Thread 718172915

So I finally got around to trying this game. What am I in for?

What's the best, cleanest mod that removes the gay romance btw? I know this game got famous for your same sex companions hitting on you out of nowhere so I'd like to avoid that and just have normal friendships on my first playthrough if possible

>>718172915 (OP)
CRPG with JRPG style bosses.

The best RPG ever made.

>>718172915 (OP)
It's very fun, probably one of the best RPGs of all time and a guaranteed classic if not a masterpiece. A full campaign takes around 100 hours of played time. My advice is to go in completely blind. Don't look up guides, don't look up where to get all the best loot, don't look up spoilers. It's an enthralling experience if you do it that way trust me

>>718173002
Have you tried just not being gay to avoid the gay parts?

>>718173002
https://rpghq.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1122

>>718173331
To add to this anon, I wouldn't get hung up about failing rolls and getting suboptimal outcomes in quests, there's a lot of cool unique content spread across everything so even if you get the bad outcome it can lead to some interesting things you wouldn't otherwise see.

>>718173412
Thanks fren

>>718173331
Yeah I'm going into it blind, I had a lot going on when the game released so now I'm just getting back into my backlog. I pretty much know nothing except there's sexy girls and sexy goblins

>>718172915 (OP)
Don't hesitate to wing it and just roll with whatever choices you made, or were made for you by the fucking critical failure dice rolls.
But also don't hesitate to savescum if you think the game treated you unfairly.
Both can be fun.

>>718172915 (OP)
gay sex and beastiality

>>718172915 (OP)
A really good game, worthy of the title "BG2 successor".
Companions of the same sex as your avatar trying to fuck you all the time.

>>718174291
Then you're in for a real treat. Imo set the difficulty at normal and just focus on the story. If you've never played 5e DnD there us quite a learning curve in terms of combat especially. Also this anon >>718173637 is absolutely correct as well. Just because you "fail" on a given roll doesn't mean you'll get the "bad" outcome. That's not really how the game is structured

>>718174291
If you should ever struggle with spellcasters (like me on my first blind run, because I'm stupid), build pic related.
It's the best weapon in the game and you get it half-way throught the first map.

>>718174291
Please just don't end up like 90% of the folks who play this game.
DO NOT make Shadowbitch your gf.

Go with anyone else, I don't care.

>tiny rpg maker tier amateur maps
>super mario tier jumping around said tiny maps
>extreme front loading since its an ea scam
>woke shit
>the worst implementation of tb ever

Gay WEG that mimics an RPG, but don't let it fool you.

>>718172915 (OP)
>What am I in for?
Not playing a video game. Begging for attention.

>>718175000
Or do what I did and ignore the romance content. My first playthrough I played a gith monk and roleplayed as a githzerai who was being mistaken as githyanki by everyone

>>718172915 (OP)
>>718173002
https://modhq.org/Baldur's%20Gate%203

Everything you need is here and you don't need much to make it playable

>>718172915 (OP)
Sex, just lots of sex and thirsty characters that talk like they live in SoCal.

>>718172915 (OP)
The best game in the genre.

>>718172915 (OP)
B E A R S E X O

>>718173002
>character asks for gay sex
>click no

>>718172915 (OP)
An amazing game. Every single line is propaganda.

>>718172915 (OP)
It's pretty fun. Ultimately held back by the fact that it runs on a D&D system at all.

>>718173331
>Have you tried just not being gay to avoid the gay parts?
>Make friend
>think he's a cool guy, we talk about his past a lot and I help him with some personal issues here and there
>little do I know this means he develops an attraction towards me
>he offers gay sex and things get awkward after that
Homosexuality and fraternity cannot coexist. All faggots deserve the rope.

If you're a chronic save scummer like me try to fight your urge to reload.

My favourite scene in the entire game takes place when you lose a fight with a certain frog

>>718176831
Post an example of such dialogue options from the game instead of a badly edited strawman.

>>718173002
It's not as intrusive and widespread as you'd assume. Very, very minor spoiler: the focal point of all this is the celebration that happens after you solved the big issue of Act1 one way or another. If you have companions recruited and your approval rating is at least half-way decent they're all try to get into your pants. There's one who's as direct as possible, another is similar except she doesn't ask the final question, another is more ambiguous and if you're done with it you're done, if not he acts like you just misunderstood him; then we still have the famed "you wanna a see a wizard trick?" man whose offer can still be somewhat confusing. Other than this I haven't encountered anything disturbing in Act1.

