I never cared about race until relatively recently. At this point, absolutely fuck diversity.
"A single Black character..." that's one too many. Larian is a Belgian studio, a still majority white country.
If the capital-B "Blacks" want representation...Africa can make some vidya games.
Not everything has to cater to everyone. And, I know I've mentioned this before, but I hate the double standard. Whites aren't a protected class anywhere, even in countries where they're the extreme minority. No one ever clamors for "diversity" in favor of whites. It's always an attack against us.
In [Current Year] we should expect and demand better representation in our media.
Why? Why, you pathetic bundle of neuroses?
That's one of the big frustrating parts. All these fucks suffer from Main Character Syndrome in a big way. They have no grasp on reality. They're narcissistic cultists, and I'm tired of their nonsense.
Retardera gets worse every time I look. Imagine being so miserable that you have to shame everyone else into letting you drag them into your pit of despair. If they didn't require you to dox yourself to make an account I'd start a thread about Cuckold Simulator and watch the fireworks. You know that these sorry fucks inspired the protagonist of that game.
Just to be clear, this game offers an "other" gender option, will feature swappable genitalia (not in early access), allows you to pick any voice with any gender, beards on females, allows you to select basically any skin color for any race regardless if it fits within DnD/FR racial features.
Many of the women are not anywhere near the same level of attractiveness as some of the male characters seem to be. These people really live in some alternate reality that I just can't comprehend.
Just another reminder that no amount of appeasement is ever enough for these faggots.
In early access it simply uses the Mars/Venus symbols to choose your body type, and there is another setting within the character creation for identity. If I remember correctly, the earliest early access builds did not have the identity shit and it was simply tied to the Mars/Venus icons for male and female.
I believe in the full release what they are doing is that "body type" and gender are separate altogether. You select a body type (these are icons from what Larian showed but not Mars/Venus), depending on race there are 2 or 4 options (normal male/female, buff male/female). "Gender identity" and "genitalia type" are distinct settings within character creation.
The "gender identity" setting in both early access and release candidate builds Larian showcased use male, female, and "non-binary/other".
I believe in the full release what they are doing is that "body type" and gender are separate altogether. You select a body type (these are icons from what Larian showed but not Mars/Venus),
I thought I'd seen somewhere it was full of pozzed red flags? It's not? Or is this a case of nothing is ever good enough?
If it's not I wonder if I should check it out. Probably just check out the first 2 that I've never played instead. It's been a long time since I felt a current year game was an improvement on old games.
That's something you could play as a Greek/VIking mythology sort of story moment, if you weren't busy winking at the camera to prove you're not taking it seriously.
Whatever the third game's quality ends up being, the first two games are well worth it. And honestly, the third is Baldur's Gate in name only. The series has always been the story of the Bhaalspawn, and that was definitively concluded with the Throne of Bhaal expansion. Baldur's Gate 3 is just taking the name for brand recognition, is about a whole other story and hero entirely, and plays more like Divinity: Original Sin with a D&D skin.
They should have called it Baldur's Gate: <title>, like they did with Dark Alliance. That would have at least been acceptable.
Unless you can literally import a BG2 character this game has nothing to do with BG1-2. There's a canon Bhaalspawn protag with a canon ending that literally any FR game can reference. He also happens to die 100 years later, i.e. when this game is set, in Baldur's Gate, in a fight with the other only living Bhaalspawn (the one that teleports randomly, I don't remember his name), which causes Bhaal to finally resurrect. I'll be absolutely shocked if their "tie-in" that makes it "worth" being called BG3 isn't that event, which isn't even a tie-in at all.
I just want to point out that the whole Abdel/died-in-Baldur's-Gate thing is not really canon to the games.
Yeah I guess you could say it represents one permutation of the Bhaalspawn protagonist, but that canon FR protag is clearly designed to be minimally important to the FR setting and take a path that almost no actual player of the games would take.
Most people would assume the mantel of god-hood in their playthrough of ToB; or if they didn't, be so fantastically powerful that no upstart would ever, ever present a challenge to them personally. Good luck killing me asshole, I'm behind Timestop and 20 layers of contingency.
It's a classical "we wrote a cool story involving the most powerful stuff in the setting... then ret-conned it all into being a perfect loop that ends up back at square 1" canon setting solution. If your canon story completely negates the whole point of the storyline in the first place (i.e Bhaal is back to what/who he was before the Time of Troubles) then you just retconned your whole story in effect.
