That's the post, really. Basically everyone is saying it's really good and has no microtransactions, etc. Is it worth a buy, or would I be supporting a woke project?
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It is woke. I'll provide screenshots for proof. Non-binary options, 5 options of dick, cut and uncut, body types and male and female voices labeled Voice 1 and Voice 2. That's just the character creation. There's no face sliders either, you have the same stock faces. No boob or body slider.
Why you shouldn't buy it is because this isn't Baldur's Gate. This is a Dragon Age game running the 5th edition D&D system. Racial points for races, so Orcs getting +2 strength and Elves getting +2 dexterity? Nope, those are out. Because that's racism. Instead some races get 1 - 3 points to add onto any stat. That was a thing only Humans had, further diluting why bother being human when fantasy races are better.
Second is the removal of Alignment from all dialog. In an example a Tiefling child stole a locket and the owner wants it back. The choice I made was [Monk][Persuasion] Give it back and we all go on with our day. This would have been a good alignment choice but it isn't. You'll get race and class dialog options and skill checks against actions but no actual role playing with alignment choices.
Other things include party members being obnoxious, think the worst of Pathfinder being the standard. Party members also have underwear with sex scenes that make Mass Effect look tasteful. I saw someone use the word "Safe Horny" to describe this game and it really is that. It's got Skyrim mod levels of lewdness added yet it wants that serious Baldur's Gate adventure to draw people in. They want their progressiveness and adventures too. But then they don't do anything with the sex stuff they've added. For example you're infested with a mind flayer parasite you have to roll a few times against but you end up doing nothing lewd with it. This whole game is a mess to be honest.
Never thought I'd see the day when Pathfinder is more faithful to classic D&D than an actual D&D game is. Just because everyone is saying it, doesn't mean you should follow them. Alot of the normies playing it are burnt out from Diablo 4. That should tell you their tastes.
It has a vitiligo slider lmfao
Seriously, what the fuck is with wokies and vitiligo? You'd think half the population of earth has it the way it's represented absolutely everywhere. Does vitiligo have a 2x ESG multiplier?
It's the kind of thing that would, in a PnP game, add roleplaying options. Like, you could give a PC some kind of social penalty, hard to disguise themselves, but easier to cause diversions, etc. But Wokeness demands diversity AND conformity, you have the right to play a hideous freak but never to be TREATED like a hideous freak.
Something simple would be the classic Fallout games where playing a low-IQ character completely changed the game and only let you speak like a retard. That level of immersion and character-building isn't allowed anymore.
It allows trans-racialism without pretending.
It's just the same as 'needing' the ability to make amputees or wheelchair bound people, it's another step on their holy quest to make sure every last person on earth (above white males on the progressive stack) gets to be literally represented in a game, and damn the resource expenditure.
It's a non-issue made political because they always need a new crusade, basically.
I completely noped out of the game once I saw that slider. I was checking out a livestream just to see if I would be interested, and throwaway531 is 100% correct on everything he mentioned.
Body types instead of "Male" and "Female" options, lots of ugly characters, and a bunch of "diversity" everywhere. And that vitiligo slider made me close out the window and swear off the game.
A real shame, because the first Baldur's Gate was one of my all-time favourite titles.
All of this shit was added in after Early Access.
If you hadn't sworn off EA before, now's the time. Companies have figured out they can bait-and-switch in faggotry and social justice on release.
Wait, they only added in the woke stuff after Early Access? That's really scummy.
p. sure the alignment and race changes were mandated by WotC.
It definitely has that Dragon Age issue of "Hi Zevran nice to meet you whoops now we are having gay sex".
Is there a way to bypass all the romance or sex scenes? With all the videos I’ve seen coming from the devs, it seems like sex is their main focus in this game and I would imagine there’s no way around the romance plots because of it.
I also need to mention that I have no plans on playing this game because it looks like it’s a D&D fan fiction writers wet dream and the devs at one point complained about the type of characters their paying customers were creating (white male characters).
This is a Divinity Original Sins game, not a Dragon Age game.
Yeah lol, some dragon age games are good.
Dragon Age Origins is far more comparable to the original baldurs gate games than the so called Baldur's Gate 3. They had very similar mechanics and both ran in real time with pause.
Baldur's Gate 3, mechanically, is just Divinity Original Sins but with a dungeons and dragons coat of paint. It is completely different from the original games that it should not be given the same name with the number 3 tacked onto it. This is without getting into the weeds of how narratively stupid it is to try and continue a story that was completely and utterly concluded in Baldur's Gate Throne of Baal (and by bringing characters back from the predecessor games is pretty much insulting to the source material).
Your screenshots aren't working for me.