Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Sòren]

anyone remembers that D&D movie with Jeremy Irons and one of the wayans brothers?

if u enjoyed this one the game doesn't look that bad.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Ho wow now that you point it out, the glittery "high" fantasy aesthetic is actually kinda similar to that in that shitty movie lmao.

 

[mediocrepoet]

anyone remembers that D&D movie with Jeremy Irons and one of the wayans brothers?

if u enjoyed this one the game doesn't look that bad.

Who enjoyed that terrible movie?

 

[Lyric Suite]

anyone remembers that D&D movie with Jeremy Irons and one of the wayans brothers?

if u enjoyed this one the game doesn't look that bad.

Who enjoyed that terrible movie?

Nobody. It's not even so bad it's good material. You get to see Jeremy Iron's trying to ham it up as much as anyone possibly can but even that isn't actually fun or funny.

 

[Ibn Sina]

One of the things that annoyed me about the first trailer they put out is that the game is based on the underworld stuff right out of the gate.

Baldur's Gate starts in a very Tolkienesque manner. You are just a young kid who lived a very normal and mundane life who suddenly has been trust into a world that was far more dangerous and mysterious than you could ever imagine, same as in Lord of the Rings with Frodo etc.

Now, suddenly, you are encountering Illithids and Giths and Beholders and who knows what the fuck else like it's the most every day thing. There's no mystery now, everything has been laid bare to the point even the most bizzare and esoteric aspects of Forgotten Realms are just commonplace and boring.

Why is it a prerequisite that the MC must always start fighting rats and other critters before gradually moving up? I don't understand this fixation, if anything it is getting very stale.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Why is it a prerequisite that the MC must always start fighting rats and other critters before gradually moving up?

 

[Desiderius]

Society changed, not DnD

Which society? Globohomo wants to suck your brains out like so many Illithids but they're just parasites, not the ding an sich.

Well, the CHARNAME generic afroamerican chick felt out of place, but other than that I don't get the amount of hate this trailer activated.
It was just kind of meh.

Meh isn't enough. Git gud.

 

[Fedora Master]

Why is it a prerequisite that the MC must always start fighting rats and other critters before gradually moving up? I don't understand this fixation, if anything it is getting very stale.

Nobody said that and in fact that never happened in the series

 

[Reinhardt]

hey, i've killed those rats!

 

[Fedora Master]

hey, i've killed those rats!

Shit I forgot about Reevors rats

 

[Lyric Suite]

One of the things that annoyed me about the first trailer they put out is that the game is based on the underworld stuff right out of the gate.

Baldur's Gate starts in a very Tolkienesque manner. You are just a young kid who lived a very normal and mundane life who suddenly has been trust into a world that was far more dangerous and mysterious than you could ever imagine, same as in Lord of the Rings with Frodo etc.

Now, suddenly, you are encountering Illithids and Giths and Beholders and who knows what the fuck else like it's the most every day thing. There's no mystery now, everything has been laid bare to the point even the most bizzare and esoteric aspects of Forgotten Realms are just commonplace and boring.

Why is it a prerequisite that the MC must always start fighting rats and other critters before gradually moving up? I don't understand this fixation, if anything it is getting very stale.

Because life itself is like that.

When you are born, you don't get just thrown into every secret reality has to offer all at once, you have to make your way to unveil and uncover things as you grow in character and experience.

Candlekeep is basically the Shire, which is really just an analogy of one's childhood. The moment the journey begins though, you are suddenly thrown into bigger realities and the farther you go the more mysterious and profound things become.

I think instincitvely it just feels counter intuitive for the human mind to start at the end rather than the beginning.

Even in Torment there's aspects of that world that are a mystery to the people living in there.

I also feel that if the world you are in doesn't treat certain things to be special then the player doesn't feel them to be special either.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Pages of codexers seething over how amazing bg3 will be.

 

[Reinhardt]

Pages of codexers seething over how amazing bg3 will be.

nah, i don't belive you. this trailer killed all hope.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Pages of codexers seething over how amazing bg3 will be.

nah, i don't belive you. this trailer killed all hope.

Who watches trailers?

 

[Desiderius]

Gameplay will be interesting.

Still looking forward to games where I don't have to just click through most text and pretend the graphics are shitty instead of jejune propaganda.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

No, this is default human according to Larian's data:

Not quite Todd Howard but close enough:

i just want to raid some tomb and kill some xaurips. is that too much to ask in current year?

Yamara comic strip originally appearing in Dragon Magazine #160 (August 1990)

 

[NecroLord]

THIS is Jaheira?
What the hell.

 

[Reinhardt]

wait until you see aerie

 

[NecroLord]

wait until you see aerie

No, there is only Jaheira and Rashemi Retard Extraordinaire Minsc.

 

[Reinhardt]

wait until you see aerie

No, there is only Jaheira and Rashemi Retard Extraordinaire Minsc.

it's just act 1

 

[Lagole Gon]

THIS is Jaheira?
What the hell.

And what's the problem?
She's like 120 years old.

I think they nailed the "widow cougar just before smashing to the wall" look.

 

[Incognito]

THIS is Jaheira?
What the hell.

Looks fine enough considering the source material. More BG2 than BG1. But how will she behave? I bet she’ll go full dyke for a diverse protagonist within two dialogue choices. Modernity imposed!

 

[Lagole Gon]

By the way, is there some kind of summary of the BG character status in the canon D&D lore?
We have Minsc nad Jaheira.
Coran lives in Baldur's Gate and sucks dicks now or something.
Xan is also alive and a big homo.
What about Imoen?

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

This is the default humans... people are looking forward to this and giving them money.

In terms of globohomo, this is pretty weak.

Dwarf Fortress FORCES you to have tranny characters in every game. CDProjekt shows you tranny adverts throughout the game, and had a guy do a promo video wearing a World Economic FOrum ESG guidlines shirt. These are rookie numbers, Swen!

And seeing as how they got butthurt that everyone was making White males as their player characters, I am actually looking forward to the eventual buttblistered spergout by some dev commenting that almost NO ONE keeps the default skin tone.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Oh, and we have 3d model of the slayer form, so Bhaal is somehow present in the story too.

5E brought him back, yes. This is known. It would almost be strange if they didn't have him in the game, since Wizard's went to such hammy lengths to bring him back in Baldur's Gate of all places.

Spoiler

Reemergence​

For a time, it was believed that any possibility for Bhaal's resurrection had been stopped. The last known Bhaalspawn, Abdel Adrian, resisted the murderous impulses caused by his lineage and became a famed and beloved figure in the city of Baldur's Gate. In the Year of the Narthex Murders, 1482 DR, near the beginning of the era known as the Second Sundering, Viekang, another Bhaalspawn who was thought to be dead, attacked Adrian as he spoke to a crowd in the portion of town known as The Wide. While the ultimate winner of the duel is unknown, the victor transformed into a massive, blood-soaked creature and began a rampage that was only stopped when a group of adventurers new to Baldur's Gate defeated and killed the monstrosity.[21]

With all of his children dead, all of Bhaal's essence was freed, allowing for his resurrection. Bhaal was revived, and reclaimed the murder domain from Cyric.[22] However, the Lord of Murder was no longer a true deity, and was instead a being of quasi-divine status. As with Bane and Myrkul, he was effectively a mortal.[1]

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Bhaal#cite_note-dia-p231-1