This is why I only play Japanese fantasy games

Because we love this game too. D&D fans like D&D game, is that really a logical leap? The difference is pretty simple: you can play without a DM.

Can you play as a full 4 man party in the co-op or is it just two people? How doesthe dialog stuff work? Does the host decide what to say/do during conversations? How about rolls? Sorry for flooding you with questions

Up to 4 co-op, whoever starts or triggers a convo is making the decisions. You can optionally click to watch each others convos, and can vote on dialogue options as well as buff them mid-convo. Works pretty fluidly.

Fine, no one sentient did that at any rate

Do you really need some kind of in-depth dissertation on why, specifically, Larian has historically dogshit writers?

Yes I too love that the majority of posts have now devolved into people just screaming "SLOP!!!!!" at the top of their lungs.

Yes baking is childs play
Sorry that your parents didn't teach you

>college = logical thought
lol moron

Found the debt saddled starbucks barista

College degrees are not evidence of intellect

that makes no sense though. I might not be a good writer, but I've read lots of great books and I know what good writing looks like, BG3 isn't it. Don't they teach people to use their own brain and think for themselves in colleges anymore?

>having any experience with the written language is so unrealistic to some people that they consider having it to be on par with being a time traveling ghost
Interesting take but this just makes you come off as even more moronic.

I mean, you yourself admitted that you don't have any writing credentials. So what exactly is your point here anyway? According to your own logic, you couldn't argue your point, should someone indeed step forward with writing credentials, you would just submit to their authority and now accept whatever it is they are saying as your new truth? Try reading a book and think for yourself once in a while.

You didnt post any,

>english lexicon

>lexicon

Bruh

Thats not how you use the word lexicon, dummy

Anon, I am not a professional writer, how could I have writing credentials? I don't understand what point you are trying to make here. You clearly are not a professional writer either, so are your writing credentials a letter you wrote your grandma on her birthday or what exactly are you talking about?

Thats not how you use the word lexicon, dummy

I accept your concession.

You tacitly admit to having no credentials and attribute others' seeing this to lack of reading comprehension? And you are the one supposedly in a position to demand basic intellect from your interlocutors?

But you thoroughly lost the argument you had with those anons. They pointed out that it's stupid to demand writing credentials in order to criticize bad writing and you not only admitted defeat by never addressing their core argument, you even admitted to not having any writing credentials yourself.

someone asked you earlier what your credentials are and you said you don't have to prove them because you aren't the one criticizing the writing. That to me is pretty much you admitting that you have no writing credentials.

So is the dialogue natural and true to the characters or is it silly no meaning dnd parody? Theres no reason to play this if the best it can offer me from its handcrafted story that took decades is slop that my friends could come up with off the back of their head. Its lazy and uninspired. Fine if youre drunk with your friends. But if anyone actually paid for this dreck, if they had any standards or taste, they would be pissed off.

dont care, didnt read. Her boring dialogue sucks.

>if you aren't a stormer you are mindbroken

follow your leader

assuming you don't believe Hitler died in Germany I am also fine if you move out of your home country to go live in South America. just quit wasting my air.

>a vast array of settings exist
>therefore everyone should talk like joss whedon wrote them
frick off

>don't have hope

You don't have hope. It's the reason all you do is b***h and moan and the reason everyone is telling you to shut the frick up.

historians would probably argue pretty strenuously about considering fricking Babylon and Hellenistic Greece a dark age

Yes, which is why the author is lamenting the decay.

> it was destroyed and humanity went through a dark age
I can't kek loud enough

The future is pretty good for them considering they haven't even built the city Assyrians are named for yet so they are no where near there peak and thats not taken into they were around for a long ass time after that seriously this is given what we know one of the least accurate claims of age being doomed of all time.

Define "post modernist writing". Not an example. A definition.

Postmodernist writing, emerging in the mid-to-late 20th century, challenges traditional literary norms by employing techniques like intertextuality, metafiction, and pastiche. Its fragmented narratives and ironic tone often question the very nature of storytelling and historical context, sometimes leading to a sense of nihilism. This playfulness and disregard for convention can be summed up in the flippant attitude expressed by the quote, "it's just about space wizards, don't take it seriously." The approach underscores the relativism and resistance to closure that typify postmodernism, reflecting a complex and controversial literary perspective stemmed from Millennials hating everything.

