If you take Shadowheart down the Shar path she willingly kills the Nightsong, leading to the death of an entire village, her own parents and takes over her cult of memory stealing assassins
>but I heard she becomes good
She doesn't, you can only get her if you side with the goblins to raze the grove. Also she's pretty lacking in terms of content compared to the rest of the cast.
She is. ALl women are gross. Yet she's stil lthe only good companion in this shitty game and the only character with any semblance of character development.
Only if you like to reform child soldiers into actual individuals for some reason. I personally had enough of both gith kinds since NN2. I could not care less about them, their stupid false goddess, and that homosexual prince.
It's just the frenulum and the mouth 'mound'. In fact, all there is drastically different to a human face is the ears and lack of nose cartilage. Just needs some more flesh around to fill in the space that a nose with cartilage would present.
God awful lighting to begin with and second the camera angle emphasizes the worst features I mentioned above; over sized frenulum and too flat a mouth
Well, I didn't recruit either her or Astarion during my first playthrough. I guess this made fighting the vampire dude harder? I just burned through him with the fancy magic missile, the one you learn from a book.
she is a very feminine and cute core behind the layers and layers of armor she has built up living in a warrior society ran by a lich who only empowers you so she can feed on you. At first I was a little annoyed lae'zel was my first romance. I assumed the game was full harem potential since larian said there was poly romances and i could romance them all at once but i learned that is NOT the case at all. but after seeing her romance play out i think she is very cute.
>got memed into thinking all the companions are sex pests and the game is all sex >have sex with ONE character >suddenly no one wants to have sex with me because im taken
wtf man frick you guys
You'll encounter romance flags here and there from specific characters if your character's approval is high enough with them but Lae'zel is the only one who actively wants to frick from the get go, everyone else just wants to have cute moments with you first.
No, Githyanki just happen to have Red Dragons, and it seems Lae'Zel has a bit of a fetish for them. However, by canon she is Built for Big Human wiener, so she will have to settle for a Red Dragon Sorcerer.
People get to fricking very early on because they're morons.
Like Astarion very clearly hits on you from the start, but if you're a moron you could easily walk into a romance with him by responding too 'happily'.
This could actually work and stay faithful to the original design if you ditch the bat nose for two small slits. That’s all it would have taken to make her an unconventionally attractive weirdo race so I’m assuming Larian made her ugly on purpose
her appearance is reflected in her character arc
if she were a conventional beauty it wouldnt feel as exotic
This could actually work and stay faithful to the original design if you ditch the bat nose for two small slits. That’s all it would have taken to make her an unconventionally attractive weirdo race so I’m assuming Larian made her ugly on purpose
As an amphibian she'd probably have her body covered in mucus in order to keep the skin wet
are they actually amphibious? i figured all the frog stuff was just because the shape of her face. the gith all look like they have normal human skin, just with the spots/scales in a couple places. more lizard-like than wet frogs or dry and rough toads. but still more regular human skin than anything else.
i fricked her, but ended up killing her during the fight under the monastery when she turned on me. that was a pretty rough fight but i prepped with drow poison and it was incredibly easy then.
There was one absolutely gorgeous gith girl in their lair under the monastery. You can see her only in cutscene and her head is not available for character creation. I really need to take a screenshot.
>disgusting orc thing that deserves to be shot >lalafells are """Dwarves""" that cant grow beards
i want to split both of their fricking skulls open with my axe for being both gross and inaccurate
>turns on vlaakith >still talks about fulfilling vlaakith's will and has banter talking about her loyalty to vlaakith
thought this rpg was supposed to be ultra reactive
it's actually insanely broken and buggy, but it's a complete game without a season pass, battlepass, microtransactions, or any other bullshit. it's a solid 7 when it works, but since it's not trying to rape you, it's seen as a triumph.
they they blow the whole porn budget on the minthara ea sex scene? so far i only seen the lae'zel one and it was so tame compared to the minthara one..
The entire game is gross. Steam didn't have a problem with my refund even though I had over 40 hours played. Telling them they changed the game substantially for release means the time played doesn't matter I guess.
When I buy this for $30 at the christmas sale, I'm going to mod all the girls to make them pretty. Frog will get unfricked into a pretty Goblina, demon girl will have fat breasts with inverted nipples and Shadowheart will be 90% less israeli.
I'm sure you enjoyed it. I don't consume EGS products is all. I'm from Ganker so I value ideas as concepts and know that propaganda will effect me negatively so I avoid it entirely.
ok I'm gonna get the game in a couple weeks, just want to know one thing. Can I make a fighter in full plate and kick ass without any magic shit? Basically I want to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5KBMhw87n8
>Not really into Lae'zel because she's an arrogant moron. I get that it's her culture, but still. >She wants to frick, and Shadowheart isn't putting out, and Karlach has no sex scenes, so I go with it. >Turns out actually Lae'zel can be corrected and just needs a strong, dominant man to beat the shit out of her before fricking her.
The fricker tried to start shit up in my camp despite being my "girlfriend", that's what she gets. (Even though I had non-lethal attacks toggled on lol)
Do I finally move on to Act 2?
Did the grove/goblin conflict, cleared out the Underdark as far as I can tell, and I just cleared out the mountain pass and massacred the frogs
Does it matter which route I take to get to Moonrise Tower?
>Does it matter which route I take to get to Moonrise Tower?
No, you still have to go through the Cursed Lands, which is kind of annoying. Which means you have to do the Inn, and all the other shit there, and then Moonrise stuff, and then go into the Shar dungeon to finish the act.
You're already 90% through the game.
>Does it matter which route I take to get to Moonrise Tower?
kinda, but remember you can do both paths before actually moving onto Moonrise towers so do them both first
i've given her a chance on a third character, making all the really different choices than i would before, and i'm really warming to her. she has good reason to have a stick up her ass early act 1, she mellows out when you prove yourself to her, and she can be defo be sexy if you like 'em dom.
There's no real point in killing them, but yes you can play without any companions. Probably won't be very fun, certainly not easy, but theoretically doable.
There's no real point in killing them, but yes you can play without any companions. Probably won't be very fun, certainly not easy, but theoretically doable.
there are Hirlings but they seem even more gross meme/snowflake shit than the Origins. dunno what the limits are as i've not tried them, but hey at least they won't be sex pets and judge your decisions, i guess.
i long for the mod kit to come and then we get to create a full custom party instead.
the game is tracking every choice everyone makes.
They openly tipped that hand years ago when kvetching about the character creations. The game tells you it's doing the telemetry thing when you play it.
The upside is the devs know people hate their game and have data to prove how much.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Ah yes, Baldur's Gate 3, a game hated by the majority of players!
11 months ago
Anonymous
Just the majority of humans. They couldn't even get 1% of the whole to play their propaganda.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>the game is tracking every choice everyone makes.
every major game does this now
11 months ago
Anonymous
I know. It isn't a problem. Devs knowing what doesn't sell well is a good thing.
The only "downside" is the player got wind of it through achievements and they decidedly weren't sold to players as a tracking element specifically. We only learned years later that that was the impetus.
11 months ago
Anonymous
All that info your game sends to devs.
What character you made, which path you chose, who you fricked, etc.
They posted results recently and 93% of players made custom characters.
11 months ago
Anonymous
The game has telemtry for everything. >people hate the companions >people only sexed shadowheart >almost no one finishes the game
>oh no, all the chuds bought our game and are giving us money because they're FOMO morons what will we dooooooooo
Probably seethe because people didn't like the game and the data shows it. Short term gain for long term loss kills everyone that dabbles in it.
11 months ago
Anonymous
What data shows it?
11 months ago
Anonymous
The telemetry data. Larian released it a few days ago and had articles written on it to obfuscate the data points themselves.
It felt like a deliberate response to the people online talking about no one finishing the tutorial via steam stats but it just showed that the game wasn't received well and it came from Larian themselves.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>the telemetry data >What data >the telemetry data
Either explain or shut up dude.
11 months ago
Anonymous
larian released stats on the game and everybody plays paladin and warrior and makes human males
11 months ago
Anonymous
https://nichegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-releases-player-stats-for-race-class-player-choices/
Not quite true is it?
11 months ago
Anonymous
half elf is a choice but it's basically a lore appropriate human, hell its not even canon in 5e anymore.
also martial classes have like twice the amount of players
11 months ago
Anonymous
What do you mean by half-elf being a lore-appropriate human and not canon in 5e?
11 months ago
Anonymous
Half elves are basically aragorn from LOTR, that's why people like to play a half elf ranger because you're basically aragorn. It's like baby's first roleplay
11 months ago
Anonymous
aragorn is not a half elf my dude. people are playing half elf because they're the best looking race.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Numenoreans are descended from Elros, the brother of Elrond HALF-ELVEN.
Aragorn marring his elf b***h was the houses rejoining.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>aragorn is not a half elf
He's the inspiration for half elves being a thing in DnD, yes. In the original lore half elves could live as long as aragorn and the numenoreans, so up to like 400 years
Now they've made it so that only elves live for like a thousand years or something
tl;dr wotc is moronic
11 months ago
Anonymous
Aragorn is Numenorean, they are all half elves. Why do you think he was the rightful king of Gondor?
11 months ago
Anonymous
Numenorean aren't half-elves, halfies have to pick one and they are descended from the guy who picked man.
Their long lifespans aren't from elf blood but stockpiled goodboi points they cashed in with God. They also got an island but the dominant faction got uppity.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Numenoreans are half elves. Their ancestor Elros chose to live as a human (not immortal but still elf) and married a human. All numenoreans are half elven that is why Aragorn looked 40 when he was 88 years old when the story happens.
Elrond chose to live as an elf and his house forever remained faithful to the light of aman.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Numenoreans are half elves
No they aren't. Elros and Elrond could be called genuine half elves up until Mandos went >"an elf is an elf, you can't say you're only half"
and forced them to pick.
Numenoreans are a massive group of men formed from the surviving Edain, they all got granted longer lives as a reward for their participation in the War of Wrath. They didn't all frick an elf or descend from general elf frickery, that's not why they live longer.
Numenoreans were barred from entering the uttermost west because they weren't full on elvish.
They are barred because they are mortal men and that place isn't for them. Again, if they were Tolkein half-elves, they would be allowed to just chose to become full elves and go sail into the west like Elrond. The whole point is that they are upset immortality is denied to them.
Choosing to live without immortality didn't make him a man, he just lived as one. He was still half-elven himself. elwin and earendil were half elven as well.
Their family line being a mix of man and elf was sort of a pivotal part of the narrative.
Yes it did, on a physical and spiritual level. It's important because Eru dictated that there are those two kindred with specific rules on how their souls are handled. The mortality of men a.k.a the gift of Eru Illuvatar is a pivotal part of LOTRs narrative, not human/elf hybridization.
You homies need to read the Silmarillion. Also I'm not the first poster btw, half-elf Aragorn RP is fine the man was basically raised by elves of course he's like them.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Again, if they were Tolkein half-elves, they would be allowed to just chose to become full elves and go sail into the west like Elrond.
The choice was given to elrond and elros alone because their father was earendil (who later becomes Polaris because he flew a spaceship and shot lasers at a dragon while being a cyborg - this is canon).
11 months ago
Anonymous
Bro, there are like 3 established human/elf pairs that produced half-elves.
The first two are Beren/Luthein and Tuor/Idril. Their half-elf kids, Earendil and Elwing, made Elrond and Elros.
After that it was decreed half-elves had to pick. Elros's line lived slightly longer than others, but Numenoreans weren't inbred as frick half elves they were the 3 tribes of the Edain. >The Men of the Three Houses were rewarded for their valour and faithful alliance, by being allowed to dwell ‘westernmost of all mortals’, in the great ‘Atlantis’ isle of Númenóre. >The doom or gift of God, of mortality, the gods of course cannot abrogate, but the Númenóreans have a great span of life.
>The mortality of men a.k.a the gift of Eru Illuvatar is a pivotal part of LOTRs narrative, not human/elf hybridization.
The entire narrative of LOTR is about the 2 bloodlines rejoining.
You are thinking of the importance of the Silmarillion not LOTR. You are correct in a larger legendarium, but for the LOTR proper the narrative was about mankind rejoining elves and that rejoining ending the 3rd age positively.
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No, elves awake on Cuivenien after Aule made the dwarves and Eru put them back asleep again. Eru specifically says he will not let them walk about before his children.
Aule is also the patron vala of Sauron before defecting. A lot of bad comes from Aule.
>the ending is about man rejoining elves
What the frick are you talking about, the ending is about Elves departing Middle Earth forever and the Age of Men beginning. The real rejoining isn't happening until much later.
Aragon and Arwen is the parallel to Beren and Luthein, which is about a HUMAN MAN and an ELF MAID falling in love.
Maggot was the informant that Saruman and Wormtongue were using lad.
No he wasn't. Farmer Maggot is the mushroom farmer that gives Frodo a ride to the ferry and that Bombadil likes. He has nothing to do with the scouring, what the frick?
11 months ago
Anonymous
>The mortality of men a.k.a the gift of Eru Illuvatar is a pivotal part of LOTRs narrative, not human/elf hybridization.
The entire narrative of LOTR is about the 2 bloodlines rejoining.
You are thinking of the importance of the Silmarillion not LOTR. You are correct in a larger legendarium, but for the LOTR proper the narrative was about mankind rejoining elves and that rejoining ending the 3rd age positively.
Elves existed before the dwarves, moron. Eru put them to sleep immediately after they were created until Men came around also
No, elves awake on Cuivenien after Aule made the dwarves and Eru put them back asleep again. Eru specifically says he will not let them walk about before his children.
Aule is also the patron vala of Sauron before defecting. A lot of bad comes from Aule.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>No, elves awake on Cuivenien after Aule made the dwarves and Eru put them back asleep again. Eru specifically says he will not let them walk about before his children. Aule is also the patron vala of Sauron before defecting. A lot of bad comes from Aule.
I misremembered, you were right. That said Aule is a pretty cool dude all things considered
11 months ago
Anonymous
Aule is cool. He keeps fricking up but he doesn't mean to. Tulkas best vala.
I know we’re balls deep in a lotr argument thread. But I don’t think most people would agree LOTR is “about” the bloodlines rejoining…it’s literally a small detail in the epilogue/ending. Nowhere in the three books or anywhere else in tolkiens works (that I know of) do they even write about the bloodlines being rejoined as some kind of huge deal. This seems like headcanon that you’ve placed way too much importance on
They'd be wrong. The principle narrative is about Aragorn retaking the throne of Gondor and what it means for the world. Evil getting defeated is almost a matter of course once it's all laid out on the table. Elwin has no reason to exist narratively except that her being Elrond's wife is important. Elrond not helping enough and then helping enough is important because he's repaying a past debt. His meme anger we joke about was his own failings reflected in man, not the failings of man.
What men added to the elves was the important part. Everything leads directly to it.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Agree to disagree then, I don’t agree at all with most of your takes. And they are takes, despite how you present them as fact
11 months ago
Anonymous
That's fine. I'm not trying to argue.
>Sam arrests him after the scouring happens. Why do you think I spelled shirriff like I did?
Farmer Maggot is never mentioned again after the Fellowship of the Ring, moron.
Sam literally never became a shirriff, you fricking lying homosexual. He lived with Rosie and Frodo walking around the Shire using the soil that Galadriel gave him to replant the trees Saruman cut down. Holy fricking are you a lying homosexual.
I appreciate your dedication to this.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>I appreciate your dedication to this
Dedication to what? Calling you out for pulling shit out of your ass?
11 months ago
Anonymous
I know we’re balls deep in a lotr argument thread. But I don’t think most people would agree LOTR is “about” the bloodlines rejoining…it’s literally a small detail in the epilogue/ending. Nowhere in the three books or anywhere else in tolkiens works (that I know of) do they even write about the bloodlines being rejoined as some kind of huge deal. This seems like headcanon that you’ve placed way too much importance on
11 months ago
Anonymous
Adding on to this, they make a huge deal about LOTR leading to the age of men, and that the time of the elves is behind them. Hence why they all frick off to the undying lands. I don’t really see how that’s about the rejoining of men and elves when one of them ultimately leaves forever
11 months ago
Anonymous
Rekindled the flame of the world. Elves are spirits bound to the earth so them fading into the past is the world giving up and the evil of Melkor/Sauron winning out in the end.
It was the fire of mankind that elves couldn't understand that saved the world, and by saving it they rejoined the world.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Half elf blood is like the one drop rule for Black folk, you're either a regular human or supra mortal
11 months ago
Anonymous
Numenoreans were barred from entering the uttermost west because they weren't full on elvish.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Choosing to live without immortality didn't make him a man, he just lived as one. He was still half-elven himself. elwin and earendil were half elven as well.
Their family line being a mix of man and elf was sort of a pivotal part of the narrative.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Also Boromir and Faramir were part numenorean and thus got semi-main character status
11 months ago
Anonymous
Boromir got it, Faramir earned it.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Frodo describes him as having a similar glow to the elves right? Like the feeling he got around Aragorn where he was like "now this dude has main character status"
11 months ago
Anonymous
The light of aman wasn't really something visible. It's like the gleam in the eye when you know you are right and have zero fear.
Whatever original sin is present in mankind isn't seen on people with the light of aman on their faces.
But yeah the brothers were a highlight in their family line. To a hobbit with his meekness the bravery of fighting men would seem superhuman to that.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I always thought that was cool as if the stars aligned and made the impossible journey possible through their sacrifices
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Yeah I always thought that was cool as if the stars aligned and made the impossible journey possible through their sacrifices
They had a dwarf in the fellowship, and that dwarf was from Durin's line. Durin's crown is the orion's belt as seen in the reflection of the mirrormere when Durin was out walking around naming everything before gay elves were real.
Shit, Eru canonically "pushes" Gollum into Mt. Doom as an attaboy to Frodo for making it as far as he did.
Divine intervention is a real part of the lord of the rings.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I always interpreted it as Gollum falling to the curse Frodo put on Gollum using the ring, that if he is betrayed again, may Gollum throw himself off the nearest cliff.. And he did
11 months ago
Anonymous
It was Eru pushing Gollum, as stated in the letters of JRR Tolkien.
Eru is also the Christian diety as well, not just an allegory of the selfsame.
I like your interpretation as a nice bonus. Farmer Maggot also gets a similar comeuppance in the novels (he was the spy helping Saruman), Sam says some stuff about hoping he gets his one day and Sam ends up being the shirriff to arrest him after a pogrom. Could be divine, could be coincidence.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Farmer Maggot also gets a similar comeuppance in the novels (he was the spy helping Saruman), Sam says some stuff about hoping he gets his one day and Sam ends up being the shirriff to arrest him after a pogrom
What the absolute frick are you talking about? You are literally making shit up, you fricking braindead moron.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Did you not read the books? When running from farmer maggot Sam says something about him always being shitty and hoping something happens to him for it.
They find his same branded stock of longbottom leaf in Orthanc and it's shown that farmer maggot was the one that dealt with trading outside the shire boundaries like bree.
Sam arrests him after the scouring happens. Why do you think I spelled shirriff like I did?
11 months ago
Anonymous
i doubt that poster even knows what the scouring is
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Sam arrests him after the scouring happens. Why do you think I spelled shirriff like I did?
Farmer Maggot is never mentioned again after the Fellowship of the Ring, moron.
Sam literally never became a shirriff, you fricking lying homosexual. He lived with Rosie and Frodo walking around the Shire using the soil that Galadriel gave him to replant the trees Saruman cut down. Holy fricking are you a lying homosexual.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Maggot was the informant that Saruman and Wormtongue were using lad.
11 months ago
Anonymous
It was Eru pushing Gollum, as stated in the letters of JRR Tolkien.
Eru is also the Christian diety as well, not just an allegory of the selfsame.
I like your interpretation as a nice bonus. Farmer Maggot also gets a similar comeuppance in the novels (he was the spy helping Saruman), Sam says some stuff about hoping he gets his one day and Sam ends up being the shirriff to arrest him after a pogrom. Could be divine, could be coincidence.
yeah there's two elements there, basically since gollum was spared by bilbo gollum became a neutral party in the whole affair, and frodo spares him, multiple times after that, at behest of mithrandir. Mithrandir who weas a diciple of Nienna who was the Vala embodiment of mercy.
So by sparing Gollum so many times his fate is sealed for turning on such a benevolent master
11 months ago
Anonymous
There’s a sentence that say it in the Silmarillion but absolutely nothing in the books even remotely implies Eru made him fall as not much emphasis is even put into him tripping
11 months ago
Anonymous
It's only stated in the letters of tolkien that were published posthumously. Lots of stuff tolkien probably wouldn't have wanted published has been published.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Elves existed before the dwarves, moron. Eru put them to sleep immediately after they were created until Men came around also
11 months ago
Anonymous
Half the fun of lord of the rings is the genealogy autism anon what the frick are you doing?
11 months ago
Anonymous
your average normalgay and redditor playing this knows aragorn as viggo morentsen playing scruffy ranger human guy. no one even most LOTR autists are viewing aragorn as a "half elf" in the context of D&D
11 months ago
Anonymous
People pick half-elf as a powergamed human. There are no half races in nudnd.
11 months ago
Anonymous
yeah also metagaming
11 months ago
Anonymous
>There are no half races in nudnd.
What the frick. Why and when?
11 months ago
Anonymous
It doesn't matter why they do it, they still do it. In other words, frick how you feel, half elves are real
11 months ago
Anonymous
>people chose human males >shown something that contradicts this >actually half elves are humans
11 months ago
Anonymous
They are. You'd understand the conversation if you actually cared about the subject matter like the anons.
Notice how multiple anons could explain how half-elves are chosen and everyone agreed because they played dnd?
11 months ago
Anonymous
Half elves are not humans anon. You're pushing the chud narrative that the masses all played human male fighter when that's not the case.
11 months ago
Anonymous
No, Larian is pushing that narrative by releasing their telemetry. Strangely enough if you add up all the origin players you don't reach even 1/5th of the concurrent player count on steam.
Big oofs from Larian.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Why the frick would you play an origin character instead of making a custom character and then bringing the ones you like along? Are you an NPC?
11 months ago
Anonymous
A better question is why would you structure and develop a game intentionally when knowing what you just said.
your average normalgay and redditor playing this knows aragorn as viggo morentsen playing scruffy ranger human guy. no one even most LOTR autists are viewing aragorn as a "half elf" in the context of D&D
And all that stuff is mentioned in the movies. Elrond was there the day the strength of man failed anon, and in that scene his brother Elros is right next to him.
11 months ago
Anonymous
they're pushing the narrative that people like half high elves?
11 months ago
Anonymous
Yep, and humans. If you played dnd you'd know they are the same thing. Half-elf is just human with better stats for that guy.
You don't even know what that guy means.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I'm talking about BG3. Larian showed that half elf was the most popular race at launch. If you think their stats are fake and it's part of some conspiracy then I guess we can't talk about this topic.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Their stats are real. What you aren't getting is half-elf is just human with a better statline. If you played dnd you'd know this innately. (you) are the only one here that doesn't get the discussion.
People powergame in dnd because it's a shit system so it favors it over roleplaying.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I once again am talking about the people that are playing this, many of them who don't care or know about the tabletop. They saw "pretty human with elf ears" not "human with some buffs". The original thing I was replying to suggested that people mostly want to play as humans and disregard the fantasy aspect, when in reality the most common pick is a pretty elf person.
11 months ago
Anonymous
That isn't correct though. People that got this game got it because it's dnd.
This game wasn't the normie phenomenon that marketing would have you believe.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Well I was thinking why would anyone ever paly a half elf and then I remembered that it's liek the default RP race for DnD because DnD is basically lotr the board game
11 months ago
Anonymous
yeah fair enough. the opening weekend masses go for fantasy thing that looks cool rather than digging into the races. I am playing a half high elf now though so maybe I just feel I need to defend their honor.
11 months ago
Anonymous
What do you mean by half-elf being a lore-appropriate human and not canon in 5e?
Half-races still exist in nuD&D lore, there's just no mechanical incentives for making one.
11 months ago
Anonymous
If you interpret this data the origin characters make up a very small portion of the overall players.
People must have really disliked the characters in this weg.
What do you mean by half-elf being a lore-appropriate human and not canon in 5e?
No half anything in DnD anymore. Everyone became racist for some reason.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>No half anything in DnD anymore. Everyone became racist for some reason.
WOTC drank their own koolaid so hard they unironically can't envision an inter-racial relationship not being the product of rape. Unironically. That was their justification for removing half races.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Jesus, its like all D20 adjacent companies went full moron. What about half orcs? How they explain tieflings now? What about seven gorrilions optional races? What about dragon sorcerers?
11 months ago
Anonymous
>larian released it a few days ago
He told you where to go to get it beggar.
https://nichegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-releases-player-stats-for-race-class-player-choices/
Not quite true is it?
Its true, you even posted the data yourself.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>people made their own characters in an RPG >conventionally attractive woman is the most popular romance >low completion rate paired with high sales/player count on Steam clearly indicates people are just taking their time instead of dropping it
By all means shit on the game for whatever autistic reasons you prefer but trying to warp data points like that into an indictment on the game just makes you look desperate for anything to validate your misgivings.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I have no reason to shit on the game. The data speaks for itself.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Give it a month and the achievement for beating the game will probably level out somewhere around 20%, which is pretty normal on Steam. Tons of people just never bother to finish a game, especially long RPGs.
11 months ago
Anonymous
if people hate it so much why did its player count in the second weekend beat that of the first weekend? People are clearly coming back for more
11 months ago
Anonymous
Why did the playercount already crater 50%?
This was supposed to be a hundreds of hours long rpg and people have already left in droves.
Give it a month and the achievement for beating the game will probably level out somewhere around 20%, which is pretty normal on Steam. Tons of people just never bother to finish a game, especially long RPGs.
Probably not. Word of mouth on the game is out now that is why the playercount keeps shrinking already.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Why did the playercount already crater 50%?
different timezones and people busy wagecucking since its the beginning of the week you dumbfrick
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Why did the playercount already crater 50%?
are you fricking moronic? It broke its record just the other day. What the frick are you smoking.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Why did the playercount already crater 50%? >nearly 900k players yesterday >nearly 700k players today >on monday >the slowest day because of work
??????
11 months ago
Anonymous
Literally the dumbest person on the board right now.
11 months ago
Anonymous
The game is so fricking buggy in the third act to the point of being near unplayable. On one save I literally cannot interact with withers at all and in the other, my dark urge, I get so many bugs. The most recent one involves the fight with the level 12 vampire. I attacked it before dialogue and was able to do it again, doing 1/4 his health in damage. I eventually nuked him and it seems like attacking him instead of letting him monologue and steal the gay vampire broke scripts and the gay vampire refuses to acknowledge I killed his master. So obnoxious
11 months ago
Anonymous
I feel for ya anon but others tried to tell you how larian games are. Sometimes anons really are trying to help other anons.
11 months ago
Anonymous
A friend bought it for me so we could play together, otherwise I wouldn't ever have touched the game. It's like I'm playing div os 2 on release all over again
11 months ago
Anonymous
>almost no one finishes the game
homie the game is like 100+ hours long who the FRICK has had the time to even finish it by now without no lifeing it?
11 months ago
Anonymous
It isn't about time. The telemetry shows people just stop playing after act 1.
A friend bought it for me so we could play together, otherwise I wouldn't ever have touched the game. It's like I'm playing div os 2 on release all over again
I hope you can wring some fun out of it with friends anon.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>The telemetry shows people just stop playing after act 1.
again, what the FRICK are you smoking? What telemetry shows that whatsoever? Every single day more players are playing, more people are getting further.
Did you SERIOUSLY expect people to get through the already massive act 1 in a matter of days? Are you moronic?
11 months ago
Anonymous
I understand your confusion but Larian already published their own telemetry. You are upset with them not me.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>but Larian already published their own telemetry
fricking show me WHERE it says anything you are claiming. You are talking straight out of your ass and making beyond moronic assumptions
11 months ago
Anonymous
>begging
kek go look at it yourself they made a thread about it on their community tab on steam.
11 months ago
Anonymous
nothing there shows what you are saying, again where are you getting that the vast majority are disappointment with the game or that they are dropping it before act 1 or that 50% of players are already gone?
11 months ago
Anonymous
why are you replying to me still?
11 months ago
Anonymous
She's a marketer white knighting for an ESG company on Ganker and talking about the failings of the game as data points from larian upsets her.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>broke even more records yesterday >somehow failing
cope
11 months ago
Anonymous
meds time schizo
11 months ago
Anonymous
Its this
11 months ago
Anonymous
see
>broke even more records yesterday >somehow failing
cope
11 months ago
Anonymous
>has nothing to back your claims
thats why, im calling out your bullshit. If you are right, simply point to where you got this info. Explain it. You know you cant because you are, again, just full of shit.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I have the telemetry Larian released. You are upset with Larian not me.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>still cant point out where the data even remotely shows your claims
here, ill make it easy
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/6199820457241938859
https://steamcharts.com/app/1086940
that's the data. None of it shows anything close to what you are saying.
11 months ago
Anonymous
That shows the playerbase has fallen by 50% in steamcharts.
That also shows only 368 people finished the game. There were hundreds of thousands of players anon.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Player count is half as big as it was at peak.
Less than 400 players finished the game according to Larian.
over 60% played a good character too when they made an entire dark urge playthrough and advertised it heavily.
>That shows the playerbase has fallen by 50% in steamcharts. >playercount is up by 5% over last week >last week playercount was amongst the top 10 at any point ever on steam
??? >That also shows only 368 people finished the game >within the first 3 days >for a 100+ hour long rpg
you are legitimately beyond moronic
11 months ago
Anonymous
Everything he has said is in your links. Weird how you aren't reading the actual things you are linking when trying to counter his claims.
Very weird.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Weird how you aren't reading the actual things
THE IRONY
my sides
11 months ago
Anonymous
yeah, both of his claims ended up being true that is ironic.
11 months ago
Anonymous
hmm yes, a clear 50% drop
11 months ago
Anonymous
so are you just illiterate or what, because im reading it now and I dont see anything about players dropping the game
11 months ago
Anonymous
Player count is half as big as it was at peak.
Less than 400 players finished the game according to Larian.
over 60% played a good character too when they made an entire dark urge playthrough and advertised it heavily.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I’m 30 fricking hours deep and still in act 1. Not everyone no lifed this shit hard enough to finish it already you moron
11 months ago
Anonymous
> Not everyone no lifed this shit hard enough to finish it already you moron
Almost no one did because the game wasn't worth it. Less than 400 people completed it.
>Losing
Everyone is asleep and it is Monday night, are you moronic? The second weekend it reached a new high.
And then a new low. Players keep leaving and not coming back. 24 hour peak is 300k less than all time peak and it's been slightly over a week.
11 months ago
Anonymous
homie you are an idiot if you think any of the data shows that
Pretty sure one of the big updates is going to turn all the porn optional and make the custom hirelings a thing.
It's the number one thing being asked for rn, but it would take Larian swallowing a lot of pride doing it and I don't know if they have it in them.
>Mind Flayers don't have souls so what exactly happens?
I'm assuming the transformation kills the host, and just reforms their flesh into Mind Flayer stuff, so the soul would likely just go to either their relevant afterlife or the Abyss.
>help the illithid on the ship kill the demon attacking him >"good work thrall, I will now immediately try to kill you while near death and my ship is swarmed by demons
this guy's fricking moronic. I guess because I denied his orders so he knew I wasn't actually enthralled but seems like his priorities are a little fricked
I was going for Shadowheart
But then we insulted each other's noses
Then I realized I liked the banter we can have with her way too much
Now I'm on team frog
troony shit aside, the game's writing is painfully boring. The game gives no reason whatsoever to let your party members follow you, let alone trust or care about them. The D&D 5e combat is as boring and sluggish as it is in the tabletop RPG and the amount of character build options is laughable.
standard larian game: almost every dialogue is kill or persuade, and persuasion is a worse option, despite requiring certain stats, because you need that xp from kills as there's no random encounters
>They even have Gale playing the Alistair role in party banter.
Yeah, that's why I liked him at first, until he started trying to frick me. I thought we were bros until he tried to slide his wiener into my ass during a "magic trick"
This game panders to so many fetishes and has sliders for weird crap nobody asked for, including making your character look like a futa spotted cow... but I can't build a hot elf chick with massive milkshake makers that brings all the Minotaurs to the yard? The devs are bigots for being mammary-phobic. Bring back the character creator that you guys used to have before you bait and switched it for something generic and boring.
I've been in probably 50 threads for Baldur's Gate 3 and not seen anyone say anything about there being no big boobies. I know Shadowheart has NO breasts but just assumed it was to appeal to feminists. Didn't realize how bad things actually were. Forget the gay scenes, forget the horny NPCs, people should be up in arms over that. It's actually crazy. All of the controversy was just a psyop to distract from no milkers. We live in a society...
11 months ago
Anonymous
I didn't get the game because of it being a larian game and I'm definitely not going to get it because of the gay shit. But if I did happen to pirate it I'd probably talk about how there were no breasts in the whole game
11 months ago
Anonymous
Anyone who wants that has already downloaded the big tit mods.
11 months ago
Anonymous
there's not a single big tit mod
11 months ago
Anonymous
Not sure what you get out of lying but you do you.
Or ignored the game and found something else with big breasts to sate them.
No one needs this game in their life.
>ignored >spends all day posting in threads about the game he's ignoring
You do you.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Can you link to these non-feminist titty mods that exist because you said they existed but I don't see them
11 months ago
Anonymous
Or ignored the game and found something else with big breasts to sate them.
No one needs this game in their life.
there are no bust sliders or options, no. feel free to customize your amount of pubic hair and dong / lack of dong, tho. the guy you originally responded to was right on the money.
these threads are 100% marketing by a larian aligned discord. They would never bring up things that would make the game look bad.
Jesus, its like all D20 adjacent companies went full moron. What about half orcs? How they explain tieflings now? What about seven gorrilions optional races? What about dragon sorcerers?
Half orcs don't exist because they can only be the product of rape to wotc. Tieflings aren't evil by nature anymore.
They essentially only listened to the new tumblr audience when making the new dnd. Think of how that rings of power hired "Tolkien scholars" (all under the age of 25 mind you) to be the stewards of their new show and how it turned out.
Almost all wotc properties are scuttled atm because of this stuff. dnd and mtg are both dead but no one wants to admit it.
If you play the games you know they are dead though.
>Tieflings aren't evil by nature anymore
They weren't evil by nature even in 2e. They had proportionally more evil members but that's mostly because being descended from devils and being treated like one doesn't usually result in a good person.
And half orcs still exist technically. They just got the moronic idea that having a race be half-something is racist somehow. They could just change their names so they have an unique racial name and be done with it.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>They just got the moronic idea that having a race be half-something is racist somehow
I can only see 2 options >they are unironic ideologues and have the baggage of ideologues >they all peruse degenerate r34 of dnd stuff and came to the same conclusions as unironic ideologues
For a game touted on choice and tailoring to the player, the character editor is such hot garbage.
