Cat Headed Eagle
Learned
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2023
- Messages
- 3,858
You broke your oath because you did something a Paladin should'nt be doing. C&C.
-
Welcome to rpgcodex.net, a site dedicated to discussing computer based role-playing games in a free and open fashion. We're less strict than other forums, but please refer to the rules.
"This message is awaiting moderator approval": All new users must pass through our moderation queue before they will be able to post normally. Until your account has "passed" your posts will only be visible to yourself (and moderators) until they are approved. Give us a week to get around to approving / deleting / ignoring your mundane opinion on crap before hassling us about it. Once you have passed the moderation period (think of it as a test), you will be able to post normally, just like all the other retards.
Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD
- Thread starter Grunker
- Start date
Raghar
Arcane
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2009
- Messages
- 24,284
Fallout 1, Fallout 2. You needed manual to find conditions for high level perks like Slayer.
Aarwolf
Learned
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2020
- Messages
- 575
Do yourself a favor and kill him. It's 5ed, everyone can open locks and disarm traps as long as they have sleight of hand. Shadowheart has it thanks to her urchin background and she has decent enough dex to do this without a fuss.
Of course there is:
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/327
Lemming42
Arcane
Liking this so far but every single companion is dire, same as Divinity: Original Shit 2.
Who wrote these guys. Shadowheart is just an asshole and these two random British men have had the lamest intros ever. This vampire guy is a faggot. I can say that without hate because I'm kind of a faggot IRL, but this guy is like, a real faggot (pejorative). I'm on the hunt for frog lady who must be somewhere around here but I didn't like her much on the ship so I might just tell her to fuck off.
Why do they always hire southern English voice actors for these games, why not hire like a Kenyan or something for a change. I hate this mage guy. "Ahoy, mate! Thanks for getting me out of that portal - quite a jam I was in, if I say so myself. My name's Arsefuck, roguish mage, and I'm here because I'm what Larian think teenage girls want in a man. Now, let's tally ho, shall we?" Here's an idea, get off my team. Dickhead.
Other problem it's carrying over from Larian's other games - and, of course, BG1 - is the map size. Why make me run through so much empty space that has fuck-all in it. Owlcat and Larian's obsession with recreating everthing about IE games isn't great to start with, but this is one thing I really wish they'd just scrap. I guess it wouldn't be a "two hundred hour game" or whatever if they bothered to remove the 198 hours you spend walking back and forth across massive empty maps though.
Count me in as another person who's quite shocked by how streamlined the whole thing feels - I spent more time trying to find a good haircut for my character than I did allocating her actual skills thanks to the game's insistence on saying "go onnnn, just let us do it for you, you can decide between Vulva A and Vulva B and we'll take care of the stats stuff". It's not necessarily a bad thing, I guess, but it does feel more like I'm playing Dragon Age than anything else.
EDIT: Oh my god this other guy just showed up and like executed a goblin and said "provoke the blade... and suffer its sting". I think this guy's going to suffer the sting of me refusing to let him join my party under any circumstances.
Who wrote these guys. Shadowheart is just an asshole and these two random British men have had the lamest intros ever. This vampire guy is a faggot. I can say that without hate because I'm kind of a faggot IRL, but this guy is like, a real faggot (pejorative). I'm on the hunt for frog lady who must be somewhere around here but I didn't like her much on the ship so I might just tell her to fuck off.
Why do they always hire southern English voice actors for these games, why not hire like a Kenyan or something for a change. I hate this mage guy. "Ahoy, mate! Thanks for getting me out of that portal - quite a jam I was in, if I say so myself. My name's Arsefuck, roguish mage, and I'm here because I'm what Larian think teenage girls want in a man. Now, let's tally ho, shall we?" Here's an idea, get off my team. Dickhead.
Other problem it's carrying over from Larian's other games - and, of course, BG1 - is the map size. Why make me run through so much empty space that has fuck-all in it. Owlcat and Larian's obsession with recreating everthing about IE games isn't great to start with, but this is one thing I really wish they'd just scrap. I guess it wouldn't be a "two hundred hour game" or whatever if they bothered to remove the 198 hours you spend walking back and forth across massive empty maps though.
