Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Eisenheinrich]

One strong aspect of Act 1 and 2 is the fact that almost every quest ties somewhat into the main threat being such a presence and fucking things up. In Baldur's Gate it seems to be the other way around. There is a lot of side content to explore and stumble upon but you can easily beeline for the finish line and ignore it all without missing out the main narrative which is a decline to the overall design philosophy of act 1 and 2.

 

[ColonelMace]

Is the city actually huge as hyped as all hells by swen and his minions ?

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[Fedora Master]

Act 3 is still good, wtf are you fags talking about?

Besides the bugs Act 3 by itself is better than most games released.

The game turns into a fucking anime once the Chosen are properly introduced, the last act is buggy and rushed and the story falls off a cliff. Out comes the typical Larian shitwriting with nignogs everywhere, "funny" meme characters like that damn Hollyphant ( HES GOT A PIPE AND A MONOCLE AND A WEE LITTLE HAT ISN'T THAT FUNNNNNYYYY HAHAHAHA LOOK AT THIS SPORK!!!) and Orin is just a slightly edgier Harley Quinn.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Is the city actually huge as hyped as all hells by swen and his minions ?

I mean, you can google the map of Act 3 and see for yourself.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Act 3 is still good, wtf are you fags talking about?

Besides the bugs Act 3 by itself is better than most games released.

The game turns into a fucking anime once the Chosen are properly introduced, the last act is buggy and rushed and the story falls off a cliff. Out comes the typical Larian shitwriting with nignogs everywhere, "funny" meme characters like that damn Hollyphant ( HES GOT A PIPE AND A MONOCLE AND A WEE LITTLE HAT ISN'T THAT FUNNNNNYYYY HAHAHAHA LOOK AT THIS SPORK!!!) and Orin is just a slightly edgier Harley Quinn.

Orin is not bad. Followers of Bhaal are always been batshit insane. I found Sarevok to be too much chill to be a child of Bhaal.

I actually like her design a lot.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

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I don't want that fucking moonblade anymore after knowing what happened in the sunless dephts of Nashkell.

 

[Desiderius]

There's a ring on a strange ox in the druid grove which gives you +1d4 on all checks while shapeshifted, it works with the Mask of the Shapeshifter, so unconditionally all the time. Not bad.

Lyric Suite Since you still stumble around the Grove, you want might check that out now.

Since i cannot think of anything else to do besides talking to the ox, which i did, i allowed myself to google it, and, i'm a pally, not gonna happen.

Ox says it will meet you in Baldur's Gate so assuming more options will be there, like the chick who makes the bet at top of ladder. I can wait.

 

[MerchantKing]

Larian haters on suicide watch:

https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-review/

97/100, highest score in 16 years

No one cares about the critic score. All you have to do is put enough cinematic and flashy stuff in the one to two hours of gameplay for them to pretend it's a good game. Whereas user score would more significant because it may actually be people who complete the game. For example, Fallout 4 has 87 on metacritic for PS4 but 6.8 in user score. There often can be a disparity between user experience and critic hype.

Here's an overrated Kojima game designed to appease critics who like to fellate Kojima. High metascore, relatively low user score

Whereas BG3 has 9.2 for user scores. This is really what you should be bragging about.

Though that being said, user score can be argued to be just popularity and not necessarily quality.

 

[Fedora Master]

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I don't want that fucking moonblade anymore after knowing what happened in the sunless dephts of Nashkell.

Since the blade is sentient I'm sure it consented to being shoved up his ass.

 

[Black]

It's not even communicated to you that "learning about the weave" from Gayle is the gay sex option.

In a more normal game (NWN2 maybe) it'd only lead to nothing or some pity exp or maybe Arcana +1.
Here you get MAGIC MIKE

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

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I don't want that fucking moonblade anymore after knowing what happened in the sunless dephts of Nashkell.

Since the blade is sentient I'm sure it consented to being shoved up his ass.

What if... The blade never consented!

 

[Fedora Master]

Again, the way romances are handled is deliberate. They WANT people to get to the sex hard and fast because they know that's what wows the journos and romohomos.

There are actual porn games with more restraint.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

It's not even communicated to you that "learning about the weave" from Gayle is the gay sex option.

In a more normal game (NWN2 maybe) it'd only lead to nothing or some pity exp or maybe Arcana +1.
Here you get MAGIC MIKE

Wich is fake as it is. Since i had that very scene and i was able to refuse the romance so... Lol

 

[Swen]

Larian haters on suicide watch:

https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-review/

97/100, highest score in 16 years

No one cares about the critic score. All you have to do is put enough cinematic and flashy stuff in the one to two hours of gameplay for them to pretend it's a good game. Whereas user score would more significant because it may actually be people who complete the game. For example, Fallout 4 has 87 on metacritic for PS4 but 6.8 in user score. There often can be a disparity between user experience and critic hype.

Here's an overrated Kojima game designed to appease critics who like to fellate Kojima. High metascore, relatively low user score

Whereas BG3 has 9.2 for user scores. This is really what you should be bragging about.

Though that being said, user score can be argued to be just popularity and not necessarily quality.

User scores on metacritic are worthless since everyone can publish a review and score. The only user scores that matter are the steam ones.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Orin is just a slightly edgier Harley Quinn.

nice.

 

[ColonelMace]

There are actual porn games with more restraint

We'll trust you on that.

 

[Black]

The only user scores that matter are the steam ones.

Why? You can have 5 minutes in the game and still make 10/10 or 0/10 reviews.

 

[Cryomancer]

Larian is popular among game journalists

No one takes game journalists seriously. They can't even understand what "target audience" is.

And no one denies the high production values and popularity of Baizuo's Gate 3.

The only user scores that matter are the steam ones.

Why? You can have 5 minutes in the game and still make 10/10 or 0/10 reviews.

But you need to play the game before giving a review. IMO Metacritic should verify the owning of the game.

 

[Fedora Master]

No one takes game journalists seriously.

Tell that Infinitron

 

[Black]

 

[perfectslumbers]

Maybe Orin would be cool if I didn't one-round her in a 1v1 fight. Larian probably nerfed her a week before release worried that players would get stuck on her.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Maybe Orin would be cool if I didn't one-round her in a 1v1 fight. Larian probably nerfed her a week before release worried that players would get stuck on her.

Well she was never meant to be strong to start with. Her danger comes from her being a shapeshifter wich was very effective. Considering her goons single handely got rid of the harpers in the Gate the Harpers are often a very secretive organization.

 

[His Dudeness]

3E killed the Paladin class by making it more about numbers than roleplaying. 5E takes a dump on its grave.

"5E takes a dump...", come on.

It's always been more about what the DM does with the rules than about the rules as written.

In my experience so far, this game gives you all the room you could want to roleplay either a classic paladin or an edgy revisionist one, so nothing to lose sleep over.

In fact of all the games that have allowed me to play a Paladin, this is the one which gives me the most room to express his character. And I guess the same is valid for the other 11 classes.

Despite my complains, the game has offered plenty of Paladin-specific options that were very appropriate and I'm still early on. I'm mostly baffled that some retard in Larian thought these specific options were fitting for a paladin, especially since there are so many others that actually are appropriate, including one in the same dialogue. And before you start talking about Paladins being beholden to Tenets, not alignment, let's take a look at what these Tenets actually say:

Courage. Stride dauntlessly into action.
Compassion. Show clemency when prudent, and lend your arm to those in need.
Duty. Tend your responsibilities, obey just laws, and support those entrusted to your care.

Kindle the Light. Through acts of kindness, enkindle the light of hope in the bleakest hollows of despair.
Shelter the Light. Where love blooms, stand against the devilry that would snip its stem.
Preserve Your Own Light. Delight in culture and small joys to preserve the light in your own heart.

Fight the Greater Evil. Exerting your wisdom, identify the higher morality in any given instance, and fight for it.
No Mercy for the Wicked. Chasten those who dole out their villainy by wiping their blight from the world forever.

I guess there's nothing about honour and lying in there, so I'll have to begrudgingly accept lying to get Laezel out of her cage without a fight (though there should have been an option to persuade them with the truth there), but "Lie to an innocent, paralyzed girl that enemies are approaching and her life is in danger, extort her to heal her, then break your word, take her money and run." is against all three flavours of Tenets! Even Vengeance, the edgelord option, says "identify the higher morality and fight for it".

This is similar to BECMI's solution of giving access to Paladin-like classes like the Avenger and Knight for chaotic and neutral name-level characters respectively.

 

[turkishronin]

Anyone playing english version has missing text in books problem?

Because I looted smut books from brothel and I can't read them!

You mean you miss the "gems" like this, showing how much those hacks care about the original? What a tragedy.

You depressed incels could never make a masterpiece, BG3 is better than the old RTWP trash in almost every possible way.

"MUH END OF WESTERN CIVILIZZZATIONN AAAAA!!!"

LMFAO at you tards

Honestly that image is actually pissing me off now and i may end up putting down the game just for that.

I had no idea they were capable of sinking that low. That's all i needed in my life, an image of Xan using his sword as a dildo. And i can already imagine the thought process here. Xan was kinda of a weakling in BG1 right? So let's make him gay, but let's be coy about it so we'll pretend we are making a joke. Isn't it funny? He fucks himself in the ass with his sword when bored so teh hilarity.

This game feels like eating a perfectly good sandwitch except every so often you get a lump of shit in your mouth every time you take a bite. I had some fun talking to the animals and thought the dialog you get with them was pretty BG1 like in humor. Then i gotta see that shit and now my mood is soured.

for me it's the gay Yoshimo X CHARNAME fanfic