You actually have more customization in Fallout 3/NV, it's awful
a good romance is like a dance between two impassioned souls
your "girl hot, me sex" narrative is so boringly one noted you dont even realize what actual passion looks like
Lae'zel asked if I wanted to frick the very first time I ever did a long rest - now 5 rests later she still hasn't dommed me as she promised and I have started talking to Karlach. Does she not frick you until after you get to the creche or something? And is she going to have a problem with me talking to Karlach?
I let shadowheart kill her in her sleeping bag. My only regret is that I didn't leave the Gith her in the cage in the beginning. Such a terrible character.
>abrasive and arrogant all the time >you can beat her up and make her submit to you
Instantly my favorite romance in the game.
Life can't be all sunshine and mesugaki, pug nosed frog women need correcting too
What does a shaven Grinch race add to this setting, What doe these things bring to the table that isnt already fulfilled by another fantasy human with slightly different heads?
Oppression olympics. These settings are just used as vehicles to critique our world now, not to be fantastical settings.
Why were there a bunch of poor dunmer in winterhold - oppression olympics.
Rhe discussion is nonsense
People are picking half-elf because the male human faces look worse
Also, in 5e, Half-Elf is the minmax race and a better alternative to human
lol. as a sidenote, I noticed that the tiefling kids were oddly realistic. it seems like some of them were actual child actors, or written and preformed by people who know how young kids behave very well. I was playing through the mini storyline where the tiefling kids rob you and some of them come off as actual dumb kids and not a female voice actor playing one.
Moderate spoilers. It's going to boil over into one trying to kill the other. Pick the one you like best now or hope you roll high and can diplomance them into hating one another less.
>frog girl >reverse corruption storyline >genuinely starts to love you >is faithful to you and wants to be with you >shadowheart >filthy sodomite >serial cumbucket >despite "liking" you will end up cucking you no matter what you do
i dunno anon. you know what they say about monster girls right?
>Respec Minthara into a Rogue to replace Astarion >For some reason she can't use any weapon skills, despite having proficiency in them
??
I have no clue as to why they're greyed out. Fully rested, profiency in both.
so the fact that every single thread about this game is about sex / romance tells me everything I need to know about it and why it would never interest me. This shit is boring as frick. It's a fricking video game, I don't give one single frick about "romance" I want a good story and honestly since this is D&D I highly doubt there's anything resembling that in there.
The game looks ugly and yet it's praised as some kind of game changer RPG bullshit and "sets a new standard." fricking bullshit, it's a CRPG flavor of the month that will be forgotten just like every other fotm is.
Are surprised that Ganker likes to talk about sex/their waifu? I am enjoying the game so far but I got to a part that had like 50 immersion breaking moments in a row. Fricking Laezhel.
What's this upside down grass shit that occasionally pops up in cutscenes? Is it because I play on a potato PC? Or is it because I pirated the GOG version?
Men complaining about the advances of their male companions
Men complaining about the romantical advances of their male companions finally know what it feels like being constantly asked out by your guy friends as a woman.
so every game should have a perfectly consistent player count at all times? Did you know that Tf2 loses half of its playerbase daily? Kind of insane if you ask me.
US and Western Europe make up the vast majority of players.
Both are either asleep or getting up for work right now.
That we're on Asian Hours and still getting those kinds of numbers is extremely impressive.
Losing half of their playerbase in a week is impressive I'll give you that.
11 months ago
Anonymous
This isn't even a good troll because of how obviously stupid it is.
11 months ago
Anonymous
He probably isn't trolling. It is honestly impressive when you consider how much marketing went into this game.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Holy shit man, look at that drop off!!!
Is this reverse psychology?
11 months ago
Anonymous
Nope. I just know half of a playerbase leaving is bad news.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Losing
Everyone is asleep and it is Monday night, are you moronic? The second weekend it reached a new high.
11 months ago
Anonymous
He’s one of those Shazam discord trannies trying to recover after they got fricking obliterated a second time
11 months ago
Anonymous
I don't think the shazamarketers show up anymore. After launch they aren't getting paid.
11 months ago
Anonymous
They're still here arguing about people sleeping or not. The copes never end with marketer types.
11 months ago
Anonymous
They’re just shitposting to try push the narrative that BG3 isn’t the colossal success it is so people don’t dunk on them when they try shazam post about some future game. But we all know after Elden Ring and BG3 there’s just no recovery for those morons
11 months ago
Anonymous
I don't think they'll do this with a future game. The shazamarketers only care about the game they are contracted to market.
They'll always fail because this isn't a place for marketing.
11 months ago
Anonymous
They didn’t stop after Elden Ring they won’t stop now. They’re still chasing that Cyberpunk high and are eternally assmad about the rise of its reception since the patches and anime. If the new DLC has some obvious flaw they’ll be shitposting hard but with its release so close to BG3 they’re keeping themselves quiet because 2 back to back blowouts would be too much for their fragile minds to handle
11 months ago
Anonymous
you and I might be talking about different groups. I'm talking about the shazamarketers (marketers that bring up shazam unprompted). You are talking about shazamposters (a made up demographic to try and label anons with when they disrupt your marketing).
11 months ago
Anonymous
Their next target is armored core, but they have already been btfo so hard most have given up before it's even out
11 months ago
Anonymous
I'm still nervous for AC about them fricking with the movement and making it too much like Dark Souls/Elden Ring and not enough like old Armored Core games.
I hope I'm proven wrong on release.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Why bother trying to shazampost about AC in this thread? Fake doomposting is what they do don't do this shit anon.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>nuTotanic posters are now paid shills
We have gone full circle on the schizo scale
>im happy for you, genuinely enjoy it >talk to her again: oh gods what the frick do you want now?
wtf is wrong with shadowheart if you choose someone else damn chill
Guys I just finished the game with lightcute as my wife and now I'm replaying as the urge and was thinking of going for another romance this time around but...
>first meet her and she tells me i have a big disgusting nose >playing a half-orc so am amazed at this unique interaction >turns out she tells everyone they have a big disgusting nose
Frick this game.
probably because gith dont look like that
though honestly it looks like they half assed the nose, it looks fine in shit like this artwork because its basically totally gone and the philtrum is different
laezel looks like theyre pretending like she's still got a human nose on there, just shifted and squeezed
probably how they made her face tbh, just took normal face and then pinched it
explains why her philtrum is gigantic
This was one of the few companions I actually gave a shit about in my first run. I thought she was a annoying moronic frog b***h at first and continued to think so after her weird attempted rape. And then after she apoligized I started to get her and agree with her more. I finally found her cleche and got to understand what gith were and I understood why they are all survival of the fittest frogs.
Out of all the annoying npcs I enjoyed killing I enjoyed killer her the least. I told her stupid frog god to frick off and she couldn't handle it. I even avoided killing as much of her cleche as I could out of respect for her. I'm in act 3 and still running into these stupid frog face fricks but I can't help but think of Lae zel when I see them and I miss her.
she's beautiful but she's evil and therefore not wife material
give me your addresses and i'm not joking. don't be a coward, i'll come and see you.
I think they choose to be cowards anon.
>she's evil
citation needed
Are any of the female companions evil? My instinct was the drow, but I heard she becomes good.
If you take Shadowheart down the Shar path she willingly kills the Nightsong, leading to the death of an entire village, her own parents and takes over her cult of memory stealing assassins
>but I heard she becomes good
She doesn't, you can only get her if you side with the goblins to raze the grove. Also she's pretty lacking in terms of content compared to the rest of the cast.
she's not evil, just ugly
Same thing irl. Ugly people are the result of ugliness in the soul manifesting after years of self hatred.
she's not evil, she's just stupid
only barely evil enough for my current evil drow playthrough.
She's not beautiful, or even really evil by gith standards. Just incredibly autistic.
She is. ALl women are gross. Yet she's stil lthe only good companion in this shitty game and the only character with any semblance of character development.
My wife.
I know a guy that used to look like this
michael jackson AH HEEE EEEEE
WHOAAAAAAA
SHAMONA
She's hot as frick but she's a fricking psycho
A pump and dump (down a mineshaft) is the ideal course of action.
She is average. There are very cute gith girls in that game that mog her completely.
Shadowb***h looks hotter, but Frog is the better character by far
Only if you like to reform child soldiers into actual individuals for some reason. I personally had enough of both gith kinds since NN2. I could not care less about them, their stupid false goddess, and that homosexual prince.
IRL, I'd frick her and let her cut my head off afterwards.
Her only negative feature is the nose.
Her voice is smokey hot too.
You forgot that her VA is a bombshell too.
Why is she pretty here
But not here
What's the problem? The eyes ? The cheekbones? The chud mouth and wrinkles?
90 percent of her time is spent constantly raging or fricking like a wild animal. She is cute only in rare moments when she is content.
She's making a very ugly expression. Very few people look hot when they're barring their teeth with anger.
It's just the frenulum and the mouth 'mound'. In fact, all there is drastically different to a human face is the ears and lack of nose cartilage. Just needs some more flesh around to fill in the space that a nose with cartilage would present.
God awful lighting to begin with and second the camera angle emphasizes the worst features I mentioned above; over sized frenulum and too flat a mouth
FETAL
ALCOHOL
SYNDROME
Why do you keep spamming your trans self insert in every thread?
What are you talking about, you homosexual?
this scene was so great. she was really coming apart at the seams mentally. this really helped to cement the player character as a legitimate leader
i look like that
i like her cute dr seuss nose
I really like how she becomes hornier for you everytime you put her in her place.
>he doesn't want a femdom frog wife
cringe
made for forced feminization and insemination
She is already female, genius.
female, yes, feminine, no. she will learn
Name one feminine trait in her. She is more manly than Wyll, Gale and Astarion combined.
Well, I didn't recruit either her or Astarion during my first playthrough. I guess this made fighting the vampire dude harder? I just burned through him with the fancy magic missile, the one you learn from a book.
How is the vampire less masculine? He kills people left and right.
>Name one feminine trait in her
a deep need for a man to take care of her
she is a very feminine and cute core behind the layers and layers of armor she has built up living in a warrior society ran by a lich who only empowers you so she can feed on you. At first I was a little annoyed lae'zel was my first romance. I assumed the game was full harem potential since larian said there was poly romances and i could romance them all at once but i learned that is NOT the case at all. but after seeing her romance play out i think she is very cute.
Imagine how bad she smell
That noselet probs can't smell at all.
what I'd give to lick the sweat off those gith pits
>shadowhearts face when i gave her Lae'zels' underwear
Shes a frog so she probably doesn't even sweat therefore smell at all.
>got memed into thinking all the companions are sex pests and the game is all sex
>have sex with ONE character
>suddenly no one wants to have sex with me because im taken
wtf man frick you guys
You'll encounter romance flags here and there from specific characters if your character's approval is high enough with them but Lae'zel is the only one who actively wants to frick from the get go, everyone else just wants to have cute moments with you first.
I want a racial dialogue option with the same message but for gnomes.
Is there something in Dragonborn lore that prevents them from being submissive?
No, Githyanki just happen to have Red Dragons, and it seems Lae'Zel has a bit of a fetish for them. However, by canon she is Built for Big Human wiener, so she will have to settle for a Red Dragon Sorcerer.
They have racial pride stemming from
>Dragons...My Ancestors!
It's there for a couple of the races. Half-orc for example.
your own fault for assuming anyone here actually plays the games they complain about
people here are more dishonest than shills at this point
People get to fricking very early on because they're morons.
