>>4143567
>Physically strong and intimidating men wearing heavy armour ready to charge in and smite evil.
>Underweight fancy boyz wearing little to no armour and playing defense.

>What the fuck?
It's a narrative shift reflective of the progressiveness of the setting. The scary thing is it's historically accurate:
In a male dominated society trad-men are more concerned with getting shit done, it may ruffle feathers but they establish law and order and they don't negotiate with terrorists.
Once society stabilizes and progress towards something more egalitarian pog-men (and women) shift the dynamic towards favoritism, "peace" and negotiation, they're more concerned with appearances both physical and social and would rather hear the the terrorists out because it presents a better face for society. The problem with this is it emboldens evil and you'll eventually need a trad-man to set things back on the path to peace. Shits circular.

To put this is a real-world dynamic: You had Russia and the US (both traditionally trad) in a stale mate with each other, then as the US grew more prog it embolden Russia to the point where it felt confident enough to invade Ukraine. Now prog countries are in a panic trying to rally their shit to push Russia back but they have no trad to lead them so they sit on the fence. Trump likes to boast that if he was in power Putin never would of invaded, the sad thing is he's right, he was Trad enough to keep Russia in check but it saw weakness when Biden/Democrats got in and took the opportunity to invade. By being liberal and voting for Biden people (unknowingly) voted for the deaths of millions of Ukrainians, you can't blame these people though, global politics is far more complicated and not as mutable as gender dynamics.

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Today I will remind them
>Baldur's Gate 1 has 25 companions (15 men, 10 women) with a mean STR of 13.35 (sigma 3.25) and a mean INT of 13.32 (sigma 3.15).
>There are 10 outliers for high STR, 80% male. There are 10 outliers for high INT, 50% male. There are 9 outliers for low strength, 33% male. There are 10 outliers for low INT, 70% male.
>Baldur's Gate 2 has 16 companions (10 men, 6 women) with a mean STR of 14.33 (sigma 3.56) and a mean INT of 13.25 (sigma 3.07).
>There are 7 outliers for high STR, 100% male. There are 7 outliers for high INT, 43% male. There are 5 outliers for low STR, 40% male. There are 5 outliers for low INT, 60% male.
>Baldur's Gate 3 has 10 companions (5 men, 5 women) with a mean STR of 12 (sigma 3.63) and a mean INT of 10.3 (sigma 2.93).
>There are 3 outliers for high STR, 0% male. There are 3 outliers for high INT, 100% male. There are 3 outliers for low STR, 100% male. There are 5 outliers for low INT, 40% male.

>>4143583
What class are they

>>4143577
Dnd is gay, so is the new dnd wow collab

>>4143567
What a downgrade

>>4143583
>There are 3 outliers for high INT, 100% male.
>There are 5 outliers for low INT, 40% male.
Uhh based?

JoJo Stardust Crusaders x JoJo Golden Wind

>>4143567
Western gaming industry was infiltrated by tumblr and fanfiction.net writers. One of the BG3 writers was hired because they were a fanfic author.

>>4144050
>gaming industry
>fanfiction writers
Literally always has been.

>>4144041
kek

>>4143567
had to post this on /int/ to?

>>4144059
There were better narratives, even if simpler. Look how they turned the emperor obviously the adversary, the legendary leader of the mindflayers into whatever he is now, a mirror for player decisions. Not to mention all the cut quest lines from Raphael, asmodeus, the inner gith conflict, shar selune aso. Larian folded under their own stupidity and cut the game to death, heck, act3 with avernus where bigger than act 1 and 2 combined. Same story with dos 2, that initially had 12 acts. You can also check the unpublished music in both games, like 40% of the music isn't even published, lol.
If there were great moders, they would restore avrrnus, upper city and introduce the old plot where nightsong is an enemy and daisy ofc.

>>4144653
>Larian folded under their own stupidity
No, they had to obey WotC after the internal purge had changed all the people involved with BG3 on the IP holder side.

>>4144657
Wotc had no say in dos2 and it's known they recasted vas roughly one year before release, this and other things indicate a hasty rewrite, which suggests larian lied about the upper city. They are a bunch of liars, if you followed ea. Like how they promised good origins. Idk if you mod, but their code is spaghetti napoli. The resting mechanic is lunacy, no wonder all mods use potions to rest or whatever stupid workaround.

>>4143567
Yes, I love big buff sexy men too, OP.

>>4144664
The timeline coincides with what you said. Feel free to remain ignorant.

>>4143567
Larian essentially builds simulators of high-stakes gambling and problem-solving. You are constantly pulling the lever to see how the world reacts to your insane ideas. When it works, it's a massive rush—but the friction, the bugs, and the sheer mental exhaustion required to get there are the steep price you pay.

>>4144672
You are ignorant, I'm afraid

>>4144672
>The timeline coincides with what you said.
The timeline also coincides with what >>4143577 said.

Congratulations, you played yourself.

>>4143577
Might actually be one of the dumbest and most historically illiterate things I've ever read.

