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

[SIMIΔN]

Your complaints have legitimacy. I think they would have been better off if they had just said it's a game in the forgotten realms instead of calling it BG3. Making Divinity OS 3 "Baldur's Gate 3" just had a simple purpose though the DnD lore is pretty neat.

It depends on how they handle the Dark Urge origin. The Baldur's Gate series revolved around the Bhaalspawn, children of the god of murder.

Anyway, I see the name as a sign WotC has sees Larian as a worthy developer. They could have licensed it to a bullshit outfit any time in the last few decades, but instead they waited for the right one.

With Baldur's Gate 3 it seems the main selling feature for the game is the romances.

Someone was paid to model ursine penises and animate human-bear sex.

 

[The Ugly One]

That is one of my main problems with this game. Larian is focusing too much on the superficial shit like romances. Compare Baldur's Gate 3 development and marketing to Starfield's. With Starfield Todd Howard and the other devs have mostly talked about exploration and the adventure you will be going on in Starfield. Gives you a sense that the main selling feature of that game is exploration. With Baldur's Gate 3 it seems the main selling feature for the game is the romances. Which would be fine if the game was a dating sim but it isn't. Baldur's Gate and the other D&D games are games famous for their writing and dialogue. RPG games that made you feel like you were playing at a table. I get why they are doing this. They want to make the game more appealing to a female audience but I feel like Larian is brushing over what is suppose to be important in a Baldur's Gate game. I mean, I had to go searching for articles when it came about the story and gameplay yet Larian just keeps hyping the romances in all their dev shows. That kind of tells you of where their priorities were.

Larian's focusing on romances because in their world, having sex in the asshole is the single most important thing in the universe. Woke RPG world is saturated with talk about gay this, trans that, and they idea that there's anything anybody wants to talk about other than gay sex really is not on their radar.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Larian's focusing on romances because in their world, having sex in the asshole is the single most important thing in the universe. Woke RPG world is saturated with talk about gay this, trans that, and they idea that there's anything anybody wants to talk about other than gay sex really is not on their radar.

If it had been up to Larian the game wouldn't have Romances period. They just are pleasing the mentally ill RPG Community.

On the brighter side Jagged Alliance 3 is actually fun.

 

[Afinepickle]

If it had been up to Larian the game wouldn't have Romances period. They just are pleasing the mentally ill RPG Community.

On the brighter side Jagged Alliance 3 is actually fun.

Dude did you even play Divinity II? While it's true the original Divinity OS didn't have any Romance options Romances, sex and melodramatics were big narrative themes in II, way more than just something they tacked on to appease coomers.

I'd absolutely believe the weird sex shit was Larian's call.

 

[Mega Black]

Larian's focusing on romances because in their world, having sex in the asshole is the single most important thing in the universe. Woke RPG world is saturated with talk about gay this, trans that, and they idea that there's anything anybody wants to talk about other than gay sex really is not on their radar.

Bioware is at fault for this. The romance is all anyone talks about and it entirely eclipses any discussion about the actual fucking game where you spend most of your time smashing goblins with sticks.

RPGs play into this because lonely nerds love digital girlfriends and girls love gay romance, and anyone who is more interested in killing shit for numbers to go up will buy it anyway.

 

[PaladinBoo]

Larian's focusing on romances because in their world, having sex in the asshole is the single most important thing in the universe. Woke RPG world is saturated with talk about gay this, trans that, and they idea that there's anything anybody wants to talk about other than gay sex really is not on their radar.

Aren't many of the devs at Larian also former Bioware employees? When you think about it it all starts to make sense. The biggest selling point of Bioware games were the romances. Should of known that when they went to a new studio they would make their games focus on romances. Video game companies really want to get that coveted female demographic.
This maybe a controversial thing for me to say but I honestly think that Starfield will have a bigger female player base then Baldur's Gate 3. Bethesda has done a good job of catering to females over the years with the modding community for Skyrim and Fallout 4. It also helps that Bethesda games have extremely simple and streamlined gameplay mechanics. Other than the romances, I don't see Baldur's Gate 3 having the same appeal.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Dude did you even play Divinity II? While it's true the original Divinity OS didn't have any Romance options Romances, sex and melodramatics were big narrative themes in II, way more than just something they tacked on to appease coomers.

I'd absolutely believe the weird sex shit was Larian's call.

Because they wanna placate the whims of the market.

Most gamers - LOL I wanna have my character get LAID. LMAO I can pick up a hooker in GTA and then kill her to get my money back!
RPG Roneryfags - I want to marry mai waifu and then have babies with her and then have my babies growup and get them laid

 

[Ser Prize]

It's not like Bioware invented romances in cRPGs. That shit goes as far back as some of the Gold Box games. I don't know why people think Bioware invented it.

As for whether it was Larian's call: any of you remember Dragon Commander? That was Larian.

No, the real crime is they're pandering to fujos with BG3. Where's my big titty dwarf girl to fill the mines with?

 

[Afinepickle]

Where's my big titty dwarf girl to fill the mines with?

I see you are also a man of culture.

Dwarf waifus are best waifus.

 

[Ser Prize]

I see you are also a man of culture.

Dwarf waifus are best waifus.

Sadly modern Larian is too busy fujo pandering with twinks to give us anything like they did in Dragon Commander.

 

[Afinepickle]

Big tiddy dwarf waifu

Unironically the only reason to play that game

 

[WonderWino]

LMAO! "It is okay for the fujoshi vampire to kill and drink the blood of men, women and children for subsidence and pleasure but how dare he own slaves!"

