Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Desiderius]

Every class has at least one archetype that benefits from single-classing.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Jaheira's sex scene is more about shaking the dust out of her ancient granny cooter.

Khalid would you mind staying dead? Thanks.

 

[Ryzer]

Viconia received a way worse treatment than Jaheira, she was defiled.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

All of the characters brought back from prior games were badly done fan service.

 

[Litmanen]

I think they were brought in this game just to fish old fans. But then they were put in a corner because the franchise needed new characters who could be "ready" for the market and bring the series on towards maybe a fourth game or a TV show.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I think they were brought in this game just to fish old fans. But then they were put in a corner because the franchise needed new characters who could be "ready" for the market and bring the series on towards maybe a fourth game or a TV show.

Sure, but even with smaller roles or just cameos, they could've still done a better portrayal more consistent with their portrayals in prior games (and ideally not retconning their prior character arc, like with Sarevok).

 

[Litmanen]

I think they were brought in this game just to fish old fans. But then they were put in a corner because the franchise needed new characters who could be "ready" for the market and bring the series on towards maybe a fourth game or a TV show.

Sure, but even with smaller roles or just cameos, they could've still done a better portrayal more consistent with their portrayals in prior games (and ideally not retconning their prior character arc, like with Sarevok).

Ah, I completely agree. But the idea, I think, was to make them "forgettable".

 

[Melcar]

I think the problem is that they went with the "canon" character stories. ToB and whatever Gaider did with Ascencion is non-canon I believe.

 

[Rieser]

Nothing wrong with multi-classing, but with Pathfinder or Pillows, you're multclassing to find cool and unusal builds. Here you're multclassing because frontloading makes it kinda FOMO to stay single class . I just hit 6 (Nere fight, cool boss) and Wizard and Bard are fine, but seeing what Astarion and Karlach get was very limpdick moment lol.

Eh, actually a Barb is not terrible. But a lot depends on archetype (Wildheart Tiger who attacks 3 enemies with each strike and has huge jump distance rocks, Berserkers make very strong throw barbs) and of course, the multiclassing alternative is still stronger.

Throwing in particular is so strong (with tavern brawler, obviously) that you can dominate whichever subclass you pick. But yes, berserker is the obvious one for min-maxing (though if you wanna min-max you'll still multiclass and pick up thief).

 

[Ryzer]

ToB and whatever Gaider did with Ascencion is non-cannon I believe.

Not really a bad thing, ToB was shit.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I think they were brought in this game just to fish old fans. But then they were put in a corner because the franchise needed new characters who could be "ready" for the market and bring the series on towards maybe a fourth game or a TV show.

Sure, but even with smaller roles or just cameos, they could've still done a better portrayal more consistent with their portrayals in prior games (and ideally not retconning their prior character arc, like with Sarevok).

Ah, I completely agree. But the idea, I think, was to make them "forgettable".

Jaheira gets a quite an introduction with tons of fanfare, just ends up being useless. It's a really weird approach for sure, I don't know what they were trying to accomplish.

Aside from that Act 2 is a blast so far, really cool locations and quests.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Viconia received a way worse treatment than Jaheira, she was defiled.

Viconia died in her romanced ending though, if people had played the games they'd know that.

 

[GloomFrost]

Viconia received a way worse treatment than Jaheira, she was defiled.

Viconia died in her romanced ending though, if people had played the games they'd know that.

To be fair you could kill practically every single NPC in BG1 and some of them would still appear in BG2.

 

[Hydro]

All of the characters brought back from prior games were badly done fan service.

Poor lad Sarevok. Ending up like that in the hands of soy sipping Larian cucktard writers.

 

[Haplo]

Viconia received a way worse treatment than Jaheira, she was defiled.

Defiled is a rather strong word. But yes, she became quite the one-dimensional villain. Sad to be sure.

All of the characters brought back from prior games were badly done fan service.

I actually like Jaheira a lot here. Better then in BG2.

Minsc is a real nutcase... but perhaps that's kind of fitting for him.

 

[Haplo]

Meet Jaheira.
Get excited as fuck.
Dialogue hypes her up as a legendary aventurer.
Suddenly some niggas attack and turns out she's so useless in a fight I have to keep healing her.