Like Astarion very clearly hits on you from the start, but if you're a moron you could easily walk into a romance with him by responding too 'happily'.
just make her wear this and tell her it's some super cool warrior accessory
Rude!
she'd be gr8 with a normal nose.
you'd still have to contend with the toadgina, probably give you warts
her appearance is reflected in her character arc
if she were a conventional beauty it wouldnt feel as exotic
I said “unconventionally attractive” and “weirdo race”, hence why I specified nasal slits as opposed to a regular nose
Looking a lot better
holy frick, they had to nerf her. With the normal nose she's a literal 10/10 green toad anime waifu
This could actually work and stay faithful to the original design if you ditch the bat nose for two small slits. That’s all it would have taken to make her an unconventionally attractive weirdo race so I’m assuming Larian made her ugly on purpose
Turks had the right idea, veils that cover the face but bikini with frills is the right combo even when applied to fantasy aliens
yeah
Only thing that's bad is the wrinkles around her nose and mouth from some angles, makes her look way older.
It's actually crazy how one singular thing can turn a 11/10 into a 2/10
Green pussy: it just tastes better.
where do you get that gear
There is some horny clothing, it's spread out over the game. I don't think this I've is sold in this color in act 3.
>oooo baby you so hot i love your slightly wet amphibian skin
it's slimy
As an amphibian she'd probably have her body covered in mucus in order to keep the skin wet
are they actually amphibious? i figured all the frog stuff was just because the shape of her face. the gith all look like they have normal human skin, just with the spots/scales in a couple places. more lizard-like than wet frogs or dry and rough toads. but still more regular human skin than anything else.
They're partly descended from humans, so probably not. It's probably just their appearance.
not really they're just yellow people
for all intents and purposes they are basically alien humanoids
She looks familiar. Is the face based on a real person?
Gianna Michaels
>Have her die on the ship
🙂
>have sex with her once after getting rejected by everyone including the red orc
>"here's our egg baby anon-sama"
truly the most disgusting waifu ever
i fricked her, but ended up killing her during the fight under the monastery when she turned on me. that was a pretty rough fight but i prepped with drow poison and it was incredibly easy then.
There was one absolutely gorgeous gith girl in their lair under the monastery. You can see her only in cutscene and her head is not available for character creation. I really need to take a screenshot.
Frog a cute! Cute!
michael jackson (green mode)
yellow as a frog, twice as ugly
ill take the exotic dsl dommy mommy that secretly wants to be a submissive tradwife over the kewpie doll.
Ah, I see you too are a man of culture.
>disgusting orc thing that deserves to be shot
>lalafells are """Dwarves""" that cant grow beards
i want to split both of their fricking skulls open with my axe for being both gross and inaccurate
I think a good setting would have both types of races.
I killed her at the beggining but now I regret it cuz I love femdom
She's kind of an annoying ungrateful b***h.
>turns on vlaakith
>still talks about fulfilling vlaakith's will and has banter talking about her loyalty to vlaakith
thought this rpg was supposed to be ultra reactive
it's actually insanely broken and buggy, but it's a complete game without a season pass, battlepass, microtransactions, or any other bullshit. it's a solid 7 when it works, but since it's not trying to rape you, it's seen as a triumph.
>She's gross.
ok now post her without makeup
tchk! istik!
Don't you insult Bae'zel like that.
she looks like that disney movie shill Ganker always posts
Lae'zel just gave me it... What should I do, bros...
Jesus is that in-game? How are you supposed to read that? Why did every single western game dev forget how to make UI?
>How are you supposed to read that?
With your eyes
They spent all their money getting fleeced by a porn director, unironically.
they they blow the whole porn budget on the minthara ea sex scene? so far i only seen the lae'zel one and it was so tame compared to the minthara one..
Looks worse than it is due to compressing and reposting
the gamepad UI looks better than the K&M one
you can scale up the text in the options
You are a father now
Is there any way to hatch this thing? It's just sitting in my camp inventory for 2 Acts
no
give it to the lady on the cliff edges she will hatch it at the mensa society or w/e its called
you take responsibility.
KEK wtf she actually lays eggs, can't wait for my next playthrough.
Nah homie, that's the still egg from the creche
Oh that's unfortunate, I thought she literally just shits out an egg and then hands you it.
its from the creche, githyanki can only lay eggs if their queen deliberately mutates a female into a broodmare, or something like that
you'll need it for a small quest later
The entire game is gross. Steam didn't have a problem with my refund even though I had over 40 hours played. Telling them they changed the game substantially for release means the time played doesn't matter I guess.
The whole game is gross. Gross game for gross people.
When I buy this for $30 at the christmas sale, I'm going to mod all the girls to make them pretty. Frog will get unfricked into a pretty Goblina, demon girl will have fat breasts with inverted nipples and Shadowheart will be 90% less israeli.
You are a shill and none of this is going to happen.
She's perfect. I'm gonna play a bimbo frog myself and frick the gay out of Astarion.
SHE is so beautiful
They really went all out and made the game as unlikeable as possible huh?
Killed this thing the moment I have found it.
Knowing it was in the game was what convinced me not to get it.
idk anon, killing it was very satisfying. you don't even have to talk to it, kill it the moment you see the disgusting creature.
I'm sure you enjoyed it. I don't consume EGS products is all. I'm from Ganker so I value ideas as concepts and know that propaganda will effect me negatively so I avoid it entirely.
>i hate propaganda so i consume propaganda that i personally like instead
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH
No I just ignore it.
First time I am seeing any of the ''gameplay.'' Lmao, lol even. What the frick? Woketards shill for this?
Looks like they turned the frogs gay after all eh
>I wouldn't know, I don't play woke shit
Dak'kon hit it
He wouldn't since she's a filthy yanki and Dak'Kon is a based zerai.
Every character in that came is gross.
It's an ugly pozzed Weimar tier product.
Ganker is a Shadowheart board frog frickers need to leave.
gross troony looking prude
troonyheart cucks pls go. This is a Bae'zel General
shargays are cringe so yeah perfect for Ganker
btw is this game mocapped? the expressions look pretty good a lot of the times.
>shar
im on playthrough #1 and killed her in the camp when she acted up
ok I'm gonna get the game in a couple weeks, just want to know one thing. Can I make a fighter in full plate and kick ass without any magic shit? Basically I want to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5KBMhw87n8
>Can I make a fighter in full plate and kick ass without any magic shit?
Yes, it's called playing a Fighter.
Just make a str focused fighter and use a greatsword.
If you want to be a Brenton Knight go Fighter Battle Master and get the Mage Slayer feat
>Not really into Lae'zel because she's an arrogant moron. I get that it's her culture, but still.
>She wants to frick, and Shadowheart isn't putting out, and Karlach has no sex scenes, so I go with it.
>Turns out actually Lae'zel can be corrected and just needs a strong, dominant man to beat the shit out of her before fricking her.
Imma be real, that won me over.
best character growth too
Yeah, getting her to reject her moronic superiority complex and throw away her garbage culture and submit to the power of Human Dick is 10/10.
I had the exact same awakening
The fricker tried to start shit up in my camp despite being my "girlfriend", that's what she gets. (Even though I had non-lethal attacks toggled on lol)
Look at this ugly-ass gorilla-looking Black Tiefling homosexual
Do I finally move on to Act 2?
Did the grove/goblin conflict, cleared out the Underdark as far as I can tell, and I just cleared out the mountain pass and massacred the frogs
Does it matter which route I take to get to Moonrise Tower?
If you're doing Lae'zel's questline do the mountain pass first.
approaching from Grymforge is better. but both lead to different parts in the act 2 area
Because of who you meet depending on the path?
because of the location and the required fight(s)
>Does it matter which route I take to get to Moonrise Tower?
No, you still have to go through the Cursed Lands, which is kind of annoying. Which means you have to do the Inn, and all the other shit there, and then Moonrise stuff, and then go into the Shar dungeon to finish the act.
You're already 90% through the game.
>You're already 90% through the game.
you're funny
You've essentially finished the game. Now it's just the larian filler left.
>Does it matter which route I take to get to Moonrise Tower?
kinda, but remember you can do both paths before actually moving onto Moonrise towers so do them both first
>Shadowheart Chaotic Neutral
>Gale Neutral Good
>Karlach Chaotic Good
>Wyll Neutral Good
>Astarion Chaotic Evil
>Laezel Lawful Evil
>Minthara Lawful Evil
>Haslin True Neutral
>Jaheira True Neutral
>Minsc Chaotic Good
>gale
True Neutral
>Halsin
neutral good
>Jaheira
lawful neutral
>Jaheira lawful neutral
she's always been true neutral
you are moronic anon
i've given her a chance on a third character, making all the really different choices than i would before, and i'm really warming to her. she has good reason to have a stick up her ass early act 1, she mellows out when you prove yourself to her, and she can be defo be sexy if you like 'em dom.
too bad her breasts and ass look like hags
Wrinkly raisin breasts
oh my science I want to lick those ayy armpits clean
Can you just kill all the companions in the game and go solo or is that impossible/too unviable?
There's no real point in killing them, but yes you can play without any companions. Probably won't be very fun, certainly not easy, but theoretically doable.
there are Hirlings but they seem even more gross meme/snowflake shit than the Origins. dunno what the limits are as i've not tried them, but hey at least they won't be sex pets and judge your decisions, i guess.
i long for the mod kit to come and then we get to create a full custom party instead.
Never touched hirelings, cant you just customize them like custom characters?
>cant you just customize them like custom characters?
No, I believe you hire from a set of pre-made NPCs, and then just choose their classes and shit.
Larian sure hates players not using their special snowflakes, which makes telemetry stats even funnier.
The telemetry stats are probably making them suicidal kek.
>oh no, all the chuds bought our game and are giving us money because they're FOMO morons what will we dooooooooo
>telemetry stats
Wat
the game is tracking every choice everyone makes.
They openly tipped that hand years ago when kvetching about the character creations. The game tells you it's doing the telemetry thing when you play it.
The upside is the devs know people hate their game and have data to prove how much.
Ah yes, Baldur's Gate 3, a game hated by the majority of players!
Just the majority of humans. They couldn't even get 1% of the whole to play their propaganda.
>the game is tracking every choice everyone makes.
every major game does this now
I know. It isn't a problem. Devs knowing what doesn't sell well is a good thing.
The only "downside" is the player got wind of it through achievements and they decidedly weren't sold to players as a tracking element specifically. We only learned years later that that was the impetus.
All that info your game sends to devs.
What character you made, which path you chose, who you fricked, etc.
They posted results recently and 93% of players made custom characters.
The game has telemtry for everything.
>people hate the companions
>people only sexed shadowheart
>almost no one finishes the game
Probably seethe because people didn't like the game and the data shows it. Short term gain for long term loss kills everyone that dabbles in it.
What data shows it?
The telemetry data. Larian released it a few days ago and had articles written on it to obfuscate the data points themselves.
It felt like a deliberate response to the people online talking about no one finishing the tutorial via steam stats but it just showed that the game wasn't received well and it came from Larian themselves.
>the telemetry data
>What data
>the telemetry data
Either explain or shut up dude.
larian released stats on the game and everybody plays paladin and warrior and makes human males
https://nichegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-releases-player-stats-for-race-class-player-choices/
Not quite true is it?
half elf is a choice but it's basically a lore appropriate human, hell its not even canon in 5e anymore.
also martial classes have like twice the amount of players
What do you mean by half-elf being a lore-appropriate human and not canon in 5e?
Half elves are basically aragorn from LOTR, that's why people like to play a half elf ranger because you're basically aragorn. It's like baby's first roleplay
aragorn is not a half elf my dude. people are playing half elf because they're the best looking race.
Numenoreans are descended from Elros, the brother of Elrond HALF-ELVEN.
Aragorn marring his elf b***h was the houses rejoining.
>aragorn is not a half elf
He's the inspiration for half elves being a thing in DnD, yes. In the original lore half elves could live as long as aragorn and the numenoreans, so up to like 400 years
Now they've made it so that only elves live for like a thousand years or something
tl;dr wotc is moronic
Aragorn is Numenorean, they are all half elves. Why do you think he was the rightful king of Gondor?
