Who is this character meant to appeal to
women and homosexuals
>>739588096looks like jake gyllenhaal
>>739588096My wife. She fuckin loved him.
>>739588096He looks like an aging gay choir director and I'm tired of being gaslit otherwise.
>>739588096Women. Every girl gamer gushed over this fucking faggot ass character.
Women.
>>739588228cuck
>>739588096Why is this game so hyped when literally every character is the most obnoxious, unlikable piece of shit imaginable?
>>739588096Me. He has that classic gay talk voice that is clearly meant to be funny and it is.
>>739588124fpbp, but also people who like murdering faggots in video games (me)
>>739588096He's fun.
>>739588096me
>>739588096Women. >but he looks old enough to be someone's dadWomen.
There is no appeal. The game flopped and china hid the numbers.>Tencent spamming the board againWhat's the occasion? Low shill budget? Phantom Blade 0 expected to fail?
>>739597520I'll never understand people like this who get so upset over children's toys they scour the internet to find, make, and save things like this then go onto 4chan to crusade about their personal demons and scream about anyone who doesn't hivemind them.
>>739588096Every party needs a rogue, even if they are a faggot.
>>739588096everyone who thought Paul Lynde was funny in the 1960s and 70s
>>739588096Gay men and women. He does a very good job at it
>>739588096I enjoyed playing as him as an origin character. Being S tier at stealth and lock picking and being selfish but not truly evil was fun. Though the only real highlight for the origin playthrough was the vampire dudes mansion and becoming elder lord or whatever.
>>739598351anybody can be a rogue in this game, there's unlimited full respecs with no restrictions.
>>739588096Me.
>>739598552He's still good at lock pick and stealth as a party member.His +/-'s sucked, because you could choose a sarcastic option but he'd get pissed since it was the "hero" choice if you said you'd agree to helping someone but only if they paid you.I didn't care for his personal story, personally, mostly because the ending kind of sucked and you do a romance with him to where you're trying to get him to be less self-serving, the whole murder his "brother/sisters" to kill his master and become him (complete with a personality change) is terrible writing.But worse was having to gaslight him after going "eh, bite her or don't. It's your choice, love. We could use the potion but I don't care either way" and him getting PISSED over it.I chalk it up to Larian pushing the game out the door before doing some re-writes during "Early Access."Same reason Karlach still has no fucking resolution even if you play all your cards right and help her engine heart.
>>739588124I'm a fag and he's not appealing. He looks like a low t version of Javier Bardem.
>>739588124Beat me to it, never played it but it just has that look
>>739588096He's the comic relief.
my gf is into galeidk who likes astarion. he's basically dr frankenfurter
>>739599728I like to ignore the "no restrictions" part of the respec system.
>>739600040His likes/dislikes in dialogue were kind of retarded given they try to play him as a dude putting up a front but wanting desperately to be better. That said I played a mostly good character and still had his and sharts affection maxed out. Only one I never maxed was the lizard girl and even then only because I never used her.
>>739588096i kill him in every run
>>739588096All heterosexual action heroes/supernatural psychotic murderers need a flamboyant comedy relief sidekick. If only he was fat too, then he'd be perfect.
>>739588096Hes really funny. You get some great back and forth with him too. I picked him because he reminded me of RE: Village Heisenberg but he stayed because he was hilarious and wasnt a pussy when I wanted to just kill and rob people.
If I didn't think whiny faggots were funny I wouldn't be here
>>739588096Fags and aging tumblrinas
>>739588096I am a white hetero male and he is fun.
>>739588124Are gay men into vampires like women are? I didn't know any gay dudes back when Twilight was a thing.
>>739588124This.
>>739588096I co-oped BG3 with one of my females friends and she loved him. We got the bug where he wouldn't try to bite us so she never got to romance him and she seethed for a while.
There's a mod that turns him into a woman and runs his dialogue through an AI to make it female.She's still an annoying cunt.
