Baldurs Gate 3

[Bardp1999]

Released on PC this morning. Ive played a couple of hours, seems promising.

The action is a bit clunky with the turn based mechanics, but I rolled a dragon-person wizard who I will be rolling into a necromancer when I can subclass or whatever the fuck they call it.

Flock to Steam fellow nerds, BG3 is upon us!!

[unsunghero]

Jealous, wish my pc could run that. If I didn’t just take out a $45k loan for home repairs I’d be more open to replacing it :/

[Trexller]

Jealous, wish my pc could run that. If I didn’t just take out a $45k loan for home repairs I’d be more open to replacing it :/

upgrade some hardware! it's actually easier than legos (for real)

just shop around for good deals on CPUs, GPUs etc or buy all the parts to assemble your own new PC.

can use a site like this to match component compatibility

https://pcpartpicker.com/

[Toxigen]

waiting for PS5 release in sept

[Bardp1999]

I just upgraded my rig for Diablo 4. I had upgraded the GPU previously but the rest of the shit couldnt keep up. Its like going from black and white TV to color TV with the next gen graphics cards, SSD drives, and processors, but it did cost me like $500.

Really enjoying the game so far, there is a ton of attention to detail and the graphics looks great

[unsunghero]

I just upgraded my rig for Diablo 4. I had upgraded the GPU previously but the rest of the shit couldnt keep up. Its like going from black and white TV to color TV with the next gen graphics cards, SSD drives, and processors, but it did cost me like $500.

Really enjoying the game so far, there is a ton of attention to detail and the graphics looks great

Yea, lotta different paths you can supposedly take, including allowing yourself to become a mindflayer. There is an option "hive mind" or something that lets you automatically pass dialog/charisma checks, but each time it gives the Mind flayer tadpole in your head more power, eventually you become one, supposedly

Otherwise, charisma does finally matter, because certain dialog choices can only work with a certain successful roll. But it seems like it can be save-scummed to get the rolls you want

At least you can't save scum your starting stats like in previous BG games. There were some people who rolled so many times they finally got the elusive all 18's

[unsunghero]

For anyone who didn’t grow up reading Forgotten Realms like I did

The idea came from the original HP Lovecraft books

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_knGh2SOP4g

[Evia]

I was going to wait for ps5 because lately I've enjoyed console gaming vs pc, but my friends all picked it up on pc so I bought it to play multiplayer with them...

Oh my oh my! I didn't expect this. This game totally exceeded all my expectations. It reminds me classic dnd turn based rpg games like divinity, nwn, dragon age origins ect, but 100x better. I feel like every choice and dialog option I make is impactful. Combat is actually challenging unlike most games in this genre. You will wipe if you try and phone in the battle....I'm really loving it.

What is going on in the world? I've been waiting for a good video game for years and I get 3 in one year with Zelda totk, d4 and now this?!

I didn't think my old pc would run it because it looks like I don't pass the minimum settings requirements? but it does run on medium settings np! (Ryzen 3/amd 570, old HD not ssd, 16g ram)

My load times are ass but the game runs fine. If you aren't sure if your pc will run it just buy it and request a refund from steam if it has issues. You have 14 days and under 2hrs played to figure out if it'll run for you before requesting a refund.

[Botten]

Not gonna lie I really thought Conservatives were
going to boycott this game. Let’s just say soooooooo many character creation options.

[MrSparkle001]

Lol bringing politics into Baldur's Gate 3. The fun never ends here.

I might pick up this game, I don't know. I've been having fun with some racing sims and a few other games I wasn't able to play with my old PC so I don't know where I want to devote my limited gaming time.

[unsunghero]

They’re going to make a new speed run category: How fast can you fuck the bear in game (sex scene shown)

Edit: it’s really a druid in bear form, but still shows you fucking a bear

[Botten]

Lol bringing politics into Baldur's Gate 3. The fun never ends here.

Just saying...
https://earlygame.com/gaming/baldurs-gate-3-genitals


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[MrSparkle001]

Lol now that's just funny!

[Origen]

The only game I play that doesn't have genital selection options is Everquest.

If I can't put a giant cock on my Mii in Nintendo Sports, I'm not happy.

[unsunghero]

Now being spell charmed into being a sex slave to one of these from the pics?

Better than fucking a bear. So keep an eye out for dryads, they’re more fun than succubus

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1HVjROVJxuQ

[aussenseiter]

The only game I play that doesn't have genital selection options is Everquest.

If I can't put a giant cock on my Mii in Nintendo Sports, I'm not happy.

I don't think I would have been allowed to play BG3 at the same age I played BG/BG2.

You?

[Origen]

I don't think I would have been allowed to play BG3 at the same age I played BG/BG2.

You?They'd have been opposed if they knew about it, but they didn't. Or wouldn't have. Had my own computer by 1998 I'm pretty sure.

My mom got REAL mad once when she saw the boobies in Daggerfall, though.

[Evia]

I thought the genital option was hilarious! Lol, I wasn't expecting that at all. It has me wondering what kind of shenanigans my character can get into if this was something I had to choose.

[Ekco]

saw a clip of the party walkin in on a half orc fisting an ogre or someshit in a barn on twitter...

game seems to be aimed at people really into "those" skyrim mods

[unsunghero]

I thought the genital option was hilarious! Lol, I wasn't expecting that at all. It has me wondering what kind of shenanigans my character can get into if this was something I had to choose.

You can romance all joinable NPC’s complete with some awkward cgi sex scene

[unsunghero]

saw a clip of the party walkin in on a half orc fisting an ogre or someshit in a barn on twitter...

game seems to be aimed at people really into "those" skyrim mods

Yeah never understood those mods

Hentai-style games do it better so if you’re into that why not just play those

[Evia]

Minor spoiler: Don't trust bards you rescue from goblin fortresses.

