Development Info Baldur's Gate 3 Retrospective Panel at PAX West 2024

[Infinitron]

Tags: Baldur's Gate 3; Larian Studios; Nick Pechenin; Swen Vincke

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[luj1]

Back in the day, "retrospectives" were something written for classics which were at least 10 years old

 

[Sweeper]

Back in the day, "retrospectives" were something written for classics which were at least 10 years old

We're living in post-modernism dude. Meaning of words? That's so 20th century bro.

 

[luj1]

We're living in post-modernism dude. Meaning of words? That's so 20th century bro.

You're right of course. Don't forget to fling shit at Infinitron on your way out.

 

[Sweeper]

We're living in post-modernism dude. Meaning of words? That's so 20th century bro.

You're right of course. Don't forget to throw shit at Infinitron before leaving the thread.

https://ia800209.us.archive.org/35/...sTogether/Solzhenitsyn-200 Years Together.pdf

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Why Pax stil have rainbow logo? It's August.

 

[luj1]

Why Pax stil have rainbow logo? It's August.

Soon every month will be an LGBT month

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Why Pax stil have rainbow logo? It's August.

Soon every month will be an LGBT month

It's hard to say. A few years ago it was true, although a few companies have since relaxed. However, the convention companies are holding on tight to the rainbow.

I hope we don't go back to the dark years of 2016-2019.

 

[ind33d]

Is the bear on the panel?

 

[Rook]

Is the bear on the panel?

There is literally a bear in a chair in the video.

 

[mindx2]

Larian, Enough with the bear-thing nonsense for the love of God!!!

 

[luj1]

I never found the bear thing funny, I found it bizarre. Like why would somebody include such a thing in the game?

 

[Shrimp]

Is there a tl;dr summary of this or did they simply not say anything substantial worth summarizing?

 

[Shaki]

I never found the bear thing funny, I found it bizarre. Like why would somebody include such a thing in the game?

Because people talk about it, it was a pure PR move and worked perfectly. I'm pretty sure the bear thing was the first time BG3 started going viral, doubt it would reach even half of its current audience without shit like that. All the streamers etc. picked it up purely because of the bear clip being posted everywhere.

 

[luj1]

it was a pure PR move and worked perfectly

Worked perfectly for them only. However it's bad for everything else, the gamers, the genre and human sanity in general.

 

[Vagabond Merchant]

I never found the bear thing funny, I found it bizarre. Like why would somebody include such a thing in the game?

Justifying the bear thing is a slipperly slop of immorality. "It's just a human that can tranform into a bear" could shift to transforming to other "shapes". Where do you set the stop to it?

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

is that TED?

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

I really wanted to like BG3. I played for like 40-50 hours and just did not get anywhere and the game felt like a chore for some reason. There was too much garbage to collect. I really dislike modern 'crafting' systems, they bog the inventory and entire loot and ultimately progress of the game down. It becomes a chore to have to sift through all the junk you hoover up all the time. I tried playing BG and icewind dale for an hour or two recently just to compare, and they are just more fun to play for whatever reason. I would take endless 'modules' or adventures made in those engines rather than have to chug through these modern bloated games.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Is the bear on the panel?

There is literally a bear in a chair in the video.

I did not watch much of the video, what is the timestamp where Swen cuts a hole in the bear and goes to town on it?

 

[Shaki]

I never found the bear thing funny, I found it bizarre. Like why would somebody include such a thing in the game?

Justifying the bear thing is a slipperly slop of immorality. "It's just a human that can tranform into a bear" could shift to transforming to other "shapes". Where do you set the stop to it?

Bear is not the beginning of the slope, we're already close to the bottom. Weeb pedos were using exactly same logic to justify their degeneracy for years, it was just a matter of time because it's also get used by zoophiles and all other deviants, and start seeping into other mediums than anime. The moment we stopped bullying weebs hard enough to keep them contained, we entered the one way road to Slaanesh's domain.

 

[Vincente]

I really wanted to like BG3. I played for like 40-50 hours and just did not get anywhere and the game felt like a chore for some reason.

You don't play an RPG you dislike for 50 hours lol

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Larian, Enough with the bear-thing nonsense for the love of God!!!

It's very delibearate at this point.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Anyone here thinking the bear thing was just a marketing ploy or the beginning of a slippery slope is naive. The slope was crossed a long time ago. A game with that budget, targeting such a large audience, featuring zoophilia (bestiality) is abhorent and should not have been accepted in any manner. These people have been so poisoned with furry shit and degeneracy acceptance for so long, the addition of sex with a bear was met with cheers and excitement. This should have been stopped a long time ago. We just want to get married. Yeah right.

 

[Drakortha]

In retrospect, BG3 was shit.

 

[luj1]

I tried playing BG and Icewind Dale for an hour or two recently just to compare, and they are just more fun to play for whatever reason.

Because their format is more pure - no endlessly annoying voice acting and cutscenes you need to sit through. They don't try to be movies.