Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[MasPingon]

Haven't read much nor did I play any of the EA. Plan on giving this a go when I build my new rig next week. However, the little I have read says that right now this is more of a "Sexual harassment simulator" with you the player being the target of said harassment. Everyone hits on you / wants to sleep with you constantly anytime you choose a nice dialogue response? True / hyperbole? If so does this game allow you to create your own party like Icewind Dale to avoid this cringe?

True ane not hyperbole and bollocks to anyone who dares say otherwise. Never in ANY rpg have i had to endure so many “i see you as a friend...and something more“. Seriously bioware games get a bad rap but i have never seen anything like this.

If your pc is nice and sociable, it will keep happening, at time of writing i’ve just had bear dude declare his love to me which was just as puzzling as with gale since i NEVER used this character and talked to him like twice.

you probably come across as gay to anyone you talk to

I know it shouldn't come as a surprise, but I can't get over how many people here fail at reading basic social cues.

- The game allows you to show interest, and to respond to interest shown to you. Yes.
- You could try looking for the meaning behind the words, before clicking the dialog option. But that's either an unknown concept to you, or you consider yourself obligated to click all the dialogue lines.
- You answer to flirting, and/or attempts by the NPC to direct the discussion towards romantic subjects, and then you wonder what happened. It's hilarious. I bet most such complainers are just as clueless IRL.

Are Baldur's Gate 3's social interactions indeed too difficult for hardcore gamers, because they were written realistically, unlike Bioware's? It appears so

You seriously think every man you interact with flirting with you is realistic human interaction? Btw this is not flirting, just asking.

 

[Orud]

Why do you lie? Or am i playing a totally different game to the rest of you arguing against this?

I did not do ANYTHING with gale.
For bear druid i made the fatal mistake of offering a drink at the grove after party, nothing about the dialogue suggested i was hitting on him.
What did i do to make squidface hit on me?
Why did wyll think i was going to want to dance with him?
Etc etc etc

Feeling really gaslit over here. If it was one time, ok maybe it was me. Twice? Euh..maybe i missclicked and missed some clear undertones? Thrice? Hum something's weird...
At this point it has become a recurring pattern.

Dude, you've shown previously in this thread that you have an astonishing lack of being able to interpret intent or reading people (npc's). You are who I was actually referring to when I said some codexers interpret "Want to come to my tent later tonight" as "Want to come play cards with me tonight?".

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

You're a legit faggot for defending this nonsense lol

Really? Because when a male NPC tells me "Do not wish to sour our friendship, but I have to know if it can be something more", I pick "I'm afraid I just don't see you that way" out of the following 3 options? :

1. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested - but I'm already in a relationship.
2. I'm afraid I just don't see you that way.
3. If I wanted to rut with half a tonne of dumb muscle, I'd seduce a deep rothe.

Can you give me some examples where it's clear you're not going to a rum and tumble, or are you just going to keep jumping on the hate bandwagon?

The Gale show you something about magic scene.

But besides that I don't want to have to deal with every male faggot coming up to me and asking "for something more." That's dumb as fuck. Bioware never pulled this shit. They always gave you some solid bro party members where it was always just a friendship from beginning to end.

 

[Orud]

But besides that I don't want to have to deal with every male faggot coming up to me and asking "for something more." That's dumb as fuck. Bioware never pulled this shit. They always gave you some solid bro party members where it was always just a friendship from beginning to end.

Bioware pulled this shit at least since Dragon Age: Origins. If you lead Zevran even a bit on he wants to crawl in your butthole.

 

[Reinhardt]

Human Warlock! Fey pact!
That is my character.

tattooed face. probably has daddy issues. would not hold hands.

 

[Kiste]

If you lead Zevran even a bit on he wants to crawl in your butthole.

Crawl in my butthole, you say?

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Karlach looks just as horrific naked as I imagined.

We've gone from games with a race of blue alien strippers and Miranda's perfectly sculpted ass in every other shot to granny frog alien porn and demonic scarification sex.

 

[Orud]

The Gale show you something about magic scene.

Yeah and nothing happens if you tell him you don't feel the same way.

 

[Reinhardt]

Karlach looks just as horrific naked as I imagined.

We've gone from games with a race of blue alien strippers and Miranda's perfectly sculpted ass in every other shot to granny frog alien porn and demonic scarification sex.

nigger u wot. "blue alien strippers" are literally illithids with tentacles at the wrong place and miranda is "no kisses, keep the bag on" tier

 

[Shaki]

Is there another way in into the Shattered Sanctum besides using the Main Gate in the Goblin Camp?

Spoiler

I killed the leaders, but not the Goblins celebrating outside. And I am not able to get through the barrage of goblins waiting for me there, nor do I have enough invisibilty potions left to pass through. Does the Underdark section beneath the Defiled Temple has a connection to the section beneath the Well in the Blighted Village?

Click M to open the map and just magically quicktravel through all the goblins

 

[BrotherFrank]

You are who I was actually referring to when I said some codexers interpret "Want to come to my tent later tonight" as "Want to come play cards with me tonight?".

Which is weird because i have never complained about this? My entire bone of contention is about how easy it is to arrive at said “want to come to my tent later tonight?” without having done anything to explicitly express interest in said cloitus.

