He's the most played. Shadowheart is the most romanced(closest thing to most popular we have) by far, outnumbering every other party member combined with 54% of all romances being with her. Next was Lae'zel and then Karlach. They didn't tell us what the order was below them.
They tracked durge and OC combined, and only for the opening weekend, not on any of the other times they posted player base stats. In that case it was 93% of players made a character.
This here's the picture of opening weekend origin characters vs 3 months later origin character stats. Gale's consistently top, Karlach dropped though as people got a bit bored with her.
surprise surprise, hot goth elf tsundere is most picked. Your other options are an overagressive goblin or dudes. By the time players run into Karlach, and later Minthara, they're already invested into Shadowheart because those were the only options presented at the start.
Most played origin character, but judging off of that isn't accurate to most popular or most desirable.
Choosing origin character means you make that character a self-insert mute. He's the white guy that's a magical prodigy so strong that the goddess of magic personally groomed and dated him, with Elminster as practically a father figure.
If you want to be a guy and date a girl, then he's the most self-insert you can get, the strongest, and in his case at least his downfall is fricking up a magical experiment instead of personally being made a devil or vampire's b***h like Wyll/Astarion.
It's a DnD setting, if you aren't MarySueMaxing, why are you even a player character? I say good on him for showing up a Bhaalspawn and Ascended vampire in his same party.
I will say that Ascended Gale is a really entertaining end to the character, even if it ultimately will end up in pure fricking chaos for Faerun. Not that I care about the fate of that kitchen sink shitheap of a setting.
You see, choosing to play as Gale is big brain decision.
Dont have to worry about Gale springing his magic trick romance shenanigans on you if you play AS Gale.
I tried to romance Gale once. You know what the sex is like? You turn into giant incorporeal beings and hug in outer space. It's gay as frick. I want a good hard dicking, not a homosexualy space ballet. Astarion is the only choice.
didn't more people romance shadowheart than every other character combined? that's honestly fricking crazy. didn't think karlach would have so few people picking her
swen needs to learn his lesson and make at least 2 attractive women in his next game
>complete bro with a personality and emotions and flaws
vs >pretty boy hot vampire that's bland and predictable and suave and slightly dangerous / edgy while still being completely safe
It's really no mystery anon. He's the fem version of a waifu bait character.
>choose Astarion as the main character >romance Karlach >go his Ascended route >become a shitty abuser to Karlach, who sort of stays in a abusive relationship with him
Is this the most butthole route you can take in the game?
Astarion's b***hy but he's the prettiest one according to my prison gayness. Gale isn't pretty enough for my prison gayness and he weirds me out. Astarion for me.
>vampire elf damaged badboy
vs. >self-insert condescending prick who has more romantic feelings for his goddess than he does for you. also he has a bomb in his chest and demands your magic items
Wow.. really hard choice there, huh?
Gay homosexual man here
Astarion is a pompous flirtatious gay-ish acting twink with a tragic backstop, that will ALWAYS do well with a lot of women. I do think that he's sort of objectively the best companion in terms of writing and acting so that's also a big reason, but then again a lot of people fricking hate his guts and think he's the most annoying c**t alive so who knows
Gale is just english and mad about his ex
Every female I've ever seen play this game seems to instantly get the ick from Gale.
They sense that he's a catman NEET nerd long before it's revealed that he's a catman NEET nerd. If one thing can be said as a point of merit to the writing of BG3, it's the characterization of Gale. If it can set off a woman's ick senses like it's real life, it must be good.
Do they? I figured it'd be the opposite, since Anne Rice is still really popular.
Who gives a frick what women prefer? They are mentally ill and should all be killed.
>t.mentally ill shitskin
2pbp
>They are mentally ill and should all be killed
How do you plan on keeping the human race alive then?
We have cloning.
Women love angsty vampires
As a woman I can confidently say I don't care for either, because they're part of a Tencent shill campaign.
>BG3 seether is a troon
I'm not shocked.
back to the lab, chang
It's EMPRESS, pay some respects.
You will never be a woman.
>As a woman
You're a troony?
>As a woman
Do you ever sleep?
>the Twitter schizo has been a troony the whole time
Kek
>tencent's gretest enemy is a trans homosexual
You can't make this shit up
oh my god have you been seething about bg3 for half a year because they made the troony a circus act?
holy frick could that be it?
why does Ganker prefer evil women?
same reason dudes like Viconia in BG2. evil woman that "you could fix" (even if that's done away with in BG3)
Nah, I like evil women the way they are. If they were "fixed" I would lose all interest
women love brooding, tortured bad boys
they dont like literal simps who made themself into an atom bomb for another b***h
>simp for another woman (goddess)
vs
>i-can-fix-him with a vulnerable side
Hmmm I wonder why women prefer Astarion
wasn't gale objectively the most popular or played character? surprisingly
I think it was Shadowheart.
He's the most played. Shadowheart is the most romanced(closest thing to most popular we have) by far, outnumbering every other party member combined with 54% of all romances being with her. Next was Lae'zel and then Karlach. They didn't tell us what the order was below them.
karlach was 2nd most romanced
Wasn't durge/oc the most played by a significant margin? Gale was the most popular pre-made, but iirc it was a pretty low percentage?
They tracked durge and OC combined, and only for the opening weekend, not on any of the other times they posted player base stats. In that case it was 93% of players made a character.
