I have a question for Baldur's Gate 3 fans. Can any of you explain why you like this game without comparing it to other GoTY nominations? I just want an honest critique.
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Because it's fun
Gollum was fun
google baldur's gate 3 review, why are you looking for an "honest critique" on Ganker of all places
That's not the right attitude to have. I want your opinion, no judgement on my end.
>I can frick bears
>I can roleplay a troon
>Shadowcute's manjaw turns me on
>Shadowheart has adorable farts
>My player character looks so cool zomg
Those are the only answers you will get, anon.
I did things the cynical way and got nowhere. I'm better off using my imagination.
right unironically turns me on probably because it reminds me of that one troony I used to date
Weird, she didn't look like that in my game. You also somehow got the same screenshot with the same lighting and all to compare, pray tell, how did you achieve that? It's definitely not photoshopped, right? you wouldn't be disingenuous scum on Ganker of all places, right??
As long as devs and pubs are infested with trannies, you will always have these creatures that is eternally offended by everything that is beautiful. Why do you think it's body type a and body type b? They want to hide the fact they replaced females with trannies. Our only hope is China figuring out how to make good games that isn't gacha shit, or Russia that isn't full of jank, which I admit is very slim.
So be glad that Shadowheart is on of the more passable femboys, unlike Aloy.
Of course it's shopped.
That pic is from the mod that reverses her head mesh to the early access one.
>early access one
>neck seem from mod
When will you shitskin Discord troons die from a bloodclot?
>NOOOOO A NECK SEAM AUGHGHGHGHGH MOMMY HELP
Cope
>Cope
The guy in that pic is superior to you.
?
>no responses
Ganker is... healing?
they've been doing it non stop for like a month, people are sick of astroturf threads
>people are sick of the astroturf threads
I wish
Id that wasn't the case we'd still be having 24/7 "bg3 is the best game ever made" threads with a troony screeching about pol until archive
I don't believe most people are paid shills here, but I'm tired of the constant ragebait threads
Nobody's been paid to talk about Baldur's Gate 3 on Ganker and if you believe that you're a moron.
Just showing a 5 second clip of a bear smirking triggered half of Ganker into making constant seething threads for several days and the mods had to intervene lmao
>people made "anti bear" threads
Never happened. What did happen was astroturfing morons like yourself spammed 15 bear threads a day
How's that meme going? didn't really pan out did it
See ? Even after months you're so assblasted you'd rather pretend it never happened than admit tons of election tourists were mad at the zoophilia meme, to the pount that even now you're pretending it "didn't pan out very well" as Larian is collecting their GOTY Awards disguised in a bear and squirrel suit live to millions of people kek
How can you look at this human trash wiping their ass with your hobby and act smug? How do you not despise them?
>your hobby
>implying implications
So it ISN'T your hobby? What?
I'm implying that you implied it was his hobby, when he more likely couldn't give a shit.
>when he more likely couldn't give a shit
THEN GET THE FRICK OFF OF Ganker YOU FRICKING homosexual c**t
You need to lurk more, Anon. Or learn English I guess.
The art isn't just bad in the game, everything D&D related has had horrible illustration after 3.5
Most gamers, old and new, loved Baldur's Gate 3. Most polls as well, every review aggregator be it pozzed journalist or actual gamers, It's a consensus. You can deny reality because you're a tastelet who WILL resort to shitty arguments like muh LGBT because you cannot argue in good faith it is not a great game. But ultimately, it wiped the Game of the Year awards and is universally acclaimed while you're hiding behind the anonimity of a quarantined website kek
>praises journalists, normalgays and the fricking fake ass VGA
>mocks Ganker
Why are you here?
I belong here more than you, election tourists and polcels aren't gamers. If you like gaming, genuinely, then argue in good faith that it's a bad cRPG and give us a game you've played recently that's better.
You won't because
>You only have poltard arguments
>You don't play games
Oh wow, the election tourist doesn't play games and can't explain why BG3 is somehow a bad game despite 95% of people including oldgays loving the game.
I like crpgs so I'll end up playing the eventually but it looks like bioware shit from what I've seen
I like turn based combat, being able to change builds on the fly and experiment appeals to me and I play DnD.
I'm also a massive degenerate.
combat is fun
>I have a question for Baldur's Gate 3 fans. Can any of you explain why you like this game without comparing it to other GoTY nominations? I just want an honest critique.
No
Is there an option or mod to make the cutscenes into more traditional blocks of text without voice acting? I don't think I can handle that for a 60 hours
That is something they could work on. That and cutscene skips.
I enjoy the combat, interactivity and open-ended quests
dragon age origins is one of my all time favorite games. this feels like the only true sequel. exploring massive frickin trapped dungeons with your party and then asking their opinion on it, or just having a conversation with them about anything available. it's just comfy
>exploring massive frickin trapped dungeons
so every CRPG ever
>dragon age origins is one of my all time favorite games. this feels like the only true sequel.
It's no surprise that you get that feeling from BG3, because DA:O was a sort of spiritual successor to BG2. In fact, there are several nods in DA:O to BG2 characters.
>0 meaningful answers
this game is the most astroturfed piles of shit in this sites history
Larian threw them a hot potato. I'm not waiting for it to cool down.
Here you have a proper answer
Taking in consideration the utter lack of any arguing in favor of it while plenty of arguments against it like clunky dialog, bad comedy, bugs galore, endless needs for fixes, bad plot, bad quests, frustrating combat etc. I do believe this game has a high number of non-players that for some reason (maybe being paid idk) feel the need to zealously defend this game in the childish manner of throwing insults, claiming something about starfield, claiming something about countries, claiming lack of play and other pointless delusions that never address the points made.
A simple question: What is the purpose of the item Rope in the game Baldur's Gate 3?
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quod erat demonstrandum
Nintendo is owned by globalist israelites and Saudis.
Thanks for the imput.
Not much related to the thread but sure, if you had to put out of your chest.
>What is the purpose of the item Rope in the game Baldur's Gate 3
do you really have to ask? it's so trannies can ack themselves
How can I make trannies ack themselves in the game?
Any video instruction of it?
sorry the troony ack mod has been removed for lack of inclusivity or something
True
Stay on topic.
Trannies acking themselves in progress is pretty on topic for BG3 threads
No really, stay on topic.
Give it a rest already. There are better things to do than getting in a corporate pissing contest.
I'm here to talk about games, but is seems all anybody here wants to do is shill
i dont think rope does anything unique, i just used it as a lightweight way to cover up poison vent traps
>i just used it as a lightweight way to cover up poison vent traps
That is it? The universally know useful item Rope has that sole purpose in the game?
No, you can also use it to grab and pull levers that are out of reach.
Are you sure of that?
I tried to throw it up to the girl in the hag's cage, it just threw the rope item up. I also tried to get wyll to misty step up there, but he clipped through and fell to his death. It's either le wacky solution or murder hobos with this fricking game, and that's unfortunately the modern dnd player. Not a single one would survive rolemaster.
this isn't The Witcher 3 thread
Holyshit
I'm trying to do a ceasefire here. Just stop.
you got your answer already from the tencent spammer, if a game is good enough to mindbreak someone into making over 500 posts about game you know it's good, no bad game will cause this much obsession and will usually be forgotten in a week, just buy or pirate the game, refund after 2 hours if you don't like it
I was the original tencent spammer. Along with this. I just wanted to make things right.
https://www.eurogamer.net/nexus-mods-removes-anti-gay-baldurs-gate-3-mod
https://www.polygon.com/23991023/baldurs-gate-3-bg3-no-alphabets-mods-nexus-anti-lgbtq
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/18c7ngw/nexus_mods_removes_antigay_baldurs_gate_3_mod/
Based nexus, get that garbage out of our modding sites
jesus christ, a single game mindbroke this man for 4 months straight, every screenshot is a Rorschach test for him
What do you like about the game though? That's all I want to know.
i spent the last 5 minutes laughing at this, this is beyond mindbroken
Keep it civil.
I remember seeing an empty bucket and a working tap in act 1's burning building, and it actually filled and became the bucket of water. I threw the bucket of water at the closest fire and it landed perfectly,without spilling a drop.
>frustrating combat
imagine getting filtered by some gnolls so hard you have a schizophrenic break
Undefeated.
all it takes is one picture to derail any bg3 thread kek
>What is the purpose of the item Rope in the game Baldur's Gate 3?
