Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Sunri]

Battle of titans

 

[Elthosian]

The schrondinger game. Incline on one hand, utter degenracy on the other, manages to piss off pretty much everybody, conservatives because of the woke bullshit, some journos for being teh hard to play, corporate shills because they don't like a game that doesn't follow their hollow corporate model to be this successful.

This game is basically in a perpetual state of being both good and terrible at the same time.

Thankfully I don't give a shit about the West and its contemporary cultural issues

That's because you are fucking retard.

Nah bro, why would I be a cuck and lose my sleep over something that will have nil impact on my quality of life? I can keep milking the CS industry for another 10 or so years, raise two or three children in the meantime, and retire by 45 with my wife to the house we just bought back in our hometown, which has one of the lowest crime rates in all of America No reason to introduce any worries into my life when I'm doing well enough to be able to put time into my hobbies for the first time since I finished college.

If the whole phenomenon has some impact on your life, by all means, put time into it and complain as much as you want, Codex is a free speech place as it should be*

*except for popamole enthusiasts

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

so i met a bunch of companions for now. all the women are strong wymminz who don't need nobody and are way more than capable, all the men are fags. now i do too see the agenda.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Another thing, Shadowhearts only friend when she was being trained to be a cleric is a tranny that she used to fuck. Shadowheart is literally garbage extremely inconsistent and nonsensical character.

lol. They build her up like she's this virginal character (apart from one dialog interjection where she tells Astarion she prefers short-term relationships, as if she'd know with her memory gone) who blueballs you for 60 hours and then dump that shit on you.

So glad my character banged the frog and hookers behind her back.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

to the house we just bought back in our hometown, which has almost zero black people

Ftfy

 

[Shaki]

"Normal woman"

Apparently she's the only female romance option that is willing to fuck the bear and literally everything else. Surprisingly, the most "normal" and traditional romance in the long run, is probably the fucking frog bitch.

RPGs are an interactive genre. If you don't like one branch the story can take, why go that way?

I didn't, I refused all the companion romances, since I dislike virtual dating sims. I play vidya games to be able to have fun adventures in fantasy lands, not to listen to women talking about their issues, I have enough of this irl. Also I'm an old man and things take time for me, so I can't even have a quick fap session to 30 seconds long sex scene like the zoomers do.

I'm just pointing out, if you want to go searching for a classical romance with a normal woman in this game, Shadowheart is probably one of the worst choices.

 

[Arkeus]

Naturally, the Emperor volunteers. But after learning about fates of Ansur and Duke Stelmane I do think that good ol' Balduran is now a proud member of Illithid Supremacy Organization and would certainly abuse the power of stones and crown. Another option is to become Illithid yourself. For some reason I can't make Illithid out of someone useless and/or doomed, like Wyll, Karlach or Gale (although Gale says that becoming Illithid is "fate worse than death", because you lose your soul in process).

So I say "fuck you, Emperor" and he desides to become brain's elite thrall.

I free Orpheus and he presents me with same choice. Fine, I guess, no Githyanki rebellion for us, I'll roll with tentacled Orpheus. Atleast I believe he'll actually kill the Netherbrain and won't do some weird tentacled shit with crown. And he asked me to kill him after we're victorious, I'll be happy to follow through.

This again reminds me about DAO, the ending part with Hard Choices and Sacrifices. But there you could've pulled the "proper" ending : no evil witch rituals, Alistair on throne, Loghain redeemed himself through sacrifice. You had to work for it, but you could've pulled it. Apparently, no such luck here.[/ISPOILER]

I'm fairly sure I've seen people having had Karlach volunteering to become a Illithid for that - Also, betraying Orpheus at the last moment so you can control the brain and brainwash your party, becoming the absolute.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Fun fact: despite the game having a Fly spell it doesn't let you freely fly or simply hover mid air. Instead it serves as glorified jump.

Funny, if BG3 taught me anything, its that jumping is completely OP

Verticality in BG3 suffers from a deficiency of the game engine that limits creatures to standing on surfaces; flight, levitation, misty step, and other abilities serve only to move from one surface to another, akin to jumping (which is, of course, quite useful). Solasta, by contrast, permits actual flight, with creatures/PCs/NPCs altering their distance from the ground below them, and even allows wall-crawling for some creatures (and PCs/NPCs via a particular magic spell).

Despite the massive funding of BG3 relative to Solasta, it seems Larian had worse programmers.

Solasta is also limited to cubic ambient since it still use a square grid. I favour how flight is implemented in bg3 rather than have ambients that look completely unnatural.

 

[Elthosian]

to the house we just bought back in our hometown, which has almost zero black people

Ftfy

Nope, it's not a gringo town. I really mean it when I say most of the culture war issues in the US are alien to me.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Nope, it's not a gringo town. I really mean it when I say most of the culture war issues in the US are alien to me.

