Baulder’s Gate 3 early access is up and running, naturally Kotaku was the worst take on it!
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When will Kotaku fail?
You see… I identify myself as a hybrid toster/apache helicopter and I want it to be represented in the game…
Yeah…. it's Baldur's Gate, not Waldo's Wheelchair Adventure. I know wheelchair adventurers who play these games exactly because it allows them to do things they can't do IRL, lets them forget their situation. It's called fantasy for a reason. Stop trying to break our games and go make your own, dumbasses.
Sooo, a couple of crazy bloggers hate on the game, and a couple other crazy bloggers hate on them for hating the game and everyone thinks their fucking opinion matters in the fucking slightest… who is the more pathetic, the butthurt person, or the person being butthurt by the butthurt person??
Some of these so-called "Games Journalists" make more money than police, soldiers, EMTs, Nurses, Tradskill Trained People (Like welders/mechanics), etc. "
Maybe we should start taxing journalism since all it does is spread bullshit around to push agendas.
More too the point, you are supposed to be the host for a Mindflayer tadpole. If you had such an obvious "imperfection" they would just eat your brain and move on, not use you for a host for their baby.
Wait a minute, would a tall, athletic character not be most effective in a combat situation over a short, unfit one
Even if they had wheelchairs, wheelchairs would make adventuring harder.
How dumb can people be?
Wheelchairs? Seriously?
How the fuck are you going to perform half the stuff in Baldur's Gate 3 from a WHEELCHAIR?
my brain can't even
This is the same author who also wrote this article: "I Spent Three Hours In Baldur’s Gate 3’s Character Creator And It’s Pretty Good" and this one "In Baldur’s Gate 3, Some Of The Simplest Abilities Are The Most Powerful" in which she states the following: "I’m new to Baldur’s Gate, so the concept of video games based on Dungeons & Dragons mechanics is completely foreign to me."
Enough said!!!
I bought the Early Access, I messed around with it for a little bit but then set it down to let it finish cooking. I really enjoyed what I played so far though. Very promising. Granted, I would definitely recommend people waiting.
You would think that in a world where they can bring back the dead they could fix your spine, just saying
While I can actually see a wheelchair in dnd being a thing considering artificers and wheelchairs actually being fairly old.
But unfortunately with this story, you wouldn't have a chair because you got abducted by mindflayers frankly, I could see an actual wheelchair bound dnd character being cool, would probs have to be a mage and want fly or something else or a tricked out chair.
This game is very diverse and full of freedom, allowing you to have male and female voices on both your characters, woman with beards and a clear design philosophy of freedom in their design with allowing even your githyanki to be differently colored.
The game allows you to very much be diverse!
This is such a nontroversy, is it even remotely surprising that people choose to play a relatable character on the FIRST playthrough? Making choices they might had and experience those consequences in a world of fantasy? How can this even become newsworthy for the company and for journalists? Of course it's meta data would be a "nerdy white vault dweller" it's obviously it's biggest target group growing up with this stuff. It's great that fantasy is getting universally liked but it's not always been like that. Have patience, people are gonna play around with so many characters and options in the end just let people have an immersive experience first.
"But with that kind of power, you could create an overweight, deformed trans person!"
"But I don't want to create an overweight, deformed trans person. I want to create someone who looks like they could reasonably perform the incredible stunts they do."
If my character were wheelchair bound or over weight I can assure you when an angry dragon or hordes of undead show up he/she/it won't get very far.
Apparently the 87% plus positive user reviews doesn't exist to some of these "journalists".
The author of the article has a good point tho. It is in early access. The goal should be to show as much features as possible(even if they would not be ready for all races). If they don't have different body types/height in the game yet then it is very unlikely to be in the game later. Which is fine for a game like Divinity where all the Dialogue is not animated anyways and you barely take a closer look at your character while playing. But for BG3's dialogue style it would feel kinda bad. Imo.
When i hear the word "Basic", i'm reminded of something Jim Cornette(before he went insane) said about "Comedy" Wrestling(paraphrasing here, so bear with me):
"People like different types of Ice Cream, and while some like Chocolate Chip, Postatio or whatever, there's folk like me who like Plain Vanilla Ice Cream and that's fine. You can praise your bowl of Napoleon Swirl Pretzel Hot dog all you want, but just let me have my Plain 'Ol Vanilla …"
The Situation involving Baldur's Gate 3 is the same as an Employee yelling at Customers in Bascine-Robbins(?) 'bout choosing Plain Vanilla Ice Cream. Their gonna scare off the customer base with that attitude(and the media you mentioned certainly isn't helping matters)….
Fuzz off.
I bought the product and I will use it as I see fit.
If I want to make myself I will do so.
A wheel chair in World where Magic exist?
Think of how many guards could still be Adventurers like you, if only they had wheelchairs….
I've been enjoying it and i thought it had a pretty good character creation selection. Made a drow and half drow.
