No.29740
It's very good, but lacking some polish towards the end. The story is self-contained but a lot of references might fly over your head if you aren't familiar with D&D lore.
No.29746
Heya, it's me, Imoen!
No.29747
They could have done without the Baldur's gate skin and called it Divinity original sin 3 tbh
No.29748
>>29745All those games are still talked about. And even if they weren't, should single player games be relevant for all time?
No.29749
>>29745WTF do you expect? People play it and then move on
No.29750
>>29749I think what the guy is trying to allude to is that in the past people spent more time playing the same games due to lack experience, access to internet etc, people would also form cult like communities around media. I think all of these things really depend on the product, undertale was one short game but the story and characters allowed for a large community to form. The same in theory could happen with this game if there is enough to discuss and experiment with. You won’t see something similar from around battle field or cod because those games lack interesting characters, worlds and actually interesting mechanics to discuss.
No.29751
>>29745I forgot all those even before they came out
No.29754
>>29753Because it's just like le wacky DnD campaigns that people have irl
No.29755
>>29745>youre le -oomer if you dont base your personality around a gameuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
No.29757
>>29756It is just a bit too much for my taste and there are some lines that shouldn't be crossed.
No.29760
>>29753people are horny
>>29757boo, I'm sure you can pick a boring normal romance in it if you want
No.29762
Is it true that other devs have been shit talking it for being "too good"? I watched a video rant about it and then youtube started recommending me shoeonhead so I haven't really looked much deeper.
No.29767
>>29762They're saying it's an anomaly, that corporate business practices don't reward the kind of investment that Larian made so people shouldn't get their hopes up about it setting the standard for future RPGs. React streamers/tubers took this to mean devs HATE BG3 (and gamers more generally) and make shitty games on purpose because they're lazy, completely missing the point that devs can beg to imitate BG3 but executives will look at the numbers and refuse because they'll always make more money devoting resources to lootboxes instead.
No.29768
Heard great things about the game but it's set in the Forgotten Realms. Mask of the Betrayer is still the only good game in that world and WotC made it non-canon.
No.29774
>>29745Stop using shit like twitter that's designed to fill your feed with New Thing, giving the illusion people "forgot" about the biggest games of the year.
No.29783
>>29738>Is it any good?It's above average but not some groundbreaking game, just a well made one, that still, like all Larian titles, show lack of polish and noticeable cut content later in the game. They usually fix it with some sort of Definitive Edition later on, that's free for the owners of the base version.
>Also do I have to play the previous games to understand what's going on?You don't. You will miss some references at most. It is also turn based unlike BG1 and 2 that are RTWP.
No.29784
>>29767>completely missing the pointAre they though? Most of the ones I've seen do identify the origin of monetization as the owners.
As for devs and other workers whiteknighting for their studios that's simply the labor aristocracy having distorted class interests.
No.29797
>>29786Which would imply they are told to do it or else. I'm skeptical about that but stranger things have happened.
No.29798
>>29744>bear sex>the writers are zooshit white woman >no sex for gobbos shortstacks gay
>>29756bg 1 & 2 is %10 less horny and in your face
No.29801
I hear you can't even give your female character a penis
No.29820
>>29819because making waifus/husbandos of multiple diifferent races to make them sexable is far harder than the raw sexual appeal of a bearussy.
No.29822
acts 1 and 2 are like 10/10 and then we get to act 3 and its like, oh you were having fun? sorry about that
No.29823
Why does everybody look like an American zoomer
They all have the most punchable faces.
No.29824
>>29823anon those are just faces
No.29825
>>29797Why does it have to be told? Everybody knows "work or starve", but it's rarely enounced as such in the workplace
No.29826
>>29825>Why does it have to be told? Everybody knows "work or starve", but it's rarely enounced as such in the workplace.Fair enough. I assumed that workplace alienation means shutting the fuck up is good enough still holds true for them. I admit I don't know that.
No.29827
>>29745Tears of kingdom was alright but it didn’t have the freshness and sense of grounded ness botw did. I still prefer the first game. Final fantasy 16 is garbage for a multitude of reasons but the most pressing one is it’s over the top combat system. Combat feels like watching a drawn out anime fight scene with shitty dialogue and it shows when you stare at videos of veteran gamers trying to kill boss fights in less than half a fucking hour. BG3 is gonna be played by people that actually give a shit about its style of gameplay similar to Skyrim, dark souls 2, far cry 3, tlou2 and more. Wether or not it’s remembered doesn’t matter.
No.29829
>>29820>bearussy>not based antro furry bear bfwhite girl pls go
>>29819sad
white woman moment
they could add a homebrew bear humanoid if they want to, but they didn't and just added dogfucker shit
No.29834
>>29829>>29832Won't the limitations on sex and romance options be dependent on the number of cutscenes?
No.29836
>>29819>before letting you sex fantasy races?Yes, they had a goblin waifu but she isn't a companion and non romanceable, just there for the one misstion to save her
>>29834It's in-game
cutscenes and dialogue, even if there was
limitations for the amount of in-game (just the game taking control of the camera)
cutscenes that makes it even worse since they wasted a space for bestiality.
No.29841
>>29832>humanoid genitalia antros Based
>they added white woman shit but not cat peopleSad
No.29842
>>29837>goblin waifu badThey both look ugly but the gobbo girl is based and I like the tomboy gobbo.
Out all of the characters in BG3, she one the them that fits the off AAA artstyle with her model then most.
No.29843
>>29837She looks like a snake human
Nice random snake person you cherry-picked anon
No.29845
>>29841Cat people do not generate as much outrage as white woman shit though. Neverwinter might deliver, but its vaporware and there is less lore justification than here, where the setting is a coastal area where you can logically encounter pretty much every race of Toril and then some more.
Also, the very concept of jaguar pirates is just extremely cool by itself.>>29842One thing I do not like about BG3 is how stringy the half-orcs are from what I seen. Still hope future addons will have one as a party member though.
No.29848
>>29836>bestialityits a druid
No.29850
>>29845> jaguar pirates is just extremely cool by itself.based
>>29848>its a druidno shit, and? it's sill zoophila shit for white woman
Just fuck the druid then
No.29851
>>29850>it's sill zoophila shit for white womanu ok buddy?
No.29852
nerds getting mad it isnt their fetishes in the game instead is hilarious
No.29853
>>29852If you do not have any fetishes then you are a pretty boring person and I pity you.
No.29854
>>29850>no shit, and? it's sill zoophila shit for white woman>Just fuck the druid then…they are? Would you consider a knotted strap-on to be zoo? or is this an object permanence thing?
No.29855
>>29853you didnt understand the post
No.29859
>>29855It makes perfect sense for people to tell what they would like to have instead of what they do not like. Its normal.
No.29860
>>29854I mean a lot of people probably would consider that zoo, if they even knew about it. There's a reason why they don't sell that stuff in normie sex shops.
No.29863
PSA: The anti-bear rhetoric is a 4chinlet astroturf.
No.29868
I'm glad they chose something non-cliche like a bear. Horse or cat would've been too predictable.
No.29872
>>29854>strap-onit's not about strap-on you still fucking a bear in game regardless
>knotted strap-onwhite girl pls go
No.29873
>>29865
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like u and nou
No.29874
>>29850>>29870>>29872>>29873>implying bears are a "white woman" thing and not a gay subcultureSchizo can't even sperg out about the right group.
No.29875
>>29863Everything needs to be an outrage with these autists around now.
No.29876
>>29874>Schizo can't even sperg out about the right group.you kids don't even know about the
right group i'm using in lingo
No.29877
>>29863>Not liking bestiality makes you a chinletthat or any other person that not even political
>>29875I mean it's bear fucking what did you expect
No.29878
>>29872imagine being insecure over dick shapes of all things
No.29880
>>29878>imagine>insecureI mean i'm not the one defending for an animal dick fetish out of the blue
No.29881
>>29880and u r the basic bitch furry triggered by dragon dildos
No.29882
>>29877I had hoped that their narrative is known at this point and spelling it out won't be necessary but here we go:
>After the usual anti-woke narrative failed we have continuous spam about so called forced homosexuality, and when that's debunked they latch onto the bearsex.>Call it bestiality despite the character being a druid, a sapient adult with the ability to consent.>Compare it to pedophilia with the 9001 year old vampire meme despite lolicon characters explicitly depicting infantile behavior. No.29883
>>29882terminally twitter brained
No.29884
>>29882>zoophile coming up with conspiracy theories portraying his opponents as pedophiles and /pol/absolute state of this board
No.29885
>implying>>29883>>29884need to go back to the future.
