Baldur's Gate 3 Far Surpassed My Expectations!

[Nos]

Thought it would be mediocre, at worst simply bad...but it really one of a kind.
Maybe the absolute worst game ever made, period, at least of AAA releases last couple decades...

Only gave it a try because it made the 100 best games list here...but really belongs on a 100 worst games list, with BG3 near the top.
TBH, didn't play it to completion, quit very early, after a scene of two monsters butt-f***ing in a barn...seriously Larian, you know kids play this game?!?

It's not just the (gay, furry) pornography, the game makes no sense, Larian just threw in a bunch of s**t from the D&D universe with no
rhyme or reason...Mind Flayers! Dragons! Githyankis! Trip through Hell Itself Attacked by Demons! That's just the prelude, before you even start playing....
And the prelude is the high point, it gets steadily worse as you advance...

The only good/accurate thing about the Codex top 100 review was describing the game as a 'freakshow'...and perhaps the reviewer is
correct that this is the best of Larian's recent games, can't say I haven't played the 'DOS' series, though if they are worse than this they must be pretty bad indeed!

Also the game is horribly balanced, for instance there is one conversation which requires passing *4* quick consecutive dice rolls, lose just one and Game Over.
Fun!

And this piece of s**t sold what, 10 trillion copies, more than any other RPG ever made?
People truly have terrible taste in games...

Guess we can look forward to some really bad RPGs playing copycat next few years...

 

[Sergio]

Good fakeout. I was expecting a reddit-type post, but you surpassed my expectations.

 

[__scribbles__]

I haven't played BG3 (and probably won't ever), but tbqh I have a hard time believing it's worse than Fallout 3 or Oblivion.

 

[Nos]

Never played Oblivion.
BG3 much worse than F3 though.
F3 was just boring. BG3 is obscene and borderline unplayable.
One thing they do have in common is that they both beat you over the head with pro-immigration/refugee propaganda...

 

[Nos]

Thinking back to BG 1 and 2, how lucky I was to grow up in the 90s when RPGs were harmless neo-Tolkien pastimes for Nerds. Now they are bizarre hybrids of sick hardcore porn and moronic political indoctrination. BG3 is utterly vile and so is Larian, I hope Belgium gets overrun by Congolese savages very soon, at least they have some primitive morality not to subject children to such garbage...

 

[anvi]

I think they lie about sales figures. Our game sold 20 zillion copies in a day! Click here to be part of the totally real movement.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Thought it would be mediocre, at worst simply bad...but it really one of a kind.
Maybe the absolute worst game ever made, period, at least of AAA releases last couple decades...

Only gave it a try because it made the 100 best games list here...but really belongs on a 100 worst games list, with BG3 near the top.
TBH, didn't play it to completion, quit very early, after a scene of two monsters butt-f***ing in a barn...seriously Larian, you know kids play this game?!?

It's not just the (gay, furry) pornography, the game makes no sense, Larian just threw in a bunch of s**t from the D&D universe with no
rhyme or reason...Mind Flayers! Dragons! Githyankis! Trip through Hell Itself Attacked by Demons! That's just the prelude, before you even start playing....
And the prelude is the high point, it gets steadily worse as you advance...

The only good/accurate thing about the Codex top 100 review was describing the game as a 'freakshow'...and perhaps the reviewer is
correct that this is the best of Larian's recent games, can't say I haven't played the 'DOS' series, though if they are worse than this they must be pretty bad indeed!

Also the game is horribly balanced, for instance there is one conversation which requires passing *4* quick consecutive dice rolls, lose just one and Game Over.
Fun!

And yet the original Baldur's Gate 3 still has far better gameplay than BG1&2.

 

[Harthwain]

It's not just the (gay, furry) pornography, the game makes no sense, Larian just threw in a bunch of s**t from the D&D universe with no
rhyme or reason...Mind Flayers! Dragons! Githyankis! Trip through Hell Itself Attacked by Demons!