[Christopher]

I refuse to buy it because they support zoophilia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gYvnwGlihY

And look at all those disgusting despicable people in the crowd clapping and cheering for a bear having sex with a humanoid.

I can only begin to imagine all the furries who purchased multiple copies of BG3

Disgusting.

[unsunghero]

I refuse to buy it because they support zoophilia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gYvnwGlihY

And look at all those disgusting despicable people in the crowd clapping and cheering for a bear having sex with a humanoid.

I can only begin to imagine all the furries who purchased multiple copies of BG3

Disgusting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApRNqm8ggMs

[Evia]

I refuse to buy it because they support zoophilia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gYvnwGlihY

And look at all those disgusting despicable people in the crowd clapping and cheering for a bear having sex with a humanoid.

I can only begin to imagine all the furries who purchased multiple copies of BG3

Disgusting.

Gahhh gross! Is this the bear scene yall talking about? Wild. No pun intended.

While I certainly find that pretty awful, it's kinda par for the course with this type of game. People want endless choices and ridiculous scenarios to unfold. With mystical druids in the game this was bound to happen eventually. Not saying I'm in support but I'm not surprised.

And if I started boycotting every single thing that didn't align with my morals and values, I'd never watch or play another video game or movie ever again. Violence is so normalized in our culture even the "good guys" fight/kill/hurt people. The purpose of 90% of video games is some variation of "murder/defeat the enemy" in some way shape or form. We just call it competition to feel like we're civilized and not barbarians.

[Origen]

I refuse to buy it because they support zoophilia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gYvnwGlihY

And look at all those disgusting despicable people in the crowd clapping and cheering for a bear having sex with a humanoid.

I can only begin to imagine all the furries who purchased multiple copies of BG3

Disgusting.Mods please punish this person for posting such obvious erotica, that youtube scene is TOO SEXY for this forum

[Trexller]

told everyone a decade ago that legalization of gay marriage and normalization of deviant behaviors was gonna lead things like pedophilia, zoophilia etc

Imagine what comes after those things become "normal" in society.

Lock your doors and watch, we won't have to wait long

August 2023, its no longer enough to have tranny characters anymore, now you have to promote sex with animals to be "woke"

I honestly can't imagine what these broken and lost people are going to come up with next.

[unsunghero]

told everyone a decade ago that legalization of gay marriage and normalization of deviant behaviors was gonna lead things like pedophilia, zoophilia etc

Imagine what comes after those things become "normal" in society.

Lock your doors and watch, we won't have to wait long

August 2023, its no longer enough to have tranny characters anymore, now you have to promote sex with animals to be "woke"

I honestly can't imagine what these broken and lost people are going to come up with next.

The problem with pornography, according to neuroscientists like Dr Huberman, is that many need to keep upping the edginess/deviance in order to get the same dopamine hit as before

[Origen]

Oh, you drama queens, there's warning against sex with animals in the old testament, it's nothing new, you're just bored.

Maybe try cultivating a sense of humor instead of being a bored reactionary looking for reasons to get mad, yeah?

[Tormmac]

why are RPGs now weird sex games with fetish bait everywhere, who the fuck is asking for this shit? is everyone else a frustrated virgin but me???? i just want to low fantasy without gryphon fisting or homosex orgies

[aussenseiter]

why are RPGs now weird sex games with fetish bait everywhere, who the fuck is asking for this shit? is everyone else a frustrated virgin but me???? i just want to low fantasy without gryphon fisting or homosex orgies

https://i.imgur.com/dndZDKI.png

Wasn't there also a recruitable character in BG1 that was a kiddy diddler? (https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Tiax)

[Toxigen]

why are RPGs now weird sex games with fetish bait everywhere, who the fuck is asking for this shit? is everyone else a frustrated virgin but me???? i just want to low fantasy without gryphon fisting or homosex orgies

jews

[unsunghero]

why are RPGs now weird sex games with fetish bait everywhere, who the fuck is asking for this shit? is everyone else a frustrated virgin but me???? i just want to low fantasy without gryphon fisting or homosex orgies

It’s about the history of BG and of the studio Larian. In their other acclaimed rpg, Divinity Original Sin 2, I believe you could romance all joinable NPC’s as well. There’s also a brothel where you can hook up with a prostitute, but I believe doing so results in stat loss because she’s secretly a witch or something. When she offers you are supposed to say no. It doesn’t show it though

In BG1 you could romance certain joinable NPC’s if they were compatible to your alignment, and same goes for BG2

In their super woke expansion, Siege of Dragonspear (based all around immigration), you can romance any char. There’s also a half orc fighter-thief (Dorn) with an awesome 2h sword who joins you, who will aggressively hit on you no matter what your char’s gender. A bit awkward fending off his romantic gay advances on me, because he is an awesome char class and stat-wise with a cool unique ability. I used him in all my playthroughs

He’s what opened my eyes to the power of a stealthing backstabbing (with a big 2handed sword = BOOM!) fighter-thief as an archetype

[Origen]

why are RPGs now weird sex games with fetish bait everywhere, who the fuck is asking for this shit? is everyone else a frustrated virgin but me???? i just want to low fantasy without gryphon fisting or homosex orgiesYou are under no obligation to play video game

[druidbob]

Haven't played BG3 yet so I don't know how they handle it, but pretty much every other rpg of that style I have played with romances were pretty easy to opt out of if you weren't interested. In BG2, a follower would have a flirty dialogue there was always an option to end it right then and they would never bring it up again. Don't know why Dorn was constantly hitting on you unless you weren't picking the "absolutely not" response.

[Swish]

why are RPGs now weird sex games with fetish bait everywhere, who the fuck is asking for this shit? is everyone else a frustrated virgin but me???? i just want to low fantasy without gryphon fisting or homosex orgies

You can't have that anymore apparently.