Never seen a crime-free spic area in my life. Any area with a high number of spics ends up with multiple murders unless you're talking about some gated community or your own personal ranch in the middle of nowhere.

And btw, that's still a tacit admission there are no blacks there.

 

[Herumor]

As enjoyable as I find Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack to be, Borislav can't really compare to Kirill's work:

 

[Lyric Suite]

The schrondinger game. Incline on one hand, utter degenracy on the other, manages to piss off pretty much everybody, conservatives because of the woke bullshit, some journos for being teh hard to play, corporate shills because they don't like a game that doesn't follow their hollow corporate model to be this successful.

This game is basically in a perpetual state of being both good and terrible at the same time.

Thankfully I don't give a shit about the West and its contemporary cultural issues

That's because you are fucking retard.

Nah bro, why would I be a cuck and lose my sleep over something that will have nil impact on my quality of life?

It already ruins the experience of this game by recreating the experience of getting a lump of shit in your mouth randomly while eating an otherwise perfectly good sandwitch.

But if you are talking about the real world, this stuff is civilization ending. You have no idea wtf is coming in a world where people literally believe men can get pregnant. This is worse than anything in the early 20th century and i'm including the Nazis.

 

[Elthosian]

Fun fact: despite the game having a Fly spell it doesn't let you freely fly or simply hover mid air. Instead it serves as glorified jump.

Funny, if BG3 taught me anything, its that jumping is completely OP

Verticality in BG3 suffers from a deficiency of the game engine that limits creatures to standing on surfaces; flight, levitation, misty step, and other abilities serve only to move from one surface to another, akin to jumping (which is, of course, quite useful). Solasta, by contrast, permits actual flight, with creatures/PCs/NPCs altering their distance from the ground below them, and even allows wall-crawling for some creatures (and PCs/NPCs via a particular magic spell).

Despite the massive funding of BG3 relative to Solasta, it seems Larian had worse programmers.

Solasta is also limited to cubic ambient since it still use a square grid. I favour how flight is implemented in bg3 rather than have ambients that look completely unnatural.

How does free flight force you to have cubic environments? Just have 2 or 3 extra planes on the Z axis to account for flee flight. Not that hard albeit it would require reworking the way mountains and chasms are used to funnel progression.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

so i met a bunch of companions for now. all the women are strong wymminz who don't need nobody and are way more than capable, all the men are fags. now i do too see the agenda.

One is brainwashed like the ones of her species. Another is brainwashed by a cult. Another is dumb barbaroan with an engine inside that trusts the wrong person blindly and got sold as slave.
Strong womenz indeed lol.

The only strong woman of your conpanions is an old character returning from the past games.

What you are even talking about?

 

[AwesomeButton]

Has anyone found out what's the trigger for party members to start hinting that they need rest? Is it something about the expenditure of spells and abilities?

 

[prodigydancer]

Battle of titans

Disco Elysium and BG3 are both fine games, no doubt, but Metacritic is trash and so is their metascore that rates Planescape: Torment 91st. There is no universe in our Multiverse where could possible exist 90 games better than PS:T.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Fun fact: despite the game having a Fly spell it doesn't let you freely fly or simply hover mid air. Instead it serves as glorified jump.

Funny, if BG3 taught me anything, its that jumping is completely OP

Verticality in BG3 suffers from a deficiency of the game engine that limits creatures to standing on surfaces; flight, levitation, misty step, and other abilities serve only to move from one surface to another, akin to jumping (which is, of course, quite useful). Solasta, by contrast, permits actual flight, with creatures/PCs/NPCs altering their distance from the ground below them, and even allows wall-crawling for some creatures (and PCs/NPCs via a particular magic spell).

Despite the massive funding of BG3 relative to Solasta, it seems Larian had worse programmers.

Solasta is also limited to cubic ambient since it still use a square grid. I favour how flight is implemented in bg3 rather than have ambients that look completely unnatural.

How does free flight force you to have cubic environments? Just have 2 or 3 extra planes on the Z axis to account for flee flight. Not that hard albeit it would require reworking the way mountains and chasms are used to funnel progression.

Have you seen all the wildernest ambients in solasta? Is basically minecraft.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Fun fact: despite the game having a Fly spell it doesn't let you freely fly or simply hover mid air. Instead it serves as glorified jump.

Funny, if BG3 taught me anything, its that jumping is completely OP

Verticality in BG3 suffers from a deficiency of the game engine that limits creatures to standing on surfaces; flight, levitation, misty step, and other abilities serve only to move from one surface to another, akin to jumping (which is, of course, quite useful). Solasta, by contrast, permits actual flight, with creatures/PCs/NPCs altering their distance from the ground below them, and even allows wall-crawling for some creatures (and PCs/NPCs via a particular magic spell).

