The crpg grandmaster has approved of Baldur's Gate 3

Josh Sawyer said he likes the game.
We made it BG3 bros.

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  1. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    He gave up the fight against Larian, and moved from isometric rpgs to first person action rpgs...
    Larian won.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's not involved with Avowed.
      He was super butthurt that PoE2 flopped, and how the fans hated the ending, and decided to stop developing games in the world of Eora.
      At least for now.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >and decided to stop developing games in the world of Eora
        lolwut he’s writing some inscrutable TTRPG about eora and creating an adventure path for it based on his original story for The Black Hound

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          TTRPG
          We're talking about video games here.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        not involved in Avowed? good!

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      PoE was the most fun I ever had playing a CRPG. PoE 2 was just too loose for me. I enjoyed it, I like the story far more, but the pirate setting just didn't catch me. The game is entirely superior, the story is better, but the setting was just unfortunate.

      I'm really hoping for a PoE to challenge all the current midshit Pathfinder: WotRs and BG3s. Challenge them not on their turf, but as a good CRPG, as a real adventure.

  2. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wow, a conformist acceded to pop judgement, who could have seen that coming.

  3. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    > troony promoter in chief likes new westoid interactive propaganda
    Colour me surprised

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >westoid
      troony lingo. Slit your throat shitskin

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        hey hey hey, no infighting my fellow inbreds, don't we all love gay sex. zoophilia and all that shoved down our throats? why complain

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          at least you are honest

  4. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >crpg grandmaster
    >Josh Sawyer

    Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
    Alpha Protocol
    Pentiment

    >crpg grandmaster

    lol, lmao even

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      New Vegas, the best mod for Fallout 3 after the excellent Frontier.

  5. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >grandmaster
    lol, lmao

    Listen b***hes, he wasn't even a competitor in his hipster fricktard nonsense category. I give you exhibit A: Richard Garriott doing magic tricks in space.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Richard Garriott
      Who?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        zoom zoom

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      zoom zoom

      The problem is that Richard Garriot looks like a huge dweeb, he has no mainstream appeal and people forget him quickly when he leaves their presence. Josh Sawyer looks like a movie director he instantly gets more respect and attention from normies.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        What's with the girly accent? Is that how californians speak?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I'm gay for sawyer anons
        Yeah we knew that about you already but that doesn't make him a better game designer.
        >muh normies
        >huge dweeb is a liability in the hobby designed by huge dweebs, for huge dweebs
        Thanks reddit for once again confirming you don't belong here.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I’m just explaining to you why Josh Sawyer was able to break into the mainstream and grow in status while other, bigger names from the recent past were largely forgotten. It’s as simple as Sawyer doesn’t look like a dweeb.
          Todd Howard doesn’t look like a dweeb either which has helped his career immensely.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Games aside, the statistically best thing you can do for your career is to improve your appearance.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Dude is smoking crack. Sawyer didn't break into the mainstream. He's an actual nobody outside of this board. His latest game had like 800 concurrent players on Steam.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ok, well, if you want to improve your career, and have met all basic requirements (technical cert., etc.), then the best thing you can do is improve your appearance.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                You've strayed far from the looksmaxing board.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >look anons I don't think you understand
                >we've found the one leftist that anyone can stand to look at without retching for more than 20 seconds and by Goddess, we're not going to give that up easily

                Yeah they don't get you but I do.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                You keep ranting. I am just stating a fact, I never once brought up Sawyer or politics or anything.

                You've strayed far from the looksmaxing board.

                I don't know what that is. However, this is what the statistics indicate, and anecdotally it has been true for myself. I work in engineering and after looking at my options and improving my appearance in a few notable areas (grooming, clothing, skin) I saw the biggest gains of my career. It could be coincidental, but I have observed a difference. It's bullshit, but that's how it seems to be. Impressing people at first glance is the most important part of your career.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're delusional, anon. Life is not a Hollywood movie.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Lol stop being wrong and calling others delusional.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Highly, highly delusional. That's not how life works. Your IQ is questionable at this point. Do you have any other delusions you fully believe in?

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                So people don't make assumptions based on looks?