A suggestion to the eurotards actively shilling for free when they are presented with facts about the game
i like the combat, characters and the quests. i didnt like the camera, pathfinding ai and most of the music
It’s nothing like the other nominations, thus worthy to win
Number 1 thing is the extremely open ended gameplay. There are many different ways to resolve encounters depending on your party's skills, what items / spells you have, and your own problem solving abilities. You're free to kill off a vast majority of the characters you encounter, even ones who feature in important quests later. I didn't even realize one of the characters I assassinated in Act 1 would later be important in Act 2, and because I did that, a whole set of options for how to approach Act 2 were taken off the table.
The versatility also extends to combat. You have a lot of options for making combat as straight forward or as gimmicky as you like. You can exploit cliffs and hazardous terrain to make quick work of enemies with a push or a knockback, you can drop heavy objects on people, you can blow them up with strategically placed barrels of flammable substances that you arranged before initiating combat. You can also use stealth tactics to pick off enemies one by one before even starting the fight, resulting in a much easier scrap if your party isn't tough enough to handle a big throwdown. I actually did this at the end of Act 1, at the grimforge, I used my wizard Tav to lure enemies near lava pits and cliffs with minor illusion then shoved them to their deaths. I wound up killing the leader of them so that when the fight started half of them switched sides to me.
Figuring out all the ways you can use magic to get around obstacles is fun too. Mage hand to pull out of reach levels and move chests from hard to reach spots. Feather fall lets you avoid trapped areas and sneak into places. Fly lets you engage in some really cheesy strategies too. Even simple spells like arcane unlock are surprisingly useful for when you encounter a door that is unpickable.
I also wound up really liking some of the characters. The interactions just grow on you as you play, and they react to how you handle things.
>every single encounter is "roll up on squad of guys"
>every single encounter is resolved by killing them
>but you can do a dex check or something sometimes and get a funny scene
That's not what I would call "open ended" or "versatility"
i do
I mean if your definition of versatility is talking to a squad of guy and maybe getting a different outcome then the earlier baldur's gate games did a better job of that
then ill play those after im done with bg3
Why lie? Anyone that played through the 3 games know that the rpg options of 1 and 2 are minisucule compared to bg 3.
>every single encounter is "roll up on squad of guys"
There are actually a wide variety of encounters.
>every single encounter is resolved by killing them
You can resolve a majority of encounters non-violently if you want. Either through trickery, bargaining, bribery, or stealth. Encounters that are always fights are usually avoidable.
>but you can do a dex check or something sometimes and get a funny scene
A lot of the time it's more about realizing what is possible than anything else. If all you think of is "i must kill everything that moves" you will never see the possibilities of this game.
For example you would probably just slaughter your way through the goblin fortress in Act 1 without ever talking to a single NPC, but you can easily talk your way into the fort and use stealth and trickery to accomplish your goals. You're also free to change sides if you want and join with the leaders of the goblins.
>There are actually a wide variety of encounters.
name an encounter in BG3 that's not literally "walk into a room of idling badguys"
>You can resolve a majority of encounters non-violently
this isn't remotely true
>name an encounter in BG3 that's not literally "walk into a room of idling badguys"
Sneaking into the Arcane Tower in the Underdark was probably one of my favorite things. It didn't involve any combat, really.
>this isn't remotely true
Not the way you play, clearly. You just want to kill things and can't even comprehend of how to approach scenarios without resorting to violence. I was able to talk my way out of a lot of trouble, or else sneak past it. Disguise-self, invisibility, minor illusion, feather fall, fly, and a decent charisma score let you avoid a lot of fights you don't want to take.
>sneaking is a combat encounter
no that's just you avoiding combat, not actually a variation of combat
>sneaking past things is interactivity
no, it's not, it's you avoiding content
>combat encounter
I said "encounter", not "combat encounter", the fact you think they're the same thing really says all that needs to be said.
If you sneak past idling mobs you're not encountering them at all, are you? That's not a variation of combat encounters because you're not actually engaging the game at all at that point
So what you're saying is that there's virtually no variation in the game at all
I can tell you've never actually played a table top RPG before. "Encounter" is a generic term for when PCs "encounter" anything of interest, be it monsters, NPCs, some traps, a puzzle, etc. Encounters don't have to be combat and one way to resolve them is to simply pass them by, emerging unscathed. Very often DMs will throw encounters at PCs either to whittle down their HP / spell slots, or to give them opportunities to figure out clues about what their ultimate goal is.
If you remember your argument was you claimed there were multiple ways to encounter and solve combat, but all you've said is that you snuck past combat encounters, that's not variation. That's just you avoiding combat by being invisible
Here's your exact quote
>extremely open ended gameplay. There are many different ways to resolve encounters depending on your party's skills, what items / spells you have, and your own problem solving abilities.
Sneaking past everything isn't "many different ways to resolve encounters"
>>If you remember your argument was you claimed there were multiple ways to encounter and solve combat,
No, I said there's multiple ways to resolve ENCOUNTERS
>There are many different ways to resolve encounters depending on your party's skills, what items / spells you have, and your own problem solving abilities.
I then go on to explain all the ways you can resolve said encounters without a straight up fight.
>talk about combat being boring and having no variation
>action there's variation to encounters
>like what
>uh sneaking past everything, and very rarely using a spell or item
So these "encounters" are I assume basic b***h speedbumps in the game disguised as gameplay like pressing a button?
if someone has to explain to you how many variations are there in a game where each class has over 30 spells, you're just might be moron or never played the game.
So he's not actually describing variation that matters and would be expansive on the tired CRPG formula like extensive variations in boss or npc encounters that would facilitate roleplay. He's talking about tired cRPG tropes in dungeons like traps and skill checks carrying the whole game despite every other cRPG in existence doing that better
I begin to doubt that you have ever even played a video game.
You should just enlist. Hardcore, no respawns, procedural generated 'combat encounters', deep end-metagame called "carreer". Knock yourself out.
This is the type of gay that goes into a thread to shit on something he thinks a game doesn’t do, gets proven wrong, and then says “nuh-uh l, that doesn’t count!”
actually you're the one that's been proven wrong this thread
Stop with these self fulfilling prophecies please. I sadly want to see your test of mettle.
He literally just explained to you that encounters =/= combat, and you still insist he's talking about combat?
Encounters are any time the PC encounters something, it's not automatically a fight. Avoiding a fight is sometimes more difficult than fighting.
>thinks "encounter" means "combat"
>thinks stealth and diplomacy is "avoiding content"
Oh, you're an action game moron who has never actually played a real RPG before.
I play a stealth character and it's fricking dismal.
The stealth gameplay in Act 1 was great. I had so much fun in the goblin fortress and in the grimforge in particular.
The only legitimate fun I had while stealthing was initiating the harpy encounter alone, legging it back to the druids and hiding in a corner while they completely fricked over the harpies for me.
thanks for writing this - I don’t think BG3 is for me, but I’ve been curious about what makes it fun.
> I didn't even realize one of the characters I assassinated in Act 1 would later be important in Act 2, and because I did that, a whole set of options for how to approach Act 2 were taken off the table.
how do you know that the narrative was reacting to you like this? did you play it multiple times? look stuff up afterwards? (not trying to bait, i think looking lore up is a very fun part of some games.)
but I don’t get how branching paths is fun, apart from a *feeling* of freedom.
Not him but here's a post from the larian forums refuting what he says
there seem to be only a few major decisions:
1. Druid grove: ally with the tieflings and druids, or ally with the drow and goblins.
2. How to navigate the Underdark and get on the boat to the tower.
3. Whether to allow the Illithid tadpole in your head to begin to take over. On my "lawful good" playthrough I didn't engage at all, so I missed all the content gated on using its powers, seeing the lover and the city in flames, etc. Fortunately caught it on the "evil" playthrough.
If you look up what a game is about before you play it you're never going to enjoy it. Blind playthroughs dude...don't spoil it for yourself that's moronic and self defeating.
gay nerds love their romance simulators
It's fun, looks good and doesn't feel like it was made on 2 tomato soup can's budget, which you really don't get with modern crpg's.
the cutscenes are terrible and amateur
Ye, but so were me1 or dao. It's not giga aaa+ interactive cutscenes like Black personman or cp but at least it's something other than walls of text.
>used to play d&d pen and paper table top shit
>One of my closest bros moves away and the others can't ever schedule time off that works with everyone's schedules.