[Ekco]

https://i.imgur.com/vbJOJMk.png

[Bardp1999]

Havnt got fully into BG3 yet - Im still in the goblin fort - the combat is just so shitty it makes it hard for me to play. It seems like one of those games where when it finally clicks ill spend the next 200 hours playing it though. Im into the concept of the game.

Im still hate playing D4 wishing it would get better... Been playing some P99 also actually, have a 31 cleric im leveling

[Cen]

https://i.imgur.com/AZakziR.jpg

I made a familar human face from everquest for a paladin.

[Evia]

https://i.imgur.com/vbJOJMk.png

Am I the only one who clicks random until something half decent appears, edits the hair style and color, then clicks create?


I do that in every character creation no matter the game. Idgaf about the depth of my eyes or the cleft in my chin. I’m just not interested in that stuff. If my character looks decent I’ll fix the hair and I’m gtg!

[Toxigen]

Am I the only one who clicks random until something half decent appears, edits the hair style and color, then clicks create?


I do that in every character creation no matter the game. Idgaf about the depth of my eyes or the cleft in my chin. I’m just not interested in that stuff. If my character looks decent I’ll fix the hair and I’m gtg!

same except i dont even do that

you wind up w/ gear covering it over anyway

[unsunghero]

same except i dont even do that

you wind up w/ gear covering it over anyway

I completely forgot you could change appearance when I created p99 char, was just excited to play for the first time

So stuck with the default HIE male stuck-up-looking facial expression and whatever hair style

[PRogers]

Dont drink potions!

Turns out, you're supposed to smash em on the ground and roll in them.

I'm not kidding. It heals more people that way.

[cd288]

Dont drink potions!

Turns out, you're supposed to smash em on the ground and roll in them.

I'm not kidding. It heals more people that way.

Is that actually true? lol

[PRogers]

Is that actually true? lol

group your party together, throw the potion between them. Stand a good distance away so the potion actually breaks though. It will hit all 3 of them instead of 1 person drinking it.

[cd288]

Wow that's cool to know thanks!

[Smoofers]

Gonna sit this one out, thanks

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1112891954187997294/1138712387734732830/20230809_061027.png

[aussenseiter]

Gonna sit this one out, thanks

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1112891954187997294/1138712387734732830/20230809_061027.png

lol

[nilbog]

^ These aspects seemed way more prevalent in early gameplay. I like to think of it like some good subscription service where a show's pilot has more sex than you will ever see again.

Then again, that might just be my single experience as a forest gnome monk. Great game imo, tons of non-linear options. Impressed by their dev team and stance against microstransactions.

[Evia]

The game is like story overload. I have so many interesting plots and subplots I feel like I'm on some sort of over the top reality TV show.

[Toxigen]

Can't wait til PS5 release!

[unsunghero]

In case you haven’t seen it, this went viral and once I heard everyone talking about it I realized it’s all true: modern games are so much worse than games before “always online” and “micro transactions” existed as concepts

Old school games had to be complete products, and good enough to be successful only on the single initial buy. Not like these modern games which ship full of bugs, unfinished, with a bunch of little ways to nickel and dime the playerbase for more money

Preach, brother. No one wants to hear about how making games is hard

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWdZhKFtxKg

[unsunghero]

^
Most modern games studios are full of the same shitty quiet quitter generation that is ruining tv and movies

[PRogers]

It obviously down to the workforce, not the people in charge with the final say on the product.

[unsunghero]

It obviously down to the workforce, not the people in charge with the final say on the product.

Because producers and movie studios are telling their writers “hey let’s make a movie or tv show, but let’s also make it terrible. Write the shittiest story and dialog you possibly can. We want it to not sell”

It’s too coincidental that all forms of digital art and storytelling suck nowadays

[unsunghero]

Also, has anyone seen the widely panned video with a 98% dislike ratio of Diablo 4 devs playing Diablo 4? They don’t know how to play their own game

[Landroval]

Because producers and movie studios are telling their writers “hey let’s make a movie or tv show, but let’s also make it terrible. Write the shittiest story and dialog you possibly can. We want it to not sell”

It’s too coincidental that all forms of digital art and storytelling suck nowadays


It's more like: "Here's the cultural opinion-shaping message we want to relay, make a movie about capeshit that delivers this message"

And

"I've got this messaging I want to deliver to viewers, but a new movie franchise won't attract enough people so let's take x wildly successful franchise and embed this cultural opinion-shaping message into; it doesn't matter if this drastically alters or even destroys the franchise, the messaging is the important part"

If you don't understand that simple concept, then you're lost. In the early 2000s the bad guys in the movies and TV shows were jihadi terrorists because they wanted you to infer that muslims were the enemy while they dehumanized them

Now it's white supremacists, because that's what they want you to dehumanize white people.

The point isn't to deliver a good movie or TV show that is appreciated by the audience; the point is to deliver the propaganda in the guise of a motion picture

[Evia]

I think youre both right.
It's heavy propaganda as the primary culprit with a lack of creativity from millennials/gen z showing strongly as well.



Preach, brother. No one wants to hear about how making games is hard

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWdZhKFtxKg

IGN made that video? wow. thats insane. I usually never agree with them LOL.

[unsunghero]

I think youre both right.
It's heavy propaganda as the primary culprit with a lack of creativity from millennials/gen z showing strongly as well.



Yea that seems right

[jolanar]

Game is fun but got a little repetitive for me after a while. Quests all feel kinda samey. Not sure I'll be able to finish the story to be honest. Combat is either way too easy or too frustrating/unfun depending on the encounter.

It's weird to me people are acting like it's some kind of masterpiece or the greatest game of all time. So far it hasn't done anything all that different from BG1 and 2 but with better graphics.

