>constantly says "frick" this or "fricking" that
>pretty much the sole character in the game that speaks like this even
I don't understand. Isn't this supposed to be a fantasy setting?
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they say frick in fantasy settings
Not good ones
>setting has no Anglo Saxons
>everyone speaks Anglisc
they say "Taff"
Nobody swears in The Elder Scrolls, and that's the best fantasy setting out there.
Silence, N'wah
Sure, but why limit it to just "frick"? Was it so hard to make her vulgar in a fun way?
Look at our dear auntie Ethel for example. She's swearing a lot too, but it's fun kind of swearing. Meanwhile Karlach is like
> Frick fricking frick fricker!
she was written by a modern fat feminist
>Was it so hard to make her vulgar in a fun way?
milennial liberals (bg3 writers) think
> Frick fricking frick fricker!
makes a product mature.
>FRICK FRICK FRICK FRICK FRICK FRICK FRICK!
- FFXVI
It's surprisingly common today.
That's HBO's Deadwood as well. They threw in the modern "Frick" in it to make it more mature, even if it wasn't period-appropriate.
It's largely too many people thinking "HBO show = mature"
Frick is absolutely period appropriate at any point after the 16th century (and frankly other languages and cultures have analogous terms, Rome being the obvious example), do you honestly believe people in the past didn't swear because they didn't put swearing in media set in the past?
Karlach is meant to be a poor working-class baldurian with little to no formal education, this is represented in game through the cultural shorthand of working-class British traits and mannerisms. She's also until literally yesterday an active-duty soldier from a war in hell.
I couldn't think of any groups that use the word frick more liberally than working-class anglos and soldiers.
I don't actually have an issue with Karlach and I agree that using working class Brit as literary shorthand makes sense for her. I was making a general statement.
Shut the frick up, wienersucker.
This gay wants people to say stupid shit like GADZOOKS or ZOUNDS! hahahahaha
Yep, sadly. We probably have HBO's Game of Thrones to thank for that.
Of course, their writing team isn't composed entirely of soi dumbasses. Just the majority of it.
And we probably have True Blood to thank for Astarion
Yeah, but the example I've posted is also written by bg3 writers. So they had someone who can write fantasy-flavored and funny swearing. A shame that Karlach couldn't get someone as competent for her writer as the small-time side character.
I think you're just not getting it so I'll say it again. Karlach is written for a certain demographic. They go gaga for her character. Your personal dislike is not relevant. You are like the people complaining about all the gay shit in the game; it's not for you, just avoid it and play on without her.
She's meant to be brutish and simple; she's a barbarian for frick's sake.
no they don't, kid
correct
Say that to my storming face you cremling.
In the good ones they say bollocks
still better writing than Vox Machina.
That was uncalled for. Vox Machina is pretty decently good.
They curse entirely way too much the dialogue is complete shit most of the time. The story is good tho. But so is BG3's story and extended storylines. The finished ones anyway.
That`s probably because Vox Machina is based on an actual D&D session and the people at critical role were just having fun being derps and fooling around. I guess the idea was to keep to the spirit of that. For better or worse stories don`t take themselves too seriously anymore.
>or worse
The story was good enough it could've taken itself a little more seriously. I dont want to sound like some kind of puritan but ballbags, frick buckets, frickass, frick shit, ball frick every other scene got really tiresome.
You sound like a fricking homosexual, dude.
You're the one supportive of zoomer-speak and ebonics, you have no right to call somebody a homosexual based on how they sound.
I understand what you mean. Things like modern speech in a contemporary setting can break the suspension of disbelief. Then again dying is easy, comedy is hard.
meant modern speech in a fantasy setting. Apologies for the lapse.
> ballbags, frick buckets, frickass, frick shit, ball frick
Jesus fricking Christ are these actually words that appear in the game?
I mean think about it for a second, why wouldn't there be curse words in a fantasy setting and why wouldn't they be in common use, without projecting some kind of propriety onto the whole thing
Seems like you'd want to be careful about cursing in a world where wizards exist.
Wizards ain't sh-
Cuck Machina
laura bailey should have been nude for every session. also the actual sessions are better than the show easy, but they are still shit, because laura bailey didn't have her pussy ass breasts out and she didn't do an in-character joi every episode.
>OMG is that hecking JAHEIRA *gigglesquee*
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not just plebbit. it's a mix of 2013 tier tumbler+latest iterations of plebbit.
AND as a bonus this c**t can be easily used as an example of horrific writing. But since entire world is going insane it will probably be used as an example of masterpiece writing.
Just fricking look at her. If anyone's going to fricking talk like that you bet your ass it's fricking going to be her
>you bet your ass it's fricking going to be her
you bet your fricking ass it's going to be fricking
her
dumb esl
You fricking bet your fricking ass it's fricking going to fricking be fricking her you dumb fricking amateur frick
that's what i call fricking first fricking class fricking english
Woah, calm down, Tommy Tiernan
Too much chiseling
It's uncouth and unpleasant. If she wants to be naughty there are ways to do it that are pleasing to the player.
She's street trash born and street trash bred. You're surprised she speaks like street trash?
Why no other street trash in the game speaks like her then?
The tiefling kids in Mol's gang talk the same way, what are you talking about? They cuss and swear and act like little c**ts.
can i kill them and raise them as zombies?
