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The_Mask

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Strap Yourselves In Codex Year of the Donut Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I helped put crap in Monomyth
If you're going to push girl power couldn't you put the cute elf girl front and center and not Michael Jackson's wayward cousin.
It's really hard right now to spell out any sort-of intention that way. I mean... a "female" in the foreground, 2 males behind her and 1 female in the background is pretty balanced.

In my opinion, they have a lot bigger issues right now than political genre war related shenanigans.

Better than any poster will be the classic word-of-mouth during Early Access.
 

Roguey

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BioWare made a good attempt to sabotage Edwin though. The BG2 portraits are tragic.

Eh, still looks fine to me. Minsc looks fine, Imoen was an improvement, Jaheira and Viconia are also more iconic with their model-makeovers.
 

Generic-Giant-Spider

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The BG2 portraits I liked:

Viconia
Keldorn
Korgan
Jan
Imoen

IWD had the best selection of portraits though.

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Are the immediate ones that come to mind. Especially the first one. Oh baby.

Edit: Apparently the first image stopped loading but it was the "Human Female Mage" portrait from IWD. The one in black, pale complexion and BIG JUGS. God bless.
 
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Shadenuat

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"The boring answer is that it was just really good writing"
ohgawd come on. come on, person who supposed be writer *kicks larian writer* say something fuck. ugh here, i do this for you:

"bg 1 had writing like you played d&d session with your teenage friends and bg2 had irenicus"

this is not hard to come up with something about game you supposedly played and now writing 3d part
 

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Grab the Codex by the pussy Strap Yourselves In
Viconia's was the only improvement IMO. Edwin looks goofy, Minsc looks uglier than he did in BG1, Imoen looks too childish, and Jaheira looks like a fish.
 

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Still, Larian's Gith design looks a lot less ugly than the official one. Apparently WOTC gives them a lot of freedom when it comes to art. Which makes me wonder what their Dragonborn or Gnomes look like.
 
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I thought they changed it so people dont mistake it for a D:OS2 dlc

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Still, Larian's Gith design looks a lot less ugly than the official one. Apparently WOTC gives them a lot of freedom when it comes to art. Which makes me wonder what their Dragonborn or Gnomes look like.
Probably would be fewer fanboys interested in romancing that character, if her design were similar to Jeff Easley's classic cover for Tales of the Outer Planes:

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For some reason they have changed key art on Steam.

Before:

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After:

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That Warlock guy who was not shown at the PAX demo is removed. They said he will be available at EA.
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Can't we have at least ONE hottie? Jeez

So my options are a girl wearing ten layers of foundation and a bowl haircut, or a person missing half their face. Thanks a bunch Larian
 

Generic-Giant-Spider

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Shadowheart doesn't really have a bowlcut, more like fringe bangs but her hair is tied back so it makes it look awkward especially from that angle.
 

Riddler

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Bubbles In Memoria
Do they really have to put that yellow girl at the center stage of the promo material? Looking at her gives me the shivers.

What do you mean you get the shivers?
You want to tell me they "raped" the lore and carved that beautiful nose on her for nothing?

Just say thank you to Larian and appreciate what you get.
Because they clearly made that character more fuckable and now every Lardtard can put their virtual dick in with more ease.

Otherwise you would've got something like this:

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Wth are you talking about? That is vastly more fucksble.
 

BarbequeMasta

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"The boring answer is that it was just really good writing"
ohgawd come on. come on, person who supposed be writer *kicks larian writer* say something fuck. ugh here, i do this for you:

"bg 1 had writing like you played d&d session with your teenage friends and bg2 had irenicus"

this is not hard to come up with something about game you supposedly played and now writing 3d part
I thought we established that Larian devs neither played or liked BG a while ago, what do you expect?
 

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Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture
Am not sure I'll stop laughing at her name long enough to have sex though.
Then you'd just start laughing at her hairdo.

Shadowheart's hairstyle actually looks like something from this mod (collection was ported to many games):
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Saerain

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You think so? Those are very Japanese styles while this is just your typical a fringed bob.
 

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That has to be bullshit, right? How would it even be realistic or possible for an adventuring party to not come across enemies who refuse to negotiate, or just some plain regular wild animals? And what about random encounters?
Wild animals?
this is why animal handling skill exist.
Also druid and rangers spells.
 

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