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

[Drakortha]

This is my whole argument with the guy, and with every other anti-BG3 NPC itt.

Hate the game, criticize it, but do it for the right reasons. To harp on this or day/night cycles is ridiculous. This is not 'The Day/Night Cycle Codex', is it?

If you're going to tear it down, tear it down for its core RPG features: the writing, the gameplay, the ruleset.

Yet here we are, page 917, still talking about cosmetic features like they're the life blood of an RPG.

Larian faggots like you keep on cherry picking my arguments and extrapolate them constantly.

If I call out the game for having shitty writing, you'll tell me I'm harping on the writing. If I call the cinematic dialogue garbage straight out of Dragon Age and Mass Effect, you will tell me I'm harping on that too. And now we're full circle again and you're telling me the only gripe I have with the game is the Day / Night cycles.

The game is shit for more than 1 reason but you can't accept it.

 

[Swen]

Schedules are a nice idea, but doing them well — and not just a dull routine where NPCS all randomly start running in concert at exactly at x'oclock — is probably a lot more effort and developer time than it's worth; especially if not knowing where an NPC will be is "compensated" by the timeless classic, Follow the Map Marker.

Indeed, people don't understand how much work goes into a GOOD day/night cycle. Even if it was implemented the same retards who want it now would be the ones crying how "barebones" etc it is...

Day/night was bad in the old BG games too imo, hell most games period. Not worth the time and money.

 

[Fedora Master]

Can't wait to make a hot Body Type 2 with a big fat cock, boys.

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They got girl cock AND vitiligo!

 

[Fedora Master]

Just when I almost forgot about the tranny shit.

You didn't close your eyes hard enough so it didn't go away.

 

[Drakortha]

Schedules are a nice idea, but doing them well — and not just a dull routine where NPCS all randomly start running in concert at exactly at x'oclock — is probably a lot more effort and developer time than it's worth; especially if not knowing where an NPC will be is "compensated" by the timeless classic, Follow the Map Marker.

Indeed, people don't understand how much work goes into a GOOD day/night cycle. Even if it was implemented the same retards who want it now would be the ones crying how "barebones" etc it is...

Day/night was bad in the old BG games too imo, hell most games period. Not worth the time and money.

Baldurs' Gate 2 came out on Windows 95/98 and needed a 233MHz processor and 32MB RAM

Baldur's Gate 3 is using a 4.70 GHz processor and 16 GB RAM.

What the FUCK are they doing with all that shit and why are we going backwards? Can someone please explain to me I'd love to fucking hear it! Don't tell me graphics and cinematics or I'll flip a table.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

If I call out the game for having shitty writing, you'll tell me I'm harping on the writing.

Wrong. I've spent pages criticizing the writing. The difference between you and I is that when I do it, I talk about more than muh bearsex, muh cinematics, muh unlikeable characters for dozens of pages.

All you do is repeat the same lame talking points. There's no depth, no specificity. You don't have nuanced opinions on any of it. It's just "durrr game is bad and I don't like it! please like me kewl kids!" over and over.

Even when I challenge you to say something about the writing, you don't. Instead, you talk about cinematics and NPC schedules some more.

We know you want a game without cinematics, with a day/night cycle and with NPC schedules. You don't need to repeat it on every page.

If that's really all you have to add to the thread, you should just piss off and go play Oblivion already, kid.

 

[Konjad]

Schedules are a nice idea, but doing them well — and not just a dull routine where NPCS all randomly start running in concert at exactly at x'oclock — is probably a lot more effort and developer time than it's worth; especially if not knowing where an NPC will be is "compensated" by the timeless classic, Follow the Map Marker.

Indeed, people don't understand how much work goes into a GOOD day/night cycle. Even if it was implemented the same retards who want it now would be the ones crying how "barebones" etc it is...

Day/night was bad in the old BG games too imo, hell most games period. Not worth the time and money.

Baldurs' Gate 2 came out on Windows 95/98 and needed a 233MHz processor and 32MB RAM

Baldur's Gate 3 is using a 4.70 GHz processor and 16 GB RAM.

What the FUCK are they doing with all that shit and why are we going backwards? Can someone please explain to me I'd love to fucking hear it! Don't tell me graphics and cinematics or I'll flip a table.

