90% inane right-wing culture war horseshit (the game has Women and Black People and even Gays, unlike beloved classics such as Fallout 2), 10% people performatively hating anything released in the past 5~ years.
I think most people still in this thread like the game even if they don't think it's perfect, for a good hate summary you want one of the hater threads (hate thread and cringe thread). I enjoyed it a lot but it suffers from Larian's tendency to allow their goofiness to undermine serious moments, although if that didn't bother someone in previous Larian games it probably won't bother them in this one since it's just more of the same in that respect.
Contrary to the name of the place the RPG Codex isn't actually an RPG fan forum but more narrowly an Infinity Engine fan forum, everything else just being tolerated. All their childhood hero developers having been revealed to always have been mediocrities makes the average Codexer mad, that some guy from Belgium surpassed them with 'their own' IP makes them absolutely furious, and that the game that did it had proper combat and not the casualized Diablo nonsense they grew up with led to the hundreds of pages of freakout you can see in this thread and the pre-release one. These people subconsciously feel like their childhood has been devalued and thus react as if personally attacked.
Or maybe everything is simpler, and the game is just bad?
Bioware fans are obstreperous due to Baldur's Gate 3 having vastly superior gameplay to the original two BG games. Other Codexers simply poke fun at the terrible writing, fetishistic pandering, or 'woke' sensibilities.
I cant think of why that would be. To me, there was no one thing that blew me away. It felt too similar to DOS2, especially the tiny claustrophobic map design
An obviously tongue-in-cheek bestiality gag completely broke their brains. That's it. There's nothing more to it. Whatever other excuses people try to peddle you, they're lying. Having some minor nitpicks with the game's encounter design, pacing (especially the pacing, god) or difficulty as an RPG is reasonable, but that's not what any of those people cared about.
You can tell the bear thing was funny because a year later, it's all the Codex is talking about. Nobody here really gives a damn about the giant brain or the dead three or whatever, and for good reason. But even a decade from now people will still remember BG3 as the game where you can fuck a bear
im more offended that every Flaming Fist I encounter is some short, weak female gnome or halfing, who no one in their right mind would take seriously.
Elves everywhere.
And all companions are casters.
Modern people doing the LARP is how story feels most of the time, yes. Not only companions, every character. Which is why I don't get people complaining about lightheartedness and 'Belgian humor'. I mean, as bad as goofy LARP can get, it's still orders of magnitude less cringe than serious and dramatic LARP.
You sure do like ruining video games with your retadred opinions, try to calm down and stop. If you didn't get it, no worries, thinking people think of answers for people like you. Your "content" reaches people and you are an opinion maker.
No, you?
Karlach? Lae'Zel? Astarion?
Avernal smite and couple of other things. Also pointy ears.
Misty step, some other githyank spells. Also pointy ears.
Firebolt. And pointy ears.
I would not say its more if the same. Traces of Larian's goofines are indeed present.
