Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Shaki]

Saw some complaints in Act 3 they don't have viable good evil outcomes to quest. The quest just ends prematurely if you try to chose evil dialogue options

That's pretty much whole game tho, evil options are just "go murderhobo and lose the content".

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

Saw some complaints in Act 3 they don't have viable good evil outcomes to quest. The quest just ends prematurely if you try to chose evil dialogue options

That's pretty much whole game tho, evil options are just "go murderhobo and lose the content".

They have evil paths in Act 1 that have content. But it definitely falls off

 

[copebot]

I think people have a hard time understanding that modern lefties aren't really very ideological (because they are functionally illiterate). They are not like the previous generations of leftists generated by a more literate culture that derived their beliefs from reading Marx and other books. What they have are clusters of sentimental tendencies untutored by any complex ideas. This is why guys like Chris Rufo have to go back to boomer generations and before to find the ideological roots: the current generation just goes off of feelings and power point. So with BG3, the wokeness is the natural result of the sentiments of its authors formed by endless streams of television slop and memes, at least as they get translated into Le Wokism Belgique or whatever. ESG doesn't make much sense as an argument either because it's a closely held company.

You will find that maybe 1/300 self identified leftists have read any Gramsci at all. Out of those, it'll be an even smaller portion that actually read much and is not just pretending to have read some. The rest just have sentiments tutored by their cartoons. The low level of ideologization is tough to understand because people just assume every strong political tendency must have an ideology behind it. The contemporary leftist does not even have something simple like Mao's book of quotations. They just feeeel, which explains a lot of the incoherence in the creative output that you see in things like BG3.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Seeing the word BG3 halfway through that post and realising that I was in the Baldur's Gate 3 thread rather than GD gave me whiplash.

 

[Grauken]

Seeing the word BG3 halfway through that post and realising that I was in the Baldur's Gate 3 thread rather than GD gave me whiplash.

you have the occasional GD post in here, best just to ignore it, it's zero signal-to-noise anyway

 

[Jermu]

https://onlyfans.com/norafawn

I did some research in twitch and checked how many BG3 female streamers have onlyfans (10 streamers with the most watchers at that time)

it was 6/10

 

[volklore]

https://onlyfans.com/norafawn

I did some research in twitch and checked how many BG3 female streamers have onlyfans (10 streamers with the most watchers at that time)

it was 6/10

Is that supposed to be surprising ? I thought business model of female vidyagame streamers was onlyfans. I am actually surprised it's not 10/10

 

[gurugeorge]

Karlarch by far the wrost companion. In writing, voice acting, story everything about her reeks.
I thought most shilled reddit companions would be Sheart and Astarion, but for some reason karlach is. I don't even comprehend reddit normies anymore.

She's a perfect embodiment of reddit. A grown woman acting like a child, overly emotional, terrible sense of humor. It's no surprise they love her. Worst companion between her and Wyll is a tough call. They are both bottom tier garbage writing

I think it's actually because paradoxically she's the most genuine of the characters - the voice actress is obviously a "London gel" which is, in a way, just what Karlach is portrayed as. The type of tomboyish girl you'd meet in London who goes out clubbing regularly, takes drugs, etc., etc., so all her acting is authentically that kind of person, which I think comes across to most players.

 

[gurugeorge]

I for one welcome our reddit companions

AI will end us.

I'll be scared when it finally learns to tell the difference between a cat and a dog.

Or can do hands. Or eyes. I mean the above looks pretty good in that sense, but that's probably because it's been fed the actual character to riff off. If you ask AI to do imaginary things things unretouched, most of it's okay apart from weird googly eyes and strange hands with 5 thumbs.

 

[skaraher]

I think people have a hard time understanding that modern lefties aren't really very ideological (because they are functionally illiterate). They are not like the previous generations of leftists generated by a more literate culture that derived their beliefs from reading Marx and other books. What they have are clusters of sentimental tendencies untutored by any complex ideas. This is why guys like Chris Rufo have to go back to boomer generations and before to find the ideological roots: the current generation just goes off of feelings and power point. So with BG3, the wokeness is the natural result of the sentiments of its authors formed by endless streams of television slop and memes, at least as they get translated into Le Wokism Belgique or whatever. ESG doesn't make much sense as an argument either because it's a closely held company.