Of course it's not canon to the games. It's just canon for the general setting, so other games can have an outcome of it. Pretty much every FR game or tabletop setting is minimally important. And even this minimally important protagonist has a Schrodinger's cat death. Did he die to the other Bhaalspawn, or did he die to an adventurer party after going ravager on everyone? It's all stupid either way.
But yeah, I agree. That's why I said unless you can import a character, BG3 has no connection to BG1-2, and why I predict that one of these events will be referenced in the game as some kind of "See? They're connected!!" moment, as if it's not some kind of cheap cop-out.
Anyway, Bhaal isn't completely back to how he was; he reclaimed his pantheon, but came back mortal. Maybe we'll kill him (again) in BG3, since there's currently no events after that. That would be the perfect terrible woke writer ending to the entire saga; everyone involved died and nothing mattered.
I thought so too, but I looked into it, and it may have been blown out of proportion. Then never specifically mentioned race, they said the aggregate of most popular character creation choices made the MC look like a "default vault dweller" or something. Still not the best look, but perhaps they were honestly disappointed more people weren't using the weirder options.
Still not a good look, especially considering "default vault dweller" was basically the foregone conclusion, but may not have been as woke as people (myself included) made it out to be at the time.
I simply don't know enough about the game in its current form to know how woke it is.
Larian are basically your average woke-adjacent normies. They want to conform to the progressive world view, but also aren't actual activists. They prefer "fun" and being non-political. But they will allow the infiltration of all the activist ideas, because they don't want to have uncomfortable discussions with the press/institutions and all their lackey followers.
It has always been about ticking boxes. It will always be about ticking boxes. No amount of aggressive smugness or university speak will change the fact that it's purely box ticking.
It's a trend with Larian. They used to be completely free of this nonsense. DOS1's genesis was, in Swen's own words, because he wanted to play a game with his girlfriend. Canonically that's what the MC in DOS1 was supposed to be: you and your girlfriend, or vice versa you and your boyfriend. The female character famously had high heels and bikini armor in some outfits, and they got lambasted for that and got rid of it in DOS2, which is also when they were pressured into hiring a lot of writing staff (it used to be just 1 guy), all of whom were either dangerhairs or former gaming journos (no really, look it up).
So yeah, it's a mixed bag. Larian does make pretty cool gameplay; when DOS1 came out being an unapologetic grognard turn-based game like that was still a pretty bold decision. If you like turnbased RPGs, it's hard to beat them in this regard. But... the creative side, the storytelling, is getting so absurdly woke it becomes a question of whether you can stomach it. I know it's at the point now where I am very much on the fence, despite being a fan of them since the early 2000s with the first Divdiv. I expect the writing/creative direction to only get worse in future titles.
I don't think that's possible. The press pressure helps, but the reason companies go this way is they hire people who genuinely ARE activists and think this way. These people push their ideas, and everyone around them doesn't want to be rude to them, so it just escalates from there. The call is always coming from inside the building to some extent. You have to really scourge these people out and make them unfeel unwelcome, or they take over. By the time it reaches the point that it is visible in character creation and "male/female" sliders being unacceptable, the fight is already over.
I don't know and frankly I don't give a shit about the reason.
I'm just telling you: that's my account in the picture and that post never happened.
And I don't even just mean I didn't post it (I didn't), I'm telling you I just checked if I was hacked or something and that post simply doesn't exist in my post history.
4chan. /v/. Like I said I dont agree with everything people on resetera say and we probably two have different beliefs and ideologies, but I should admit when Im wrong. Sorry for this I thought it was a shit take but I didnt know it was fake I just found it on 4chan /v/. I didnt meant to do this to you. Like I said, we probably have two different sets of beliefs but it doesnt excuse what I did. I look in the 4 chan archives and see where I found it. Im very sorry and I didnt mean to do what I did. I'll make a post telling everyone its fake.
I never cared about race until relatively recently. At this point, absolutely fuck diversity.
"A single Black character..." that's one too many. Larian is a Belgian studio, a still majority white country.
If the capital-B "Blacks" want representation...Africa can make some vidya games.
Not everything has to cater to everyone. And, I know I've mentioned this before, but I hate the double standard. Whites aren't a protected class anywhere, even in countries where they're the extreme minority. No one ever clamors for "diversity" in favor of whites. It's always an attack against us.
Why? Why, you pathetic bundle of neuroses?
That's one of the big frustrating parts. All these fucks suffer from Main Character Syndrome in a big way. They have no grasp on reality. They're narcissistic cultists, and I'm tired of their nonsense.
Even better, one of the actually interesting companions requires you to kill him for her to join.
The only black character I want to see in a Baldur's Gate game is Viconia.