Baldur's Gate 2 was also a mash of themes, including mind flayers, drows, dragons, githyanki, demons (with you going to the literal Hell), elves, druids, underwater city, powerful creatures (such as the Observer or the Lich) residing underneath the city of Amn, etc... It was simply a vertical slice of the setting. Looks like Baldur's Gate 3 was taking full advantage of that.

TBH, didn't play it to completion, quit very early, after a scene of two monsters butt-f***ing in a barn...seriously Larian, you know kids play this game?!?

Baldur's Gate 3 is rated by PEGI at 18 and above, and by the ESRB at a Mature 17+. So, yeah, you probably shouldn't be giving this game to kids. That said, it is said the game asks you at the start if you want to turn off nudity, so you can be a responsible parent and set the game up first.

Never played Oblivion.

Where did you come from? Whose sleeper alt are you?

 

[Lagole Gon]

It's a good game, with some really silly design choices and arguably the worst main plot in modern cRPGs - arguably because there is some strong competition out there.

 

[Lyric Suite]

It's not just the (gay, furry) pornography, the game makes no sense, Larian just threw in a bunch of s**t from the D&D universe with no
rhyme or reason...Mind Flayers! Dragons! Githyankis! Trip through Hell Itself Attacked by Demons!

Baldur's Gate 2 was also a mash of themes

BG2 is an high level adventure that's usually when you are supposed to be seeing that kind of stuff.

BTW, that problem isn't specific to BG3 from what i've seen modern DnD itself is like that.

 

[Dark Souls II]

As someone who never played or will play "Baldur's Gate" 3 (more like Baldcuck's Gay 3, if I'm being completely honest), I can 100% confirm that it is a shitty game with appalling writing, eye-gouging quirky "humor", retarded spill-a-liquid-on-the-floor "combat", and all the other sins of typical Larian slop. Also every single characer in the game is some kind of freak, which is boring, and antithetical to the RPG genre (I want hot blond elf girls, human male warriors & paladins, dwarves with axes drinking beer and wizards with beards - the COOL shit). There's a demon girl companion (no I won't call it a "tiefling", red-skinned girl with horns? Demon girl) and they made her (?) ugly as fuck, with body of a male covered with scar tissue. Newsflash, libtards: demon girls are supposed to be hot.

Also, the game doesn't have a day/night cycle.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Thought it would be mediocre, at worst simply bad...but it really one of a kind.
Maybe the absolute worst game ever made, period, at least of AAA releases last couple decades...

Only gave it a try because it made the 100 best games list here...but really belongs on a 100 worst games list, with BG3 near the top.
TBH, didn't play it to completion, quit very early, after a scene of two monsters butt-f***ing in a barn...seriously Larian, you know kids play this game?!?

It's not just the (gay, furry) pornography, the game makes no sense, Larian just threw in a bunch of s**t from the D&D universe with no
rhyme or reason...Mind Flayers! Dragons! Githyankis! Trip through Hell Itself Attacked by Demons! That's just the prelude, before you even start playing....
And the prelude is the high point, it gets steadily worse as you advance...

The only good/accurate thing about the Codex top 100 review was describing the game as a 'freakshow'...and perhaps the reviewer is
correct that this is the best of Larian's recent games, can't say I haven't played the 'DOS' series, though if they are worse than this they must be pretty bad indeed!

Also the game is horribly balanced, for instance there is one conversation which requires passing *4* quick consecutive dice rolls, lose just one and Game Over.
Fun!

And yet the original Baldur's Gate 3 still has far better gameplay than BG1&2.

Not a high bar to clear though

 

[anvi]

Thought it would be mediocre, at worst simply bad...but it really one of a kind.
Maybe the absolute worst game ever made, period, at least of AAA releases last couple decades...

Only gave it a try because it made the 100 best games list here...but really belongs on a 100 worst games list, with BG3 near the top.
TBH, didn't play it to completion, quit very early, after a scene of two monsters butt-f***ing in a barn...seriously Larian, you know kids play this game?!?

