Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[whydoibother]

In the last 40 years? Pretty short frame of reference.

Literally just Googled when Madonna started singing, and used that as the start date. In honestly, as soon as christian clergy stopped being in control of media/discourse, it started getting hornier. And before christendom, it was horny as fuck. Literally just a short intermission of monastic prudeness in between the great horny eras.

 

[whydoibother]

Dysgenic freaks always get angry at normal, good looking people who don't share their dysgenic traits.

Then why are you getting angry at sex-havers

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

Dysgenic freaks always get angry at normal, good looking people who don't share their dysgenic traits.

Then why are you getting angry at sex-havers

I never said I have any problem with men and women having sex.

 

[Red Hexapus]

Stop asking for voiced main character, faggots.

You want to hear the unintentional gay flirting out loud?

To tell the truth I would very very much prefer never to see the main char, like in Fallout New Vegas. Always have the camera on the person you are talking to, with the dialogue options underneath. Would be much less immersion breaking to me.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I'm 45 hours into the game, still Act 1, and so far the only "woke" instances have been the character creation and the companions, which have really sparce interactions compared to the length and scope of the game. Aside from their playersexualism, which is arguably bad, my main qualm with them is that they are simply badly written, for the most part. My favorite one so far is fucking Lae'zel, who I left in the cage at the start and only recruited 30 hours later.

Unless horniness skyrockets later on, I really don't understand where all this talk comes from aside from the retarded need to engage in culture wars. The fact the companions are trash is obviously a disgrace and rightfully hampers the enjoyment of the game, but the whole writing in this game seems subpar so far, unfortunately. I hope it gets better later on.

Where all the talk comes from. Oh, that's a painful question to tradlarpers.
Hypothesis 1 - It's because they rest spam, because they are shit players, and they advance romances too quickly in realtime. Some of them likely don't know there are short rests as well as long rests.
Hypothesis 2 - Thinking as they do that they know everything about RPGs, they feel obliged to click through every dialogue in camp, and they open up romance dialogue branches without looking.

What's Larian's fault imo is that Larian practically didn't include anything but romance-related dialogues for companions past the character-specific comment on the latest quest you are on. It's as if their philosophy is that if you are talking to one of your companion NPCs, it's because you want to bang him/her/it.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

I'm 45 hours into the game, still Act 1, and so far the only "woke" instances have been the character creation and the companions, which have really sparce interactions compared to the length and scope of the game. Aside from their playersexualism, which is arguably bad, my main qualm with them is that they are simply badly written, for the most part. My favorite one so far is fucking Lae'zel, who I left in the cage at the start and only recruited 30 hours later.

Unless horniness skyrockets later on, I really don't understand where all this talk comes from aside from the retarded need to engage in culture wars. The fact the companions are trash is obviously a disgrace and rightfully hampers the enjoyment of the game, but the whole writing in this game seems subpar so far, unfortunately. I hope it gets better later on.

Where all the talk comes from. Oh, that's a painful question to tradlarpers.
Hypothesis 1 - It's because they rest spam, because they are shit players, and they advance romances too quickly in realtime. Some of them likely don't know there are short rests as well as long rests.
Hypothesis 2 - Thinking as they do that they know everything about RPGs, they feel obliged to click through every dialogue in camp, and they open up romance dialogue branches without looking.

What's Larian's fault imo is that Larian practically didn't include anything but romance-related dialogues for companions past the character-specific comment on the latest quest you are on. It's as if their philosophy is that if you are talking to one of your companion NPCs, it's because you want to bang him/her/it.

Larian's fault is making every party member "playersexual." That's retarded. Party members should have their own personalties outside of the player.

 

[AwesomeButton]

In the last 40 years? Pretty short frame of reference.

Literally just Googled when Madonna started singing, and used that as the start date. In honestly, as soon as christian clergy stopped being in control of media/discourse, it started getting hornier. And before christendom, it was horny as fuck. Literally just a short intermission of monastic prudeness in between the great horny eras.

My opinion? People were always horny, but the freedom for the average Joe to voice his insecurities to the public is what's unprecedented in the last 2 decades. That's enough time for a generation to be raised with the understanding that this is a normal thing to do. Ofc that's also a small part of the whole explanation, but I think it's one of the major contributing factors. The spectator and exhibitionist cultutre.

 

[processdaemon]

Unless horniness skyrockets later on

It does. Part of it is buggy companion romances that will hopefully be fixed but there's a lot of dumb sexual humour that gets less and less funny the more it's repeated. I'm not having a moral panic that it's going to cause the decline of the West I'm just disappointed that it's making the game a bit less fun.