You will find that maybe 1/300 self identified leftists have read any Gramsci at all. Out of those, it'll be an even smaller portion that actually read much and is not just pretending to have read some. The rest just have sentiments tutored by their cartoons. The low level of ideologization is tough to understand because people just assume every strong political tendency must have an ideology behind it. The contemporary leftist does not even have something simple like Mao's book of quotations. They just feeeel, which explains a lot of the incoherence in the creative output that you see in things like BG3.

I think Disco Disco is the only recent RPG made by leftists with more than a superficial understanding of their political philosophy.

 

[Fedora Master]

Even Marxist literature is largely smoke and mirrors. Older Leftists weren't smarter, they just knew to hide the primitive nature of their ideology through intellectual obfuscation.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

From what I've seen Mirantha is actually very popular. Shadow tits was by far the most romanced. The fag/tranny gamer population is wildly over stated. Most gamers are regular dudes. The average gamer is more conservative than the average person definitely

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

35% sacked the grove which was quite a lot. Most likely to get minthara and because they didn't like the fag "good" characters

 

[Sunri]

35% sacked the grove which was quite a lot. Most likely to get minthara and because they didn't like the fag "good" characters

I just walked near the druid, and they attacked me before dialogue started, screamed they are with zelvor! and some guy started bashing some tiefling skull with his staff, lmao

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

They need to patch out a lot of stuff that breaks the game. Haste and getting 50 attacks in round, strength potions being easy to stockpile

 

[Zarniwoop]

https://onlyfans.com/norafawn

I did some research in twitch and checked how many BG3 female streamers have onlyfans (10 streamers with the most watchers at that time)

it was 6/10

You mean wymbyn "streamers" get watched by thirsty dudes because they look good, not because they are incredibly skilled at games?

I, for one, am SHOCKED.

Also, put a warning on that tweet. The replies are GIGA cringe.

 

[Fedora Master]

Judge them by their MC build, not by their tits.

 

[gurugeorge]

From what I've seen Mirantha is actually very popular. Shadow tits was by far the most romanced. The fag/tranny gamer population is wildly over stated. Most gamers are regular dudes. The average gamer is more conservative than the average person definitely

That's the problem with the ESG shit. I mean, in theory, free markets and all that, you'd have developers appealing to their majority audience, which is still mostly straight white males - so you might have some bikini chainmail and a bit of lesbianism between hotties only, but nothing much beyond that (which is what the situation was prior to about the end of the Noughties).

Instead companies are being compensated by investment companies specifically not to appeal to their theoretical natural audience, in fact to demoralize their theoretical natural audience.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

From what I've seen Mirantha is actually very popular. Shadow tits was by far the most romanced. The fag/tranny gamer population is wildly over stated. Most gamers are regular dudes. The average gamer is more conservative than the average person definitely

That's the problem with the ESG shit. I mean, in theory, free markets and all that, you'd have developers appealing to their majority audience, which is still mostly straight white males - so you might have some bikini chainmail and a bit of lesbianism between hotties only, but nothing much beyond that (which is what the situation was prior to about the end of the Noughties).

Instead companies are being compensated by investment companies specifically for not to appeal to their theoretical natural audience, in fact to demoralize their theoretical natural audience.

Yep the vast majority of players playing a turn based rpg in the dnd setting will be straight white males. This is evidenced by the stats we see. But for some reason we're getting all this content, party members, ect that doesn't appeal to them. Minthara is way, way more popular than the fag characters yes she has a fraction of the content. Even when they restore her dialogue she still won't have her own quest line

 

[volklore]

Well halsin doesn't really have a questline either. It's just a case of these two characters being later tacked on addition. Halsin is actually offensively boring too, made me wish I went the evil route in act1 at every turn. Probably purely made as a second romance option for females to counterbalance the effeminate astarion before they decided that everyone in the game is queer.
I don't even understand why they needed to make him an actual party member, when they have jaheira as a druid also on the good path and she is surprisingly well characterized as the old adventurer that just can't retire.