[unsunghero]

I’ll relate this story from a co-worker regarding BG3 I found funny:

He plays a co-op game with an alcoholic friend of his who continues to get more and more piss drunk the longer they play. The alcoholic was playing a Dragonborn barbarian and didn’t realize that barbarians armor class actually improves based on their stats when not wearing armor

So when hearing about this, my co-worker asked his alcoholic friend to try removing his medium armor, and his barbarian’s armor class went up like 10 points. So he said you need to not wear armor

His friend said “but I already threw out my character’s clothes!” So he continued to have to play with a fully nude Barbarian standing around in the cutscenes with his floppy Dragonborn dick hanging in everyone’s faces

Eventually my co-worker got sick of it and checked every char’s inventory for clothes. Apparently some female NPC had a pair of underwear, so they gave it to the barbarian. When he put it on it’s like a little sexy thong and chest harness

I asked if they started calling him Leather Daddy and co-worker said yea

[Cen]

Game is fun but got a little repetitive for me after a while. Quests all feel kinda samey. Not sure I'll be able to finish the story to be honest. Combat is either way too easy or too frustrating/unfun depending on the encounter.

It's weird to me people are acting like it's some kind of masterpiece or the greatest game of all time. So far it hasn't done anything all that different from BG1 and 2 but with better graphics.

I mean its been a long time since people had even mediocre games ;D They forgot the taste

I’ll relate this story from a co-worker regarding BG3 I found funny:

He plays a co-op game with an alcoholic friend of his who continues to get more and more piss drunk the longer they play. The alcoholic was playing a Dragonborn barbarian and didn’t realize that barbarians armor class actually improves based on their stats when not wearing armor

So when hearing about this, my co-worker asked his alcoholic friend to try removing his medium armor, and his barbarian’s armor class went up like 10 points. So he said you need to not wear armor

His friend said “but I already threw out my character’s clothes!” So he continued to have to play with a fully nude Barbarian standing around in the cutscenes with his floppy Dragonborn dick hanging in everyone’s faces

Eventually my co-worker got sick of it and checked every char’s inventory for clothes. Apparently some female NPC had a pair of underwear, so they gave it to the barbarian. When he put it on it’s like a little sexy thong and chest harness

I asked if they started calling him Leather Daddy and co-worker said yea

I have a nude half orc barbarian as a side character, I was having fun throwing everyone everywhere. Nobody in cutscenes cares about you being super casual with pp out :D

[Evia]

I’ll relate this story from a co-worker regarding BG3 I found funny:

He plays a co-op game with an alcoholic friend of his who continues to get more and more piss drunk the longer they play. The alcoholic was playing a Dragonborn barbarian and didn’t realize that barbarians armor class actually improves based on their stats when not wearing armor

So when hearing about this, my co-worker asked his alcoholic friend to try removing his medium armor, and his barbarian’s armor class went up like 10 points. So he said you need to not wear armor

His friend said “but I already threw out my character’s clothes!” So he continued to have to play with a fully nude Barbarian standing around in the cutscenes with his floppy Dragonborn dick hanging in everyone’s faces

Eventually my co-worker got sick of it and checked every char’s inventory for clothes. Apparently some female NPC had a pair of underwear, so they gave it to the barbarian. When he put it on it’s like a little sexy thong and chest harness

I asked if they started calling him Leather Daddy and co-worker said yea

LOL - thats awesome

[Cyber Ninja]

@unsunghero: This is what we've been waiting for. Raging naked barbarian with dong hanging out.

[unsunghero]

Funny shit

It’s a little unsettling how many people’s heads you can curb-stomp in cutscenes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QmZFxAqZKuU

[magnetaress]

wat is up with the controversy with this game there in trouble butt seems to be super popular game r now

[Evia]

wat is up with the controversy with this game there in trouble butt seems to be super popular game r now

They're in trouble? The only controversy I've heard is that triple A developers don't want the consumer to start expecting this kind of quality I'm our video games.

Is there something else?

[magnetaress]

Funny shit

It’s a little unsettling how many people’s heads you can curb-stomp in cutscenes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QmZFxAqZKuU

thyis is like the best game ever lol

[magnetaress]

They're in trouble? The only controversy I've heard is that triple A developers don't want the consumer to start expecting this kind of quality I'm our video games.

Is there something else?

idk asmongold made like 50 videos about it but i have not watched cuz i was afraid someone was upset there was a gay character or something

[magnetaress]

like maybe they overpromised and under delivered or something

[magnetaress]

oh i caught up by watching the vid unsunghero posted

ya 99% of triple a game companies need to collapse into a black hole

funny bg3 delivered becasue 1&2 where rebels too lol

[magnetaress]

^
Most modern games studios are full of the same shitty quiet quitter generation that is ruining tv and movies

yes because kids these days wont fire their fucking bosses lawl

(and become the boss)

R.I.P. a few mor generations i think!

TOO BE HONEST (i am going to quickly plug my CCP put the crazy rich coots in welfare hospitals under socialized medicine and take their lands) and give back to the gnolls!

[magnetaress]

before i lay my head down to rest tho i'm going to celebrate that 800k ppl are happy with their purchase !

go capitalism go !

