Baldur's Gate #BaldurGate: Siege of Dragonspear

[Ezrite]

I just found Amber Scott's tumblr page and we all should have seen this coming.
http://medesha.tumblr.com/

Dear god, that Safana fan art :O

http://41.media.tumblr.com/1d20e1c3871bda2e6aeac8244b63677d/tumblr_o4zcjhltgW1sj8p8no1_1280.png

 

[Sothpaw]

Shall we simplify this? I think so.

This is a reunion show starring some of your favorite characters, but without any of the original production staff, and the replacements are just whoever the studio could grab from the hallway on short notice in order to make a quick cash-in. So, the usual sort of reunion show, with poor direction, poor arrangement, technical errors like the boom showing, and all the rest, with only numerous references to the original and the old cast to counterbalance the ineptitude.

But if you half close your eyes and pretend really hard, and you're a little simple-minded, you might be able to make yourself believe it's 1999 again. Same as any other reunion show.

So basically it's the Force Awakens.

 

[Atlantico]

There is Dragon Age, Sunset , Gone Home hijacked by this.

I was neutral on this SJW thing until I played Gone Home. I paid 10 bucks for it. I paid fucking money for them to spew their propaganda.

I felt violated. They violated my safe space!!

So basically it's the Force Awakens.

:brofist:

 

[Excidium II]

I just found Amber Scott's tumblr page and we all should have seen this coming.
http://medesha.tumblr.com/

Dear god, that Safana fan art :O

http://41.media.tumblr.com/1d20e1c3871bda2e6aeac8244b63677d/tumblr_o4zcjhltgW1sj8p8no1_1280.png

Handsome squidward version.

 

[Roguey]

Hmm I wonder if Beamdog decided to rape canon because they couldn't abide that a rapist didn't get his onscreen comeuppance.

There's an inappropriate quote at the start of Baldur's Gate that would describe this situation.

 

[Ezrite]

Handsome squidward version.

If this is the Safana Amber Scott wanted to implement I want to opt out of Dungeons and Dragons forever. Neverwinter the MMO, I forgive you, I laughed to much at your shitty lore but damn...

 

[DeepOcean]

Writer
Self-Employed

So unemployed?

Hmmm... pretty cool way to say you were unemployed, totaly will use this on my resume.

 

[Johannes]

Problem is, the developers started preaching outside of the game, telling everybody how they must fix problems and how they're trying to use such characters as much as possible, that even if those lines didn't sound preachy now it's hard to not see them as such.

Yeah, this is possibly what is triggering me the most TBH. Knowing the intent and all that just pisses me off.

If they'd just included a line of dialogue where you could tell the tranny to fuck off, it would have softened it a lot.

That's another thing. You could always be a snarky cunt to people in BG games.

The conversations with the new single mother womyn companion seem to lack that type of option too.

Oh my god Corwin is atrocious. At first I thought she could be OK but then she wen't all balistic on me and how she thought higher of my CHARNAME, muh duty to the Baldur's Gate, what will people say when they'll find out you are a child of bhaal? Etc, etc. She tells you to be diplomatic and speak with the BigBadEvilWoman, when you do that and tell her that you can see the point the BBEW is making she goes DONT TELL ME YOU BELIEVE THAT BULLSHIT. When you propose to assasinate the BBEW she calls you dishonourable and just forces you to go "diplomatic"

Bipolar at best, definitively not stronk wommyn.

Sounds like a realistic woman

 

[Space Insect]

http://imgur.com/WH7BUCr

That first dialogue option is

 

[Excidium II]

http://imgur.com/WH7BUCr

That first dialogue option is

Always great when none of the dialogue options is something you'd want to say.

 

[Ellef]

I just found Amber Scott's tumblr page and we all should have seen this coming.
http://medesha.tumblr.com/

Dear god, that Safana fan art :O

http://41.media.tumblr.com/1d20e1c3871bda2e6aeac8244b63677d/tumblr_o4zcjhltgW1sj8p8no1_1280.png

Imagine if this dyke gets a hand on a bg2 expansion.

New Aerie

Spoiler

 

[mediocrepoet]

So you're saying that we'd get an improved Aerie.

 

[Maggot]

Aerie is trash though so that's okay.

 

[Immortal]

Aerie is trash though so that's okay.

Aeries is good.. when you wanna cuck Haer-Dalis.

 

[Roguey]

http://imgur.com/WH7BUCr

That first dialogue option is

Beamdog sure is doing a fantastic job of showcasing the superiority of Josh Sawyer. Now there's a guy who knows how to make games for his core audience. The proof is in the Steam scores.

(yeah I know Avellone wrote this particular dialogue)

 

[Metal Hurlant]

We need a Roxor review to truly determine if SoD is more fun that POE.

Darth Roxor Will you accept this challenge?

