The Good, The Bad, and Baldur's Gate 3 - The Rageaholic

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  • Опубликовано: 21 янв 2025

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  • @notttanenemy9295
    @notttanenemy9295 Год назад +1344

    "Count Twinkula died as he lived; penetrated by wood." get this man a writing award.

    • @aaronaguilar4004
      @aaronaguilar4004 Год назад

      So he died of aids, or monkey 🐒 pox???

    • @Ozzystrayroo
      @Ozzystrayroo Год назад +25

      Truly much better lover story than twilight

    • @hariman7727
      @hariman7727 Год назад +11

      Shouldn't have propositioned that dryad.

    • @aaronaguilar4004
      @aaronaguilar4004 Год назад

      ​​@@hariman7727more like you shouldn't have prepositioned that dryad......

    • @Mowglibaloo2
      @Mowglibaloo2 Год назад +4

      More mixed than...Dwayne the Rock Johnson lol

  • @AngryAtlantean
    @AngryAtlantean Год назад +1405

    The Warrior is kicking ass, the Wizard is casting spells, the cleric is keeping them alive, and the bard is down the street selling a tomato-based fruit salad.

    • @laotd1622
      @laotd1622 Год назад +134

      Or tossing one.

    • @AngryAtlantean
      @AngryAtlantean Год назад +73

      Hey, whatever gets the bard turned on enough to play his fucking mandolin is good so long as he actually does so.

    • @nighttrain1236
      @nighttrain1236 Год назад +17

      I just want to live long enough to turn into a wizard.

    • @braf7349
      @braf7349 Год назад +12

      Have you been watching my friends and I play? This describes our game so far to a "T."

    • @loneboy1237
      @loneboy1237 Год назад +6

      Took me a while to get the reference

  • @heatseekerx51
    @heatseekerx51 Год назад +36

    "I cast 'God Fucking Speed' at 5th level."

  • @Booma4142
    @Booma4142 Год назад +67

    You had more choices in genitalia types than body types.
    Oh. 5th edition. That explains it.

  • @RaichuWizDom
    @RaichuWizDom Год назад +228

    "My personal politics come with German subtitles."
    No surprise you liked a game from Belgium, then. You drive fifteen minutes in any direction here, you need subtitles, doesn't even matter if you're going from Flanders to Wallonia, it's that bad. And if you happen to be in Brussels, you'll need subtitles if you walk fifteen seconds in any direction.
    Granted, you'll also need some antibiotics, but still...

    • @TheUnseenPath
      @TheUnseenPath Год назад +4

      I don't think he actually liked it, lol.

    • @Ozzystrayroo
      @Ozzystrayroo Год назад

      Belgium is schizoid place who can't decide are they french or are they deustch.

  • @BloodyClay
    @BloodyClay Год назад +272

    "My personal politics come with German subtitles" That's a good one

    • @honeybadger6275
      @honeybadger6275 10 месяцев назад +7

      Yeah I used to wonder what led to 1930s germany, then I read about 1920s germany.

    • @n8_b_h
      @n8_b_h 9 месяцев назад

      @@honeybadger6275well said 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

    • @IchCharacter
      @IchCharacter 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@honeybadger6275 Surprisingly similar to 2020s America. Or 2020s most of Europe, which is basically the same thing anyway.

    • @honeybadger6275
      @honeybadger6275 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@IchCharacter i wonder who could be behind it

  • @whitelioness87
    @whitelioness87 Год назад +188

    As one who was referred to as “the tall Indian girl” in my high school [and I’m NOT at all Indian]…that Dwayne Johnson’s ethnicity jab made me chuckle. Godspeed Razor!

    • @smallik81
      @smallik81 Год назад +1

      Let me guess, Pakistani?

    • @whitelioness87
      @whitelioness87 Год назад +11

      @@smallik81 That’s usually the second guess from strangers 😏…two guys in Moscow were so confused I had to learn how to say “biracial” in Russian!

    • @smallik81
      @smallik81 Год назад +3

      @@whitelioness87 which 2 races just out of interest?

    • @smallik81
      @smallik81 Год назад +2

      @@jasonbrody8724 her name is white lioness... so who knows

    • @sojalemmi1515
      @sojalemmi1515 Год назад +5

      im gonna guess Libyan and prussian.

  • @Yarblocosifilitico
    @Yarblocosifilitico Год назад +1465

    What a sad world when the most basic concepts 'man' and 'woman' are turned into the euphemisms 'body type 1' and 'body type 2'. Even the most pessimistic distopian writers were unable to predict this bs.

