I don't play many PC games these days because of how woke a lot of the shit is. I got burned on Cyberpunk, so now I pretty much play FS2020 and that's it these days. The last game I played through was System Shock remake, which I found to be decent enough.
BG3 won game of the year from Worth a Buy, but I hear it has a lot of gay sex?
I got a copy for free, and have played a fair bit. Haven't run into any gay sex. I'm sure it's there, but optional so far.
Unpopular opinion in these parts, but I think the game feels really nice. Good visuals, good combat (if you like that style, of course), very good music in my opinion (nothing spectacular, but does the 'you are in a fantasy world' feel very well), good exploration with lots of options.
Story seems kind of hit or miss, and as someone else mentioned there is some forced morality and generally stilted storytelling. A certain conflict is pretty obnoxious. It seemed like a nuanced problem, but then the people involved are a bunch of oppressed do-gooder versus nasty people basically in it to be mean. They took the nuance and just threw it on the ground and stomped on it.
And, although the game so far doesn't feel super woke, there are certainly elements. Character creation is a mess because they removed clarity to make things as 'gender neutral' or whatever as possible. Which is especially annoying since the early footage had you select your sex (versus now a Body Type or whatever.) So they actually removed clarity and functionality to conform to Modern Standards.
I've enjoyed what I played, despite some nitpicks, and despite the creators themselves being at least moderately woke, and the woke marketing campaign. It's a much better game than I expected based on what we'd seen. I wish the story was better, and a bit more streamlined. It feels a tad bloated, but that also does help it feel like a larger world. It's hard to describe, but despite some legitimate faults and critiques, it feels pretty good. Really encapsulates "fantasy RPG" in a way modern games haven't in a while.
Nah, the "Body Type (1, 2, 3, 4)" only alter whether you are a short, lean male, short lean female, big bulky (but not fat) male and big bulky female.
Then you can select which genitals your body type has irrespective of which body type you chose. That's where things can get weird, esp if you just hit "Randomize"
The name "body type 1" instead of "male 1" and separate genital options are 100% troon propaganda moves.
Trying to decouple gendered language, sex and appearance is convoluted and counterintuitive for a character creator. It makes the system objectively worse for players, all for the sake of a couple of loons.
Looks like you're setting up a rule that doesn't exist. In game you can make male, female or whatever weird combination you want. It doesn't make "everyone queer" imo.
I think is the opposite, the story is unpolished and rushed. Third act is an incoherent mess and the world seems small.
Lets take BG1 for instance, much smaller game, BG3 tried to make the story from BG1 but bigger. Well BG1 Sarevok has a plan to take over Baldurs Gate in order to start a war with Amn and case a continent level massacre in order to become the next god of murder. In BG3 I did not see any desire or involvement from foreign nations. It seems completly seperate from the rest of the world. Same with the druids grove, they seem to be an entity in of themselves rather then a larger group of druids that they were suppose to be.
At most you get the harpers that seem somewhat fine and it was the only place they actually used the doppelgangers to somewhat success. Could have been better but they failed in creating any mistery or intrigye around those.
I'm certainly not saying it's better than BG1 or BG2, just that in my opinion it's a enjoyable modern RPG.