Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

The Writing in this game way better than DOS2, so far. I played Act 1 up to Act 2 of DOS2 and the (bad) humor was everywhere.

I agree it's better, but the wheels come off of BG3 in Act3, where everything goes in a stupid direction. And I mean EVERYTHING.

So enjoy it while it lasts. Play every side quest. Explore every part of the Underdark. Because seeing how it all turned out really sapped my desire to replay the game.

 

[Fedora Master]

The writing becomes increasingly extreme with each act.

Act 3 had poop monsters but also incest and serial murder.

 

[Padzi]

Because the Upper City was cut from the game so late into development, I have the feeling that cut content for the upper city was partially transported into the lower city, and that is one of the main reasons why act 3 is such a mess.

 

[Old Hans]

Because the Upper City was cut from the game so late into development, I have the feeling that cut content for the upper city was partially transported into the lower city, and that is one of the main reasons why act 3 is such a mess.

yea act 3 is full of cut corners. im guessing ACT 3 was supposed to be dedicated to the Bhaal temple and Orin. Then they just shoved Cazador's mansion into a random location on top of the city wall and placed whats-his-faces' coronation inside a guard barracks.

 

[raeven]

Because the Upper City was cut from the game so late into development, I have the feeling that cut content for the upper city was partially transported into the lower city, and that is one of the main reasons why act 3 is such a mess.

yea act 3 is full of cut corners. im guessing ACT 3 was supposed to be dedicated to the Bhaal temple and Orin. Then they just shoved Cazador's mansion into a random location on top of the city wall and placed whats-his-faces' coronation inside a guard barracks.

It's still by far the strongest act of the game. It's way more ambitious, has way more interesting quests, etc. I had way more fun with act 3 than with acts 1 and 2.

 

[Donald Gordon Lord]

Underdark was deffo pretty rad, same w/ just poking around in act 1 and finding random monsters and such everywhere. Liked the hag too, mountain pass was neat. Temple of Shar was cool. Everything else was eh, Ch 3 was v. lame.

Astarion, tho a flamer, was less gay than all the other companions, help him get stronger and don’t be a fag and he’s pretty cool. Everyone else was pretty irritating, cut off Gales hand in the beginning, he’s the most worthless.

 

[Donald Gordon Lord]

Btw, anyone else think it’s interesting Halsin is desperate to find the forest spirit who’s a little boy? Not like a nymph or dryad or a hot nerid or anything, you know like an actual nature spirit but just a little boy wearing a skirt and a sleeveless vest.

Like ok dude.

 

[jf8350143]

They definately planned upper city and bunch of content related to Gotash and just throw everything out of the window.

Gotash just butcherred pretty much every noble in the city and no body cares. The city should be in utter chaos after what he had done.

 

[Barbarian]

So canonically the Durge is a dragonborn sorcerer, yet the only class specific content you get besides that early camp thing(which has a line of dialogue for each class) is related to oathbreaker pally(my current playthrough class). And it is several instances.

Don't know if this is Larian being random or if at some point they planned the canonical character to be a fallen paladin. Or maybe it is just a more fleshed out class(the only one that comes with its own unique camp follower right?). My first playthrough was rogue assassin durge, and you would think that particular class would have several unique interactions with this origin but it didn't.

Does this game contain woke content and if yes how bad is it?

A bit but it's not that bad

In my opinion the worst parts are:

- superhero aasimar NPC with plot armour who won't shut up about wanting to fuck her girlfriend
- lame companion writing/design in some places
- ugly female characters that the game clearly thinks are 'seductive'

There's also some stupid/inane writing here and there but that's less woke, more just Belgians

For some reason every single deep gnome in the game is a homossexual.

And there is lots of belgian humor indeed. Like in Van Damme movies.

 

[Yosharian]

> For some reason every single deep gnome in the game is a homossexual

You lost me, I'm trying to think why you would say that but I only remember encountering them in the Underdark, I don't remember them being particularly flamboyant or anything?

 

[Yosharian]

Btw, anyone else think it’s interesting Halsin is desperate to find the forest spirit who’s a little boy? Not like a nymph or dryad or a hot nerid or anything, you know like an actual nature spirit but just a little boy wearing a skirt and a sleeveless vest.

Like ok dude.

Halsin is such a fucking terrible character. Boring as fuck and serves no godamn purpose

 

[Barbarian]

> For some reason every single deep gnome in the game is a homossexual

You lost me, I'm trying to think why you would say that but I only remember encountering them in the Underdark, I don't remember them being particularly flamboyant or anything?

