Thread 725623134

Why was the story so forgettable?

Because they stopped focusing on it halfway through act2 (the moment you learn you have special snowflake tadpoles and you will be fine no matter what you do) and focused on gay and fujo romances instead.

They had the entire premise of the story scrapped - your tadpole seducing you with powers and corrupting you - because casuals were scared of resting in camps and wasting time and complained.

>>725623134 (OP)
Feels like they ran out of plot at the end of act 2 and just copied the plot from BG1 for the last act

>>725623553
Act1* I mean.
Act2 is them jumping the shark a long time ago.

>>725623134 (OP)
For some odd reason they had all of act 1 fully finished when the EA released, then just didn't change so that it fits in with he story they actually wrote in act 2 or to take into account the changes they made from the EA such as changing the dream visitor.

>>725623553
>the retard ate the tadpoles

>>725623706
They were recieving feedback trough the entire act one, and it's the only actual finished act.
The rest of the acts feel like the beginning of EA in quality, including the FPS drops and scuffed animations.

>>725623134 (OP)
>>725623553
>>725623576
hasbro made them do extensive rewrites so bg3 would match the chris pine film and the new edition that all came out the same year in terms of tone and they wanted that tone to be the gay
>muh critical role and similar gay theater kid's game
Act 1 is fun because it's a mystery box and because the map is full of thing to find that npcs mention randomly
>Alfira tells you about the gnolls
>rugen and the goblins point you to wakeens rest
>ect
by act 2 they were already fucked by the tonal changes so act 2 makes no sense and then it just gets worse with the act 3 rewrites

>>725623706
hasbro made them do a bunch of rewrites and then release the game a month before they were originally supposed to to beat slopfield to market because hasbro thought todd's slop was going to outsell them

>best girl shart . No explanation needed
>second best girl lizzele her arc is really good and its nice to her and durge bond violence
>worst girl kalrach shes aight but annoying af and we she lights that cigar at the end fucking fross probly smells like sulfur all the time and now she has ashy breath . Laugh is annoying to.

>>725623134 (OP)
Because any actual effort was spent on act 1 alone and then abandoned to inflate the game's length after.

>>725623134 (OP)
Because it was only concerned about being pozzed gay porn

>>725624193
All ugly and gross

The main story is just a delivery vehicle for the companions' stories.

>theres three females you can romance
>/v/ focuses on the gay ones .
Its no their fualt you fucked the druid you closet fags

I thought it was good.

>>725624552
Faggot

>>725624595
>Gay options thrown at you every 10 minutes of gameplay
>Gay characters just casually existing like it's normal and it's constantly showcased on a pedestal to tell you it's normal
>Half of all characters, no matter their actual race, are niggers
Try again gaslighting faggot.

>>725624668
Said the one "playing" Balding Gay 3

>>725623810
Exactly. Everyone is blaming larian when some unknown part of working with Hasbro was SO BAD that they won’t do DLCs or a sequel for the best selling CRPG of all time.
Hasbro deeply meddled with and fucked up the story, not early access feedback. The divinity games had early access and didn’t get massive bad plot changes between then and release, or any kind of toning down or lightening of the mood.
IT’S THE MEGACORP, STUPID.

>>725624698
>he interacts with the males .
Why are you gay?

Bae'zel is the only reason I pushed through the first few hours because I hate crpg combat with a passion. Later the combat clicked and became better when fighters got their second attack.

I never understood all the praise the story and characters get. Do gamers just never read a book or what. Not a single npc or character has any charisma and it barely has a plot

>>725623553
You gotta be the most annoying faggot on /v/ nowadays.

HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!

>Thread is about story
>/v/ focuses on the optional gay but secks.
Once again /v/ youre projecting

>>725624843
Astroturfing
Woke media praising woke media.
Lgbtards loudly protecting their fapping material.

that's all

>>725624878
How do I fare against the [news] faggot?

>>725624912
Next time cater to normal people, faggot

>>725623134 (OP)
I have no proof of this but my schizo theory is that this was originally going to be a standalone game about mind flayers but Hasbro forced Larian to make it a BG3, so they forced in a bunch of references that ended up being purely detrimental.
Act 3 in particular is literally just BG1 again.
Gortash using a godlike netherese artifact to bind an elder brain to his will in order to became a grand duke of Baldur's Gate is like using a nuke to rob a liquor store. Durge is a bhaalspawn for no reason and everything related to Emperor is just pants on head retarded, there was literally no reason to have him be Balduran, it adds absolutely nothing to the story.

>>725624698
>Gay options thrown at you every 10 minutes of gameplay
Romance is less than 2% of the entire game.
>Gay characters just casually existing like it's normal
It is normal, yes.
>it's constantly showcased on a pedestal
It's not, you're just a reactionary /pol/tard constantly on the lookout for things to get offended by.
>Half of all characters, no matter their actual race, are niggers
What do you hope to achieve by lying like that?

