Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[processdaemon]

I am far more annoyed at all those "ENHANCED" and "UNLEASHED" mods that are all about making an already easy game easier.
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1595
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/650
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/545

What the fuck is this shit, just turn on the cheat engine if you don't feel like playing fair.

I guess this sort of thing is for the people who were complaining that the game was too hard in explorer mode

Examples

 

[Vyadhis]

The homies at Larian Studios partying hard after the immense success of Baldur's Gate 3: the TRUE vision of the future of rpgs.

 

[Fedora Master]

I am far more annoyed at all those "ENHANCED" and "UNLEASHED" mods that are all about making an already easy game easier.
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1595
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/650
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/545

What the fuck is this shit, just turn on the cheat engine if you don't feel like playing fair.

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1536?tab=description

This one seems very useful though.

 

[Hagashager]

After years of playing rpgs, I've long since come to the conclusion that the best way to enjoy the game is to turn off the brain and not think too much about the sense of the plot.
Works almost every time.

Certainly for Forgotten Realms RPGs.

Acting like BG3 is unique in scuffing FR lore is disingenuous. It was utterly contrived, stupid and retconned during BG 1 and 2 as well. The Baldur's Gate series are RPGs that stand irrespective of their source material and succeed in spite of Forgotten Realms being such a silly setting.

I could care less how much Baldur's Gate 1, 2 and 3 all violate the Dead Three and their schticks, I care not about Baldur's Gate the city, I was slightly annoyed by BG 2's lazy portrayal of Amn, but that was back when I still gave a shit.

Really, the Baldur's Gate games (1 and 2) and then Oblivion later on were what made me stop caring about lore in video-games and fantasy in general.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

The true travesty is that we never got a story about trollops and plug tails

 

[Hagashager]

They died with Puffguts

 

[Eisenheinrich]

BTW - what kind heritage is second picture?

European.

Larian chads just keep on winning.

aRE yoU sTiLl PlaYinG tHis GoYSlop yOu NiG-noGz?!?!

 

[whydoibother]

Mystra offers to restore Gale's soul post-transformation, which leads us to believe that either he doesn't have one, or Mystra is a giant liar, just like Jergal. However, the way she phrases her offer is "Hey, Gale, do you want to get your soul back and go to paradise?", and not, "Hey, you horrific abomination wearing Gale's skinsuit, I am restoring my boytoy's mind and soul, fuck you", which implies she still views him as the same person.

I doubt that Larian put too much thought in the metaphysics of it all, but I guess you could justify it from the perspective of retained consciousness if your atypical mindflayer transformation led to that happening. And if the transformation makes you lose your soul, then what Mystra is offering is to reunify it with your body (since as a worshipper of Mystra, Gale's soul was headed to her realm anyway).

Even before Larian, the lore had illithid liches. How can you be a lich with no soul?

 

[La vie sexuelle]

BTW - what kind heritage is second picture?

European.

Ah yes, you are German. That's explain why you have this picture on first place.

 

[Rhobar121]

After years of playing rpgs, I've long since come to the conclusion that the best way to enjoy the game is to turn off the brain and not think too much about the sense of the plot.
Works almost every time.

Certainly for Forgotten Realms RPGs.

Acting like BG3 is unique in scuffing FR lore is disingenuous. It was utterly contrived, stupid and retconned during BG 1 and 2 as well. The Baldur's Gate series are RPGs that stand irrespective of their source material and succeed in spite of Forgotten Realms being such a silly setting.

I could care less how much Baldur's Gate 1, 2 and 3 all violate the Dead Three and their schticks, I care not about Baldur's Gate the city, I was slightly annoyed by BG 2's lazy portrayal of Amn, but that was back when I still gave a shit.

Really, the Baldur's Gate games (1 and 2) and then Oblivion later on were what made me stop caring about lore in video-games and fantasy in general.

This is actually the problem with most RPGs. The more you think about their plot, the more it falls apart.
For example, main villains, if they always acted sensibly, the game would almost always end with the death of the main character in the middle.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Mystra offers to restore Gale's soul post-transformation, which leads us to believe that either he doesn't have one, or Mystra is a giant liar, just like Jergal. However, the way she phrases her offer is "Hey, Gale, do you want to get your soul back and go to paradise?", and not, "Hey, you horrific abomination wearing Gale's skinsuit, I am restoring my boytoy's mind and soul, fuck you", which implies she still views him as the same person.

I doubt that Larian put too much thought in the metaphysics of it all, but I guess you could justify it from the perspective of retained consciousness if your atypical mindflayer transformation led to that happening. And if the transformation makes you lose your soul, then what Mystra is offering is to reunify it with your body (since as a worshipper of Mystra, Gale's soul was headed to her realm anyway).

Even before Larian, the lore had illithid liches. How can you be a lich with no soul?

Yeah, but presumably it's the soul of the tadpole and not of the host that undergoes ceremorphosis.

Paging loremaster Zed Duke of Banville to enlighten us.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

After the initial stage was completed, the original creature was beyond help, their psychic essence destroyed and replaced by the tadpole's burgeoning mind, lost save for a miracle. Past the point of no return, the victim's spirit would have to seek its fate on the Outer Planes.