>A few of my pen and paper party including the friend that moved played with me
>Haven't actually played it since release
>Did three or four beta playthrough with the boys.
>Don't talk to one of them at all anymore
>Other one wants to play something else more often
could you remind me, who asked?
Sorry BG3 fans, I did everything I could.
There are some games you just can't talk about on Ganker because people have autistic shit fits. It is what it is.
The combat is interesting and offers tons of ways to deal with each encounter, and a good chunk of the encounters you can skip too if you want to go for a charisma build.
Tons of build variety, I love mix and matching classes in games and testing how they work.
The dialogues are interesting and again, offer a bunch of ways to deal with stuff.
The game looks good so that helps even if it's not necesary.
My main complain is that even in honour mode it's not hard, it's not trivial but being a little careful and not being a moron with your builds has won me all encounters so far without too much trouble.
The game feels extremely responsive to my actions which creates an immersive atmosphere where for a second I can forget my miserable existence and think I'm actually in a relationship with a cute goth elf.
>it's a dating sim
lol
I wish. While what I said remains true, I wish it actually had true dating sim elements...or at least let me unleash my full sexual degeneracy upon her. Unfortunately I need to content myself with mainstream, safe, vanilla shit.
>you get to have sex after 50 hours of gameplay, it keeps me from offing myself
larian studiosᵀᴹ
Nah, what keeps me from offing myself is coc 2. The epitome of perfection would be coc 2 developed at the level of bg3.
Good rpg
Good story
Good companions
Long game
HELLO
It's the same reason I like any other game I like - the gameplay appeals to me.
You can do what you want. More player choice.
While I think it deserves it’s GOTY, it’s honestly kind of mid, gaming has gone down in quality so hard over the years.
Did you now there's traps and dungeons in BG3? Game of the year
I just want a DLC where I can live my comfy family life with Gale in his tower. Thank you Larian for ruining real men for me
I hate BG3 so much that I think it's genuinely hilarious it got GOTY. I like games with fast combat, mechanics, linear levels full of content, and little story to interrupt the gameplay. So I suppose the opposite of all of those is the appeal.
I played it for like 130h or so, got up to hijinks left and right, never once felt like the game was pigeon holeing me into the action(s) the devs wanted, legitimately felt like the promise from like 10 years ago about player choice from devs was finally delivered on.
After I got far enough into the game I started passively reading what others did on their runs and the fact that there's even more shit that is possible is still kind of crazy to me tbh.
Before playing it I had played the owlcat pathfinder games, both pillars, first act of D:OS2 and some of BG2, but BG3 blows all of them out of the water in presentation, player agency and a big one that I didn't even think was the root of why I didn't enjoy the pillars games at all and eventually found the 2 owlcat games tedious is the encounter design is just head and shoulders above pretty much any other CRPG I've played except maybe BG2's, but I didn't get too far into that one.
Story was standard DnD shit tbh, but it's presented well enough and the constant narrator interjections does a good job selling the whole thing surprisingly.
Anyway, Ganker is for homosexuals that hate video games so not sure why you're trying to get people to discuss video games here.
>player choice
>zero choices in the game that matter
why does every post by a BG3 "fan" sound like they're regurgitating talking points? The game is linear, there's no "choice".
My first save has 0 karlach, I believed the "paladins" and killed her outright for the cool sword.
My second save I fricked karlach into a coma and dove into the underworld with her to kill demons.
You're a Black person.
>there's no choice outside of companions
Cool so mass effect style companion quests that don't matter for companions that everybody wants to shut up
I don't think loyalty missions are some mind melting advancement of the rpg formula as you suggest
Only thing I said BG3 does better than competitors by a wide margin was it's encounter designs, try not to put words in other people's mouths, it's probably why you're such an unlikable Black person with a rapidly diminishing pool of acquaintances.
>what's so good about the game
>uh there's traps and skill checks
>every crpg has traps and skill checks
>oh okay uhm... there's... companion loyalty quests
>that's not impressive at all
>actually uh that's not what I said uh the uh... encounters are good, like traps and skill checks
so there's nothing about this game that makes it unique or intersecting besides the hamfisted mass effect companion quests and terrible janky europoor bioware cutscenes
Bro it's not "Loyalty" missions. It's entire storylines with branching outcomes. You can redeem a worshipper of the goddess of darkness or make her that goddess' champion. Both choices have very interesting outcomes and consequences. That's not a "loyalty" quest, that's a deep interactive storytelling experience. Stop disingeuinely comparing this game to Bioware shit.
No, the WEG shit is entire;y optional and irrelevant. My character has a romance with Ahsadowheart but I hardly pursued or or engaged with it. I did exactly as much as I thought was fun. I felt my character would easily align himself with Shadowheart as her past and troubles actually mirrored his own backstory. They got together because the RP fit. I don't even engage with the sex or kissing, that's fricking cringe and boring. What was cool was having my Excriminal Lolth-sworn Drow who didn't appreciate the lawful evil society he was raised in and interested a criminal lifestyle that eventually brought him to the surface where he found new ideas that reformed him and led to a more "anti-hero" vibe. He saw himself in Shadowheart and her issues with Shar and her devotees and wanted to help her find a better way to live as he did. I just finished Shadowheart's quest last night and it was fricking beautiful. She found redemption in the Shadowfell and then let her parents pass on from their torment peacefully.
My game had an engaging and well written romance in it because the game is fricking well made. And I didn't do it for coomer or wish fulfilment, my actual wife is plenty coomer and fulfilment for me
I know, they're just angry thirdies and dishonest FotM shitposters.
>Bro it's not "Loyalty" missions. It's entire storylines with branching outcomes. You can redeem a worshipper of the goddess of darkness or make her that goddess' champion. Both choices have very interesting outcomes and consequences. That's not a "loyalty" quest, that's a deep interactive storytelling experience. Stop disingeuinely comparing this game to Bioware shit.
Sounds like plenty of Bioware games. Maybe you should play BG2 some time.
I plan on playing BG2 but don't you DARE dishonestly bring up based golden era of crpgs Bioware when you know I'm talking about downfall era Mass EA bioware.
BG2 was over 20 years ago anon
Bioware hasn't made a good rpg in a long time
>dood the characters are voiced and you can talk to them in your camp
so it's a worse dragon age origins
>IF I ACT DUMB AND RUDE PPL WILL BE MAD
Frick off weak homosexual. Go stir shit up in another thread. nobody is offended, nobody cares.
We're here to talk about games, if you can't handle this piece of shit being compared to games before it (because it's worse) then don't come here
>*screeching moron sounds*
Back to the sweatshop shitskin, breaktime is over.
>dood the companions carry the whole game
the companions didn't carry DOS though
Back to work shitskin, they're gonna dock your pay if you're late coming back from your shitposting break.
Hopt to it slave, shoes for Black folk in America aren't gonna stitch themselves homosexual.
Now wipe your tears away and type again.
>We're here to talk about games
>I'm here to talk about games
Seems like all you're here for is to reply to random posts with your uncontrollable seethe.
He's a seething brownoid. If you see low IQ contrarian takes, they're probably some ESL shitskin from a horrible country.
I want the monkey to tell me what he thinks my argument is
>I'm triggered by your responses, I give up
Sometimes people don't want to do a 60 hour monk run in a larian game. Larian games which are known by all to have no story and boring copy pasted combat encounters
The topic isn't you justifying wasting dozens of hours playing a larian game, it's trying to sell the game to other people.
>I played the game for X amount of hours
isn't a quality post
The problem is I know what the answer is going to be, I'm just trying to get the morons here that actually played the game to post something that isn't their keyboard shorting out from their drool
Did you reply to me with this word salad to prove my point? Thanks.
Shitskins lack the ability to model the perspective of others mentally. They are rarely able to debate with people online because of this.
I'm telling you why
>I played the game X amount of hours
being the only on topic posts in these threads is moronic
if you're above 100 IQ you should be able to infer something from those responses, and no, they're not quality posts. People that actually want to talk about a game don't behave like this
>He is raging
Dude. It's just a videogame kek.
DAO is probably the closest comparable, yes. But IMO BG3 is better, if only because of how much better and more interesting character builds and combat is for non-mages in BG3. DAO did a pretty good job with mages, but everything else was very underwhelming.
I mean "dragon age origins with larian combat" sounds vomit inducing
Every game is linear in a way. Stay on topic please.
You sound like someone who has no idea about role playing in a game.
This so much.