No.29886
>>29882>lolicon characters explicitly depicting infantile behaviorLoli grannies in anime actually act like grannies though. It's ok to admit you don't watch anime.
No.29887
>>29883>twitter brainedt. outraged prude
No.29889
>>29881I just don't like white girls shit, furry is more based
>dragon dildosr gay No.29890
SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT ANIMAL COCKS AND TALK ABOUT THE GAME
No.29892
Top 5 Animal Genitalia:
5.
4.
3.
2.
1.
No.29893
>>298925. dog
4. bear
3. snake
2. dolphin
1. your mom
No.29894
>>29892>>29893gay.
the slow thread pop up in middle night and morning for this?
gay
No.29901
>>29893>no ostrichYou are yet to taste the fruits of life, kid.
No.30019
I just found out about karmic dice. It's supposed to "fix" random streaks of good or bad luck but it's actually broken and the default setting.
If you're actually playing the game turn that off asap.
No.30022
>>30019why the fuck would they feel a need to fix dice in their dnd game lmao
No.30024
>>30022Imagine getting several good rolls in row for inane shit and now the game forces you to fail an important skill check you actually care about.
No.30025
>>30024From what I read it supposedly emulates the GM "fudging" the dice, but the workings of the mechanic are arcane with only a vague one sentence description of what it does. Does not sound much fun either way.
No.30026
>>30019fudging dice rolls is cringe
having mechanics for it is more cringe
No.30027
>>30026It is literally cheating but it is generally tolerated because the DM does it and in the tabletop it often lets the party to progress through the campaign easier. What even is the use for it in a CRPG where there are difficulty settings available is beyond me.
No.30028
>>30027There are times when you get like a bunch of real bad or real good rolls in a string and it fucks things up but that's part of the randomness and can make for some of the most memorable moments in an TTRPG. It's weird and bad in either but especially in a cRPG where it's all pre-written the right way to do this kind of thing is just not roll for it if there is a specific outcome you want to happen. It's like amateur GMs who make players roll for everything even when it doesn't make sense, like they walk into a room and all fail to notice the important statue or whatever because you felt like they had to roll for that.
No.30029
>>29740>It's very good, but lacking some polish towards the end.Just got to the baldurs gate city and noticed this as well. Feel like earlier in the game theres a lot more dialogue branches that stood out from a lot of other CRPGs because there was an option for how I actually wanted my character to respond, but getting towards the end of the game the dialogue is starting to feel more like rote RPG options, i.e. Respond with: 1. Generic yes 2. Mean comment 3. Further question 4. Generic no
No.30032
>>29738It's great overall. Gameplay is fun and the encounters are fantastic, which is Larian's biggest strong point. Writing is hit and miss and inherently handicapped because it's fully voiced, but the companions are charming enough and there's good characters to meet. The world design is and level design are both great. Act 2 is a bit awkwardly paced and act 3 needs some post-launch support.
It's not the greatest crpg to drop and it doesn't feel like a true sequel to Baldur's Gate 2 (if you want that play Pillars of Eternity) instead feeling like divinity original sin 3, but it's worth playing and I'd like to see it get an expansion.
My biggest annoyance is that it feels like I can't ever say no to people. I can say no (i'll think about it) and no (fight). Refusing quests and conversations in general is expected of this genre and I have quests stuck in my quest log despite saying no.
No.30041
>>30032completely agree on every count. in a sense i like how act 2 is weird & restrictive, but youre right that the problem is pacing.
also very confused by how talking to whatsername upstairs of last light right away triggers kiling half the NPCs you know? i savescummed to avoid it so idk if its somehow retracted plotwise but yeah i was so ready for a breath of fresh air getting to baldurs gate, but act 3 so far feels fairly rushed & really poorly optimized as far as takes a while for even the whole screen to load in & most NPC dialogue the faces dont render right (my PC is above recommended specs)
still absolutely recommend the game tho, ultimately these are nitpicks compared to general excellent quality)
No.30045
>>30041Yeah the pacing is the problem because the gameplay is fine overall, it makes sense that there's less side quests and the two dungeons in the act are both great. The point of no return is retardedly placed however. Also I somehow never fucked the fight because I saw that the boss' attacks weren't named "main weapon attack" and figured I had to protect her. Sanctuary proved super useful and I only found out what happens to the inn if you fail after I talked to my friend who bought it for me after she asked what I thought about act 2.