 

[Barbarian]

Karlach is big gurl and buff gurl using skimpy clothes and being horny all the time. Probably most overtly "sexed" female character, even though they also try to make the Gith horny incarnate.

That is why most redditor porn addicts love her despite the shitty writing and cut content, it is really simple.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

Well halsin doesn't really have a questline either. It's just a case of these two characters being later tacked on addition. Halsin is actually offensively boring too, made me wish I went the evil route in act1 at every turn. Probably purely made as a second romance option for females to counterbalance the effeminate astarion before they decided that everyone in the game is queer.
I don't even understand why they needed to make him an actual party member, when they have jaheira as a druid also on the good path and she is surprisingly well characterized as the old adventurer that just can't retire.

Halsin isn't a real character. He's a bear sex meme they tacked on last minute. I never heard that Minthara was tacked on last minute. But you lose like 3 companions recruiting Minthara so she should have more content and a quest line to compensate. It's not the same situation.

Minthara is also very popular which I don't think Larian expected. Larian doesn't understand hot, female drow = popular.

Lots of players are pissed off you have to sack the grove to get her (which is a dumb complaint.) And I think a lot more players sacked the grove than Larian expected because a lot of players wanted Minthara over the fags

 

[Barbarian]

From what I've seen Mirantha is actually very popular. Shadow tits was by far the most romanced. The fag/tranny gamer population is wildly over stated. Most gamers are regular dudes. The average gamer is more conservative than the average person definitely

That's the problem with the ESG shit. I mean, in theory, free markets and all that, you'd have developers appealing to their majority audience, which is still mostly straight white males - so you might have some bikini chainmail and a bit of lesbianism between hotties only, but nothing much beyond that (which is what the situation was prior to about the end of the Noughties).

Instead companies are being compensated by investment companies specifically not to appeal to their theoretical natural audience, in fact to demoralize their theoretical natural audience.

That has backfired several times though. Some companies such as Warner and even Disney have literally lost a lot of cash due to wokery.

I can name recent examples even, like the new Indy movie flopping. Or how barely anyone gives a shit about Star Wars anymore.

 

[volklore]

Well halsin doesn't really have a questline either. It's just a case of these two characters being later tacked on addition. Halsin is actually offensively boring too, made me wish I went the evil route in act1 at every turn. Probably purely made as a second romance option for females to counterbalance the effeminate astarion before they decided that everyone in the game is queer.
I don't even understand why they needed to make him an actual party member, when they have jaheira as a druid also on the good path and she is surprisingly well characterized as the old adventurer that just can't retire.

Halsin isn't a real character. He's a bear sex meme they tacked on last minute. I never heard that Minthara was tacked on last minute. But you lose like 3 companions recruiting Minthara so she should have more content and a quest line to compensate. It's not the same situation.

Minthara is also very popular which I don't think Larian expected. Larian doesn't understand hot, female drow = popular.

Lots of players are pissed off you have to sack the grove to get her (which is gay.) And I think a lot more players sacked the grove than Larian expected because a lot of players wanted Minthara over the fags

who leaves if you sack the grove ?

 

[Sunri]

Well halsin doesn't really have a questline either. It's just a case of these two characters being later tacked on addition. Halsin is actually offensively boring too, made me wish I went the evil route in act1 at every turn. Probably purely made as a second romance option for females to counterbalance the effeminate astarion before they decided that everyone in the game is queer.
I don't even understand why they needed to make him an actual party member, when they have jaheira as a druid also on the good path and she is surprisingly well characterized as the old adventurer that just can't retire.

Halsin isn't a real character. He's a bear sex meme they tacked on last minute. I never heard that Minthara was tacked on last minute. But you lose like 3 companions recruiting Minthara so she should have more content and a quest line to compensate. It's not the same situation.

Minthara is also very popular which I don't think Larian expected. Larian doesn't understand hot, female drow = popular.

Lots of players are pissed off you have to sack the grove to get her (which is gay.) And I think a lot more players sacked the grove than Larian expected because a lot of players wanted Minthara over the fags

who leaves if you sack the grove ?

Karla wyll and you kill halsin so 3 companions