Despite the massive funding of BG3 relative to Solasta, it seems Larian had worse programmers.

Solasta is also limited to cubic ambient since it still use a square grid. I favour how flight is implemented in bg3 rather than have ambients that look completely unnatural.

I'm very ready to give Solasta a try after BG3 just for the comparison, but I'm afraid the game has not enough going on besides the combat. If I'm wrong I'll be happy anyway.

 

[Grauken]

Fun fact: despite the game having a Fly spell it doesn't let you freely fly or simply hover mid air. Instead it serves as glorified jump.

Funny, if BG3 taught me anything, its that jumping is completely OP

Verticality in BG3 suffers from a deficiency of the game engine that limits creatures to standing on surfaces; flight, levitation, misty step, and other abilities serve only to move from one surface to another, akin to jumping (which is, of course, quite useful). Solasta, by contrast, permits actual flight, with creatures/PCs/NPCs altering their distance from the ground below them, and even allows wall-crawling for some creatures (and PCs/NPCs via a particular magic spell).

Despite the massive funding of BG3 relative to Solasta, it seems Larian had worse programmers.

Sorry man, but Solasta looks just pedestrian, if I ever run out of interesting things to do I might go for it

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Fun fact: despite the game having a Fly spell it doesn't let you freely fly or simply hover mid air. Instead it serves as glorified jump.

Funny, if BG3 taught me anything, its that jumping is completely OP

Verticality in BG3 suffers from a deficiency of the game engine that limits creatures to standing on surfaces; flight, levitation, misty step, and other abilities serve only to move from one surface to another, akin to jumping (which is, of course, quite useful). Solasta, by contrast, permits actual flight, with creatures/PCs/NPCs altering their distance from the ground below them, and even allows wall-crawling for some creatures (and PCs/NPCs via a particular magic spell).

Despite the massive funding of BG3 relative to Solasta, it seems Larian had worse programmers.

Solasta is also limited to cubic ambient since it still use a square grid. I favour how flight is implemented in bg3 rather than have ambients that look completely unnatural.

I'm very ready to give Solasta a try after BG3 just for the comparison, but I'm afraid the game has not enough going on besides the combat. If I'm wrong I'll be happy anyway.

Solasta has just one thing going on that is nice 5th edition implementation the rest is just garbage.

Monsters.
Storyline.
Dialogues.
Art style.

All terrible .

 

[Lyric Suite]

Battle of titans

Disco Elysium and BG3 are both fine games, no doubt, but Metacritic is trash and so is their metascore that rates Planescape: Torment 91st. There is no universe in our Multiverse where could possible exist 90 games better than PS:T.

But PST isn't woke, and that's all the "critics" care.

While audience score isn't perfect either i think that's the only score that should count.

 

[Lawntoilet]

Fun fact: despite the game having a Fly spell it doesn't let you freely fly or simply hover mid air. Instead it serves as glorified jump.

Funny, if BG3 taught me anything, its that jumping is completely OP

Verticality in BG3 suffers from a deficiency of the game engine that limits creatures to standing on surfaces; flight, levitation, misty step, and other abilities serve only to move from one surface to another, akin to jumping (which is, of course, quite useful). Solasta, by contrast, permits actual flight, with creatures/PCs/NPCs altering their distance from the ground below them, and even allows wall-crawling for some creatures (and PCs/NPCs via a particular magic spell).

Despite the massive funding of BG3 relative to Solasta, it seems Larian had worse programmers.

Solasta is also limited to cubic ambient since it still use a square grid. I favour how flight is implemented in bg3 rather than have ambients that look completely unnatural.

I'm very ready to give Solasta a try after BG3 just for the comparison, but I'm afraid the game has not enough going on besides the combat. If I'm wrong I'll be happy anyway.

The writing is very very bad, ranging from "charming-bad like a middle schooler DMing his first campaign" to "completely nonsensical" but it's a fun game nonetheless

 

[Sunri]

The problem with torment is that gameplay is trash, one minute animation for spell, hehe

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

It already ruins the experience of this game by recreating the experience of getting a lump of shit in your mouth randomly while eating an otherwise perfectly good sandwitch.

Yup. Like Wrath of the Tranny, it hides its degeneracy until you're near or past the refund window. Though thankfully in this game, it's long past it - meaning there's still plenty of enjoyable content.

Having gotten far into the game, most of the hopes I had for character writing in EA have been dashed.

It's not unexpected, but it is unwelcome. Like most of the degeneracy in this game once they passed a certain point.

I really think a mod to either edit or remove the romances is necessary here. So much modding is necessary. There's just nothing salvageable. Either bang the frog with granny skin, the drow with a man voice, or cuck your character by spending 60 hours trying to romance some whore who already sucked off a tranny. (Oh, and yes, that had to be intentional by the writers.)

 

[MerchantKing]

Sometimes reddit provides.

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