Baldur's Gate 3

[rusty_shackleford]

reminder that the game is unfinished, ends abruptly, half the city is missing, entire zones are missing, ending is completely railroaded, and a ton of content they showcased weeks before launch never got added and won't be added

[Statesman]

reminder that the game is unfinished, ends abruptly, half the city is missing, entire zones are missing, ending is completely railroaded, and a ton of content they showcased weeks before launch never got added and won't be added

Which is why I'll only replay the game in 5-10 years, when hopefully there is a proper Content Restoration/Unfinished Business 3 mod or new campaigns released. These new subclasses are not enough for me to replay the same content all over again.

[rusty_shackleford]

reminder that the game is unfinished, ends abruptly, half the city is missing, entire zones are missing, ending is completely railroaded, and a ton of content they showcased weeks before launch never got added and won't be added

Retroactively lowering my score to 7/10 because I gave it a higher score due to assuming they'd release another definitive edition like Divinity 2, DOS1, and DOS2 that finishes the game. IIRC I mentioned in my score that you should wait to play it until that released, and well…

[TKVNC]

Yeah, looks like 12 subclasses will be added soon, one for each of the 12 classes. That's exciting and unexpected new content.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app ... 7375172735

I thought Swen had abandoned BG3

[pol_345polex]

Good God i hate this character so much.

[rusty_shackleford]

I was informed by a little birdy that Baudelaire Welch, the 'senior narrative designer'(wrote the romances & re-wrote the main story mid-development) was let go back in August. She joined Larian in 2022.
@Roguey

[rusty_shackleford]

https://archive.ph/ZGU3S

"Why did it make such an impact on people?" Welch went on to say in their talk. "This is what it meant to me when I was involved in Baldur's Gate 3. This scene feels like a watershed moment in game history where the fanfiction community feels like they're not a subculture but are the majority audience being catered to in a scene and in the game as a whole.

"In order to reach out to that part of the community, Larian gave them an incredibly silly sequence that takes an identity moniker from the gay community - literally the gay bear becomes the bear (if no one has actually made the connection before) - and that is giving players something that feels like it's from the tradition of fanfic, or just something from your Discord ****-posting hole, and presenting it as a mainstream feature. And that feels like all the time you spent joking with your friends is validated. And how many games of this kind of scale have made you feel that way before?"

Welch's Develop presentation talked a lot about the importance of fanfiction for games. "Romance is one of the longest-tail parts of a fandom you can create," Welch said. "People will write about a good romance in fanfiction for years to come." It's the sort of discussion that sustains a game's community for a very long time - far longer than the main storylines themselves. The fanfiction community also appeals to female and LGBTQIA+ players in particular, Welch said - the sort of community that's propelled the collective love-in around Baldur's Gate 3 since it launched nearly a year ago.

"I don't think there were specific plans for him to be a love interest," Welch told me in a follow-up interview after their talk. However, the fanfiction community surrounding the game was clear about what they wanted, and what they wanted was "daddy Halsin". Welch knew this because they themselves were a part of that community. They'd written Astarion fanfiction before applying to work at the studio, and were partially hired for their embedded knowledge about what that community wanted (they also have a game design background alongside this).

Literally hired a fujoshi fanfic writer to make the game worse, thanks, I now hate all women.

[TKVNC]

https://archive.ph/ZGU3S

"Why did it make such an impact on people?" Welch went on to say in their talk. "This is what it meant to me when I was involved in Baldur's Gate 3. This scene feels like a watershed moment in game history where the fanfiction community feels like they're not a subculture but are the majority audience being catered to in a scene and in the game as a whole.

"In order to reach out to that part of the community, Larian gave them an incredibly silly sequence that takes an identity moniker from the gay community - literally the gay bear becomes the bear (if no one has actually made the connection before) - and that is giving players something that feels like it's from the tradition of fanfic, or just something from your Discord ****-posting hole, and presenting it as a mainstream feature. And that feels like all the time you spent joking with your friends is validated. And how many games of this kind of scale have made you feel that way before?"

Welch's Develop presentation talked a lot about the importance of fanfiction for games. "Romance is one of the longest-tail parts of a fandom you can create," Welch said. "People will write about a good romance in fanfiction for years to come." It's the sort of discussion that sustains a game's community for a very long time - far longer than the main storylines themselves. The fanfiction community also appeals to female and LGBTQIA+ players in particular, Welch said - the sort of community that's propelled the collective love-in around Baldur's Gate 3 since it launched nearly a year ago.

"I don't think there were specific plans for him to be a love interest," Welch told me in a follow-up interview after their talk. However, the fanfiction community surrounding the game was clear about what they wanted, and what they wanted was "daddy Halsin". Welch knew this because they themselves were a part of that community. They'd written Astarion fanfiction before applying to work at the studio, and were partially hired for their embedded knowledge about what that community wanted (they also have a game design background alongside this).

Literally hired a fujoshi fanfic writer to make the game worse, thanks, I now hate all women.

