Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

The two grandmas who return from the prior game are just that, two grannies. And yeah, their slider is all the way to old, old, old! But that's just how old they are

Again, citation needed on Viconia's age. And, no, I don't mean the wiki. If BG2 says it, that's one thing, but all I see is an RA Salvatore fanfic from years later that doesn't even say her age.

As for Jaheira, like I said before: the game even tells you that they could have kept her young using harper magic, but chose not to. I feel this is probably in-character, but if games were still made for (and largely by) young men, I think they would have.

Granny-skin Lae'zel and scarified Karlach (who literally mounts the player between his legs like she's going to peg him btw) have no excuse though. The most positive thing they did for Karlach was give zher white features, but everything below her face is a nightmare that you would physically recoil from in real life, even discounting her demonic features.

It's unbelievable the childish crap you can read here, and by people who are putting sometimes great effort to look mature and serious.

It's a videogame, and the top post on this page is claiming that there are tons of hot women in it.

Oh noeeeeees my companion don't look like bimboooos my game is ruined!!!!
Meanwhile

Mizora *_*

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

Froggy best girl, if only because her VO chews scenery like there's no tomorrow.

And if you're a level 21 Archwizard with access to the forbidden Filter: Liquify spell, you can make her look like a classic Star Trek character.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I'm old enough to remember the times when MILFS were considered hot. Now they're feminist agenda to advocate race mixing. Truly, we live in times of decline.

We live in the times of 30 y.o. incel dicks who have not seen the light of day, and upon which no female gaze has been ever cast. They have only ever stood straight and hard in front of an LCD display. Depressing.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Guys, I already created a thread for conversations like this.

Romances and NPC stories in general are a core feature of the game with dozens of hours of content, including quests and cinematics.

I realize people might not like to see it, but that's the game, for better or for worse.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Rhobar121]

The two grandmas who return from the prior game are just that, two grannies. And yeah, their slider is all the way to old, old, old! But that's just how old they are

Again, citation needed on Viconia's age. And, no, I don't mean the wiki. If BG2 says it, that's one thing, but all I see is an RA Salvatore fanfic from years later that doesn't even say her age.

As for Jaheira, like I said before: the game even tells you that they could have kept her young using harper magic, but chose not to. I feel this is probably in-character, but if games were still made for (and largely by) young men, I think they would have.

Granny-skin Lae'zel and scarified Karlach (who literally mounts the player between his legs like she's going to peg him btw) have no excuse though. The most positive thing they did for Karlach was give zher white features, but everything below her face is a nightmare that you would physically recoil from in real life, even discounting her demonic features.

It's unbelievable the childish crap you can read here, and by people who are putting sometimes great effort to look mature and serious.

It's a videogame, and the top post on this page is claiming that there are tons of hot women in it.

I gave you the year of House DeVir's destruction, and Viconia can't be younger than that. Before she pissed off Loth and escaped from the Underdark, she was a priestess which means she was an adult.
The destruction of the DeVir house is canonical so I don't know what the fuck you expect

 

[apostrophe]

Guys, I already created a thread for conversations like this.

Romances and NPC stories in general are a core feature of the game with dozens of hours of content, including quests and cinematics.

I realize people might not like to see it, but that's the game, for better or for worse.

Does anyone give a shit about "romances" in games?

Obviously yes, they are everywhere now, but why? This is an honest question.

 

[whydoibother]

Guys, I already created a thread for conversations like this.

Romances and NPC stories in general are a core feature of the game with dozens of hours of content, including quests and cinematics.

I realize people might not like to see it, but that's the game, for better or for worse.

Does anyone give a shit about "romances" in games?

Obviously yes, they are everywhere now, but why? This is an honest question.

I do them in games that have them. I did look up gifts for Morrigan in Dragon Age Origins.
In NWN2, where I thought Neeshka was a romance option for the player and she ultimately wasn't, it did bother me.

So its not a major concern for me, but apparently I do care.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Mizora

So you have two passable women(?) in the game. "Tons of hot females" though.

>BG2: 3 hot elves with clearly sexualized art, one of whom was airbrushed from a pornstar's photo
>BG3: a 6/10 half-elf and a literal demon, along with a frog grandma and some man-body who looks like she's been through a blender. Plus, the characters from before are now old and ugly.

The design philosophy seems a bit different is all I'm saying.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Getting upset over waifus in RPG in your teens is an ugly scene, but can be reasonably expected. Getting upset over the same when you are twice that age though, only means you need some kind of help.

 

[Rhobar121]

Guys, I already created a thread for conversations like this.

Romances and NPC stories in general are a core feature of the game with dozens of hours of content, including quests and cinematics.

I realize people might not like to see it, but that's the game, for better or for worse.

Does anyone give a shit about "romances" in games?

Obviously yes, they are everywhere now, but why? This is an honest question.

It's a Codex favorite topic. If it wasn't so, the BG3 threads would be at least half shorter.

 

[whydoibother]

Getting upset over waifus in RPG in your teens is an ugly scene, but can be reasonably expected. Getting upset over the same when you are twice that ages though, only means you need some kind of help.

Growing up is for suckers, I'm going to be a teenager forever. Suck it, boomer!

