Baldur's Gate 3

[Tinky Winky]

But whatever, this thread reeks female energy already. I mean only foids would care about romancing in RPGs and this thread is full of them. Just finished this game without romancing anyone myself if that matters.

[Norfleet]

Cutting them off would only make them more desperate since there won't be turning back.

But if they want to progress towards their goal, they have to do that ANYWAY. And yet for some reason, when you chop off their balls, the desire to progress further seems to kinda stop.

The only working method is bullying the **** out of them until they behave, the same way how autism should be treated.

Chopping off their balls IS a treatment, it stops them from creating more of themselves.

[MadAssassin5465]

Betraying Dame Aylin to Lorroakan might be my favourite segment in this game both from a gameplay perspective and a narrative one. The fight is fun and not only are you subjecting Aylin to the worst torture imaginable but you can also have Isobel murdered in front of her. I just wish I could have this and Shadowheart's Shar path in the same playthrough.

[mercerxiv]

Betraying Dame Aylin to Lorroakan might be my favourite segment in this game both from a gameplay perspective and a narrative one. The fight is fun and not only are you subjecting Aylin to the worst torture imaginable but you can also have Isobel murdered in front of her. I just wish I could have this and Shadowheart's Shar path in the same playthrough.

My main problem with that path is that Lorroakan is an absolute moron and incompetent to boot. Why would anyone entrust him with power like this? But this is the recurring problem with BG3 writing - most bad/evil guys are written like idiots at least in some capacity, and so are most evil aligned choices (not that the modern dnd believes in alignment anymore). It's just stupid evil over and over.

The only other flavor you get is gratuitously violent murderhobo, which is another bottom tier type of evil.

[mercerxiv]

Just to add to it: where are all the talented and intelligent evil guys there? True machiavellians, actually talented tacticians with no moronic blind spots, powerful wizards that are not just some sort of trust fund baby or some weird "bought Bitcoin in 2000s" grifters? Not one collected, sound of mind, determined, and capable of longer than short term planning guy.

The closest you can get would maybe be Raphael, but he's a literal cartoon villain with even a fitting theme song!

[CheesusCrust]

new hotfix for the hotfix of the previous hotfix crashes the game and makes everything super slow. what the actual ****.

[Demonic Fate]

Just to add to it: where are all the talented and intelligent evil guys there? True machiavellians, actually talented tacticians with no moronic blind spots, powerful wizards that are not just some sort of trust fund baby or some weird "bought Bitcoin in 2000s" grifters? Not one collected, sound of mind, determined, and capable of longer than short term planning guy.

The closest you can get would maybe be Raphael, but he's a literal cartoon villain with even a fitting theme song!

Gortash is a self-made man who became Archduke despite being the abused son of cobblers and ugly as ****. He orchestrates the whole alliance with the two other Chosen, but is smart enough to recognize that the PC is a saner and more competent ally than both depressed grandpa and psycho *****, and carefully maneuvers circles around them both.

If you side with him, you can use Detect Thoughts and verify that he's not even intending to 'bwahahaha' backstab you for the lulz, he's legit about forming an alliance. He even tests you later on and only respects you if you don't fold to his demands, instead of being the usual cartoonish "how DARE you, grovel before me or die" evil politician.

If you don't attack him, he dies when you go face the powered-up Elder Brain together - but your party would 100% have died right alongside him, hadn't the Emperor jumped in to pull you out.

[mercerxiv]

Just to add to it: where are all the talented and intelligent evil guys there? True machiavellians, actually talented tacticians with no moronic blind spots, powerful wizards that are not just some sort of trust fund baby or some weird "bought Bitcoin in 2000s" grifters? Not one collected, sound of mind, determined, and capable of longer than short term planning guy.

The closest you can get would maybe be Raphael, but he's a literal cartoon villain with even a fitting theme song!

Gortash is a self-made man who became Archduke despite being the abused son of cobblers and ugly as ****. He orchestrates the whole alliance with the two other Chosen, but is smart enough to recognize that the PC is a saner and more competent ally than both depressed grandpa and psycho *****, and carefully maneuvers circles around them both.

If you side with him, you can use Detect Thoughts and verify that he's not even intending to 'bwahahaha' backstab you for the lulz, he's legit about forming an alliance. He even tests you later on and only respects you if you don't fold to his demands, instead of being the usual cartoonish "how DARE you, grovel before me or die" evil politician.