>there are zoomers/aoomers on this board RIGHT NOW who didn't live through the twilight tween era
>>739601093Wow you mean to say deliberately downgrading a character ISN'T an improvement? Who'd have fucking thought?
>>739601159I know right liking women is so gay
>>739588096He was created to demonstrate to the player that they have agency and can kill him instead of putting up with LGBT shit in their games.
Male or female Astarion is my favorite character.
>>739601209This, this, so much this, we're not allowed to do it in real life so they let us be able to take out our hatred and rage against these demonic beastmonsters as much as we want in video games, God bless them.
>>739601287You sound like a fag
>>739601298>agree with you>start thinking about faggots
>>739601128I think twilight is a pretty cool guy. eh sparkles in the sunlight and doesn't afraid of anything.
>>739588096He's the gay man women want to fuck
>>739600415>Durge>heterosexualMy man that lizard has gone into places you wouldn't even go with a knife
>>739603051>heterosexual action heroespic related>supernatural psychotic murderers>>739600415
>>739603139
>>739588096effeminate gays and weird women who fetishise gays
>>739588096The only character with an actual arc. Not that I like him.>>739588162Juden.
>>739588096after going to a book fare with my sister and seeing that the biggest line was for the BL publisher, I'd say it's straight women.
>second playthrough after choosing all the obvious good guy options you're supposed to pick the first time through>this time I'm a bit of an asshole but not outright evil>druid grove, Cersei druid has the tiefling kid, says she's gonna put her in jail>don't intervene, my character doesn't care about some kid he doesn't know and worst case he can bust her out later if necessary>she dies immediately from a snake bite, this is apparently my fault>go back to zevlor, he's pissed at Cersei, pays me to kill her>yeah okay sure I'm down to merc and she's a cunt anyway>go kill her>exit cave and find the other druids are all attacking the refugees>go kill the druids>surviving tieflings say they're extremely grateful to me for saving them for a second time, first from goblins now from druids>despite this, everyone I encounter from now on acts as though I killed the tieflings. Karlach tells me to fuck off, tiefling scouts at the mountain pass are hostileGetting the impression this game kind sucks if you don't do what they wanted you to do and they didn't really test the other paths and just thought you'd savescum to get the outcome they wanted you to get
>>739588096He's supposed to set the overton window of gay extremely far into flamboyant fag so you don't notice how absolutely homosexual every other character is
Fujoshi and faggot types. I know people who never played D&D or any kind of cRPG before and actually bought Baldur's Gate 3 because of Astarion.You can hate him all you want, but he was tailor-made for a purpose and the succeeded in it. Who was his Larian writer?
>>739588096looksmaxxers
>>739592423It's all fake and it's a movie game so it attracts normies.
>>739588096ProJared types.
BG1 was the only good one
>>739589721Just use the female Astarion mod and you'll get it as well. >Descendant of a powerful vampire>Is sexy, suave and constantly making passes at you>Wants to suck you off and give you vampire powersIt's just like pic rel
>>739588096>Who is this game meant to appeal toSame people.
>>739611712This.
Larian managed to make a game that made normies admit they are closeted coomers.
>>739588096hated the lisp on that abominable faggot. every character was written in this reddit cynical way to be fair. shit game in retrospect
Astarion is a genuinely well written character, you don't need to be a faggot to appreciate him. Both his VA and character writing is spot on, by far the best performance in the entire cast.
>>739607380>Getting the impression this game kind sucks if you don't do what they wanted you to do and they didn't really test the other paths and just thought you'd savescum to get the outcome they wanted you to getYeah most of the story falls apart as soon as you do things in the 'wrong' order. You were SUPPOSED to figure out Kagha was working for shadow druids by investigating her, finding a note and a map, going to that location, and finding some other bs note, and THEN going back and confronting her. Only then are you allowed to kill her.
