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Drakortha

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^ this is a performance. You are performing hate, for an imagined audience.
Your post is to video game discussion like how american pro-wrestling is to combat sports. You are the Undertaker of pretending to hate a game for brofists on r/Codex
When did I ever get brofists? During the pre-release days of BG3 it was the Larian fanboys who were getting all the brofists while I accumulated all the "negative" ratings in the hundreds. It was 50 Larian Fanboys to 1. It was a warzone and I even got banned from 2 threads because the fanboys couldn't take it anymore and went crying to the moderators that they needed their safe space. So who am I performing for, exactly? Nobody, that's who.
 

whydoibother

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^ this is a performance. You are performing hate, for an imagined audience.
Your post is to video game discussion like how american pro-wrestling is to combat sports. You are the Undertaker of pretending to hate a game for brofists on r/Codex
When did I ever get brofists? During the pre-release days of BG3 it was the Larian fanboys who were getting all the brofists while I accumulated all the "negative" ratings in the hundreds. It was 50 Larian Fanboys to 1. It was a warzone and I even got banned from 2 threads because the fanboys couldn't take it anymore and went crying to the moderators that they needed their safe space. So who am I performing for, exactly? Nobody, that's who.
Bro, that's tragic. A fish without water, a bird without wings, a dog without a bone, an actor all alone.... performing, for nobody. But the show must go on. You must remind people who enjoy a thing, that you don't enjoy the thing. You must show them that they might have 100 hours in the game, but you have 200 hours posting about how much you hate it. Godspeed, brave martyr!
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More realistically, the other grognards and you are vice signaling to each other how big of a piece of shit you all are, and reinforce each other's decline. You are performing in case they see it, and for yourself, to masturbate.
You know what was a bad game from 2023? Gangs of Sherwood. Beloved established IP, new game, reasonable budget, horrible delivery. How many hours do you have posting that you don't like it? Yeah, me neither.
 

Drakortha

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You know what was a bad game from 2023? Gangs of Sherwood. Beloved established IP, new game, reasonable budget, horrible delivery. How many hours do you have posting that you don't like it? Yeah, me neither.
If it was an IP that I personally beloved I'm pretty sure I'd have some choice words to say about it. But in this case the IP that I beloved was Baldur's Gate and I hate what Larian did with it. Why do I have to keep spelling this out? It's not rocket science.

The truth of the matter is you are a Larian fanboy and a shill. You can't understand WHY someone could possibly hate this game. That's on you buddy.
 

DJOGamer PT

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In real terms: people are coming up against the brick wall of loss of interest and engagement in Act 3 :)
The game has been out since last summer
That's more than half a year now for a single-player game with no new content, interest was bound to simmer down by this point
If anything Larian should be proud, plenty of games with more hype surrounding them and bigger name recognition haven't held such success for half as long
In fact it's not normal for a single-player game (and a turn-based cRPG of all things) to hold the top spot in the steam charts for so long - plus as the image shows it's still effectively a top-seller
 

Swen

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But why are you mad? We got something better than the old RTWP trash.
I don't care about the gameplay. So long as it's good and playable.
It's the way the game presents itself. I've never seen a gayer game in my life. It feels like every character that talks to you wants to fuck you up the ass. That's why you love it so much. You love that feeling, don't you faggot?
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Drakortha

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Can't believe people are butthurt over bear sex, instead of v5 streamlining and utter lack of grit.
There's a lot of things wrong with this game, but the Larian fanboys always try to move the goalpost back to the bear sex thing. It's their way of coping with BG3's shortcomings. They'd make good politicians.
 

rubinstein

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when in arcanum you could shag a sheep it was just for pure laughs. in bg3 bear sex scene is also a joke, im kinda surprised people are so butthurt about it, HOWEVER i can understand grognards being mad at bg3 for ruining the tone of the series set by previous entries. but then you have straight up porn scenes. like... why? what does game benefit from showing me a drow fellating my gnome character? in a sense, this qualifies as a midget porn. thats just filith. i know i dont have to fuck her or romance her (but i wanted to, because her plot seemed interesting, and i think this was a way to advance it). i know i can skip the scene. but the fact itself that scene exists makes me think less of the game. i cannot take it seriously after shit i saw. well shortly after the scene i stopped playing, but not exclusively because of the sex scene
Can't believe people are butthurt over bear sex, instead of v5 streamlining and utter lack of grit.
also because of this. campaigns pacing is just slow and boring. too many words, too few fights. and when you actually fight, it does not feel fun. system sucks.
 

