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

[Larianshill]

Not having played, why should it break it? Goblins are supposedly evil, or is the game pushing "gray morality"/"everything is subjective"/"#notallorcs"/"~^sUbVert tHe tRoPeS^~" that hard?

He means, slaughtering the druid grove while acting on behalf of the goblins. Meanwhile, attacking goblins in the Blighted Village breaks your oath. Attacking them in the goblin camp doesn't, but attacking the scrying orb in the goblin camp does. I foresee a great number of stupid things breaking my oath in the full release.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Sometimes I think Fedora knows about RPGs as much as he reads from our posts. I doubt he plays any.

I know enough to tell when a game is woke garbage.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/820831-to-lift-an-autumn-hair-is-no-sign-of-great

“To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.”​

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War:

To fuck a bear is no sign refined taste. - Me

"Fuck a bitch!" - Snoop Dogg

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[Fedora Master]

Don't make me say it...

Larian audience

 

[Swen]

You're legit retarded if you take the bear scene serious.

 

[Nerevar]

Shapeshifters don't exist, so there's nothing to promote.

You'd be surprised. But for some reason people who go public about seeing them disappear.

 

[Gradenmayer]

I'm most likely playing a paladin in my first playthrough, and I just saw that the punishment for breaking your oath if you want to fix it is just paying gold. Lol, I expected something more imaginative. Off the top of my head - a timed quest to complete any other quest in a way that upholds the oath - quests' outcomes would have been easy to tag appropriately, so no added development cost. Then, once you've accomplished the task, the custodian appears again, says "congrats, you made it this time" and job well done.

Oaths are kinda crappy in EA, slaughtering grove with goblins didn’t break mine (not sure if that means I did the just thing by the game’s logic or what).

Not having played, why should it break it? Goblins are supposedly evil, or is the game pushing "gray morality"/"everything is subjective"/"#notallorcs"/"~^sUbVert tHe tRoPeS^~" that hard?

Oath says protect the weak and you can lead bunch of goblins to slaughter elderly people and kids without breaking the oath.

It’s probably a missing content piece that will get added on release, because they acknowledged that goblin route (evil) is kinda lackluster.

 

[Saravan]

Of course ‘out of spite’, you go out your way to play something you spent the last 500 pages saying is shit.

"u NevAR pLYa GeAMs dUdE lOl!"
"u pLYAD iT thAt mEaNs U LiKd iT LoL"

 

[Ryzer]

In retrospect, Dragon age Origins is the paragon of sanity compared to this game.

 

[AwesomeButton]

You're legit retarded if you take the bear scene serious.

You know, I've heard this argument already. And speaking for myself, I'm not taking it seriously. But you have to try to explain something.

Of all the imaginable for this context things-that-shouldn't-be-taken-seriously, why did they decide to go with a bear-on-man sex scene? That's what I'd like to hear someone rationalize.

 

[Junmarko]

a caped Dracula with his own castle.

This would actually be cool.

Instead we get a fruit-cake vampire companion who is just asking to be beheaded. Lol.

 

[Swen]

You're legit retarded if you take the bear scene serious.

You know, I've heard this argument already. And speaking for myself, I'm not taking it seriously. But you have to try to explain something.

Of all the imaginable for this context things-that-shouldn't-be-taken-seriously, why did they decide to go with a bear-on-man sex scene? That's what I'd like to hear someone rationalize.

That's quite obvious why they went with that scene no? Because it's so ridiculous that nobody sane would take it serious, it's an obvious joke...

But yet here we are with a bunch of retards who actually take it serious...

 

[Fedora Master]

That's quite obvious why they went with that scene no? Because it's so ridiculous that nobody sane would take it serious, it's an obvious joke...

You mean like Drag Queen Story Hour and you sucking off your BF at the annual Brussels Pride Parade?

 

[Falksi]

You're legit retarded if you take the bear scene serious.

Some of the outrage I'm seeing for it is just daft. I'd still sooner Larian take BG3 more seriously, but that said Divinity 2:TDKS had some wicked humour in it, so a piss-take bear-fuck I can laugh at if the game itself is up to scratch.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

In retrospect, Dragon age Origins is the paragon of sanity compared to this game.

Probably, yeah, but not by much.

