Baldur's Gate III Announced - ...and it's coming to Google Stadia and PC

[Spud]

I've worked in offices and never wanted to fuck a bear. Where the fuck did you work at?

The Bear Sanctuary

 

[Anon88]

But the tone feels nothing like the old games, it just doesn't feel like a Baldur's Gate title.

It's because it's not a Baldur's Gate game. No one from the original two games have anything to do with BG3 at all. To me the real Baldur's Gate 3 is the Throne of Bhaal expansion and the new one is its own thing just wearing the skin of the first two games. Kind of like a half-baked fanfiction or a weird side story that's in the same world.

 

[DagothUr]

Maybe Dagoth Ur was onto something with his crusade to save the Dunmer people of morrowind, cast down the false tribunal, and drive out all of the Imperial N'wahs.

I was, and still am, right about that

make an OC, or do "The Dark Urge" ultimate murder hobo OC.

I will probably get this game one way or another and do just that. Especially if they have done away with class restrictions on stuff like Paladin, I can larp as Aryan Gigachud - W*tan's Enforcer of the TND.

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

I was, and still am, right about that


I will probably get this game one way or another and do just that. Especially if they have done away with class restrictions on stuff like Paladin, I can larp as Aryan Gigachud - W*tan's Enforcer of the TND.

In BG3, the paladin who fucked up gets shifted to a separate subclass with its own unique abilities as an Oathbreaker. They are very emo.

Spoiler: CRAAAWLING IIIN MY SKIIIN

 

[PaladinBoo]

In BG3, the paladin who fucked up gets shifted to a separate subclass with its own unique abilities as an Oathbreaker. They are very emo.

Spoiler: CRAAAWLING IIIN MY SKIIIN

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What is funny is that in Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion, Mysteries of Westgate, had a fallen paladin as a companion that didn't become a edgelord. He just changed class to a fighter and lost his divine spellcasting abilities. Also, I've been noticing that Larian is really adamant with using that gay twink elf vampire in their marketing. Is it just me or does the gay vampire elf look like the type of character you would see in a yaoi manga? He does look and act like the type of character that fujoshi's would flock to.

 

[gay]

No one from the original two games have anything to do with BG3 at all.

which is probably for the best, a lot of them are still at BioWare and have pushed out industry abortions for the past decade.

and the new one is its own thing just wearing the skin of the first two games.

BG3 for all intents and purposes is just Original Sin 3.

 

[Fag Albert]

Is it just me or does the gay vampire elf look like the type of character you would see in a yaoi manga? He does look and act like the type of character that fujoshi's would flock to.

It's a tried and true character package both in and out of RPGs

 

[The Ugly One]

You have to understand that WotC is based out of Seattle, Washington. Critical Race Theory is big here and many organizations are true believers of it. They believe half-races in general are racist because when it comes to race either you are the "oppressor race" or the "victim race". Half breeds are the ultimate proof that Critical Race Theory is bullshit. To circumvent this problem they begun to say that half breeds who choose to identify as two races are racist and that those who are mix race must choose to identify as either one race or the other. Either you are the "oppressor" or the "victim". Sadly these beliefs have wormed their way into fiction.

According to insider sources from WotC (i.e the sane employees who keep their heads down and mouths shut for fear of reprisal and cancelling from their woke brain rotted co-workers), WotC writers and employees have begun to apply CRT into their works. According to sources, humans are suppose to be stand ins for whites while the other races are stand ins for blacks, Latinos, Arabs, Asians, Jews and LGBTQ+ people. Since CRT teaches that white people are inherently and irredeemably evil so to are humans in D&D and its forbidden to interbreed with them as they don't want white/human genetics to "colonialize" the other races gene pool. Imagine being so brain rotted on woke ideology that you see some nerds fantasy of wooing the cute elf chick and having a family of half-breed children with her as "white supremacy" and "colonialism". Yes, this is fucking retarded and so stupid that I have a hard time wrapping my head around it but this is what many in WotC believe.

The other poisonous thing that's taken over woke fiction is this idea that you're morally obligated to ensure that fictional worlds are good (by their definitition) places. Sure, slavery happens all the time in the real world, but if you write a fictional world that has slavery in it...yikes, bro. When you say, "But slavery is really common in human history," the response is, "So? You have a chance to imagine a world where it doesn't exist and never existed, and you choose to put it in there? Why? Don't you understand how this harms folxes of color?" All the sources of conflict get sucked out of the fiction to the point of it becoming completely lifeless. Even if I was a lib, I can't imagine enjoying any of this sanitized, bowdlerized crap.