You take that back, Karlach is a paragon of womanly beauty, grace, and virtue. She's a true English rose.
But enough about Shadowbawd
I fricking know right? You got this hot fricking demon that's your fricking companion and totally down to frick and she's a complete fricking bad ass. You're going to tell me you're going to fricking pass up some motherfricking demon pussy? That's fricking bullshit, and the fricking fact that I can't play this fricking game because of the Series S and it's AIDs it's spread through this generation fricking pisses me off.
Her, Lae'zel and Astarion are the best origin characters
Cant handle cursing? Maybe go play some Mario or something kid.
Real people also some umm and arr several times a sentence, the moronness of ordinary and vulgar conversation shouldn't enter art.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>art
The game is not the result of an organic interaction between people, it's an artificial production of a commercial company to produce an artifact: art.
this homie unironically thinks that the word art is shorthand for the word artifact.
point and laugh.
Don't look up Mozart's Difficile lectu
I know hearing cuss words in entertainment is new and scary for you Americans but it's really not a big deal. They're just words
Okay *says homosexual and Black person in Tarantino move*
>NOOOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT
it’s elementary playground talk that millenial silverspoons like the cuck writers use to act relatable to the working class
Karlach speaks almost exactly like one of the cute receptionists at the law firm I worked at when I lived in the UK.
would she indulge a fart fetish
Less cringe than when they make up fantasy swears.
You bwonking take that back right now you stinking piddlehonker.
N'wah please.
*fewer
t'skvah... creative writing has fallen
Tsk'va*
What the buck are you talking about, anon?
"Karkin'" from Warhammer Darktide still haunts me to this day. Just say "frickin'" you goddamn purists.
in hate when they do it in sci-fi too.
>you're mother is a Terellium Bat!
>you have the brain of a Zylexium Bog Worm
>this is gonna be as hard as shooting bandoorian zip flies!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a mistake, but sci-fi deserved it.
THAL'S BALLS
MATRON'S TEATS
GREAGOR'S GASH
>MATRON'S TEATS
BY MYSTRA'S EYELIDS, CEASE YOU LOON
Absolute drek opinion.
You s'wit.
BY GOWUNGAS TESTICLES
Marika's breasts, have scarlet rot gotten to your brain, tarnished one?
How come this is more common in British voice acting over American voice acting? Do British have larger sailor's mouths or is it just funnier when they pronounce the word replacements?
real anglos have a culture of casually swearing, americans have never really pulled it off. the only inherent 'culture' they have is the raps and hip hops basketball crack.
i bedded thy mother and for a full tenday hence i have itched like a sqifflers ear and smelled like an ogres breakfast.
how about you just don't have anyone swear
there's no reason to
Fantasy swears are absolutely great,
hoods balls
HOODS MARBLE BALLS ON AN ANVIL
nah that's cringe kino
Shit up you taffer.
"Taffer", "N'wah" and "Swit" are all kino.
THRALLS BALLS! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE
i have more of a problem with the fantasy equivalent of spanglish. githyanki are the worst offenders but they all do it.
i hate that shit in everything. it always seems so forced and "DONT FORGET SOMEONE CAME UP WITH EIGHT WORDS OF A NEW LANGUAGE FOR THIS"
She's evil so she swears a lot, why do you think she looks like a devil and is from hell?
>She's evil
>There's a route where she willingly becomes a mind flayer to save the world
>This process is said to not only kill the body but the soul
>It's straight up said that the mind flayer is not the same person, they just inherit strong memories
>This is accepting oblivion to save others
>Evil
Just look at her, she is a literal devil. She's clearly evil.
Herp derp
catholic cuck thinking hasn't really applied to D&D for a good long while
For God's sake, Wyll, just accept that you got ripped off by your patron.
moron
It will always feel anachronistic, but these words have existed for quite a long time and people have used it pretty similar that whole time.
What's even worse is the very modern inflection and manner of speaking. That's the anachronism that I can't ignore.
I usually just consider it Tolkien throwing his hands up and saying "I'm translating the fictional language to English and there's obviously going to be some similar turns of phrase or modern wording in a translation" that he did for his Hobbit books and LOTR
They haven't really, words like wiener, c**t, shit and frick only really became swear words in the last 200-300 years, they used to be just be the normal way to refer to the thing. Obscenity even until recently was mostly religious in nature, saying "damn you" was way worse than saying "you're a piece of shit".
Shit(e)brooke to basically mean "we're in trouble" or more the more modern parlence in the shit appears quite frequently and many old texts and letters.
fat tumblerina self insert
gets decapitated everytime
You will never feel the touch of her gorgeous body.
how do i cool her down? chugging fire resistance and hitting her with the ice mace should do something rihgt?
yes
i personally used the conjure water spell
it creates the rain
and then i can frick her with my shota char?
you can only kiss her
you will frick her in the beginning of act 2 when you fix her cooling system
You mean that part when she fingers your butthole?
You are supposed to clap every time she says frick, anon
*plap
she's the dumb r*ddit female self-insert
>is a veteran of a horrific literal demonic war against her will
>still spunky quirky attitude
I dislike this new trope heavily.
Same with the angel chick you save, who after 100 years of torment, anguish and solitude is immediately reverted to being a spunky carpet muncher who loudly proclaims she needs to go eat pussy.