Act 3 is a chore for me especially because my PC is below minimum, I was able to get 30-40fps for most areas on ultra (no fucking clue how my game can run on ultra, or how I can even run it to begin with quite frankly) but until I messed around with settings I would get single digit frames for the lower city. Now I get slightly less than 30. I like some of the stuff they're doing with it but a performance patch is necessary.
A+ CRPG. Might eventually become one of the greats if it gets an expansion or two with the writers and designers firing on all cylinders.
No.30050
>>30028The problem I see with it is we don't know how it works exactly.
For instance you could use 2d10 or 2d6+1d8 instead of a 1d20. This would make failures and successes far less likely but would also essentially make crit useless.
The problem is the 5e rulset has been balanced around the flat probability distribution of 1d20 and unless the fudging process doesn't affect the distribution that balance will be out of whack.
I'm not even sure it's possible to fudge dice without affecting the distribution.
That said a bell shaped distribution see:
https://anydice.com/program/3599is more "natural" because it's closer to how physical processes happen but then you'd need to get rid of additive bonuses because a bell shape in physics will always be between 0 and some number.
No.30083
>>30062Yeah, the very same. I figured you needed to protect her during round one and did all I could to throw defense/healing spells her way, and area denial on doorways. I can't blame you or anyone in general for not noticing the different name on the attack, I have to read carefully as a third language speaker.
My party has MC as pally and SH (with the legendary mace you get in the mountain pass) so that will massively tip the scales in my favour, but I imagine it shouldn't be too difficult with any party with a single caster to block off choke points.
I'm playing on hard/tactician, what about you?
No.30102
>>30083Ah okay I see, after she loses a certain amount of health the cinematic triggers? I guess thats obvious in retrospect. Im playing on Balanced, I was trying to protect her but I guess I foolishly assumed that she'd have to lose all her health before it triggered.
No.30167
I'm still very early in the game. I haven't played many CRPGs and this is pretty enjoyable. I am obsessed with Shadowheart at the moment. Her voice is incredibly cute.
No.30727
Typical Larian trash. Worse version of DOS2 (which was worse version of DOS). With all the same fucking problems and several new ones like absolute shit performance. Honestly Larian makes Owlcat look good in comparison. At least Owlcat can make decent UI. Larian can't make inventory system that isn't absolute nightmare for the third game in the row.
It's DOS2 without what made it interesting.
No.30795
>>30684>>30794Wow this character design feels
excessively modern. She looks like she comes from the plane of Hot Topic.
No.30796
i swear any tall girl becomes a fotm on social media now regardless of actual character
No.30797
>>30796It started with the vampire domme in Resident Evil and now it's a pandering trend because it's free marketing.
No.30801
>>30795Hellboy's long-lost stepsister.
No.30802
One fasctinating thing about BG3 to me is, I've never played it and because of its hardware requirements, I probably never will, but I'm still interested in it, so I pay attention.
And I've got a good grasp on a lot of the character dynamics, and they seem very fun and well written and enjoyable and everything, but…
I've read so many posts about BG3.
And I have no idea what the plot is.
What do you do in this game? What is even the premise? Literally nobody is talking about this. So far as I can tell, this is a game where you hang out with Astarion and Shadowheart. What are you trying to DO at the time?
Nobody has even mentioned a word. I have genuinely no idea what the basic plot or conflict is.
No.30803
>>30802Mindflayers attack Baldur's Gate, you and a bunch of captives (including your companions) are transported into a flying mindflayer ship and have tadpoles put in your brains that will turn you into mindflayers soon so after you escape the ship you need to find someone who can remove the tadpoles. The tutorial has you escaping the ship and the rest follows pretty quickly after.
No.30804
>>30803Huh. I would never have guessed that. I don't think I've ever heard anyone even reference mindflayers, almost every reference is to demons and gods as I had no idea the squids were even in this
No.30805
>>30804so I assume you didn't see a single trailer of the game ? because they're in every single one of them.