 

[Kharash]

Sooo... Which one of us is going to bite the bullet and document a list of all the fetishes in the game? So far we have:

1. Bestiality
2. Polyamory
3. Mind Break
4. Femdom

Just to list a few so far. I have a feeling that this maybe is going to be one of the most degenerate games ever released until Bioware releases Dragon Age 4.


There is. According to the devs you can enter into a polyamorous relationship with your companions and other NPC's.

Don't forget the goblin footfetish scene.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it's totally just a joke like everything in Larian games but that excuse only works so many times before it becomes obvious it's someone's fetish.

 

[PaladinBoo]

LMAO! Steam users are trolling Larian and WotC hard.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I don't give a shit about a random dev throwing in a bear fucking cutscene for the luls in a game I wasn't gonna buy to begin with. That squirrel's reaction in the video makes me believe that it is actually supposed to be a stupid joke scene. What's making me raise my eyebrow are the people and media rallying around it who seem to be taking it seriously. "...and here's why bear fucking is a Good Thing."

It reminds me of Rick and Morty sex "jokes" where it's clear it's a fetish, but wrapped in a wink wink, nudge nudge so the writers can always fall back into "it's just a joke, bro".

But in this case it's something someone decided had to be exposed to others, including investors, despite obviously being controversial and disgusting. The people witnessing it cheered and the gaming media and fans organised to protect bear fucking. It's just tiresome and it's a clear example of the downward spiral in morality and gaming

 

[Abbadon's Gate]

Sure, slavery happens all the time in the real world, but if you write a fictional world that has slavery in it...yikes, bro.

The anime community is really bad about this as far as I can tell from what I hear tangentially on youtube. I know they get real uppity about anything involving slavery, which is fucking retarded.

 

[White Devil]

The anime community is really bad about this as far as I can tell from what I hear tangentially on youtube. I know they get real uppity about anything involving slavery, which is fucking retarded.

Lotta niggers are weebs now. Slavery is their only real contribution to history.

 

[Abbadon's Gate]

Lotta niggers are weebs now. Slavery is their only real contribution to history.

Some may call it a contribution to history, others may call it buyers remorse.

 

[Male Idiot]

The last time I checked, the romance options in the 40k game were extremely limited because the techpriest loves toasters, the battle nun loves the Emperor and the Space Wolf loves wolves is out of your league is a spess mehreen who do not do this kind of bullshit, which only leaves the interrogator if you are female and the navigator girl if you are male. There is also an Eldar girl for those who want to bang the xeno scum but I doubt this romance will go anywhere because she is most definitely not into bestiality and you are a mon-keigh.

I feel like most of THE MESSAGE in Wrath of the Righteous was imposed on Owlcat from above in Paizo, because there is literally no transgender bullshit once you get past the prologue. Most video game jurnalists never did. WotR is practially a nunnery compared to the pride parade that BG3 is turning out to be.

Even a woke russky is pretty unwoke by western standards. I only found the male romance in game with navigstot waifu. The Interrogator was not into the female pc, and the Eldar showed no interest, though both playthroughs were "proper" imperials, perhaps the alien needs a heretic alignment.

I feel ya bro. I feel ya. Fuck, the romance with the succubus companion in Wrath of the Righteous was actually kind of wholesome. With me I'm craving for good characters to be wholesome and evil characters to be evil for the sake of being evil. I would like good align characters to embody the types of characteristics you would see in the 3e supplement Book of Exalted Deeds and have evil align characters have characteristics like you would see in the Book of Vile Darkness supplement. Instead you just get morally grey bullshit, evil people are just misunderstood (unless they are a white human male) and everyone being a sex weirdo. It's amazing to me seeing the decline of D&D under the hands of WotC.

The succubus turned good girl and Sith girl are arguable not good aligned, yet can have a decent wholesome romance.

While the woke absolutely hate good characters, they can't even have normal villain romance, a trustworthy companion to do dastardly things with. Like the Monarch and mrs Monarch.

To the woke mind, evil is good but edgy fuck the system and evil romance is just degen shit.

They can't understand evil characters any more than good. Evil and good are different moralities, and sjw only frame of reference is coom and wokeness. Principles of a more complex nature, whenever the goodiest altruism or the most tyrannical of pragmatism is just incomprehensible for them. They lack morality of any kind beside coom and kikery.