If you don't attack him, he dies when you go face the powered-up Elder Brain together - but your party would 100% have died right alongside him, hadn't the Emperor jumped in to pull you out.

And that's the problem once again - he just dies a hapless fools death for no good reason other than one decently done bad guy can't be allowed to survive, and ****** endings writing wouldn't be able to accommodate it anyway. If Gortash dies there so should you and your party, or at least your party.

[Reichspepe]

Just to add to it: where are all the talented and intelligent evil guys there? True machiavellians, actually talented tacticians with no moronic blind spots, powerful wizards that are not just some sort of trust fund baby or some weird "bought Bitcoin in 2000s" grifters? Not one collected, sound of mind, determined, and capable of longer than short term planning guy.

The closest you can get would maybe be Raphael, but he's a literal cartoon villain with even a fitting theme song!

Gortash is a self-made man who became Archduke despite being the abused son of cobblers and ugly as ****. He orchestrates the whole alliance with the two other Chosen, but is smart enough to recognize that the PC is a saner and more competent ally than both depressed grandpa and psycho *****, and carefully maneuvers circles around them both.

If you side with him, you can use Detect Thoughts and verify that he's not even intending to 'bwahahaha' backstab you for the lulz, he's legit about forming an alliance. He even tests you later on and only respects you if you don't fold to his demands, instead of being the usual cartoonish "how DARE you, grovel before me or die" evil politician.

If you don't attack him, he dies when you go face the powered-up Elder Brain together - but your party would 100% have died right alongside him, hadn't the Emperor jumped in to pull you out.

And that's the problem once again - he just dies a hapless fools death for no good reason other than one decently done bad guy can't be allowed to survive, and ****** endings writing wouldn't be able to accommodate it anyway. If Gortash dies there so should you and your party, or at least your party.

Allying with Gortash and him dying the way he does is among the most unsatisfying things in BG3 imo

[Prardenciflar]

There's a mod to (kinda) fix that btw https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/21318

[W1llus]

About to start a BG3 playthrough and hopefully actually finish the game this time. Waited for the game to finally finish receiving patches and also for specific mods such as realm restored and no alphabets and so on to be at a good spot. If I remember correctly I hated most of the companions besides Lae'zel who actually grew on me and was frustrated that minthara had a really good set up but was never finished content wise. Also act 2 was more interesting then the majority of act 1.

[Boontaker]

https://x.com/larianstudios/status/2039 ... 05314?s=20

Well...I guess they have decided on the target audience

[Fitz]

Been playing some of this on the weekends. Not so many hours, still on act 1 with a new toon. It's been going good, I end up reloading here and there or backtracking some content because I did something stupid but that's just how I want to play it - like that fight with Gnoll Warlord Flind, I was so drained after that fight that I just looted the chest and went on to the mercenaries to give them the necklace thinking it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Not reloading for failed dialogue rolls yet. But anyway that sort of thing.

Between session I've been watching some BG3 streams here and there. There are a lot of mentally ill people playing this game on a daily basis. I even ran into a guy who showed some npc in act 3 and bragged how it was modeled after a drag queen he loves. . . . Right. I was watching these with the idea to get more hyped about playing the game, but things backfired badly. That and the succulent way Astarion sucked the blood out of my main characters neck has left me to put this campaign on pause for now. The whole thing is a bit too much at times. But the combat is fun and the story seems interesting. It's really difficult to work around all the *** **** tho. But I guess that's also what the real world is like too.

[buttfucker 3000]

Been playing some of this on the weekends. Not so many hours, still on act 1 with a new toon. It's been going good, I end up reloading here and there or backtracking some content because I did something stupid but that's just how I want to play it - like that fight with Gnoll Warlord Flind, I was so drained after that fight that I just looted the chest and went on to the mercenaries to give them the necklace thinking it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Not reloading for failed dialogue rolls yet. But anyway that sort of thing.

Between session I've been watching some BG3 stream here and there. There are a lot of mentally ill people playing this game on a daily basis. I even ran into a guy who showed some npc in act 3 and bragged how it modeled after a drag queen he loves. . . . Right. I was watching these with the idea to get more hyped about playing the game, but things backfired badly. That and the succulent way Astarion sucked the blood out of my main characters neck has left me to put this campaign on pause for now. The whole thing is a bit too much at times. But the combat is fun and the story seems interesting. It's really difficult to work around all the *** **** tho. But I guess that's also what the real world is like too.

