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

[Kulee Baba]

I was initially interested in Baldur's Gate 3 due to liking Divinity Original Sin 2, Planescape Torment and seeing the customization options, but then I got completely turned off when there was that controversy how Larian Studio has using player data to analyze which characters/races were created the most and berating players for creating "Straight white human warriors" or some other retarded shit.

Reading RangerBoo's posts about how the game punishes you for doing morally good/good aligning actions, making all female party members desire constant cock carousel despite being a relationship with the player and trying to subvert evil races sounds like this game's writing staff is full of theatre kids that got into DnD because of McElroys (aka The Cancer that is killing DnD and tabletop games).

I am baffled on how many people (especially journoscum), even the "Fuck western game devs and journoscum" sphere I seen defending this bear sex stunt with some gay cope of "Well akshually if we can be allowed to fuck anime girls, monster people and etc. we might as well go full wacko mode" except all of these examples they listed are human or humanoid, but this is a fucking animal, by that logic that means some person can just barge in and fuck their cat because "we might as well go full whacko mode".

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Yeah I'll defend it. The game is based on DnD, if you've ever played PnP RPGs THEY'RE FUCKING BORING, no great graphics, you're relying on the imagination of one dude to be the Dungeon Master. You're playing a retarded version of craps hooked up with a "round-robin story."

Any Roleplaying game will inevitably turn into players wanting to fuck and murder everything. It's a fucking joke. And it's fine because it's literally impossible to rape a bear without the bear mauling you.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The Gith have been around for a long time. Since the early days of Planescape. Problem is, like you said, writers and players insisting on making these characters as Mary-Sues and stand ins for their degeneracy and politics. Tieflings are sadly major victims of this as they are the most popular race with the alphabet people.

The issue is that non vanilla races should only be done by hardcore role players because they should have completely different culture and worldview, but nowadays virtually every race is quirky lol random humanoids, except actual humans who are racists.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

The issue is that non vanilla races should only be done by hardcore role players because they should have completely different culture and worldview, but nowadays virtually every race is quirky lol random humanoids, except actual humans who are racists.

If gamedevs implement racism properly in their games, I solemnly swear to be the raciest of racists. Partly because it's funny and partly "le heckin'" people will get their airfield size underpants in a twist

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

meh, will still pirate this.

 

[Dude Snakes]

I don't know it was just Beauty and the Beast.

I remember it happening with Gundam Wing, then the Lord of the Rings movies...

They latch onto anything.

They want to fuck/be fucked by Gundams?!

 

[Slur Generator]

Fuck this pozzed game. I played it when it first came out but Literally every female character is an insufferable cunt for no reason. Imagine being such a piece of shit to someone that saved your life. Even if you don't like them you would treat them with some fucking respect. If they flipped the sex of these characters all the retards that like them would absolutely hate them.
God dam do i hate the "strong female character" trope. They are masculine in the worst possible way, bottom of the barrel trash.
We can no longer have female characters that are kind, sweet, flirty, shy, naive, sensitive, reserved, funny, scared, romantic, friendly, compassionate, devious, etc. They are all just boring assholes or snarky assholes.
Not to say that the male characters are done well. Every party member has main character syndrome. Because they are the OC of some retarded writer.

Besides the shit characters and story i also do not like the new mechanics. Unless you pick a charisma character your character is a complete social retard.

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

Any Roleplaying game will inevitably turn into players wanting to fuck and murder everything.

Hard disagree. If your games inevitably turn into players wanting to fuck and murder eveything, either you failed to come up with an exciting enough plot as the GM, the players have the attention span of a fruit fly or both. Even the trite and tired fantasy genre can offer dozens of ways to play, from grimdark military campaigns to whimiscial Shakespearean comedies if done right, and that's before you start flirting with other tropes and systems.

But back to the topic at hand. Despite how crass the fuck-a-bear stunt was, it was a major success that put the less-than novel game that languished in development for five years on the front page of every gaming resource and instantly made it the talk of the town. Nothing builds public interest like a controversy, and cheap publicity is still publicity.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Fuck this pozzed game. I played it when it first came out but Literally every female character is an insufferable cunt for no reason. Imagine being such a piece of shit to someone that saved your life. Even if you don't like them you would treat them with some fucking respect. If they flipped the sex of these characters all the retards that like them would absolutely hate them.
God dam do i hate the "strong female character" trope. They are masculine in the worst possible way, bottom of the barrel trash.
We can no longer have female characters that are kind, sweet, flirty, shy, reserved, funny, scared, etc. They are all just boring assholes or snarky assholes.
Not to say that the male characters are done well. Every party member has main character syndrome. Because they are the OC of some retarded writer.