 

[Terenty]

Hypothesis 2 - Thinking as they do that they know everything about RPGs, they feel obliged to click through every dialogue in camp, and they open up romance dialogue branches without looking.

The problem is you don't even have to click on the dialogue options to find out someone wants to fuck you. It's in your face whether you like it or not. Characters themselves will announce it, which makes every character in your group a fag.

And wanting approval from a character always seen as you wanting to romance them is equally absurd too.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

In the last 40 years? Pretty short frame of reference.

Literally just Googled when Madonna started singing, and used that as the start date. In honestly, as soon as christian clergy stopped being in control of media/discourse, it started getting hornier. And before christendom, it was horny as fuck. Literally just a short intermission of monastic prudeness in between the great horny eras.

My opinion? People were always horny, but the freedom for the average Joe to voice his insecurities to the public is what's unprecedented in the last 2 decades. That's enough time for a generation to be raised with the understanding that this is a normal thing to do. Ofc that's also a small part of the whole explanation, but I think it's one of the major contributing factors. The spectator and exhibitionist cultutre.

The problem is taking off the restrictions. Restrictions are good for people. People used to get married at a young age. You're not likely to be horny all the time if you can just have sex with your wife at the end of the day.

 

[perfectslumbers]

The reason the measuring stick for mainstream RPGs for this decade is so horny is very simple, and I've described it already, scores of pages of retarded incel shitposts ago:

To sum up the argument: it's horny because it's a game for the incel generation. This is how the writers see you, the denizens of reddit, discord, 4chan and any other internet shithole. They just hold the mirror in front of you. Whether or not the writers themselves are degenerates, who knows, some of them inevitably are.

True. It's made to appeal to young shut-ins who struggle with relationships and have a crippled romantic life, which after COVID seems to be the norm among the younger generations. Although I think it's poorly executed enough that people like that still end up disappointed with it. I don't want games to be entirely sexless personally but this game is overtly pornographic. Yes you can turn down all the sexual advances in the game but the designers choice to feed them to the player on a conveyor belt is still inherently pornographic and shatters believability in my opinion.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Larian's fault is making every party member "playersexual." That's retarded. Party members should have their own personalties outside of the player

Yeah, I definetly agree, and I've said as much too. Their escape hatch from this question is that they've written two versions of the character which are mutually exclusive. But that's a cheap excuse for pussying out of defining the companions' characters. And it obviously confuses many players. It's like shooting two versions of a movie for girl and boy audiences.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

Hypothesis 2 - Thinking as they do that they know everything about RPGs, they feel obliged to click through every dialogue in camp, and they open up romance dialogue branches without looking.

The problem is you don't even have to click on the dialogue options to find out someone wants to fuck you. It's in your face whether you like it or not. Characters themselves will announce it, which makes every character in your group a fag.

And wanting approval from a character always seen as you wanting to romance them is equally absurd too.

It's not possible to have friendship/comradery in this game without it being ruined by faggot lust. That's a huge embarrassment.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Ed Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms, which is the setting the Baldur's Gate games take place in. He's known for being quite progressive, weirdly horny, and writing about how every street corner has a brothel and how the Forgotten Realms has orgy holidays etc. None of this sexual lore has ever really been implemented in D&D products though because in Ed's own words "How underscored this was by TSR and later Wizards varied over time, and was always softpedaled, because D&D wasn’t a sex game, and we generally don’t rub the reader’s nose in sex unless there’s a good in-story reason for it."

Nice to see someone that is informed.

Too bad the quotes contradicts your argument.

Ed Greenwood may have been a wierdo but he had enough sense not to shove it in people's faces like this game does.

But if this is what Forgotten Realms was always supposed to be than it just means the setting was even shittier than what we all thought already was and should be avoived like the plague.

 

[hivemind]

Hypothesis 2 - Thinking as they do that they know everything about RPGs, they feel obliged to click through every dialogue in camp, and they open up romance dialogue branches without looking.

The problem is you don't even have to click on the dialogue options to find out someone wants to fuck you. It's in your face whether you like it or not. Characters themselves will announce it, which makes every character in your group a fag.

And wanting approval from a character always seen as you wanting to romance them is equally absurd too.

It's not possible to have friendship/comradery in this game without it being ruined by faggot lust. That's a huge embarrassment.

This is untrue.

I friendzoned Astarion and he was happy with having a friend. Also started referring to me as "my friend" in camp convo. It was very wholesome.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

Hypothesis 2 - Thinking as they do that they know everything about RPGs, they feel obliged to click through every dialogue in camp, and they open up romance dialogue branches without looking.

