Baldur's Gate 3

[KOS-MOS]

Lol so many idiots on internet.

"wow the whole world disagrees with you so you can't be right."

the world is indeed full of *******

[Shillitron]

Larian design:

All the arrows pointing off to nothing are accurate as well since half the game was cut so Swen could kick it out the door.
So much setup in Act 1 that was just dumped / ignored.

[Shillitron]

No No this is pure ******* ******** it is in the EA version of BG3

They were 100% gonna make BG1-esque game where "Act 1" was the first area of many.. then quickly ran out of gas and turned it into a 3 chapter game and abandoned it.

Baldur's Gate City was likely 3ish areas.. and that outdoor area infront of Baldurs Gate that you start Act 3 in was likely it's own area.

[Vergil]

kek, no forced gay Astarion costume too.

Gay costume?

[ArcaneLurker]

Early Ketheric model





The more i look into early access posts and videos the more i want to slap early access players because theyre ******* and Larian picked wrong game testers, i hear some say daddy Halsin.

It's pretty obvious they just ignored the majority of their feedback because it was from White guys.

Near the end of Early Access, they added more African hairstyles/ faces in response to petty complaints by Lefties, as well as changing the CC to "body type."

[BLofbr]

Early Version of Astarion as Tiefling, did they want a neverwinter feel?





Was also a rogue.

[Vergil]

Early Version of Astarion as Tiefling, did they want a neverwinter feel?

I had no clue about this. So happy they changed it he looks dreadful there.

[BLofbr]

i found some stuff that the Emperor was added 8 months before release, or some ****
So they rewrote the hole ******* story 1 year before release.


Edit, i ******* hate white background pages, its stings in my eyes.


Edit :



Larian has done braindead choices the whole way , might need 4 more years lol.

[rusty_shackleford]

i found some stuff that the Emperor was added 8 months before release, or some ****
So they rewrote the hole ******* story 1 year before release.

the same gender amorphous blob they hired to do the romance rewrote the entire main story(both of them)

[Envergence]

Early Version of Astarion as Tiefling, did they want a neverwinter feel?

I had no clue about this. So happy they changed it he looks dreadful there.

To be fair that's one of the default faces, and nearly all the male tiefling faces are ugly as sin, with a couple being barely average at best. I remember it was one of the most cited complaints in EA when specifically talking about how limited character creation was* and possibly in response, Larian gave male tiefling players a whopping one additional face. That face turned out to be another eyesore (if a face requires a beard to be tolerable to look at, it is not a good face).

Do they hate handsome men? Are they insecure? These coom-brained devs bend over backwards for their hot chicks, but it feels like they make most men ugly on purpose and not just in BG3. Anyway, it often feels like on the rare occasion Larian actually listens to the valid complaints, they'll respond by passive-aggressively joke-"fixing" the issue.

► *Additional ranting spoilered to save space

The options were still limited at release somehow. They release the game with barely any faces to choose from, and we run into countless clones throughout the game. Did truly no one on the dev team see how this was an issue? Because they didn't even try. You can pull this **** off in a game like DOS2 that's isometric, but when you make the decision to give even the most insignificant, pointless NPCs a cinematic camera (yet more proof of these ******* wasting resources), the clone issue becomes much more egregious than I've ever seen in a game like this. At least Dragon Age's clones are just background/filler characters and not people that can be interacted with.

I also can't have been the only one to notice that until they released the extra tiefling head, there was literally only one Caucasian option for the male tieflings and he looked like a **** homunculus. It's the head used for Dammon, yet I can't believe how many weird thirsty girls I've seen drooling over him. If it was just for his personality, I could see it somewhat, but I've seen so many call him hot, handsome, etc. lol

[Finarfin]

kek, no forced gay Astarion costume too.

Gay costume?

Does he mean the purple black apparel he is sporting now? Neither of his clothes look gay tho?

[BLofbr]

I found an ingame belt slot, clearly Larian are lying their pants off.

[Finarfin]

I found an ingame belt slot, clearly Larian are lying their pants off.

Very commendable that you sift through all this.
Larian is such a **** developer.

[Vergil]

Larian is such a **** developer.