>>718177115
Just go check the /v/ archive to see all the anons that got raped by gale.

>>718173331
>get to act 2 where shadow curse is fucking up the world
>even after saving lesbos, curse is still around
>gotta do Halsin quest to remove it
>do Halsin quest because it's a cool quest and is the heroic thing to do
>Halsin takes this as a sign that you want to fuck him
Yeah, that's totally organic, that's totally how it should work

>>718177306
Post an example of such dialogue options from the game instead of a badly edited strawman.

Aww, glowie mod is mad again
OP, as I have said. BG3 is a gay dating simulator that pretends to be an RPG.
Act one was in early access and is the most fleshed out, but nevertheless you're going to be hit with every male character trying to get you for gay sex.
In act 2 this problem intensifies and you will notice the dramatic drop in quality of everything other than gay romance, especially writing. Act2 itself is centered around a lore-breaking lesbian couple.
Act3 is when they stop pretending to care about story and writing and make it into a gay dating sim sandbox.
Troughout the game exactly 50% of characters of any fantasy race are niggers, and you will be occasionally reminded gay people exist in casual conversation dialogue between npcs.

>>718177306
i thought he wanted to teach me a cantrip

>>718177509
Ban-evading schizo hours.

>>718177527
>"The only way I can teach you this cantrip is by cumming in your ass"
>"Well...he IS the authority on magic here..."

>>718177314
I geniuinely dont get how people accidentally get prompted for gay relationships.

my first run I failed to romance anyone (maybe I made some wrong choices or didnt use shadowheart enough in my party)

>>718177440
He won't because he's being disingenuous. It's like with Halsin, that fag will always try to fuck you even if you never flirt with him

>>718177509
>Act2 itself is centered around a lore-breaking lesbian couple
My paladin rightously slaughtered them the moment the lesbian thing was announced. At least the game lets you do that unlike some others with "essential" NPC's

>>718172915 (OP)
Pure, replayable kino.

>>718172915 (OP)
>>718173002
As far as I know, you can't remove the gay romance options, best you can do is just try not to get too friendly, which sucks, because similarly to what >>718176914 said, it triggers despite you not doing anything seductive or indicative that you want romance with that person.
>talk to wizard guy, hear him out
>act sympathetic towards him
>try to be a more or less decent person
>*wizard guy approval up*
>one night at camp
>wizard guy, outta nowhere, invites me to look at his magical underwear in his tent when I next talk to him
>same wizard guy that says he was in a hetero relationship with a certain deity
>lose interest in the game

What they should do to avoid this is to put the romance behind a dialogue trigger, with a big 'ol warning saying something like 'STARTS ROMANCE'

Other than that, the gameplay itself is good, but the characters kinda suck.

>>718177440
Gales romance flag didn't turn off in the game at release no matter what.
I reloaded the game after the infamous "let me teach you some magic" scene and still had to reject the motherfucker every chapter. At that point it felt like he was trying to gaslight me into buttsex

>>718177306
You're lying out your ass, this is what the first Gale romance dialogue looks like.
You're given several options to bail out at any time and none of them are offensive.

>>718177697
Other anons point this out, and anyone who played the game should know this too: being a slightly decent person to most of the companions improves their approval rating with you which feeds into their likelihood for romance.
That, in conjunction with doing their quests, can usually lock tight their approval. In my first playthrough, I basically took up any good aligned quest I could. Despite all its mid tier writing, the core gameplay is pretty fun, so I wanted to see as much of it as possible.
The fact that Halsin will visit you at night to proposition you just because you did a heroic thing that happened to align with his interests is just bad writing. It's clear that they wanted to put this stuff in but didn't have enough content to stretch out the relationship building so they just put the capstone on super early.

>>718178189
gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

>>718178265
How is that gay when the player character is female?