    • @halcionjoy7
      @halcionjoy7 Год назад +59

      I agree that it's terrible, but at least they added a 3rd and 4th option to justify it slightly more.

    • @sting7789
      @sting7789 Год назад +30

      You can choose Male and Female instead of pronoun nonsense and then you got body types. Dumb but it's the only woke nonsense I noticed which you can ignore. Is it as horny as Mass Effect series yes lol.

    • @arsenelupin9697
      @arsenelupin9697 Год назад +104

      ​@@halcionjoy7 Oh, well then it's fine.
      As long as it's only little bits of dystopia.......

    • @Robloxman01
      @Robloxman01 Год назад +49

      The sad part is i know a few people who accidentally picked the wrong gender body type because its fucking impossible to tell which one is which as a dragonborn lmao

    • @arsenelupin9697
      @arsenelupin9697 Год назад +41

      ​@@Robloxman01 One has a "sassy" stance - which, if they were honest and had any principles besides winning, would go against their "female stereotypes" talking points.

  • @aregularperson7573
    @aregularperson7573 Год назад +470

    Nothing cures a case of the flu like watching RAZORFIST ranting so much German subtitles are on default

    • @Flint-Dibble-the-Don
      @Flint-Dibble-the-Don Год назад +21

      There is no such thing as the Flu anymore. Haven't you been paying attention?

    • @RandomLombax37
      @RandomLombax37 Год назад +1

      ​@@Flint-Dibble-the-Donriiiight

    • @mrbigglezworth42
      @mrbigglezworth42 Год назад +6

      More like the German subtitles are telling him to calm down.

    • @soyouresaying7814
      @soyouresaying7814 Год назад +3

      @@Flint-Dibble-the-Don Ask your unelected health officials.

  • @25xxfrostxx
    @25xxfrostxx Год назад +133

    To be fair, they have fixed the overly horny nature of... well, everyone, with patches. Now it takes 2 compliments instead of one.

    • @anelbegic2780
      @anelbegic2780 Год назад +43

      *golf claps slowly*

    • @palladiamorsdeus
      @palladiamorsdeus Год назад +2

      Karlach says hello.

    • @anelbegic2780
      @anelbegic2780 Год назад +5

      @@palladiamorsdeus
      She us fucking adorable honestly.

    • @eclipse369.
      @eclipse369. Год назад +1

      so just make two compliments before pushing them off a cliff

    • @shoon1093
      @shoon1093 3 месяца назад

      @@anelbegic2780No she is not. People that act like that irl are insufferably stupid. Karlach is one of the worst written characters in any art medium.
      In fact every character in this game is written terribly.
      The writers have never picked up a book in their life.

  • @goofygoober9719
    @goofygoober9719 Год назад +159

    "And the bard..." My man, in early DnD to become a bard, you would have been the cream of the crop, with higher charisma then the paladin and with the fighting skill that'd make a fighting man blush.

    • @maxrobe
      @maxrobe Год назад +1

      Ghey!

    • @silvervd5675
      @silvervd5675 Год назад +1

      Right, now bars are just f4gs lmao

    • @gyorgyor7765
      @gyorgyor7765 Год назад +5

      Even in 5e Bard is one of the most powerful classes.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Год назад +2

      2e bards had insane requirements.

    • @J.B.1982
      @J.B.1982 Год назад +8

      That was before everyone was gae. They claimed the bard class real fast.

  • @jgrif7891
    @jgrif7891 Год назад +611

    The problem with RP'ing in a western RPG is that if you want to roleplay anything besides Chaotic Horny, Neutral Bland, or just plain Evil, you're shit out of luck.

    • @acekoala457
      @acekoala457 Год назад

      Have you tried Tyranny?
      It has you playing as a Soldier of the Dark Lord so you can be evil.

    • @xFlareLeon
      @xFlareLeon Год назад +21

      I dunno, I played Neutral fucking Good in OG Bladur's Gate and I turned out just fine.

