Baldur's Gate 3

[Oyster Sauce]

I seem to have reached the stage of the game where Larian felt safe adding more gay couples than normal ones, as well as obese black drag queens. Great.

[rusty_shackleford]

I seem to have reached the stage of the game where Larian felt safe adding more gay couples than normal ones, as well as obese black drag queens. Great.

I played the early access when it released and didn't play again until the full game released, there's such a dramatic shift in overall tone between the early access content and the rest of the game. Not sure why or what caused it.

[Oyster Sauce]

I seem to have reached the stage of the game where Larian felt safe adding more gay couples than normal ones, as well as obese black drag queens. Great.

I played the early access when it released and didn't play again until the full game released, there's such a dramatic shift in overall tone between the early access content and the rest of the game. Not sure why or what caused it.

At least the main overly-gushy gigglesquee lesbians in this game are both women, unlike in WotR.

[Oyster Sauce]

Giving this game points for letting me slaughter journalists without violating my oath.

[Ticarsem]

There's an encounter where you have to face a mirrored version of yourself. For some reason my mirror looks a little off...

It's very insightful commentary, you have to fight your dark side.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

Giving this game points for letting me slaughter journalists without violating my oath.

One of the best moments in the game
Journalists deserve no human rights

Also feel that quality drops significantly in Act 3. City feels kinda bland, if you already reached max level and have strong items, there is much less pressure to press further in side content.
Act 2 had at least Ketheric, who was kinda charismatic villain and the whole lore setting was not bad. While looking at Orin and Gortash, it's hard for me to take them seriously

Ketheric also is also a well written villain with clear motivation and backstory that explained why he took the path of Myrkuul's.
Everything in less than one line of dialogue

Gortash is bland, but at least he is honest when you choose to make a deal with him. Even testing if you have spine. I liked it.
He's not on Ketheric's level of being well written, but still.

Orin is just evil for the sake of being evil. It's almost comical

I have heterochromia

I kinda envy you, not gonna lie

[maidenhaver]

Homochromia must suck.

[Oyster Sauce]

Finished it last night. I've gotta say, you fight shockingly few mind flayers in this game about mind flayers.

[rusty_shackleford]

Finished it last night. I've gotta say, you fight shockingly few mind flayers in this game about mind flayers.

The overall plot is kind of a mess and it's obvious they had one plot in mind then moved to another and they sort of tried to smoosh them together, and it's just a mess.
Further proof that stories don't matter in RPGs. BG3's story is nonsense and mostly unfinished/rushed.

If someone actually does praise the writing in an rpg, they're referring to a specific quest or character.

[Oyster Sauce]

Finished it last night. I've gotta say, you fight shockingly few mind flayers in this game about mind flayers.

The overall plot is kind of a mess and it's obvious they had one plot in mind then moved to another and they sort of tried to smoosh them together, and it's just a mess.
Further proof that stories don't matter in RPGs. BG3's story is nonsense and mostly unfinished/rushed.

If someone actually does praise the writing in an rpg, they're referring to a specific quest or character.

Yeah, I think I would have been fine adventuring for the sake of adventuring. Does using the tadpole + inserting more tadpoles even do anything to you? I assumed it would until the game gave me a DO YOU WANT TO BECOME MORE OF A MIND FLAYER Y/N? choice.

