What are we thinking about this one KIA2?
After sometime with it. Regardless of if/if not you believe it's woke trash I will absolutely hand them credit for not having MTX and having a (mostly) complete game at launch.
Now on to the other shit...
Wokeness - Honestly? Sure there's a bit of it sprinkled on (Pronouns) but I can confidently say at this point that it never felt like it was forced down my throat or that woke topics were an inherently "positive" thing to witness. Even the flamboyant gay characters like Astarion seem to be there for comedic release and "playersexual" has been a thing since Dragon Age: Origins.
It appears to me that the dev's cared a little less about pushing a message and more of: "I'm going to just throw my hands up, do what you want!" All of the interactions in the game seem less set to follow "ThE MeSsAgE" and more to allow the player to "Have at it!". I mean hell, if I see some faggots or some niggers I can straight up delete em cause Paladin go brrrrrr.
All in all, I've been enjoying it. More than Armored Core and Starfield thus far.
(Armored Core VI fucking blows donkey dick also. Not a bad game, but sure as fuck isn't AC.)
I used to love the original Baldur's Gate. It would definitely rank in my top 10 of all time. I wasn't keen on the sequel because it was a lot more restrictive and they started the whole "romance" thing that just took away from the character interactions and party cohesiveness. It's hard to feel like you have a well-rounded team when you have to deal with one or more characters somehow getting romanced after one or two dialogue interactions. Juxtaposed with actual strategy role-playing games like Jagged Alliance 1 & 2 and Fallout 1& 2, I just felt like Baldur's Gate 2 had gone wayward.
Jump ahead to Baldur's Gate 3 and I see that the character creator is extremely limited but they give you a whole bunch of dick options and a vitiligo slider instead of actual character customisation options, and I "noped" out from there.
Time and energy that was wasted on adding woke elements could have been used to give actual options for unique characters that aren't of the Leftist variety.
It sickens me more how people have become accepting of the woke stuff because it's "not that bad", so it gives Leftists carte blanche to push forward some more.
Within a decade's time the character options will include MAP-types and people will be saying "Well, so long as they don't force me to be a MAP, I think the gameplay is solid and I had fun with it. So I don't see what the big deal is."