>>4143567
Has anyone map modeling experience in bg3?

>>4144664
>suggests larian lied about the upper city
They absolutely lied, which destroyed any respect I had for them. If they were honest and said “yea sorry guys, we ran out of time/money/wanted to beat another game to market and so we had to cut a lot of stuff we had planned, we can try to add some of it back in with patches” it would be understandable. Almost every big RPG has cut content, it happens.
Instead, they went
>umm sweety we never cut anything that’s just a conspiracy theory, we delivered exactly the game we always intended. but also if we did cut anything it was only due to our extremely high quality standards out of respect for you, our players :)
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining you Belgian faggots.

>>4143577
Great post until the take on the Russo-Ukrainian war and especially seeing Biden as a victim Jesus Christ inform yourself

>>4144792
>Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining you Belgian faggots.
Their leaders are all scrubs from day one, meaning they became leader by chance and not by skill or talent. Larian doesn't even make rp, rather addicting feedback loops fueled by dopamine clutter.
>chud, we only cut the true soul - mindflayer - daisy arc bc the npc would run away screaming from the protag
That came to your mind like 5 years after development started? Ever heard of psionics? Any mindflayer can make himself look like any race, heck any wizard can, if he wishes to.
>dlc
>It didn't feel right.
Larian isn't ashamed of lying

>initial story
I scoured the dead ends in the tool kit and must say chublot isn't that thorough. It's pretty clear that the emperor, the legendary adversary initially played the inner gith conflict, the brain, the dead three, shar and selune and ultimately the gods, but larian wrote themselves into a corner and couldn't handle the permutation explosion, hence they cut like 80% of the story. That's the reason they pushed minsc and jaheira forward, to reduce complexity, but they realized too late they couldn't handle it. They are awful silent regarding their space game, sounds like cancel to me.

>>4143583
That's what I call autism!

>>4144919
dWoke/dT

I just saw a car covered in bumper stickers at Costco, “I’d Rather Be Playing The Award Winning Fantasy RPG Baldur’s Gate III” jumped out at me. It was next to faggot flags and tranny slogans, unsurprisingly.

>>4144779
>one of the dumbest and most historically illiterate things I've ever read
Far from it, history shows that democracies can shift toward authoritarianism during crises, and that some countries later democratize again. e.g. Argentina and Chile.

If you think the idea is stupid and historically illiterate you need to go back to school and study some history.

>>4144957
It's a psychological thing. Those barbie dress ups don't play bg3, but they relive the polished ea part of act 1 for like 1400h. It's basically like in the movie cell with jlo. They want to play god of a dead world. Replaying that part gives those tiny beings sense of security and power. Larian knows that and front loads their games for thst reason. Larian doesn't make games, they are from the gambling sector, they make addictive feedback loops, those aren't games.

>>4145288
what is the addictive feedback loop?

>>4143567
>Sarevok in party
idiot
>shithead anti-paladin halforc donutsteel from EE
RIP taste, IQ and soul of anon

>>4143583
>people spend time, effort and brain cells on shit like this

>>4143577
Holy shit what a tool. No wonder USA fell apart completely as it did. The ruskies just had to play towards your bad education and retard tendencies.

>>4145531
>>Sarevok in party
>idiot
Outing yourself as not having played the game? Sarevok was always recruitable in BG2's expansion

>>4143577
Let's talk about your biceps, anon.
What circumference are your biceps? How much can you benchpress? Show us your chest hair. You do have the correct density and placement of chest hair, don't you, anon?
Do you not???
Or are you one of those subhumans with the receding hairline and combed over bald spot? Stand up right now and prove that your gut has absolutely no crease at your belt line. It has become regrettably fashionable lately for men to not have visible and distinct abdominal muscles, but at the very least you should be able to prove that you have zero gut and that your nipples are neither puffy nor saggy.
Get those verifications sent in and then we can move on to the next step of verifying that you have successfully slain a bear and an enemy warrior in unarmed combat before we begin the process of testing your semen for motility.

>>4145728
>Show us your chest hair.
I'm not sending you fap-photos!

>>4144657
yes im sure some WotC managment suit sent larian email to include Sarevok and have him in incest relationship with daughter and granddaughter, Larian retarded Belgian faggot/degenerate writers totally had nothing to do with it.

>>4145728
>biceps
>benchpress

>>4145843
Reverse bench press to isolate biceps... Via
Er bench... Chest? Yea!

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>>4145693
anon, I have played this game back when lots of fags here were contained in someone's testicles. My post itself assumed Sarevok being recruitable as a fact. How big a secret do you think that is? (Though to your credits, kids these days routinely don't know stuff you'd never imagine somebody would miss/be unaware of).

I'm just stating that it's WRONG to have that snowflake stats shithead* in your party. It means you kicked out one of your good buddies you have beaten SoA with.

* Only charname deserves those

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>>4145531
He has the best banter

>>4146419
>Abdel
surely you jest, anon
also, the little faggot tries to say that to Imoen and we piss on his grave in 30 minutes. not that I'd bother to cover it. Or dig a hole

>>4146265
What is your reaction if I say
>samurai pizza cats
?