Final random thoughts now that I've finished the game months after every else

-I was able to finish nearly all quests in the way that I wanted with only a few exceptions (the Mayrina/Hag quest in A1 I let fail in my journal because I didn't like any of the solutions, but the game treated this as a valid choice later on so bravo)
-I'm glad I installed the Better Aesthetics mod, but even with it the game game is still niggerfaggot-ridden.
-Please stop making every box in the world lootable. If a container is empty, don't let me click it. If there's loot spread between 17 different boxes next to each other, just let me loot them all at once.
-One of the worst inventory systems I've ever seen in a game. Why is there a carry weight system when you teleport anything you want directly into an infinite storage box that's a loading screen away? Why can't I search every party member's inventory at once? Why can't I search a container for a specific piece of equipment? Why doesn't the search feature search containers within an inventory? Why have individual inventories if you can drink potions out of the backpack of someone on the other side of the room?
-Why can't my paladin choose a god to worship? And why is he ignorant of basic things a paladin should know? WotR had token acknowledgement of your choice and that was fine.
-If your pathfinding AI can't handle following the leader by jumping across a small gap, don't make it my problem by dotting the landscape with them for no reason other then realism. I must have spent 30m of my life navigating individual ******* back and forth across hops.
-Doing a full rotation around a table each time I click an individual piece of food is ********. This isn't RDR2.
-I should have played on tactician. Fresh out of WotR I assumed that higher difficulty would mean more buff spamming/slog combat/constantly dispelling debuffs.
-Any singular encounter in this game is more memorable than any RTWP encounter I've played.
-Hit max level, had my regular squad kitted out in ridiculously powerful gear, and had more gold than I could ever possibly spend MANY MANY hours before the end. Majority of the A3 quests felt pointless to do as a result.
-Orin repeatedly running up to you and the party treating her like she was a hologram or on a TV was ********. They handled this perfectly with Gortash. You can attack him if you'd like, but he's confident that you won't. Just have her take multiple hostages the PC likes before taunting you and have her assassins murder them if you attack her. SHE ALREADY TAKES A HOSTAGE AS PART OF THE STORY.
-Holy **** Dame Aylin was annoying to listen to. **** off out of my camp.
-Companion diversity was quite bad. Not a single dwarf or halfling? TWO ******* druids when there are three classes not represented?
-Companion stories have very ******* poor pacing. Hi level 2 wizard I met yesterday. You're an archmage who ****** the goddess of magic? That's cool. Oh hey, Shadowheart. Thanks for declaring me the most important person you've met in your entire life and worshipping me. I think I can see the beach where we met from here though.
-Did the sewers as my last zone and therefore recruited Minsc immediately before the final boss. Great, thanks. Essentially another class that you don't get unless you're playing it yourself.
-Killed Astarion because why would I let some ****** vampire live after trying to suck my blood? Didn't feel like I missed anything from not taking him.
-Didn't let Wyll come along because I didn't want a black person in my party. His father never mentioned him once and unlike the actually ******* dead Astarion he never made a cameo as far as I saw. Felt like the developers weren't anticipating this.
-Karlach dying at the end felt like unfinished content. I've gone to absurd lengths to help other companions resolve their issues, but there was no option to even try to contact Zariel/the Hells through the literal portal to Hell to figure something out? Either way, her speech pattern was out of place so I didn't like talking to her.
-Almost every single conversation I had with Halsin had him trying to worm his way into having gay sex with me. **** off, ******. I only kept him because Thaniel lied to my face that his forces of nature would show up to aid me in my greatest time of need. They didn't. Cut content?
-You let me build up an army of allies to summon into battle for the endgame, but there are only 2 encounters with mind flayers + the final boss to use them for?
-Did the refugees outside of the city get slaughtered? Guess I'll never know. Why'd you bother making a big deal out of it?
-Overall was mostly satisfied with the game, my ending, and my core party members. Maybe I'll actually play DOS now.

[GhostCow]

Further proof that stories don't matter in RPGs. BG3's story is nonsense and mostly unfinished/rushed.

I would argue it's proof that stories do matter because the writing is the main reason that the game is ****.

[rusty_shackleford]

Further proof that stories don't matter in RPGs. BG3's story is nonsense and mostly unfinished/rushed.

I would argue it's proof that stories do matter because the writing is the main reason that the game is ****.

Has nothing to do with the story. It's the individual characters that are ****.

[GhostCow]

Further proof that stories don't matter in RPGs. BG3's story is nonsense and mostly unfinished/rushed.

I would argue it's proof that stories do matter because the writing is the main reason that the game is ****.

Has nothing to do with the story. It's the individual characters that are ****.

Are characters not part of the story? In the case of BG3 especially, where every character's arc is extremely intertwined with the main story?

[Ticarsem]

Further proof that stories don't matter in RPGs. BG3's story is nonsense and mostly unfinished/rushed.

I would argue it's proof that stories do matter because the writing is the main reason that the game is ****.

Agreed, the gameplay is good but the story is an active detriment to it. It starts off generic, which is fine, but then just becomes the usual superhero 5e ********. You can tell it was half baked because there's no consequences to continually becoming an illithid unless you actively decide to at the end, and you could walk away from the game thinking that the soulless groomer mind rapist is the good guy if you don't know DND lore.

[rusty_shackleford]

I would argue it's proof that stories do matter because the writing is the main reason that the game is ****.

Has nothing to do with the story. It's the individual characters that are ****.

Are characters not part of the story? In the case of BG3 especially, where every character's arc is extremely intertwined with the main story?

no

[Shillitron]

It starts off generic, which is fine

Flying on a giant tentacle space ship through hell being chased by dragon riding gith is "generic" 5E huh?

Stop the train.. I wanna go back to delivering books and daggers.. I miss home.

[SoLong]

Yeah, I think I would have been fine adventuring for the sake of adventuring. Does using the tadpole + inserting more tadpoles even do anything to you? I assumed it would until the game gave me a DO YOU WANT TO BECOME MORE OF A MIND FLAYER Y/N? choice.