Why did you let him suck your blood when you were given an option to drive a stake through his chest

[Fitz]

Because lockpick and vampires are cool. . . . also achievo.

[CheesusCrust]

a guy who showed some npc in act 3 and bragged how it was modeled after a drag queen he loves. . . . Right.

is it the ******* Lucretios

[Fitz]

That’s the one… Can I drive a stake through her heart too? No real spoilerinos pls

[logincrash]

There's a mod to (kinda) fix that btw https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/21318

LMAO

baldursgay3.jpg

[Prardenciflar]

There's a mod to (kinda) fix that btw https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/21318

LMAO

Didn't even see that lmao, I usually just read the page if its not a visual mod

[CheesusCrust]

That’s the one… Can I drive a stake through her heart too? No real spoilerinos pls

i got bad news buddy

[CheesusCrust]

There's a mod to (kinda) fix that btw https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/21318

LMAO

i feel like we need a separate thread for fugly *** OCs because boy have i seen some real ****

[Trickster]

There's a mod to (kinda) fix that btw https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/21318

LMAO

i feel like we need a separate thread for fugly *** OCs because boy have i seen some real ****

I get the feeling the author wanted to create a cool and edgy bhaalspawn version of Aylin or something like that. But this is a textbook case of "too much"... Plus, the facial animations in this game have always looked like absolute ***.

[CheesusCrust]

I get the feeling the author wanted to create a cool and edgy bhaalspawn version of Aylin or something like that. But this is a textbook case of "too much"... Plus, the facial animations in this game have always looked like absolute ***.

the author sharted her pants the moment she decided to use stronk womble body, but my g*d that ****** head is atrocious

[Fitz]

Played for a lil bit over an hour. Ran into some yeti guy ******* a female ogre in a barn. . . . suppressing my Dark Urges is proving more and more difficult. Astarion is kinda cool tho, even tho he sucked on my neck and clearly wishes to suck on something else too, the conversation with him goes back to normal once you point that some boundaries are being crossed.

[KOS-MOS]

LMAO

i feel like we need a separate thread for fugly *** OCs because boy have i seen some real ****

I get the feeling the author wanted to create a cool and edgy bhaalspawn version of Aylin or something like that. But this is a textbook case of "too much"... Plus, the facial animations in this game have always looked like absolute ***.

the facial animations for the main character are so basic I barely notice them

[Fitz]

Alright, progressing slowly. Cleared out the spiders down the well, found the necromancer tome, read it and didn't go insane which was nice, got the horn from the ogres for the goblin camp later on and I started heading to Auntie Ethel's part of the map. Other than a good bow it doesn't seem my party needs any other items. A bit of a strange feeling to have the group so powerful with almost no items, but I guess that's fine. My mc monk hits for 50 with Tavern Brawler, Wyll has some nice warlock sword and armor I prep him with after every long rest - I really like the Warlock so far, just casting buffs and rituals that don't go away until I long rest, very cool ; Astarion just shoots arrows and doesn't really get hit, and Karlach just rages and throws people around. Can't make the red tiefling wear Heavy Armour because it removes the perks from raging, I'm looking for a way around this if you have any advice feel free to share your wisdom with me. It's pretty fun so far. Can't complain. The game is really dense in content, feels a bit like an mmo where there is always something new around the corner.

Gale had some gay moment, but it's cool that you could friendzone him and he leaves you alone.
Warlock or Bard for Honour mode sound like really good options.

[rusty_shackleford]

Gale had some gay moment, but it's cool that you could friendzone him and he leaves you alone.

You could not at release, he just immediately tried to have sex with you repeatedly

[Fitz]

That’s straight up sexual harassment. By a ******. In a video game.
That’s ****** up.

[Demonic Fate]

Can't make the red tiefling wear Heavy Armour because it removes the perks from raging, I'm looking for a way around this if you have any advice feel free to share your wisdom with me.

There isn't a way around it, but there are medium armours that are nearly as good as heavy armour. When you find the Adamantine Forge, later in Act 1, look for a Scale Mail Mould and you'll be able to craft one that is arguably best in class for Karlach for the rest of the game.

Or the based option: Karlach is an annoying redditor and should be killed or sacrificed at the first opportunity.

[Niggler]

Gale had some gay moment, but it's cool that you could friendzone him and he leaves you alone.

You could not at release, he just immediately tried to have sex with you repeatedly

I noticed that too back in the day and even some of my friends complained about it. Gayle was wild back then lol