2 and failing, my heart and many of those discs were shattered to pieces. I will not be hurt. Not again… Yet, I yearn for a real connection with physical media.”
Hartley confirmed she had previously played Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam, but never in her wildest dreams did she think it could come back into her life as a physical release.
“I wanted to wrap the box in my arms, sniff the manual, and trace my finger around the outside rim of the disc. In a moment of passion, I was mere clicks away from preordering my first copy of physical media since 2004. Then I saw them. Discs, not disc, discs,” Hartley’s thread continued. “Why can’t a single disc have it all? No one is fully complete, I get that, but you’re telling me Larian can’t fit Act I and II on a single disc? You’re telling me they can’t find a few spots to fit that last 500MB?”
Hartley’s thread was quick to draw criticism from physical media pariahs on Twitter.
“Just get a PS5, it’s only two discs. You could be a throuple,” read one quote Tweet from user, PlayStation is My Dad
“Can’t you just date all 4 casually,” a Larian Studios exec wrote.
At press time, Hartley could be seen writing, “Mrs. Gina Baldur’s Gate 3 Disc 1,” over and over again on the cover of a notebook.