According to the FR wiki, as per: Bruce R. Cordell (April 1998). The Illithiad. Edited by Keith Francis Strohm. (TSR, Inc.), pp. 11–12. ISBN 0-7869-1206-5.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

This one seems very useful though.

Seems just another mod for retarded with the attention span of an amphetamine-addicted ferret.
There are hardly 30 seconds of stroll separating your average teleport points from each other. but no, let's increase the game's speed to save additional five seconds otherwise "the pacing is too slow".

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Definitive edition will come next year.

I literally saved gaming

>releases a broken demo - people pay $60 for 2 years of "early access"
>packs a bunch of gay shit into it, trims off the last third of the game and releases it as a full product - "genre defining masterpiece!"
>waits a year
>releases the actual game, almost as originally intended, but still with gay shit and an even longer idiotic Act 3 - DEFINITIVE EDITION!

This is 5D chess game development for the clown world era.

 

[Fedora Master]

This one seems very useful though.

Seems just another mod for retarded with the attention span of an amphetamine-addicted ferret.
There are hardly 30 seconds of stroll separating your average teleport points from each other. but no, let's increase the game's speed to save additional five seconds otherwise "the pacing is too slow".

It also speeds up combat

 

[Heroic Liberator]

>releases the actual game, almost as originally intended, but still with gay shit and an even longer idiotic Act 3 - DEFINITIVE EDITION!

Issue with expanding on act 3, if they want to do it proper justice, is that they'd have to shift content around in order to undo the content packing of the lower city once they decided on cutting the upper city. Which I suppose is doable given enough resources (which is not as simple as just - for example - moving Cazador's mansion to the upper city or the coronation of Gortash to some palace, but also redoing the various quest flows linked to them) but have they done anything similar for prior definitive editions of their games?

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

The true travesty is that we never got a story about trollops and plug tails

Didn't we though?

 

[Rhobar121]

>releases the actual game, almost as originally intended, but still with gay shit and an even longer idiotic Act 3 - DEFINITIVE EDITION!

Issue with expanding on act 3, if they want to do it proper justice, is that they'd have to shift content around in order to undo the content packing of the lower city once they decided on cutting the upper city. Which I suppose is doable given enough resources (which is not as simple as just - for example - moving Cazador's mansion to the upper city or the coronation of Gortash to some palace, but also redoing the various quest flows linked to them) but have they done anything similar for prior definitive editions of their games?

In DoS2, act 3 has been mostly redone, so if they want to, they can add the upper town (especially since it's surely already done).

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Issue with expanding on act 3, if they want to do it proper justice, is that they'd have to shift content around in order to undo the content packing of the lower city once they decided on cutting the upper city. Which I suppose is doable given enough resources (which is not as simple as just - for example - moving Cazador's mansion to the upper city or the coronation of Gortash to some palace, but also redoing the various quest flows linked to them) but have they done anything similar for prior definitive editions of their games?

It's probably simpler to just add it as a bonus and stick a bunch of sidequests in it. Think an expansion like Ulgoth's Beard.

I doubt we're ever going to get what I actually want, which would be a restoration of "Daisy", a cut of "The Emporer" and the original Act 3 layout.

Also, Viconia needs a complete rework and redesign. What were they even thinking with that face on a full elf after only 100 years? And that voice? Clearly not Viconia fans. They did much better with Jaheira.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

In DoS2, act 3 has been mostly redone, so if they want to, they can add the upper town (especially since it's surely already done).

*Hopefully already done. It's a lot cheaper to redo content when you're not putting mocapped voice acting everywhere.

 

[whydoibother]

but have they done anything similar for prior definitive editions of their games?

Divinity OS 2 had an urban last act, that was redone for the Definitive edition.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Issue with expanding on act 3, if they want to do it proper justice, is that they'd have to shift content around in order to undo the content packing of the lower city once they decided on cutting the upper city. Which I suppose is doable given enough resources (which is not as simple as just - for example - moving Cazador's mansion to the upper city or the coronation of Gortash to some palace, but also redoing the various quest flows linked to them) but have they done anything similar for prior definitive editions of their games?

It's probably simpler to just add it as a bonus and stick a bunch of sidequests in it. Think an expansion like Ulgoth's Beard.

I doubt we're ever going to get what I actually want, which would be a restoration of "Daisy", a cut of "The Emporer" and the original Act 3 layout.

Also, Viconia needs a complete rework and redesign. What were they even thinking with that face on a full elf after only 100 years? And that voice? Clearly not Viconia fans. They did much better with Jaheira.

Like i stated before Viconia was already of considerable age at the time of bg1-2 also its 150y

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Like i stated before Viconia was already of cobsiderable age at the time of bg1-2 also its 150y

Citation needed. Based on the game, or based on whatever fanfic Wizards released later as lore?

 

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[janior]

the last thing this game needs is more content, they should focus on rebuilding the flaming dumpster that is act 3