The problem is you don't even have to click on the dialogue options to find out someone wants to fuck you. It's in your face whether you like it or not. Characters themselves will announce it, which makes every character in your group a fag.

And wanting approval from a character always seen as you wanting to romance them is equally absurd too.

It's not possible to have friendship/comradery in this game without it being ruined by faggot lust. That's a huge embarrassment.

This is untrue.

I friendzoned Astarion and he was happy with having a friend. Also started referring to me as "my friend" in camp convo. It was very wholesome.

I can't have a flaming faggot as a friend. It's already been ruined by being propositioned. Who is the friend you can have where you talk to them, learn about each other and they never proposition you for gay sex? It's just friendship/comradery the entire time?

I don't want to be offered gay sex by the party member at any point

 

[Atlet]

Hi, my name is Atlet and I'm here to say that I love BG3 :3

Thread is too long didnt read it, but I'm sure yall tards are talking lots of retardation, which is what tards (you) do.

Bye

 

[hivemind]

I can't have a flaming faggot as a friend. It's already been ruined by being propositioned. Who is the friend you can have where you continously talk to them, learn about each other and they never proposition you for gay sex? It's just friendship/comradery the entire time?

I don't want to be offered gay sex by the party member at any point

I was good friends with Karlach and Shadowheart without any hint of romance.

 

[jf8350143]

Hypothesis 2 - Thinking as they do that they know everything about RPGs, they feel obliged to click through every dialogue in camp, and they open up romance dialogue branches without looking.

The problem is you don't even have to click on the dialogue options to find out someone wants to fuck you. It's in your face whether you like it or not. Characters themselves will announce it, which makes every character in your group a fag.

And wanting approval from a character always seen as you wanting to romance them is equally absurd too.

It's not possible to have friendship/comradery in this game without it being ruined by faggot lust. That's a huge embarrassment.

This is untrue.

I friendzoned Astarion and he was happy with having a friend. Also started referring to me as "my friend" in camp convo. It was very wholesome.

You have to friendzone them first to have a friendship, and that's already a huge decline.

Normal people starts with frienship first, not sexual relationship.

 

[Terenty]

I was good friends with Karlach and Shadowheart without any hint of romance.

So it's only men who are faggots then? Good to know

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

I can't have a flaming faggot as a friend. It's already been ruined by being propositioned. Who is the friend you can have where you continously talk to them, learn about each other and they never proposition you for gay sex? It's just friendship/comradery the entire time?

I don't want to be offered gay sex by the party member at any point

I was good friends with Karlach and Shadowheart without any hint of romance.

Who is the male character? I'm calling cap on karlach especially. If you talk to her and have rep I'm pretty sure she'll proposition you

 

[Robber Baron]

Definitive Editon might come earlier than expected

 

[hivemind]

For those who want to know whether the Emperor was being genuine or not, here you have it:

Spoiler

Hate this nigga like you wouldn't believe.

I honestly think that the obvious scaley in Larian management developed a tentacle fetish and they masturbated their way through directing the game's ending sequence.

 

[Xamenos]

Ed Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms, which is the setting the Baldur's Gate games take place in. He's known for being quite progressive, weirdly horny, and writing about how every street corner has a brothel and how the Forgotten Realms has orgy holidays etc. None of this sexual lore has ever really been implemented in D&D products though because in Ed's own words "How underscored this was by TSR and later Wizards varied over time, and was always softpedaled, because D&D wasn’t a sex game, and we generally don’t rub the reader’s nose in sex unless there’s a good in-story reason for it."

Nice to see someone that is informed.

Too bad the quotes contradicts your argument.

Ed Greenwood may have been a wierdo but he had enough sense not to shove it in people's faces like this game does.

But if this is what Forgotten Realms was always supposed to be than it just means the setting was even shittier than what we all thought already was and should be avoived like the plague.

Greenwood has a magical realm and a self-insert DMPC, but this has only ever been relevant to his own group and some of those who are terminally online. I've run and played in the Forgotten Realms for literal decades, read most of the available sourcebooks and novels, played most video games set in that world, this perversion has not really affected me and I'm convinced that about 95% of those who have ever played in the Realms have not been affected either. Remember, the terminally online and their gripes are very, very far from the average player. Most people would look at you weirdly if you tried to tell them about Greenwood's private stuff, like you were talking to them about reptilian infiltration.

 

[hivemind]

I'm calling cap on karlach especially. If you talk to her and have rep I'm pretty sure she'll proposition you

I just rejected her politely while being supportive of her. It's not a big deal.