#come on larian

[flymmsy]

They didn’t need to give him that slutty chin scar on top of everything else. They did that just to spite us.

[artschoolglasses]

If Larian doesn't make some Karlach DLC for Baldur's Gate 3 I'm going to be very disappointed.

[gamesception]

Trying out Baldur's Gate 3, and my paladin immediately got in trouble for beating up some tieflings who were threatening the pretty githyanki girl. My punishment was cooler powers.

Before you ask, I don't think the Oathbreaker Knight is romanceable. I know, I know, you can sleep with a literal bear, but not the bad sad dad with the sexy voice and the cool armor?

Larian, get on this. As in, let me get on this.

[asharaks]

it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.

[a2zillustration]

Would anyone ELSE like to admit they've been personally victimized by the god or goddess they follow?

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[invinciblerodent]

From now on, I'm just going to assume that anyone who calls Gale any variation of "pompous", "arrogant", "annoying", "a jerk", or anything to that effect, and talks at length about how they hate him and/or have killed him, is just bellyaching and being a baby over them not understanding his speech. That's right, at this point I'm ascribing a literal skill issue to being wrong about a fictional character.

Aww, poor baby, did the Mean Wizard hurt your tiny, smooth widdle brain by saying "adroit"? Did his correct use of "foeti", the latinate plural of "foetus", frighten you? Aww, I'm so sowwy. That must be so tough for you, being so scared of fun words and the general concept of whimsy. I can't hear you over myself tongue-kissing the pretty man with the calf-eyes and the slutty waist.

[galedekarios]

💜

[ride-a-dromedary]

[Tell me something about yourself that I wouldn't even think to ask.]

[baldysgate]

Larian fixed the after drow dialogue with Halsin and I---

A developer that listens to concerns, makes active changes in their game to make us feel comfortable... i am absolutely speechless. The speed in which they turned out the dialogue, considering it needs to be written, voiceovered and lip-synced in the game on top of the 1k+ fixes they are also handling. Absolutely in awe here. This game truly deserves GOTY a million times over.

[a-cabin-in-midgard]

Lesbian moment

Had to do make @basketobread's baby girl Lunara in Daz. (Creating 3D versions of people's art on this platform and for this fandom is becoming problematic, but it gives me much needed serotonin)

[artschoolglasses]

Looking forward to the day that Larian adds mod support to console so I can hopefully get the Halsin dad-bod mod. 🤞🏻🖤

[greyias]

I take it all back -- this is the best conversation in the entire game.

[mintharan]

one thing i love so so much about wyll is that he's an atheist, not in the sense that he doesn't believe in them, they are materially real in the DnD setting, but that he doesn't think they're worthy of worship "the only thing the gods have ever given me is a cold shoulder" it's so evocative, so poignant, it says so much about him as a character. and really, to me, encapsulates the essence of his character: there is no divine intervention, there are no miracles, there are only people, and for them he's willing to sacrifice more than any god ever would

[wizardsix]

people want evil women so bad until we finally get one that's also romanceable and suddenly everyone is real quiet.

[bananasfosterparent]

Jennifer English (VA for Shadowheart) talking about Baldur's Gate 3. This quote lives rent free in my head 😩🤌🏽

[aboxofcereales]

me: I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 for the plot

the said plot: