What made it so much more popular than other CRPGs?
>>736426182bioware cutscenes/companions
>>736426182More approaches to combat than literally any other crog
>>736426182Because it's a CRPG with an actual budget
>>736426449>enter combat>it's turn-based literally every timeaight
The fact that it's actually a turnbased dnd combat system and not party diabloid like the games before it.
>>736426449Literally Original Sin 3.And the amount of spells and levels is fucking pathetic.
>>736426182everybody heard about baldur's gate and the first act(which is what 90% of the *fans* played) is good
>>736426182it has oc donut steel reddit goodfeels companions, but lets you maim and kill them, and then also has not one, not two, but three evil women companions, including one that rides your face like a bike
>>736426182Wokeness
>>736426182it destroyed evil companies and woke
Not being a cRPGIt's also extremely easy
>>736426591>including one that rides your face like a bikeI want to know more
>>736426529>t. Brainlet
>>736426540>drop div:os's armor bar system>game is a blockbusterit was that simple
>>736426182crafted to appeal to the most normalfaggot audience ever
>>736426662That only happens if you play as a woman. Men get sloppy BJs and reverse cowgirl
>>736426182Having hot sexy men in games instead of pandering to incels.
>>736426591>and then also has not one, not two, but three evil women companionsLae'Zel is the least popular girl not counting Manthara (who is also irrelevant) and almost everyone that romances Shadowheart do it by turning her into a Selunite
>>736426686Also bigger IP and good marketing, but yeah.
>>736426449I remember the threads talking about the strategies regarding fucking astarion or shadowheart cucking the player. Not to mention the gameplay webms and the surprising number of female streamers discussing the gameplay depth.
>>736426842Well I butcher all of the companions except those three and push them all to their evil endings, except lae'zel because her being evil is just her being fooled into being foodyou get some pretty cool armor for making shady be bad
>>736426182The sex. That's it, the sex.
The production value, 100%. I sincerely believe this game wouldn't even be half as popular if it wasn't fully voiced, with cutscenes, etc.If it looked like the OGs, or even Divinity 2. I doubt it would have reached as high. Though OS2 was also very popular. Their track record has helped a lot.Also KARLACH. KARLACH SEX. SEX WITH KARLACH UWOOOOH. SEX WITH MY BIG RED GOLDEN RETRIEVER WIFE. UNLIMITED CUMSHOTS. MY SPERM BOILING IN HER WOMB AND ON HER TONGUE AIEEEEEEEE SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEX
>>736427163KarlACK!
>>736426182>very poor AAA competition>relatively high level of freedom in a on rails story>multiple solutions to combat>highly successful marketing campaign>good momentum from OS:2 and time in EA>warts and all characters, even the ones the devs clearly like>lets you be an actual asshole, not a sarcastic nice guy>free support>competition got even worse after release, encouraging replays even furtherEssentially it's the inverse Veilguard
>>736427163Ironically BG3 would have been a better game without voice acting and cutscenes
>>736427680why? because it triggers your autism? Larian had more than enough budget, the game had more reactivity than Owlslop for example, the lack of full VA or cutscenes wouldn't have improved anything, while its inclusion made the game sell gorilliones
>>736426182Gay sex. Normalfags love that stuff.
>>736426182to put it simply, the gay sex
>>736427809>>736427842Then why didn't barveguard top the charts?
>>736427680zoomers wouldn't have bought it and it would flop
>>736427916haven't played. how good is the gay sex in it? all I've seen is the "I'm non binary" scene, but never the gay sex
>>736427991god knows. All I know is that it's a bioware game so of course it's in there.unrelated, but I've just realised Sera used to be the benchmark of pointlessly hideous characters, and now I'm sad
>>736426182Barbarian gameplay and dialogue options.
I couldn’t get into. Combat was slow and complicated and characters wouldn’t do what I wanted when talking to them. I also got bored and skipped a bunch of dialogue when I got to the Druid place so I have no idea what to do to progress.
>>736428290That barbarian looks like he's starving
>>736428369Wild men weren’t depicted as body builders until like the 50s cause Frank Frazzetta was gay for them.
good graphics, hot chicks, generic setting
>>736428437You will not speak ill of Frank in this household.
>>736426336I gave the game a try and ended up getting bored and quitting about 5-10 hours in when I realized I didn't even want to talk to any of the companions.It started with the lizard woman, I didn't like her attitude and left her to rot in the wooden cage. After she escaped I helped them kill her like the dog she was.I let the other infected join the team and started the search for a cure. I met that folk hero guy and didn't like him at all so he was ignored.Shadowheart was someone I grew to dislike because she refused to give me a straight answer and was a zealot in the boring way.The white haired guy woke me up trying to suck my blood.Then Gale, the one guy I enjoyed the dialogue for, started asking to eat my magic items.I quit the game and haven't felt any motivation to try it again since.
>>736427781If they had more than enough budget, the game wouldn't be stewing in early access for years.I agree with anon, I skip dialogues anyway, because reading is much, much faster.
It’s NOT a baldur’s gate game, absolute abomination of a shit game
>>736426182advertising budget
>>736428973cope
>>736428973You lost unc
>>736426182I tried Divinity Orginal Sin 2 right after BG3 and I just couldn't get into the combat, BG3's combat and other mechanics in general are so much easier to understandAlso the dialogues being zoomed in helps with the immersion, just having a textbox while you're still viewing the characters from above kinda ruins the immersion for me
It's not popular. It's a chinese astroturf.
You can sex in this game!????Well im buying it right now! SEX!!! :D
>>736426182
>>736430975simple as
>>736430817The fuck is group chat
here's the "popular" gameplay
>>736426182Presentation
>>736431392>>736431443Yes, yes, we know, you want pic related.
>>736426182PR and furry sex wich was part of the PR
>>736426540yes, except they removed the dogshit round robin and armor systems, so now it's actually good.
>>736426336>>736427163no. it has absolutely dumpstered every bioware game ever released, which DOS2 also did. it really is down to having great gameplay and 5e being better than the DOS2 system.
>>736426182Made by homosexual cucks for homosexual cucks
>>736430765DOS2 is not hard to understand at all and is in fact much more simplistic than BG3, like resistances barely factor into anything and the game literally doesn't have an equivalent to saves and other really basic things like that. All DOS2 has is more tedium, mainly due to the horrible initiative system.
>>736426981>threadsYou’re confused. That was your discord group
Guard Gurgon
its just modern DAO but without good companions, fun banter and dialogue, instead with cringe juvenile drama, californian/tumblr faggot writers virtue signaling on every corner and spitefully retconning established lore of previous games.
>>736432440No, it has a much greater gameplay emphasis and requires extremely little interaction with the dialogue system, unlike DAO.
>>73643254080% of BG3 "gameplay" is looting garbage from literally thousands of containers and watching enemy slowly take their turns
>>7364261821. "romance-able" companions2. woke as fuck3. le funny reddit writingThe recipe for success.
>>736432440>cringe juvenile drama, californian/tumblr faggot writers virtue signaling on every corner and spitefully retconning established lore of previous gamesWeird complaint to hear from a Dragon Age fan.
>>736432662almost every situation in the game is resolvable through gameplay alone, obly seldom having to enter the dialogue interface. the design approach is almost completely the opposite of DAOs, which prefers heavy scripting and low world interactivity.
>>736431392>end of the game, optional, nonstandard combat encounter designed to fuck with you, that can be solved through other means>this is my proof the whole game is bad?
>>736432861Yet DAO feels a lot more mature than BG3 critical role faggot millenial writing>>736432947>heavy scripting and low world interactivityare you implying bg3 is not heavily scripted LOL? It has illusion of choice if u play more than once you will see the result will be the same no matter which option u pick.
>>736433332in the game world moron, not story progression in the broader sense.