[magnetaress]

honestly after watching a lot of bg3 videos it looks really fun and cool and silly butt it also looks way to wierd for me like it is very queer game no matter how u want to play it it's art style screams new age elf monarchy plastic surgery for elf ears on earth for all x a million and the halfling barbarian dudes are a meme they kinda feel out of place in the universe which is fucking hilarious because all boobs in that game are 10/10 and there are no 'normal' characters that seem to be just normie every day fat old shop keepers who servived the last demon apocolypse by just not going into the city during the invasions/famines and just red a book by themselves in their little peasent hovel

like they need some authentic medieval survivlist in there to be inclusive and ground the game for the mortal races that aren't like pandimensional and pansexual

[magnetaress]

The problem with pornography, according to neuroscientists like Dr Huberman, is that many need to keep upping the edginess/deviance in order to get the same dopamine hit as before

this is basically the problem

it used to be a little ankle could titalate us and those days are long gone

i agree with the ppl that when vid games stray out of strategy/story into porn territory its a huge turn off for me because its just basically gross

as a little 14 year oldd this would have sold me butt its gross now and really detracts from the rest of the world building elements and why are devs spending time on this when they could be adding another cool dungeon level with a puzzle

[magnetaress]

so i personally don't blame the studio but really its just our society has fallen so far that the masses demand several penis sizes to chose from its not like they devs are really in love with this just that it's neccissary in order to really sell the game now

sex appeal is way to important in modern multimedia which games are a part of like

the old school EQ troll and ogre >

NO ONE WOULD MAKE THEM ANYMORE

same with the old school EQ dwarf just not sexy enough so u end up with wierd wow shit that is like some kind of compromise

if i want to play an undead with my face rotting off and guts dangling NOPE too much hardcore no playing of lizard ppl who can like literally bite off heads anymore either just not sexy enough (look at dracthyr in wow).

Everything needs to look super cudly now with big eyes and shit too

the dark forest full of hidden horrors? SORRY it's full of adorable fucking squirls

[Toxigen]

i just wanna fuck a bear in this game

[druidbob]

Just got to act 3 in BG3, as someone who played the previous games one thing that kinda threw me off is how many missions apparently have timers. In the old games you could pretty much do any side quest in any order, but now it's "oh you decided to explore the temple your cleric desperately wanted to go to? Sorry, but now those prisoners you were supposed to rescue are all dead." Wouldn't be a problem if I knew that ahead of time, but suddenly noticed I had like 4 failed quests and I wasn't about to load that far back to do them lol.

[druidbob]

But that is just one critique in what has otherwise been a very solid game so far.

[magnetaress]

i just wanna fuck a bear in this game

A cute bear tho right?

[magnetaress]

But that is just one critique in what has otherwise been a very solid game so far.

Seems like bg3 is just helping out with highlighting your priorities.

Who cares about some dumbasses who got themselves prisoners'eded.

[unsunghero]

Kinda funny how the woke women (I’m assuming women) asking people to stop making “sexy” mods for games like BG3 call their detractors incels and virgins, while their detractors call them ugly, undesirable women

Ya’ll are both calling each other the same thing yknow!

There’s probably mods to make the characters look weird in other ways, or even ugly, or grotesque. Basically mods are like porn, if you can think it up, there’s probably a mod for it

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpPrP8g0Vs

[magnetaress]

TOOO BE FAIR

the lady in that screenshot is not anotomically correct even hersELF

[magnetaress]

This is one of those times tho where shaming doesnt work I agree unsunghero!

its sillyness to cut into something someone else likes, even if its bordering on that paraphelia kinda territory/loneleness/sadness u can't take an incel and put him in a mall and expect them to like work like normal ppl

Honestly I think a lot of ppl just need to be handed a battleaxe and fed to the robotic lionoid gladiators in a public deathmatch tv show with betting on who or what is going to win ---- you will quickly see the more socially adept scream to the top of the listings (hungergames is a bit too long to watch but demonstrates this admirably).... so you circle right back to the original problem:

Maladapted ppl with unrealistic expectations and likely dysphoria/sadness within themselves and no environment to work it out and become who they truly want to be waifu or otherwise!

much love <3 an ugly sack of meat stuck in corporeal form and who is maladapted !

[magnetaress]

And finally when u shame that one little tiny thing that isn't that big of a deal of what is holding someones life together the little bit of glue or cobble between two big ol boulders of 'i'm not good enough, i will never be that Esexy or rich enough to do that to myself or someone else' whelllll

ya u get shooties

it shouldn't come to that

and men should be happy and proud of who they are and feel valued and value themselves and have something to do with themselves that make them feel alive and challenges them all on their own for starters without the need for massive boobs butttttyah

lol

*I THINK* jordan petey would agree not 100% sure of this tho

[magnetaress]

https://i.ibb.co/t2tcQzZ/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

I gave "her" a nose job and forgot the pupils sorry !

[magnetaress]

THEEE most hilarious thing of getting those angled catfish shots and cutesie poses mastered is now i can't unsee it EVERYwheERYE

so while the screeching feminists are being means

it is fucking hilarious

and its all fucking gross ! <3

[magnetaress]

the truth is humanoids / hominids are shaped wierd and oddly inneficiently for survival we are just kinda magically alive in this state

its a wierd ass miracle and Jesus is the most beautiful being I have ever seen

[druidbob]

You can literally pick up children and throw them into pits of fire in this game, but the bewbs are the problem lol.

[MrSparkle001]

The game has too much flirting for me but it's a well-crafted game. They have to dial back all the flirting though. At least give us an option in settings to disable it entirely or only with chosen companions, because damn all these companions want to get with me and I ain't having none of that, except for Shadowheart because she's kind of hot.

I would love to see expansions and DLC to extend character levels well past level 12, like how the old Neverwinter Nights had expansions that could take your character all the way to level 40.

Creation tools would be great too. Imagine the kinds of worlds and quests the community could come up with? Imagine persistent online worlds with increased character level limits.

I also want to see Larian make a game like this set either in Cormyr or the Moonsea. I played the original SSI Pool Of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds and Secret of the Silver Blades in the 80s and I've been waiting for a proper CRPG to take me back to that again. I want to see Phlan and the Moonsea and Hillsfar and Dagger Falls and all those areas again.

hyVZghMKrVk

They have created something amazing here. Expand upon it now! Expand the game to high levels with high level content, add other areas of the Forgotten Realms maybe in their own games if necessary, and give the modding community a way to create their own worlds and they can absolutely dominate CRPGs for the foreseeable future.