Okay, it's obvious you're just trolling now.

 

[Gradenmayer]

Schedules are a nice idea, but doing them well — and not just a dull routine where NPCS all randomly start running in concert at exactly at x'oclock — is probably a lot more effort and developer time than it's worth; especially if not knowing where an NPC will be is "compensated" by the timeless classic, Follow the Map Marker.

Indeed, people don't understand how much work goes into a GOOD day/night cycle. Even if it was implemented the same retards who want it now would be the ones crying how "barebones" etc it is...

Day/night was bad in the old BG games too imo, hell most games period. Not worth the time and money.

Baldurs' Gate 2 came out on Windows 95/98 and needed a 233MHz processor and 32MB RAM

Baldur's Gate 3 is using a 4.70 GHz processor and 16 GB RAM.

What the FUCK are they doing with all that shit and why are we going backwards? Can someone please explain to me I'd love to fucking hear it! Don't tell me graphics and cinematics or I'll flip a table.

You are not even a funny type of retard at this point, just a sad one.

 

[Drakortha]

The difference between you and I is that when I do it, I talk about more than muh bearsex, muh cinematics, muh unlikeable characters for dozens of pages. All you do is repeat the same lame talking points. There's no depth, no specificity.

BULLSHIT!

I've stated many reasons why the game is shit and explained why, all the way back to the very first gameplay reveal stream. The reason I have to keep repeating myself is because faggots like you keep coming along and claiming the bear is the only criticism that "anti-BG3 NPC's" (Lmao, how many times did you get vaxxed, mate?) have for this piece of trash game. Every day you move the goal post, and when you lose you start cranking out the bear memes from reddit, like it's some kind of mascot for your shit ass game.

It's just "durrr game is bad and I don't like it! please like me kewl kids!" over and over.

"He's so popular around here, that must be the reason he calls BG3 shit! Because it can't possibly be true!"

Larian faggot logic right there.

 

[Drakortha]

You are not even a funny type of retard at this point, just a sad one.

Am I here to entertain you? fuck off back to resetera / reddit or whatever hole you came from.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

BULLSHIT!

I've stated many reasons why the game is shit, all the way back to the very first gameplay reveal stream. The reason I have to keep repeating myself is because faggots like you keep coming along and claiming the bear is the only criticism that "anti-BG3 NPC's"

So, you're willing to repeat yourself, just not on anything except the very things you claim I 'falsely' imply you're repeating yourself on?

(Lmao, how many times did you get vaxxed, mate?)

None.

Every day you move the goal post, and when you lose you start cranking out the bear memes from reddit, like it's some kind of mascot for your shit ass game.

Show me a single reddit bear meme I've posted, including the meme and a link to it on reddit.

"He's so popular around here, that must be the reason he calls BG3 shit! Because it can't possibly be true!"

Larian faggot logic right there.

This is some stellar cope.

 

[Swen]

Where's rusty_shackleford ?

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Where's @rusty_shackleford ?

Here: https://rpghq.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=250-baldur-s-gate-3

 

[Fedora Master]

Where's rusty_shackleford ?

Fled to rpghq.org because the Larian audience was too much even for him.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Where's rusty_shackleford ?

Fled to rpghq.org because the Larian audience was too much even for him.

Unlikely, since he's part of said audience:

https://rpghq.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17696-baldur-s-gate-3#p17696

gonna kill that faggot for being allowed to play it before me

 

[Fedora Master]

Where's rusty_shackleford ?

Fled to rpghq.org because the Larian audience was too much even for him.

Unlikely, since he's part of said audience:

https://rpghq.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17696-baldur-s-gate-3#p17696

gonna kill that faggot for being allowed to play it before me

He's a fag but he ain't a Reddit-tier fag like the people ITT

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Since I've been defending the game a lot lately, I want to make this clear again:

I recommend against purchasing the game due to its open support of trannyism, which is a dangerous ideology that targets children.

I already bought it years ago before that was revealed though, so I intend to play it. And I do not discourage pirating it, but that's up to you.

 

[Theodora]

This is my whole argument with the guy, and with every other anti-BG3 NPC itt.

Hate the game, criticize it, but do it for the right reasons. To harp on this or day/night cycles is ridiculous. This is not 'The Day/Night Cycle Codex', is it?

