Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Desiderius]

Interesting take.

This motherfucker can't even pronounce Larian right.

Americans don't understand that different languages have different pronunciation.

Nah we just don’t stand under your mongrel tongues.

 

[Swen]

Is it just me or do many americans hate games made by europeans? 4chan is full of "europoors" this and that, seems they're mad BG3 is doing so well.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Interesting take.

This motherfucker can't even pronounce Larian right.

Americans don't understand that different languages have different pronunciation.

Nah we just don’t stand under your mongrel tongues.

Half or words in English are from French. Americans only simplify the simplest of languages, justify misappellations like "color" and added silly words like "dude" or "dong".

 

[Hagashager]

Feels weird hitting the big city in the last chapter. I feel that it should have been part of the beginning since now I already have the loot and gold, so there is no real incentive to check out the houses and such. Why would I care about finding 25 gold and a disarm kit at this point? Setting wasted. I have more important things than helping a child find her parents at this point, etc.

Also, the whole refugee thing is a bit on the nose.

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That's how it is in BG 1. Interestingly, it also got the exact same criticism. The city isn't worth exploring much.

As for the Refugees crack, yeah welcome to the club. In our side of the pond it's all about immigrants and making our fantasy vaguely reflect Conservative Immigration policies juxtaposed with Latin-American-themed elves.

Also, I'm told BG 3's plot partially involves a Bhaalspawn controlling Dopplegangers, despite BG 1 and 2 being canon.

What? Did I miss something? How are there still Bhaalspawn wandering around?

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Is it just me or do many americans hate games made by europeans? 4chan is full of "europoors" this and that, seems they're mad BG3 is doing so well.

They hate towards Europe is stronger than their love towards traps and trannies.

 

[Desiderius]

Is it just me or do many americans hate games made by europeans? 4chan is full of "europoors" this and that, seems they're mad BG3 is doing so well.

We're giving your game 97% approval.

Are the Belge capable of simply enjoying success, or is the lack of experience leaving you at a loss? Just tell your bear friend to execute his Schlieffen Plan on your ass and maybe that will help you relax.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Interesting take.

WESTERN DEVS ATTACK LARIAN

*A couple of Devs saying what Larin did was impressive but it won't become the norm for the rest industry*

I hate youtubers that create drama in their heads so much.

 

[Swen]

Is it just me or do many americans hate games made by europeans? 4chan is full of "europoors" this and that, seems they're mad BG3 is doing so well.

We're giving your game 97% approval.

Are the Belge capable of simply enjoying success, or is the lack of experience leaving you at a loss? Just tell your bear friend to execute his Schlieffen Plan on your ass and maybe that will help you relax.

We'll see Cletus.

 

[Voids]

Interesting take.

WESTERN DEVS ATTACK LARIAN

*A couple of Devs saying what Larin did was impressive but it won't become the norm for the rest industry*

I hate youtubers that create drama in their heads so much.

manufactured drama = manufactured clicks

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.eurogamer.net/baldurs-g...t-of-uncredited-translation-staff-immediately

Baldur's Gate 3 developer demands full list of uncredited translation staff "immediately"​

After localisation team left uncredited.

Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has said it has taken "immediate" steps to ensure localisation staff currently left out of the game's credits are listed in full via a future patch.

Earlier today, a post on X (formerly Twitter) highlighted the fact that the game's credits currently only list a fraction of the localisation team who worked on the game's mammoth script for more than three years.

Now, in a statement to Eurogamer, Larian has said the issue lay with the list of staff it was given by localisation firm Altagram - and that it has now demanded a full list of staff for inclusion in an immediate update.

"This was all Altagram group," a Larian spokesperson told Eurogamer. "We reached out, and compelled them to fix this.

"Full credits will be coming in Hotfix 3. As soon as we (Larian) were made aware, we took steps with Altagram to remedy this immediately." [Update: Larian has since clarified to Eurogamer the changes will be ready in time for Patch 1.]

A staff member who worked on the game's Spanish localisation team (and who was properly credited) has stated that their work on Baldur's Gate 3 took "almost four years and that the final amount of text is over 2.5m words".

"All translators were credited except those working for Altagram," the staff member claimed.

Eurogamer has contacted Altagram for comment.

Examples where staff have been left out of the credits in video games have frequently hit the headlines, and recently included translators who worked on the Persona 3 and 4 remasters, as well as staff missing from the credits of Callisto Protocol.

Back in April this year, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) updated its game crediting policy to improve standards across the industry.

 

[Swen]

 

[random_name]

Meh, I'm playing it and so far I had more fun playing Pathfinder WotR, at least the camera didn't give me a headache.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Finally, a trve rpg for 60 IQ journalists and trve codex grognardz

Play it first, talk afterwards. Nigga.

 

[Orud]

Slow advancement of AI is one of the reason the perception changed. People were expecting to leave Turn-Based behind with improved real time systems that never came because talented AI engineers don't work for video games.

Are you serious? Turnbased AI is easier to program than real-time AI. There's technically little difference between it, really. Realtime AI is usually just sped up turn-based anyway.

Publishers pushed for real-time and the market embraced it. It took until X-COM for TB to become mainstream because they simply were the first to decide to go against the trend of the past 15 years.

 

[Swen]

Will BG3 be able to kick off the highest ranking RPG on metacritic?

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/genre/metascore/role-playing/all?view=detailed

 

[Herumor]

I'm reminded of that one 'gaming journalist' who played Devil May Cry 5 and complained there was no music during the combat, when it's actually tied to getting your combo meter/score higher, which he failed to do naturally.