Besides the shit characters and story i also do not like the new mechanics. Unless you pick a charisma character your character is a complete social retard.

I only played it briefly way in Early Access (waiting for the finished product) and I dunno I liked most of the core party members.

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>Shadowheart is cute besides that dopey haircut she has. I assume they're going to let us customize the characters because I want an elf babe to look like Liv Tyler in the Lord of the Rings
>Gale was hilarious to me I could see how some would criticize the character as a bit Reddit-esque in humor but I didn't mind it. I laughed my ass off when I got him killed which spawned an elaborate sequence where a holograph of him explains how you can revive him
>I didn't get to learn much about Asterion but I really like his voice actor and having a vampire around sounds like a recipe for amusing hijinks

Meh
>Wyll just reminds me of the most generic starting party members in Bioware games, like Carth (SWTOR), Kaiden, and Jacob from Mass Effect. I think I read that that's a common complaint and they're tweaking the character so that it's a big early storyline that he wants to kill another party member due to some fantasy political conflict. I didn't hate the character he just failed to leave any impression.

Shit
>Laezel is ugly as sin, she comes off as a giant cunt at the start. And I rolled a Fighter at the start so using her had no purpose. Seriously I don't want my party to have an ugly frog-thing

The best thing about the game is really the combat. I'm seriously taken aback at how Larian has made a turnbased system that makes every combat experience feel like a sandbox in its own right.

Hard disagree. If your games inevitably turn into players wanting to fuck and murder eveything, either you failed to come up with an exciting enough plot as the GM, the players have the attention span of a fruit fly or both. Even the trite and tired fantasy genre can offer dozens of ways to play, from grimdark military campaigns to whimiscial Shakespearean comedies if done right, and that's before you start flirting with other tropes and systems.

But back to the topic at hand. Despite how crass the fuck-a-bear stunt was, it was a major success that put the less-than novel game that languished in development for five years on the front page of every gaming resource and instantly made it the talk of the town. Nothing builds public interest like a controversy, and cheap publicity is still publicity.

I'm sure you're right and either I was too much of a brainlet (or I was in a DnD group full of brainlets) and none of us were taking it that seriously. We were doing it when we were all college students who were too poor to do stuff that costs money.

Still I feel part of DnD is to just be silly. Remember in that episode of Futurama where Leela inadvertently got Kif pregnant and that resulted in Kif giving birth to a bunch of tadpolls?

Imagine if that episode had been made today instead of 20 years ago? "A PREGNANT MAN SPACE ALIEN?" To me being this kind of zany shit is fine in a DnD Video Game as long as the player wants it. Don't get me wrong I don't want my story's versions of Asterion or any of the companions to get fucked by a bear druid. I want my White Human Tav to fuck Shadowheart and I'm guessing the Dream Waifu the game's opening teases you with by creating. But if someone seeks weird shit that's fine to me. That's like part of the WRPG experience. Like doing a playthrough of Fallout 1 where your character is literally retarded.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Canada has similar laws regarding referencing bestiality in fictional works. So I'm curious if it will be allowed or not.

Somebody already brought up Bear, so I'm gonna go with allowed. People seem to be all for that stuff now.

Honestly, the defense force coming out and saying how this stuff is good, and is helping "fumigate" the community is even worse than the developers putting it in the game in the first place. The latter can just be chalked up to Larian being weirdos or wanting a bunch of buzz around the game, but the former just shows how bad the D&D rot has gotten.

 

[Slur Generator]

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>Shadowheart is cute besides that dopey haircut she has. I assume they're going to let us customize the characters because I want an elf babe to look like Liv Tyler in the Lord of the Rings

It's been years but from what i remember she was hostile and insulting. not as bad as the green bitch but still not something i would call "cute". I would be more lenient to characters like this if it wasn't the case that every single character behaves like this. I'm fed up. Does she also talk about gross sex shit or is that just the polygamous orc fucker from pathfinder?

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

WHAT THE FUCK??? Oh my fucking god, why is it now impossible to make a decent western rpg without degeneracy, female characters that look like tranny beasts & body type A & B??

ESG money paid for that fuck bear.