>>718178189
>posting the patched version

>>718178189
>hey Tav
>Gale here
>Look, I am conjuring a face of Mystra using magic! It's funny because Mystra *is* the magic itself, so I'm literally making Mystra using Mystra...
>Anyway, I fucked her raw.
>And you can fuck her too, if you learn magic you know!
>I can teach you if you want
>just repeat those gestures...
>You're doing it, Tav! You're channeling the weave!
>*suddenly a female motion capture actor takes hold of your male character, which you yourself associate with and self-insert into*
>*you look at Gale longingly, and he looks at you the same way*
>*narrator speaks about intimate atmosphere and anticipation of a kiss...*
>*you get uncomfortably close to Gale while your character looks like he's about to go for a kiss, and you have 5 different flavours of how to initiate sex and only one option to stop it*
>*you choose to stop it*
>*weave dissapears. Both Gale AND you look extremely sad and dissapointed you didn't get some gay sex*
>Well, it was good while it lasted, Tav... *Gale goes away sobbing, while your character looks guilty*
>*if you try to kill Gale after that you have to resurrect him and have him in your party or it's a game over because he has a magic bomb that will destroy everything if he's dead*

>>718178354
This is the release version taken from the video uploaded on august 4 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp9i34ESmCM. You didn't even play the game, all your knowledge of it comes from 4chan shitposts.

>>718172915 (OP)
Another thing: don't underestimate the power of Speak with Animals (certain classes can learn it, otherwise rely on potions), Speak with Dead (the game's first dungeon will solve this for good) and the value of vertical dimension.

Now you don't have to play a high STR char just because of this, but I ended up doing it and the amount of places I was able to Jump surprised me a great deal. Some of them have ladders, making it accessible for everybody; plus you'll find magical gears and can craft potions that helps with this so it's not a high STR or bust situation. It just felt good knowing that if a platform was designed to be accessible I'll able to get there own my own. Throwing was another big surprise with that char: I could just grab and toss small races into chasms on a whim. No loot but the combat ended before it began.

>>718178189
Being a Fighter that doesn't care about magic except for its use in a battle is a complete win once again

>>718178469
lol
The devs literally patched it to make it "less ambiguous"
What's with the historical revisionism anon?

>>718178601
The game came out august 3rd 2023, that video was uploaded august 4th 2023, the patch you're referring to came out weeks later. You're a nogames shitposter addicted to outrage.

>>718178716
>>718177115
I don't get it anon. Are you saying there was never an issue with Gale at all? Why would they change it then?

>>718178189
Later in the game Gale would act like you were already in a relationship even if you rejected him. Dude was delusional until they fixed him

>>718178876
What else about gay sex in video games do you know about sir?

>>718178797
I don't think there was, all of these dialogue options are pretty self-explanatory and clearly tell you where the conversation leads.
>Why would they change it then?
Because socially inept retards kept accidentally romancing him, I guess.
There also apparently was a bug where even if you rejected him in that scene, the game still considered you in a relationship.

>>718178797
This is just getting sad.

>>718179056
Do you have any more reaction images troon?

>anti BG3 sissies exposed themselves as having never even played the game, again
When will they learn?

>>718172915 (OP)
An actually pretty good engine.
Good gameplay.
Meh characters (especially outside of Gale/Sharty/Vampire).
Absolutely awful story if you expect some actual low level DnD.

>>718178601
retard

>>718179198
>t. bear fucker

>>718179558
Problem?

>>718173048
not even the best in the series

>>718179392
Last one was why I dropped it early on. I play RPGs for story, and while the combat was solid I could not get over the story being bad.

>>718179724
It is the worst in the series (if you only consider BG1 - 3 + expansions; it is better than the side games).

Gameplay wise, it is great if you like turn-based RPGs, but other than that it is an inconsistent mess with annoying characters and visuals, plus the awful treatment they gave to the old lore and characters.

>>718179056
>>718178965
Bro you consistently get proven wrong by the other anon and yet you pretend you're in the right. It's kind of funny how you defend release-Gale by imitating him with all the gaslighting

>>718178239
Definitely bad writing. There aren't ANY options to "deepen your friendship" without getting sexually involved with your companions. Pretty much every RPG prior to this that had companion quests had romance, yes, but they also had you doing side quests for them because you care about your homies. I genuinely thought gale was an interesting character (at first) and I just wanted to bro it up with him. But female and homosexual writers have no concept of fraternity, thus it does not exist in game.

>>718181396
It's really easy to solve this issue. When one of your companions starts hitting on you, tell him you're not a gay and you think he's ugly to get him to stop. He'll stop flirting with you if you tell him you're not interested.

>>718182767
Yeah but I don't want to play an RPG where I can just refuse gay sex. I want an RPG with well written characters and friendships.

>>718173002
Just never talk to Gale or Wyll. Astarion is the least gay somehow

>>718172915 (OP)
A good long game which is a very complete but ultimately forgettable CRPG experience.