Count me in as another person who's quite shocked by how streamlined the whole thing feels - I spent more time trying to find a good haircut for my character than I did allocating her actual skills thanks to the game's insistence on saying "go onnnn, just let us do it for you, you can decide between Vulva A and Vulva B and we'll take care of the stats stuff". It's not necessarily a bad thing, I guess, but it does feel more like I'm playing Dragon Age than anything else.
EDIT: Oh my god this other guy just showed up and like executed a goblin and said "provoke the blade... and suffer its sting". I think this guy's going to suffer the sting of me refusing to let him join my party under any circumstances.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2017
- Messages
- 32,418
Silverfish
Liturgist
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2019
- Messages
- 3,952
For real. JRPG fans get out of here with your turn-based combat, stat-intensive character building and female love interests. Terrible genre.
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2017
- Messages
- 32,418
Silverfish
Liturgist
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2019
- Messages
- 3,952
Found the guy who never figured out how to get Renzokuken to deal quad nines on every hit. Can't relate.
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2017
- Messages
- 32,418
PorkyThePaladin
Arcane
- Joined
- Dec 17, 2013
- Messages
- 5,399
So is this better than Divinity: Original Shite 1/2? Or ... worse? 
Trithne
Erudite
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2008
- Messages
- 1,200
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2017
- Messages
- 32,418
None of the voices fit races other than Elves and Humans. No gruff Dwarfish/Orcish voice for example.
Lemming42
Arcane
Dude the fuck. I met this mage guy like five seconds ago, and I've just walked into the bit of the grove where they're about to execute the goblin prisoner. I save her life and mage guy takes me aside to say "YOU'VE SHOWN INCREDIBLE COURAGE SINCE WE MET. I'VE... REALLY GROWN TO TRUST YOU". I don't think he even knows my name.
"WE'VE BEEN ON THE ROAD TOGETHER A WHILE NOW, HAVEN'T WE?" No? The distance you've walked with me is about half a trip to my local store in real life.
Wouldn't want to keep the players waiting too long before the verbose declarations of love start rolling in, we might get bored otherwise.
"WE'VE BEEN ON THE ROAD TOGETHER A WHILE NOW, HAVEN'T WE?" No? The distance you've walked with me is about half a trip to my local store in real life.
Wouldn't want to keep the players waiting too long before the verbose declarations of love start rolling in, we might get bored otherwise.
Now you know what it's like being a chick, maybe this is a good rpg after all
Drakortha
Liturgist
Anyone who bought and played this game on Day 1 has no right to complain. Period, end of story.
You knew what you were getting into. This is what you wanted so this is what you get. Now CONSUME THE SLOP!
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2012
- Messages
- 30,057
Lmao as though purchasing stuff negates the buyer's right to complain
Cat Headed Eagle
Learned
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2023
- Messages
- 3,858
Nothing too terrible nor game stopping in my end. Just some light framerate issues, odd physics sometimes and that's it.
- Joined
- May 27, 2011
- Messages
- 499
It was in early access for years.
Lemming42
Arcane
I'm actually really enjoying it, I expected the dorky writing going into it.
Lol @ this part where you have to sneak the goblin out of the grove. Haven't laughed this hard at any TV comedy in the past decade. Absolute slapstick farce. The stealth is actually pretty fun.
Lol @ this part where you have to sneak the goblin out of the grove. Haven't laughed this hard at any TV comedy in the past decade. Absolute slapstick farce. The stealth is actually pretty fun.
racofer
Thread Incliner
"omg this turd maker company made something that tastes like a turd wtf i feel robbed"
Cat Headed Eagle
Learned
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2023
- Messages
- 3,858
And that's how the RPGCodex was born.
dsndo
Educated
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2022
- Messages
- 88
You can tell the developers had some very awkward design meetings where some truly spectacular mental gymnastics were being performed. As Belgian urbanites, no one at Larian is comfortable acknowledging, let alone discussing racial differences between humans. However, when you are designing character models for a fantasy game that is supposed to contain different races you are forced to tackle some of these issues. Their results are as disastrous as they are hilarious. Elves, gnomes, and halflings have sub-races but humans don't, because race is a social construct that has no basis in biology.