[unsunghero]

^
The evil DE chick paladin (WTF is a an evil dark elf paladin though anyway…) has a decently hot face but not into her voice. I always had a thing for dark elves

And yea, I heard you can hit the level cap of 12 while still in act 2, or maybe it was early act 3. I always used to use a cheat in BG to remove the level cap…

[Ekco]

most editions of DnD/D20 systems the math starts to spin out of control at high level, sweet spot has always been like lvl 3 - 10 of the bell curve.

they got rid of alignment and the class restrictions based on it in 5e, not allowed to have a race that is 99.99% evil like dark elves with the one exception being a ranger named Drizzt because that's a racism. the average player group today consists of half the group being KOS things like Tieflings or Dragonborn being hand waved with a hooded cloak to hide their face + the paladin doing all the talking so the entire game isn't based around every new town you come across wanting to kill the entire party

reminder that Mystara in the 1980s did it better and forgotten realms is dumb
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[Cecily]

BG3 legit looks like a queer / furry convention to me and I find myself conflicted and amused by the irony of asking a DnD game why can't you be normal?

[Ekco]

it's been trending that way for a while, since Dragon Age with the computer games and 4th edition for the tabletop game. old school players realized they don't need WOTC dictating how the game is played to them considering you can't trademark a rules system they just make content they want for themselves.

Dolmenwood an active kickstarter is at 1.3 million of a 200k goal for a campaign setting that uses OSR rules (Old School Renaissance)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/dolmenwood-tabletop-rpg

while wizards is publishing books like the critical role campaign setting, shit from the magic the gathering universe and a rip off of harry potter called Strixhaven

it's literally two separate customer bases now that want nothing to do with each other.

BUL1fIsPGBc

[unsunghero]

I should post on Twitter how she’s hotter as the goth girlfriend to make the IRL insecure lose their minds

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNtZ6Abb7xs

[Toxigen]

im not super impressed so far but imma give it an honest full playthrough

[Ekco]

im not super impressed so far but imma give it an honest full playthrough

found a screenshot of Toxigen's playthrough.

https://i.imgur.com/GFLoXq9.jpg

[Swish]

I'm not so sure he'd play a bard.

[unsunghero]

Someone should try modding big boy Demon prince Orcus (#1 on this list) into some future expansion of BG3 or DND game

Being able to summon 500HD worth of undead at will (let’s grab a few liches and a dracolich) along with all his other mechanics seem pretty OP

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bZPVAH3104U

[Toxigen]

I'm not so sure he'd play a bard.

Oddly enough I am playing bard, lol.

Its just not a game for PS5 I'm finding. All the streams I watched prior to buying it were PC...its just a bit clunky for console but I'm probably just slow getting used to it.

[Evia]

Oddly enough I am playing bard, lol.

Its just not a game for PS5 I'm finding. All the streams I watched prior to buying it were PC...its just a bit clunky for console but I'm probably just slow getting used to it.

sucks to hear you're not having as great of a time as most of the rest of us.

i havent picked it up on ps5 yet. i was going to get it to play through with my wife on couch co-op, but she's since suggested we try wow hc instead. eventually ill likely pick it up although im hesitant now with you saying its a bit clunky.

[Toxigen]

sucks to hear you're not having as great of a time as most of the rest of us.

i havent picked it up on ps5 yet. i was going to get it to play through with my wife on couch co-op, but she's since suggested we try wow hc instead. eventually ill likely pick it up although im hesitant now with you saying its a bit clunky.

Its just the inventory management, how the skills don't display the same, character sheets, etc.

If I put another 20 hours in I'm sure it will smooth out a bit. Vastly inferior to the PC experience either way, though.

[Vormotus]

Everyone I know of is playing this, they all tell me about their great sexcapades with their party, who or whom boned who or what, and to me , in my little whatsapp group it has all been a huge thread of sweaty teary drama infested orgy of bodies of all genders and dispositions giving, taking and receiving in all positions a lot of hot homoerotic lesbic sex.

I dont know if the game is any good, but all I know is there are a lot of ways to bone every single party member you come across.

My whatsapp group is full of people 40+ years old with wives, kids, mortagages and all the normal trappings of modern civilization, yet I feel in a room of horny teenager kids.

Whatever the game does it must be amazing and I cant wait to play it around december, when I finally ditch my old 2015 computer which I have not had the need to replace because I only play very old games, BG3 will force me to buy a new one only to be in the loop.

From what I have seen in yt besides the 70s style orgies it looks great mechanically.

[Evia]

Everyone I know of is playing this, they all tell me about their great sexcapades with their party, who or whom boned who or what, and to me , in my little whatsapp group it has all been a huge thread of sweaty teary drama infested orgy of bodies of all genders and dispositions giving, taking and receiving in all positions a lot of hot homoerotic lesbic sex.

I dont know if the game is any good, but all I know is there are a lot of ways to bone every single party member you come across.

My whatsapp group is full of people 40+ years old with wives, kids, mortagages and all the normal trappings of modern civilization, yet I feel in a room of horny teenager kids.

Whatever the game does it must be amazing and I cant wait to play it around december, when I finally ditch my old 2015 computer which I have not had the need to replace because I only play very old games, BG3 will force me to buy a new one only to be in the loop.

From what I have seen in yt besides the 70s style orgies it looks great mechanically.

FWIW I played the whole game and never had any more than 1 sexual/romantic encounter. That kinda stuff isnt why i'm playing...i'll just watch porn if i'm trying to see digital tits. I really dont understand why everyone seems so hyper focused on this aspect of the game.