Belt slots are where you draw the link?

[Finarfin]

Larian is such a **** developer.

Belt slots are where you draw the link?

No. I just wanted to say it again. My reply to his next post will include something about his message and the text "Larian is such a **** developer" kinda like a signature.

[Envergence]

That's the thing. Despite the overwhelming evidence of all the cut features (including datamined content and their own promises just shy of release), their PR team took the lying approach in the face of accusations, instead of either keeping silent altogether or just admitting that, yes, content was cut. Whether they attempt to excuse it doesn't matter, but the blatant lying is so incredibly insulting, and the only reason they've gotten away with their all ****** behavior is because they have their mentally-stunted fans wrapped around their finger.

[KOS-MOS]

The issue isn't that they cut content—that's normal and unavoidable. But the real problem is that they focused on entirely optional features that only interest a very, very small handful of players (based on the stats they shared on their Twitter). Their sense of priorities is really questionable.

[WhiteShark]

These coom-brained devs bend over backwards for their hot chicks,

Proof? Not sure I've seen any evidence of this, and I've seen a lot of BG3 screenshots on the HQ.

[Envergence]

The issue isn't that they cut content—that's normal and unavoidable. But the real problem is that they focused on entirely optional features that only interest a very, very small handful of players (based on the stats they shared on their Twitter). Their sense of priorities is really questionable.

I largely agree, but the fact still remains that they scrapped 80-90% of the original story in favor of the half-assed final product (likely to appease that extreme minority). They did such a poor job replacing the original story that scraps of it remain in the dialogue and the side stories that don't actually go anywhere. It turns out, it's really hard to replace the very foundation of your game without leaving behind obvious traces of it.

[rusty_shackleford]

I expected cut content because Larian has always done it. What I didn't expect was for them to just leave the game in a half-finished state, as they've always eventually released the full game.

[KOS-MOS]

The issue isn't that they cut content—that's normal and unavoidable. But the real problem is that they focused on entirely optional features that only interest a very, very small handful of players (based on the stats they shared on their Twitter). Their sense of priorities is really questionable.

I largely agree, but the fact still remains that they scrapped 80-90% of the original story in favor of the half-assed final product (likely to appease that extreme minority). They did such a poor job replacing the original story that scraps of it remain in the dialogue and the side stories that don't actually go anywhere. It turns out, it's really hard to replace the very foundation of your game without leaving behind obvious traces of it.

To be honest, I never follow Early dev/writing because it always leads to disappointment. I prefer to see the final product and leave it at that, because any content that is cut is never, or very rarely, reintegrated.

But I do agree that the story we have been served is very weak and the characters are really disappointing. Apart from Astarion, Shadowheart and Lae'zel all the other characters are bland and uninteresting, they have the writing level of an npc.

And even those three are far from perfect.

[KOS-MOS]

I expected cut content because Larian has always done it. What I didn't expect was for them to just leave the game in a half-finished state, as they've always eventually released the full game.

I'm convinced that at some point we'll get a definitive edition. Even though they've said they're moving away from this game, they're still updating it.

[Vergil]

Apart from Astarion, Shadowheart and Lae'zel all the other characters are bland and uninteresting, they have the writing level of an npc.

And even those three are far from perfect.

Replace Shart with Minthara and I agree.

[rusty_shackleford]

BG3 is just proof how far a game can be carried entirely by its reactivity/world interactions AKA the things that make an RPG actually feel like an RPG

[Envergence]

These coom-brained devs bend over backwards for their hot chicks,

Proof? Not sure I've seen any evidence of this, and I've seen a lot of BG3 screenshots on the HQ.

It's just my own speculation from what I've seen in their games. It truly appears that they go out of their way to make most of the female characters super fuckable, while most of the men are either ugly or average-looking at best (character models and faces; DOS1 through BG3). Smacks of coomer-brain to me, but again it's just my perception. One immediate example in BG3 I can think of is how male Githyanki sport the lore-friendly Auschwitz bodies, while the females are curiously filled out by comparison. They should have skeletal bodies too, yet they don't. They may have figured Lae'zel wouldn't be fuckable if she looked like an anorexic. There's also all the ***** clothes and such, for example all the female nobles dressing like they work in a brothel, etc.