Really took me out of the experience and ruined act 2's ending for me.
>Male generic OTT jobber paladin
>Away with you for I must take succor in the bosom of this lady mine
>A pure wholesome white fantasy, the nation is strong, praise civilization
>FEMOID generic OTT jobber paladin
>Away with you for I must take succor in the bosom of this lady mine
>The West has fallen billions must die
It's frankly laughable how transparent you are.
>FEMOID paladin
>The West has fallen billions must die
ftfy
bro your joan of arc?
french tanned moronic genki tomboy in a frilly dress armor battling the english? she's the only one to get a pass
Joan of Arc never fight in any battle whatsoever
there's meme chauvinism and then there's outright ignorance
Who are you quoting? Yes it would be equally moronic if the Nightsong was a man.
How you can transform me complaining about a lack of understanding of the long term effects of intense trauma into some gender-wars nonsense, I will never understand.
>Uh akshually it was a good faith argument about the effects of trauma
Fully half of your statement about Aylin was about her being gay. You aren't smart, you're not fooling anyone.
Cope
Is this how desperate leftoids are to chase shadows?
You are quite dense. The complaint is that she completely shifted her character archetype, its fanservice at its most base. There was no reason for that dialogue to exist except to go to the audience "look, lesbian sex! isnt that hot?!".
If it was some yuri weeb game you would likely be decrying it as such, but since it is masked in a film that suits your taste, you ignore it.
There would be no complaint from me if it wasn't on a character that was quite literally freed from a torture chamber a couple hours ago.
Has anything bad ever happened in your life? Moments later did you immediately want to go tell the people involved how excited you were to go have sex? It's ridiculous, childish writing.
I'm sure im wasting my time and you will retort with some buzzword. Sadly the discourse around this game has been completely tainted by people blindly loving or hating it.
It's quite common for people to want sex when they are angry or frustrated or immediately after battle.
t. virgin
?
If anything the person I was responding to is the virgin.
There are countless historical examples of men's 'blood being up' after a battle.
In the more modern context, it's quite common for people to be honry after winning a sports ball game. OR feeling like the want to jerk off before/after an exam.
Hate sex exists.
>Escaping a genuinely dangerous situation is just like winning sports ball
lol
You physiologically react similarly in team contact sports as you do in combat.
Even if you didn't it doesn't change the fact you have no argument beyond not knowing how humans respond to stress and adrenaline.
>You physiologically react similarly in team contact sports as you do in combat.
No you don't you fricking moron.
I (happily) assume you have never been through true trauma, it arrests your psyche and paralyzes your very being.
Nightsong was tortured for 100 years in isolation, hopeless, alone and surrounded by some of the most vile people in existence. Stuck in the shadowfell, probably the worst place imaginable for a daughter of Selûne. You would expect a character that has gone through that kind of experience to be slow to process the events that followed, slowly reclaiming the fractured pieces of their mind and soul as the blunt force of the trauma slips away from them. Its not her lesbian nature that is breaking immersion, its the way the seems to flip from a real character with depth and backstory to a piece of fanservice.
Shadowheart's reaction is similarly poorly written, her entire purpose in life is undone, the goddess she devotes herself to blindly scorns her and inflicts the torture of 100 people upon her, yet she only seems bothered by it for a moment.
These types of lapses where the characters drop their façade are what takes me out of the game, which is a shame because the majority of the time the game does a great job of keeping you in the illusion.
Nightsong is a terrible character and I have no idea why they forced her into the game. Reminds me of a worse Malady from DOS2.
Just kill her, bro.
That doesn't change act 2 basically revolving around a terrible DMPC.
>has been completely tainted by people blindly loving or hating it.
yeah... imagine the world if npc-normies had an iota of functioning brain
You're fighting a strawman and losing.
Don't you feel ashamed? A little bit embarrassed?
>Mask on or mask off
The duality of /misc/
>mask on/off
>lost to both versions anyway
Discord trannies aren't sending their best today.
still forms one whole idiot though
>twitter reaction gif
1. The behavior and demeanor would be inappropriate even if the character was male
2. homosexualry is bad, and angels should be good
>Elf thug of the stone lord who just calls you a cuck
Not cuckold, that's a slur going back to the english civil war or earlier.
Just cuck.
One time it happens.
I'd find it rude and arrogant shit regardless. BUt maybe it fits an aasimar being an arrogant entitled shit since you were just saved from a hundred years of misery and it's "FRICK OFF I NEED TO CUM" and a lot of self-aggrandizing about how it was Selune who saved the day and not Squiddy-mcgee and the morons three
It also makes sense considering she was imprisoned because of her love, it's not just some spontaneous random hook up
>veteran of unimaginably horrible war who was forced into service and spent every second looking for a way out and makes multiple mentions of having no one to be close to or trust while there.
>still a lighthearted attitude that’s sounds like a 12 year old trying to be tough.
Compared to
>women who lost most/all of her past memories and doesn’t even know why she was sent on the mission she was sent on, but because of this doesn’t have the emotional baggage of past experiences with other people.
>withdrawn and very antisocial while also not wanting to work with anyone to complete her mission.
Shadowheart and her should switch personalities and it would be better.
