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

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I played a bit of EA and I enjoyed it so far. The game is fun and while the build autism is low, compared to Pathfinder games, I found the tactical play quite impressive.
I see all the shit about bear fucking or dick customization as cheap marketing, appealing to the degenerates for easy word of mouth. It's whatever and nobody should really care about it since it's not forced on you and you can literally murder hobo any and all.
That being said, I will fuck the living shit out of that big red horny bitch, first chance I get.

Anyway, once the game is released and I get to play a bit, I'll come back to this thread, to share with my fellow kiwis talks about builds, party setups, funny encounters and clever solutions to certain fights. No fucking story spoilers though!
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That meme image. I'll propably torrent it and get the cheatengine table to make a munchkin Tigtone. His aligment is True Murderhobo.
 
So let's put this to rest: the bear sex was not a one-off, goofy joke from a clever developer. Larian went full retard.

Larian Explained Why There Are No Face Sliders in Baldur's Gate 3 (But there are for genitals.)​

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(TL;DR everyone giving Larian the benefit of the doubt was wrong.)

It's an interview with the lead character artist, who "talked about how the character creator can help players express their identity in unexpected ways." You might think you can guess the rest of the article, but it's actually worse than you're thinking. Spoilered for lengthy rants.

She then added that in her experience most fine-tuned characters that players spend hours making look very similar in the end. "So we wanted to avoid that. And if we would make sliders, we needed to make it into something that would be truly unique and wouldn’t look the same."​
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Your face is the key expression of your identity. It's what people look at when they talk to you, it conveys expressions in a million subtle ways; the eyes are said to be the gateway to the soul. You might think this is important in a game heavily focused on dialogue which centers on character's faces for minutes at a time.

But no, Larian is too quirky and reddit-brained to put expression into a face. What did they focus on instead?

The team took the task of inclusion very seriously. They talked to consultants and animators to create Black hairstyles, for instance. Their approach to gender is also different from that of many other companies. In Baldur’s Gate 3, you can choose between four different body types, which are not assigned to a specific gender. Moreover, there is an option to pick your character’s genitals: there are several variants here.​
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"You can choose between a penis or a vagina, as well as pubic hair options, though given the Dragonborn’s reptilian nature, theirs will look slightly different," said Kotaku.​
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Your face isn't important enough to customize, but they considered it super important to customize your gender-neutral pubic hair!

Other things they just couldn't bother to implement: morality. Literally.

you can still stray from the canon to some extent as did Larian when it removed moral alignment, allowing for varied roleplaying.​
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But hey, that doesn't mean they're enabling outright degeneracy, right? It's just another body part. Surely they aren't aiming for a fetishistic audience whose entire identity is wrapped up in sex...

Larian decided to make underwear a piece of equipment you can customize and wear, and this is part of character customization.​
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“The question arose, ‘what happens when you take it off?’” she said. “At first we were like, ‘you know, maybe nothing’s gonna happen. Maybe we’re gonna have another underwear mesh under it. Who cares? But then I started thinking about it, talking about it, and we realized that for some players, it’s just another way to represent their identity.”​
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"We're giving the players what they want!" bleats the soydev, ignoring the player base that spends 2 hours tweaking eyebrows and mouth width to pixel perfection. "And our players want to express themselves through underwear, pubic hair, exotic genitals, and gay sex with animals!"

But not your face.

Ask yourself what kind of player cares more about pubic hair and underwear than facial emotion and morality. Now understand that this is the explicit target market Larian is writing the game for. The bunch of same-faced NPCs who squealed and clapped at the live reveal of gay bear sex.

So everyone ITT who said to give them a chance: no. There is no benefit of the doubt, because there is no doubt here.
 
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Male Idiot said:
I am generally more mad at the lack of no facial sliders.

I love facial sliders, it lets me de-uglify current year player characters.

I take great pride that my character is a ultrahandsome gigachad or the prettiest waifu ever.
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Or the goofiest looking motherfucker ever lived
@The Ugly One
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This all happened because CDProjekt Red tried to be edgy and cool with Cyberpunk 2077 instead of, you know, making a finished game.
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Harvey Danger said:
It's an interview with the lead character artist, who "talked about how the character creator can help players express their identity in unexpected ways."
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I hate this soooooooooooo fucking much! I don't want to express my "identity". I want to express the character I'm making for the story. I never like inserting myself in anything I play in be it video games or TTRPG's. That is because I see myself as a boring person who is nothing special. I like creating characters who are different from me and overcome whatever challenges are thrown at them and become the big hero in the end. There is a reason why well thought out characters that are flawed are beloved by many while self-insert Mary-Sue OC Doughnut Steels are hated and reviled by all. That is because nobody likes a narcissist who thinks highly of themselves and is full of pride. This game is made for the worst kind of D&D fans.
 
