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[Fess]

Pretty much everyone enjoys it

There are hundreds of millions of gamers who hasn't even bothered starting it. I wish I was one of those but unfortunately fell for the hype.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

There are hundreds of millions of gamers who hasn't even bothered starting it. I wish I was one of those but unfortunately fell for the hype.

Same here. I couldn't stand it, and I love classic CRPGs. I'm sure it's a great and deep RPG, but the dialogue put me off. If I want to play a good CRPG, I'll go with something like Planescape: Torment.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Same here. I couldn't stand it, and I love classic CRPGs. I'm sure it's a great and deep RPG, but the dialogue put me off. If I want to play a good CRPG, I'll go with something like Planescape: Torment.

Larian is not known for good writing. I mostly skim through the plot in their games. Here is was quite involved and not completely terrible. Its an upgrade over their previous games I would say.

They do tend to have a lot of freedom and sandbox nature. It was toned down a bit here in favour of handcrafted choices and consequences.

Good game but I prefer DOS2.

 

[Fess]

Same here. I couldn't stand it, and I love classic CRPGs. I'm sure it's a great and deep RPG, but the dialogue put me off. If I want to play a good CRPG, I'll go with something like Planescape: Torment.

Good role-playing but it's way too slow for me, I fell asleep so many times. And it controls badly literally everywhere for me, either you point and click with a mouse to move or you use the stick to move but then still has to move a cursor to icons to point where to jump etc. Bleh!

 

[TheSHEEEP]

Yeah, my only real beef with the game is the CONSTANT pandering for a romantic relationship by some of the male characters. Like, jesus christ man, I'm NOT INTERESTED, I'm dicking the demon chick and trying for the elf lass!

It isn't my only real beef with the game (biggest would be DnD5, which is just not a good ruleset for so many reasons and its implementation in BG3 is lacking on top of that).

But yeah, I really found their approach to sexuality off-putting.

They said somewhere that it was a conscious decision to make every single character player-sexual (as in, they are into whatever it is that you are).
The problem I have with it is not that I'd be against any sexuality per-se, but that I think having a defined and fixed sexuality for each character would be part of their personality.
Just as it is for real people - it is part of who we are. If you're straight, you're straight, if you're gay, you're gay, if you're asexual, you're that, etc.

So taking that part of a believable character away and replacing it with "whatever the player is" really only cheapens every character's writing - which I otherwise found pretty amazing, some of the characters I really cared for.
It is no different than replacing a character's view on, say, in-game political issues with whatever your character's views would be.
Everyone being horny for you is just dumb from an immersive point of view.

This they-recording...
Other people using options that I probably never would is so low on the list to get upset about for me, it just doesn't bother me. It's just one of those "options that don't hurt me" things.
Then again, I stepped away from social media almost entirely and my mental health has drastically improved ever since, so maybe the culture war brain rot just mostly lost its grip on me. Highly recommended.

From a production point of view, though, I'd be really curious to know how many people actually ended up not being "he" or "she" and if that was even remotely worth the inclusion of that option financially.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Good role-playing but it's way too slow for me, I fell asleep so many times. And it controls badly literally everywhere for me, either you point and click with a mouse to move or you use the stick to move but then still has to move a cursor to icons to point where to jump etc. Bleh!

That's how every CRPG controls. I don't have a problem with that. This was my issue:

Yeah, my only real beef with the game is the CONSTANT pandering for a romantic relationship by some of the male characters. Like, jesus christ man, I'm NOT INTERESTED, I'm dicking the demon chick and trying for the elf lass!

 

[RCX]

This is the one thing that will make this game feel very dated a couple more years from now.

That kind of shite is a time capsule from an era where society lost its collective mind. Its receding everywhere now, thankfully, but its probably good that the evidence will still remain. Maybe it'll help teach us not to do it again

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Are we still on this shit? Who gives a fuck?

 

[xrnzaaas]

They are pretty dumb unless they got some funding to make the game even more 'inclusive' and are going for free twitter points.

 

[Dr Cowley]

Romance isn't gameplay
Sexuality isn't plot worthy

 

[Fess]

That's how every CRPG controls. I don't have a problem with that. This was my issue:

Well I don't play CRGs but thought that things had improved controlwise at least a little bit since Zak McKracken on the Amiga considering all the GOTY awards.
Never reached any romancing scenarios, I just played 25 hours and dropped it after too many sleepy fights and came to the conclusion that it's not for me.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

And that decision ruined BG3 for everyone forever.

/s


If anything this shows that stuff like this doesn't automatically make a game bad, and we should focus our attention on things that actually contribute to a shitty game.

Its not about it being bad it's about them pushing their left wing politics and even that's ok. It just sucks only one side of the political spectrum gets pushed so that's all you ever hear, constant preaching about progressive values from game devs.