I decided to shit test the game by RPing as an ex criminal drow exile who was learning that domination and evil aren't all there is to the world but struggles with a fixation on power and strength that led him to become a warlock. The game consistently allowed me to make choices that felt very much in line with his stuff. I almost went for evil shadowheart but the choices in the moment led my guy to redeem Shart and himself a bit. Really felt organic to my RP.
yeah that's the type of stuff I'm talking about and it's just not something 80% of the homosexuals on this board can even conceptualize much less find any enjoyment in.
Its the culmination of Larian's RPG efforts going as far back as they've existed. Literally the sum of over 20 years of RPG development.
>can mind read anybody
>talk to the dead
>talk to animals
>surfaces and materials reacting to your spells
>indepth stealth and crime mechanics
Larian has been honing these mechanics and systems for years. The highly simulated physical rules of the world are also taken to their Apex and again: Larian have been working on these systems for a LONG time. BG3 is basically Divinity Original Sin 3 but set in a cooler more beloved world than Rivellon. Especially since Original Sin 1, they have been iterating. OS2 was a massively expanded and I proved OS1 and somehow they did it again with BG3. BG3 is as superior to OS2 as OS2 is to OS1 and OS1 is built on some of their efforts in Dragon Knight Saga as well [one of their first forays into mindreading npcs and having really good dialogue tree. I still remember getting a skill point from mindrading a dragon God, so cool]
It's a WEG with an actual AAA production and budget behind it. That's the only reason people love it. Porn is the only thing that gamers want, especially if you are single and in your 30s like 90% of guys on this site
the porn shit gets massively overblown
there's surprisingly little of it in the game for how much it gets talked about. The people crying about it are the ones who pick the romance dialogue option literally every time it is available for every companion
nudity/sex scene wise it is identical to Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is honestly better at it
>Sex with Panam while linked into a futuristic tank that networks the crew's senses and minds together
Is way cooler in terms creative and interesting fantasy/sci-fi sex scenarios than:
>Sex with shape changing druid in bear form
There is something to say about how every companion pretty much immediately tries to jump on your dick once your approval with them gets high enough, you really can't avoid that unless you initiate romance with 2 characters right away to lock out the rest. There isn't that much porn for a 150 hour game, but the npcs still get awfully horny for you simply by being in the party when you do things they align with. By comparison in most other crpgs the player usually has to initiate it.
It's all the reactive narrative, tactical combat, and branching solutions of CRPGs that I've loved for years but given a big budget so it can have high production values for visuals and voice acting, and have greater depth in the scripted narrative complexity. To me there is no mystery why this game is great. I've been playing these games for years and they are often considered some of the greatest games of all time. However, they usually are heavily text based and remain niche as a result. BG3 removes that barrier for people. CRPGs are and always have been amazing. But it is very hard to make a "AAA" narrative party based CRPG because of the sheer volume of assets involved.
its a solid crpg with a budget and scope that we haven't seen in 2 decades
it's an actual good rpg
companions are mostly memorable except for boring plank Wyll
combat is fun
mostly really good voice acting
I like the presentation, combat and the different scenarios the game puts you in even though the writing could be better. Also freedom to approach different encounters any way to you want is a nice bonus too
I've been trying to give them a sporting chance.
i dont understand what you're trying to say
If nobody else will lead by example, I will.
are you saying my post was an attempt to lead by example?
Stop giving him attention. PLEASE don't feed the fricking third worlders. They're like Pigeons, they need to be chased off at all times.
I am doing everything I can to protect you freaks. Be thankful I'm not Pontius Pilate.
Undefeated
Knock it off. I expect more diplomacy.
because it's the best crpg to come out ever, tbfrank, going back to the classics, it does all the rpg fundamentals really well. You could look at it as an effort to distill and refine of the form of the turn based rpg, using the (thougheverbeit adapted) original formulation of the form, dungeons and dragons rules. The gameplay, the writing, the graphics, optimization (aside from the industry norm massive filesize padded with audiofiles), everything is done right. It's funny that people were saying the same kind of thing about Elden Ring last year regarding its refinement of the arpg form. I guess gaming is back
Not even close.
But even pigs have fun in the mud.
>eople were saying the same kind of thing about Elden Ring last year regarding its refinement of the arpg form
No one said that, people said that ER is more content of something people already like. That is why people liked.
its not even a top crpg anon. you just havent played very many.
this. wizardry 8 is still the best turn based rpg.
>Distill and refine the form of turn based RPG
>RPG fundamentals really well
>Optimized
i like simplistic crpgs
i like role-playing
i like medieval fantasy with a twist
i like being horny
i like that I can act out my degrneracy in a game without poisoning real world woth it
i like modern graphics in my crpgs
i like over the top cringe writing
this is why bg3 is currently my favorite
I wish Tencent paid me for saying this
If you can't understand why you should like playing a game, play something else. I don't like first-person shooters, but I don't waste my time starting CoD threads asking why I should think they're fun.
i like dnd
i like dos 1 and 2
this game is dnd mixed with dos 1 and 2
Its fun.
>read the first 50 posts
>not a single honest, direct answer, at best vague shit like "its fun"
>thread immediately devolves into culture war bullshit
Fricking this inorganic shilled pile of garbage and frick all of you.
yup, astroturfed game for mentally moronic people
>malding this fricking hard because his favorite game didnt win goty
Third worlders can't afford to buy or play all the games they want to so they convince themselves they're bad and then smear shit on the walls of various discussion boards in the time they would have been spending playing more games.
Basically they're console fanboy children evem if they're adult. Just instead of championing whichever console they Mom bought for them, they champion whichever one they could afford on their sweatshop paycheck.
There are zero fricking games this year that are worth getting a 'GOTY' award, games are fricking boring and shit compared to even the PS4 generation now.
I am not playing your astroturfed gayBlack personloving game ever.
totk and bg3 were really good this year. apparently wonder is good too. maybe you just don't like videogames anymore
I played Rayman Origins on my 3ds and it was probably the most fun I'd had in a video game these past couple of months, it's not me it's that games suck nowadays and standards have lowered.
I don't own a switch so I can't and won't play totk and wonders.
>i cant have bad taste in games thats impossible
>everything must suck now
Yeah you're not looking for an actual debate, here have a final (You).
Look man, you've got good tastes because Rayman Origins was a work of passion and dedication, and it can be hard to find in games, even when Rayman released.
But BG3 does have high standards, tastes aside, it did a lot of things to the best standards of the industry.
I'm sorry but if that well is poisoned by agenda-driven writing then I can't play the game, I have seen this stuff in action where devs put years of hard work and dedication into their video game only to be ruined by people with a message to push.
Here's a link to a video about a guy that got his work shit on because of current day politics.
If you can't enjoy anything with a gay in it, that's your problem not the fault of the game.
>I'm sorry but if that well is poisoned by agenda-driven writing then I can't play the game
die in a hole then chud nobody cares about you
that's the exact kind of attitude that will facilitate larian being irrelevant for another 25 years
>larian being irrelevant for another 25 years
irrelevant to who? they're unironically in the limelight since their game came out. what world are you living in? did you not just see what happened? they fricking sweeped. a million people cheered for them.
>a million people cheered for them
who?
peawiener theater seats 7,000 and not everybody there was cheering, so that's about a million off
7001 cause i was at home cheering
>7000 seats
>10 million tuned in (allegedly)
is everything just fake and gay now?
I watched for about 20 minutes before realizing every preview was for extremely generic boring looking garbage that I have no intention of buying, then turned the channel.
If I am counted as one of those 10 million tune-ins then it could be a real number, I just wonder how many viewers were like me and only tuned in for a short time before eye rolling and doing something else.
Don't respond to these people, they're just looking to rile you up to get a (You), Ganker is filled with these types that have nothing better to do.
>irrelevant
>won game of the year
>tens of millions of sales
so you're not just moronic you have your head in the sand, too? larian is relevant, the only people who refuse to play larian games are darkie muslims and hispanics because gays live in their head 24/7 rent free and they get all their information from cherrypicked webms that are, ironically, more agenda-driven than the game you are complaining about
>trying to come off as reasonable and ready for healthy debate while also being a b***h who thinks his shitty opinions are factual
kek. Ganker is so tiresome nowadays. I wish there was more morons in the world rather than fart huffing midwits, at least then a discussion would be more entertaining than eyerolling.
there's plenty of morons that post on Ganker and those moronic buttholes can't even get coomer threads for this game going anymore
>strawmans constantly to start arguments to get (You)s
Get a life
90% of Ganker don't even seem to play games anymore. It's like they come here to complain about games they've never played. It's fricking disgusting, subhuman behaviour.
probably because the board is swarmed with absolute mongs that can't communicate their ideas
>Make a game where you can play anyone and romance anyone
>99% of gamers: make a straight male and enjoy heterosexual romance
>Ganker: WOW look IT'S A homosexual GAME!! LOOK I ASKED MY WAIFU TO PISS ON ME AND SHE DID IT!!! WHY IS WESTERN GAMING SO DEGENERATE?!?!