Femoids and ******* love smut

Tale as old as time

[Finarfin]

Not sure if anyone posted it already but someone fixed the Karlach scene when you romance her.
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/13144

[Vergil]

Legit no good reason to not kill all women.

[LemonDemonGirl]

Legit no good reason to not kill all women.

You should just accept the fact that you're gay, or go back into the closet.

[Vergil]

Legit no good reason to not kill all women.

You should just accept the fact that you're gay, or go back into the closet.

How am I gay exactly?

[orinEsque]

Good God i hate this character so much.

who is this character? I never met her before

[Vergil]

Good God i hate this character so much.

who is this character? I never met her before

This is probably true considering you modded half the game before playing it first hand you autist

[orinEsque]

Good God i hate this character so much.

who is this character? I never met her before

This is probably true considering you modded half the game before playing it first hand you autist

Indeed, a skilled programmer does not need to know/see a ****** to fix it

[Vergil]

who is this character? I never met her before

This is probably true considering you modded half the game before playing it first hand you autist

Indeed, a skilled programmer does not need to know an NPC to detroon it

Actually this was by definition a ***** mod considering you transitioned the nightsong from female to male
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[orinEsque]

This is probably true considering you modded half the game before playing it first hand you autist

Indeed, a skilled programmer does not need to know an NPC to detroon it

Actually this was by definition a ***** mod considering you transitioned the nightsong from female to male
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I'm so tolerant. Please nominate me for Times Person of the Year award for my DEI contributions ty

[logincrash]

reminder that the game is unfinished, ends abruptly, half the city is missing, entire zones are missing, ending is completely railroaded, and a ton of content they showcased weeks before launch never got added and won't be added

Retroactively lowering my score to 7/10 because I gave it a higher score due to assuming they'd release another definitive edition like Divinity 2, DOS1, and DOS2 that finishes the game. IIRC I mentioned in my score that you should wait to play it until that released, and well…

That's literally why I dropped it at the start of Act 2.

[fkirenicus]

Which is why I'll only replay the game in 5-10 years, when hopefully there is a proper Content Restoration/Unfinished Business 3 mod or new campaigns released. These new subclasses are not enough for me to replay the same content all over again.

Probably not gonna wait that long, but I've again run into a "why am I playing this" phase (chapter 3, chapter 1 is "yes! this game is good."; chapter 2 is "OK, but I liked chapter 1 better....") and think I will uninstall the game for now.
@rusty_shackleford /@orinEsque , am I to understand that the BG mod manager has been updated so that it works with patch 7 (and hopefully beyond)? I am still at patch 6, since I haven't played the game much since about the release of patch 7, and got the impression that it was safest to stick with patch 6 a while longer, at least if one was in the middle of a playthrough.
I just can't bear to play chapter 3. The entire BG city must be rewritten for that to happen, I am afraid...

[Faceless_Sentinel]

I was informed by a little birdy that Baudelaire Welch, the 'senior narrative designer'(wrote the romances & re-wrote the main story mid-development) was let go back in August. She joined Larian in 2022.
@Roguey

Unfortunately they need to fire the remaining *******, and that's all in the studio.

[WhiteShark]

"People will write about a good romance in fanfiction for years to come." It's the sort of discussion that sustains a game's community for a very long time - far longer than the main storylines themselves.

I don't think this is true. People still discuss the plots of New Vegas, KotOR II, and probably countless other games with intriguing stories and characters that I'm forgetting, and that's wholly aside from any romance elements.

[rusty_shackleford]

I don't think this is true. People still discuss the plots of New Vegas, KotOR II, and probably countless other games with intriguing stories and characters that I'm forgetting, and that's wholly aside from any romance elements.

You have to understand these people live in discord echo chambers.

[1998]

I was informed by a little birdy that Baudelaire Welch, the 'senior narrative designer'(wrote the romances & re-wrote the main story mid-development) was let go back in August. She joined Larian in 2022.
@Roguey

She works now on this game:

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I was informed by a little birdy that Baudelaire Welch, the 'senior narrative designer'(wrote the romances & re-wrote the main story mid-development) was let go back in August. She joined Larian in 2022.
@Roguey

She works now on this game:

Looking at the stream page for 30 seconds and it already looks pretentious as ****.

[rusty_shackleford]

Zoomers are scared of VHS tapes lmao

[Irenaeus]

[arisen]

https://archive.ph/ZGU3S

"In order to reach out to that part of the community, Larian gave them an incredibly silly sequence that takes an identity moniker from the gay community - literally the gay bear becomes the bear

High quality meth.

[Konjad]

Apologies if anybody posted this already somewhere here, I don't read HQ much, but in case not I guess you'd appreciate it





https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/bal ... st-9269287

[Acrux]

Apologies if anybody posted this already somewhere here, I don't read HQ much, but in case not I guess you'd appreciate it





https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/bal ... st-9269287

Yep, we have a whole thread just for these!

viewtopic.php?t=1687-mod-seethe-thread- ... the-thread

[Konjad]

Yep, we have a whole thread just for these!

viewtopic.php?t=1687-mod-seethe-thread- ... the-thread

Wow, 20 pages! That will be a fun read, thanks!