Beamdog working on a new D&D CRPG (cancelled)

[octavius]

This needs to be added to the 'Dex Developer Mugs.

Who is it? Someone from BioWare?

 

[Mustawd]

Beamdog. But same sensibilities. Long story.

 

[Ninjerk]

This needs to be added to the 'Dex Developer Mugs.

Who is it? Someone from BioWare?

Too Bad refers to a particularly belligerent quote of hers directed at fans of the old BG games.

 

[Courtier]

Who is it?

Comrade cat and others who are not up to date with the beamdog meme chronicles, here is recap:

''We'll address these cissues''

IN-GAME SHIT

Spoiler

Average reaction:

The issue is not the fags or the trannys it is all about execution.

DO not fucking text dump your "oh so progressive" diatribe at people. Make it organic and smart. Try and give people dept and something interesting to say that is not "Hello i am so incredibly gay and that is all i am they call me Gay man Bob because i am gay".
Now i do feel for Beamdog, but you shoot yourself in the foot with this one.

Actual trans woman responded, it did not end well for her:

THREADS LOCKED REVIEWS DELETED AUTHORITIES ALERTED ''CUSTOMER'' RELIEVED OF PRODUCT BIGOTS QUARANTINED

RIP

Beamdog calls in the troops:

Ahahah, oh wow:

(Above clip was removed from game, many more completely truthful factual 100% true articles were written that day)

General overview by Gauldur's Bait

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Now, onto some more serious criticism of the game, from a wider perspective. The game is definitely pushing a political agenda in a manner completely outside the spirit of the Baldur’s Gate series, setting, and lore. There is no other possibility than that this was done consciously and deliberately, as this political agenda is evenly dosed throughout the game.

Hence, especially those sites and critics who say that the game is receiving negative reviews solely because of the inclusion of a transgender character, read this: Mizhena is in the end one the smaller issue pertaining to the pushed agenda (the developers made this issue worse by their own comments regarding it. But using this as a weapon and labelling the critics of the game as haters of sexual minorities is the easy and “politically correct” (and thus also sensationalist in the attempt to profit from the controversy) route to take, and also probably generates many clicks when simplifying the issue to “Baldur’s Gate fans hate transgender individuals”. This is actually intellectually dishonest, unfair towards the critics of the game, generally cheap and poor journalism. The fact remains of course, that Mizhena is badly and shallowly written, the developers have also commented that they could have done a better job with her and transgender individuals have commented that no-one in their community would be so open with such a sensitive issue.

There are many other issues with the game which reveal how hard a specific agenda is being pushed. These have been swept aside by “critics of the critics” as they are much harder to rebuke (and actually require one to play the game for a while), and I will go through these next. As an added bonus, my main character I exported from BG1 happened female – this led to the revealing of the pushed agenda in dialog options a male character would, with about 0,99 certainty, not have. So let’s get into them.

In my longer post on page 38 of this thread, I already highlighted the fact that there is clear agenda concerning the refugee crisis, and that is connected also to the discussion on income distribution. Your gold from Bg1 is stolen, and you find out that it has been distributed by a group of refugees to all the other refugees in town and you are asked the question “don’t they need it more than you?” – in very in your face way. The thing is, that you can slay this group with your paladin without the paladin becoming fallen, which is one example of that politics have been more in the focus than the actual gameplay during the design.

The Future

The whole saga is documented here
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/baldurgate-siege-of-dragonspear.107891/

ahaha why did i copypast all this stupid shit holy fuk brbr committing suicide

 

[Orobis]

Maybe this is what they should've done from the get-go - D&D or not. Create their own shit, earn a rep, and THEN dip their penises and dildos in the waters of other IPs.

Grown adults seem to lack basic foresight these days, or maybe it's just sheer arrogance?

 

[octavius]

My God, those fucking SJWs are everywhere, sucking out all fun of the hobby.
Words can't describe how much I despise those people who have to make politics out of everything and force force it down people's throats.
Worst of all is that one look at the picture of the smug face and I knew she had to be some SJW or LMBG people.

 

[Makabb]

 

[Excidium II]

It's what we get when we have a hobby that attracts a bunch of dweebs but has no dedication obstacle.

 

[Supermedo]

I don't get it, are people mad about these couple of lines that were added ? I mean is that all they added ? I mean the characters are not going around cutting dicks.

 

[octavius]

I don't get it, are people mad about these couple of lines that were added ? I mean is that all they added ? I mean the characters are not going around cutting dicks.

Well, apparantly Sefana was changed because her portrayal was "sexist".

 

[Excidium II]

I don't get it, are people mad about these couple of lines that were added ? I mean is that all they added ? I mean the characters are not going around cutting dicks.

Please be less of a cretin.

 

[m_s0]

Jaheira is a pretty poor example given how Khalid is painted. They're both stereotypes, and the joke's at the expense of them both - it has to be, otherwise it couldn't have been there in the first place. Sure sounds like equal footing to me.

 

[octavius]

And why is Sefana a "sex object", any more than Coran is? Why can't she be "a strong woman who uses her sexuality as a weapon" or something like that?

 

[Excidium II]

Are you trying to talk sense to SJWs?

 

[octavius]

Point.

 

[Lurker King]

Maybe this is what they should've done from the get-go - D&D or not. Create their own shit, earn a rep, and THEN dip their penises and dildos in the waters of other IPs.

You are missing the point. Nobody cares about "their own shit". The only reason we are talking about them right now is because they are opportunistic SJW hacks raping BGs name.

 

[Supermedo]

I don't get it, are people mad about these couple of lines that were added ? I mean is that all they added ? I mean the characters are not going around cutting dicks.

Please be less of a cretin.

Well I'm saying that you people need to focus less about what SJW says and more on the game, it been stupid trend recently that gaming sites/forums stopped focusing on the games and focusing around stupid drama that always have zero to little affect on the game.

Like god damn 4chan, reddit, codex and countless shit forums talking about SJW that and Cis this, what happened about talking about the games without the whole interweb drama and shit.

 

[Excidium II]

Classic. Why don't you go browse something awful, reddit or some other place where they focus on games and not stupid drama?

 

[BBMorti]

 

[rashiakas]

As if anyone is even interested in what beamdog does.

 

[Orobis]

SJW that and Cis this, what happened about talking about the games without the whole interweb drama and shit.

They made their bed, now they can sleep in it. Keep your garbage SJW bullshit pandering out of video games where it doesn't belong.period.

 

[Ninjerk]

Seriously, someone post the anti-SJW jpg for this dumbfuck.

 

[Morality Games]

I don't get it, are people mad about these couple of lines that were added ? I mean is that all they added ? I mean the characters are not going around cutting dicks.

It's partly an issue of principle (several principles, including whether the new developers reverence the original material as much as the old fans), which is fine, but most people overreacted and spiraled into the same kind of mob mentality they despise in SJWs.

 

[BBMorti]

I don't get it, are people mad about these couple of lines that were added ? I mean is that all they added ? I mean the characters are not going around cutting dicks.

It's partly an issue of principle, which is fine, but most people overreacted and spiraled into the same kind of mob mentality they despise in SJWs.

No they didn't. Also, people need to react when new SJW bullshit is pushed or it will only go one way.

 

[Excidium II]

which is fine, but most people overreacted and spiraled into the same kind of mob mentality they despise in SJWs.

Nice. You people make it too easy.