This game more than any other has exposed this shithole for outrage baiting
Elden Ring exposed Ganker too, so many shitters and first timers to the Souls formula got filtered by fricking Margit. Que the endless butthurt shitposting about fake difficulty, input reading enemies and cope posting about how they could get good if they really tried.
Elden Ring and BG3 have to go down in 4ch history for exposing shitters, BG3 especially since the game has so much freedom of choice, you expect me to believe you got fricked by a bear and didn't initiate? because that sure as shit didn't happen to me.
Elden ring is one of the worst games ever made so maybe Ganker is right about things sometimes
>absolutely dogshit games winning awards
lol, the industry is dead
>Elden ring is one of the worst games ever made
Cringe, filtered homosexual. You have no idea what bad games are, you're just an overly loud filtered casual.
Ubisoft doesn't make good games, the irony of a japanese developer, which does nothing but regurgitate the same old tired formula, stealing a decade and a half old formula from a western dev that does nothing but regurgitate the same is extreme
It's like that movie where the copies keep getting more and more moronic
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i really loved div os 2 and this game expands on it in ways i love. the 5e rules are just fun to play around with and build classes with.
the writing is good. i enjoy the characters and the voice acting.
the music is great. most games i eventually just turn off the music and play other stuff in the background if i play the game long enough but the music fits so well i either notice it and really love the way it fits into the moment that's happening on-screen, either in the middle of combat or during dialogue, or it just blends into the experience im having exploring the map.
i have 370~ hours in the game and i've played it with 3 or 4 different people at this point.
the fun part for me is seeing what builds i can make work in dumb ways or wanting to get to another point again with a different character to see how that part plays out. there's still so much content i haven't done yet because it's almost a new experience when you pick an origin character instead of a custom one or a dark urge that you need to play through it multiple times and a full playthrough is probably still 80~ hours when you try to speedrun to get to the things you know you want to see the character you're playing do.
it's a turn-based rpg kind of like disgaea or phantom brave. there's no grid but everything is distance-based. the maps are also so well designed. it's not like you're just walking through it like a diablo map. you can climb through it as well. any roof or ledge that you have the ability to jump or teleport or fly to you can get there. some areas are designated as chasms and those you can't jump down into but there's multiple areas where you normally would die jumping into that if you put on featherfall you can jump down into and skip entire areas. the freedom of movement in this game for the style of game it is is insane to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Sg_yeBXD8 here's a vid just showing how you can climb up as far as you pretty much want.
TL;DR- game is fun
>i've played it with 3 or 4 different people at this point.
literally its only selling point is the multiplayer just like dos 2
>dnd
>turn based combat
I’m sorry but your game cannot be good.
I enjoy the voice acting and turn based combat. I also like picking up all the random clutter and finding new items. The story doesn't interest me at all but all video game stories suck ass so that's no surprise.
it's alright alone but another experience with friends
>half-orc fighter
>dwarf barbarian
>tiefling oathbreaker
>half-elf sorlock
>absolutely no team coordination
>2/4 individuals have never played a CRPG before, the third only Pathfinder
>yep, it's gamin time
this was the entire selling point of DOS 2, it wasn't that the game was good, it was that it had janky multiplayer
The game is fun with friends, as long as those friends can maintain a schedule.
>combat is insanely fun
>characters have personality
>you actually roleplay in this roleplay game
>huge amount of content with actual care put into it instead of just having "activities"
>story isn't anything special, but the writing elevates it enough to make you care about what's going on
Honestly, what's not to like?
I can only criticize it for its boring, MMORPG-like itemization (how about you actually make an item interesting instead of telling me it's "legendary"?) and the lack of some checks before they try to throw homosexual shit on you. Minor complaints.
>you click buttons
>you find things
>at one point there was music
astroturf reply
>it's a video game
What an opinion, anon.
it's the videogame of all time it won the game of all time award, didn't you know?
>you do things in a video game
whoa, stop the fricking presses
You're so fricking mad LMFAO
>video game is bad because its a video game
kek peak Ganker answer
>I can only criticize it for its boring, MMORPG-like itemization
this is a problem only specific to bg3 when looking at it through the 5e ruleset. bg3 gives you WAY too many magic items. you should not be wearing more than 1 magic item by the time you're level 5 in regular dnd 5e campaigns. also it gives you a frickton of health potions.
i understand they had to put every magic as available for everyone so you can just pick the one for your class but it just makes the game too easy. i honestly think about a mod to reduce the number of health potions to make more subclasses necessary like bard or druid healing every day since this game came out.
another 100+ of those hours are on my own as well. i spent the first 60 hours or so with this game doing a naked unarmed solo durge monk run. i might try it again on honor mode but i want to try builds i haven't done yet.
i just had to completely scrap an idea for a build where i wanted to use pact weapon and shillelagh to get my cha modifier twice on my weapon and use polearm master cause bind pact weapon doesn't give your spellcasting ability modifier, only the summon pact weapon does. and also polearm master is bugged still and actually does the exact opposite where it gives enemies that are holding apolearm the ability to hit you with their reaction when you come into range.
Again liking a larian game is a red flag, just like is DOS 2 threads the best excuse anybody could come up with wasting time playing a larian game was the multiplayer.
I remember buying DOS 2 because the shills here told me it had multiplayer, and then only after I downloaded it did they tell me it's basically LAN only and everybody has to paly at the same time. Laughable, trash like borderlands had a better system 14 years ago
you come into the thread about a crpg and complain that the crpg game is a crpg
you are the red flag man.
leave the thread
do something else with your life
He's a pissy shitskin third worlder. Don't feed him.
>u compwain see ar pee gee not see are pee gee
the frick are you talking about you monkey?
read my frickin post again b***h
>you're critiquing a shitpg in a thread asking for criticism of a shitpg?
behold, the larian defender plant.
having characters that you drag and drop into other people's worlds is not a normal thing for most games that are multiplayer. it's only specific to borderlands and terraria. otherwise it's more of an mmo. the post i was replying to is criticizing the game for being something that it's not. it's not those games. it would mess up a lot of things with this game if that was in this game. it's like criticizing bg3 for not having thanos twerking in it. thanos twerking isn't in this game because it's not a thanos twerking game. there's no rocket cars and a soccer ball in this game because it's not rocket league. there's no in-game radio because goblins haven't discovered radio technology yet. there's no actual critique taking place when they said this game is missing that aspect that those other games had because it's not the type of thing that's in these games.
>Rival Star Field
Nothing can do that because starfield is absolute undercooked shit.
>Playstation 5 RPG
>Rival Starfield
>Beats Zelda
>Metacritic
It's impressive how trash is gaming journalism.
im a furry
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It's fun 🙂
>Third worlder
Chuds 100% assmad that thirdies are fricking and impregnating their women while they stay at home playing a tabletop RPG by themselves
lmao no, me and my blonde white wife just hate you. You ruin everything. Including Ganker.
>Wife
>Ganker
>Baldur's Gate thread
Lmao, Third World GODS out here immigrating into your nations, changing your populations and settling into your culture, while all of you chuds sit here and stew and think "Thirdie" is a good pejorative in English
Check harder moron.
>GODS
lmao, shitskins have small man syndrome but on a racial level.
Every brown person is ugly, smelly and inferior to whites. They even acknowledge it.
It genuinely just feels like a mediocre Bioware game, and Larian will definitely go the exact same homosexual route as Bioware.