Just wait until the twitter idiots find out about how drow society is, they'll blow a gasket

 

[Mukhrani]

Yes. It's has been that way with fantasy books for the past decade now. From what I've learned from writer Larry Correia is that there are a lot of fantasy writers that don't ape off Game of Thrones, however, many publishers won't let their stories see the light of day because they are all chasing for that new Game of Thrones and still see the GoT formula as popular. As such only books that are GoT-like get published and since the GoT setting is the only setting that publishers will bother with this has a domino affect on other areas in the entertainment industry like video games where the only fantasy setting they will do is GoT-like.

It especially annoys me when these formulas become applied in a cookie-cutter fashion. It works in ASoIaF because that's the theme: a decadent empire is so wrapped up in politics and slapfighting that an existential threat sneaks up on it (White Walkers). Honorable people can't survive in a decadent society, so everything spirals further into shit (Barristan Selmy & Ned Stark). Power requires cruelty and brutality to maintain itself, but also creates order and allows an 'honor system' to exist (dragons needing to eat people and be unconstrained or they whither & die out, 'Fire and Blood').

The narrative structure of the false start and big reveal segueing into the political intrigue works to establish stakes that the reader knows about but the characters do not. If your story doesn't have that structure, following the George RR Martin formula won't work. It's like cargo cult writing - they're imitating the surface level details but missing the element that makes the whole thing actually work.

 

[PaladinBoo]

It's not like Bioware invented romances in cRPGs. That shit goes as far back as some of the Gold Box games. I don't know why people think Bioware invented it.

The reason why many people blame Bioware is because their romances have been the most popular with women. While romances in CRPG's have existed for a long time, however, the ones that Bioware added in Mass Effect and Dragon Age saw them see a uptick in females playing their games. Many women even became gamers due to the romances in Bioware games. I can't say I blame game devs for doing this. Women do make up 52% of the population and more women are gaming now more then ever. However, women seem to prefer games that are more casual as well as having romance. This would also explain why Baldur's Gate 3 seems way more streamlined and casual compared to the older games.

 

[SIMIΔN]

Sadly modern Larian is too busy fujo pandering with twinks to give us anything like they did in Dragon Commander.
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Larian being Larian gave us someone else to bone.

 

[Ser Prize]

Larian being Larian gave us someone else to bone.
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She got quite the upgrade if you played your cards right to save her from skeleton AIDs.

I like her vampire design the best but it's kind of a bad end.

The reason why many people blame Bioware is because their romances have been the most popular with women. While romances in CRPG's have existed for a long time, however, the ones that Bioware added in Mass Effect and Dragon Age saw them see a uptick in females playing their games. Many women even became gamers due to the romances in Bioware games. I can't say I blame game devs for doing this. Women do make up 52% of the population and more women are gaming now then ever. However, women seem to prefer games that are more casual as well as having romance. This would also explain why Baldur's Gate 3 seems way more streamlined and casual compared to the older games.

I can see the logic there. In games like Treasures of the Savage Frontier, Ultima, Quest for Glory and the like the focus was very much on the escapist fantasy of being a daring hero man who the ladies fall for.

Bioware shifted it to a more female-oriented model. Instead of the anti villain vampire lady finding it impossible not to love you because you're such a hero man(Quest for Glory 4) you get stuff like falling in love with the secret heir to the throne, who just so happens to be a mild mannered british twink(Dragon Age).

I wouldn't care so much about the later becoming a thing if they still at least gave us the former. But look at BG3's cast. It's very oriented towards fujos, right to the point they apparently dropped an almost finished female dwarf companion to add the druid guy as a party member.

 

[PaladinBoo]

It's very oriented towards fujos, right to the point they apparently dropped an almost finished female dwarf companion to add the druid guy as a party member.

Why do dwarves get no love? It's always fun to have a surly dwarf in the party. Guess they would get in the way of the fujoshi fantasy twink haram. I will say that I am looking forward to the Pooner thread in the next few months with pooners naming themselves after Baldur's Gate 3 characters or getting their eggs cracked from playing the game. That will at least be fun.

 

[Spud]

Why do dwarves get no love?

They yearn for the mines, as it is the truest lover they have.

 

[Ser Prize]

They yearn for the mines, as it is the truest lover they have.

Between the strikes of the pick axe and the tankard of ale is where dwarf love blooms.

 

[The Ugly One]

This feels like one of those games your going to need to save scum a lot on a good path because of all the shit they'd pull on you.

Savescum is a core mechanic in Larian games. The Divinity games are full of encounters and events where the only practical way to not get your ass kicked is to savescum & cheese. For example, in DOS2, there's a dungeon where all the monsters are level 18. Walk through a certain door, and a scripted sequence plays out where your whole party ends up stunned and in a vat of acid. All your magic armor gets burned off, and your party gets hit with status effects, before you can make your first move...against a five-man enemy team of level 19s. Damage and HP scale exponentially in DOSII, so the difference between 5 level 19s and 4 level 18s is huge.

The only way to bring that fight's difficulty down from near-impossible is to know this will happen, break up the party, have only one party member go through the door and get thrown in the acid, then have the rest of your party sneak in, tiptoe around the fight while it's still in its first turn, find a secret passage, go to the end, release an angry level 20 dwarven queen, and wait for her to engage the enemy before joining the fray with the rest of your team.

It's not cool. It's stupid. Yet, this is the kind of "highly tactical" and "rich" gameplay Larian is praised for. 90% of the game is base around your party getting absolutely buttfucked without any warning, the only practical way to survive being to savescum.