Either you have been misreading me and are now accusing me erroneously or i have been expressing myself poorly if you feel this was my complaint. But yeah i am not feeling targetted by your accusation at all, this is disengenious fanfic writing on your part.

 

[Kiste]

granny frog alien

I actually think Lae'zel is kind of cute.

 

[Justicar]

Seems i found another bug. Edge panning sometimes stops working (usually after a reload) and only way to make it go again is to pan at least once using the wsad.

Tried savescumming some more on dialogue checks but so far it has no bearing on the outcome. You don't even get fresh lore stuff. Tried it on the dying mindflyier, was totally pointless.

Just rescued Gale. Like, wow, did you guys know wizards are supposed to be smart? Look at all the smart words they use. Hahaha, funny right? They did it better in NWN2 with Sand and NWN2 OC kinda sucked for NPCs to begin with.

Graphics are wierd btw while they aren't exactly shit i find it somewhat difficult to spot stuff you can loot and it's all the more aggravating because sometimes lootable objects aren't hightlighted when you press alt.

[EDIT] Lmao, was Gale actually written as a woman originally?

If they had to make a character this whimsical, they should have made him a gnome.

GAYLE

 

[BruceVC]

Ok. Let's calm down. A couple of simple questions.

How often do you go to parties?

Do you offer drinks to men when at a party, or otherwise demonstrate specific care that other men should be having a good time at the party?

When at a party, how often do you get drinks offered to you by men? How does this make you feel?

1) Not as much as i used to but i was decently sociable in my hey day.

2) Depends but yeah, if i see a bro standing alone in the corner looking miserable then i will try and hype them up. And this was the exact context with bear druid, hell i had literally just picked a similar option with one of the tiefling npcs who was all grouchy and there was no issue here. Its a party bro, grab a drink and have fun!

3) It happens all the time? It’s always been rather normal in my circles that each one buys a round of drinks for others. 0 gay thing about it. Likewise my reaction if someone buys me a drink and assuming it’s not a rando stranger in which case i ‘ll assume drinks are spiked: thanks!

I agree, amongst friends its common to buy rounds of drinks but I think he is talking about strangers but if I go to a bar by myself I dont like drinking shooters by myself. And I have often bought the barmen or another single guy a shooter. Its not sexual its just social and then often have a conversation or watch a sports game in the bar

There are several reasons you could buy a stranger a drink and its not weird

 

[Lyric Suite]

The Gale show you something about magic scene.

Yeah and nothing happens if you tell him you don't feel the same way.

Him making the advance is the problem. The gay shit has already been thrown at your face against your will. Refusing after that is immaterial. Now you know the guy is a faggot and cannot treat him the same for the rest of the game (also because he makes fresh advances even if you say no, i've seen screen caps of that).

 

[Justicar]

You seriously think every man you interact with flirting with you is realistic human interaction? Btw this is not flirting, just asking.

rpg cuckdex is full of tranny apologists this site is over.

 

[bobocrunch]

are we really so surprised that uncle codexers fail at reading social cues

Do you think every party member should be a faggot, faggot?

Gale has high investigation he can see this preening as being closeted

 

[Lyric Suite]

You seriously think every man you interact with flirting with you is realistic human interaction? Btw this is not flirting, just asking.

rpg cuckdex is full of tranny apologists this site is over.

Thread after thread about how excessive this shit is on steam and you have hordes of people defending it (with mods locking the threads in question as if this wasn't a legitimate issue). There's no fixing this thing i'm afraid.

There's an high enough number of people angry about this that we might actually see a mod to remove though at some point.

Either way, what Larian did here pushed it so far that this whole question has turned into that South Park episode where Mr. Garrison is intentionally trying to get fired for being gay and everybody keeps cheering and clapping like a trained seal. "So courageous!".

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

This is the best isometric game we've had in a long time. Sort of a dream come true if triple AAA quality production touched CRPGs. Larian nailed it; they succeed where many others have failed. And the best part? This actually caused a nice wake-up since a lot of developers were believing that CRPGs don't sell big numbers. Congratulation Larian.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

But besides that I don't want to have to deal with every male faggot coming up to me and asking "for something more." That's dumb as fuck. Bioware never pulled this shit. They always gave you some solid bro party members where it was always just a friendship from beginning to end.

Bioware pulled this shit at least since Dragon Age: Origins. If you lead Zevran even a bit on he wants to crawl in your butthole.

Yeah that's why I never used that faggot. I had my boy Alistar. If you're going to give the faggots their guy, give me a male companion who can just be a bro and not a faggot.

But the faggot crowd won't be satisfied if every single male character doesn't want to fuck them in the ass.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Yeah, most of the female character models in the game are quite on the ugly side...

Is this "Philosophy tube" character?

 

[Nerevar]

rpg cuckdex is full of tranny apologists this site is over.

First they took the shoutbox and then they took the games. Truly CRPGs have fallen.

Billions must die.

 

[random_name]

It's important to lower your standards of beauty to create a less toxic environment for women in the misogynistic gaming industry.

 

[Reinhardt]

granny frog alien

I actually think Lae'zel is kind of cute.

kaptin gith you fight in first chapter > laezel

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Mindflayers are fags and their tadpoles will turn you gay.