Larian's already tucked tail and ran, they will never be bioware because they instantly gave up as soon as they were even moderately known
Imagine spending 25 years as a dev being nobodies and as soon as you get in the spotlight you call it quits and close up shop
Most overrated game since Witcher 3
The industry is so fake
witcher 3 a symptom of the great decline. the industry frame of reference is dogshit.
witcher 3 was another game furiously asslicked by journalists that dropped it in the first and second areas
journalists will give favorable reviews to anything with enough bloat content to make them quit, see elden shart which many people reviewed after entering caelid or liurnia
>play the entire series in order
>Witcher 3 heavily references the plot of 1 and especially 2
>look up sales numbers
>Witcher: 2 million
>Witcher 2: 8 million
>Witcher 3: 50 million+
>mfw 42 million people played the third game first with absolutely no context from the previous games at all
I really don't understand normalgays.
It's fricking hilarious, one of the two reason I dropped witcher 3 was because I didn't know what the frick was going on and didn't care
>Chud so angry at the reality of his country that he starts quoting getposts
It is so over for non-Thirdies. Move over, the global majority are going to get busy making your pale shitholes nicer.
>cultivate culture of stepping other's necks and destroying the environment
>get warfare and high crime rates
>come to new country to repeat cycle
You're locusts who only take and destroy.
You can deny reality all you want, you can throw around reused redditized Ganker memes until the sun burns out. It doesn’t magically change reality.
Brown nations are shitholes. Fact.
White nations aren’t. Fact:
Browns are jealous of this. Fact.
Browns will lose a race war.(always do) f”Fact
based and truthpilled. the world belongs to white men.
I like seeing 5e coming to life. It's a tactical fantasy game where you have a bunch of options to choose from and you can run around coordinating attacks in fun ways utilizing your ability to jump, shove and interact with the environment, and it's Larian so the environments are more detailed than what you'd normally get in a tabletop game. The graphics look good for the most part, too, and the game's significantly more fun if played with friends.
The game is nowhere near as good as I'd like it to be and of course it's full of pozzed shit, it's nowhere close to my ideal game, I don't even like isometric or turn-based games, but most other games just look boring to me. I'm pretty burned out by it, though, I wish they'd release new subclasses and races, but people keep saying Larian doesn't do that sort of thing.
It makes a lot of people really fricking mad. I love it.
If by mad you mean the game gets put in its rightful place, the garbage bin, then sure.
So it has no actual value then, got it.
>Make the third world into what it is today through colonialism and the Cold War
>Have nothing else left but to brave what's left behind, survive off of what's left after being exploited by colonizers (corporations and anti-terrorism operations), or try to immigrate into the first world
>You're locusts who only take and destroy.
Not the "Thirdie's" problem, all that's left for chuds is what? Insult, use Australian babyspeak, and play video games while everything falls apart?
>Make the third world into what it is today through colonialism and the Cold War
Take some responsibility moron. You let it happen. Your dirtbag leaders sold you out and because your culture was inferior technologically, you got conquered or colonized by your betters.
My culture advanced faster because it was SUPERIOR. If you were SUPERIOR, I'd be the seething poverty stricken rat who was dominated by a SUPERIOR culture.
No it absolutely is your problem you lazy low IQ parasite. You can help by fricking off. Seriously, just by not being around whites you help them. Your presence is that useless. You are that dumb. Seriously.
If only this game didn't feel like an comicon themed antifa convention
Elevation is a revolutionary feature in crpgs
It fun. I like the characters and story.
>Take some responsibility moron. You let it happen. Your dirtbag leaders sold you out and because your culture was inferior technologically, you got conquered or colonized by your betters.
>My culture advanced faster because it was SUPERIOR. If you were SUPERIOR, I'd be the seething poverty stricken rat who was dominated by a SUPERIOR culture.
>implying you were ever advanced in the first place
Corrupting and making people sell out does not make for culture.
Get it through your head, you should've left the would-be thirdies alone and they would've made things nice enough to not allow immigration to be considered as a means of exploiting cheaper labor or a means of escaping where they were born in.
And now you're here seething at me because I'm reminding everyone here that your shithole paleskin nations are falling apart and finally giving Thirdies a chance to thrive.
>Corrupting and making people sell out does not make for culture.
lmao, how about mastering science and math and metallurgy and naval tachnology and flight, and electricity and medicine all while following a cultre based on forgiveness, kindness and pro-social behavior.
>you should've left the would-be thirdies alone
You lost. There is no being left alone for primitives. Superior people came in and fricked you up the ass.
I fricking love video games.
>literally no good games released this year
>give award to an actual unfinished game which hasn't done anything new
>moronic Black folk come here and pretend like they can claim it's good
>get so monstrously assblasted because they've spammed the board for 5 months claiming the game is good
>can't say a single positive thing about it that doesn't sound like they're checking off a list
they can blow me and blow every anon in this thread
>troony contrarian greenposting
Guess you would know about blowing guys
>get answers why people like it
>nu-uh that doesn't count because i say so
>give award to an actual unfinished game which hasn't done anything new
But what about elevation that was new to me
The game is fun, gameplay is way more responsive than other cRPGs, characters are well written and voiced, and the Dark Urge is the best protagonist archetype in RPGs since Planescape Torment.
Even if you dislike the game for X, Y or Z reasons you should still do a Dark Urge run because it is genuinely great to discover who you are through the game.
really cool rpg, the story and companions were very good
visuals are amazing, best visuals of any game I've ever played
gameplay is great, but I knew that because it's like divinity original sin 2 the best game of the previous decade
thanks for asking bro.
I was kind of surprised that it won best multiplayer, but the other nominees were so dogshit this year that I guess it makes sense
it is very very fun with frens
>lmao, how about mastering science and math and metallurgy and naval tachnology and flight, and electricity and medicine all while following a cultre based on forgiveness, kindness and pro-social behavior.
>stealing from Arabs during their Enlightenment and being outdone by the Chinese before they got bored and scuttled their oceangoing fleet
>You lost. There is no being left alone for primitives. Superior people came in and fricked you up the ass.
And you are losing by sitting here and seething as more Thirdies are imported in. It's obvious as to why, your nation's still got some value to it if it's left alone to be transformed by the future population of mankind: brown people. They are your betters for sure.
>No it absolutely is your problem you lazy low IQ parasite. You can help by fricking off. Seriously, just by not being around whites you help them. Your presence is that useless. You are that dumb. Seriously.
>implying
No, it's the first world's problem for continuing to frick with the Third world. Now face the consequences as the poor huddled masses yearn to breathe free from the disasters that you left behind during the Cold War.
lmao, no you're just disgusting roaches coming over on boats to flee the burning wreckage of the shithole restaurant you used to infest.
If only you had the white inclination towards planning and forethought and the character necessary to accomplish your goals. Then maybe your country would be nice and you'd stay there. Your shithole country is YOUR fault.
cope whitey homosexual, I will be fricking white girls nightly, every hole they have will serve my 8 inches brown wiener and you will do nothing homosexual, you will keep touching yourself to BBC cuck porn like the cuck homosexual you are
You're the one coping anon. Literally admitting my women are desirable and superior.
Reality: You will be posting online(forever) like a terminally online virgin moron.
>your betters
>Literally inferior to me for all of world history
Vancian magic and turn based combat. It's also set in faerun. It isn't goty material.
>It has fantasy setting i like
>It has fiction tropes i like
>It has great UI/UX (unlike most CRPGs)
>It has likeable characters with mostly very well written character arcs
>It has epic main story
>It has epic scenes that im sucker for as seasoned fantasy reader
>Dialogues are fun to read
>Its fun to roleplay and has a big room for even within the given story
>It has good combat with great flexibility and variety
>Overall all of that makes up for a great experience and replayability
ur wrong
>You're the one coping anon. Literally admitting my women are desirable and superior.
No, that's a sign you and your part of the race are low test. Thirdies have a harder life and so they're in tune with their emotions and hormones. They will come and replace you.
No, you just know we're the most beautiful race and in a perfect encapsulation of this entire discussion, all you want to do is destroy what your superiors have cultivated and inject your disgusting hairy brownoid DNA into it. Literally a perfect example of how you are nothing but a fricking parasitic termite eating a beautiful Grand Piano.
I'm not a fan but I think I can explain. It's digital DnD. The "roleplay" is a very big part of it. You're in a custom adventure that develops from your desires and actions. A lot of people think that the voice acting and world building in this game are great, and almost like DnD, you can basically do whatever you want in a fantasy world. Now, when you really think about it, "whatever you want" is just cookie cutter turn based combat, talking to NPCs and entering/leaving rooms, but some people get genuine enjoyment out of this cause they're immersed.