    • @jgrif7891
      @jgrif7891 Год назад +101

      @@xFlareLeon see Neutral Bland

    • @tbc1880
      @tbc1880 Год назад +1

      ​@@jgrif7891lmao

    • @ChunkSchuldinga
      @ChunkSchuldinga Год назад +49

      This is why I punish my players for being horny in my Pathfinder games. One of my campaigns happened to have a brothel in that world, but I deliberately set it up so nothing good comes from it, including fantasy AIDS making healing spells weaker and possibly fail. There was a dark backstory and side quest there involving a trafficking ring with an illusionary spell to disguise children as halfling or dwarves. The relevation of this would cause a manhunt against everyone that willingly worked it or was a patron. Basically would result in a drawn-out glorided TPK by execution if the whole party was horny and tenacious enough to resist arrest.
      This wouldn't kill the campaign though, the whole thing was revolved around adventurers building reputation arround completing smaller quests on an island nation to get noticed and hired as private sector contract worker for the island government to kill a kraken with a massive bounty on its head disrupting trade with the mainland. The continent was also at war, so they couldn't be bothered to spend resources in the opposite direction. No exp, leveling up was done on quest completion, because the level was also how well know they were with their actions. So if there was an unfortunate TPK or something, they can just roll a new party at 2 levels lower. Since the campaign was centered around a kraken bounty, it didn't matter if everyone died because hundreds of desperate adventures are after the same thing. Fry that fish, collect the life-changiny bounty, re-open trade with the mainland, and get off what essentially became a free range prison.

  • @edwinsolis5710
    @edwinsolis5710 Год назад +453

    Best part about this is finding out Razor is a fellow “Record of Lodoss War” fan

    • @randommoosebrains
      @randommoosebrains Год назад +46

      He’s mentioned it before when asked about favorite anime. You might wanna keep an eye out tonight…he might stream deedlit in wonderland if his Twitter is any indication tonight

    • @user-tz5uq2bt1s
      @user-tz5uq2bt1s Год назад +7

      I remember watching it on vhs as a kid.

    • @berserkerpride
      @berserkerpride Год назад +20

      Man I love that anime. I want real art back in anime. It didn't used to all look the same.

    • @iamhungey12345
      @iamhungey12345 Год назад +15

      I've seen doujins of Deedlit.

    • @SiegeRetardius
      @SiegeRetardius Год назад +5

      Slayn is the best party member.

  • @blamalam7257
    @blamalam7257 Год назад +277

    I like the fact that Larian studios had the alpha ver out for almost 3 years then in the Release version, took away the Character creation options and added pronoun wielding sexual deviance to Character creation because the pre release Alpha Tracked and sent data and all because and I quote " people were creating too many straight white males" , ie the audience for the game

    • @marcusclark1339
      @marcusclark1339 Год назад +1

      yup@fatheroftheyear9755

    • @blodus4521
      @blodus4521 Год назад +56

      @fatheroftheyear9755 yes

    • @Boss_Tigger
      @Boss_Tigger Год назад +88

      I wonder if Larian would have complained if there was "too many black characters being created"

    • @Ashkihyena
      @Ashkihyena Год назад +65

      @@Boss_TiggerWe know the answer for that.

    • @KamikazeChinaman
      @KamikazeChinaman Год назад +85

      Stop noticing these things. Stop asking questions. Just consume and wait for the next product.

  • @thebigskip-e
    @thebigskip-e Год назад +25

    When they added the mirror, a bunch of people were excited over how the game allowed them to be "fluid." I enjoy getting them angry when I say "I know, it's great! Game really embraces fantasy!"

  • @robertnewman4854
    @robertnewman4854 Год назад +97

    I am honestly so glad that Razor's game rereviews still have the editing that they did a decade ago. They harken back to the golden age of youtube game reviews in a way no one else does anymore and are so much more engaging than the modern trend of playing the same 40 seconds of inane "gameplay" on loop in the background.

    • @ElJefeRules
      @ElJefeRules Год назад +26

      Terran Gell is a national treasure.

    • @frenchfrey65
      @frenchfrey65 Год назад +6

      or movies for that matter, lookin at you Critical Drinker as much as I love that salty bastard.

  • @FoxyCAMTV
    @FoxyCAMTV Год назад +38

    Belgium is the main hub for WEF dreams.

    • @mikecampos1193
      @mikecampos1193 Год назад +6

      No wonder they are lost cause.

    • @VideaVice25
      @VideaVice25 Год назад +3

      ​@@mikecampos1193Let's save Jean-Claude Van Damme first then nuke em out of existence.

  • @calebwelch7615
    @calebwelch7615 Год назад +67

    Yes, a rant. Fuel my soul, Razor!

