Having one sided encounters isn't necessarily bad, but some of them are ones that you either need to respec all your characters to win or, alternatively, cheese it with the system in a way that removes the entire point.
I didn't even know you could do that with the dwarf queen. I just teleported my characters out of the pit and proceeded to kick ass. Yeah, it was a tough battle, but I didn't think it was that bad. I thought the Doctor fight was far more difficult. I was able to do it in the run I had Loshe since her questline ends up weakening him, but in my run without her in my party I ended up giving up. I actually think the biggest issues about D
S2 was that it was really easy to get under levelled with no way of recovery. Like they present the option to talk your way out of encounters, but it is never the correct choice. You need that xp and since you can not go backwards through acts if you miss any you can just end up screwed at the end of the game with no way of recovery. A better system would be that if you avoid an encounter because you're smart, you get the xp you would have earned and then those enemies are marked as no longer providing it to prevent xp double dipping.
Weird as it is to say, I think it's because it's hard to do a really good dwarf character and takes a little bit of thought to make them feel like they 'fit'. Writers either lean hard into the dwarf package and give us the grumpy but goodhearted alcoholic comic relief, or they do everyone in their power to go "Look at how not-dwarfy my dwarf is" but neither really expand beyond that.
Animating sex scenes with child sized characters might attract the wrong audience.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.
That isn't what I meant. I meant that players rarely seem to like to play as dwarves or even have dwarves as even companions anymore. I recently got Solasta at the suggestion of @There Is Light At The End and I made sure to make one of the party members a tough and surly dwarf. I think the reason we don't see many dwarf companions or players maybe because:
While I think you nailed the issue of Dwarves not fitting the twink brigade, I also think Dwarves are now considered "problematic" because they are machoistic, racist and manly. The only way to make them palatable is making them either constantly mocked or making them even more Reddit than every other character.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.
In fairness the male characters don't look like they fair much better. Epic gay vampire is all over the marketing but I'm pretty sure getting to murder him right away is half the appeal of Dark Urge.
Say what you will about Bioware but they did a good job in their early years at giving romances that everyone liked. With this, as @Ser Prize has stated, it just feels like fujoshi bait. The female characters are awful and disrespectful towards the male player character. I don't remember the female companions in Mass Effect treating Commander Shepherd like the female companions in Baldur's Gate 3 do. Sure, there were companions like Jack but if you romance her she will show her vulnerability and start treating you more kindly.
I kept the Charming aura pirate outfit long after its stats became obselete.
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They are a bit better just because they are less annoying. They don't go out of their way to insult you for no reason. That green bitch was throwing shit at you even stuck in a cage. Actually to stupid to live.
It's not so much as the romance itself but the insane focus modern devs invest in it at the detriment of virtually everythin else in the game. Somone here said the devs have spent an entire year fine-tuning the romance in BG3 while barely touching the gameplay side.