Numenorean aren't half-elves, halfies have to pick one and they are descended from the guy who picked man.
Their long lifespans aren't from elf blood but stockpiled goodboi points they cashed in with God. They also got an island but the dominant faction got uppity.
Numenoreans are half elves. Their ancestor Elros chose to live as a human (not immortal but still elf) and married a human. All numenoreans are half elven that is why Aragorn looked 40 when he was 88 years old when the story happens.
Elrond chose to live as an elf and his house forever remained faithful to the light of aman.
>Numenoreans are half elves
No they aren't. Elros and Elrond could be called genuine half elves up until Mandos went
>"an elf is an elf, you can't say you're only half"
and forced them to pick.
Numenoreans are a massive group of men formed from the surviving Edain, they all got granted longer lives as a reward for their participation in the War of Wrath. They didn't all frick an elf or descend from general elf frickery, that's not why they live longer.
They are barred because they are mortal men and that place isn't for them. Again, if they were Tolkein half-elves, they would be allowed to just chose to become full elves and go sail into the west like Elrond. The whole point is that they are upset immortality is denied to them.
Yes it did, on a physical and spiritual level. It's important because Eru dictated that there are those two kindred with specific rules on how their souls are handled. The mortality of men a.k.a the gift of Eru Illuvatar is a pivotal part of LOTRs narrative, not human/elf hybridization.
You homies need to read the Silmarillion. Also I'm not the first poster btw, half-elf Aragorn RP is fine the man was basically raised by elves of course he's like them.
>Again, if they were Tolkein half-elves, they would be allowed to just chose to become full elves and go sail into the west like Elrond.
The choice was given to elrond and elros alone because their father was earendil (who later becomes Polaris because he flew a spaceship and shot lasers at a dragon while being a cyborg - this is canon).
Bro, there are like 3 established human/elf pairs that produced half-elves.
The first two are Beren/Luthein and Tuor/Idril. Their half-elf kids, Earendil and Elwing, made Elrond and Elros.
After that it was decreed half-elves had to pick. Elros's line lived slightly longer than others, but Numenoreans weren't inbred as frick half elves they were the 3 tribes of the Edain.
>The Men of the Three Houses were rewarded for their valour and faithful alliance, by being allowed to dwell ‘westernmost of all mortals’, in the great ‘Atlantis’ isle of Númenóre.
>The doom or gift of God, of mortality, the gods of course cannot abrogate, but the Númenóreans have a great span of life.
>the ending is about man rejoining elves
What the frick are you talking about, the ending is about Elves departing Middle Earth forever and the Age of Men beginning. The real rejoining isn't happening until much later.
Aragon and Arwen is the parallel to Beren and Luthein, which is about a HUMAN MAN and an ELF MAID falling in love.
No he wasn't. Farmer Maggot is the mushroom farmer that gives Frodo a ride to the ferry and that Bombadil likes. He has nothing to do with the scouring, what the frick?
>The mortality of men a.k.a the gift of Eru Illuvatar is a pivotal part of LOTRs narrative, not human/elf hybridization.
The entire narrative of LOTR is about the 2 bloodlines rejoining.
You are thinking of the importance of the Silmarillion not LOTR. You are correct in a larger legendarium, but for the LOTR proper the narrative was about mankind rejoining elves and that rejoining ending the 3rd age positively.
No, elves awake on Cuivenien after Aule made the dwarves and Eru put them back asleep again. Eru specifically says he will not let them walk about before his children.
Aule is also the patron vala of Sauron before defecting. A lot of bad comes from Aule.
>No, elves awake on Cuivenien after Aule made the dwarves and Eru put them back asleep again. Eru specifically says he will not let them walk about before his children. Aule is also the patron vala of Sauron before defecting. A lot of bad comes from Aule.
I misremembered, you were right. That said Aule is a pretty cool dude all things considered
Aule is cool. He keeps fricking up but he doesn't mean to. Tulkas best vala.
They'd be wrong. The principle narrative is about Aragorn retaking the throne of Gondor and what it means for the world. Evil getting defeated is almost a matter of course once it's all laid out on the table. Elwin has no reason to exist narratively except that her being Elrond's wife is important. Elrond not helping enough and then helping enough is important because he's repaying a past debt. His meme anger we joke about was his own failings reflected in man, not the failings of man.
What men added to the elves was the important part. Everything leads directly to it.
Agree to disagree then, I don’t agree at all with most of your takes. And they are takes, despite how you present them as fact
That's fine. I'm not trying to argue.
I appreciate your dedication to this.
>I appreciate your dedication to this
Dedication to what? Calling you out for pulling shit out of your ass?
I know we’re balls deep in a lotr argument thread. But I don’t think most people would agree LOTR is “about” the bloodlines rejoining…it’s literally a small detail in the epilogue/ending. Nowhere in the three books or anywhere else in tolkiens works (that I know of) do they even write about the bloodlines being rejoined as some kind of huge deal. This seems like headcanon that you’ve placed way too much importance on
Adding on to this, they make a huge deal about LOTR leading to the age of men, and that the time of the elves is behind them. Hence why they all frick off to the undying lands. I don’t really see how that’s about the rejoining of men and elves when one of them ultimately leaves forever
Rekindled the flame of the world. Elves are spirits bound to the earth so them fading into the past is the world giving up and the evil of Melkor/Sauron winning out in the end.
It was the fire of mankind that elves couldn't understand that saved the world, and by saving it they rejoined the world.
Half elf blood is like the one drop rule for Black folk, you're either a regular human or supra mortal
Numenoreans were barred from entering the uttermost west because they weren't full on elvish.
Choosing to live without immortality didn't make him a man, he just lived as one. He was still half-elven himself. elwin and earendil were half elven as well.
Their family line being a mix of man and elf was sort of a pivotal part of the narrative.
Also Boromir and Faramir were part numenorean and thus got semi-main character status
Boromir got it, Faramir earned it.
Frodo describes him as having a similar glow to the elves right? Like the feeling he got around Aragorn where he was like "now this dude has main character status"
The light of aman wasn't really something visible. It's like the gleam in the eye when you know you are right and have zero fear.
Whatever original sin is present in mankind isn't seen on people with the light of aman on their faces.
But yeah the brothers were a highlight in their family line. To a hobbit with his meekness the bravery of fighting men would seem superhuman to that.
Yeah I always thought that was cool as if the stars aligned and made the impossible journey possible through their sacrifices
>Yeah I always thought that was cool as if the stars aligned and made the impossible journey possible through their sacrifices
They had a dwarf in the fellowship, and that dwarf was from Durin's line. Durin's crown is the orion's belt as seen in the reflection of the mirrormere when Durin was out walking around naming everything before gay elves were real.
Shit, Eru canonically "pushes" Gollum into Mt. Doom as an attaboy to Frodo for making it as far as he did.
Divine intervention is a real part of the lord of the rings.
I always interpreted it as Gollum falling to the curse Frodo put on Gollum using the ring, that if he is betrayed again, may Gollum throw himself off the nearest cliff.. And he did
It was Eru pushing Gollum, as stated in the letters of JRR Tolkien.
Eru is also the Christian diety as well, not just an allegory of the selfsame.
I like your interpretation as a nice bonus. Farmer Maggot also gets a similar comeuppance in the novels (he was the spy helping Saruman), Sam says some stuff about hoping he gets his one day and Sam ends up being the shirriff to arrest him after a pogrom. Could be divine, could be coincidence.
>Farmer Maggot also gets a similar comeuppance in the novels (he was the spy helping Saruman), Sam says some stuff about hoping he gets his one day and Sam ends up being the shirriff to arrest him after a pogrom
What the absolute frick are you talking about? You are literally making shit up, you fricking braindead moron.
Did you not read the books? When running from farmer maggot Sam says something about him always being shitty and hoping something happens to him for it.
They find his same branded stock of longbottom leaf in Orthanc and it's shown that farmer maggot was the one that dealt with trading outside the shire boundaries like bree.
Sam arrests him after the scouring happens. Why do you think I spelled shirriff like I did?
i doubt that poster even knows what the scouring is
>Sam arrests him after the scouring happens. Why do you think I spelled shirriff like I did?
Farmer Maggot is never mentioned again after the Fellowship of the Ring, moron.
Sam literally never became a shirriff, you fricking lying homosexual. He lived with Rosie and Frodo walking around the Shire using the soil that Galadriel gave him to replant the trees Saruman cut down. Holy fricking are you a lying homosexual.
Maggot was the informant that Saruman and Wormtongue were using lad.
yeah there's two elements there, basically since gollum was spared by bilbo gollum became a neutral party in the whole affair, and frodo spares him, multiple times after that, at behest of mithrandir. Mithrandir who weas a diciple of Nienna who was the Vala embodiment of mercy.
So by sparing Gollum so many times his fate is sealed for turning on such a benevolent master
There’s a sentence that say it in the Silmarillion but absolutely nothing in the books even remotely implies Eru made him fall as not much emphasis is even put into him tripping
It's only stated in the letters of tolkien that were published posthumously. Lots of stuff tolkien probably wouldn't have wanted published has been published.
Elves existed before the dwarves, moron. Eru put them to sleep immediately after they were created until Men came around also
Half the fun of lord of the rings is the genealogy autism anon what the frick are you doing?
your average normalgay and redditor playing this knows aragorn as viggo morentsen playing scruffy ranger human guy. no one even most LOTR autists are viewing aragorn as a "half elf" in the context of D&D
People pick half-elf as a powergamed human. There are no half races in nudnd.
yeah also metagaming
>There are no half races in nudnd.
What the frick. Why and when?
It doesn't matter why they do it, they still do it. In other words, frick how you feel, half elves are real
>people chose human males
>shown something that contradicts this
>actually half elves are humans
They are. You'd understand the conversation if you actually cared about the subject matter like the anons.
Notice how multiple anons could explain how half-elves are chosen and everyone agreed because they played dnd?
Half elves are not humans anon. You're pushing the chud narrative that the masses all played human male fighter when that's not the case.
No, Larian is pushing that narrative by releasing their telemetry. Strangely enough if you add up all the origin players you don't reach even 1/5th of the concurrent player count on steam.
Big oofs from Larian.
Why the frick would you play an origin character instead of making a custom character and then bringing the ones you like along? Are you an NPC?
A better question is why would you structure and develop a game intentionally when knowing what you just said.
And all that stuff is mentioned in the movies. Elrond was there the day the strength of man failed anon, and in that scene his brother Elros is right next to him.
they're pushing the narrative that people like half high elves?
Yep, and humans. If you played dnd you'd know they are the same thing. Half-elf is just human with better stats for that guy.
You don't even know what that guy means.
I'm talking about BG3. Larian showed that half elf was the most popular race at launch. If you think their stats are fake and it's part of some conspiracy then I guess we can't talk about this topic.
Their stats are real. What you aren't getting is half-elf is just human with a better statline. If you played dnd you'd know this innately. (you) are the only one here that doesn't get the discussion.
People powergame in dnd because it's a shit system so it favors it over roleplaying.
I once again am talking about the people that are playing this, many of them who don't care or know about the tabletop. They saw "pretty human with elf ears" not "human with some buffs". The original thing I was replying to suggested that people mostly want to play as humans and disregard the fantasy aspect, when in reality the most common pick is a pretty elf person.
That isn't correct though. People that got this game got it because it's dnd.
This game wasn't the normie phenomenon that marketing would have you believe.
Well I was thinking why would anyone ever paly a half elf and then I remembered that it's liek the default RP race for DnD because DnD is basically lotr the board game
yeah fair enough. the opening weekend masses go for fantasy thing that looks cool rather than digging into the races. I am playing a half high elf now though so maybe I just feel I need to defend their honor.