Final random thoughts now that I've finished the game months after every else

-Almost every single conversation I had with Halsin had him trying to worm his way into having gay sex with me. **** off, ******. I only kept him because Thaniel lied to my face that his forces of nature would show up to aid me in my greatest time of need. They didn't. Cut content?

I think the buff Halsin gives you near the end is supposed to be him channeling Thaniel's power. A little underwhelming, yeah.

The tadpoles and how far you take your illithid evolution used to have a much stronger impact in the game. The problem is that the devs realized that, since the tadpoles were quite plentiful in Act 1 and Act 2, it's entirely possible to lock yourself into a "bad" ending because the game doesn't explain how much is safe or not.

So you either lock yourself into a bad ending or you just don't interact with the system at all. As such, the entire thing was cut down to the current system. I'm fine with that honestly.

Note: I actually liked Astarion fine. It helps that he's a rogue (who, with the right build, are totally overpowered and I love it) and I need someone to open all those locks for me. His personality is... an aquired taste unless you like the foppish full-of-himself type.

Not gonna lie, I did enjoy seeing him stab the **** out of his even-more-of-a-fop master though. Seriously, Cazador has like 20 lines total but his visual design (asian vampire twink with receding hairline) and the incredible amount of smug really, really caused me to hate the character.

Gortash's end game fight was a disappointment. Ketheric transforms into Myrkul's avatar, Orin becomes the Slayer and Gortash... grows 2 inches taller. Marvellous.

Also, you're right that the better aesthetics mod improved the game substantially. I still remember that random black elf in the grove. What the ****.

[Oyster Sauce]

Yeah, I think I would have been fine adventuring for the sake of adventuring. Does using the tadpole + inserting more tadpoles even do anything to you? I assumed it would until the game gave me a DO YOU WANT TO BECOME MORE OF A MIND FLAYER Y/N? choice.

Final random thoughts now that I've finished the game months after every else

-Almost every single conversation I had with Halsin had him trying to worm his way into having gay sex with me. **** off, ******. I only kept him because Thaniel lied to my face that his forces of nature would show up to aid me in my greatest time of need. They didn't. Cut content?

I think the buff Halsin gives you near the end is supposed to be him channeling Thaniel's power. A little underwhelming, yeah.

The tadpoles and how far you take your illithid evolution used to have a much stronger impact in the game. The problem is that the devs realized that, since the tadpoles were quite plentiful in Act 1 and Act 2, it's entirely possible to lock yourself into a "bad" ending because the game doesn't explain how much is safe or not.

So you either lock yourself into a bad ending or you just don't interact with the system at all. As such, the entire thing was cut down to the current system. I'm fine with that honestly.

Note: I actually liked Astarion fine. It helps that he's a rogue (who, with the right build, are totally overpowered and I love it) and I need someone to open all those locks for me. His personality is... an aquired taste unless you like the foppish full-of-himself type.

Not gonna lie, I did enjoy seeing him stab the **** out of his even-more-of-a-fop master though. Seriously, Cazador has like 20 lines total but his visual design (asian vampire twink with receding hairline) and the incredible amount of smug really, really caused me to hate the character.

Gortash's end game fight was a disappointment. Ketheric transforms into Myrkul's avatar, Orin becomes the Slayer and Gortash... grows 2 inches taller. Marvellous.

Also, you're right that the better aesthetics mod improved the game substantially. I still remember that random black elf in the grove. What the ****.

Hmm, he didn't give me any sort of buff. Maybe because I didn't talk to him in camp after the rescue - his inn dialogue just referred to that.

[Ticarsem]

It starts off generic, which is fine

Flying on a giant tentacle space ship through hell being chased by dragon riding gith is "generic" 5E huh?

Stop the train.. I wanna go back to delivering books and daggers.. I miss home.

The whole party being abducted or imprisoned is very generic, as are big flashy superhero battles. The only thing you're crediting the game for is the fact the bad guys are illithids. Even then you'll spend the next few hours fighting an evil goblin war party. The game does get creative when you get to the underdark, but to deny that the game starts off generic is pure cope. It was cool that the story delt with illithids and gith, but they did very little with it.

[Rand]

Gortash's end game fight was a disappointment.

Gortash is a disappointment in all ways.
The character design, from the hair, to the face, to the clothing is all wildly amiss.
Please someone make a mod to make him look the lordly Machiavellian he's supposed to be.
Not some strung-out old rocker.

[Fuze]

There's an encounter where you have to face a mirrored version of yourself. For some reason my mirror looks a little off...