>withdrawn/antisocial demon war veteran who has a hard time trusting or opening up to anyone due to past experiences.
>lighthearted shadowheart that is easier to trick and manipulate due to having no past experiences to draw from while still trying to act openly “tough” as a bluff
>Shadowheart and her should switch personalities and it would be better
i can't believe i'm agreeing with this moron
these writers don't know what it's like to suffer
I find Karlach annoying but the angel is ok in my book simply because I interpret her as a parody of the traditional dumbass egotistical paladin to me. Question is, did the writers intend for this or was she really just supposed to be Captain marvel.
>A veteran and slave can't find joy in new-found life and freedom, must crawl in my skin and sulk in the corner of the tavern
>Her attitude doesn't have a hint of her trying to mask her pain, she literally has the mind of a high-school girl
If you can't even read the least nuanced character in the game you might just have the autism
>Same with the angel chick you save, who after 100 years of torment, anguish and solitude is immediately reverted to being a spunky carpet muncher who loudly proclaims she needs to go eat pussy.
She completely obliterates the corpse of the guy that imprisoned her and then fricks his daughter. If that takes you out then you might be moronic
Do morons actually think people in the renaissance didn't curse?
I do not like her in any capacity, but the way she says "yes" when changing your mind on leaving her in camp is kinda cute even if it is cringe.
The English frick is from the 16th century
Romans used the word wiener and clit (and frick) constantly
Karlach is meant to be a salt of the earth poor baulderian, herein interpreted as a working-class brit, such a manner of speaking is entirely in line with that goal. Also, she's been in literal hell for a decade
Once again Jupiter sees fit to ram his wiener in my arse!
BUT WHAT OF GOOD SOLONIUS
Words fall from that wiener Solonius' mouth as shit falls from arse.
PULLO, FORMATION!
>working-class brit
>Been in literal hell for a decade
Bit redundant innit?
>Romans used the word wiener and clit (and frick) constantly
>all the roman bros shitposting on the side of a brothel wall
>t. Has never played tabletop d&d
>>>/tg/
In my experience with 5E most people just ignore the official setting and run whatever else they feel like using 5E's numbers system. Me included, I ran a custom setting for a long while and held a Final Fantasy-themed mini campaign within the same setting after scrounging up some Dragoon class rules and converting FFD20's Samurai over to 5E.
Most DnD players seem like gay Reddit fricks with the most predictable imagination ever LOL IS THAT AN EVIL HAMSTER I ROLL A 20 XD
maybe you should stop visiting dnd subreddits on reddit dot com where you obviously get these stories from because you are a redditor yourself
No it's fricking everywhere, this place is filled with Redditors too don't fool yourself
is google retared?
Still don't recall any "frick" or "fricking" in my Lord of the Rings books.
that's cuz tolkien was a pussy
is that why tolkien's books are still read and watched as their movie adaptations decades after his death?
Or is that why this game and it's mediocre writing will be forgotten within the next year.
The world may never know.
have you read the lord of the rings?
Yes, yes, we all understand that it's customary on Ganker to say everything is shit, don't worry, you fit in.
critics of his time hated his work. my guess is that they got filtered by the first book, which is a piece of shit
Average LariaBlack person
D&D is literally just off brand LOTR lmao. Also kys
Do you think because a book from the 50s doesn't feature the word frick that no one in the 50s said the word frick?
MEdia being more honest now isn't bad.
>Do you think because a book from the 50s doesn't feature the word frick that no one in the 50s said the word frick?
that wasn't his point
>Specirfically didn't quote my point
>hurr durr your argument is irrelevent to the conversation
Peak weasel
Whether or no those things are presented in statistically accurate proportions across all of global media is not the question here.
People swearing is more true to reality than them not doing so, that's just a fact.
Cope.
Your argument is beside the point. Don't bother posting if you're just going to be irrelevant, moron.
It's not beside the point you smooth-brained zoomer.
Even if Tolkien WANTED to put frick in the book (which he didn't) he wouldn't have been allowed too because it was printed in the 50s.
Didn't read, moron.
>No argument
>Only tears
The eternal fate of the Gankertard
k
>uhh ackshually it isn't dishonest to portray things inaccurately so long as it aligns with my ideology
The hands that you typed this post with, will always be a male's hands. I don't even have to tell you to cope, you're the living embodiment of it.
>media being more honest now isn't bad
how the frick is media being more honest when a modern television show comes out and half the casting is supposed to be gay, trans, lesbians, non-binary, or whatever else?
c**t is a lot more common, it's the original Germanic word for vegana/vulva (both words misborrowed very recently from Latin that had nothing to do with anatomy). Many English streets were named Gropec**t Lane, for obvious reasons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropec**t_Lane
Yet it's a little too naughty for even the naughty characters in a game.
c**t is too Bri'ish for the American audience, can't have that.
If you don't want English words don't speak English.
Not your language anymore Nigel, got conquered, just like the rest of your fallen empire.
hold this L for me, won't you?
you reek of reddit. drink bleach.
>you reek of reddit. drink bleach.
You reek of virginity. You will never have a trad wife
You will never, EVER (lmao), be a woman in your existence.