This here's the picture of opening weekend origin characters vs 3 months later origin character stats. Gale's consistently top, Karlach dropped though as people got a bit bored with her.
surprise surprise, hot goth elf tsundere is most picked. Your other options are an overagressive goblin or dudes. By the time players run into Karlach, and later Minthara, they're already invested into Shadowheart because those were the only options presented at the start.
Most played origin character, but judging off of that isn't accurate to most popular or most desirable.
Choosing origin character means you make that character a self-insert mute. He's the white guy that's a magical prodigy so strong that the goddess of magic personally groomed and dated him, with Elminster as practically a father figure.
If you want to be a guy and date a girl, then he's the most self-insert you can get, the strongest, and in his case at least his downfall is fricking up a magical experiment instead of personally being made a devil or vampire's b***h like Wyll/Astarion.
what a fricking mary sue
It's a DnD setting, if you aren't MarySueMaxing, why are you even a player character? I say good on him for showing up a Bhaalspawn and Ascended vampire in his same party.
good point, fair play.
I will say that Ascended Gale is a really entertaining end to the character, even if it ultimately will end up in pure fricking chaos for Faerun. Not that I care about the fate of that kitchen sink shitheap of a setting.
You see, choosing to play as Gale is big brain decision.
Dont have to worry about Gale springing his magic trick romance shenanigans on you if you play AS Gale.
because Gale basically admits he's a simp for that sorceress b***h and is madly in love with her which makes you just a side b***h
He's safe dangerous.
Women love sexy vampires. Especially sexy, bad boy, bisexual vampires.
He's a fricking vampire elf are you serious? I don't think you could make a more woman pleasing character if you tried.
You could give him wings.
Gale is irritating and boring.
Astarion is irritating but fun.
Easy choice.
Plus Gale still keeps talking about his ex.
Neither men or women want to hear about someone they're dating constantly droning on about their ex.
same reason why they like true crime, they want to frick dangerous serial killers not book nerd redditors
women like men who are disagreeable. if you're a nerd you should bomb some construction sites and take a page out of Uncle Ted.
I tried to romance Gale once. You know what the sex is like? You turn into giant incorporeal beings and hug in outer space. It's gay as frick. I want a good hard dicking, not a homosexualy space ballet. Astarion is the only choice.
desu, I'll kill both if ever will play this slop again
Why do men prefer Laezel to Shadowheart Ganker?
One's loyal and the other wants to frick a zoophile
I love my shadowife
didn't more people romance shadowheart than every other character combined? that's honestly fricking crazy. didn't think karlach would have so few people picking her
swen needs to learn his lesson and make at least 2 attractive women in his next game
literally half of all players romanced her, I dont think they put specifically what percent chose the other two.
Normies continue to have zero taste
>normal people like women who look like average women
Wow.. who would've thought..
>Normies continue to fall for duplicitous prostitute who likes like their favorite OF prostitute
Yes it’s not shocking just pathetic
I don't like Karlach's personality
It's basically a puppy and unironically "reddit"
because Laezel doesn't cuck you and is a tomboy.
Because all the male romance options are fricking dogshit so you choose the one that's least dogshit.
that's the case with the female romances as well. the romances in this game are quite terrible.
>complete bro with a personality and emotions and flaws
vs
>pretty boy hot vampire that's bland and predictable and suave and slightly dangerous / edgy while still being completely safe
It's really no mystery anon. He's the fem version of a waifu bait character.
>choose Astarion as the main character
>romance Karlach
>go his Ascended route
>become a shitty abuser to Karlach, who sort of stays in a abusive relationship with him
Is this the most butthole route you can take in the game?
Astarion's b***hy but he's the prettiest one according to my prison gayness. Gale isn't pretty enough for my prison gayness and he weirds me out. Astarion for me.
>hot
>I CAN FIX HIM
Is it that hard to understand? it isn't even a gender thing, see Viconia.
>vampire elf damaged badboy
vs.
>self-insert condescending prick who has more romantic feelings for his goddess than he does for you. also he has a bomb in his chest and demands your magic items
Wow.. really hard choice there, huh?
Heterosexual women prefer Gale, the rest of them want the gay vampire.
Heterosexual women don't exist. All women are bisexual until proven otherwise.
>most popular origin to play is white man
>most popular romance is white women
>most popular custom design is white man
Really makes you think
Even I fricked Astarion, and I'm straight
Some lesbian I talked to says she liked him because he's easy to frick.
Gay homosexual man here
Astarion is a pompous flirtatious gay-ish acting twink with a tragic backstop, that will ALWAYS do well with a lot of women. I do think that he's sort of objectively the best companion in terms of writing and acting so that's also a big reason, but then again a lot of people fricking hate his guts and think he's the most annoying c**t alive so who knows
Gale is just english and mad about his ex
>Twink
>Looks 50 and is a 500 year-old vampire.
Every female I've ever seen play this game seems to instantly get the ick from Gale.
They sense that he's a catman NEET nerd long before it's revealed that he's a catman NEET nerd. If one thing can be said as a point of merit to the writing of BG3, it's the characterization of Gale. If it can set off a woman's ick senses like it's real life, it must be good.
women love shart thoughever
>women
artist isn't trans
because he's sexy as frick and being a vampire only increases his allure
They're both shit but Gale is taken so Astarion wins by default. Also elves and vampires get bonus points.
Gale looks and acts like a greasy sex pest
How are feeling about the next Lariankino being set in space and Swen thinking that it's already better than BG3?
DOS3 would have been better
>ME but good
YES
>Punishment project for failing to take over wotc for tencent
Starfield tier with 10 minute turn computes on that garbage engine at best.