[unsunghero]

FWIW I played the whole game and never had any more than 1 sexual/romantic encounter. That kinda stuff isnt why i'm playing...i'll just watch porn if i'm trying to see digital tits. I really dont understand why everyone seems so hyper focused on this aspect of the game.

Supposedly there was a bug that Larian acknowledged causing the NPC romance cycle for certain NPC's to be unintentionally fast

[PRogers]

FWIW I played the whole game and never had any more than 1 sexual/romantic encounter. That kinda stuff isnt why i'm playing...i'll just watch porn if i'm trying to see digital tits. I really dont understand why everyone seems so hyper focused on this aspect of the game.

Because they are prudes.

He will probably cry when he finds out you can take off their underwear and see their pp's and vagina's, too. Not like its a game for adults.

[magnetaress]

it's like sleeping in bed with a doll with a vagina, u got issues if that is the reason u bought this game lawl

there may be an edge case where i could see this being ok, like ur spirit has left ur body and ur brain is just an animals and ur parents want to keep u around and stimulated or something.

otherwise u are just going to suffer longer until u accept christ into your heart and give up your desires for vaginas and penesis

[PRogers]

it's like sleeping in bed with a doll with a vagina, u got issues if that is the reason u bought this game lawl

there may be an edge case where i could see this being ok, like ur spirit has left ur body and ur brain is just an animals and ur parents want to keep u around and stimulated or something.

otherwise u are just going to suffer longer until u accept christ into your heart and give up your desires for vaginas and penesis

Jokes on jesus, I like butts.

[magnetaress]

Jokes on jesus, I like butts.

well butts are universally included in just about everything ppl make so u r good to go !

they are like a natural law of the universe u will never be lonely ! (I hope u are not )

[PRogers]

I have an SO but thank you <3
I hope the same for you.

[greatdane]

One thing that's disappointing is how easy the game is when you know the mechanics and itemization. The very start can be tough because you have nothing, and there's a select few fights that remain difficult; but by and large, the game becomes trivial even on Tactician if you aren't making big mistakes. Doesn't even take supreme skill and knowledge of every single thing, just having played through the game once before and having a general understanding of D&D was enough.

Did the first playthrough on the normal difficulty setting and played it blind, so I missed a bunch of content and went a very inefficient route with regards to the timing of obtaining the big items. That made it moderately difficult. But on just the second playthrough, on the highest difficulty, it's not even really enjoyable when no fights pose any sort of challenge. It isn't even some min-maxed optimal party of OP builds, it's just four coherent builds that don't suck.

I hate when I have to actively handicap myself in order for a game to offer a challenge. Compared to the hardest modes in games like Pillars of Eternity, BG3's Tactician mode just doesn't do enough. Playing well should reward you with the ability to beat the hardest game mode, not punish you by making it trivial.

[Toxigen]

Jokes on jesus, I like butts.

butt is where poop comes from

hope this helps

[unsunghero]

One thing that's disappointing is how easy the game is when you know the mechanics and itemization. The very start can be tough because you have nothing, and there's a select few fights that remain difficult; but by and large, the game becomes trivial even on Tactician if you aren't making big mistakes. Doesn't even take supreme skill and knowledge of every single thing, just having played through the game once before and having a general understanding of D&D was enough.

Did the first playthrough on the normal difficulty setting and played it blind, so I missed a bunch of content and went a very inefficient route with regards to the timing of obtaining the big items. That made it moderately difficult. But on just the second playthrough, on the highest difficulty, it's not even really enjoyable when no fights pose any sort of challenge. It isn't even some min-maxed optimal party of OP builds, it's just four coherent builds that don't suck.

I hate when I have to actively handicap myself in order for a game to offer a challenge. Compared to the hardest modes in games like Pillars of Eternity, BG3's Tactician mode just doesn't do enough. Playing well should reward you with the ability to beat the hardest game mode, not punish you by making it trivial.

Yea apparently the consensus was anyone who was unfamiliar with turn based and dnd mechanics would say “this game is too hard on normal” and anyone who was familiar with these would say “this game is too easy on tactician”

This was why mods had to be made for BG1 and BG2 to greatly increase the difficulty, because after multiple playthrough everyone becomes an all-knowing psychic. Like “let’s throw a fireball into those bushes over there. Oh look at that, they were full of bandits”, etc

To be fair, the difficulty mods for previous iterations really did work well. They would improve the enemy AI, allowing enemies to do things like use magic items and drink potions while in combat

Not sure how that would work for BG3 since the enemy AI is probably much more advanced than previous games. But I’m sure a good difficulty mod will eventually come out

[Toxigen]

Why can't they just make Champions of Norrath again?

shit was so good

[unsunghero]

My buddy was telling me one of the hardest fights in the game is against some Demon Raphael in one of the 9 hells, mostly because you have to save some weak cleric that he really likes to throw fireballs at

He said the soundtrack was cool though. I thought the vocals were almost corny at times but I’m digging that organ and castlevania style theme

Didn’t realize that a lot of the soundtrack in the game involves singing? This was sung by the voice actors apparently

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xMo7ugWudCA

[Swish]

https://media.tenor.com/J7N5-wnwsRwAAAAd/catjam-cat.gif

[greatdane]

Yea apparently the consensus was anyone who was unfamiliar with turn based and dnd mechanics would say “this game is too hard on normal” and anyone who was familiar with these would say “this game is too easy on tactician”

This was why mods had to be made for BG1 and BG2 to greatly increase the difficulty, because after multiple playthrough everyone becomes an all-knowing psychic. Like “let’s throw a fireball into those bushes over there. Oh look at that, they were full of bandits”, etc

To be fair, the difficulty mods for previous iterations really did work well. They would improve the enemy AI, allowing enemies to do things like use magic items and drink potions while in combat

Not sure how that would work for BG3 since the enemy AI is probably much more advanced than previous games. But I’m sure a good difficulty mod will eventually come out

I actually didn't like the commonly popular difficulty mods of BG2. Mind you, I did play with SCS, because the game was laughably easy without it; but it mostly boiled down to "enemies will wholly ignore anyone who has a defensive ability running" and "enemy spellcasters get to start the fight with every buff available to their class." While it did serve to make the game tougher, it did it in a lame way that didn't really hit the spot.

