So I beat Baldur's Gate III the other day and decided to give my thoughts. Games good, like McDonald's french fries. Not bad, not amazing but good. It felt a lot like playing skyrim back in, whenever the frick that originally came out, lots of suckage with the things you can't do ( like climb that mountain ) but still fun.

Character creation:

Honestly kinda shit, but thats par for the course with these types of crpgs, though this one's a tad shitter that usual, even compared to Divinity :Original Sin II. Deities aren't tied to domains, for some fricking reason, and only clerics can pick one. I don't know how the frick they butchered the ranger so badly out the Baldur's Gate, I know it's kind of a tricky class to implement in a video game, but I can't then of any vidya to frick it up this badly even Sword Coast Legends did ot better and more faithfully than BGIII.

https://i.imgur.com/3cyr8jI_d.webp?maxwidth=9999&fidelity=grand

Larian still doesn't know how to do voices, backgrounds don't mean shit and you can't edit Tav's tags directly, and it's all pretty much the shittiest version of 5e, SRD. So right from the get go the critical roll influenced 5e BIPOCtry hits you like a drunk driver. I decided to player a custom character in a post Divinity: Original Sin II larian game , and I made them a ranger and was looking forward to whatever wholesome fun my sanctified stalker ranger, outlander, and halfling tags will get me into. Oh and there's no boob slider or jiggle physics for breasts, but I'm not a porn sick coomer moid so I don't care about that

Act I:

Nautiloid opening was great, short sweet and to the point and did a good job at framing what the game is going to be like. Tav's voice lines are reddit tier, but aside from that all the voice acting was on point so far. The final confrontation at the helm was really well done, nice risk vs rewars there, cracks start forming after you crash though. The introductions of the initial companions are really well done and their performances are really good, but a lot of their dialogue is just capeshit tier soy garbage .

Lae'zel is properly alien and lawful evil as Githyanki should be.

Shadowheart could do with either being more evil or less fanatically devoted to Shar, I never liked that, "the good side to evil gods" shit, but better they do it with shar than someone like Bhaal or Malar.

Gale has a lot squandered potential like shadowheart, his conflicting feelings towards Mystra II aren't portrayed well so he comes off as a bipolar Is a perfect depiction of some clingy incel moid with a firearm; unhealthly obsessed, unable to take responsibility for their actions, and just a trigger pull away from ending your fricking life if they don't get what they want.

Astarion is a flaming cute twink and obvious fujo bait, and I hate that he comes the closest to being my favorite companion. Best VA, best backstory, most consistently well written companion in the game.

Wyll is a sanctimonious beaner mary sue, and I think that's intentional, he kinda skews to far in the opposite direction morality wise than the other characters throughout most of act 1 so his dialogue is a but jarring.

I love Karlach for obvious reasons () but they do not belong in this game at all, they have the most soyified "badass" dialogue in the game, it's fricking unbearable, which is shame because when their not being a redditor's power fantasy their actually quite compassionate

Got to the druid Grove and me being an alleged holy ranger did ingraciate me to the druids worth a darn decided to go after Halsin first, glad I did too, the goblin camp was very enjoyable, probably my favorite part of act I followed by Ethel's lair. I so I didn't think to knock the drow paladin out rather than kill her. I came into this game assuming Act I would be the most polished, because that's usually how these games work, and it seems I was right for the most part, although a lot of things get their pay off in Act III.

Act II:

Very tunnel visioned, less so if you consider the underdark to be part of Act II. But yeah this whole act is basically 2 mega dungeons, the Githyanki creche and Moonrise. Sneaking into the creche while disguised as Githyanki was fun, mommy Vlaakith was amazing and her killing you with a wish spell if you piss her off was pretty funny too. Didn't enjoy being railroaded by the mcguffin fairy, wasn't hard clearing out the creche afterwards.

Moonrise was a bit long, but interesting, tried to go at it covertly Like the creche but it wasn't all that high security. Never found last light on my ranger so, I just went straight for the night song. While in the temple of shar I realized I just really wasn't having fun as a ranger so I made a new character, they're a bard. Hardest thing about Yurgir is his minions, he's an absolute b-word without them. At the end of the temple I decided to redeem shadowheart, which didn't have as much fanfare as I thought it would, also her domain didn't change with her deity, because what is immersion. I found Last Light on my bard, and met nostalgia bait # 1 and due to this game being mostly SRD, her spell list and subclass options were kinda she was relegated to being a primarily crowd control character. The final confrontation at Moonrise was pretty sweet, I'm a suckered for large scale battles. I'd say Thorm is probably the best boss fight(s) in the game and was the hardest of the chosen for me to fight. I enjoyed Gale's sacrifice ending right up until the point of the game going "you didn't save the day, the worms are still inside everyone's brains as they all turn into mind flayer" this is especially r-slurred because destroying the brain is what cures you of your parasite in act III .