I think nearly everything about this game looks and sounds like garbage, but I feel the same about most DnD-esque games. You have to be a specific type of autism or a lot of love for fantasy in order to like this stuff.
now, as to why a game like this, made deliberately and specifically to target DnD nerds, became mainstream enough to beat TotK at the game awards, it's probably a combination of astroturfing and the fact that these nerds tend to be very active on the internet, thereby increasing the game's visibility. The same thing happened with Skyrim
Adding onto the last point, DnD has seen a big surge in popularity in the last few years thanks to stuff like Critical Role and Stranger Things, so I imagine a lot of it is also roleplaying newbies trying to get into it in an easy way
I've never played anything related to DnD, even though I was aware of the levels of autism required to enjoy it. However I did give Baldur's Gate 3 a try without getting my hopes up too much. Well I very much enjoyed it and that'ts saying something since I don't spend that much time on gaming these days. I've found most of the stuff that gets released boring as frick in the last few years and nothing would stick for more than 10-20 hours of gameplay before I regret wasting my money.
>astroturfed
no microtransactions, immersive gameplay, free to murder anyone, multiplayer is great, music is amazing. 9/10 to me
I'm not saying astroturfing is the reason why it has so many great reviews, just that it's a possible reason why it got so much visibility. It would explain why someone like you, who doesn't play much these days and isn't interested in this type of stuff, ended up giving this game a chance and loving it. I still think that more than astroturfing, it's more likely that nerds who loved it organically talked about it nonstop until they made it mainstream, like Persona 5
Best thread on Ganker right now.
>Reality: You will be posting online(forever) like a terminally online virgin moron.
but enough about yourself
>No, you just know we're the most beautiful race and in a perfect encapsulation of this entire discussion, all you want to do is destroy what your superiors have cultivated and inject your disgusting hairy brownoid DNA into it. Literally a perfect example of how you are nothing but a fricking parasitic termite eating a beautiful Grand Piano.
>implying
You made yourself "beautiful" through the grease paint that you call makeup made from the lands that you people colonized, exploited, and abandoned. Thirdies coming in to your digs is a means of reparations for all of the trouble you people caused. It is only right and just in name of restorative justice.
>You made yourself "beautiful" through the grease paint that you call makeup made from the lands that you people colonized, exploited, and abandoned.
lmao so why aren'y you staying in your shithole and fricking your hairy pajeeta "goddesses"? Do they not sell those face paints in shithole nations?
Sorry pal, you admitted whites are superior. Your hopeless attempt at sexual humiliation [the tactic of a israelite btw] served to only further reinforce my point.
it did as good of a job of adapting a tabletop game as I've seen in a long LONG time. Big selling point of DnD is nearly endless options for tackling scenarios and it accomplished that pretty damn well for a vidya
the writing could have been better, I really like the companion arcs but the main story is a bit meh
I think this will be one of the last great "organic" role-playing game.
Microsoft will start shoving in AI dialogue and NPCs into their studios within the next few years, and soon we'll have modular games that let the community add in their procgen OC and areas like Bethesda is obviously intending to do with Starfield (and failing)
I honestly hope BG3 doesn't lead to moronic AAA studios trying to start a crpg resurgence
there's very few devs that can do it right
Is that even true? Even mediocre CRPGs tend to be a cut above generic first person arpg shit. It would be better than the skyrim meta or soulslike meta.
Eh, Disco Elysium and BG3 became cult classics despite being from a very niche genre.
Even Pathfinder's games did pretty well despite being...less flashy.
Writing quality tends to improve when your format doesn't demand shit like high profile voice actors...facial mocap...out-of-engine rendered cutscenes etc.
Even shitty CRPGs like pillars of eternity blow aaaslop out of the water
Shadowheart the love of my life, my loving loyal wife, she will give me three children, two boys and one girls, we will live in our cow farm on Phandalin and we will make the best cheese on all of Faêrun.
your wife will outlive you and move on to someone else. It's not meant to be, sorry bro.
>Disco Elysium and BG3 became cult classics
You disagree with that ? Do you ?
"Cult" in "cult classic" implies that it has small following, moron.
Not according to the definition of the word anon.
>cult classic" is used to describe a movie that has generated a significant and highly dedicated fanbase over time.
Same for vidya, books, and so forth. It can be a niche fanbase, but FNAF is a cult classic because it's specific to furries and autism for example, despite having a gigantic following
Be silent, moron. You don't know English.
I simply like turn based combat. Moving units around, casting spells, changing the environment a bit, using items on myself, the enemy and the environment. All the while I can just take my time and think about different routes I could go.
That’s the main reason I like BG3 but also the DOS games. I also like a lot of the characters. The story is ok enough but I know that’s a weak spot for Larian games, I just don’t take it too seriously
the combat is amazing, most of which is inherited from divinity os2 but the game does a good job of incorporating the dnd systems within it. both inside combat and building your character you are given a lot of freedom and its fun to learn, experiment execute.
the only flaw within the system is when there are too many enemies within a combat at once and it can take a long time between turns.
the game also has great presentation and roleplaying.
it's ok I still like bg1 and 2 better
I played a lot of NWN when I was younger so I prefer solasta because you can download player made stuff but bg3 is fun I just don't like larians pick this up an throw it environmental puzzle stuff, which is why I hated the divinity games so that ruined bg3 for me a bit
plus all the forced gay and diversity stuff doesn't help, i do like they included some old bg1 and 2 characters though but they aren't with you the whole game which sucks because all the new characters are awful
I am sincerely curious, OP; do you actually think you're clever?
Do you think you're the first person to feign a "just asking questions" persona solely to shitpost at any answer they see, with the aim to use the resulting return fire as evidence that nobody can defend their game?
My friends and I enjoy playing D&D together without the time impact of setting up a campaign/having a DM curate for us. BG3 is the only game that does that.
>I just want an honest critique.
Best CRPG ever made. Even if we just focus on the engine and mechanics, it's masterfully crafted and polished quite well by the release.
Waifu gayging aside, characters are pretty good and the story is well made, lore-wise.
Too many same sex relationships for my tastes, but we all know WHO is being pushed into making games today. Gays, atheists and women. It's almost inescapable, but that's what mods are for. (Not counting nexus mods because they're woke as frick now)
Higher difficulties are actually challenging
Fantastic replayability
Endless combinations of ways to level up and play
Its micro transaction free and rubs that fact in the mainstream slop companies faces(get fricked Microsoft, Sony, EA and Ubisoft/blizzard)
I like turned based combat, dnd, and 160h long stories. Its also a very nice looking game.
tis good game.. if played once u know it. good story, game play is what its turn base games.and its good looking game and dont need super computer play that
Perfectly fine with it being used to bash other RPGs with hundred-million dollar budgets like Starfield, Star Rail, and Diablo 4, but Normies will be smart enough to not use the first GOOD CRPG with a budget since Dragon Age Origins as an unreasonable standard for AA and indie RPGs [that aren't roguelikes/metroidvanias] regardless of the genre, right?
larian games are ass
DAO is shit too lol enjoy your slops
enjoy your seethe, election tourist
Nice try gay
I like the combat and I like playing with friends. It's always a good laugh when we can set up a funny kill. Strategizing before boss fights, talking about gear, and comparing drip are all good fun. The same kind of fun you can have in an MMO, but without all the bullshit.
Probably one of the most refined TTRPG turned vidya experiences out there.
It's #2 or #3 in the CRPG genre alongside Disco Elysium and Planescape now.
It also killed a number of sacred D&D cows and I hope it inadvertently back flows into the actual TTRPG to change it for the better.
My only actual complaint about the game is the whole "nat 1/nat 20 on skill checks" bullshit that isn't in the rules and is a toxic continuation from greentext reading secondaries and muh actual plays.
All people talk about is the story and the characters and the world. I want to know how fun the actual combat is. I am genuinely curious.
I like the gameplay and the dialogue options. The way they zoom in on the characters like in Bioware games is very appealing.
Both are shit enjoy your tb trash and cast that doesn't hold a candle to bg2
Nobody here played BG2, stop larping as some grizzled old gamer vet fellating ugly garbage that was popular long before you were even alive. You aren't cool and this nonstop seething is really fricking pathetic.
So bg3 is just a bunch of zoomer morons and wine aunts that only played 5 hours before dropping it so they could feel up to date on the "gamings"?
I'm 22, frick off already you fossil. This isn't your safe space anymore.
