Baldur's Gate III Announced - ...and it's coming to Google Stadia and PC

[draggs]

I gave up on playing

There's something about the way Larian handles controlling your party members' movement and actions outside of combat that I have always disliked in DOS, DOS2, and now this. It feels clunky to me. Compared to, say, Wasteland 2. It was too much aggravation to keep going

 

[Cheeseknife]

I gave up on playing

There's something about the way Larian handles controlling your party members' movement and actions outside of combat that I have always disliked in DOS, DOS2, and now this. It feels clunky to me. Compared to, say, Wasteland 2. It was too much aggravation to keep going

Try going solo under Story Mode for a bit. If that's too easy pump up the difficulty. I just recommend it because Act I can get pretty difficult at times if you have no companions to rely on.

Thief Rogue is particularly adept at solo play.

Make Lae'zel jump off into Avernus and don't resurrect her. This is necessary because she is the only companion who joins you without permission. Refuse to talk to any other companions and proceed as per normal.

Honestly solo playthrough is fun for the exact reason you've said, companion control during exploration can get tedious.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Okay, any recommendations for companions to bring with me before I jump down into the Hollow Tower at Moonrise? And I don’t mean in terms of strengths, in terms of story and plot stuff. I know whoever I have to rescue to break Wyll’s contract is down there, but is there any other interesting character moments to be had?

 

[Cheeseknife]

Okay, any recommendations for companions to bring with me before I jump down into the Hollow Tower at Moonrise? And I don’t mean in terms of strengths, in terms of story and plot stuff. I know whoever I have to rescue to break Wyll’s contract is down there, but is there any other interesting character moments to be had?

Bring Gale. You get a very interesting option at a particular door. Save your game beforehand, though.

I can't recall for sure, but if you saved Nightsong, there might be some unique Shadowheart comments when you've finished Moonrise Towers.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Okay, any recommendations for companions to bring with me before I jump down into the Hollow Tower at Moonrise? And I don’t mean in terms of strengths, in terms of story and plot stuff. I know whoever I have to rescue to break Wyll’s contract is down there, but is there any other interesting character moments to be had?

Spoiler

You'll find Us the brain thing from the beginning of the game if he survived the fight at in the Nautiloid down in that hole and get him as a minion.

 

[ZMOT]

Did you spend your whole playthrough counting every fag? Sounds exhausting.

it's a variant of nigger fatigue. having 65% of anyone you meet be some form of LGBTBBQ does gets exhausting at some point, even more so if it's clearly inserted for brownie points and pandering.

 

[Cheeseknife]

it's a variant of nigger fatigue. having 65% of anyone you meet be some form of LGBTBBQ does gets exhausting at some point, even more so if it's clearly inserted for brownie points and pandering.

Plus I was responding to the guy who suggested you could just avoid it all by not entering particular conversation and whatnot. What I was saying is that, let's say you tried to avoid every and any conversation path with niggers. It doesn't matter.

Example I gave was, you're minding your own business, walking around looting bodies at the Grymforge after you've killed the dwarves. Even if you haven't talked with the gnomes you've freed, you can hear one of the males continually chattering away in the background saying, "I care about you, you're my husband!" to another one of the males you just freed.

They might as well have had them yell, "We're gay!! Listen to us talk about how gay we are! Listen!!"

Second example I remember is two Tieflings at LLI. Dialogue between them is almost identical to the example above; you saved one from Moonrise and when she's back, her entire conversation is basically, "I'm gay for you!" to Alfira.

Again, all background chatter and clearly pandering, like you've mentioned.

 

[X Prime]

Usually the goalposts on that get moved to "you don't want any LGBT representation at all."

To which I say: "Yes. The ideal amount of LGBT in any video game, after all mandatory villain-side deaths, is 0%."

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

…ow the edge…

Working my way through the Mind Flayer Colony in Act 2, and if BG3 had any overarching narrative, it’s definitely “don’t make deals with crappy weirdos you don’t personally know. And even if you know them, just don’t make suspicious deals”.

 

[Cheeseknife]

Usually the goalposts on that get moved to "you don't want any LGBT representation at all."

To which I say: "Yes. The ideal amount of LGBT in any video game, after all mandatory villain-side deaths, is 0%."

Correct. These people need to stop being catered and panderes to and should be ridiculed.