I mean, by this logic we're in the same boat. I'll never be a woman, and you'll never be an actual trad man with a trad wife. You'll always be a nerdy channer who dreams about one, and you will never change it
>both words misborrowed very recently from Latin that had nothing to do with anatomy
The romans used a lot of euphemisms for genitals, penis being one of dozens for wieners. One of the euphemisms arbitrarily being chosen and ending up as the de facto modern word isn't that strange.
The one fricking thing FF 16 got right.
Western dev studios could never.
I just try and power through it - at least it's not GOW Ragnarok level of millenial writing.
It's based on History. This is how people talked in MEDieval Europe.
>karlach screams and explodes
>asstarion runs away screaming on fire
>laezel ditches everyone else and flies away
Wtf was this ending I played 70 hours for this?
Thanks for your 60 dollarinos.
No refunds.
For Astarion you need to make him a true vampire in his sidequest by devouring all the people in the ritual, otherwise he won’t be immune to sun.
So, the ending.
All of that build-up, nearly 200 hours of gameplay, a really fun final boss sequence and then the entire thing is wrapped up in a single cutscene? Not even an ending party or slideshow or summary during the credits to show what happened to everyone? After all those hours spent completing their sidequests, building approval, etc - all you get are a few throwaway lines and non-answers about their fates? Even the goblin camp party was more satisfying and fulfilling than the ending to the *entire game.*
I romanced Astarion, and you're telling me that his entire storyline concludes with him scurrying off and Gale quipping "welp, guess none of us will ever see him again (:" Not even a single bit of dialogue with him? A little cutscene to show that he's still... yknow... *around?*
Idk. Maybe I'm just bummed because the rest of the game was so fantastic and interactive, and then it wraps up in this underwhelming, unsatisfying way. I really hope Larian changes something about that ending, because it's really killed any motivation I had for replaying the game.
Surely there must be something else they can add. Like, anything else. Something to make that final scene feel less hollow.
This game has the worst romance options I've ever seen in a cRPG other than just not having them at all like in Gothic or Solasta (which honestly is an improvement)
I really don't understand the normiecattle's obsession with this game. It's not bad and it grew on me with time, but the "99 metacritic, GOAT'ed writing and characters" bullshit is honestly unfathomable to me.
Female writing, illusion of choice, low difficulty, accessibility(character building that feels complex on the surface but is actually braindead) and inclusive characters everywhere
People who write this shit don't read any books except maybe some YA slop now and then. What else did you expect?
>devil spawn swears a lot
>this is bad
OP, how's the European room temperature IQ working for you?
>room temperature IQ
cringe
learn some new phrases already
>learn some new phrases already
>cringe
lol
OMG GIRLS CAN CURSE AS WELL RUNINING MY IMMERSION DID THEY THINK ABOUT TOLKIEN
shut the frick up roxane
She's just a lil bratty beefcake. What's not to like?
talk to anders first, you can kill the red troony and chop her head off
She doesn't say much to me.
She will start at some point.
>flicker with a faint flame
So she’s alive?
Yeah I don't understand why so many people like Karlach every part of her quest and dialogue is textbook Millenial Writing.
she just needs "correction"
when she sees a /ss/ she turns around, bends over and says "frick this" to him
i made a char just for this. when is it finally /ss/ time?
I'm assuming whenever larian releases modding tools and loverlabs create a framework to access cutscenes whenever you want
I agree that she swears a lot, they coudl've done it in a more... fantasy-esque way, while still keeping her character as a direct, no bullshit kind of girl.
I know it's not something people nowadays get, but it sort of sounds weird to see people in a '''medieval''' setting speaking like that. In older games, they tended to be less vulgar.
I still like her, though. The only character i don't like is Astarion.
If she spent so long in the Hells, I'd expect her vocabulary to be more.. hm, concise, laconic.
Yeah. It matches her character to be direct, say what's on her mind, but i just wish it felt a bit less... modern.
Agree there, this is like pop culture references, it's... tolerable, but not fun.
What if it was a Hell of Millennial Writing?
>The only character i don't like is Astarion.
>not liking the best character
Shit taste.
Different anon, I wish you could politely tell Astarion off without him getting mad at you. I don't want to frick him, he's a cool bro and is entertaining to have in the party. It seems like a lot of the dialogue is stuffed into how close to being romanced they are.
I told Astarion that I didn't want to frick him very early on, and he's been a good platonic bro ever since in my game. He still comes to me with schemes and what not, and he still talks about his backstory. He just doesn't hit on me. It seems like he still has plenty of platonic dialogue to me, more than Gale at least who basically went catatonic after I rejected him.
It's strange, isn't it? The most flamboyant homosexual is the chaddest of at least the male cast.
What did they mean by this?
Idk but I thought that was funny too, Astarion is the only male companion that I actually like. Wyll is alright too surprisingly enough, had to restore an old save when I found out he was decent cause I went "aaah a Black person" then killed him instantly.
Every character is potentially bisexual and romanceable, but Astarion is the only canon gay who actually acts like one. Gay guys have no shortage of bussy to help them cope with rejection, but the same can't be said about straight guys with pussy. Gale mopes like a straight guy.
>I know it's not something people nowadays get, but it sort of sounds weird to see people in a '''medieval''' setting speaking like that. In older games, they tended to be less vulgar.
