Game News Baldur's Gate 3 confirmed for release in 2023

[aris]

Pretty funny trailer :D

 

[aris]

In Baldur's Gate 2, your character sets back an Illithid invasion

Imagine being so bereft of originality that you base your game's plot around a sidequest in a previous title.

It was not a side quest.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

My parents immigrated to Belgium when I was a kid, it traumatized me big time.

wow, you're a massive pussy if this is true

I lived for 4 years without speaking with anyone, because I didn't know the language and nobody taught me anything. That would traumatize any kid.

I went from living in a white country with a ton of buddies and a normal social life to living in an arabic ghetto with zero social connections.

All I had was my old PC and a disc with Fallout 2. I was playing and replaying it for 4 years, this is where I got to "talk" to people.

 

[Geisler]

My parents immigrated to Belgium when I was a kid, it traumatized me big time.

wow, you're a massive pussy if this is true

I lived for 4 years without speaking with anyone, because I didn't know the language and nobody taught me anything. That would traumatize any kid.

I went from living in a white country with a ton of buddies and a normal social life to living in an arabic ghetto with zero social connections.

All I had was my old PC and a disc with Fallout 2. I was playing and replaying it for 4 years, this is where I got to "talk" to people.

I know you're and edgelord dumbfuck or at least acting like one to sound all codexian, but i'd really like you to PM me what city in Belgium you grew up in, and from where you hail in the mother country. See, my wife is Russian, she grew up in Bashkiria, studied in SPB en lived there till she was about 25, and eventually moved here to Belgium to live with me. I've been to Russia about to 6 times a year for the past 15 years, visited the big cities and quite a bit of rural Russia as well. Suffice to say I can make a few comparisons between the two countries (and make no mistake, i fell in love with Russia and its rich culture, and indeed its people, I'm not trolling you here)

I'm genuinely interested to hear about how you got gangraped by mudslimes or whatever the fuck happened to you here, because you make it sound like the entire place is some fucked up Arab ghetto.

That said, Larian is shit and i don't like a single game from them, on that we can agree.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I lived for 4 years without speaking with anyone, because I didn't know the language and nobody taught me anything. That would traumatize any kid.

I went from living in a white country with a ton of buddies and a normal social life to living in an arabic ghetto with zero social connections.

All I had was my old PC and a disc with Fallout 2. I was playing and replaying it for 4 years, this is where I got to "talk" to people.

So you had 4 years time to integrate with a new society and instead you decided to lock yourself in and play the same game ad nauseam? Every time you peddle your woe-is-me crap it's always by your own doing.

 

[Preben]

It's still not released?

 

[C.H.A.R.L.I.E]

It hasn't been officially announced yet.

Nothing at all wrong with expanding a minor element of a previous title into the primary reason for a sequel. That's where Irenicus came from.

Wow, after all these years I never tried another dialog option than "we want to know why you're so fat"

 

[Humbaba]

It hasn't been officially announced yet.



Nothing at all wrong with expanding a minor element of a previous title into the primary reason for a sequel. That's where Irenicus came from.

On-the-nose inappropriate fourth wall breaking at that:

This is just regular foreshadowing, that's not the same thing.

 

[Roguey]

This is just regular foreshadowing, that's not the same thing.

"Perhaps it will come in useful in a sequel" is such an inappropriately jarring fourth-wall break that Beamdog rewrote it in the EE (also changed his name to go with the one they ultimately used).

When we charmed the huge bloated creature that called herself Centeol, we were told an interesting story. It seems she was cursed to her current shape by a powerful mage named Jon Irenicus. Hah! Only a fool would run afoul of a mage like that.

 

[Humbaba]

"Perhaps it will come in useful in a sequel" is such an inappropriately jarring fourth-wall break that Beamdog rewrote it in the EE (also changed his name to go with the one they ultimately used).

I made no judgement on the quality of the foreshadowing, just that it actually is foreshadowing, the kind of which is absent with the whole BG2 mindflayer thing.

 

[Roguey]

I made no judgement on the quality of the foreshadowing, just that it actually is foreshadowing, the kind of which is absent with the whole BG2 mindflayer thing.

This note has sections written in several languages, some so alien as to be painful to look at.

A small section written in Common reads as follows:
"The base is established, and the infiltration continues. The Hidden gathers followers, and soon we shall dominate the minds of the entire..."

The message continues in one of the more alien scripts. The illithids are up to something, as is typical of the race, but your being here has most likely disrupted their plans.

Over 100 years later, those plans are now back on track.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I made no judgement on the quality of the foreshadowing, just that it actually is foreshadowing, the kind of which is absent with the whole BG2 mindflayer thing.

This note has sections written in several languages, some so alien as to be painful to look at.

A small section written in Common reads as follows:
"The base is established, and the infiltration continues. The Hidden gathers followers, and soon we shall dominate the minds of the entire..."

The message continues in one of the more alien scripts. The illithids are up to something, as is typical of the race, but your being here has most likely disrupted their plans.

Over 100 years later, those plans are now back on track.

Illithid incursion goes back to Tales of the Sword Coast.

 

[Humbaba]

I made no judgement on the quality of the foreshadowing, just that it actually is foreshadowing, the kind of which is absent with the whole BG2 mindflayer thing.

This note has sections written in several languages, some so alien as to be painful to look at.