Sword Coast Stratagems even had some serious problems associated with it. It became impossible to play any melee character that did not have either insanely high AC or mage spell protections. Since this mod made the AI tunnelvision on anyone they could damage, playing any build that was lightly armored and not able to cast Stoneskin became almost unviable for the first half of the game, until you could stack enough unrealistic amounts of "this is essentially full plate +2 but it's made of dragonscales so we'll consider it leather armor lmfao."

Then we arrive at BG3 where the highest difficulty tier mostly just does two things: enemies have 30% more health and +2 to their attack rolls. But it doesn't change the fact that if you build your characters even slightly well, the fights are usually over in one or two turns. Even if you haven't quite finished off the last couple of inconsequential mooks after two turns, the battle is won if you didn't pretty much die right away.

I wish that there was a setting where the fights were legitimately difficult, but there isn't. You can play it on normal mode, where it's a joke, or on Tactician where they get a minor bump to HP and attack rolls. And as soon as you have the slightest idea of how to play the game properly, even the highest difficulty tier is totally trivial.

If we compare it to SCS (a mod for BG2), it takes a lot more to succeed. Many encounters are completely different, and even with the ones that aren't, you have to approach them in a new way. This is not at all the case in BG3. It just takes three instead of two attacks to kill each enemy, and they're slightly more likely to hit you.

My first impulse upon realizing this was "well, maybe I'll just make a really weak party that sucks and see if I can make it with that." Then my next thought was "but then almost all of the game's rewards are meaningless and there are no upgrades to look forward to." This is the main weak point in an otherwise excellent game.

[Toxigen]

I actually didn't like the commonly popular difficulty mods of BG2. Mind you, I did play with SCS, because the game was laughably easy without it; but it mostly boiled down to "enemies will wholly ignore anyone who has a defensive ability running" and "enemy spellcasters get to start the fight with every buff available to their class." While it did serve to make the game tougher, it did it in a lame way that didn't really hit the spot.

Sword Coast Stratagems even had some serious problems associated with it. It became impossible to play any melee character that did not have either insanely high AC or mage spell protections. Since this mod made the AI tunnelvision on anyone they could damage, playing any build that was lightly armored and not able to cast Stoneskin became almost unviable for the first half of the game, until you could stack enough unrealistic amounts of "this is essentially full plate +2 but it's made of dragonscales so we'll consider it leather armor lmfao."

Then we arrive at BG3 where the highest difficulty tier mostly just does two things: enemies have 30% more health and +2 to their attack rolls. But it doesn't change the fact that if you build your characters even slightly well, the fights are usually over in one or two turns. Even if you haven't quite finished off the last couple of inconsequential mooks after two turns, the battle is won if you didn't pretty much die right away.

I wish that there was a setting where the fights were legitimately difficult, but there isn't. You can play it on normal mode, where it's a joke, or on Tactician where they get a minor bump to HP and attack rolls. And as soon as you have the slightest idea of how to play the game properly, even the highest difficulty tier is totally trivial.

If we compare it to SCS (a mod for BG2), it takes a lot more to succeed. Many encounters are completely different, and even with the ones that aren't, you have to approach them in a new way. This is not at all the case in BG3. It just takes three instead of two attacks to kill each enemy, and they're slightly more likely to hit you.

My first impulse upon realizing this was "well, maybe I'll just make a really weak party that sucks and see if I can make it with that." Then my next thought was "but then almost all of the game's rewards are meaningless and there are no upgrades to look forward to." This is the main weak point in an otherwise excellent game.

BG3 is my first game of its type. I did absolutely zero research, went in completely blind. Playing a bard and I find it to be quite a challenge...but I'm only about 10 hours in. I have very little desire to play the game right now...its just not clicking for me and I went in thinking I would love it and do multiple playthroughs.

I think some of it is coming from the clunky PS5 controls. I watched a couple streams on PC and there is so much more information on the screen, inventory management is worlds better, etc.

But I've basically only played MMOs, FPS, and MOBAs.

[Cen]

Released on PC this morning. Ive played a couple of hours, seems promising.

The action is a bit clunky with the turn based mechanics, but I rolled a dragon-person wizard who I will be rolling into a necromancer when I can subclass or whatever the fuck they call it.

Flock to Steam fellow nerds, BG3 is upon us!!

Hope all is going well my monkly brother, rock on

[Cen]

BG3 is my first game of its type. I did absolutely zero research, went in completely blind. Playing a bard and I find it to be quite a challenge...but I'm only about 10 hours in. I have very little desire to play the game right now...its just not clicking for me and I went in thinking I would love it and do multiple playthroughs.

I think some of it is coming from the clunky PS5 controls. I watched a couple streams on PC and there is so much more information on the screen, inventory management is worlds better, etc.

But I've basically only played MMOs, FPS, and MOBAs.

CRPG's can be slow and tough if coming from Mobas or FPS for sure! I played a lot of divinity 2 and used to play a lot of neverwinter nights so it felt more natural. I was surprised how well BG3 did since CRPG's are usually not as popular.

But man I love the game Kenshi, there's like approximately 6 of us in the world who play it and like the average gamer would never be able to handle that torture ;D

Makes everquest classic look like fisher price ;D