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                You do. That's not how the world works, especially as it relates to skilled labor. Keyword being skilled. You're living in a fantasy world, i.e., you're fricking delusional, son. Maybe a good looking teenage girl can use her looks to get hired as a burger flipper at McDonalds instead of a hambeast or la creatura, but you literally will not advance based on appearance in a skill-based profession. That's utterly delusional.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek moving goal posts, desperately doubling down on insults. We all know you're wrong, and you know it too.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Hello, this is the original anon, not the one you have been responding to. Please refer to my first post where I state, "once basic requirements have been met". I think you overestimate how unique your skill set is, I doubt you are so specialized that no one else in your field could do what you do. You are competing with many others, particularly in the case of a more desirable position (usually because of compensation). That said, it may be different where you live if th overall level of education is lower, or for some other reason.

                Oh, there were TWO delusional individuals, not just one. Impressive. Your collective delusions do not form reality.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Hello, this is the original anon, not the one you have been responding to. Please refer to my first post where I state, "once basic requirements have been met". I think you overestimate how unique your skill set is, I doubt you are so specialized that no one else in your field could do what you do. You are competing with many others, particularly in the case of a more desirable position (usually because of compensation). That said, it may be different where you live if th overall level of education is lower, or for some other reason.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I am just stating a fact
                >just repeating it for 10 posts
                It's not the fact I question, I've gotten hired places based solely on looks myself, it's your motivation for bringing it up here that seems a bit off. What's your point exactly with this?

                It seems like instead of talking about interesting RPG mechanics there are certain type of people that just want to troll with sawyer as a cult of personality. Which is funny as hell since he barely possesses one. So, what are the motivations of those people we have to ask ourselves. There's nothing left to discuss about the game because it really doesn't have that much interesting in terms of RPG to talk about, so I ask you directly, what's your point?

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't have one, it was just an idle comment in response to anon asserting that Sawyer is successful due to his appearance. Providing some peripheral information. I didn't expect to still be talking about it 3 posts later.

                I do wonder why Sawyer and pillars of eternity gets so much negative attention. Why is it so popular to hate on them?

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I do wonder why Sawyer and pillars of eternity gets so much negative attention. Why is it so popular to hate on them?
                Huh? Oh that's easy he's a hipster homosexual with a boring woke game that refugees from reddit or /lgbt/ come here solely to troll with.
                Never once has anyone discussed an actual character they made or difficult fight in about the last 100 sawyer threads, this is how you know.

                Let me know if I can help you out with any other tour features and remember to keep your hands and arms inside the ride until the thread comes to a complete stop.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Those sounds more like things which you don't like about Sawyer. There are lots of hipsters and woke games out there, why is this one so special?

                As for discussion about the pillars games, that actually does occur in threads about games, notably more often in /crpgg/, but here unfortunately usually overshadowed by loud screaming and ranting. The sentiment is so dominant that threads like this one are made. You see the same kind of idolatry occurring on rpgcodex, so it isn't unique to Ganker.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                You see the "ranting" which is actually deadly on target criticism that his fans never have any response to because the game sucks.
                The threads fill with it because there isn't enough positive things about the game to enjoy in order to drown out the bad.
                The game isn't special, the people that keep defending it are special, and especially dedicated to trolling with this particular hipster idiot. YIIK threads for example garnered similar hate but they don't have enough of you autists lining up behind him.

                People don't like RPGs that are emblematic of woke culture and low efforts and this is both. They hold the genre back.

                Let me know if you have other passive aggressive touristy questions.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I am actually not asking you for an answer, because I know you can't provide a definite one. I am also not addressing you personally, why would I? The purpose of the question is to spur discussion, of which you are welcome to partake. It is also clear which one of us maintains a neutral tone and which one is truly passive aggressive. What I get from your post is that

                >The pillars games are bad
                Putting aside the endless discussion of wether or not the games are good, there are lots of bad games out there. Why does this one get so much attention? Actually, YIIK is another good example of a game that garners a significant amount of vitriol and whose primary creator is often mocked and insulted. And that game does NOT have people defending it, the way pillars games do. So I do not think the players who enjoy the games are the reason for this obsessive focus.

                >people hate wokeness!
                While this is obviously untrue, seeing as the majority of successful media in western civilization for decades has been "woke", I suppose what you are saying is that posters here and in other corners of the internet are so obsessed with the idea of wokeness that they would rather create a thread about that than about an rpg. And as you said, Sawyer has become emblematic of wokeness.