Actually you can because anything existing requires justification so you have to justify the snowman on the sun and sufficient justification eventually will become realism but once you set everything up you must take care in the future to follow those rules.

It's a strawman to believe that realism strictly means we're talking about how closely the story reflects the real world.

You attempted to use an obtuse definition of realism and then attacked that as an argument because you can augment any discussion concerning fantasy by simply saying "what if we had magic like this in our world, how would it behave and how would people act". But it's far simpler to treat the fantasy world as its own living, breathing thing and fit the idea of realism within its own context. But I get it, you have autism so you typically fight opponents based on technicalities even though it makes you a moron and you'd never want that tactic used on you.

The point being that by that standard everything that happens in the fantasy world is realistic within its context because it is real there, no matter how internally inconsistent or lacking in justification.

Strawman Argument: A strawman argument involves misrepresenting someone's position in order to make it easier to attack. In this case, the claim that anything within a fantasy world is inherently realistic simply because it exists within that world might oversimplify or misrepresent the nuanced views about realism within a fictional context. If someone argues for realism within a fictional world, they might not necessarily mean that anything goes, but rather that there are consistent rules or logic that make the world coherent and believable. By framing the argument in this extreme way, it's attacking a position that might not accurately represent the views of the other party.

Bad Faith Interpretation: A bad faith argument is one where the arguer is not sincerely engaging with the position of the other side but is instead attempting to win the argument by any means, including distortion or dishonesty. In this case, the statement seems to reject any possibility of a nuanced understanding of realism within a fictional context. It reduces a complex issue to a binary, either-or proposition, ignoring the subtleties of how realism might be understood differently depending on the context.

Ignoring Internal Consistency: The assertion that anything can be considered realistic within a fictional context, regardless of internal consistency, seems to dismiss a fundamental aspect of storytelling and world-building. Many writers and readers value internal consistency because it helps create immersion and makes the fictional world more engaging and believable. By ignoring this aspect, the statement overlooks a significant part of what might be meant by "realism" within a fictional setting.

You're missing the nuanced understanding of what realism means within a fictional context. Let's take the example of a snowman on the moon. Even in a fantastical world, this can be made realistic if we establish that a wizard with powerful magic sent it there. The magic itself would have rules and logic within the world of the story, making the scenario internally consistent and, therefore, realistic. The same principle applies to non-human societies; they can have their unique social and cultural norms, and as long as these norms follow an internal logic, they contribute to a realistic portrayal. My entire point revolves around the idea that internal consistency equates to realism within a fictional setting. We can indeed use our experience in the real world to extrapolate what may be realistic in a fantasy setting. It's not about whether these elements mirror our reality but about how they fit within the coherent framework of the fictional world. That's where the true essence of realism lies in storytelling.

The characters talk like Critical Role Twitch streamers and not like people who exist in Forgotten Realms. I expect a higher standard of writing from an RPG.

It would just be an example of shitty Millennial post-modernist writing. Still doesn't change that the writing itself is cringe baby's first fantasy story writing and no, they don't behave like people that would exist in Forgotten Realms, they act like avatars of a D&D campaign.

>good writing is when dialogue is completely random and where it doesn't line up at all with the character saying it
I'd love for some examples if this is really your barometer for bad writing in video games. Which are some characters that don't fit into this mold because video game writing is pretty categorically trope-y.

I'm not excusing it, I'm asking for examples of good writing based off this because I'm of the opinion that it literally doesn't exist as it pertains to characters written in video games.

True, this is how real life nips court.

even if people talked like that outside of text message (they don't) I want a proper fantasy story and not some teenaged zoomers talking to each other

>"if all humanity can't come to a consensus, why take anyone seriously about anything?"
No one is asking you to take Ganker as such seriously, that would be moronic

I mean, you do have religious party members in BG3. Why is none of them showing any kind of morals and values that would differ from modern day left wing urbanite?

Ishtar is also a real world pagan fertility goddess from the egyptian pantheon iirc. In fact, the catholic church co opted some of her symbols along with other pagan fertility practices and rolled it all up into Easter (Eastet, Ishtar - clear etymological connection) One of those practices involved young, sexually mature people getting together at the
start of spring, the women would paint themselves in bright colors and hide in the woods while the men would search for them and immediately plap plap plap get pregnant upon finding them. A primitive version of the modern "easter egg hunt", in case you wondering what colored eggs had to do with Jesus. Rob Howard was very well read