No, it is literally that. That female gnome you track down for the runepowder vial for instance asks you to tell her (female) lover that she is dead. One of the gnomes participating in the dig asks you to save his "husband" trapped inside with Nere and both rant about it if you save them. Then there is Barcus and Wulbren. There are also more I probably don't remember.

That is I think the most woke thing in this game. There are more homossexual couples than straight ones. Older games usually went the route of placing one token pair of sodomites somewhere for being INCLOOSIVE. Larian took it deeper and made faerun a land of faggotry.

One thing I will hand it to the belgians is that most homo couples in the game are lesbian. Less repugnant than shitpushers for sure.

 

[Yosharian]

Hmm yeah they are kinda lame I guess

I was only thinking of the enemy NPCs who aren't that bad iirc

 

[Lacrymas]

It's not Larian who made Faerun like that, it's Ed Greenwood.

 

[Barbarian]

Hmm yeah they are kinda lame I guess

I was only thinking of the enemy NPCs who aren't that bad iirc

This continues the owlcuck tradition of "bad guys aren't fags".

There is no goblin fag for instance. One of them actually has hidden a hilarious set of love letters addressed to Minthara for instance.

 

[Sotomonte]

Does this game contain woke content and if yes how bad is it?

80% of NPCs with some type of leadership are female. 80% of the members of the Flaming Fist are female. 80% of the NPCs with some relevance are people with pointy ears (elves or half-elves... which are supposed to be the least abundant races)... I don't know if that is some kind of woke "message", fan service or It's just some kind of fetish that Larian people have.

I'm still in Act 3, but for now I can say that I'm liking the "feeling" of playing an RPG: constant dice rolls, tactical combat, etc. But the "metaworld" is shit: basically it's like being in modern New York but in a fantasy universe... I would swear that in the city of Baldur's Gate humans are a small minority, it's all full of elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, orcs, etc. of all possible colors.

 

[Yosharian]

It's not Larian who made Faerun like that, it's Ed Greenwood.

Bullshit.

 

[MerchantKing]

It's not Larian who made Faerun like that, it's Ed Greenwood.

Yet somehow, even Bioware and Obsidian seemed to be able to avoid going as far into Greenwood's fetishes in their games compared to Larian. NWN2 has almost no hints of sexual degeneracy in its official campaigns. Obsidian even gave us a great merchant simulator module too! Meanwhile it's on full display in Larian's game.

Turns out the developer can choose to avoid things present in a setting. It's a choice by the developer to include all the degenerate garbage in the setting and Larian chose to include it all.

 

[Lacrymas]

What I'm saying is that Faerun is like that from the very beginning, Larian just chose to have that stuff front and center. Everything in terms of sexual practices in BG3 is canon and has been canon since Faerun's inception. It's Greenwood's magical realm.

 

[jf8350143]

It's 100% on Larian. I doubt WOTC would force them to show case sexual positions in the very first reveal of the game.

 

[Lacrymas]

Nobody forced them, it's the canon they chose to showcase.

 

[Barbarian]

Paladin is seriously overpowered in 5e isn't it? Along with Cleric. No other classes come close.

Two most powerful classes by far. Bard maybe 3rd place.

Also honour mode really makes the game so much better and more challenging. Specially on the matter of action economy. No more 9 attacks per round with fighter bs.

 

[Lacrymas]

Paladin yes, Cleric no. Circle of the Moon Druid is extremely overpowered.

 

[Larianshill]

I've never once felt powerful when playing paladin in BG3, but that's probably because I went for the shield build in the game with nerfed Shield Master. A bunch of enemies you'd expect paladin to be good against, also have radiant backlash for no reason at all (Raphael is a notable example, but not the only one), and I'm pretty sure there's more of them on the harder difficulty too.
Cleric is pretty good, mostly carried by spirit guardians - it has the same problem as the paladin with radiant damage, but you can just choose necrotic.

 

[Yosharian]

Paladin is seriously overpowered in 5e isn't it? Along with Cleric. No other classes come close.

Two most powerful classes by far. Bard maybe 3rd place.

Also honour mode really makes the game so much better and more challenging. Specially on the matter of action economy. No more 9 attacks per round with fighter bs.

Swords Bard is probably the strongest martial (lol) class in BG3. Sorc is the best caster.