I mentioned this earlier in this thread, but I still believe that years from now, if people are still playing this game, Larian and WotC will eventually patch out thus shit once it loses it political moorings.

 

[ye's Official KF Burner]

They sneak stuff in too. Like you save the gnomes and you hear one male tell another male, "Of course I was worried about you, I'm your husband!"

Well, shit...time to reload a save.

A Tiefling named Lakrissa gets flirty with you. You think to yourself, she's kinda cute...

Cut to Act 2 and, after you save her, she gets really chatty with Alfira. Like, really chatty. Then, it dawns on you...she's gay too?!

Well, fuck.

The gnome who threatened to blow herself up? Gay. The gnome you save from the windmill? Gay.

Larian seems fixated with gay gnomes.

I only mention these particular ones because, even if you choose never to speak with some of these people, you can still hear them chattering about their faggotry in the background.

Best medicine for all the pozzed nonsense is to play as the Urge. Your endgame is to become the Absolute.

I don't remember where it was but there's a gender special (I think in the Baldur's Gate Gazette building, one of the Fist guards) that looks outwardly male with a beard but has a female voice.

 

[Cheeseknife]

I don't remember where it was but there's a gender special (I think in the Baldur's Gate Gazette building, one of the Fist guards) that looks outwardly male with a beard but has a female voice.

They have a man in drag at the circus too, in Act III. He's the one who tasks you with finding Dribbles the Clown.

One of the more egregious examples, though, is an NPC called "Nocturne" at the Shar temple below Baldur's Gate.

If you feed Shadowheart the Noblestalk mushroom from the Underdark, she regains a very specific memory of a purple-haired Tiefling boy who was friendly to her. Note she specifically says "boy."

Coincidentally, when you get to
Act III, you discover Nocturne is the only NPC at the Shar temple that won't join the attack on your party when Viconia orders it.

When you talk with Nocturne you'll quickly see that he is a "she." Even if you had no idea about feeding Shadowheart the Noblestalk, it's pretty clear there's something...off about Nocturne. Your brain initially assumes this is a female...except his voice even has that same throat-squeezed quality to it that you hear from a lot of male-to-female transitioner.

Without relying on any modern terminology, Nocturne still says enough to lead you to conclude he transitioned and changed his name. Moreover he tells you that Shadowheart inspired this change.

Of all Shadowheart's lost memories, this one was specifically brought back for the sole purpose of letting you know, there's a tranny in the cloister at the Temple of Shar who used to be her friend.

 

[ye's Official KF Burner]

They have a man in drag at the circus too, in Act III. He's the one who tasks you with finding Dribbles the Clown.

Tbf making a gendertard a necromancer is hilarious to me considering they butcher themselves for fun.

 

[Cheeseknife]

Unintentionally funny part of my Evil Wyll Origin playthrough: I tried reading every plate surrounding the Druid Sanctum and Wyll subsequently failed every single History and Religion check.

Incidentally, I rolled a Critical 20 for punching Zevlor in the face...

 

[The Fair Lady]

Just got another bug during the Self-Same Trial, my character randomly became encumbered. Fixed it by taking an item out after the fight but it was still really weird since I was nowhere near my limit.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Just got another bug during the Self-Same Trial, my character randomly became encumbered. Fixed it by taking an item out after the fight but it was still really weird since I was nowhere near my limit.

Did you attack yourself or another character’s copy?

 

[DavidS877]

Just got another bug during the Self-Same Trial, my character randomly became encumbered. Fixed it by taking an item out after the fight but it was still really weird since I was nowhere near my limit.

There's a curse in that fight if you attack any clone but the same character. This might have been it. Although I don't remember if that was one of the side effects.

 

[The Fair Lady]

Did you attack yourself or another character’s copy?

There's a curse in that fight if you attack any clone but the same character. This might have been it. Although I don't remember if that was one of the side effects.

I was just attacking any of them, so I guess that would explain it. Whoops.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

There's a curse in that fight if you attack any clone but the same character. This might have been it. Although I don't remember if that was one of the side effects.

I was just attacking any of them, so I guess that would explain it. Whoops.

I unironically only found out it was a thing after the fight, but had decided to fight original vs clone in the first place, so it never affected me lol.

 

[Cheeseknife]

The Self-Same trial always bugged out on me. The clone of my Dark Urge character looked like the default model from character creation and was named "Civilian" for whatever reason.