>>4146419
>Abdel
What the fuck is this faggot shit

>>4146529
brings back memories, but we didn't have that in TV when I was a kid. Just Xena, Hercules, Power Rangers, Pokemon aired later but didn't watch that. No internet either. Only saw Samurai Pizza Cats later, ironically when I was into anime already.

>>4143567
Why don't you have Haer'Dalis, Cernd, Jan, Valygar and Wilson for 2 instead

>>4146626
Legendary (and some cheesy) TV shows. SPC is getting a game, looks really decent idk about gameplay. Well, time for ninja scroll.

>>4146703
>SPC is getting a game, looks really decent idk about gameplayo
looks cute, but platformer, well. I beat COmmaner Keen 4 with some effort (I was too afraid to use saves because they removed keys, causing softlocks), so in one session, and first episode of Jazz Jak Rabbit 2 I think, but action and reflexes games are not my thing at all.

>>4146648
Valygar is pretty hyper-masculine though. Look at his jawline and ability scores. He's a wealthy noble who likes to camp out at his family's cabin in the woods and he obsesses over sperm retention to prevent the inheritance of his family's curse. You literally can't get more chud than that. (though I personally think his chudness was a peculiarity of the '90s and isn't related to the modern chud bullshit, but this being 4chan him being a chud is likely to be interpreted as a virtue...) And Cernd sired a child then immediately risked his life to reclaim his son as soon as he found out about it. Jan was man enough to know that he didn't need a woman to complete him and that he couldn't make decisions for her, even when her decisions were stupid and he disagreed with them: he was able to just leave her alone because she was toxic. Haer'Dalis was a notorious womanizer, his dalliances scattered around the Planes. As a musical theater star, he sure was surrounded by a lot of people who wanted his dick, men and women alike. That he was abducted by an enchanter who magically enslaved him and put him literally barefoot in the kitchen is not exactly a mark against Haer'Dalis: that specific enchanter wanted to humiliate him after catching him during a burglary attempt.
Wilson is literally just a bear. An easter egg joke.
Try to at least pretend you're arguing in good faith, anon.

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>>4146716
>Try to at least pretend you're arguing in good faith, anon.
OP posts BG3 OCs screenshot as BG2 characters though

>>4146648
>Wilson
>>4146716
>Wilson is literally just a bear. An easter egg joke.
There's no fucking "Wilson" in BG2. I will not play along with your gaslighting, faggots.

>>4146716
tl;dr
Valygar is a nog, Jan is a cuck, Haer'Dalis is a fag and Cernd is a simp.

>>4146712
Mine neither, I'm just impressed by the 90s looks of the spc game.
>your mentions
Boy, that's old. Ck4 is dos?
>current play
Onimusha dawn of dreams and next are Dino crisis 1 and 2. Recently learned about jailbreaking a ps4 Pro. It's like 60 bucks and you can play almost anything pre ps3, including snes and megadrive.

>>4146850
>Mine neither, I'm just impressed by the 90s looks of the spc game.
yeah, looks nice. it's probably better for platformers thematically but those character models could work in retro-style jrpg I guess?

>>4147072
Sure thing. That's what I'd love. It's much better than Southpark. Good rpg are scarce if South Park counts as good (looking) rpg. Recently saw one indie metroidvania based on stitchwork.

>>4143567

my companions are all females and tehy are all in my heram

>>4147144
this but with a female protagonist too

>>4146724
You can import your save from BG1, idiot.

>>4145247
History shows that democracies are very rare.

>>4149686
>You can import your save from BG1, idiot.
There is no “Wilson” in BG1, idiot.

>>4143577
shut up tranny

>>4149738
Explain where the Wilson is, anon.

>>4149738
>>4146724
https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Wilson

>>4149888
>Explain where the Wilson is, anon.
There is no Wilson.
>>4149889
Cool modder fan fiction, dipshit-san. Not in the real game.

>>4143577
So much this. All women are stronger than the men of BG3

>>4149899
>2026
>Not using mods for 26 year old games
>Oh my god he's serious

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>>4145535
fuck yeah, that's what actual men do
you fucking faggets pretend nerds would never understand

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>>4145728
this is the gayest post ever

>>4143567
Did you omit the black ranger guy from BG2 just to make this more chuddy

>>4152119
And the gay tiefling

>>4152122
Is that the one that cucks the player

The collective kvetching in this thread makes me think of how sheep bleat. Don't like the game? Don't play the game. Nearly every fantasy game features burly men doing burly things. It's okay to have a single fantasy game not cater to your homoerotic chud fantasies. You will survive. I pinky swear you will. If it was every single game ever, I would have more sympathy towards the bleating. But it's not, so I don't.

>>4152087
>retard unable to distinguish between the original game and his modded fan fiction
Many such cases

>>4146419
It's a pity his romance mod kind of neuters his interactivity elsewhere and isn't even erotic, really.

>>4143577
fpbp