 

[Elite Miko]

Yeah, I saw that bear sex shit come across my feed and I immediately was like:

 

[Fools Idol]

Can't be very strict laws, Canada gives out awards for bear fucking.
"The most important Canadian novel"
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You know what the funny thing about bears is, they are basically monsters. They will eat just about anything and unlike big cats they don't kill first before they start eating. Anyone who has ever seen real bears wouldn't go anywhere near one, they are filled with parasites, they'll disembowel you and eat your guts while you scream.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

You know what the funny thing about bears is, they are basically monsters. They will eat just about anything and unlike big cats they don't kill first before they start eating. Anyone who has ever seen real bears wouldn't go anywhere near one, they are filled with parasites, they'll disembowel you and eat your guts while you scream.

The sick fucks at Larian Studios:

 

[Steinercard]

Yeah I'll defend it. The game is based on DnD, if you've ever played PnP RPGs THEY'RE FUCKING BORING, no great graphics, you're relying on the imagination of one dude to be the Dungeon Master. You're playing a retarded version of craps hooked up with a "round-robin story."

Any Roleplaying game will inevitably turn into players wanting to fuck and murder everything. It's a fucking joke. And it's fine because it's literally impossible to rape a bear without the bear mauling you.

You are clearly not the intended audience for a tabletop RPG. It's not the entire genre of tabletop RPGs fault you had a boring doormat GM who couldn't tard wrangle your party to not be murder hobos. And that's before we get into how mechanically bloated and clunky DnD 5E is and the numerous other games that are far better.

I wish these Critical Role theatre kids looking for a heckin valid epic story would just fuck off and make their own community.

 

[Rick's Beef Wellington]

The Steam threads about it are kind of encouraging, there are people definitely sticking up for animal-fucking being weird and unacceptable. Some are making it an "about the kids" thing when the real issue is why is this what adults are like now? Why is animal fucking a political or religious issue? Human beings just should know not to fuck animals, I figured that was a basic enough thing.

 

[Slur Generator]

God some of the takes are so stupid. Claiming that its not bestiality because its a druid turning into an animal and still fully sapient. So 2 men having sex is not gay as long as one of them is using a spell to become a man. Using this logic its ok for one of them to turn into a child. I swear this is just another way of them trying to wiggle pedo shit.

 

[M3xus]

In retrospect, that whole "Harkness test" thing that came out a while ago should have raised multiple red flags.

For those blissfully unaware:

 

[Kulee Baba]

You are clearly not the intended audience for a tabletop RPG. It's not the entire genre of tabletop RPGs fault you had a boring doormat GM who couldn't tard wrangle your party to not be murder hobos. And that's before we get into how mechanically bloated and clunky DnD 5E is and the numerous other games that are far better.

I wish these Critical Role theatre kids looking for a heckin valid epic story would just fuck off and make their own community.

I still think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

The whole appeal of DnD RPG game is to make the game feel like it's this whole gigantic choose your own adventure, where the experience is changed by the decisions made by the players. I just played back the sequence from the stream and how you have to explicitly trigger this sequence:

1. The player character romances the Druid Companion. All the companion characters are bisexual because it's 2023
2. The Druid shapeshifts into a bear because he's a druid that's their whole thing
3. If you don't want Bear beasitility you can nope right out of it

If I just followed the controversy I would have thought it was an actual subplot to the game and you've got to sit through gay bear shenanigans. It's not. It's just a silly game that caters to the wishes of the player. Only people who want to fuck a bear druid will trigger the cutscene. I haven't touch even the surface of the game but Larian looks like they're still aiming for a serious RPG. The sad reality is people don't get all excited because you've JK Simmons voicing a major character.

 

[Steinercard]

I still think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

The whole appeal of DnD RPG game is to make the game feel like it's this whole gigantic choose your own adventure, where the experience is changed by the decisions made by the players. I just played back the sequence from the stream and how you have to explicitly trigger this sequence:

1. The player character romances the Druid Companion. All the companion characters are bisexual because it's 2023
2. The Druid shapeshifts into a bear because he's a druid that's their whole thing
3. If you don't want Bear beasitility you can nope right out of it

If I just followed the controversy I would have thought it was an actual subplot to the game and you've got to sit through gay bear shenanigans. It's not. It's just a silly game that caters to the wishes of the player. Only people who want to fuck a bear druid will trigger the cutscene. I haven't touch even the surface of the game but Larian looks like they're still aiming for a serious RPG. The sad reality is people don't get all excited because you've JK Simmons voicing a major character.

Okay, but why is there an option to have sex with a bear? What purpose does that actually achieve beyond satisfying people who want to have sex with a bear? And why do you want there to be an option that is blatant bestiality?