 

[raesha]

Jesus christ, the way Beamdog PR keeps pouring gasoline on the fire is just hilarious.

 

[Ninjerk]

You know what's really getting missed in all of this? Roguey stating his opinion for himself for 2 whole fucking pages. Infinitron news post, please.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

On the plus side, this is the best entertainment offered by the Infinity Engine in over a dozen years.

 

[Grubba]

This whole mess is disgusting, all of it, both sides. All of you people make me fucking sick. It's a shame that this legendary game will now most likely be forever linked to some retarded "culture wars" bullshit that was inflated to ridiculous proportions thanks to the internet. Nothing is good anymore, everything is poisoned. Small and insignificant as it may be, it's just another thing on the pile of reasons of why I should move to a cabin in the mountains or join some monastery in the east. More noise from a troubled world.

 

[Western]

This whole mess is disgusting, all of it, both sides. All of you people make me fucking sick. It's a shame that this legendary game will now most likely be forever linked to some retarded "culture wars" bullshit that was inflated to ridiculous proportions thanks to the internet. Nothing is good anymore, everything is poisoned. Small and insignificant as it may be, it's just another thing on the pile of reasons of why I should move to a cabin in the mountains or join some monastery in the east. More noise from a troubled world.

I've been to the a monastery in the east, it's overrated, the Codex is far more entertaining.

There's a certain enlightenment you find when engaged in adversarial situations if you manage to maintain cognitive function.

 

[Telengard]

This whole mess is disgusting, all of it, both sides. All of you people make me fucking sick. It's a shame that this legendary game will now most likely be forever linked to some retarded "culture wars" bullshit that was inflated to ridiculous proportions thanks to the internet. Nothing is good anymore, everything is poisoned. Small and insignificant as it may be, it's just another thing on the pile of reasons of why I should move to a cabin in the mountains or join some monastery in the east. More noise from a troubled world.

Hee, d&d has survived witchcraft controversies, demon worship controversies, drug use controversies, and teen suicide controversies, with many of those involving multiple court cases. A couple weeks of internet insults is nothing compared to those, and so isn't going to harm the legacy of one of its top selling games.

 

[Nihiliste]

It's crazy what they're doing at Beamdog.

This whole thing would have blown over quite quickly if they just apologized for a bad joke to the fanbase and released a generic PR statement.

Instead, they directly antagonize the core fanbase again and again and again. I truly believe, nothing would have come of this if Amber Scott didn't open her mouth.


You have one of the most beloved video game franchises in history. You have one of the loyalist fanbases possible, allowing you to sell 1 million copies of shitty repackages of 15-18 year old games. You have an engine, combat system, characters. You know where the story is supposed to begin and end.

How is it possible to fuck something like that up?


Marketing 101, don't insult your core fanbase. Marketing 102, don't double down on it once you do.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The next big drama thread will be when we end up publishing a fairly positive review

Is this just a hypothesis, or do you already somehow know it's going to be fairly positive?

I just found Amber Scott's tumblr page and we all should have seen this coming.
http://medesha.tumblr.com/

I saw it coming from the first twitch stream, even though I didn't know about her blog. But I didn't want to judge the book by the cover, and I didn't want to be attacked by people with high expectations of SoD if I had directly asked "Who is the tumblrina with the dumb hat and who allowed her to write for the game"? I admit at first it was difficult to tell if it's a man or a woman - also known as "imposing my heteronormativity" - which is always a bad sign.

This whole mess is disgusting, all of it, both sides. All of you people make me fucking sick. It's a shame that this legendary game will now most likely be forever linked to some retarded "culture wars" bullshit that was inflated to ridiculous proportions thanks to the internet. Nothing is good anymore, everything is poisoned. Small and insignificant as it may be, it's just another thing on the pile of reasons of why I should move to a cabin in the mountains or join some monastery in the east. More noise from a troubled world.

Nah, I think you're being overly dramatic. They won't be able to smear the BG series forever. Their expansion however will remain an example of how out of place activisim mixed with lack of talent can ruin the experience in an entertainment product.

From the blog btw:

Spoiler

Men: Women just don’t understand how important sex is to men and how we NEED it and how sex is a biological impulse for us that can’t be ignored it’s the most important thing EVER.

Men: *consistently depict personified lust as female*

But how can we help it:

 

[Shadenuat]

I just found Amber Scott's tumblr page and we all should have seen this coming.
http://medesha.tumblr.com/

((There’s a trans character in this game. Just right there. One of the supporting clerics. Why can’t I have her in my party? I can always use another cleric.))

The last part is somewhat true. There are only 2 clerics in game - you either have to deal with Viconia's tantrums, or with a homognome. There are no alternatives.
Again, bad composition in joinable companions.

(Yea I know I know, I'm just making points beyond fact that everything on that link is awful)