>im a loser
yes I know
>So Ganker is just a bunch of zoomer morons
ftfy
I'm 38, I played pretty much every rpg out there. I play BG 1 and 2 every couple years. This year, I finished icewind dale 1 with 4 player co-op no pause. I'm playing the EE mod for icewind dale 2 right now, and BG 3 is the best RPG of the last 15 years. It literally raised the bar for the genre.
I'm willing to bet you don't know shit about these games and you don't spend any significant amount of time with them.
How did it raise the bar when it did nothing new mr crpg expert
An actual epilogue. All those fricking great games go straight to slides or a short generic cutscene the moment the final boss is dead.
This is the first RPG I ever played that actually took care and time to unwind and unpack it up. But the truth is that It raised the bar over the amount of quality, attention to detail and options for roleplaying.
It's incredible to see jaded fricks saying things like BG 2 allowed you to NO IT DIDN'T. The roleplaying options for BG 1 and 2 are minuscule in comparison. The ways in wich to deal with quest, many less. Most quests in BG trilogy are completely linear, requiring a series of set steps. Most dialogue options, inconsequential, self contained with no ramifications, except the usual liked ones like stealing drizzt scimitars. Well, BG 3 is entirely like that, like stealing the fricking scimitars then encountering him in 2.
AN ACTUAL EVIL PLAYTHROUGH. Only wrath of the righteous is at the same level.
Only someone that didn't play the game or a moron can say that. Even if there is literally a "frick frick shit piss ass wiener" simulator in there, which there isn't, it's would still be a minicule thing in a much larger game.
Besides, since when does porn = bad game? There are some really good games with moronic porn content. You wanna complain about Black folk and gays? sure, but do it on /misc/ idiot. I don't give a frick about your opinions other than game analysis. You didn't say a thing about the game.
>but do it on /misc/ idiot
Make me you fricking homosexual. Go the frick back immediately. You will never be a woman and this place will never be reddit.
>epilogue
You're mentally moronic because they just patched that in. You're literally just naming the most recent patch as the best part about the game. Nonce
How in the hell can you play all those excellent games and then play gay sex troony FRICK FRICK SHIT PISS ASS wiener simulator and think they are even remotely the same in quality?
You mad bro? Honestly, I haven't seen a good rpg like this since Dragon Age Origins back in 2009. Cope and seethe.
>you mad bro
>iphone filename
>fellating a bunch of disgusting pieces of shit that shouldnt be in the industry on the stage of an awards show that shouldnt exist
>calling DAO good
This is who we post with now.
It's a fun RPG. But Acts 2 and 3 are clearly underdeveloped.
It has something that almost no RPG has, an actual epilogue, long, with closure, with long dialogues, to end the story, with a huge amount of variances.
Compared to other big RPGs, it released with minimum amount of bugs. I want to see some of the homosexuals here try to play BG 1 and 2, any fallout or any elder scroll, kingmaker, etc with the release build. I mean frick, there were fan patches for BG 20 fricking years ago. Half the shit of BG 1 didn't even work and a game like bloodlines, considered one of the best rpgs by many, couldn't even be finished due to a crash.
It allows me to do things, I try stuff, and the game says "yes".
I have fun multiclassing even if 5e is the worst D&D edition.
It's the only RPG in the modern era which has nice presentation and production values. As much as people pretend otherwise and love to baste themselves in slurry, CRPGS all being confined to the shittest graphics, animations, no voice acting, no armour/weapon visuals etc. is a massive negative for the genre.
The gameplay, whilst more simple than I'd like due to being 5th edition, is still fun and actually feels nice which is rare for a turnbased game. I like the freedom of approach to each encounter and how you can use the environment and effects to create interesting situations.
The writing, for a modern game in particular, is quite good and I liked the story a lot. Nothing incredible but it kept me engaged throughout and I enjoyed the personal quests of the companions as well.
The attention they put into giving dialogue options, cause and effect, things like speaking to the dead or talk with animals, all the fun little reactivity is the best out of any RPG I have ever played. Especially in the Act 1, it tried and largely succeeded in doing something no other RPG has even attempted, which I really can't go back to now, this has to be the norm moving forward.
And, yes, despite lacking challenge that I would have liked, not being more realistic and taking into account your type of character vs their personality etc. and them just throwing themselves at you, I like having romance and sex in video games. It has always had the potential to add another dimension to RPGS, just like it does in basically every fantasy story/life in general, I just want them to get better at actually making it a gameplay facet rather than making them sort of fan service for the player. BG3 gets closer at this than many others.
Anyone who is praising the art direction and presentation in this game is perplexing me beyond words. Beyond all the gay profane sex shit and millenial writing, the absolutely frick ugly aesthetics that completely butcher what D&D used to look like bothered me the most.
moron
BG3 just uses generic realism for their art direction.
You posted tumblr fanart of critical role, the worst thing to happen to TTRPGs since White Wolf.
It doesn't look anything like that Critical Role fan art. It genuinely looks more in line with the top image, for god's sake there is an entire section that could have come straight from a 1980s fantasy film.
>It genuinely looks more in line with the top image
>for god's sake there is an entire section that could have come straight from a 1980s fantasy film
Why are you lying? What 80's fantasy film do you remember having poopdick homosexuals and trannies everywhere?
So you didn't play the game through then, got it. I'm talking about the Temple of Bhaal, the tone and lighting style is that of the temple of the serpent from Conan and the like.
I forgot the part in Conan where everyone is a frick ugly troony homosexual talking about guzzling cum and eating shit. Frick off.
Old games were indeed better.
I like some of the characters, and the conversations are well acted and written (for the most part, there's a fair helping of cringe and incredibly gay shit too).
The combat is a competent rendition of 5e DnD combat, which I play and GM (as well as other games). Its interesting to see those ideas play out visually instead of just being tokens on a battlemap. Its not the deepest tactical combat ever, but its also not braindead and occasionally can feel challenging if you don't just savescum.
The overall setting is fun. There aren't that many games (outside of CRPGs which I don't play a lot of, this is my first in years) that really embrace a really high fantasy setting. A lot of games try and ground stuff more, whereas Faerun fully commits to having magic everywhere. This is more to the writer's for Faerun's setting credit than anything Larian actually wrote themselves, they just adapted it well.
I think it deserves the GOTY award compared to its competitors that I played. I haven't played Alan Wake 2 yet so I can't say if that was better, and I don't play Nintendo games, so I couldn't say if TotK was better either. If Armored Core 6 had more content I might have put that as my personal GOTY, but I don't think it has the wide appeal that normie GOTY awards need.
>There aren't that many games (outside of CRPGs which I don't play a lot of, this is my first in years) that really embrace a really high fantasy setting.
are you for fricking real jesus goddamn christ what alternative universe did I stumble into?
Consider something like Skyrim or even Dragon's Dogma. Both of those don't have anywhere near the amount of just... assumed magicalness going on. There is magic in those settings, but the world doesn't operate with the assumption that magic is everywhere and fricking everyone builds magic into everything. A lot of settings in games are more like the Witcher, where a small subset of the world practices magic and the average turnip farmer never sees or interacts with it in their life. Faerun does the exact opposite. The average turnip farming village has a cleric that can cure disease just hanging around.
>frame of reference for an rpg is Skyrim or Dragon's Dogma
jesus christ this place is just normalgay central now isn't it
Name a non-CRPG that does what I described.
Vaguely shitposting about other people's opinions is homosexual behavior. Say something concrete for once in your life.
Ok, here's something concrete: get off my board you normalhomosexual fricking moron. Your taste in absolutely everything seems to be complete garbage and you do not belong here.
Lot of words and yet none of them were titles of a game.
it's not really a crpg, feels more like a bioware adventure game, like mass effect or kotor, and of course DAO. By that I mean the sense of scale is off, both time and space wise. Everything takes place over this nebulous virtual time and in these nebulous open world areas. You can't even visit a single village or town before the big one. People clearly like bioware games more so I understand the success. But it doesnt feel like a proper "campaign" that takes place over continents and years, just a series of levels you visit and fake time that never passes.
The combat is overly flashy, the most minor ability requires some super elaborate animation and particle effects, and combined with the lack of any multiclassing restrictions, the insanely overpowered items and abundance of them, contributes to making everything feel the opposite of grounded. The world is your playground, you are not lost or small in it. Where is the feeling of struggling against a wolf and being naked in the wild, the thing that was amazing about BG1?
tl, dr it feels very soulless. The terrible music doesnt help.
Its fun and has sex