  • @annatardlordofderps9181
    @annatardlordofderps9181 Год назад +92

    I was mulling it over and the issue with having every option available to every character is that you start having to use more time to achieve the same level of depth. This results in the developers simply taking the lazy choice and giving everyone the same romance with a specific character.
    To use two examples from Bioware (when they were great). Jade Empire and Dragon Age Origins.
    Dragon Age Origins: Alistair is a romance option for female characters alone. At one point, after you get his opinion high enough, he will give your character a rose. Saying it "reminded him of you" and "found it incredible, something so gentle and beautiful could survive on the battlefield."
    The quotes dont quite work with a guy with higher strength and wearing heavier armor then Alistair himself.
    With Jade Empire the best possible ending is only avaiable to male characters. After prying into Sagacious Tien enough it becomes revealed that Dawnstar has a claim to the throne because she was named after an event that takes place before the plot. It also takes convincing her to take the throne as well near the end of the game. This cant happen if shes simply not going to have heirs because shes a long wall or embankment designed to prevent flooding.
    You can't make everyone happy. If you try, you will only produce tripe that appeals to the lowest common denominator and only leave tasteless idiots satisfied.

    • @Armameteus
      @Armameteus Год назад

      On your last point: the sad truth is that the lowest common denominators/tasteless idiots make up the majority of humanity. Not sarcasm; the majority (the _vast_ majority) of humanity are low-brow, small-minded, short-sighted, egotistical, hedonistic midwits (at best). It is the small minority of higher-calibre remainders that basically hold up all of society and maintain higher standards than all the rest; they are the ones that create and evolve - all the rest consume, stagnate and destroy.
      Most of humanity is worthless. And the key problem is that companies, in a bid to make as much money as possible, will attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominators out of the simple fact that there are more of them - far, far more - than there are people with credibility, principals and taste. It's about greed.
      Does it often work? Absolutely not. But when it does, it's like hitting the jackpot. And that's why all companies, once they inevitably become greedy and entitled enough, will seek to hit that jackpot or die trying. Pure greed, as by catering to the bottom-feeders of humanity, whom are the vast majority. More consumers = higher chances of a big pay-out. That's literally all there is to it.
      And for the rest? The people with credibility, principals and taste? We can all pound sand, apparently. They don't need (nor want) us anymore.
      You can bet your bottom dollar that this windfall of success BG3 and Larian have seen _will_ only cause them to triple-down for any future games. This is an omen of things to come. They've hit their absolute peak and will soon stall, before going into a tail-spin (but not before jumping from the plane with golden parachutes, of course). BG3 is, undoubtedly, their last reasonably good game. It's all downhill from here.

    • @kyriss12
      @kyriss12 Год назад +15

      One of the better examples of selective npc romance was dragon age inquisition.
      For all that games faults it nailed the romances with characters not only having sexual preferences, but racial ones as well. Except for iron bull, that guy was a complete degenerate and the qunari from the first game would have staked him out in the desert, flawed the skin from his back, and left him for the carrion.

    • @emytzu
      @emytzu Год назад

      "If you try, you will only produce tripe that appeals to the lowest common denominator and only leave tasteless idiots satisfied."
      So that's why it made money....

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus Год назад +5

      That's the problem with "choice" in games, in general. The more freedom you give players, the shallower everything is. Like, you have control over Geralt in the Witcher, but you're still playing Geralt; he has a certain character, certain skills, certain outlook, and so your choices are relatively restricted. Or Shepard from Mass Effect; there was paragon and renegade Shep, and that was it--basically two versions of the character, and most everything fit into those. I understand why some people don't want a 100% scripted experience in a game, I get it, but the further you get away from that, the more shallow and simple things become. I personally think the best is that middle ground; have a character who is relatively defined, but allow specific choices to be made, like being more pragmatic or more idealistic.

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 Год назад +1

      Okay, that last sentence on the next to last paragraph had me confused, then laughing. It's the single best way of casually dodging censorship I've seen yet.

  • @SgtBuck01
    @SgtBuck01 Год назад +271

    I could get around it in Cyberpunk because of the whole body modification thing.
    In a high fantasy game? Nah.

    • @BusyBadger
      @BusyBadger Год назад +36

      Should be for mages only, and then only with a Wish spell. 😂

    • @BlissfullWulf
      @BlissfullWulf Год назад +7

      Futas are very much a fantasy thing.

    • @Flyon86
      @Flyon86 Год назад +33

      BG1 has the "girdle of gender changing" item so it's not exactly new to the series. I'm sure it was meant as a joke item in the 90s, but it was there.

    • @kalasmournrex1470
      @kalasmournrex1470 Год назад

      You can play a chick with a dick who murders literally everyone. It's pretty apropos.