Half-races still exist in nuD&D lore, there's just no mechanical incentives for making one.
If you interpret this data the origin characters make up a very small portion of the overall players.
People must have really disliked the characters in this weg.
No half anything in DnD anymore. Everyone became racist for some reason.
>No half anything in DnD anymore. Everyone became racist for some reason.
WOTC drank their own koolaid so hard they unironically can't envision an inter-racial relationship not being the product of rape. Unironically. That was their justification for removing half races.
Jesus, its like all D20 adjacent companies went full moron. What about half orcs? How they explain tieflings now? What about seven gorrilions optional races? What about dragon sorcerers?
>larian released it a few days ago
He told you where to go to get it beggar.
Its true, you even posted the data yourself.
>people made their own characters in an RPG
>conventionally attractive woman is the most popular romance
>low completion rate paired with high sales/player count on Steam clearly indicates people are just taking their time instead of dropping it
By all means shit on the game for whatever autistic reasons you prefer but trying to warp data points like that into an indictment on the game just makes you look desperate for anything to validate your misgivings.
I have no reason to shit on the game. The data speaks for itself.
Give it a month and the achievement for beating the game will probably level out somewhere around 20%, which is pretty normal on Steam. Tons of people just never bother to finish a game, especially long RPGs.
if people hate it so much why did its player count in the second weekend beat that of the first weekend? People are clearly coming back for more
Why did the playercount already crater 50%?
This was supposed to be a hundreds of hours long rpg and people have already left in droves.
Probably not. Word of mouth on the game is out now that is why the playercount keeps shrinking already.
>Why did the playercount already crater 50%?
different timezones and people busy wagecucking since its the beginning of the week you dumbfrick
>Why did the playercount already crater 50%?
are you fricking moronic? It broke its record just the other day. What the frick are you smoking.
>Why did the playercount already crater 50%?
>nearly 900k players yesterday
>nearly 700k players today
>on monday
>the slowest day because of work
??????
Literally the dumbest person on the board right now.
The game is so fricking buggy in the third act to the point of being near unplayable. On one save I literally cannot interact with withers at all and in the other, my dark urge, I get so many bugs. The most recent one involves the fight with the level 12 vampire. I attacked it before dialogue and was able to do it again, doing 1/4 his health in damage. I eventually nuked him and it seems like attacking him instead of letting him monologue and steal the gay vampire broke scripts and the gay vampire refuses to acknowledge I killed his master. So obnoxious
I feel for ya anon but others tried to tell you how larian games are. Sometimes anons really are trying to help other anons.
A friend bought it for me so we could play together, otherwise I wouldn't ever have touched the game. It's like I'm playing div os 2 on release all over again
>almost no one finishes the game
homie the game is like 100+ hours long who the FRICK has had the time to even finish it by now without no lifeing it?
It isn't about time. The telemetry shows people just stop playing after act 1.
I hope you can wring some fun out of it with friends anon.
>The telemetry shows people just stop playing after act 1.
again, what the FRICK are you smoking? What telemetry shows that whatsoever? Every single day more players are playing, more people are getting further.
Did you SERIOUSLY expect people to get through the already massive act 1 in a matter of days? Are you moronic?
I understand your confusion but Larian already published their own telemetry. You are upset with them not me.
>but Larian already published their own telemetry
fricking show me WHERE it says anything you are claiming. You are talking straight out of your ass and making beyond moronic assumptions
>begging
kek go look at it yourself they made a thread about it on their community tab on steam.
nothing there shows what you are saying, again where are you getting that the vast majority are disappointment with the game or that they are dropping it before act 1 or that 50% of players are already gone?
why are you replying to me still?
She's a marketer white knighting for an ESG company on Ganker and talking about the failings of the game as data points from larian upsets her.
>broke even more records yesterday
>somehow failing
cope
meds time schizo
Its this
see
>has nothing to back your claims
thats why, im calling out your bullshit. If you are right, simply point to where you got this info. Explain it. You know you cant because you are, again, just full of shit.
I have the telemetry Larian released. You are upset with Larian not me.
>still cant point out where the data even remotely shows your claims
here, ill make it easy
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/6199820457241938859
https://steamcharts.com/app/1086940
that's the data. None of it shows anything close to what you are saying.
That shows the playerbase has fallen by 50% in steamcharts.
That also shows only 368 people finished the game. There were hundreds of thousands of players anon.
>That shows the playerbase has fallen by 50% in steamcharts.
>playercount is up by 5% over last week
>last week playercount was amongst the top 10 at any point ever on steam
???
>That also shows only 368 people finished the game
>within the first 3 days
>for a 100+ hour long rpg
you are legitimately beyond moronic
Everything he has said is in your links. Weird how you aren't reading the actual things you are linking when trying to counter his claims.
Very weird.
>Weird how you aren't reading the actual things
THE IRONY
my sides
yeah, both of his claims ended up being true that is ironic.
hmm yes, a clear 50% drop
so are you just illiterate or what, because im reading it now and I dont see anything about players dropping the game
Player count is half as big as it was at peak.
Less than 400 players finished the game according to Larian.
over 60% played a good character too when they made an entire dark urge playthrough and advertised it heavily.
I’m 30 fricking hours deep and still in act 1. Not everyone no lifed this shit hard enough to finish it already you moron
> Not everyone no lifed this shit hard enough to finish it already you moron
Almost no one did because the game wasn't worth it. Less than 400 people completed it.
And then a new low. Players keep leaving and not coming back. 24 hour peak is 300k less than all time peak and it's been slightly over a week.
homie you are an idiot if you think any of the data shows that
Pretty sure one of the big updates is going to turn all the porn optional and make the custom hirelings a thing.
It's the number one thing being asked for rn, but it would take Larian swallowing a lot of pride doing it and I don't know if they have it in them.
>is going to turn all the porn optional
...it already is? There's literally an option to turn nudity and stuff like that off.
No, I mean actually optional. Like a toggle to turn it off entirely.
It's one of the most demanded mods rn.
But that is already a thing. You can already toggle it off.
They need to start advertising that so people that won't get the game now will know.
That again comes down to larian's pride.
soulless
What have you done to my frogfu?
Disgusting.
what the frick is that
that's a bug right
eww
She'd look better with no nose. And all the party members are annoying ugly freaks.
What happens to someone's soul if they are transformed into a Mind Flayer? Mind Flayers don't have souls so what exactly happens?
>Mind Flayers don't have souls so what exactly happens?
I'm assuming the transformation kills the host, and just reforms their flesh into Mind Flayer stuff, so the soul would likely just go to either their relevant afterlife or the Abyss.
They 'vanish' according to Jergal
>help the illithid on the ship kill the demon attacking him
>"good work thrall, I will now immediately try to kill you while near death and my ship is swarmed by demons
this guy's fricking moronic. I guess because I denied his orders so he knew I wasn't actually enthralled but seems like his priorities are a little fricked
The writing is terrible.
I just blew him, the commander, and the two cambion up all at once. Cambions still had a couple of hits worth of HP, but went down easily.
What do you expect? He gave you commands that you obviously refused to follow by spending time killing the devil instead of going for the controls.
I was going for Shadowheart
But then we insulted each other's noses
Then I realized I liked the banter we can have with her way too much
Now I'm on team frog
troony shit aside, the game's writing is painfully boring. The game gives no reason whatsoever to let your party members follow you, let alone trust or care about them. The D&D 5e combat is as boring and sluggish as it is in the tabletop RPG and the amount of character build options is laughable.
Find a better, more entertaining CRPG.
standard larian game: almost every dialogue is kill or persuade, and persuasion is a worse option, despite requiring certain stats, because you need that xp from kills as there's no random encounters
Why do western developers keep making the same heroine over and over again?
Because Baldur's Gate is the lynchpin of CRPGs
Viconia was actually evil though.
She really wasn't. Neutral is more appropriate for her in BG2.
They even have Gale playing the Alistair role in party banter.
>They even have Gale playing the Alistair role in party banter.
Yeah, that's why I liked him at first, until he started trying to frick me. I thought we were bros until he tried to slide his wiener into my ass during a "magic trick"
SHADOWCUTE
this is one of those games people tell me is good I play it and it plays like hot garbage.
It's terrible. It's all marketing on Ganker.
those people that told you to play it were larian employees
good thing I didn't pay for it then. this game is hot garbage. uninstall.exe worked great tho
She looks like the girl Chris Pratt was friends with on parks and rec had MJ's midget nose
This game panders to so many fetishes and has sliders for weird crap nobody asked for, including making your character look like a futa spotted cow... but I can't build a hot elf chick with massive milkshake makers that brings all the Minotaurs to the yard? The devs are bigots for being mammary-phobic. Bring back the character creator that you guys used to have before you bait and switched it for something generic and boring.
Wait...
You can't make a girl with big breasts?
ESG game.
big breasts don't exist and if you think they do, you're a bigot. sorry.
I'm serious, they really don't have just a basic big bust option in this game? And somehow no one has commented on this?
>somehow no one has commented on this?
Is this somehow your first thread you've been in about this game?
I've been in probably 50 threads for Baldur's Gate 3 and not seen anyone say anything about there being no big boobies. I know Shadowheart has NO breasts but just assumed it was to appeal to feminists. Didn't realize how bad things actually were. Forget the gay scenes, forget the horny NPCs, people should be up in arms over that. It's actually crazy. All of the controversy was just a psyop to distract from no milkers. We live in a society...
I didn't get the game because of it being a larian game and I'm definitely not going to get it because of the gay shit. But if I did happen to pirate it I'd probably talk about how there were no breasts in the whole game
Anyone who wants that has already downloaded the big tit mods.
there's not a single big tit mod
Not sure what you get out of lying but you do you.
>ignored
>spends all day posting in threads about the game he's ignoring
You do you.
Can you link to these non-feminist titty mods that exist because you said they existed but I don't see them
Or ignored the game and found something else with big breasts to sate them.
No one needs this game in their life.
there are no bust sliders or options, no. feel free to customize your amount of pubic hair and dong / lack of dong, tho. the guy you originally responded to was right on the money.
You're only allowed to pick if you have it or not. You can't pick how big your dong is
these threads are 100% marketing by a larian aligned discord. They would never bring up things that would make the game look bad.
Half orcs don't exist because they can only be the product of rape to wotc. Tieflings aren't evil by nature anymore.
They essentially only listened to the new tumblr audience when making the new dnd. Think of how that rings of power hired "Tolkien scholars" (all under the age of 25 mind you) to be the stewards of their new show and how it turned out.
Almost all wotc properties are scuttled atm because of this stuff. dnd and mtg are both dead but no one wants to admit it.
If you play the games you know they are dead though.
>Tieflings aren't evil by nature anymore
They weren't evil by nature even in 2e. They had proportionally more evil members but that's mostly because being descended from devils and being treated like one doesn't usually result in a good person.
And half orcs still exist technically. They just got the moronic idea that having a race be half-something is racist somehow. They could just change their names so they have an unique racial name and be done with it.
>They just got the moronic idea that having a race be half-something is racist somehow
I can only see 2 options
>they are unironic ideologues and have the baggage of ideologues
>they all peruse degenerate r34 of dnd stuff and came to the same conclusions as unironic ideologues
Big breasts are haram, even literal semen demons have noT&A
For a game touted on choice and tailoring to the player, the character editor is such hot garbage.
You actually have more customization in Fallout 3/NV, it's awful
Ive never had sex btw, dunno if you can tell
>Anon finds out goblin women aren't as hot as 2d led him to believe.
I didn't know so many people here wanted to frick the Grinch.
They don't it's part of some marketing campaign.
> No no you don't get it, she's hot BECAUSE she's ugly!