Yeah, you're a ****** by default, I also got kinda the same bug with my journal, where instead of my portrait showing up for the inspiration log, it's default_nig.jpg

[Vaako]

If you dont kill Gortash too fast he summons a giant hand of bane and a few ghosts in the thron room but I only had that happen in my third playthrough when I did the iron throne/steelwatch quest first before ever talking to him.

My gripe with the game is no evil companions to recruit except Minthara in the second act. Would have liked someone like Edwin again and certainly earlier. But I guess since everything has to be voiced nowadays the install size would be even more ridiculous if they had 2-3 more companions.

Yeah, I think I would have been fine adventuring for the sake of adventuring. Does using the tadpole + inserting more tadpoles even do anything to you? I assumed it would until the game gave me a DO YOU WANT TO BECOME MORE OF A MIND FLAYER Y/N? choice.

Final random thoughts now that I've finished the game months after every else

-Almost every single conversation I had with Halsin had him trying to worm his way into having gay sex with me. **** off, ******. I only kept him because Thaniel lied to my face that his forces of nature would show up to aid me in my greatest time of need. They didn't. Cut content?

I think the buff Halsin gives you near the end is supposed to be him channeling Thaniel's power. A little underwhelming, yeah.

The tadpoles and how far you take your illithid evolution used to have a much stronger impact in the game. The problem is that the devs realized that, since the tadpoles were quite plentiful in Act 1 and Act 2, it's entirely possible to lock yourself into a "bad" ending because the game doesn't explain how much is safe or not.

So you either lock yourself into a bad ending or you just don't interact with the system at all. As such, the entire thing was cut down to the current system. I'm fine with that honestly.

Note: I actually liked Astarion fine. It helps that he's a rogue (who, with the right build, are totally overpowered and I love it) and I need someone to open all those locks for me. His personality is... an aquired taste unless you like the foppish full-of-himself type.

Not gonna lie, I did enjoy seeing him stab the **** out of his even-more-of-a-fop master though. Seriously, Cazador has like 20 lines total but his visual design (asian vampire twink with receding hairline) and the incredible amount of smug really, really caused me to hate the character.

Gortash's end game fight was a disappointment. Ketheric transforms into Myrkul's avatar, Orin becomes the Slayer and Gortash... grows 2 inches taller. Marvellous.

Also, you're right that the better aesthetics mod improved the game substantially. I still remember that random black elf in the grove. What the ****.

[Nemesis]

My gripe with the game is no evil companions to recruit except Minthara in the second act.

There's also Viconia. Astarion leans evil, too, depending on the decisions you make throughout the game.

[The_Mask]

PATCH #4 NOW LIVE!



https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-4-now-live_96

[Acrux]

Eh, I actually don't have a problem with that. That's the kind of stuff accessibility is actually supposed to be about, and it's usually a pretty easy filter to implement. Let our colorblind bros play games, too. (Just not this one.)

[rusty_shackleford]

pretty sure it's just a shader applied to the UI, likely took way less work than pretty much… anything else

[Oyster Sauce]

I'm now remembering the companion who makes a big deal out of requiring magical items to absorb so he won't die and explode. He eats 3 ****** items then it never happens again. I know they explain it away, but why bother with that gimmick at all? Seems like something they cut because players would complain, but they still wanted to keep the voice lines.

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm now remembering the companion who makes a big deal out of requiring magical items to absorb so he won't die and explode. He eats 3 ****** items then it never happens again. I know they explain it away, but why bother with that gimmick at all? Seems like something they cut because players would complain, but they still wanted to keep the voice lines.

Making a game at this budget requires catering to normiefaggots.

[wndrbr]

https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-ga ... me-torture

based nip publisher defending nips from the western degeneracy... wait what?

Spike Chunsoft, which is publishing the Japanese version, announced they're cutting explicit sexual content from the Japanese version of Baldur’s Gate 3 so that it is in compliance with CERO’s Code of Ethics standards regarding “banned expressions.” This means that Japanese players won’t be able to enable explicit content in the options menu, including “display of genitals,” “display of nudity in cutscenes,” and “view sex scenes.”

Spike Chunsoft's announcement also says that the Japan release will remove the option for players to torture NPCs in Act 1's Goblin Camp.

[SoLong]

As much as some of the woke **** in this game annoyed me I still feel that WOTC probably stuck its disease ridden **** in it.

The farther you get in the game the more Alphabet Soup stuff you find. I think that's probably not a coincidence. I'm always reminded that Larian didn't actually expect the massive success this ended up being. Perhaps WOTC forced their hand to include more of this **** for those precious ESG dollars?

Also the Japanese censoring sex and gore in games is nothing new. They like their genres the way I like feminism and power: Separated. (In other words: Fetishes stay in festish games, mainstream stuff stays in mainstream games.)