But because character creation has faces that you can't customize you still need to hire actual humans whose faces you need to scan into the game. And because you need maximum Diversity to keep your ESG scores high and the Twitter mob at bay you need to hire models from a variety of racial backgrounds (even though race doesn't exist remember). And you can't give all the humans and elves exclusively European faces because that wouldn't be inclusive.
What you end up getting is Chinese elves who are supposed to be a different race than their Chinese human counterparts even though the Chinese elves look exactly like the Chinese humans because East Asian people look like one another. The only thing that sets them apart is that elves and half-elves have pointy ears and Baldur's Gate humans do not. But those ears are often obscured by their hair or helmets. Not all East Asian elves, humans, and tieflings have the same skin tone so you also have some black and hispanic elf/human/tieflings thrown into the mix as well. The result is a world populated by a hodgepodge United Nations where about half the people have pointy ears and the other half do not. Other than the ears there is no clear delineation between racial groups. I was just informed that Halsin is apparently an elf but I had no idea because I did not check his ears to verify.
Of course, Bantu Africans are represented in all the fantasy races as well so you have your Nigerian Drows and Senegalese Tieflings also but amusingly enough, they are the only (human) race that have a half orc option. The rest of the half orc faces just look like overgrown goblins that weren't developed from an IRL person's face scan.
The three short races of dwarves, gnomes and halfings all suffer from the same confusion where you literally cannot tell the difference between halfings and gnomes because they are the exact same height, speak with the same accents and have the same animation sets as the other manlets but just random skin colors. Dwarves stand out somewhat because they are a little broader in the shoulders but that distinction is quickly eliminated when you add pauldrons to the equation. The only coherent races in BG3 are the Dragonborn and frogmen, because they're just bipedal lizards and not some human knockoff sub-race.
If after reading this you find yourself confused I understand how you're feeling because I'm confused myself. But I take solace in knowing that I am not nearly as confused as those sad little souls from Ghent that cobbled this slop together.
But because character creation has faces that you can't customize you still need to hire actual humans whose faces you need to scan into the game. And because you need maximum Diversity to keep your ESG scores high and the Twitter mob at bay you need to hire models from a variety of racial backgrounds (even though race doesn't exist remember). And you can't give all the humans and elves exclusively European faces because that wouldn't be inclusive.
What you end up getting is Chinese elves who are supposed to be a different race than their Chinese human counterparts even though the Chinese elves look exactly like the Chinese humans because East Asian people look like one another. The only thing that sets them apart is that elves and half-elves have pointy ears and Baldur's Gate humans do not. But those ears are often obscured by their hair or helmets. Not all East Asian elves, humans, and tieflings have the same skin tone so you also have some black and hispanic elf/human/tieflings thrown into the mix as well. The result is a world populated by a hodgepodge United Nations where about half the people have pointy ears and the other half do not. Other than the ears there is no clear delineation between racial groups. I was just informed that Halsin is apparently an elf but I had no idea because I did not check his ears to verify.
Of course, Bantu Africans are represented in all the fantasy races as well so you have your Nigerian Drows and Senegalese Tieflings also but amusingly enough, they are the only (human) race that have a half orc option. The rest of the half orc faces just look like overgrown goblins that weren't developed from an IRL person's face scan.
The three short races of dwarves, gnomes and halfings all suffer from the same confusion where you literally cannot tell the difference between halfings and gnomes because they are the exact same height, speak with the same accents and have the same animation sets as the other manlets but just random skin colors. Dwarves stand out somewhat because they are a little broader in the shoulders but that distinction is quickly eliminated when you add pauldrons to the equation. The only coherent races in BG3 are the Dragonborn and frogmen, because they're just bipedal lizards and not some human knockoff sub-race.
If after reading this you find yourself confused I understand how you're feeling because I'm confused myself. But I take solace in knowing that I am not nearly as confused as those sad little souls from Ghent that cobbled this slop together.
Last edited:
As an Amazon Associate, rpgcodex.net earns from qualifying purchases.