Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Release Thread [EARLY ACCESS RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Lacrymas]

Yeap, Shadowheart is pretty cute.

As for how memorable BGs characters were, you have more freedom when you are working with 2D portraits, you can add motifs that represent the character, specific gestures like with Edwin or Xan, color scheme, sound bites also help a lot, etc. It's more difficult when you have to represent them like actual people in 3D.

 

[NJClaw]

Make portraits great again

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Imagine looking at Shadowheart and the Githyanki and seriously saying, "Yeah I want the noseless one."

 

[NJClaw]

Imagine looking at Shadowheart and the Githyanki and seriously saying, "Yeah I want the noseless one."

In this world there are degenerates who actually like big tiddies, so I don't find it hard to believe there is someone who wants to fuck disgusting noseless green aliens

 

[jackofshadows]

For some reason they have changed key art on Steam.

Before:

After:

That Warlock guy who was not shown at the PAX demo is removed. They said he will be available at EA.

I wonder why they're exposing companions like that in the first place? I'm aware they did exactly that with DOS2 but... why? Is it really that attractive from marketing perspective? Besides, now we have rather nasty gith as a fucking frontman and they all are killable/replaceable anyway. Wouldn't be better to have just the city behind the logo instead? Or even something darker like they did it in some promo material

Spoiler

Or maybe some illithid(s), since they was in the first cinematic trailer and presumably represent the main threat in the game. I mean, Larian are talking all the time about how grim the game will be in compare to DOS series, why not show this in the store page upfront?

 

[Yosharian]

Imagine looking at Shadowheart and the Githyanki and seriously saying, "Yeah I want the noseless one."

Have you seen footage of her? She looks annoying as fuck. At least the Githyanki girl knows how to have a good time.

 

[NJClaw]

They expose companions like that because they want to shove in our face that we are getting only 5 of them, even less than fucking SIEGE OF DRAGONSPEAR. They hate us, they despise us and want us to acknowledge it

 

[Rostere]

Viconia's was the only improvement IMO. Edwin looks goofy, Minsc looks uglier than he did in BG1, Imoen looks too childish, and Jaheira looks like a fish.

Jaheira's portrait was the only true decline from BG1, portrait-wise.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I can't believe no one wants to fuck Shadowheart. You are truly worthy bearers of Bioware's legacy.

Am not sure I'll stop laughing at her name long enough to have sex though.

My MC is too much of a chad to be calling her name during sex.

 

[Yosharian]

That said, if that long ponytail that she's got can be used creatively, I might find a use for her

 

[BarbequeMasta]

I can't believe no one wants to fuck Shadowheart. You are truly worthy bearers of Bioware's legacy.

Am not sure I'll stop laughing at her name long enough to have sex though.

My MC is too much of a chad to be calling her name during sex.

Yeah but I as i said, I won't even get to start the sex, her name is too crappy.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

To be honest the Githyanki looks like she's going to be annoying. I know she'll be that stupid, "badass rogue girl" type who makes sarcastic quips and challenges your authority all the time and usually would be able to get away with it because she'd be a looker except here she's not a looker at all. At least Viconia had the GOODS so she could call me a piece of phallic trash and it'd be like, "endure this and you get to smash her." With the Githyanki? The hook doesn't exist. She'll be a little mouthy bitch that you'll want to put a Bag of Holding over the head of while you're banging.

Now, Shadowheart, that's a woman you can be proud of. I bet she has a perfect hourglass figure under that armor. Or a huge hermaphrodite cock. Shit. She's going to be a hermaphrodite isn't she?

 

[vortex]

What if Shadowheart has black void instead the heart? That woman won't do any good.

 

[AwesomeButton]

What if Shadowheart has black void instead the heart? That woman won't do any good.

What if she has a black void instead of a vagina?


And her personal quest is to return her vagina back to her from another plane.

 

[Morgoth]

But she has such a cute voice so she can't have a black heart!

 

[Readher]

Have you seen footage of her? She looks annoying as fuck.

She seems kinda like Bastilla 2.0, only evil.

Spoiler

 

[vortex]

But she has such a cute voice so she can't have a black heart!

Shadowheart is deceitful and treacherous as Yoshimo. Calling it.

 

[Grunker]

I can't believe no one wants to fuck Shadowheart. You are truly worthy bearers of Bioware's legacy.

so edgy-angsty female romance options are anti-Bioware now

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

What if Shadowheart is like, "Oh Generic Giant Spider, I'm so scared, I don't know what to do... the Illithid are coming and there's dragons and... and... make love to me. Please. I need the embrace of a man tonight." But, while sharpening my battle axe I'm all like, "No, we mustn't... well okay maybe a little bit." Then the morning after she covers her chest with the blanket all modestly like a proper woman of great repute should (regardless if you've seen her fully nude or not) while I prepare my exit and she pleads me to stay and I turn back to coolly state, "Sorry doll, gotta go throw my boots at some kobolds for a side quest."

 

[NJClaw]

What if Shadowheart is like, "Oh Generic Giant Spider, I'm so scared, I don't know what to do... the Illithid are coming and there's dragons and... and... make love to me. Please. I need the embrace of a man tonight." But, while sharpening my battle axe I'm all like, "No, we mustn't... well okay maybe a little bit." Then the morning after she covers her chest with the blanket all modestly like a proper woman of great repute should (regardless if you've seen her fully nude or not) while I prepare my exit and she pleads me to stay and I turn back to coolly state, "Sorry doll, gotta go throw my boots at some kobolds for a side quest."

Please write more bg fanfic, I'm into it

 

[BarbequeMasta]

wat.

 

[Shadenuat]

if spider wrote BG1 npc mod it actually would have been good

 

[AwesomeButton]

I can't believe no one wants to fuck Shadowheart. You are truly worthy bearers of Bioware's legacy.

so edgy-angsty female romance options is anti-Bioware now

Citation needed on "edgy-angsty"! And foregoing even that in favor of inter-species is definetly more pro-Bioware :D

 

[Lacrymas]

"I need the embrace of a man gender-unspecified organism tonight."

Get with the times, scum.

 

[Lacrymas]

I'm going to make a Drow lady just to lesbian romance Shadowheart. And you can't stop me.