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If you like CRPG's, BG3 is an excellent game with excellent production and huge replayability. It's best game I've played in years, easily.

...But wokefaggotry is all over the character creation. You have pronouns decoupled from your body, multiple genitalia options, precision control over how much vitiligo you have, and then very little customization of anything you would actually care about. If you're not some wokefaggot or fetishist making a vitligo afflicted tranny, then you're a second class citizen in the character creator.

...And once you're done with that the wokeness kind of just fizzles back to pre 2016 levels. Sure, you can be a big buff dude with a beard and a vagina who everyone magically knows to call 'she', but I've yet to encounter any other character in the game whose pronouns don't align with their body type. Perhaps that'll change when I reach the brothel (because of course there is a brothel), but you know what? Freaks being depicted solely as the sex fiends they are would honestly be kind of based.

Playersexual party members have a habit of throwing themselves at the player if you're even slightly nice to them. There is honestly a non-zero chance that Lae'Zel will want to fuck you on the first long rest of your first playthrough. Similarly, you'll be presented with the opportunity to kiss Gale almost immediately. You have no obligation to take this option, but the alternatives to it aren't great and don't allow you to simply be normal, friendly, and not gay. You either kiss him, or you're... kind of a dick. Not great.

The only other problem with the game is nonsensical diversity. Almost everywhere you go has US racial demographics. Why does a random village in a temperate region have a 10-20% black population? Why do groups of soldiers contain so many women? I'm aware that D&D has never given different stats to male and female characters, but anyone with a brain knows that that was done to let coomers play amazon warriors without punishing them for having the temerity to fantasize about having a girlfriend who isn't weak and useless.

That's all the negatives. Between all of that is hours upon hours upon hours of fun adventure with multiple paths potential solutions across huge landscapes and massive, sprawling dungeons. It's going to take you 50-70 hours to play through once, and it's going to be good for a minimum of three playthroughs, though I say you are unlikely to exhaust every meaningful option in even six or seven runs. This is going to be one of those games you replay once a year for the next decade and find something new in every time. It's a Deus Ex or VtmB of the 2020's.

254 days ago
1 score
Reason: Original

If you like CRPG's, BG3 is an excellent game with excellent production and huge replayability. It's best game I've played in years, easily.

...But wokefaggotry is all over the character creation. You have pronouns decoupled from your body, multiple genitalia options, precision control over how much vitiligo you have, and then almost zero customization of anything you would actually care about. If you're not some wokefaggot or fetishist making a vitligo afflicted tranny, then you're a second class citizen in the character creator.

...And once you're done with that the wokeness kind of just fizzles back to pre 2016 levels. Sure, you can be a big buff dude with a beard and a vagina who everyone magically knows to call 'she', but I've yet to encounter any other character in the game whose pronouns don't align with their body type. Perhaps that'll change when I reach the brothel (because of course there is a brothel), but you know what? Freaks being depicted solely as the sex fiends they are would honestly be kind of based.

Playersexual party members have a habit of throwing themselves at the player if you're even slightly nice to them. There is honestly a non-zero chance that Lae'Zel will want to fuck you on the first long rest of your first playthrough. Similarly, you'll be presented with the opportunity to kiss Gale almost immediately. You have no obligation to take this option, but the alternatives to it aren't great and don't allow you to simply be normal, friendly, and not gay. You either kiss him, or you're... kind of a dick. Not great.

The only other problem with the game is nonsensical diversity. Almost everywhere you go has US racial demographics. Why does a random village in a temperate region have a 10-20% black population? Why do groups of soldiers contain so many women? I'm aware that D&D has never given different stats to male and female characters, but anyone with a brain knows that that was done to let coomers play amazon warriors without punishing them for having the temerity to fantasize about having a girlfriend who isn't weak and useless.

That's all the negatives. Between all of that is hours upon hours upon hours of fun adventure with multiple paths potential solutions across huge landscapes and massive, sprawling dungeons. It's going to take you 50-70 hours to play through once, and it's going to be good for a minimum of three playthroughs, though I say you are unlikely to exhaust every meaningful option in even six or seven runs. This is going to be one of those games you replay once a year for the next decade and find something new in every time. It's a Deus Ex or VtmB of the 2020's.

254 days ago
1 score