No.30806
>>30805Now that you mention it, I have a memory of seeing a trailer for this years ago, and there was a mindflayer in it. I'd completely forgotten it and assumed it was for a Pillars of Eternity style isometric game.
No.30809
>>30808Are you seriously expecting DnD to be some super srs medieval larp? It's literally the most casual tabletop
No.30816
>>30809Quite the opposite. I expect the character design to be more imaginative than something that looks so contemporary.
No.30817
>>30797>>30796And artists will jump onto any bandwagon because they're desperate for engagement.
No.30833
>>30817An unfortunate necessity of the online artistic marketplace.
No.30835
>>30833Yes, obviously I'm not criticizing artists, just stating it's a sad state of affairs.
No.30837
>>30835>obviously I'm not criticizing artistsAnon this website has people who regularly screech about baristas not being working class. Your post is a legit material analysis of the situation, but the fact that you said something sort of negative relating to the art industry is liable to be taken as an invitation by someone with the butthole flag (or similar mindset) to come shitpost about artists being bourgeois.
No.30853
>>30837Gamers are bourgeois degens.
No.30856
>>30854You will never be a revolutionary YWNBAR
No.30858
>>30802>Nobody has even mentioned a word. I have genuinely no idea what the basic plot or conflict is.Probably because it's typical Larian power fantasy crap that doesn't do justice to the setting. A mishmash of everything without any coherence. It's very similar to how 4yo would do a "cool" superhero "and he is strong and can fly like superman, smart like batman and has a cool car, fast like flash, can read minds…" and so on. You have illithids fighting giths, you have powerful devils, you have shar and seluine conflict, you have mystra and karsus' folly, you have ancient vampires, you have (fucking again) dead three (there is an almost literal captain planet moment there ffs) and so on. What you don't have is a good plot binding it together and interesting characters to represent different sides and opposing views. But hey, you can have fanservice galore instead.
That's why people don't talk about plot and talk about Karlach tits instead. Because it's the only thing worth talking about in this game.
No.30859
>>30809I wish just once people did research on clothing and everyday utilities so i wouldn't have to look at another mishmash of early medieval, late medieval, renaissance and enlightenment with good infusion of modernity. Or reiteration of "dung ages" trope.
Things like clothing is influenced by many things from the available tools to people's daily life. I just want for authors to put a bit of thought in the setting background, so it would feel more alive.
No.30860
>>30858Yeah its just wacky xdddd encounters while looking for cure for literal brainworms and nothing more contrived than this other than the Illithid attacks being part of Bhaal and friends' shenanigans. Almost Rick & Morty-tier plot writing that ruins what could have been a 10/10 story.
No.30865
>>30859Well it's fantasy so it can be whatever they want. You are right though that it's usually boring and samey. The BG3 clothes seem to lean heavily toward tight-fitting pants which is pretty unfitting both for the medieval theme and for adventurers. You'd think it'd be easier to model and rig thicker clothes with many layers for the multiple body types since that gives you more room for error, but idk not a modeler.
>>30860Critical Role and its consequences. Although it probably has more to do with the conflict between player choice and an established plot. The morre disconnected and episodic the content, the less you have to worry about what the player chose in the last part of the story. lolsorandumb is a crutch to deal with that.
You could develop a more sophisticated story and quest system for a game like this (and it would be more appropriate) but then you wouldn't be able to have the game's main selling point, which is the extensive dialogues with full voice acting and animated expressions. You'd have to rely on text or TTS and procedural generation, and that completely removes one of the key selling points. You literally cannot have player choice beyond choose your own adventure while at the same time having these high-budget cutscenes.
People are impressed by the foresight of the developers to include scenes for all kinds of interactions, but those are only possible because of the degree to which your interactions can be restrained by the game's systems. There's a whole thing about ideology you could unpack with that, honestly. I think a big factor in the game seeming so impressive for now is that it's still new and most people have only played through it once if they've completed it at all, so they aren't aware of how shallow the choice is (yet).
No.30870
>>30860>>30865Many beloved media were so liked because they still had stories to tell. In the case of shows, even their weakest episodes had a decent basis for a story, and most of the gags are a direct result of what happens in the plot.
You take that away and the gags are lacking in any real setup and payoff, so all you're left with is references and "wacky" randomness, like in this case.