It's good better than 1 and 2 as is so cant wait until it's done. You might be able to get through the content in 20 hours in single player mode. I've played over 40 and just got the the end of early access content and I know I've not done everything I could yet. I've played through it about 1 and a half times. I stoped part way through and started over because my main looked a lot like the mage and I keep messing up in battles. I made a new toon. There are so many was to get from point a to point b it realy feels like a difrent game. I like it more than the shadowrun trilogy.
Can I create a non gender non binary?
If not
Cancelled!!
Why can't I have a character with no limbs!?!?!?!?
Can we please give Larian the benefit of the doubt, you can create any bullshit character you can think of in Divity Original Sin 2. Chances are over 100% your (enter race/sex/dick size here) will be included in final product. That's why I'm against Alpha. Cause you have trash people like Kotaku that get a copy to bitch about. I hope they don't read that trash and get discouraged. If the Kotaku office was close I would just abduct the staff and bury them out in the desert… I would gain 50 karma, and the worlds "stupid people" level would drop 2%.
Mechanical limbs could be a good skin to have. I don't know if a hearing aid would show up well on the tiny character skins, it will end up as a giant earring. Wheelchair could be skinned as a bear to ride?
I just made a plain drow because it's EA and putting effort in when you're saves are gonna fry what's the point? Give me the gameplay!
A overweight character should have less HP than a normal.
Just found this video through random suggestions. The algorithm is finally realizing that I follow a lot of gaming channels so I probably like gaming. Everyone participating in this "buy the game early, help playtest it, report bugs, make suggestions" model that Larian did with DOS and DOS2 sends anon info (we agreed to it with the EA license) about how long we're playing, what types of characters, etc. And Larian, in their announcement of the third hotfix, gently roasted us because when they ran the numbers from what people are creating they found that most of them (across GoG, Stadia, and Steam) are essentially creating the most basic of basic characters. Human Male.
Now I can see the argument for a more in depth character creation, but hearing impaired characters typically aren't heroes in D&D. Blind characters typically don't do well in dungeons (unless using my homebrew for deafness and blindness) because of the threats that will have advantage on all attacks against them (for being blind and thus not being able to see) while they have disadvantage on all attacks. Someone linked this article in the general discussion part of of the discussions board and was buthurt themselves about the gentle ribbing/calling out that Larian did. Most of us just laughed.
Seriously though, BG3 is a blast and while it does deviate from the 5E ruleset a little (Larian was upfront that it wouldn't be a 100% conversion on multiple occasions) I still feel immersed in a 5E experience. If you want to wait until the full release, no worries. Upon release Larian said that they estimate a year between then and full release (so an early October of next year is what they predict). I fully recommend it. As the original Baldur's Gate games are considered official lore, BG3 is as well. It actually takes place some point during the Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus campaign book, about 100 years or so after the expansions from Baldur's Gate 2.
If i were Larian studios i would take extra time to make a preset of a humanoid/gender fluid/sexually ambiguous/libtard and call it "game journalist preset"
for fucks sake,not he combat wheelchair again,that shit is ridiculous
I wait for the first reviews by HONEST fans before buying this. Not spend my money on a SJW game or any virtue signaling by people who are below my virtue standards.
These articles people ain’t gonna tell me what I should be or play.
Oy, Kotaku! Buy the game for me and i'll play whatever character you like.
Dude, just leave the players to their own fucking devices and sooner or later they'll branch out for replay with different characters. Not to mention it's none of their fuckin business. Make the game, make your money, enjoy the ride, and fuck off.
They probably have to charge 60 dollars because of price parity with stadia.
I have pretty bad epilepsy… how are they gonna represent me in the game!!!
I made my toon (before quikly refunding) a goofy red tiefling, oh the irony. I doubt these weaklings at Larian and Kotacuck would like me.
Game's essentially indirectly partially crowdfunded…. Stfu ASH
ok so much to unpack here and I'm sure being late to the party its all been covered but ill do my thing anyway.
1. The game offers up a number of races to play and a variety of facial configs with different ethnic looks even though such looks may not exist in the game world. You can choose skin blemishes make-up and tattoos for both genders and yes there are fucking TWO!!!
2. the handicapped and impaired are featured in the game ….dying at the hands of monsters because only heroes in peak fitness of body mind and soul could survive!!! what a retarded thing to say, what by his reckoning I want to long to play a mid-aged overweight autistic guy with autoimmune disorders FUCK NO!
3. this dickhead ignored facts to placate the target audience a narrow band of butt sore participation hoarding woke nobodies desperate for revenge on all normies! lol
great show sorry for the triggered rant but I feel so much better now LOL
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It is better to call it divinity original sins 3. It's not baldurs gate anymore
Medieval fantasy style character walking across the land all day on foot
Kotaku: Where is my fatscooter for my 400pound non binary dragon-wolf-snake-antilope