Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[dukeofwoodberry]

Complex relationships system lol. Literally the worst romance system in a major game ever. Work on making party companions who aren't trash first

 

[Parabalus]

Reading through Larian forums is hilarious. So much stupid shit that went into the game and cool stuff that got cut.

Apparently Sven promised, less than a month before the release, a fully explorable Baldur's Gate with opulent upper districts and a complex relationship system with your companions lol you can't make that shit up

That stuff was extremely useless in Dumpsterfire.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

If you know a game will have "playersexual" romances you can be assured that romance system will be pure shit and most likely the party companions will be shit too. You don't care about giving the party members their own personalities and characteristics outside of satiating the desires of a handful of reddit fags and trannies

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

In all honesty, many, if not most RPGs don't allow for companions to be edited. However, not that many RPGs have so many annoying, samey characters :/

Incidentally, I'm not a fan of that, either.
Every single companion being fully respeccable both in stats and starting class means that they have no "gameplay identity".

 

[Avarize]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

 

[Zeltak]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

I got a completely out-of-the blue gay invitation from Halsin at the end of act 2 in moonrise towers. For reference, I had him as a party member exactly once for the purpose of completing a specific quest where he needs to be present. It's so ridiculous that the whole romance system has to be bugged.

 

[Avarize]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

I got a completely out-of-the blue gay invitation from Halsin at the end of act 2 in moonrise towers. For reference, I had him as a party member exactly once for the purpose of completing a specific quest where he needs to be present. It's so ridiculous that the whole romance system has to be bugged.

Also the day after the act 1 finale party I had a dialogue choice with Halsin "I hope I didn't come on too strongly last night" despite only discussing the attack and plans in the Moonrise towers. You can dodge gay sex easily enough but there'll still be constant references to it. Larian assumes you want to fuck everything.

 

[Grauken]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

I got a completely out-of-the blue gay invitation from Halsin at the end of act 2 in moonrise towers.

Easy, he took one look at you and knew what you were

 

[Terenty]

Now it's clear why the game is the best reviewed of all time now, journos finally got their AAA gay simulator they've been craving all these years

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

Haslin isn't a real party member. He was added last minute. He's just there for the bear sex shit. Probably Larian just trying to be more true to the lore because as I've learned from the trannies on here gay sex, animal sex, tentacle sex is one of the key components of D&D lore (probably the key component honestly.)

 

[Zeltak]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

I got a completely out-of-the blue gay invitation from Halsin at the end of act 2 in moonrise towers.

I haven't left the tutorial area, here is my take.

Ok.

 

[Rhobar121]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

Haslin isn't a real party member. He was added last minute. He's just there for the bear sex shit. Probably Larian just trying to be more true to the lore because as I've learned from the trannies on here gay sex, animal sex, tentacle sex is one of the key components of D&D lore (probably the key component honestly.)

Maybe they are just connoisseurs of Japanese culture

 

[Avarize]

I hope Larian releases good mod tools and some autists recreate BG1&2.

 

[Zeltak]

Need DOS2 level mod tools to have a reasonable chance of seeing custom campaigns and stuff which would be massive incline for this game. AFAIK, what's unclear from the current interviews is whether Swen is talking about those sort of mod tools or something more basic.

 

[janior]

I'm almost at the end of act2(I think) scared to play more cause of what I read about act 3 idk if my cpu(5600x) can handle act 3 too... feelsbad

 

[perfectslumbers]

Hopefully the mod tools don't end up where the upper city ended up

 

[Grauken]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

I got a completely out-of-the blue gay invitation from Halsin at the end of act 2 in moonrise towers.

Easy, he took one look at you and knew what you were

I'm butthurt from Halsin

Can't help you there buddy, I just spent an hour talking to everybody in my camp about important things. Great writing. Weird that your companions seems to constantly hit on you

 

[Zeltak]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

I got a completely out-of-the blue gay invitation from Halsin at the end of act 2 in moonrise towers.

Easy, he took one look at you and knew what you were

I'm butthurt from Halsin

Just learned how to long rest. Pretty cool game.

Insightful.

 

[processdaemon]

I'm almost at the end of act2(I think) scared to play more cause of what I read about act 3 idk if my cpu(5600x) can handle act 3 too... feelsbad

I have a worse CPU (Intel Core i5-10300H) and it's working fine for me, I wouldn't worry too much

 

[Lagole Gon]

People go and on about Astarion and Gale trying to buttfuck you constantly but the one I've had a problem with is Halsin. For example he just said to me he doesn't want to join the party for something but someone. Why would there be dialogue like that before a rejection prompt? Just because I want him in my party as a spore druid doesn't mean I want him in my ass.

I actually sighted in relief when I learned that Halsin, another potential creep, was kidnapped by Orin and it might be a timed quest. She really helped me dodging a bullet here.

Praise Bhaal.

 

[Shaki]

Can't help you there buddy, I just spent an hour talking to everybody in my camp about important things.

I can't help but get the mental image of an overweight dude sitting in darkness and talking to his monitor, as if he was playing with dolls or smth

 

[Vasya]

One thing that I find shocking is how Larian has managed to drum into the public the idea that BG3 has created and/or reinvented role-playing games.

After talking to some people I noticed some percieved as if they were totally revolutionary concepts things like branching quest trees, interparty banter and relationships, an applied ruleset where you can see dice rolls and things like that which are the bread and butter of many many RPGs.

At one point someone whose experience in RPGs is WOW, DDO and Neverwinter Online said that hopefully this is the path that RPGs are going to follow from now as if everything made BG3 was just primitive garbage made for simple people when they have been like this for 35 years.

They've made a crpg easy and visually attractive enough for those who never played crpgs.
Optimistic prognosis would be that it will make other crpgs more popular.
Realistically though, it will just make marketing depts from other studios force devs to imitate bg3.

 

[Zeltak]

Can't help you there buddy, I just spent an hour talking to everybody in my camp about important things.

I can't help but get the mental image of an overweight dude sitting in darkness and talking to his monitor, as if he was playing with dolls or smth

I actually put effort into learning the story so I didn't skip any dialogue and read almost all books/notes. There is not a single instance in this game where it would take you an hour to exhaust new camp dialogue unless of course your name is Grauken so you quicksaved right before Gale buttfucked you to repeat that scene five times over. Now I understand why he's stuck at level 5 handing out clueless commentary on shit that occurs in the next act.

 

[Rhobar121]

I hope you don't take this seriously because it's clearly trolling.

 

[NecroLord]

Chad Greyhawk vs Virgin Forgotten Realms. Elven and dwarven kingdoms were more secluded and insular, not easily accessible by everyone. That's the way it should be.
Gygax believed in humanity.

You don't even have to believe in humanity. You just have to want to keep mythical races mysterious and interesting.

"I want to become an adventurer!"
"Why?"
"To explore! To see the elven tree cities! To visit the depths of the Dwarf fortresses!"
"But we have dwarves and elves here..."
"Oh. Well, also to fight orcs, goblins and trolls! To slay devils and--"
"Woah! Cool it with the racism, buddy! My wife is an orc. You're sick!"

Yes, exactly!
These races were more mystical/ quasi mythological even.
Arcanum also handled dwarves and elves exceptionally well.