Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[The_Mask]

The thing is that I like about Mebrilla making a new account is that she can't rate things, and so she has to type out all the dumb shit going through her head.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Lae'zel is so schizo

My group arrives at the Grymforge
2 Duergar greet me

my MC: you are slavers, I want nothing to do with you
Lae'zel disapproves
my MC: Im going to gut you now
Lae'zel approves

I got a chuckle when you first meet her in the cage.

After getting rid of the Tielflings she demands you let her out. One of the dialogues you can choose is, "Can I get a 'please'?"

Her flat "no" and dialogue ending was based. Respect.

I'm glad the thread can at least agree that Lae'zel is the best character - at least before Act 2, where they kind of try to ruin her.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Well if we are talking about writing i can tell you something i always disliked Mystra. She is basically a Mary Sue

Yup. And fucks her followers. What a shock that Larian tied her so closely to the campaign.

Gale announcing he was Mysta's lover was basically him admitting he's a cuck because she sleeps with everyone. What must those threesomes with Elminster have been like?

"She says, after previously saying she was only around since the Time of Troubles. Real setting expert here." ...are you really so dense?

You're the one who said it...

Dude you are one that comes in a thread of a game he dislike to cry about degeneracy and things were ALWAYS in the setting

*Things that have been magnified in the setting since Wizard's took over. This is why I was saying that it's not entirely Larian's fault for including Loviatar, but as DP said, they made the choice to include her, and in the most low-effort, fetish bait way possible.

This is retreading past posts though.

Loviatar was not a goddess at the time but was a demigoddess during the first edition she became a goddess from the second edition onward. I felt like the need to clarify that if i was unclear my mistake over here. I don't think including a Loviatar Cleric was just a fetish bait. Again made sense since the goblin were working with the absolute and Loviatar was in past associated first with Bhaal then with Bane.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

The thing is that I like about Mebrilla making a new account is that she can't rate things, and so she has to type out all the dumb shit going through her head.

Rates are just icons. I never cared about that they merely shows how upset one gets depending on how much spawns negative rating.

 

[The_Mask]

I'm glad the thread can at least agree that Lae'zel is the best character - at least before Act 2, where they kind of try to ruin her.

Lae'zel is being given the Dak'kon treatment, where she is supposed to have a crisis of faith. And she does have it. And it's really nice. But it has nothing of the charm and style that MCA has given Dak'kon's story.

Which brings me/us back to the same conclusion: Larian needs better writers. Preferably ones that are more right-leaning politically. Hell, I'll even take a libertarian one, as long as it has what MCA has: writing with a minor in architecture.

Remember: the first creators of RPGs were an architect and a writer.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Which brings me/us back to the same conclusion: Larian needs better writers. Preferably ones that are more right-leaning politically.

I always go back to Star Trek, which had leftist writers, but was very watchable.

Your politics, or in this case your fetishes, shouldn't get in the way of the writing.

But then, Star Trek writers wanted to communicate some greater moral message and not "refugees = good" or "(gay) sex = fun".

The same with PST, which was loaded with philosophical musings on the nature of man and reality, and the plot was an enjoyable vehicle for exploring that.

Meanwhile, Larian's 7-man cuck squad wrote in a mind flayer that wants to fuck you.

 

[Desiderius]

Enemies do try and push you into chasms if they can, it would be more noticeable if battles lasted longer.

They also shove their allies to wake them up form sleep for example. Makes sleep less of a free CC early game if you do it close to another enemy that takes a turn right after.

Sleep's 5e 24 hp limit makes it worthless. I selected it as one of the spells for my Warlock thinking it would be my workhorse in the early game, but I never used it once. There were barely any fights where there were enough enemies in that HP range anyway, and when I considered that my duel wielding warlock/fighter could do between 10-20 damage a turn (+ some bonus damage if I used hellish rebuke for my spells as a reaction) I found that just doing 24 damage within 1 to 2 turns was more helpful at reducing the number of enemies than 24 hp worth of sleep was.

It seems like it would be a pretty strong lvl 1 spell, where you could sleep 3 or maybe even 4 different enemies. But that was pretty much just the tutorial ship.

And playing on tactician with the enemy HP boost made it even less viable.

It's HP left, not total HP. Jesus all you phaggots are determined to keep banging your head into the same wall. You use it because it's also no save, so 100% hit chance, and even AoE if you've got several targets down low. Or don't. Just don't rag on something you haven't bothered to test.

Why Dual Wield a Warlock? Why the Fighter? Pact of the Blade already gets extra attack at lvl 5 and lets you use CHR stat on any weapon in the game. Just whale with the best available two-hander and let yourself get hit with Phys Resist to trigger Armor of Agathis. Bonus points for adding on no save Ray of Enfeeblement (preferably from someone with actual spell slots) if you're fighting a boss. Multiclassing Warlock costs you the best class feature, which is auto-upcast.

 

[Desiderius]

I'm glad the thread can at least agree that Lae'zel is the best character - at least before Act 2, where they kind of try to ruin her.

Lae'zel is being given the Dak'kon treatment, where she is supposed to have a crisis of faith. And she does have it. And it's really nice. But it has nothing of the charm and style that MCA has given Dak'kon's story.

Which brings me/us back to the same conclusion: Larian needs better writers. Preferably ones that are more right-leaning politically. Hell, I'll even take a libertarian one, as long as it has what MCA has: writing with a minor in architecture.

Remember: the first creators of RPGs were an architect and a writer.

(They are right-leaning. If you had any idea how utterly ruthless the degeneracy project is maybe you wouldn't be so big on the right in the first place.)

 

[Nikanuur]

Mods have already fixed Shadowheart's hair.