No.30872
>>30865>Well it's fantasy so it can be whatever they want.No, just because it's "fantasy" doesn't mean you can just pull random shit out of your ass. That's how you get shitty writing. Fantasy settings should feel alive, meaning they too should have their own laws even if they are different from our own. What results from "it's a fantasy" approach is nothing but a random selection of earth's cultures, norms, clothings and so on without thought or reason behind them.
>The BG3 clothes seem to lean heavily toward tight-fitting pants which is pretty unfitting both for the medieval theme and for adventurers. You'd think it'd be easier to model and rig thicker clothes with many layers for the multiple body types since that gives you more room for error, but idk not a modeler.Yeah. Thing is, you can have both practical and sexy, but of course it's much cheaper to mix hot topic and renaissance fair.
No.30874
>>30872The WRPG character design that is vaunted as "realistic" by some is no more so than JPRG character design.
No.30875
>>30874>The WRPG character design that is vaunted as "realistic" by some is no more so than JPRG character design.What that has anything to do with what i have said?
No.30876
>>30875Just pointing out how regional character design stereotypes do not hold much water before some WRPG fanboy interjects that its still better than "weebshit".
No.30877
>>30872>"fantasy" doesn't mean you can just pull random shit out of your ass.It's doing exactly that and making whatever comes out of your ass as believable as it needs to be.
No.30878
>>30874JRPG and WRPG are useless signifiers made up by 2000s gaming journalism tbh.
No.30880
>>30877Then why not dress the brutish Tiefling uo in a pink tutu and give her butterfly wings, if common sense does not matter in fantasy and its just pulling random shit out of your ass? Your argument does not make any sense here as however displaced, impractical and "Hot Topic" the design of Karlach's clothes is, it still is grounded in her character and expectations of barbarian type characters. It is not as "pulled out of ass" as much as ill-conceived in terms of the setting's conventions.
No.30881
>>30878Yeah its the product of 2000's zeitgeist mostly and it relies on the narrow normie gamer view of Japanese role playing games as just being Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Pokemon, all the meanwhile the conventions of both "genres" differed wildly from series to series and even from game to game.
No.30883
>>30880>It is not as "pulled out of ass" as much as ill-conceived in terms of the setting's conventions.To put a finer point on it, the costumes were designed for cosplayers and fan artists first and foremost.
No.30892
>>30890And that means they didn't really care how well the designs fit the setting because marketing drives art.
No.30895
>>30877>It's doing exactly that and making whatever comes out of your ass as believable as it needs to be.To make something "believable" you actually need to do the opposite - create some internal logic and structure to the setting and characters and adhere to it. Otherwise it's gonna be nothing but plot devices with depth of a painted carton board.
No.30897
previous baldurs gate entries had all around great girls (and companions in general) now its just le tall "muscular" girl with zero personality that everyone talks about lol
No.30901
>>30897Tall muscle girls are THE BEST!
kill yourself kill yourself kill yourself kill yourself
kill yourself kill yourself kill yourself kill yourself
kill yourself kill yourself kill yourself kill yourself
No.30903
>>30901cool template post bud, really showing why youre the target audience of this shit
No.30913
>>30897I'll grant that the characters in this game feel extremely "reddit" as a whole, but there's nothing wrong with buff women. A barbarian should be swole. The only complaint I have is they could go farther with body diversity but they won't because it takes more effort to match the clothes and armor, and having lots of those that look "good" is clearly a high priority.
No.30914
>>30913yeah, my complaints are that a) thats all there is to her "character", b) shes pretty much the only character everyone talks about
No.30915
>>30914I haven't played the game but I see a lot of content with. I don't really like to just call stuff "ew reddit" but it really does seem like that's how the characters were written, and Karlach especially is supposed to be an epic bacon wholesome absolute unit heckin big chungus.
No.30916
>>30903>template postNow THAT is cope.
That was all original, bitch, get with it. Haven't even played this Larian sludge, just keep muscle girls out off your petty conceptions.
No.30918
>>30916Posting "x are the best the best" is a pretty common template post for porn threads lol.
No.30919
>>30918I don't browse "porn threads", forehead.
No.30920
Have sex.
No.30945
>>30897Also the BG characters that came back feel more like epic pop culture references than consistent characters.
No.30953
>>30028>part of the randomness and can make for some of the most memorable moments in an TTRPG.Only if you are five or something. Or played the trpg like twice in your life.