You're mistaking essentially corporate censorship for some sort of ephemeral virtue now lost. Bioware is on record saying Wizards told them to tone down the sex and violence multiple times because they were scared of the satanic panic 2.0
Further, as has been shown numerous times in this thread it's perfectly historical for 'medieval' characters to swear, in fact, your average peasant (like Karlach) probably said piss, shit, wiener, frick, and c**t more than actually useful words.
TL:DR you guys are mistaking corporate censorship for virtue and ironically more historically accurate writing for sounding too 'modern'.
>I know it's not something people nowadays get, but it sort of sounds weird to see people in a '''medieval''' setting speaking like that.
Medieval people in England did talk crudely like that. The clergy all spoke Latin and the nobility all spoke French.
>nooooo stop saying "frick" you're supposed to be speaking in stilted ye olde englishe
why do chuddies get triggered by swearing?
>Cannot refute the central point, so he has to conjure a strawman to attack
So he's right. We accept your concession
>chuddie thinks abject whining is a "point"
>waifugays lost out on pure kino
astaronbros we won, we fricking won so hard
Imagine choosing any other option aside from beheading her and bringing it to the demons in disguise
>I don't understand. Isn't this supposed to be a fantasy setting?
It's marvel writing of a fantasy series.
>Isn't this supposed to be a fantasy setting?
what does that have to do with anything?
Americans overwhelmingly believe anything fantasy related is "medieval" related. Which means everyone talks like posh brits.
Americans don't really think to deeply about it, but to them it's only natural that period pieces of pre-American societies have people who speak with English accents, because America was born from English colonies. America represents the modern world, and England represents the past. It sounds silly saying it, but it makes perfect sense why you'd cast a bunch of Ausies, Americans, and Englishmen speaking with English accents in a movie like Gladiator, since it'd be a pain in the ass to do it in Latin and most people associate English accents with the past anyway. Honestly, only the French seethe about it when their history gets Anglo-washed for American audiences.
Are you implying that people in the medieval times wouldn't swear if they had magic and dragons?
>demon character has a foul mouth
wow, you don't say? you're supposed to kill her, you know?
>find her for the first time
>she's pissed at me because I killed the hippies
>chop off her head and give it to some guy for a magic sword
Every single party member in that shitshow game seems like a writers pet, basically being an OC donutsteal snowflake and it puts me off the game a lot.
>oh its not *just* a tiefling barbarian
>she isn't just *really* badass and can kill everything
>she is *cursed* with a demon engine
The clownshow becomes more and more moronic, I hate it.
I don't like how they get such unique appearances
>Vampire fangs
>Human warlock gets demon horns
>Tiefling is literally 24/7 on fire
And what do you get...?
The irony is that you'd also complain about a straight man in the party, a regular Fighter mercenary.
>He's JUST a regular dude surrounded by unique characters, isn't that special?
Or if they were all regular people, you'd b***h that they're all boring and have nothing going on
Complain about how they're written, not that they have stories. As it is they're still better written than the main plot.
>hardly anyone complains about shadowheart, gale, or wyll,
>objectively the most inoffensive characters in your troupe
People don't really complain about those characters BECAUSE they are relatively normal and don't talk like out of place morons. That includes Wyll, a black guy.
People complain about Karlach and Lae'zel because they are unenjoyable to listen to, for entirely opposite reasons of one another.
Nice try on the critical race theory angle though, I'm sure it'll land and you'll swoon tens of (You)'s in agreement one of these days.
Lae'zel has been growing on me as her character arc develops and she declares war on her own god after I told Vlaakith to go do one at the creche.
No-one would complain about that. All these characters' personalities take a backseat to moronic anime backstory tragedies and macguffins. Lae'zel is the best companion because she's just a stranded alien warrior, no stupid baggage attached. Her character takes priority over exposition dumps and convoluted questlines about shit that is inconceivable for a fricking level 1 scrub to be involved in. Coincidentally Karlach is probably the worst example of this, regurgitating her entire over-the-top and ridiculous life story on you on your very first meeting whether you even ask or not
They curse a lot in not hell.
>nooooo stop le heckin swearing! it reminds me of what an awkward socially stunted homosexual I am
Battleslave in hell for a decade and she talks like a rough London mum. Lmfao
So if you frick Lae'zel for instance at the party, you straight up can't go down someone else's romance? SH's approval is in like the 70% range and she didn't offer me anything
>game has cuss words
>no racial slurs though
Lame
Sure it does, against Tieflings there's stuff like "Foulblood" or "Hellspawn."
Didn’t read
Also I just murdered her
Damn
Why is she so demonic?
>Badass demon
>If you make to many "evil" choices she leaves your party
Well that was fricking stupid
>a priest in BDSM dungeon wants to whip my arse
>Karlach says: "Hahahahaha, do it, I want to see it!! Hahahah"
>Tav says: "alright show me what you've got"
>Karlach disapproves
What the hell
I meant using words like Black person
She's chaotic good and you know it the first time you meet her
I dunno man, when I found her some paladin dude was like "this girl murdered her was through a whole village and shit," that doesn't seem like good behavior
My first impression was pretty bad
The "paladin" and his buddies are undercover agents working for the boss of hell. If you meet Karlach first you can pass a check to determine that the paladin is lying and he flips his shit when called out on it.
Fair enough, I never saw any hints of that though.