Dunno about her but a much older Jaheira is supposed to be in the game. I plan on killing her.
Hell yes. Tsundere dark elf ftw
Retardera gets worse every time I look. Imagine being so miserable that you have to shame everyone else into letting you drag them into your pit of despair. If they didn't require you to dox yourself to make an account I'd start a thread about Cuckold Simulator and watch the fireworks. You know that these sorry fucks inspired the protagonist of that game.
Baldurs gate would’ve been raved over by the wokist 5 years ago for gay bear sex. This purity spiral is picking up pace.
Its amusing, because they are so focused on how its failing to be woke enough.
And literally everyone else I've seen has called it absurdly woke and is memeing on the gay beastiality scene.
It's like they DELIBERATELY decided to ape Black Mirror for that one.
No, not The National Anthem, Striking Vipers where the gay gamer dude is all excited because he "fucked a polar bear".
They do, and that's why the Sims 4 community has such a terrible degeneracy problem.
It's the standard bunch of fantasy races, wtf do they even want.
Not happy unless everyone is a gay black tranny mexican.
Oh myyyycarubma 'n shieeet, xir.
Just to be clear, this game offers an "other" gender option, will feature swappable genitalia (not in early access), allows you to pick any voice with any gender, beards on females, allows you to select basically any skin color for any race regardless if it fits within DnD/FR racial features.
Many of the women are not anywhere near the same level of attractiveness as some of the male characters seem to be. These people really live in some alternate reality that I just can't comprehend.
Just another reminder that no amount of appeasement is ever enough for these faggots.
Do they refer to the male and female gender options as "Type 1" and "Type 2"?
In early access it simply uses the Mars/Venus symbols to choose your body type, and there is another setting within the character creation for identity. If I remember correctly, the earliest early access builds did not have the identity shit and it was simply tied to the Mars/Venus icons for male and female.
I believe in the full release what they are doing is that "body type" and gender are separate altogether. You select a body type (these are icons from what Larian showed but not Mars/Venus), depending on race there are 2 or 4 options (normal male/female, buff male/female). "Gender identity" and "genitalia type" are distinct settings within character creation.
The "gender identity" setting in both early access and release candidate builds Larian showcased use male, female, and "non-binary/other".
So basically what Blizzard did with WoW? Eww.
I thought I'd seen somewhere it was full of pozzed red flags? It's not? Or is this a case of nothing is ever good enough?
If it's not I wonder if I should check it out. Probably just check out the first 2 that I've never played instead. It's been a long time since I felt a current year game was an improvement on old games.
That's something you could play as a Greek/VIking mythology sort of story moment, if you weren't busy winking at the camera to prove you're not taking it seriously.
Whatever the third game's quality ends up being, the first two games are well worth it. And honestly, the third is Baldur's Gate in name only. The series has always been the story of the Bhaalspawn, and that was definitively concluded with the Throne of Bhaal expansion. Baldur's Gate 3 is just taking the name for brand recognition, is about a whole other story and hero entirely, and plays more like Divinity: Original Sin with a D&D skin.
They should have called it Baldur's Gate: <title>, like they did with Dark Alliance. That would have at least been acceptable.
Unless you can literally import a BG2 character this game has nothing to do with BG1-2. There's a canon Bhaalspawn protag with a canon ending that literally any FR game can reference. He also happens to die 100 years later, i.e. when this game is set, in Baldur's Gate, in a fight with the other only living Bhaalspawn (the one that teleports randomly, I don't remember his name), which causes Bhaal to finally resurrect. I'll be absolutely shocked if their "tie-in" that makes it "worth" being called BG3 isn't that event, which isn't even a tie-in at all.
I just want to point out that the whole Abdel/died-in-Baldur's-Gate thing is not really canon to the games.
Yeah I guess you could say it represents one permutation of the Bhaalspawn protagonist, but that canon FR protag is clearly designed to be minimally important to the FR setting and take a path that almost no actual player of the games would take.
Most people would assume the mantel of god-hood in their playthrough of ToB; or if they didn't, be so fantastically powerful that no upstart would ever, ever present a challenge to them personally. Good luck killing me asshole, I'm behind Timestop and 20 layers of contingency.
It's a classical "we wrote a cool story involving the most powerful stuff in the setting... then ret-conned it all into being a perfect loop that ends up back at square 1" canon setting solution. If your canon story completely negates the whole point of the storyline in the first place (i.e Bhaal is back to what/who he was before the Time of Troubles) then you just retconned your whole story in effect.