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Mizora

So you have two passable women(?) in the game. "Tons of hot females" though.

>BG2: 3 hot elves with clearly sexualized art, one of whom was airbrushed from a pornstar's photo
>BG3: a 6/10 half-elf and a literal demon, along with a frog grandma and some man-body who looks like she's been through a blender. Plus, the characters from before are now old and ugly.

The design philosophy seems a bit different is all I'm saying.

You never been at the sharess caress? The drow twins? Alfira the tiefling bard? I could make you an hige list of beautiful character also i dont understand.

Were you not complaining this is a game of degenerates? Now you lament the lack of sexualization?

Make your own mind schitzo XD

 

[whydoibother]

Were you not complaining this is a game of degenerates? Now you lament the lack of sexualization?

Many such cases.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Before progressing the main quest yet, my biggest problems with Act 3 are the following.

Every major character having his own conversation with you where he puts on airs and with puffed chest gives you a presentation about how he is "the real deal" and you should better work with him gets too worn out by the fifth or so time someone does it. The Emperor, Oryn, Raphael, Voss (representing Orpheus), and I still haven't met Gortash. Gosh guys, everyone is so important, so high stakes... They severely overused the villain expose as a device.

The idea of increasing the tension and time pressure narratively, while at the same time throwing the player into an area that's the one most dense in interactions and diversions throughout the whole ~100 hour game is a disasterously bad decision. My crystal ball tells me that it needn't have been so, but someone was really intent on thrusting his genious generic linear 2009 RPG ("defeat the shadow curse") adventure right in the middle of the two open-structure adventures. You can clearly see the difference between stuff designed in tandem with WotC vs stuff designed by Larian on their own.

I don't dislike shadowlands. I liked it at first quite a bit.
But then you visit dark woods. Dark ruins. Dark cave. Dark temple of the dark lady. And a dimension of dark shadows. And for the sake of variety there's even a dark Bloodborne spooky town.

Halfway through I really wanted to finally get to Baldur's Gate and just have a beer in a tavern. Preferably a light blonde ale.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The design philosophy seems a bit different is all I'm saying.

It's biased and hypocritical, no doubt. It's "selectively realistic" when it suited the authors. Romances that exist are meant to satisfy the authors' fantasies, not those of potential players. I am not arguing any of this isn't fact.

But getting upset about it is just as immature, and unhealthy.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

I gave you the year of House DeVir's destruction

As I said, that was from a book post-BG2. I've already mentioned it and it doesn't give her age.

Before she pissed off Loth and escaped from the Underdark, she was a priestess which means she was an adult.

Again, I want citation on the age of Drow priestess at the very least. Something to point to besides one RA Salvatore book years after BG2.

I'm not calling you or Meb a liar. I'm just asking you to prove what you're saying. It's not a difficult ask either, but all you can do is lazily link a wiki and then whine about me calling you on it for post after post.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Getting upset over waifus in RPG in your teens is an ugly scene, but can be reasonably expected. Getting upset over the same when you are twice that ages though, only means you need some kind of help.

Growing up is for suckers, I'm going to be a teenager forever. Suck it, boomer!

Yeah, even with all of today's safety nets, nature finds a way to filter those unfit to continue their line.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

I gave you the year of House DeVir's destruction

As I said, that was from a book post-BG2.

Before she pissed off Loth and escaped from the Underdark, she was a priestess which means she was an adult.

Again, I want citation on the age of Drow priestess at the very least. Something to point to besides one RA Salvatore book years after BG2.

I'm not calling you or Meb a liar. I'm just asking you to prove what you're saying. It's not a difficult ask either, but all you can do is lazily link a wiki and then whine about me calling you on it for post after post.

All you need to do is take the age of the house de vir fall and compare it whot the actual timeline of bg3 racially speaking a drow live up 750y excluded of course magical means to prolong your life.
Timeline of bg3 is 1494dr Throne of bhaal was 1369 Dr

 

[toro]

The game is 22 potatoes on certain sites.

 

[whydoibother]

House DeVir is a deceased drow house of Menzoberranzan. It fell in 1297 DR at the hand of House Do'Urden at the night of Drizzt birth.
Baldur's Gate 3 is set in the year 1492 DR, or Dalereckoning, one of the most common calendars in Faerûn.

So if she was at least 6 years old when she became a cleric, she is over 200 years old during the events of BG3.

 

[processdaemon]

I like romances when they're pretty much just some extra text that let you get to know a character you like a bit better, although that could also be accomplished by just revealing more as you become better friends if writers put their efforts towards that instead. I don't think it's necessary to have actual sex in them though, fade to black or at the very least text is preferable (there's a setting in BG3 that replaces some of the more explicit scenes with text, although what you do see is still a lot more graphic than you'd expect for having cinematic nudity disabled)

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Before she pissed off Loth and escaped from the Underdark, she was a priestess which means she was an adult.

Btw, on this point, I'm going to do more than you or Meb:

Serving Lloth in the temple did not equal adult. She could have done this for decades and still only been between 150 and 200 by BG2.

 

[Perkel]

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Tweet should've been "Bear a long time." Missed chance Sven. Missed chance.