Halsin is a creepy libertarian nut hugger that doesn't do anything but creep in your camp until you fulfill his BL haram fantasy and then he joins you proper. Halsins only character motivations are little boys, lifting the shadow curse, and defeating Ketheric for good. This is all accomplished shortly after he joins you properly, so by act III he has no reason to really be with you and no more impactful story beats outside of trying to buttfrick my halfling. Apparently he has a strong straggy sexual appetite, but I didn't bring him along enough to discover this.

Act III:

Burnt out for a while at this point. The guardian's reveal was r-slurred (why was the neighbor thinking breathing hard?) And I don't see the point in making them in the beginning. I liked Orin because she's a coomer Venus flytrap, but knowing moids that's just a plus. I actually like the whole kingdom hearts/final fantasy getup Goretash has going on, compliments his permanent smug grin if nothing else. Ethel's return was the highlight of the act for me, hags are my favorite monsters in D&D. I then went on to encounter nostalgia bait #2. The experience was very borderlands. After that I stepped away from the game for a while, came back and finished up the companion's questlines

Lae'zel kinda lost her shine after the creche, and her questlines doesn't really finish until after the game ends, but either way it was a bit lukewarm, although the house of hope musical finale was pretty sick.

Shadowheart's questlines was touching but mostly clinically satisfying. I let her parents live, I think her parents relationship was the best depiction of what a relationship between something that will live for almost a millennium and something that'll barely make it to a century would actually be like, in the whole game.

Wyll's questline was Mexican garbage.

Gale's questline doesn't have a satisfactory pay off on screen, much like Lae'zel.

Astarion's questline was the best, one of the few things in the game that actually made me feel something.

Karlach's questlines ties into the main quest like Lae'zel and Gale's, you have to fight the weakest chosen, and he doesn't have much bite without his steel watchers, just stun locked him with poisons and Otto's irresistible dances (wich is very resistible)resistive. Her speech at the end was heartfelt but felt more appropriate for something like cyberpunk or shadowrun.

I recruited nostalgia bait #2 and honestly, he did make me laugh a few times, borderlands makes me laugh too.

After that I went after Orin, and honest the gratuitous asshot and her jobbing to a fricking buffed up woad was starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth, but the lore in her personal chambers made up for it greatly

After that decided I'll just make one big push to finish the game. The Netherbrain going all tzeentchian on you was cool, but the rest of the finale was just a prettier, yet inferior version of Dragon Age: Origins finale, where instead of a new take on a classic (dragon) it's just a freakshit brain monster with shitter reinforcements. I turned Karlach into a mind flayer because she was going to die anyway, and honestly it greatly improved most of the complaints I had about her character, props to larian, mind flayers don't act like fricking chavs. She used the mcguffin on the other mcguffin, got really big and smacked the little brain, and the day was saved. Ending sequence was a bit weak, but serviceable, as always Astarion had the best bit ( I talked him out of ascending)

The epilogue was for every good thing I can say about it there's a bad thing. The end credit scene was enjoyable from the perspective of a nerd whole likes D&D lore always cool to se Jergal laying the smack down to the dead three.

Final thoughts (?):

All in all, the gameplay was solid, but not that different from the Divinity: Original Sin games. Code what you know I guess.

The story is fun D&D adventure

The companions are , I don't really have a favorite like I do in other RPGs, I think this is only real RPG I've played where I have very neutral impressions of all the companions. Didn't romance anyone because engaging in deviant s*x with deviant individuals isn't something my halfling would do.

Writing was like 40% reddit tier soy goyslop

Art direction was solid. I think the shadowlands and the temple of shar were the only areas the popped out to me.

Music direction was pure kino, I could listen to the title screen for decades.

Overall I give it 3.5 out 5, games good, great even, but I can't really point out anything it does better than Pillars of Eternity, or the Pathfinder games. In fact I was goingn to go back and play those for a fresher comparison but Rogue Trader came out

Opinion subject to change after Dark Urge playthrough, feel the game intends for you to be capshit anti-hero type more than anything, so things might fit into place better as that rather than a Bilbo Baggins expy... (Karlach is dying immediately in that playthrough)

Seeing redditor's and normienigs calling this game groundbreaking is horrifying though, The Elder Scrolls VI is going to be some shit

It very good. Takes the fricking mechanics from the fricking first game and improves on them heavily. I'm very excited to finish my first campaign and see what bosses, items, etc I missed in adventure mode. I'm currently on the fricking 3rd world (excluding labyrinth)

Playing medic/summoner and it's very good but I'm struggling to find long guns besides my starters and a fricking bow I picked up

!g*mers discuss

Remember when the PS3 was revealed and a bunch of industry people shit on it because of the price or cell processor or whatever?