>>725624983
You're the furthest thing from normal . Youre a fucking wierdo .

>>725624963
[news] is a forced meme, but at least it's been picked up by several people.
On the other hand, you are the only faggot on here constantly posting that shit (because they are screenshots of your own steam posts and you're a validation-seeking insecure bitch).

>>725625003
>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*

>>725625175
I have seen those already posted when I arrive to your shill threads though

>>725625003
>It is normal, yes.
No, it is not, and you failed to force it.

I enjoyed BG3, but it felt like a kids cartoon (albeit with tits and fucking) in tone and presentation.

I think it's something to do with the level of fidelity that graphics have got to, it sort of lends itself to light quirkyness because it's hard to convey any weight when everyone looks like a CG doll.

Old isometric games never had this issue. They were like a zoomed out tapestry, with your imagination doing the rest. Genuinely think that a voice acted bitmap portrait is somehow more convincing than a 3d model in a modern engine.

>>725623134 (OP)
Its pretty good up until and including Act 2 and then it just completely shits the bed after you get to Aylin, the game would've been certified kino if they had just set it in the south again and had you explore in and around Beregost or released an expansion set in Amn

>>725625227
As I said, you're a reactionary /pol/tard constantly on the lookout for things to get offended by. This exaggerated fanfiction proves me right.

>>725625317
Failed what? Same-sex couples are normal and can get legally married in 1st world countries (and china).

>>725625657
I don't mind same sex couples in games, it's okay in games set in the modern world or in sci-fi settings like Mass Effect. But I do find it weird when it's such a nonchalant overrepresentation in settings that are medieval fantasy. It makes the setting feel sanitized and childish.

>>725624993
A symbol of Bhaal could be seen in the teaser. So Bhaal (and therefor the dead three) was always going to be the secret villain

>>725626007
You sound like a tranny

>>725625003
>Romance is less than 2% of the entire game.
it's gay porn marketed as gay porn and praised as gay porn
>It is normal, yes.
no it isn't
>It's not, you're just a reactionary /pol/tard constantly on the lookout for things to get offended by.
No, you invaded our industry, made by us for us, and made it all about the 0,01% of gross schizotards for your crass politics
>What do you hope to achieve by lying like that?
Settings must make sense. Fantasy is homgenuous. Ethnic salads don't fit and only exist for political reasons.

Deal with it while your fad withers and dies like any other shit fads, like fascism and nazism

>>725625657
>You're a poltard if you point my shit out!!!
Lol. Lmao. Go back to resetera faggot.

>But they can get married!
And nobody actually accepts that as valid. It's the reason why you keep pushing the normalisation. And you keep failing. I would not be surprised of the pendulum swings so far the marriage will be secured as "alliance between biologoc male and female approved by government and society" constitutionally.

If you play as a woman then nobody is gay. The women are all lesbians (not true gays) and all the men hitting on you become heterosexual guys (win-win).

>>725623553
>File deleted
Lmao someone's seething

>>725626597
>the men hitting on you become heterosexual
Gale fucked a literal goddess and he still looks, talks and acts like insufferable faggot

>>725623134 (OP)
Larian uses the "iterative method" for developing their games. Means they constantly go through revisions and harms the overall story of the game. The moment to moment is great, but you don't get some deep thematic story out of that kind of development.

>>725626903
Gale is pretty normal. It's Astarion who acts like a fag, but you can chalk those mannerisms up to his vampirism.

>>725627132
They all look and move like subnormal faggots

>>725623134 (OP)
It’s pretty obvious the game had some major rewrites midway through the game.
There’s plenty to point towards, but the most obvious indicators are the songs. They were supposed to represent the central themes of survival, struggle, losing your sense of self and corruption, but in the released version these themes are barely represented outside of Durge and Shadowheart, coincidentally the two which early access leaks indicate changed the least, with Durge being the initial concept for the blank slate turned up to 11.
It’s flagrantly obvious that the parasite was supposed to have a similar role to Xana from Dark Messiah, ultimately either becoming a separate entity that wants to live, or wanting you to surrender yourself, but both wanting you to embrace the power

>>725627132
Being used as a honeypot for both men and women for 2 centuries will do that to a man.

>>725627132
Astarion is a homophobic caricature

>>725627031
Scrum not even once

>open thread
>Anon is still seething about Baldur's gate 3
>Check date
>It's been 5 years
Guffaw

>>725626007
>But I do find it weird when it's such a nonchalant overrepresentation in settings that are medieval fantasy
Don't know too much about the setting do you? If anything the game is toned down compared to the original creators ideas which involved stuff like orgies being done for most holidays and incest being considered a fun bit of family bonding. And that was in the 80s.

>>725627952
Really sad we didn't get the original player character idea, seems like the story would have been overall better than durge or tav since it wasn't 100% in either direction and allowed for more nuance, especially with the dream companion.