                This is rather pathetic.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I suppose what you are saying is that posters here and in other corners of the internet are so obsessed with the idea of wokeness that they would rather create a thread about that than about an rpg.
                What I literally said, and have been saying all along is that there is not enough fun here to carry its obnoxious characteristics, one of which is the spreading of woke subtext. Therefore the discussions always fall back to this because there literally aren't enough entertaining things going on in the game to discuss. Again this one "gets special attention" because there are a dedicated core of sawyer autists that keep making threads on it to go round and round on the same boring game. It's sort of in that kingdom of amalur mediocre range in which threads should naturally die off but because said autists also politically identify with sawyer himself, they know he's a hipster than can annoy the rest of us so therefore is posted a lot.

                This isn't the case with PF, nor BG3 which also have woke things, you can talk for quite some time on those games about character building, battles because those things were designed well enough to carry their woke baggage.

                >While this is obviously untrue
                Aaand we're done here as everything I have been implying about your motivations is now confirmed.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                You make so many leaps of logic in every post that I can't address them all. How you can come to an anonymous image board and make sweeping assumptions based on gut feeling that lead to conclusions which you state as objective fact is incredible. You have no way of knowing who is posting what, what percentage of posters agrees with x or y statement, who is a troll, who is sincere, who makes these Sawyer threads or why. You have no clue who or how many you are identifying with when you say "the rest of us", nor anything about any group of "those autists", or whether or not that enemy group exists. You just rant as loudly as you can until you've convinced yourself that some imagined worldview is obvious truth.

                I will say yet again that there is a great deal of good discussion about Pillars elsewhere with regards to things like builds, but it has a hard time surviving on /vrpg/ because aimless jeering and yelling derails it almost immediately.

                >motivations
                What does this even mean? Do you think I'm trying to convince or teach you something? I, and probably everyone else reading this, do not care what you believe or what ideology you subscribe to. Again, this discussion is not directed at you. You are just one more Anonymous taking part.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Mama mia that'sa big plate of sophistry spaghetti.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >PF
                >designed well
                I will never understand this sentiment, genuinely one of the worst CRPGs I've ever played.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                BG3 falls apart in later acts, did he complete the game?

                WotR is simply riding a popular ruleset, everything that was actually designed/created by the dev team is of dire quality (pacing, encounter design, characterization as a whole but companions especially, itemization).

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        So what you're saying, is that Richard is an even better guy than I once thought of because he is a nerd like me? Thanks I appreciate him more

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah Lord British was a pretty cool fixture in Austin for a long time too, ran his mansion as an actual D&D castle inviting fellow nerds in to LARP around halloween and I mean legitimate Live Action Role Play not how this place uses the term. There used to be published books for LARP with rules like: fire arrows at an actual target all day, write down your hits and misses and then stock all those in a quiver as your arrows to bring to the game.

          Mansion got sold I heard, shame.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            A great room ruined by tiles, many such cases.

  6. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Literally who

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The most well known rpg designer in the land

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        None are a rpg, sry to say.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Funny, he has 20k subs after like 10 years making videos. Tim Cain is nearing 50k after 3 months. Sawyer who? The literal gaywad programmer is more well known as a designer than Sawyer, lmao.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Tim Cain posts every day, Josh Sawyer barely 3 times a year.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sawyer is a nobody, with a nobody body of work. He believes RPGs should be as dumbed down as possible. In his latest game, he made away with all RPG elements entirely, believing that to be a superior Disco Elysium. Dude is a hack and his fanboys are highly delusional.
            >Icewind Dale
            Riding the coattails of Bioware.
            >New Vegas
            Riding the coattails of Bethesda.
            >Pillars of Eternity
            Cheap imitation of the Infinity Engine games.
            >Pentiment
            An attempt to copy Disco Elysium, only to fail to understand the game as an RPG on a basic level and making a linear point and click adventure.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Sawyer is a nobody
              Then how do you know all his games enough to be this angry over him

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I know him because you homosexuals have at least 5 Sawyer threads active on this board at all times.

                >Cheap imitation of the Infinity Engine games.
                Most of them weren't good to begin with.