GabeN was one of them.

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/gabe-newell-trashes-the-ps3-3557999.html

Then, a few years later at E3 2010, guess who shows up at Sony's conference to debut the premium console version of Portal 2?

That Kevin Butler joke was pretty good lol

but yeah I remember that my jaw fricking dropped, it was pretty nuts to see such an industry giant with such a strong opinion do a 180 like that publicly.

What do you got, !g*mers?

off work today + hair of the dog drinking because i feel like absolute shit. I been playing on my ps3 reminiscing middle school days so I picked up gta: episodes from liberty city the only gta i havent finished. the game is so fricking glitchy was it like this when it dropped? certain missions I can't finish for some reason. like when u do the heroin deal at the building after I lose my wanted level the mission won't finish. I see somebody a decade ago had the same problem a decade ago: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/933036-grand-theft-auto-iv/61526476

but I literally cannot find ish any mission without a glitch happe Ning I don't remember liberty city being like this. like for example the mission where u dave that b-word from the meth house she runs into the wall and won't follow me so I have to blow her up to restart the mission

He called me the Joe Danger guy ❤️ pic.twitter.com/BUW813oR9Q

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) December 8, 2023

In related news Sean is in burgerstan for the awards and was up until like 5am drunktweeting

https://t.co/ZSwlrSzc4g pic.twitter.com/sgovbHsOB3

— OMOCAT (@_omocat) December 8, 2023

The game is Omori

drops about how they tried so hard and got so far but in the end it didn't even matter

https://x.com/animegirlcrimes/status/1732903769493709190

The company then fires back with about how they were actually a pain to work with who kept fricking things up and left halfway through production

Other developers then chime on about how the was horrible to work with and shit at their job.

then starts arguing about the comments from other devs

https://x.com/flyhinata/status/1733008190327918809

Also allegations of

https://x.com/scumpthemovie/status/1733014526700691943

personally i go for maps like Paris, Hokkaido, Whittleton, New York, Dubai and Dartmoor for the first syndicate in order to avoid having to walk across the map for one target. then halfway thru I start to prioritize Psy-Ops for the "Distract Target" objective, if that's on a map I'm really good at like Hokkaido or Berlin I save it for last even if it's alerted

Know what the best award is? Selling a frick ton of games, the praise of the masses, and making fricking bank doing it.

That's exactly what someone angry that Hogwarts: Legacy didn't win an award would say.

More reason not to buy the slop

"Obvious bait is just another reason why I will not buy anything made by NetherRealm."

This can't be real. No way he's still got balls

A ray of hope in the sea of darkness

He sounds threatened

OP ima need a direct link or archive of that tweet, I refuse to believe it's real otherwise.

Finally, someone asks for something that everyone should be asking for: A SOURCE!

EDIT: The image was deleted (and rightfully so). Luckily, I managed to save the screenshot:

e: A lot of Mordhau fans...

Death stwanding was just eva withwout mwecha and this onye wooks like peak what art strags students would dwo. Hwow dwo I knywow ? My best fwiend is art strag and I often hanging out at his unyi campus

This is "Light No Fire"

The next game from @hellogames - we've been working on this for the last five years.

So many emotions you guys, but mainly - lets goooooooooo pic.twitter.com/1lFEYm2gBY

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) December 8, 2023

We also got a few second teaser of the next NMS update but aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719590/Light_No_Fire

lol

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1790600/DRAGON_BALL_Sparking_ZERO

steam page out

dbzchads...we're home

!g*mers its actually a good survival gamemode, its practically an entirely new game with survival mechanics and randomly generated worlds. Full world destruction and somewhat difficult as enemies are strong and varied. Unironically better than 99% of modern survival games. Plus every single skin has a lego variant

!r-slurs lego ! FORTNITE!!!!

Frick !chuds we lost.

Game looks like shit too. Kojimabros in shambles, myself included.

Lmao he actually made it, excited to see what schizo secrets this one will have.

Actually kind of exciting. I was super disappointed when Little Inferno wasn't really a puzzle game. Hope this is as good as the original.

All his characters look like they belong in a locker. His smug tone which I was mostly fine with in ZP becomes grating when I imagine it coming from this dork

He relies more on JPGs now too. That was something he did early on in his career, but he had been creating sprites for things he wanted to depict for years now. This is a major step down.

A video or two ago he used a stock photo of a greedy business man to refer to publishers and my Jim Stephanie Sterling alarms started going off

Look at this. This is supposed to be a mother. Didn't even give her breasts like he used to.

Also the guy who made the Slender Man game is in the comments