Are you also illiterate and couldn't read or hear that those weren't paladins of Tyr?
>erhm ackshually she's chaotic good
who gives a shit, there's no alignment chart the game.
The thing is, there is actually clever use of profanity in this game too. When I told Astarion to get on stage with the clown and he whispered "I'm going to fricking kill you" it actually made me laugh because it was so unexpected from him
This cringe b***h going "frick shit frick shit" is the complete opposite, shes the only one who talks like that and its so bad I would never include her in my party
>I don't understand. Isn't this supposed to be a fantasy setting?
It's a modern setting with a fantasy costume.
Dragona dogma is still one of my favorite games just because of the voice acting and localization it actually sounds like a medieval Europe and not like a millennial costume party.
Yeah DD's localization was so good I didn't even bother playing the game SUBed.
I love how thanks to Larian's lazyness, Karlach only has her bad endings in the game and all of her good endings were cut.
>Isn't this supposed to be a fantasy setting?
Swearing isn't a thing in fantasy? You fricking moron?
I never really cared for her much but her breakdown after killing gortash was really good.
Yeah that was really good. It's just very disappointing that the Upper City part of her quest got cut. It's pretty clear Damon should've been able to repair her engine completely with the parts from Steel Watchers.
Why wouldn't fantasy worlds use swears?
It annoys me when fantasy characters talk like modern day californians
Fromsoft games are perfect in this regard
frick and shit have been words in English since old english times.
I'm sure swearing is older than modern day california.
She's from hell
my wife
I figured the reason she speaks like an emotionally stunted moron was because she was sold off at a young age to the hells and literally didn't get to socialize with anyone until the game starts
Not that I'd expect Ganker to read into the backstory of a character they hate because swearing is reddit
Is there a mod to fix her hair yet?
>Isn't this supposed to be a fantasy setting?
It's a D&D fantasy setting.
D&D is "pop fantasy". Even had a literal UFO with laser guns, and a cowboy character very early on.
I downloaded it. How do I go about not getting cucked or raped in this game? Do I need to kill every male character? Will having the frog and shadowheart in my party prevvent me from having sex with shadowheart? If I use a male character do I have to never talk to him to not be raped? If i bring a male character to my camp and never talk to him will I still get cucked?
You make a male character, remove all clothes in order to assert dominance. Make sure to flirt with all the male characters just to freak them out so you can't get your completely straight playthrough.
Please answer the question seriously, I am being serious. I have downloaded the game and will play it. You have already won. I just don't want to be sexually harassed. Please answer me anon. Pease
There is no way to avoid it short of telling your male companions to basically go kill themselves, the game coerces you into it. Of course you can say no when they come up to you at night with their bed eyes, but that situation is basically unavoidable. The companions are all extremely horny for some reason.
Ok so they are all going to die at first meeting. Thank you. When do you get access to the third female character, and how difficult will it be to get there without a full party?
You find the main cast of companions very quickly and easily.
You don't have to kill them, you can just not recruit them.
Killing off Wyll, Gale and Astarion leaves you without a Warlock, Wizard and Rogue respectively, but anyone can be reclassed. Shart is a Cleric, Lae'zel is a Fighter and Karlach is a Barbarian.
Beyond the origin companions, the other two recruitable make characters are a Druid and a Ranger.
I'm going to go wizard to compensate for that until I can respec someone into a rogue
Giving Shart levels in Rogue isn't a terrible option as she has a Cleric subclass dedicated to trickery, but it's kinda shit compared to the other subclasses like Tempest or Light.
Lae'zel can use her racial power to gain proficiency in Stealth and Sleight of Hand if you need someone to pick locks, but you'll want to respec her to have a better stat array.
In fact, you'll want to respec everyone, even if you're keeping them in their canon classes. Their ability scores are suboptimal
just use gloves of thievery and press the shift key. absolutely no need for a rogue in this game.
But I like Astarion.
I am serious. Assert your dominance.
Bg3 companions are probably the most pushy homosexuals you've seen in vidya. It's like minutes of conversation and they're already jumping suck your wiener or sodomize you. Either tell them to frick off or kill them.
See
she's a soldier straight from the front lines of the blood war
Is there a way to save this b***h or am I collecting infernal iron off steel watchers for nothing?
Karlach is made to appeal to a certain kind of person.
She fulfills that purpose extremely well.
There's no reason to get mad about it? Even if you ignore the option to kill her, you have MANY other options and can leave her behind.
I just don't understand why you would complain when it takes significant commitment to her character to reach the stage that you're at.
Why are you like this? We're talking like 10-15 hours of gameplay where you chose again and again to keep her in your party.
>MANY
A frog and an open relationship roastie.
I meant companion options. To be honest if the only reason you're playing this game is to frick someone, you should stick to dating sims you degenerate moron.
And I don't even understand this shit because fricking anyone in the game locks you out of Shadowheart so what you're saying isn't even true. This is just typical of this shitty board, too busy reading and regurgitating bait that they read on here rather than just playing the fricking game. You are a fricking embarassment.
That's what RPGs have been since BioWare started making games. Get over it.
last question, am I fricking myself out of decent story content if I kill them rather than simply don't add them to my party? Do they come back as enemies or something? I would be okay with that.
Still curious about
but thanks for the tips
You'll get less out of the game without the companions, yeah.