 

[FuckMeGentlyWithAChainsaw]

Now sure the whole point of Baldur's Gate is that you can happily ditch the premade companions and roll with a band of mercenaries.

Are you sure you're thinking of BG and not Icewind Dale? Unless they changed it for the re-releases you couldn't even design multiple party members unless you started a multiplayer session. And ditching the pre-made characters in BG2 means you're missing out on a lot of dialogue and some quests, it's clearly not the intended way of playing.

 

[Mega Black]

The other poisonous thing that's taken over woke fiction is this idea that you're morally obligated to ensure that fictional worlds are good (by their definitition) place

And even if these elements do appear it cannot simply exist, but must be violently torn down by woke character stand ins in a way that clearly illustrates that the author does not approve of the system and seeks to destroy it so that diverse folx in the audience can feel rightfully empowered through righteous fury.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Are you sure you're thinking of BG and not Icewind Dale? Unless they changed it for the re-releases you couldn't even design multiple party members unless you started a multiplayer session. And ditching the pre-made characters in BG2 means you're missing out on a lot of dialogue and some quests, it's clearly not the intended way of playing.

Yeah my bad I'm mixing them up. In BG3 you will be able to hire Mercenaries though to serve as custom creations.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Yeah my bad I'm mixing them up. In BG3 you will be able to hire Mercenaries though to serve as custom creations.

Frog will be the first to be yeeted. Unless there's an option to punch her in her mouth. Repeatedly. To assert my dominance, since she is into powerpays and phallometry

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

It reminds me of Rick and Morty sex "jokes" where it's clear it's a fetish, but wrapped in a wink wink, nudge nudge so the writers can always fall back into "it's just a joke, bro".

But in this case it's something someone decided had to be exposed to others, including investors, despite obviously being controversial and disgusting. The people witnessing it cheered and the gaming media and fans organised to protect bear fucking. It's just tiresome and it's a clear example of the downward spiral in morality and gaming

It is just a joke. Druids fucking in bear form was even a common joke in WoW days. While furry culture is gross and real, not everything is furry culture and this isn't furry shit, it's a joke from a zany game dev that has this kind of humor. I can't find it online anywhere anymore but I know for a fact Swen at one point voiced not understanding why people want romance options in games so bad, head dev and brains behind the company is not a perv. I've been following them a long time as a big RPG fan and the guy is just passionate about making good RPGs with lots of player choice. Not every instance of adult humor is promotion of anything.

It's because it's not a Baldur's Gate game. No one from the original two games have anything to do with BG3 at all. To me the real Baldur's Gate 3 is the Throne of Bhaal expansion and the new one is its own thing just wearing the skin of the first two games. Kind of like a half-baked fanfiction or a weird side story that's in the same world.

I can't speak to the story but this turn-based system is a lot closer to D&D to begin with, and the Baldur's Gate games (and NWN) had real-time hacks added to D&D systems simply because they thought gamers didn't have the brains or patience for turn-based gaming. I really liked how NWN worked, especially with how it handled modules, but we are unlikely to get anything like that ever again.

What is funny is that in Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion, Mysteries of Westgate, had a fallen paladin as a companion that didn't become a edgelord. He just changed class to a fighter and lost his divine spellcasting abilities. Also, I've been noticing that Larian is really adamant with using that gay twink elf vampire in their marketing. Is it just me or does the gay vampire elf look like the type of character you would see in a yaoi manga? He does look and act like the type of character that fujoshi's would flock to.

Oh, the reason is obvious, they're trying to attract more female players by including characters women are interested in. Swen talked about that a bit when his website was up (lar.net on archive.org), he even had blog posts discussing why women don't play their RPGs as much--and I don't recall his takes being particularly woke or hysterical). In fact in Dragon Commander there was an accident in development where the camera's height was set incorrectly and it lingered on some Dwarf bitch's tits but they left it in because it was funny and because "they didn't like censorship."

Anyway, I don't care about characters like this as long as they are 1) not numerous 2) well-delivered and believable and 3) don't use them to soapbox. I barely played the EA for this game but as far as shady narcissistic playboy kind of characters go, he fits in well. He's actually a very typical "modern vampire archetype" you'd see on shows like Supernatural or something and is definitely there to draw in the women that like homoerotic bad boy bishounen shit. He brings in the Twilight crowd and acts as some comic relief.

Video game romances are dumb as shit and if I was developing one of these games you bet I'd put something like this in too for a laugh. Not everything is culture war bullshit...