 

[Orud]

Will BG3 be able to kick off the highest ranking RPG on metacritic?

No, because you made your game too hard for journos, Swen!

 

[HammyTheFat]

Animation speed mods when? I love these fights but holy fuck when I'm trying to commit genocide I'm grabbing my phone to read for 5 minutes while all the enemy units take their turn.

 

[Shaki]

It's not a "miscommunication".

You can use either. Only completionist autists (like Codexers) or people who have been burned by Larian's underleveling before (me) would do both.

The game sends you the vibes that it's a fork when it's not. So of course it's a miscommunication.

I get a feeling that devs didn't intend for you to do both, going back to check a second route makes no sense from the story standpoint, and you'll probably end up overleveled for A2 if you do it - but they also didn't want to mechanically lock you into one location and piss off completionists, so you CAN go through both if you really want to. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a forced fork at some point in development, but then someone was like "shit, people will bitch endlessly about it, just let them do it if they go out of their way to try, but otherwise treat it the same as we did before"

 

[Voids]

Will BG3 be able to kick off the highest ranking RPG on metacritic?

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/genre/metascore/role-playing/all?view=detailed

mind boggling that dos 2 is rated that high

 

[Eisenheinrich]

well, we're officially in wtf land

WE DID IT BOYS! WE BECAME THE BALDURS GATE OF ALL TIME!

 

[Eisenheinrich]

It's such a travesty having to install nvidia's new drivers just to get rid of the prompt in the launcher (yes I know how to disable the launcher). They don't contain any optimizations for my ancient card.

Does it kill the notification tho? I installed it yesterday and still get the warning.

 

[Infinitron]

TIL I learned that Swen Vincke has a 17 year old son: https://www.pcgamer.com/dad-people-...-ready-for-the-bear-sex-scene-to-go-so-viral/

'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral​

When your son's friends start sending him bear pics, you know you made a splash.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a game of grand adventure, a game of nuanced character choices, a game of creative problem solving, a game full of literally hundreds of spells. It's also a game where you can have sex with a bear. Guess which of the above rocketed Baldur's Gate 3 to viral mainstream attention just a few weeks before release? I expected Baldur's Gate 3 to be big, but I did not expect a marketing campaign highlighting a sex scene with a bear (okay, to be clear, it's a sex scene with a druid who can transform into a bear) to help Baldur's Gate 3 pull in 800,000 concurrent players over the weekend.

"Yeah, me neither," Larian founder Swen Vincke told me in an interview on Monday. But he did explain why the Baldur's Gate 3 studio thought it was a good showcase for the game, which turned out to be the exact right instinct in the leadup to release.

"We wanted a scene people were going to talk about, but we wanted to show that this was a cinematic game, with characters that have depth to them. The bear's obviously a druid, and he has a story. He's been around for hundreds of years. He's lived with bears for part of his life also, so that's where the bear thing comes from. It's interesting when you start thinking about it, what it meant for him living with bears, right? Because there's also horny bears in the world."

(Immediately after saying the words "there's also horny bears in the world," Vincke added "I shouldn't have said that," but I have to back him up here. According to BearSmart.com, "not only are male bears promiscuous, but females often have more than one mating partner." There are definitely horny bears in the world.)

Vincke soldiered on: "We wanted to show you agency, with a cinematic resolution to it. We wanted to show the game is also fun, which is where the squirrel comes into play. So there were a lot of things captured in that one scene. It shone a light on the entire game in a very summarized beat, so in that sense, it was a good one to pick."

It helped that around the same time Larian showed off the sex scene, previews of Baldur's Gate 3 were also hitting online, offering a more substantial dive into the game. Anyone who learned about it through the viral scene could easily go and read more about it.

As it turned out, some of the people who picked up on the scene were the friends of Vincke's 17-year-old son. "My son comes to me telling me 'dad, people are sending me pictures of bears from everywhere," he said. "I wasn't ready for that. I could overhear him going like 'Yeah, I KNOW!' [to people who called him]."

Since release players have discovered that Baldur's Gate 3 certainly doesn't begin and end with ursine promiscuity. It is on the whole a very horny—or at least unabashedly sexual—RPG, with customizable genitals already spawning size mods and companions ready to romance you at the drop of a helm.

"Fantasy and romance have always been intermingled with each other, and now being able to show things [with better cinematics], it makes it more engaging," Vincke said. "We wanted them to be player agency-driven, so you feel like 'I got into this romance situation because I engaged with that person and did these things, I listened to them and understood them.' It makes for better storytelling because there's more emotion.

"You see that very clearly when people are streaming … there are some critical moments in the game, depending on which character you have, where you have to make choices, where your best interests are not necessarily served by the best interests of your romantic partner at that moment, and that creates great drama. You get great conflict there, and that creates the most engaging storytelling you can have in certain moments. Or if you have multiple party members that are romantically interested in you facing off against each other, that also creates great drama. That's good storytelling. Having that human emotion present inside of the game just makes for better storytelling. That's where we went very far."

Now that we're playing Baldur's Gate 3 for ourselves, we still have bears on the brain—if you can't decide on how to spec your characters, may we recommend making a party of nothing but bears?

 

[Eisenheinrich]

well, we're officially in wtf land

Finally, a trve rpg for 60 IQ journalists and trve codex grognardz

A game I don't like nor play is liked by others so I must complain for pages after pages and promote my shitty morals. Is this the high IQ take you want to sell?

CRITICAL FAIL.

 

[Maxie]

mod out cringe gay people mod in optimistic heroic superstraight people