There's also another fix of a kind; put on a hat. It (magically?) switches her hairdo into something completely different, and quite fashionable at that! With those loose locks of hair and solemn eyes peering behind the brim, she immediately starts to look like a female Van Helsing wannabe.

I was surprised they made such a special effort just for that. I mean, a buff-featureless hat is probably the least desirable choice with so many really functional pieces of head gear lying around, yet they did this. I'm writing from the night shift; I'll post a picture from home later on.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Which brings me/us back to the same conclusion: Larian needs better writers. Preferably ones that are more right-leaning politically.

I always go back to Star Trek, which had leftist writers, but was very watchable.

Your politics, or in this case your fetishes, shouldn't get in the way of the writing.

But then, Star Trek writers wanted to communicate some greater moral message and not "refugees = good" or "(gay) sex = fun".

The same with PST, which was loaded with philosophical musings on the nature of man and reality, and the plot was an enjoyable vehicle for exploring that.

Meanwhile, Larian's 7-man cuck squad wrote in a mind flayer that wants to fuck you.

Muh politics...
Noisy Muricans can't enjoy things

 

[NecroLord]

I have a question:
Why is Viconia so fucking ugly and looking like a used up whore (which, technically, she already was)?
Jaheira is also fugly as all hell.
Seriously, the new trend of making game characters ugly as fuck (presumably in an effort to make them more "realistic" or some shit) needs to stop.

Gotta keep those ESG scores up. It's a good thing they didn't bring up Jan Jansen (PBUH) because Larian and WotC would ruin him even harder than they ruined the two elves. They probably would've just found some shitty voice actor to do the voices like they did with Minsc and Viconia too. Besides, I don't think you really want to be around Jaheira at her age (should she really even still be alive?). There was already enough of Keldorn soiling his diapers daily and stinking up the entire campsite. I'm sure Jaheira is much worse at that point being a half-elf. Yeah sure, elves keep their arses clean but a half-elf DRUID who probably has some tree-hugging nonsense ideas about not showering to save water isn't going to be bathing for weeks and probably hasn't changed her diaper that long either.

Yeah, Jan was a really good companion.
Honestly, the one gnome who redeemed the gnomish race in my eyes.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Why the fuck doesn't Jaheira have her full druidic spellbook at Moonrise?

 

[The_Mask]

Why the fuck doesn't Jaheira have her full druidic spellbook at Moonrise?

Not only that, but if she had just half of the Druid-only gear you find in the BG series, she would steam roll everyone on her own. You know... instead of wilting like a flower.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

The fight is really a turning point, and between the black hole and hunger of hadar spells and the fact that some dudes hit my guys like 4 times and kill them in one turn only makes it feel all that more entertaining lol

 

[Nihiliste]

Honestly, I've never seen a well done evil path in any cRPG, at best a well-written cartonish evil path

I thought Mask of the Betrayer did a pretty good but it’s been a long, long time since I played it now to remember clearly. Very rare for sure for games to even try to give a quality evil path though

 

[Nihiliste]

Someone should make a puritan mod for this game to solve the woke vs non woke thing. Games shouldn’t have “romances” anyways, the entire concept is degenerate and cringe

 

[Herumor]

Meanwhile, Larian's 7-man cuck squad wrote in a mind flayer that wants to fuck you.

He wants to manipulate you and sees that as a way of doing so, he doesn't actually care for you or about fucking. Mind Flayers derive joy from eating brains, everything else is just bullshit.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Someone should make a puritan mod for this game to solve the woke vs non woke thing.

A) It's going to be a ton of work.
B) No mod tools have been released as of yet, so people are hacking together mods using DOS tools.
C) Even if you spend the time to make said mod, it will get deleted and your account will be banned from whichever modding site.

I still plan to try to make a lite version of this sort of mod, but I'm waiting until the mod community sorts out some useful tools for it before wasting a lot of time on a game I like less and less.

 

[Modron]

Maybe this man will come out of retirement: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/arcanum-modesty-mod.70721/

 

[Tyranicon]

Why the fuck doesn't Jaheira have her full druidic spellbook at Moonrise?

The technology isn't there yet.

 

[TheDarkUrge]

Lae'zel is so schizo

Based schizo frog just likes violence.

Everything about her is ridiculously edgy but at least she isn't a little bitch like Wyll, Karlach and Gale.

did I do something wrong? In my playthrough she said something along the lines of kill those tieflings or I kill you. I was fuck you bitch and killed her

yes you can just send them away, but killing tieflings is a good thing so you did two things wrong

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Apparently, Hololive En is going to do their own BG3 stream.

All the haters didn't believe me when I said this game being popular with streamers was kind of a big deal, but I keep seeing 80k+ viewers on Twitch for this, and I only check during off hours. This translates into a ton of word of mouth marketing and sales.

 

[Takamori]

Apparently, Hololive En is going to do their own BG3 stream.

All the haters didn't believe me when I said this game being popular with streamers was kind of a big deal, but I keep seeing 80k+ viewers on Twitch for this, and I only check during off hours. This translates into a ton of word of mouth marketing and sales.

Well Swen is just laughing on his way to his bank account, don't underestimate the weeboo marketing.

 

[TheDarkUrge]

Apparently, Hololive En is going to do their own BG3 stream.

All the haters didn't believe me when I said this game being popular with streamers was kind of a big deal, but I keep seeing 80k+ viewers on Twitch for this, and I only check during off hours. This translates into a ton of word of mouth marketing and sales.

While I do like that CRPGs are financially viable again, I think BG3 did lose a lot of its magic catering to a wider audience including tranime watchers like what you just posted. I preferred when Wyll was a fraud, when Shadowheart actually acted like a Shar worshipper. I think the game was heading for a darker tone but people didnt like that. Good business decision, bad artistic one.

 

[Sunri]

Bg 3 conquering Nippon sugoi desu