It's not just the (gay, furry) pornography, the game makes no sense, Larian just threw in a bunch of s**t from the D&D universe with no
rhyme or reason...Mind Flayers! Dragons! Githyankis! Trip through Hell Itself Attacked by Demons! That's just the prelude, before you even start playing....
And the prelude is the high point, it gets steadily worse as you advance...

The only good/accurate thing about the Codex top 100 review was describing the game as a 'freakshow'...and perhaps the reviewer is
correct that this is the best of Larian's recent games, can't say I haven't played the 'DOS' series, though if they are worse than this they must be pretty bad indeed!

Also the game is horribly balanced, for instance there is one conversation which requires passing *4* quick consecutive dice rolls, lose just one and Game Over.
Fun!

And yet the original Baldur's Gate 3 still has far better gameplay than BG1&2.

What was the original like compared to release? I tried it after release and hated how long it took to run everywhere and do all the clicking of shit. I want to fight and the few fights I got were not interesting.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Where did you come from? Whose sleeper alt are you?

Not Drakortha for sure, he didn't say one thing about the lack of a day night cycle.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

And yet the original Baldur's Gate 3 still has far better gameplay than BG1&2.

What was the original like compared to release? I tried it after release and hated how long it took to run everywhere and do all the clicking of shit. I want to fight and the few fights I got were not interesting.

That was a joke relating to the notorious phrase "the original Fallout 3", though perhaps I should wait for the release of Baldur's Gate 4 for it to be really funny.

 

[Modron]

Where did you come from? Whose sleeper alt are you?

Lots of people never touched that slop.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

TL;DR:

Old good new bad. Gay. Amirite codex?

Please give ratings.

 

[Lhynn]

The combat is pretty great.

 

[Lagole Gon]

It's not just the (gay, furry) pornography, the game makes no sense, Larian just threw in a bunch of s**t from the D&D universe with no
rhyme or reason...Mind Flayers! Dragons! Githyankis! Trip through Hell Itself Attacked by Demons!

Baldur's Gate 2 was also a mash of themes, including mind flayers, drows, dragons, githyanki, demons (with you going to the literal Hell), elves, druids, underwater city, powerful creatures (such as the Observer or the Lich) residing underneath the city of Amn, etc... It was simply a vertical slice of the setting. Looks like Baldur's Gate 3 was taking full advantage of that.

1. BG2 is a mid-high level adventure.
2. Main storyline is rather focused, compared to BG3.
3. All these crazy elements mostly don't interact with each other directly. At no point I was forced to ask myself "If demons are literally made of evil, can a mind-flyer eat its brain? Is it spicy? Wait, illithid tadpole can be placed inside a devil? What?!".

I used to semi-defend FR as a "eh, good for what it is popamole slop setting". Boy oh boy, BG3 cured me of that.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I used to semi-defend FR as a "eh, good for what it is popamole slop setting". Boy oh boy, BG3 cured me of that.

The best result from Baldur's Gate 3 is the spreading awareness that the Forgotten Realms is the worst D&D/AD&D setting ever created.

 

[Swen]

 

[Nifft Batuff]

but really belongs on a 100 worst games list, with BG3 near the top.

I wish to live in a parellel universe where this is true.

 

[NJClaw]

BG3 is full of cringe and trash, with two very clearly unfinished acts as it's customary with Larian, but the combat is reasonably enjoyable and most situations can be tackled in multiple ways (through gameplay, not simply dialogue selection) and offer different outcomes, which is still incredibly rare in the year of our Lord 2025.

 

[Gregz]

Maybe D&D wasn't meant to be a gay pride parade.

 

[dutchwench]

Maybe D&D wasn't meant to be a gay pride parade.

Well it definitely wasn't meant to be one and we all know it because we're more or less familiar with what the TSR wanted.
However, what do the intentions of one man matter when it comes to a corporation developing his ideas 40 years later and trying to make profit off them? As Gandalf once said, "can't argue with retarded faggots".