                Yeah, including his own.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Where are the 4 other Sawyer threads? I think your anger is making you deranged.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Are you going to pretend that Sawyer shitposting isn't a thing now? How sane of you.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Cheap imitation of the Infinity Engine games.
              Most of them weren't good to begin with.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Riding the coattails of Bioware.
              He was also part of the NWN2 team so that can be added.
              >Riding the coattails of Bethesda.
              Bethesda destroyed Fallout. Bethesda also didn't make Fallout in the first place. They bought the IP and rode on the legacy of Black Isle while paying no respect to the lore of the series and completely misinterpreting what the world was in the first place.
              >as an RPG on a basic level and making a linear point and click adventure.
              Disco Elysium is also a point-and-click adventure game, not an rpg.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Bethesda destroyed Fallout
                Kek clueless zoomer parroting bitter autists

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Disco Elysium is also a point-and-click adventure game, not an rpg.
                Disco Elysium is an RPG. It has a large amount of skills that directly affect the core gameplay. Your mistake is thinking combat is a requirement in an RPG.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Incorrect. Go back to plebbit.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Disco Elysium is definitely more old school adventure game than an RPG.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Disco Elysium is not an rpg.
                >large amount of skills that directly affect the core gameplay
                Visual novels have these. But no one is dumb enough to claim visual novels are rpgs.
                >combat is a requirement in an RPG.
                Correct. Combat is a requirement for a game to be an rpg.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Visual novels have these
                if a VN has rpg elements it is called
                >a VN with RPG elements

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                cool, then Disco Elysium is a VN with RPG elements.
                :applause:

                clap clap clap

                clap clap clap clap
                that's me fricking your mom, anon. she's raising your rent btw.
                don't forget to TIP. otherwise you'll never be seeing tendies in this house again

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                lolno, Disco Elysium is an RPG, with full RPG progression mechanics that affect every single aspect of the dialogue system. Sorry, chud, you're wrong.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Correct.

                Disco Elysium is definitely more old school adventure game than an RPG.

                >Disco Elysium is definitely more old school adventure game than an RPG.
                Which one exactly? None is the correct answer, as not one of them work with the same mechanics. There are many tabletop adventure games that don't feature combat at all, but rely on stats for progress. Disco is like them, but cRPG.

                Combat isn't the basis of cRPG's, it's not even in the name, it's just convenient legacy from the origins of the genre that started on computers at the time where story wasn't even feasible since it took too much hard drive space.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                you axe wound is not a vegana

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Imagine WANTING to claim nwn2
                lol, lmao

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous
            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              dogshit post

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              don't forget riding the coattails of Chris Avellone

  7. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Literally who? He looks like a moron. Why do you care what he thinks?

  8. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

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  9. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >grandmaster
    Lol. You mean the guy who let PoE1+2 be mediocre snorefests and then released a shitty flash game? Let's face the facts.

  10. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is Sawyer IRL playing BG3.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous
  11. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >grandmaster
    >icewind dale
    >pillars of eternity
    lmao

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Both masterpieces btw.

  12. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    No man with tattoos can or should be taken seriously. If you are so vain and stupid that you start painting your own skin, you really have nothing to contribute in any discussion.

  13. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  14. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >grandmaster
    Please quit devaluing the other peoples on his teams after pentiment I realized quality control and the people he works with is what carries him.

  15. 9 months ago
    Sage

    Of fricking course he does. He is pozzed to israel like every youtuber with more than 100k subs. He has to align with globohomosexual or else his channel gets shut down and he has to work as a public toilet cleaner or the guy thats emptying ashtrays at convention centers.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >He is pozzed to israel like every youtuber with more than 100k subs.
      He has like 20k subs, lmao. He's a nobody. Literally no one worships him outside of the ironic schizos on this board.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Anon spends all day shouting about how a game dev he knows too much about is actually a nobody
        Lmao

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >he says spending every waking hour shitposting about sawyer on a dead rpg board
          oh no no no no

      • 9 months ago
        Sage

        Didn't knew that! But he will get the 100k regardless after acknowledging current game to be great

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >mptying ashtrays at convention centers
      sounds like a cushy gig tbh

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      While AFAIK Sawyer has never expressed any opinion on Israel, he's the one RPG dev I'd consider most likely to be critical of Zionism.

  16. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I mean, if he really got to tell his REAL opinion, all the mindless hive mind drones gonna to rape him, so...

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >real opinion: yelling at his devs to black his games harder

  17. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    mentally ill deranged leftist that nobody except other mentally ill deranged leftists cares about.

  18. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    SAWYER SAID WHAT?!

  19. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Baldur's Gate 3
    Not a RPG.

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