GG Swen way to ruin nostalgia moment.

For what's its worth, you can eventually build her how you wish and have her contribute.

Although druids are kinda weird.
On one hand, they can meaningfully contribute to martial combat, particularly as Moon Druids with Earth Myrmidon shape and 3 attax per round that have great accuracy with Tavern Brawler and can knock enemies Prone. Or spray everyone Wet as a Water Myrmidon.
But then again, they cannot cast when shifted, which kinda sucks, as they get some neat spells. Not quite the nuking potential of other classes, though.

Spore druids start as neat martial/caster hybrids, but fall off due to lack of Extra Attack.

Though some extra Necrotic damage is always handy on a x-bow thief / bard. Breaking various pots and water bottles on the ground with a Spore Reaction (and possibly applying buffs-on-heal without even using a Bonus Action) is neat too. And in Act 3, there's that great Sporekeeper Armor... kinda worth having a Spore multiclass just for those non-Concentration Haste Spore zones.

 

[Inec0rn]

I honestly fucking hate fan service memberberry content, create your own story and characters and stop raping other peoples idea's. Skipped minsc, thought serevok was the worst part of the game (well no there is much worse). I always dismissed Jahiera in the old games as well so meh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

The game would have had better pacing without that tacked in slop, and the three antagonists they came up with could have been better fleshed out, Orin The Red was one of the better new antagonists but they fucking wrecked it with lore breaking Sarevok nonsense.

 

[Yosharian]

> Although druids are kinda weird.
On one hand, they can meaningfully contribute to martial combat, particularly as Moon Druids with Earth Myrmidon shape and 3 attax per round that have great accuracy with Tavern Brawler and can knock enemies Prone. But then again, they cannot cast when shifted, which kinda sucks, as they get some neat spells. Not quite the nuking potential of other classes, though

There's also the small matter of their Wild Shape creating a huge bunch of HP out of nowhere

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Figured I'd try the romances.

Lae'zel is like, come on take me you brute, your raw strength drives me crazy.

Meanwhile I'm a tiny ass gnome half her size.

Who writes this shit.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Figured I'd try the romances.

Lae'zel is like, come on take me you brute, your raw strength drives me crazy.

Meanwhile I'm a tiny ass gnome half her size.

Who writes this shit.

A tiny ass gnome called, "Rape Machine". They should've had mandatory lines like, "I may be short, but I'm big where it counts!" etc.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Although druids are kinda weird.
On one hand, they can meaningfully contribute to martial combat, particularly as Moon Druids with Earth Myrmidon shape and 3 attax per round that have great accuracy with Tavern Brawler and can knock enemies Prone. Or spray everyone Wet as a Water Myrmidon.
But then again, they cannot cast when shifted, which kinda sucks, as they get some neat spells. Not quite the nuking potential of other classes, though.

Jaheira can self-haste, then transform into an owlbear.

 

[Fedora Master]

Meanwhile I'm a tiny ass gnome half her size.

Short Kings, apparently

 

[Late Bloomer]

Surprised people are still talking about this game here. I figured most of you would be playing Dragon Age Troonsguard. They both serve the same audience. Or did you people need to pay for your transition out of pocket instead of tax payer funded and cant afford the new trannie game?

 

[jackofshadows]

Surprised people are still talking about this game here. I figured most of you would be playing Dragon Age Troonsguard. They both serve the same audience. Or did you people need to pay for your transition out of pocket instead of tax payer funded and cant afford the new trannie game?

That's not true. I imagine it's hard for F4 fan to appreciate that but there's actual RPG in BG3 there under all the woke bullshit. DAV on the other hand apparently has nothing to offer at all in comparison.

 

[Fedora Master]

Surprised people are still talking about this game here. I figured most of you would be playing Dragon Age Troonsguard. They both serve the same audience. Or did you people need to pay for your transition out of pocket instead of tax payer funded and cant afford the new trannie game?

"""People""" are still sperging about Owlscat autism simulators here, what do you expect.

Plus there's always those """special individuals""" that come into a thread years after the fact and go "Guys this game is woke????? Nobody told me it was woke?!?"