These people can't be real.
a good romance is like a dance between two impassioned souls
your "girl hot, me sex" narrative is so boringly one noted you dont even realize what actual passion looks like
Lae'zel asked if I wanted to frick the very first time I ever did a long rest - now 5 rests later she still hasn't dommed me as she promised and I have started talking to Karlach. Does she not frick you until after you get to the creche or something? And is she going to have a problem with me talking to Karlach?
So is Tali, but people want to frick her all the same
Tali isn't gross, she wears a suit. You can't even see her face so you can think of whatever you want insider her helmet
>red dragonborn
>get the fire greatsword
>wearing the red prince's cape
Yeah I've got your "red dragon" right here, lae'zel
I let shadowheart kill her in her sleeping bag. My only regret is that I didn't leave the Gith her in the cage in the beginning. Such a terrible character.
>abrasive and arrogant all the time
>you can beat her up and make her submit to you
Instantly my favorite romance in the game.
Life can't be all sunshine and mesugaki, pug nosed frog women need correcting too
>Life can't be all sunshine and mesugaki, pug nosed frog women need correcting too
only one cure for that face
her personality won me over
Her voice makes me diamonds + I have a thing for evil women. I'm not sure whether to stick with her or go for Minthara.
>a little autistic
>"shes evil!"
wow, just like real life!
Have sex incel
learn how quotes work
And grosser on the inside.
i'm only interested in explosive fire pussy.
my half high elfs sorcer's semen coating her githyanki womb
>she must do
Is Shadowheart a moron.
Just a britbong, actually. Larian uses British English turns of phrase and spellings in all their games, and "She must do" is one of them.
What does a shaven Grinch race add to this setting, What doe these things bring to the table that isnt already fulfilled by another fantasy human with slightly different heads?
Oppression olympics. These settings are just used as vehicles to critique our world now, not to be fantastical settings.
Why were there a bunch of poor dunmer in winterhold - oppression olympics.
I AM FURY I AM DEATH
*MISS*
Do I get anything for playing a "good" Dark Urge playthrough or should I just play a custom character for my not evil playthrough.
just the right kind of gross
Rhe discussion is nonsense
People are picking half-elf because the male human faces look worse
Also, in 5e, Half-Elf is the minmax race and a better alternative to human
I prefer the tieflings
jej
Holy frick I'm dying
lol. as a sidenote, I noticed that the tiefling kids were oddly realistic. it seems like some of them were actual child actors, or written and preformed by people who know how young kids behave very well. I was playing through the mini storyline where the tiefling kids rob you and some of them come off as actual dumb kids and not a female voice actor playing one.
She's an aquired taste. Her deformed fetal alcohol syndrome frog face has somehow grown on me
Goddamn, that fricking russian nose. Gross shit.
Lae'Zel was voiced and mocaped by a hot pregnant IRL woman
no wonder she exudes animalistic sexual energy
Where do I find a Bulgarian GF?
She's not on the chart, can she get knocked up?
No, Githyanki reproduction has been fricked since Vlaakith sold them out to Tiamat. Githzerai are entirely fertile though.
Wait wait! it says maybe here, I'm saved!
>dragons can breed with anything
Are dragons the master race?
Still waiting on the full Dwarf Party+dead elf wagon mod
without the knife ears and green, irrefutably hotter than manface Troonyheart
So with 5e removing all ideas of a race being mostly evil, Drizzt is just a bigot against his own race, some kind of dark elven Uncle Ruckus? Lmao
>LE Chinese Tencent Spam Thread #4546454
Imagine buying and playing a game because of shills on a video game message board, imagine being that stupid and easily influenced.
Twitter loves ugly vidya girls and will meme her into being an off-model sex goblin
Lae'zel is Bae'zel
I was going to play a Drow but elves can't have facial hair (they're low T cucks). So I have to play a Half Elf Drow.
It depends. Who works harder for your affection?
I’m I’d still raw dog creampie for the vine
i didn't like her at first but she really grew on me, she's gap moe
Just started with her and SH in the party. Everything I do pleases one and pisses off the other? Will they leave the party if I keep them like this?
Moderate spoilers. It's going to boil over into one trying to kill the other. Pick the one you like best now or hope you roll high and can diplomance them into hating one another less.
>Remove Lae'zel underwear
>Equip it onto Shart
>Cum instantly
>frog girl
>reverse corruption storyline
>genuinely starts to love you
>is faithful to you and wants to be with you
>shadowheart
>filthy sodomite
>serial cumbucket
>despite "liking" you will end up cucking you no matter what you do
i dunno anon. you know what they say about monster girls right?
>Respec Minthara into a Rogue to replace Astarion
>For some reason she can't use any weapon skills, despite having proficiency in them
??
I have no clue as to why they're greyed out. Fully rested, profiency in both.
>barefoot Minthara
UUUOOOHHHHHHH
so the fact that every single thread about this game is about sex / romance tells me everything I need to know about it and why it would never interest me. This shit is boring as frick. It's a fricking video game, I don't give one single frick about "romance" I want a good story and honestly since this is D&D I highly doubt there's anything resembling that in there.
The game looks ugly and yet it's praised as some kind of game changer RPG bullshit and "sets a new standard." fricking bullshit, it's a CRPG flavor of the month that will be forgotten just like every other fotm is.
People are choosing to discuss a 90 year old fantasy story instead of the game, you tell me.
Are surprised that Ganker likes to talk about sex/their waifu? I am enjoying the game so far but I got to a part that had like 50 immersion breaking moments in a row. Fricking Laezhel.
>videogame
>wants a good story
bro?
Any Aryan enjoyers tonight?
What's this upside down grass shit that occasionally pops up in cutscenes? Is it because I play on a potato PC? Or is it because I pirated the GOG version?
from the bottom of your cape
Looks like the trim on the cape. Tons of assets clip and bug like that.
Guess early access was just to fleece people.
just finished it, was pretty good but I was promised sex and there was only one sex scene with shadowheart. I feel robbed
Men complaining about the advances of their male companions
Men complaining about the romantical advances of their male companions finally know what it feels like being constantly asked out by your guy friends as a woman.
I know OP I know
you homies are so bad faith its not even funny
I don't think they actually expected him to open the links to confirm what he said.
>all time peak - 875k
>current - 466k
That is roughly 50%
>sleeping just doesnt exist
holy moron
are you going to have a nice day when the playercount jumps back up above 700k tomorrow?
People were also sleeping during it's all time peak anon. The globe is, well, global.
so every game should have a perfectly consistent player count at all times? Did you know that Tf2 loses half of its playerbase daily? Kind of insane if you ask me.
Nope, they just shouldn't lose half their playerbase in slightly over a week. That is always a bad sign.
They lose it every day. It's that insane.
>lost over 50% of its playerbase in under 24h
OHNONONO PUBG BROS...
Yeah that's bad for that game too. It's always bad.
US and Western Europe make up the vast majority of players.
Both are either asleep or getting up for work right now.
That we're on Asian Hours and still getting those kinds of numbers is extremely impressive.
Losing half of their playerbase in a week is impressive I'll give you that.
This isn't even a good troll because of how obviously stupid it is.
He probably isn't trolling. It is honestly impressive when you consider how much marketing went into this game.
Holy shit man, look at that drop off!!!
Is this reverse psychology?
Nope. I just know half of a playerbase leaving is bad news.
>Losing
Everyone is asleep and it is Monday night, are you moronic? The second weekend it reached a new high.
He’s one of those Shazam discord trannies trying to recover after they got fricking obliterated a second time
I don't think the shazamarketers show up anymore. After launch they aren't getting paid.
They're still here arguing about people sleeping or not. The copes never end with marketer types.
They’re just shitposting to try push the narrative that BG3 isn’t the colossal success it is so people don’t dunk on them when they try shazam post about some future game. But we all know after Elden Ring and BG3 there’s just no recovery for those morons
I don't think they'll do this with a future game. The shazamarketers only care about the game they are contracted to market.
They'll always fail because this isn't a place for marketing.
They didn’t stop after Elden Ring they won’t stop now. They’re still chasing that Cyberpunk high and are eternally assmad about the rise of its reception since the patches and anime. If the new DLC has some obvious flaw they’ll be shitposting hard but with its release so close to BG3 they’re keeping themselves quiet because 2 back to back blowouts would be too much for their fragile minds to handle
you and I might be talking about different groups. I'm talking about the shazamarketers (marketers that bring up shazam unprompted). You are talking about shazamposters (a made up demographic to try and label anons with when they disrupt your marketing).
Their next target is armored core, but they have already been btfo so hard most have given up before it's even out
I'm still nervous for AC about them fricking with the movement and making it too much like Dark Souls/Elden Ring and not enough like old Armored Core games.
I hope I'm proven wrong on release.
Why bother trying to shazampost about AC in this thread? Fake doomposting is what they do don't do this shit anon.
>nuTotanic posters are now paid shills
We have gone full circle on the schizo scale
no one tell him
>what is sleep
Something not all people do at the same time.
For instance, it's day time where I am and night time in America.
thats why the count doesnt hit zero, shocking I know
The game is gross. Every character is boring and degenerate like modern day people are.
>sell all of Shadowheart's casual clothing
>give Lae'zel's underwear to Shadowheart
Yup it's gaming time
>He doesn't keep his Shadowheart naked
Shadowheart being completely naked is out of character
>im happy for you, genuinely enjoy it
>talk to her again: oh gods what the frick do you want now?
wtf is wrong with shadowheart if you choose someone else damn chill
I killed her immediately.
Do I make my own waifu and play as her or do I play an edgy Drow/Half-Drow dude and bang Shadowheart?
Make your waifu, give her a dick, and bang shadowheart
Can you frick her after you smash her ukulele?
So funny seeing webms like this. What a failure of a game.
This you?
Nope.
Imagine being the shill that had to make that collage because Ganker is bantsing on this game too hard kek.
This is the girl that my durge stabbed 50 times by accident
Guys I just finished the game with lightcute as my wife and now I'm replaying as the urge and was thinking of going for another romance this time around but...
I just can't resist re-romancing my wife, what do
leave her on the ship
But I can't do that to a cute damsel in distress
then suffer
>first meet her and she tells me i have a big disgusting nose
>playing a half-orc so am amazed at this unique interaction
>turns out she tells everyone they have a big disgusting nose
Frick this game.
israelites are gaga. No wonder this game is so shit. Also mods just woke up.
What drives an orc in a medieval setting to get Myspace emo levels of eyeshadow?
She's based on Eugene, unironically.
>badger makeup
>skeletor thin
>those meat curtains
It has to be a deliberate homage.
>Orc
They are basically corrupted humans from a different dimension
all of the party members in bg3 look deeply unappealing to me tbh, can i just roll up with generic hirelings
sure
you can launch the game four times and set up your party in mp to have 4 custom chars too
best endings?
easy enough fix overall, not sure why they didn't just do it honestly.
probably because gith dont look like that
though honestly it looks like they half assed the nose, it looks fine in shit like this artwork because its basically totally gone and the philtrum is different
laezel looks like theyre pretending like she's still got a human nose on there, just shifted and squeezed
probably how they made her face tbh, just took normal face and then pinched it
explains why her philtrum is gigantic
>people actually want to frick a frog
God I hate white people so much it's unreal
Why do people keep talking about "fixing" her? Githyanki have looked like this for 40 years. They're literal otherworldly aliens.
why isnt there fu manchu stache for gith?
test
This was one of the few companions I actually gave a shit about in my first run. I thought she was a annoying moronic frog b***h at first and continued to think so after her weird attempted rape. And then after she apoligized I started to get her and agree with her more. I finally found her cleche and got to understand what gith were and I understood why they are all survival of the fittest frogs.
Out of all the annoying npcs I enjoyed killing I enjoyed killer her the least. I told her stupid frog god to frick off and she couldn't handle it. I even avoided killing as much of her cleche as I could out of respect for her. I'm in act 3 and still running into these stupid frog face fricks but I can't help but think of Lae zel when I see them and I miss her.