There's also just them going out of their way to give Shart as much content as possible, both in the full game and through patches where she consistently takes priority over the other companions (I understand why: she's the conventionally attractive female, and gamers are simps). Ultimately, it's all circumstantial, but the pattern is impossible to ignore.

[rusty_shackleford]

These coom-brained devs bend over backwards for their hot chicks,

Proof? Not sure I've seen any evidence of this, and I've seen a lot of BG3 screenshots on the HQ.

It's just my own speculation from what I've seen in their games. It truly appears that they go out of their way to make most of the female characters super fuckable, while most of the men are either ugly or average-looking at best (character models and faces; DOS1 through BG3). Smacks of coomer-brain to me, but again it's just my perception. One immediate example in BG3 I can think of is how male Githyanki sport the lore-friendly Auschwitz bodies, while the females are curiously filled out by comparison. They should have skeletal bodies too, yet they don't. They may have figured Lae'zel wouldn't be fuckable if she looked like an anorexic. There's also all the ***** clothes and such, for example all the female nobles dressing like they work in a brothel, etc.

There's also just them going out of their way to give Shart as much content as possible, both in the full game and through patches where she consistently takes priority over the other companions (I understand why: she's the conventionally attractive female, and gamers are simps). Ultimately, it's all circumstantial, but the pattern is impossible to ignore.

he was making a joke that most of the women are ugly

[Envergence]

Proof? Not sure I've seen any evidence of this, and I've seen a lot of BG3 screenshots on the HQ.

It's just my own speculation from what I've seen in their games. It truly appears that they go out of their way to make most of the female characters super fuckable, while most of the men are either ugly or average-looking at best (character models and faces; DOS1 through BG3). Smacks of coomer-brain to me, but again it's just my perception. One immediate example in BG3 I can think of is how male Githyanki sport the lore-friendly Auschwitz bodies, while the females are curiously filled out by comparison. They should have skeletal bodies too, yet they don't. They may have figured Lae'zel wouldn't be fuckable if she looked like an anorexic. There's also all the ***** clothes and such, for example all the female nobles dressing like they work in a brothel, etc.

There's also just them going out of their way to give Shart as much content as possible, both in the full game and through patches where she consistently takes priority over the other companions (I understand why: she's the conventionally attractive female, and gamers are simps). Ultimately, it's all circumstantial, but the pattern is impossible to ignore.

he was making a joke that most of the women are ugly

Sigh...

► :(

[KOS-MOS]

Apart from Astarion, Shadowheart and Lae'zel all the other characters are bland and uninteresting, they have the writing level of an npc.

And even those three are far from perfect.

Replace Shart with Minthara and I agree.

What do you have against Shadowheart ?

[Vergil]

Apart from Astarion, Shadowheart and Lae'zel all the other characters are bland and uninteresting, they have the writing level of an npc.

And even those three are far from perfect.

Replace Shart with Minthara and I agree.

What do you have against Shadowheart ?

Female and tries to **** the protagonist with Halsin constantly.

[WhiteShark]

It's just my own speculation from what I've seen in their games. It truly appears that they go out of their way to make most of the female characters super fuckable, while most of the men are either ugly or average-looking at best (character models and faces; DOS1 through BG3). Smacks of coomer-brain to me, but again it's just my perception. One immediate example in BG3 I can think of is how male Githyanki sport the lore-friendly Auschwitz bodies, while the females are curiously filled out by comparison. They should have skeletal bodies too, yet they don't. They may have figured Lae'zel wouldn't be fuckable if she looked like an anorexic. There's also all the ***** clothes and such, for example all the female nobles dressing like they work in a brothel, etc.

There's also just them going out of their way to give Shart as much content as possible, both in the full game and through patches where she consistently takes priority over the other companions (I understand why: she's the conventionally attractive female, and gamers are simps). Ultimately, it's all circumstantial, but the pattern is impossible to ignore.

he was making a joke that most of the women are ugly

Sigh...

► :(

It's ok, I appreciated your answer anyway. They're still ugly, though.