Swen

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Baldur's Gate 3 is not a game about a bear fucking you in the ass. If you think Baldur's Gate 3 is a game about a bear fucking you in the ass, you haven't played it.
More realistically, you have played it, and you know its not a game about a bear fucking you in the ass; however, you pretend to think its a game about a bear fucking you in the ass, so you can socialize with the other people pretending its a game about a bear fucking you in the ass. In so doing, you are trading the fun you could be having with the game, for the dubious "fun" of performatively hating something with other anonymous nerd on a forum about geopolitics (with a video game section).


Fuck BG3, Fuck Swen, Fuck Larian and Fuck YOU!
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Stoned Ape

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IMO BG3 is a decent game with strong beginning and middle acts and a disappointing final act. Even with that, it's probably the best RPG that was released last year that I've played, and I can understand why a lot of people enjoy it. The combat is pretty fun (although quite easy) most of the time and there's plenty of stuff to do. It's a bit like a trip to a theme park or going to watch a Marvel movie, entertaining on the surface without much going on at a deeper level.

I think WTOC have (unsurprisingly) made some terrible choices which badly affect the coherency of the setting (not that FR was ever amazing, but it was better than is in its current state). Larian can only work with what they're given I suppose, but their decisions made during development mean the latter stages of the story lose coherency while creating some pretty big holes in the background. Towards the climax, the plot feels held together with twine and the ending I reached,
which involved having Orpheus turn into a Flayer,
did not feel satisfying to me.
The only way it would really have worked to put my character centre-stage was if my protagonist had turned into a squid-head in his place.
Even so, it felt like there was noting really tying my character to the story other than the tadpole implantation. I'll try again with a Dark Urge playthrough to see if that improves matters.

I will say that for me, the way every NPC seems to want to try to jump into bed with the player is extremely annoying. I prefer NPCs to be reactive to my character's interest (if any) rather than actively trying to actively try to flirt with the protagonist. It ends up making me want to stop playing and do something else.
 

Fedora Master

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I like how the Emperor throws a fucking hissy fit over freeing Orpheus (A completely made up bullshit character that doesn't even have a proper Gith name) to the point of him joining back with the Elder Brain only for Orpheus to be perfectly reasonable once freed.
 

gurugeorge

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Strap Yourselves In
This game has a tiny selection of OK outfits. The vast majority look like weird overly designed high fashion horseshit. we cant just have a normal chain hauberk. It needs have buttons and shoulder pads and zippers.

Yeah it's the usual story that the "basic" outfits look better than (most of) the higher-level shit.

Thank goodness for Transmog Enhanced, now I can make everything Wyll wears look like his basic padded armor :) And there's nothing for Shadowheart that looks better than her starter armor, so into the Transmog it goes. Etc.
Shadowheart's starting armor can be replaced with the much-better-looking githyanki armor even before entering the druids' grove:

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Through the entire rest of the game, every other piece of armor useful for Shadowheart looked worse, except for another githyanki armor that is just a re-skin of the earlier one with darker metal and purple gems.

I quite like Shadowhearts out-of-the-box armour design, I just let Lae'zel keep her gith armour transmogged.

The true armour horror in the game is the Graceful Cloth (thankfully there's a mod for it that's marginally better looking if you don't have Transmog Enhanced):-


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jackofshadows

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joining back with the Elder Brain
That's the biggest wtf in the game story-wise. All that talk about being free... Can't even remember if he gave a real reason, or if it was just a childish reaction.
That and the fact you cannot kill the fagperor prior to the very end even though usually the game indulge you with such things or do it at least somewhat more gracefully like the general just leaves the throne room if you decide to assault moonrise towers right away. (personally I think there should've been a bad ending as a consequence of your stupid choice).
 

gurugeorge

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Strap Yourselves In
I think the difference between the sheep shagging of yore and the bear fucking of the Current Year is that the former was a joke, whereas while the latter is a joke too, it's also, in the small print of it, a "teaching moment" meant to get straight males to suppress their gag reflex, and to create controversy by getting straight males who refuse to suppress their gag reflex riled up and spread news of the game via the Streisand Effect. It's the latter ideological/commercial greebles that people object to.

Also, if we're serious about criticisms of graphic over-representation (everything from pixellated monsters being easier to kill abstractly than lovingly-detailed female guards you're garrotting and slashing, right through to the problem of graphical fidelity making gameplay more difficult in some respects unless part of the art design involves clear differentiation of entities), then the lovingly-detailed graphic nature of the bear sex also does have some weight and impact that makes it different.
 

Jeskis

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Any way to get rid of
Nightsong after freeing her from Shadowfell
later in game?
 

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