>>739598317THe person you're responding to is schizophrenic and mindbroken to the point that he has spammed this image in every even tangibly related BG3 thread since release
Rocky Horror cultists.>I'm just a sweet transvestite~>From transexual Transylvaniaaaaahahaaa~
>>739607380>Getting the impression this game kind sucks if you don't do what they wanted you to do and they didn't really test the other paths and just thought you'd savescum to get the outcome they wanted you to getAbsolutely:>>739600040https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/17hj5c9/guide_get_astarion_to_drink_araj_blood_without/You choose the middle-of-the-road "it's your choice, I respect you either way" option and the character gets PISSED and then you find out the backstory of why they're pissed (which isn't telegraphed before this) and then have to gaslight them to keep the "relationship" going.Gameplay is great, but there is clear broken scripts/events that were made before events/writing was finalized.It's part of the reason I don't give a shit about Divinity 3 (well that and the AI sloppa).
>>739601040nah he almost exclusively appeals to womennone of the party members appeal to gayst. fag
>>739588096Don't know I always staked the cunt.
>>739601040>when Twilight was a thing.Bottoms were into Twilight. But tops weren't because it was clear heterosexual pandering.Vampires are gay-coded (Dracula, even), to where the latest adaptation of "Interview with the Vampire" leaned into it. But they aren't SUPER popular in the gay scene, as gothic horror isn't a major thing.
>>739588096I liked him.Gale was way more insufferable to me, genuinely felt like THAT guy's first DnD campaign and the character he'd make.
>>739588096astarion's voice turns me on so much and im not even gaythe way he says 'oh, darling~' O M Ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwMcJ5DFJ1M
>>739615770I liked Gale, but him coming onto me super fast was annoying.I even liked his personal story a bit more than Astarions, because it's clear he knows he fucked up but now either has to accept the consequences or trying to fix them.
>>739615969I liked most of the characters as time went on except Wyll who obviously got shorthanded on development. But goddamn I know I'd be rolling my eyes into my head if someone brought a smug wizard who fucked the goddess of magic and has a gear-eating bomb in his chest to the table
>>739600040Theres one good story beat with him towards the end when you discover you're Baalspawn. Astarian pulls you aside and goes>Look, I was made a vampire against my will, no different than you having the blood of Baal in your veins. But what we are does not determine who we areOr something to that effect. I could not for the life of me stand him for the entire game, and while a single moment of good writing doesn't reverse everything else, it did show me there was once a good story written fot Astarian.I'd go so far as to say this applies to most all characters in the game, byt Larian being fucking Larian, they can't write for shit, the writers cannot not self insert themselves into donut steel OCs, they can't axe half their fucking game because they don't know how to preplan which inevitably leads them to stitching scraps together to make a shippable product at the expense of pacing, and thr lowest common denominator that makes up the super majority laps it up because Larian are the only motherfuckers left who are making actual RPGs anymore.
>>739588096Fujos.Fujos LOVE their twink male vampires.
>>739588096ShitpostersAstarion is a good pal for anyone that loves shitposting fun
>>739603159so many customization options yet you choose john baldur the third every time
>>739616084Isn't it lore accurate that half the good wizards in the world have fucked Mystra at some point in their lives?With that consideration it's not really that over the top.
I tried to make Astarion into an oathbreaker paladin the last time I played BG3 but I think I screwed something up.
>>739601040Only the ones with low testosterone. Nobody in this game is attractive to me; Hardin "could" count if he didn't have a 70 year-old's head grafted onto a 40 year-old's body.
>>739618613Why wouldn't I? It's his game.
>>739618613>>739603159Despite this meme I've never seen a mid playthrough screenshot of Mr Baldur McFighter
>>739621309Generally I'm too busy playing games to take screenshots. I imagine a lot of actual gamers are. "Photo mode" is for faggots, women and third genders that play Bethesda games.
>>739621309Makes sense, why would I share any screenshot of my playthrough? Only attention seeking trannies do that and none of those subhumans would ever consider playing as John Baldur