A bit yeah, personally I didn't care for Gale or Wyll's quests but Astarions story is interesting and takes you places and has you work with morally questionable characters to pursue his goals. Him coming onto you doesn't feel out of character either since he's obnoxiously flamboyant and turning him down doesn't feel cruel since many of his ideas are genuinely evil.
I don't care for Gale's, which is weird because I actually really like Mystra/Elminster from tabletop shit. Gale is boring, though.
Wyll is surprisingly fun, but I'm a sucker for "paladin-like" characters (even though he's a warlock).
Respeccing Wyll to pact weapon warlock vengeance paladin is pretty fun.
Well now I just feel stupid for not multi-classing paladin with him
Fixing that
Karlach was made for soi testless zoomers who Can only have sex as a sub.
Stop being mean to my tard wife
Her boobs should have Been much bigger. It's weird when she's so tall and her boobs are small.
A lot of breast size depends on body fat percentage unfortunately, and Karlach is jacked.
Unfortunately, this is a fictional game. And your body fat distribution doesn't apply there, redditor.
Blood tells.
Tieflings are scum.
Once you get over the fact that the game isn't perfect, the origin system is actually pretty good in my opinion. RPGs can't cater to everyone's headcanon OC, and I've found with this and Divinity Original Sin 2 that playing as an Origin just gives you a more entertaining experience since they don't have to craft vague, jarring dialogue options that suit every background and archetype and instead can craft an actual story. You still get to roleplay, you still get to make choices.
I'd rather have the gay rapist gale in my party than the annoying moron karlACK
baldurs gate 3 made me realise the vast majority of you are moronic. like below average intelligence.
i used to think it was a vocal minority of morons but no, its almost all of you
it's that bad? frick
someone's mad
Post SAT scores
Yeah dude, I agree. English doesnt exist in that setting, why the hell are they speaking it? They should all be talking in a language I can't understand, since I dont know it.
I find swearing in media in general awkward 90% of the time. It just doesn't come off as natural.
It needs to be used in situations where it's appropriate and where it matches the tone, which is challenging for a lot of writers.
It's fine when it's rare or your name is Kaine
It needs to be done well and with a kind of subtlety. Same goes for romance/sex. If you overdo those, it's just gonna come out as edgy or immature.
This does bother me, especially when the goblins seem a lot less vulgar in comparison. which is really weird. This entire game has a weird story.
She NEEDS to sit on my face right now
post you're face when you realize Karlach could've been an actual REAL evil devil companion, but insterad they just made her a butch fake devil tiefling pick me
>Kill her and marry drow mommy instead
Wow that was so hard
If she was a devil she's have op stats, and probably not be a barbarian.
yeah that biatch stays in the camp for sure
She's just meant to fill another kind of niche for reddit, anon. you're not meant to be immersed in the story or characterization (there is none).
THAT WAS A RIGHT FIWGHT LAD, NOW WON'T CHA REALEASE SOME OF THAT ADRENILEN ON ME RED HOT FAWKIN' DEMON MINGE
She spent years living in Hell, anon, why are you surprised that she swears?
She spent a decade fighting devils in the DnD equivalent of Hell and literally just broke out when you find her. Of course she's going to swear like a sailor, what did you expect?
she sounds like she was written by a quirky female millennial who browsed tumblr in 2010
The entire game is like that.
>Larian writing
giggle snort
Can you kill it?
I think it's too late by the time you release her from the lantern
Yes? It's a Larian game, anon - killing things that annoy you is part and parcel.
Some 35yo nu-male thought this would be funny
Oh look at you cool guy
I am very cool, yes.
I laugh whenever the joke is badly leaning towards reddit/normie sensibilities, I always pick the dialogue option most likely to appease my bros on the 'chan, its been based and LG most of the way through.
I think of the writing like that is honestly born out of fetishes. Why would farts be mentioned there?
Why wouldn't it? Having a fart fetish is really the thinking mans fetish.
Yeah, definitely agree. Same goes for the foot licking goblins or fricking bears as a "joke".
The 3rd degree burns from hugging her would be so worth it.
I wish I could find Karlach's model for Blender.
Would love to create some images.
It's incredibly cringe. the usual femoid injection of annoying stronk women. i fricking hate tieflings in the first place, it's the most moronic thing they forced into dnd.
Good thing you can kill her, its like you would know that if you played it, looked it up, or read any other thread about it instead of just posting what was on your mind fricking tourist. Go back, now
You don't understand, anon, he can't actually make his own choices in videogames. He's been forced to have bear sex with Halsin at least fifteen times.
They actually just patched the dialogue to explicitly say [Strength]: Resist the Urge to have Gay Sex with Halsin, now only our ESL brothers and >glass him will misunderstand.
I want to transition and become Ralsei's wife.
Oops, wrong thread.
Is it better if you just play as karlach herself so you don't have to here or read her cringe lines?
>get the second fix for Karlach's engine
>oh boy oh boy, it's long rest time let's go
>cutscene is Wyll asking me to dance out of nowhere
What in the actual goddamn frick?
dis homie zesty
The word "frick" has been around forever. The Romans had their own version of "frick" it's the great equalizer.
She's clearly an insert of someone. Everything about her is out of place. The way she talks and acts vs her background.