No.31020
>>30953If you don't want randomness to be part of the story you can always read a book.
No.31047
It appears to me from this thread that the only notable things about this one really are Timblr sexyman characters kinky and edgy choices. Would give a try, but I expected a bit more.
No.31048
>>31047Havent played it either, but everything about it I saw looks like a fanfiction of a game, rather than an original game itself.
No.31260
>>31015They do and don't.
Baldur's Gate takes place in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. The Gith are from the Planescape campaign setting. So, they actually are two different settings. The thing is, all D&D campaigns are supposed to exist within the same multiverse with each other. And for reasons that should be obvious to anyone familiar with Planescape, the Planescape setting is uniquely poised to have crossovers with other campaign settings.
No.31264
Whats the most based CRPG to come out recently?
No.31265
>>31264BG3 is the big one but Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous came out 2 years ago if you consider that recent. A lot of smaller titles came out in the meantime but nothing really worth recommending. A WH40K Rogue Trader game is coming in December from the same devs that made WotR and it looks pretty promising. Colony Ship is also gonna leave early access in a couple weeks and is supposed to be good from what people have played.
No.31269
Sexo with Halsin
No.32419
>>32406Because he's a vampire? They literally exist just to exploit other people
No.32438
>>30880>ill-conceived in terms of the setting's conventions.youre talking about the forgotten realms, anon. it is a notoriously kitchen sink setting that has everything somewhere, its just a more specific fleshed out vanilla d&d setting
No.33120
reaching the end of act1 (I think), its pretty damn good so far
If you enjoyed any other larian game, this is a must get, the combat and leveling systems are great, the full voice acting/acted dialogues isnt necessary for me but is still good to have
go straight into tactician if you have any experience in larian games or you will destroy the game though
I feel assassin class is a bit underwhelming, I gotta multiclass my rogue and gonna make him a thief for the bonus action instead I think
No.33123
>>33121you can if you run around with your clothes off, same with all your companions
No.33724
I'm currently playing through act3 as Durge and here is how it looks to me, in hindsight:
Act 1:
Finished, packed and polished.
Act 2:
Unfinished, rushed and sparse. You can practically feel the budget/devtime vanishing(though ironically, you will never see the shadowcurse subside) halfway through.
Act 3:
Unfinished, cobbled together from whatever they already had half done, in a rush. It's crammed with half cooked gameplay, hacked together story bits and rushed/missing resolutions in equal part. Some aspects of it, like the circus, feel like an afterthought filler built around spare voice lines in the last minute. While others, like Sorcerous Sundries, have a shine of thoroughly polished turd, by people who weren't given anything else to do for weeks on end.
Act 4:
Cannibalized in it's infancy by Act3, which now wear's it's overstretched skin like a "mankini".
Act 5:
Surely you mean DLC and "seasonal" patches
I've only recently picked up the game. It seems significant changes were made since early access that watered down story bits without building on top of what was already there.
And the game was incredibly buggy maybe until just recently, too.
No.33725
>>33724I thought it's Nero the Dead Weight on the picture lmao.
No.33745
>>33724Basically, same as two previous divinity games.
No.33821
>>33724Is this bc devs are lazy/stupid, or were they just fucked by higher ups
No.33822
>>33821Why bother polishing to the last act when most buyers won't go further than act1?
No.33833
>>33822Maybe they would if the game wasn't awful and if the rest of it was at least as polished (meaning barely) as the first act.
No.33836
Where's the Baldur's Gay eroge spin-off when we need it?
No.33840
>>33822>>33833most sales come from the first month or so, and all the streamers showing people what the game is like will mostly be playing the earliest parts. way less incentive to make the game not a piece of shit past that point.
No.34261
the raphael song is cringe. i've seen some cope on reddit saying that it's supposed to be cringe and that in the context of d&d it's okay if it's cringe. but that's not true. the song is cringe because it's badly written. the rhyme scheme is doctor seuss level and the analogies/metaphors are are the most basic 1:1 simplistic shit. i get the impression that it was written by some person in the dev team whose actual job was some technical shit and they were unqualified for the task
No.34273
>>34261it came off as cheesy boss fight stuff and that is one the reasons i liked it though, that and the singing was competent.
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