Creating a demon baby by having sex with a witch was a key plot point. There was also a dwarven threesome, and your male attendant chides you for not inviting him and making it a foursome. And there was even a gay elf.

All it was missing was the bear sex.

 

[Kiste]

Of all the imaginable for this context things-that-shouldn't-be-taken-seriously, why did they decide to go with a bear-on-man sex scene? That's what I'd like to hear someone rationalize.

Because it's funny.

 

[Gradenmayer]

You're legit retarded if you take the bear scene serious.

You know, I've heard this argument already. And speaking for myself, I'm not taking it seriously. But you have to try to explain something.

Of all the imaginable for this context things-that-shouldn't-be-taken-seriously, why did they decide to go with a bear-on-man sex scene? That's what I'd like to hear someone rationalize.

Maybe druids have closeted zoophile reputation in D&D circles? Who knows?

 

[just]

You're legit retarded if you take the bear scene serious.

yeah you fags
we fuck homo animals for fun

 

[AwesomeButton]

The scene isn't serious but the decision to show it is real and there was a real thought process behind it.

I think most people around here who are signalling outrage at the scene, are outraged by the decision more than by the scene's inclusion in the game. It's a sex scene within a PC-NPC romance where the NPC is a druid whose animal form is a bear. And lo and behold, the devs decided in this particular combination that the scene will include the druid shifting during the act. It makes sense so far, in a goofy humor context. But choosing to display this particular scene in the panel stream is a separate matter.

 

[AwesomeButton]

There was also a dwarven threesome

Lol, I didn't know about that. You are quite the naughty explorer of RPGs, aren't you?

 

[Fedora Master]

The scene isn't serious but the decision to show it is real and there was a real thought process behind it.

I think most people around here who are signalling outrage at the scene, are outraged by the decision more than by the scene's inclusion in the game. It's a sex scene within a PC-NPC romance where the NPC is a druid whose animal form is a bear. And lo and behold, the devs decided in this particular combination that the scene will include the druid shifting during the act. It makes sense so far, in a goofy humor context. But choosing to display this particular scene in the panel stream is a separate matter.

Larian are somehow under the delusion that "haha sex funny", when, in fact, "sex very serious bzns" among woke circles.
But Belgians aren't a humorous race.

 

[Ryzer]

You're legit retarded if you take the bear scene serious.

Some of the outrage I'm seeing for it is just daft. I'd still sooner Larian take BG3 more seriously, but that said Divinity 2:TDKS had some wicked humour in it, so a piss-take bear-fuck I can laugh at if the game itself is up to scratch.

Even if you don't take it seriously, it's a pure loss for the player because the story would be seen as a buffoonery and will not be taken seriously.
To me, it completely breaks the immersion.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The scene isn't serious but the decision to show it is real and there was a real thought process behind it.

I think most people around here who are signalling outrage at the scene, are outraged by the decision more than by the scene's inclusion in the game. It's a sex scene within a PC-NPC romance where the NPC is a druid whose animal form is a bear. And lo and behold, the devs decided in this particular combination that the scene will include the druid shifting during the act. It makes sense so far, in a goofy humor context. But choosing to display this particular scene in the panel stream is a separate matter.

Larian are somehow under the delusion that "haha sex funny", when, in fact, "sex very serious bzns" among woke circles.
But Belgians aren't a humorous race.

Regarding the "sex very serious bzns", I was wondering something along the same lines.

See, a potential BG3 player is someone I'd rather expect to be pretty serious about his ingame "romance options", and might even feel put off by a humorous take on his sexual adventures.

After "why no romances" we went to "why no sex scenes" (I think witcher 3 is mostly to blame for crossing that line, or is it Mass Effect), and finally arrived at the "there are sex scenes, but I wanted my waifu to take it in the ass too, why didn't you include it".

I'm fully expecting sex scenes will go interactive in future simulations rpgs, and developers will be in the inane position to promise and describe sex scenes in detail during Q&A. Now this will be fun to observe

 

[Fedora Master]

It bears (heh) pointing out that this is the third sex related drama this game caused before it even is released.

 

[Shaki]

Haha cmon guys all the gays, tranny shit and animal fucking are just done ironically, haha Larian is so funny! Cant wait to ironically jerk off to being DPd by a vampire and a bear!

Holy fuck, the cope is insane. Larianfags really are something special