Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Doesn't help that the Chosen are all Literal Who's with no proper setup or introduction 30 hours in.

Eh? They each have a setup. Act 2 is all Thorm's setup. He and all the others were foreshadowed in the vision in Act 1, and then you see him in Act 2.

The end of Act 2 is the introduction to all the Chosen. At the end of Act 2, you learn what the Chosen actually are (Chosen of the Dead Three).

I guess if you skip a bunch of dialogs it might seem like they have no introduction idk.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

And as I said, renegade does not mean "Regular guy stuck in the body of a mind flayer".

As I said before, I think he was meant to be "The Adversary", an ancient mindflayer in 2E lore, but they had to change him for some sort of copryright purposes. That's why he's "The Emperor". And I agree that it's dumb.

 

[Fedora Master]

"It's okay to establish your main adversary 2/3s into the story"
Cope

 

[Hamster Godoy]

"It's okay to establish your main adversary 2/3s into the story"
Cope

that's accurate to literally every single tabletop campaign i had lul

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

"It's okay to establish your main adversary 2/3s into the story"
Cope

The Cult of the Absolute is established at the start. You just learn the specifics of who leads them later.

It's similar to BG1, where you have no idea who Sarevok is and learn only of the mysterious "Iron Throne". There's a big leadup and a misdirection to the leaders of the Iron Throne.

Only in the end do you learn who Sarevok really is, what his goals are etc.

Did you really want the main villains to be there at the start, wagging their dicks in your face? The Emperor already was.

 

[Sunri]

"It's okay to establish your main adversary 2/3s into the story"
Cope

It's okay to show main vilian in the last cutscene just before a fight if hes cool enough but those chosens were shit especially bane guy he didnt even transform what a bitch

 

[Fedora Master]

"Who is Orin?"
"No idea!"
This is actual for-real in the game.

Cope harder.

 

[Fedora Master]

Yep, as expected, the city is a hive of pozz. Then again, that's what they want DnD to be like now.
I do admit the Steel Watcher recounting everything those Eyeballs saw you do was a nice touch.

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I don't get the hate on the forum to Avellone.

You must be new here.

There's a few stupid hand holding things the game does.

For example, if you kill Lae'zel on sight when you first meet her, her corpse literally follows you from map to map, like the game is expecting you to rez her.

No, fuck that idiot frog. I've seen her entire storyline and it is garbage.

I chose the option to have the tieflings lower the cage and killed githyanki girl, but didn't experience such a bug from that. Or did you mean that you killed her in the prologue and it somehow caused her corpse to appear in camp later? Which would be hilarious.

 

[NecroLord]

The Githyanki giving off real Romulan energy

Githyanki are a race of dumb ex slaves.
Romulans are based.

 

[Fedora Master]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/652

 

[Grunker]

"It's okay to establish your main adversary 2/3s into the story"
Cope

It's okay to show main vilian in the last cutscene just before a fight if hes cool enough but those chosens were shit especially bane guy he didnt even transform what a bitch

i liked thorm but the rest are indeed crap and you have too few interactions with all of them except for orin who instead interacts with you 900 times in most random, nonsensical ways. all of her showings feel like you rolled a poor result on a giant random encounter table

 

[Grunker]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/652

Butts can already clip through some clothes, so that mod must be a clip fest

 

[Sunri]

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Orin was cool too i mean her slayer form looked great and the cutscene after beating her looked like shit from mortal combat anyway i just finished the game a lot of bad ending due to bugs Karlah ded gayl went on to retrieve the crown i got kicked out of the city as mindflayer lazeal had good ending left with orfeus witch is funny because she got captured at the start of act 3 and didnt see her for the last 10 hours or so wyll didnt show himself i guess got bugged because i couldnt talk to the duke anyway i regret not turning into mindlflayer earlier spamming two black holes every turn is broken af time for dark urge play trough with some mods

 

[Sunri]

btw i made 932 quick saves during my play trough lol

 

[Grunker]

Orin wasn’t cool in any way. She was every insane murder girl assassin from every piece of pop culture media ever.

I liked the slayer and the weird moving colors under her skin that’s about it

 

[PapaPetro]

The Githyanki giving off real Romulan energy

Githyanki are a race of dumb ex slaves.
Romulans are based.

I dunno dude.
The whole Githyanki/Githzerai thing reeks of Romulans/Vulcans...

 

[Kiste]

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What are the other possible answers?

 

[Zayne]

Doesn't help that the Chosen are all Literal Who's with no proper setup or introduction 30 hours in.

I mean, fuck me, the game even goes "Who is Orin? Dunno, lol!"

Meanwhile, Raphael, who's not main villain gets great exposition since the beginning. (And badass song to boot)

 

[Kiste]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/652

What's it with this big butt Hottentot bullshit that people or so obsessed with nowadays? This is yet another "cultural blessing" Americans have exported worldwide though hip hop "music" and the Kardashians, right?

 

[Fedora Master]

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What are the other possible answers?

 

[Grunker]

Doesn't help that the Chosen are all Literal Who's with no proper setup or introduction 30 hours in.

I mean, fuck me, the game even goes "Who is Orin? Dunno, lol!"

Meanwhile, Raphael, who's not main villain gets great exposition since the beginning. (And badass song to boot)

The side characters in general can be quite good, but yes, Raphael is excellent

 

[Fedora Master]

lmao Shadowhearts hair turned white.

Also

Spoiler

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

They first appeared in AD&D 1E as monsters in the Underdark.

Mind Flayers first appeared in OD&D's Supplement III: Eldritch Wizardry in 1976, although an illustration of one had already appeared in Supplement II: Blackmoor.

As to the other part, that being mind flayer individuality,

TSR only published one series of Spelljammer novels, the six-volume Cloakmaster Cycle, but the second novel Into the Void introduced an individualized mind flayer, who later reappeared in the sixth novel, The Ultimate Helm, on board the Spelljammer itself.