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Mega Black said:
I always got the impression that very few people actually knew about broodmothers. And dwarven society is so far on the back foot when it comes to the darkspawn they probably can't afford to be picky about who they send into the deep roads.
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They are by far the most knowledgeable about the darkspawn, and regularly send expeditions there.
They are picky, and it is generally only the warrior caste that fights.
Harvey Danger said:
No Face Sliders in Baldur's Gate 3 (But there are for genitals.)
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WTF Larian.
 
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Harvey Danger said:
She then added that in her experience most fine-tuned characters that players spend hours making look very similar in the end.
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i can assure her that none of my Oblivion or Dark Souls abominations look the same and are wholly unique in their malformed features.

it just sounds to me that they don't want people to make these absurdly goofy characters as if it violates the sanctity of their super cereal RPG when the camera pans towards your eldritch gigajew 100% nose slider character during the serious or tender moments of this game.
 
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PaladinBoo said:
I hate this soooooooooooo fucking much! I don't want to express my "identity". I want to express the character I'm making for the story. I never like inserting myself in anything I play in be it video games or TTRPG's. That is because I see myself as a boring person who is nothing special. I like creating characters who are different from me and overcome whatever challenges are thrown at them and become the big hero in the end. There is a reason why well thought out characters that are flawed are beloved by many while self-insert Mary-Sue OC Doughnut Steels are hated and reviled by all. That is because nobody likes a narcissist who thinks highly of themselves and is full of pride. This game is made for the worst kinds of D&D fans.
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This is a direct consequence of making video games to women. Like the classic case of boys getting a Batman doll and pretending it's Batman while a girls making Batman do domestic housework, games are now made so women will pretend they are the gurlboss in the fantasy setting rather than an organic part of it
 
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PaladinBoo said:
This all happened because CDProjekt Red tried to be edgy and cool with Cyberpunk 2077 instead of, you know, making a finished game.
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I hate this soooooooooooo fucking much! I don't want to express my "identity". I want to express the character I'm making for the story. I never like inserting myself in anything I play in be it video games or TTRPG's. That is because I see myself as a boring person who is nothing special. I like creating characters who are different from me and overcome whatever challenges are thrown at them and become the big hero in the end. There is a reason why well thought out characters that are flawed are beloved by many while self-insert Mary-Sue OC Doughnut Steels are hated and reviled by all. That is because nobody likes a narcissist who thinks highly of themselves and is full of pride. This game is made for the worst kinds of D&D fans.
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We're dealing with troons and mulattos here who if they can't create a self-insert with every single headcanon option possible will screech on twitter and get a million likes from their other mentally ill friends. I have no clue why they are spending more time with degenerate coomer shit in lieu of everything we're accustomed to getting in character creators. Hope the PR boost from the pozzed games media is worth it.
 
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Brain Problems said:
We're dealing with troons and mulattos here who if they can't have create a self-insert with every single headcanon option possible will screech on twitter and get a million likes from their other mentally ill friends. I have no clue why they are spending more time with degenerate coomer shit in lieu of everything we're accustomed to getting in character creators. Hope the PR boost from the pozzed games media is worth it.
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And moreover, the world has to be rebuilt around their self-insert. "I identify as" means "I fantasize about being," because humans with wide birthing hips, natural breasts, slight skeletons, neotenous, feminine facial features, and big ol' dicks do not exist. So the whole fictional world has to be rebuilt around your personal erotic fantasy about being a dickgirl and living in a world where dickgirls are real and normal, and moreover, the entertainment that the 99% of the world who doesn't share your futanari fetish consumes has to have dickgirls in it, because a key part of your fetish is having the rest of the world validated, and for whatever reason, we live in a world where not validating your fetish is some kind of social crime.
 
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Jokes aside, what makes me mad is that they aren't content with having their fetish, they must force it on you. I want my facial features slider.

I bet the staff was "faces are boring I want to model bad dragon cocks".
 
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