A small section written in Common reads as follows:
"The base is established, and the infiltration continues. The Hidden gathers followers, and soon we shall dominate the minds of the entire..."

The message continues in one of the more alien scripts. The illithids are up to something, as is typical of the race, but your being here has most likely disrupted their plans.

Over 100 years later, those plans are now back on track.

Note implies the Mindflayers were stopped, with no indication to the contrary. Larian basically did a soft retcon then. Still no foreshadowing.

 

[Roguey]

Note implies the Mindflayers were stopped, with no indication to the contrary. Larian basically did a soft retcon then. Still no foreshadowing.

Disrupted doesn't mean stop completely. There's a lot more mind flayers where they came from and they can play the long game. That note also makes reference to The Hidden, who's an Illithid you briefly meet in Jan's side quest https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Jan_Jansen_Summoned_Home and he's buddied up with the nobility https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Lady_Jysstev It's hypothetically possible to kill him, but that wouldn't necessarily be canon.

 

[Humbaba]

Disrupted doesn't mean stop completely.

Hence I said "implies". The rest is headcanon.

EDIT: Yes I am serious. Every asshole threw a fit when Palpatine turned out to be alive for good reason, but if Larian made movies instead of videogames, you guys would defend it by saying "Weeeeelllll, we NEVER ACTUALLY saw his corpse so uh, this has been hinted at since the beginning!"

BG3's main villains might as well could've been the sylphs you fight at the beach in BG1 for all you guys could care.

 

[Roguey]

Hence I said "implies". The rest is headcanon.

It's not a soft retcon. It's a logical extension.

 

[Humbaba]

It's not a soft retcon. It's a logical extension.

You Ninja'd me. See the above.

 

[Roguey]

EDIT: Yes I am serious. Every asshole threw a fit when Palpatine turned out to be alive for good reason, but if Larian made movies instead of videogames, you guys would defend it by saying "Weeeeelllll, we NEVER ACTUALLY saw his corpse so uh, this has been hinted at since the beginning!"

BG3's main villains might as well could've been the sylphs you fight at the beach in BG1 for all you guys could care.

It's not a retcon. Charname destroyed a secret illithid base in the city of Athkatla, but they're not just going to give up on account of that. It just set their invasion plans back a century.

 

[Humbaba]

It's not a retcon. Charname destroyed a secret illithid base in the city of Athkatla, but they're not just going to give up on account of that. It just set their invasion plans back a century.

That's your post hoc rationalisation i.e. headcanon. There's nothing in BG2 that foreshadows their return or anything. In fact as established earlier, the Correspondence description suggests something to the opposite.

The questline leaves the door open for "logical extensions", but then again, Larian could've pulled something else out of their ass and then point to anything in BG1/2 and act like this was planned all along. If you wanna call that a retcon is up to you, this ain't an exact science, but it definitely isn't an inspired premise.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

I know you're and edgelord

I'm laying out facts that Sven enslaved actual people and you guys find it "funny". Who's the edgelord?
He relocated each individual for 30k and made them sign a contract that if they leave, they have to pay 30k, which they can't do, because their salary is 1.5k
Is this a joke to you?

because you make it sound like the entire place is some fucked up Arab ghetto.

Because it is. Here's my school pic (I left myself out):

The whitest guy in the front is a turkroach. Two white girls in total, zero white people otherwise.

I'm genuinely interested to hear about how you got gangraped by mudslimes

You can ask some of your friends, they'll have stories. I've seen so much shit, I could write a book.
But like they say in russia, "you can piss in his eyes, he'll still say it's mildew". Can't argue with you people, you live in your own delusions.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

So you had 4 years time to integrate with a new society and instead you decided to lock yourself in and play the same game ad nauseam? Every time you peddle your woe-is-me crap it's always by your own doing.

How's your own integration into arabic society going, euro cuck? Sharia when?

 

[Hobo Elf]

Everyone looks healthy and happy. No wonder the Russian can't fit in.

 

[Delterius]

I made no judgement on the quality of the foreshadowing, just that it actually is foreshadowing, the kind of which is absent with the whole BG2 mindflayer thing.

This note has sections written in several languages, some so alien as to be painful to look at.

A small section written in Common reads as follows:
"The base is established, and the infiltration continues. The Hidden gathers followers, and soon we shall dominate the minds of the entire..."

The message continues in one of the more alien scripts. The illithids are up to something, as is typical of the race, but your being here has most likely disrupted their plans.

Over 100 years later, those plans are now back on track.

Illithid incursion goes back to Tales of the Sword Coast.

i genuinely did not remember any of that

based

 

[Roguey]

That's your post hoc rationalisation i.e. headcanon. There's nothing in BG2 that foreshadows their return or anything. In fact as established earlier, the Correspondence description suggests something to the opposite.

That's not a post hoc rationalization. The illithid will always be a threat until Wizards publishes a book that says they're not.

The questline leaves the door open for "logical extensions", but then again, Larian could've pulled something else out of their ass and then point to anything in BG1/2 and act like this was planned all along. If you wanna call that a retcon is up to you, this ain't an exact science, but it definitely isn't an inspired premise.

It's organic storytelling not "planned all along." Of course it wasn't planned, and they're not saying it was either, that's your head canon.

 

[Delterius]

noo you can't look at the stories involving baldur's gate for quest hooks you have to make a trilogy with level 80 AD&D characters