If you're going to tear it down, tear it down for its core RPG features: the writing, the gameplay, the ruleset.

Yet here we are, page 917, still talking about cosmetic features like they're the life blood of an RPG.

Tbf it's still an improvement from however-many-hundred pages earlier, when all people seemed to care about was that the gith girl could leave thee ~cucked~.

 

[Kiste]

If I call the cinematic dialogue garbage

Why is the cinematic dialogue "garbage"? The problem with cinematic dialogue is basically cost. It's more expensive than simple text-based dialogue. This leads to developers streamlining and reducing dialogue options and making most dialogue choices irrelevant, i.e. reduced choice and reactivity. Mass Effect is the premier example for this, where virtually all dialogue options do exactly nothing, they're just cosmetic, the illusion of choice.

This clearly is not a problem in BG3. The game gives a shitload of consequential dialogue options and has tons of reactivity in the dialogue. I'm not sure there even is a game that has more to offer in that regard. Maybe Disco Elysium (not sure, haven't played it yet)?

And that's why you're a retard. All you can do is screech about how this or that is gargabe/trash/shit and everyone who disagrees is a faggot. That's the extend of your contribution to this threat. It's not even entertaining or funny, lest of all insightful. It's barely even "criticism", it's just sad, empty nerd rage.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Tbf it's still an improvement from however-many-hundred pages earlier, when all people seemed to care about was that the gith girl could leave thee ~cucked~.

I vaguely remember this...

I would actually say that talking about that is the improvement, since they've been crying over cinematics and day/night cycles since before the EA.

 

[Fedora Master]

Since I've been defending the game a lot lately, I want to make this clear again:

I recommend against purchasing the game due to its open support of trannyism, which is a dangerous ideology that targets children.

I already bought it years ago before that was revealed though, so I intend to play it. And I do not discourage pirating it, but that's up to you.

 

[RegionalHobo]

do i go barbarian and take the frog or do i go battlemaster and take karlach?

other two spots are for the cleric and the wizard

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Tempting, but I think I need to do at least one Dark Urge playthrough first.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The problem with Pillars wasn't just a thing of tech, it was it lacked something that BG and DOS kinda share, and that it's kinda difficult to grasp, but it's summed up by this:

D:OS is silly and probably downright stupid, but it wasn't the number crunching or the build potential that kept people interested in Baldur's Gate, or at least it wasn't the sole factor.

I completely subscribe to this. I've said it more than once in the neverending PoE discussions - maybe it's the quest density, maybe it's the area map sizes, but I can never "get myself lost" in PoE the way I can do it in BG.

Funny enough, Josh Sawyer has criticized BG2 specifically for having "too much content". And now developers are feeling unsettled because BG3 has "too much content". Sour grapes, huh? (Edit: Also Tim Cain has criticized his own Arcanum for being too long and feature-bloated)

You can make a masterpiece in two ways: you can either innovate, or you can execute stuff which has been done before to a level of polish and perfection which is unprecedented.

This. What we end up calling "classics" in media (written, cinematic, music) are usually not those who "did it first" but the ones who did the "textbook example of" something, and become genre defining.

BTW, I recently took notice that Deep Purple wrote "Smoke On the Water" in 1972. I was struck with how early that was yet how it fits well even among songs recorded nearly 20 years later.

Shit like that is for “m-muh immersion”-pussies - an rpg crowd so emasculated it makes storyfags look like manly heterosexuals

Immersion inclinations lead to having ingame waifus and radiant sex encounters. So, yeah, you're right. Jokes aside, there is a way for "immersion-purpose" activities to appeal to storyfags, when they allow you to create your own narrative, if the immersion activities are varied and rich enough, and all the production values are there. Ever tried setting RDR2's day/night cycle to 3 hours and spending a day in the wilderness, hunting, exploring, fishing? A lot of cool stuff can happen in an emergent way, which no one ever scripted, it's all you interacting with immersion-intended systems.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

do i go barbarian and take the frog or do i go battlemaster and take karlach?

other two spots are for the cleric and the wizard

No idea, since Karlach isn't released in Early Access, and since I almost always behead her.

I say go Wizard and execute Gale too.