Of course it's not canon to the games. It's just canon for the general setting, so other games can have an outcome of it. Pretty much every FR game or tabletop setting is minimally important. And even this minimally important protagonist has a Schrodinger's cat death. Did he die to the other Bhaalspawn, or did he die to an adventurer party after going ravager on everyone? It's all stupid either way.
But yeah, I agree. That's why I said unless you can import a character, BG3 has no connection to BG1-2, and why I predict that one of these events will be referenced in the game as some kind of "See? They're connected!!" moment, as if it's not some kind of cheap cop-out.
Anyway, Bhaal isn't completely back to how he was; he reclaimed his pantheon, but came back mortal. Maybe we'll kill him (again) in BG3, since there's currently no events after that. That would be the perfect terrible woke writer ending to the entire saga; everyone involved died and nothing mattered.
It's probably somewhere in the middle. Devs were crying about people playing white human dudes tho
I thought so too, but I looked into it, and it may have been blown out of proportion. Then never specifically mentioned race, they said the aggregate of most popular character creation choices made the MC look like a "default vault dweller" or something. Still not the best look, but perhaps they were honestly disappointed more people weren't using the weirder options.
Still not a good look, especially considering "default vault dweller" was basically the foregone conclusion, but may not have been as woke as people (myself included) made it out to be at the time.
I simply don't know enough about the game in its current form to know how woke it is.
Larian are basically your average woke-adjacent normies. They want to conform to the progressive world view, but also aren't actual activists. They prefer "fun" and being non-political. But they will allow the infiltration of all the activist ideas, because they don't want to have uncomfortable discussions with the press/institutions and all their lackey followers.
a website full of people the world would be better off without.
It has always been about ticking boxes. It will always be about ticking boxes. No amount of aggressive smugness or university speak will change the fact that it's purely box ticking.
It's a trend with Larian. They used to be completely free of this nonsense. DOS1's genesis was, in Swen's own words, because he wanted to play a game with his girlfriend. Canonically that's what the MC in DOS1 was supposed to be: you and your girlfriend, or vice versa you and your boyfriend. The female character famously had high heels and bikini armor in some outfits, and they got lambasted for that and got rid of it in DOS2, which is also when they were pressured into hiring a lot of writing staff (it used to be just 1 guy), all of whom were either dangerhairs or former gaming journos (no really, look it up).
So yeah, it's a mixed bag. Larian does make pretty cool gameplay; when DOS1 came out being an unapologetic grognard turn-based game like that was still a pretty bold decision. If you like turnbased RPGs, it's hard to beat them in this regard. But... the creative side, the storytelling, is getting so absurdly woke it becomes a question of whether you can stomach it. I know it's at the point now where I am very much on the fence, despite being a fan of them since the early 2000s with the first Divdiv. I expect the writing/creative direction to only get worse in future titles.
I don't think that's possible. The press pressure helps, but the reason companies go this way is they hire people who genuinely ARE activists and think this way. These people push their ideas, and everyone around them doesn't want to be rude to them, so it just escalates from there. The call is always coming from inside the building to some extent. You have to really scourge these people out and make them unfeel unwelcome, or they take over. By the time it reaches the point that it is visible in character creation and "male/female" sliders being unacceptable, the fight is already over.
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Would patching the dieversity out make it a good game?
I made an account after someone linked this post to me.
The one cropped on the side of this picture is my avatar. You can also see a fragment of my user name.
I never made this post and whoever posted this is completely bullshitting you guys and fishing for outrage.
I don't know and frankly I don't give a shit about the reason.
I'm just telling you: that's my account in the picture and that post never happened.
And I don't even just mean I didn't post it (I didn't), I'm telling you I just checked if I was hacked or something and that post simply doesn't exist in my post history.
It's also not out of the question that the fake was posted elsewhere, anyway.
Any chance you could track the source of where you got it, for curiosity?
4chan. /v/. Like I said I dont agree with everything people on resetera say and we probably two have different beliefs and ideologies, but I should admit when Im wrong. Sorry for this I thought it was a shit take but I didnt know it was fake I just found it on 4chan /v/. I didnt meant to do this to you. Like I said, we probably have two different sets of beliefs but it doesnt excuse what I did. I look in the 4 chan archives and see where I found it. Im very sorry and I didnt mean to do what I did. I'll make a post telling everyone its fake.
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Reset Era…. The new home to the gathering of the gaming mentally ill since the fall of tumblr.
The post is fake i deleted it. I got this off someone but I didnt know it was a real post.
You could take a screenshot off of any Reset Era thread and my statement is still true though.
Its fake just ignore this post overall