Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Modron]

There is any hint about what canonically happened to Aerie in Baizuo's gate 3?

Everyone got sick of her whining and banned her from the city of baldur's gate for life.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

So, piss easy to finish eh? Mostly a sex VN?

 

[whydoibother]

There is any hint about what canonically happened to Aerie in Baizuo's gate 3?

In Baldur's Gate 3, the clerics get to ask for one divine intervention from their god. If she was in, she'd be able to ask for her wings back. Would've been a cool moment.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Is she in Dark Alliance 1-2?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

So, piss easy to finish eh? Mostly a sex VN?

The only fight where I legit struggled was the Moonlight Towers one, the rest were easy. Sarevok's fight was good but only because it had a gimmick.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Hmmmm they just dropped an hint of an expansion in the new ending cinematic?

 

[Dadd]

how many bears in expansion?

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

how many bears in expansion?

Probably more you can bear for! *Badun tshhhh!*

 

[Hagashager]

Larian's writing should be considered a war crime and enough justification to invade Belgium.

The last time someone "invaded Belgium" we got WWI, I think we need to cut our losses here and quarantine the region.

 

[MerchantKing]

Hmmmm they just dropped an hint of an expansion in the new ending cinematic?

So they're adding the inflation fetish into this game too? Extremely degenerate.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Hmmmm they just dropped an hint of an expansion in the new ending cinematic?

So they're adding the inflation fetish into this game too? Extremely degenerate.

 

[Reyvik]

Hmmmm they just dropped an hint of an expansion in the new ending cinematic?

So they're adding the inflation fetish into this game too? Extremely degenerate.

Touché

 

[Lyric Suite]

Hmmmm they just dropped an hint of an expansion in the new ending cinematic?

So they're adding the inflation fetish into this game too? Extremely degenerate.

Well, where's the lie?

 

[Lacrymas]

Are we going to shockingly find out that RPG devs have been woke from the very start again?

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

More like that today people are a bounch of crybabies. In past nobody cared about this stuff but today with ultra conservative lunatics and ultra liberal lunatics everything is in a sort of "Scandal culture".

If not bg3 depitcted the FR more in line in spirit with the oiriginal creator of them.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[goregasm]

I may pick this up in a few years when it's under 20 bucks, and I finish up some other games, but it really comes off as essentially a degenerate pride parade larp from some folks and "you can ignore that shit" from others.

I still don't know who to believe. I will never pay a Belgian 60 dollars, but will it be worth the inevitable asking price of 20 in 2 years?

 

[Reyvik]

Gothic is fine example. RPG medieval fantasy with mixture of white, black and latinos. When I was young I never cared about it. Nowadays this game would be considered sjw dream game. I am curious how remake will be perceived by all these faggy racists

 

[Lacrymas]

I still don't know who to believe. I will never pay a Belgian 60 dollars, but will it be worth the inevitable asking price of 20 in 2 years?

I doubt it. The only thing they can potentially fix is the difficulty on the hardest settings and remove bugs. The awful writing, cringe fanfic companions and nonsensical story will still remain.

 

[Hagashager]

Gothic is fine example. RPG medieval fantasy with mixture of white, black and latinos. When I was young I never cared about it. Nowadays this game would be considered sjw dream game. I am curious how remake will be perceived by all these faggy racists

This.

I replayed Gothic 1 and the Gothic 2 conversion mod Archolos a few weeks ago. It handles diversity pretty much perfectly. You've got members of pretty much every race, except Asians for some reason, all in various positions of society. It doesn't feel disjointed or out of place because the game never crowbars it in your face. Everyone's a part of the world first, and White, Black or Latino second.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

I still don't know who to believe. I will never pay a Belgian 60 dollars, but will it be worth the inevitable asking price of 20 in 2 years?

I doubt it. The only thing they can potentially fix is the difficulty on the hardest settings and remove bugs. The awful writing, cringe fanfic companions and nonsensical story will still remain.

Largely inaccurate.

 

[Lacrymas]

Ah, so they won't fix anything?

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Ah, so they won't fix anything?

I mean there is little to fix the game is a massive success the bugs awful writing cringe fanfic companions and nonsensical story is just your own take that i respect but don't share.

 

[goregasm]

Ah, so they won't fix anything?

I mean there is little to fix the game is a massive success the bugs awful writing cringe fanfic companions and nonsensical story is just your own take that i respect but don't share.

If I found, for newer games, Pillars 1 and Kingmaker (still haven't completed either or played their sequels) largely inoffensive and even enjoyable in the plot department, would you hazard to guess if BG3 would strike me as equal or lesser?

I get we can prance off and fuck a bear and companions and frog ladies and effeminate men want the PC just for saying hello, I get that is annoying but can be dismissed, but that seems to be side stuff, is the main plot littered with this kind of stuff as well, or is it standard "go kill these things, find this thing" stuff?

Gameplay I'm guessing is somewhat familiar to anyone who has played DoS, and while I never found that to be ground breaking like game journos, I also didn't despise it like others, it was FFT with destruction to me.


I'm basically concerned if the main storyline is being littered with, essentially breadcrumbs of particular real world lifestyles and ideology, with one view being forced on the player to being "acceptable"

I imagine I could kill the bear instead of fucking it, but concise information seems...difficult given the emotions involved.

 

[Hagashager]

Ah, so they won't fix anything?

I mean there is little to fix the game is a massive success the bugs awful writing cringe fanfic companions and nonsensical story is just your own take that i respect but don't share.

If I found, for newer games, Pillars 1 and Kingmaker (still haven't completed either or played their sequels) largely inoffensive and even enjoyable in the plot department, would you hazard to guess if BG3 would strike me as equal or lesser?

I get we can prance off and fuck a bear and companions and frog ladies and effeminate men want the PC just for saying hello, I get that is annoying but can be dismissed, but that seems to be side stuff, is the main plot littered with this kind of stuff as well, or is it standard "go kill these things, find this thing" stuff?

Gameplay I'm guessing is somewhat familiar to anyone who has played DoS, and while I never found that to be ground breaking like game journos, I also didn't despise it like others, it was FFT with destruction to me.


I'm basically concerned if the main storyline is being littered with, essentially breadcrumbs of particular real world lifestyles and ideology, with one view being forced on the player to being "acceptable"

I imagine I could kill the bear instead of fucking it, but concise information seems...difficult given the emotions involved.

It is fundamentally fantasy stock.

The early part of the game shoves its LGTBQ+ message down your throat by way of the companions brazenly flirting with you. However, if you reject them it never comes up again.

As far as pushing a specific narrative, not really? The themes are pretty universal: love blinds people, obsessions can consume you, power corrupts etc. etc.

Where it feels forced is that you're very obviously interacting with people who belong to no culture and have no sense of place. The city of Baldur's Gate's leading council are all a diverse menagerie of people. Walk down a main street and you'll see every single race and demihuman race represented. Absolutely none of Baldur's Gates' classical history or culture is represented. The place may as well be Fantasy New York or Fantasy Los Angeles. There are no natives, there are no legends, there is no underlying culture or identity. Even the characters all going off on "muh refugees taking our jobs!" Are themselves totally diverse. Which, in this case is actually welcome. I expected heavy-handed "Only big-bad Whitey" is racist and xenophobic, but no.

If there is any narrative being pushed its that cosmopolitan globalism is good, but even this doesn't come off that strong. More likely, the setting is made to be achingly bland and cosmopolitan to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.