    • @GnosticAtheist
      @GnosticAtheist Год назад +13

      While I may find it annoying at times, it hasnt bothered me much in this game. I just dont select it and the problem isnt there. Also, if any of the party wants to ram your innards just say no. Suprisingly it works really well. Look, there will be a lot of shit, but you can walk around it. Granted, in the Cyberpunk setting it would be unrealistic if you couldnt change your gender or be a guy with tits. You know the rules, the moment it can be done someone will do it.

  • @TabletopTurtle
    @TabletopTurtle Год назад +69

    Why does every modern roleplaying game now feel like I'm playing a cross between Leisure Suit Larry and some 14 year old girl's fan fiction?!

    • @katherine6326
      @katherine6326 Год назад +35

      Because the terminally online 14-year-old girls who write fanfiction grew up into terminally online adults who write video game dialog. They still have the same lack of wisdom and life experience they did as teens.

    • @Bourikii2992
      @Bourikii2992 Год назад +1

      Vampire the masquerade is filled with sex and sexual innuendos and you can literally become a pornstar as a 16 year old in fallout 2.
      That's 2 examples of dozens.

    • @mr.battle20
      @mr.battle20 Год назад +6

      @@Bourikii2992 Your latter example is a bit disingenuous, considering that the player's age is determined entirely by the player. And being a pornstar in game is entirely optional as well. So it's not something that players would typically experience unless they actively made it so.
      Which says a lot more about you than it does about the game itself there, bud.

    • @Bourikii2992
      @Bourikii2992 Год назад +1

      @@mr.battle20 And literally every sexual experience in Baldurs Gate 3 is optional as well lmao? The point is this shit has existed in RPGs since RPGs came to be.

    • @sillylittlesheepjax6009
      @sillylittlesheepjax6009 Год назад +4

      @@Bourikii2992 No, they force it on ya. Writing is very woke teen friendly

  • @GentleHeretic
    @GentleHeretic Год назад +584

    Romance mechanics and their consequences have been a disaster for the roleplaying genre.

    • @arsenelupin9697
      @arsenelupin9697 Год назад +58

      If you do it badly - sure.
      But that goes for literally anything.
      I don't remember the Tali romance from Mass Effect, being de gene rate nonsense.

    • @Pers0n97
      @Pers0n97 Год назад +130

      Romance mechanics are great.
      The problem is that Larian totally failed on every possible level when it comes to make theirs.
      First of all the player should ALWAYS (with some rare exception) be the one engaging the romance.
      YOU should be the one that make the move to get that ass, not the other way around.
      Then there is the fact that romance should take time to archive. You should work your way up to it and make the right moves to get in your target good grace, something that is somehow totally absent from BG3. Every character will try to bang you as long as talk to them a couple of times.
      Then there is the obvious case of "let's pretend heteronormativy is a made up concept" which I don't think I even need to explain why it's bad.
      And lat but not least, they forgot that the default state of a relationship with a companion should be that small thing we call "friendship", or "platonic relationship".
      FOR SOME REASONS the blue haired weirdos in charge of Larian romances totally forgot that being good friend with people is something people do, especially with characters they do like and enjoy the company of. Instead they thought the only choices you have is kicking them in the nutts when they try to shove them in your face or just suck it up (both literally and figuratively).
      It's pretty insane to see how awful on every level the romance writing has been in that game, it's so bad that I feel like we need to find the name of the people in charge of that debacle and make sure Larian get rid of them, because just as sure as a bad apple will spoil the whole basket, an awful farleft weirdo will destroy your company and I'll be pretty sad to see this company die (or worst, get completely corrupted like so many others before them).

    • @Kissamiess
      @Kissamiess Год назад +37

      @@arsenelupin9697 Being done badly is the norm for romances, though.

    • @GentleHeretic
      @GentleHeretic Год назад +54

      @arsenelupin9697 I'm not even talking about degeneracy, I just can't think of a single RPG that was improved by romance options. Skyrim used marriage as a bare-bones life simulation feature, and the only other one I can tolerate is Dragon's Dogma because it's so hilariously bad I can't help but laugh. Everything else, especially from Bioware, has felt like shoe-horned waifu trash, where the quality of dialogue consistently takes a dive as some nerd ponders what flirting sounds like. It's cringe in tabletop, and it's cringe in video games.

    • @quack2thesequel
      @quack2thesequel Год назад +9

      @ZoomerStasi baastilla and revan is an amazing romance

  • @notttanenemy9295
    @notttanenemy9295 Год назад +17

    Razor delivers, every single time. Also thank you T. Gelly for editing. Both of you are legends in the making. (because you're not dead yet otherwise you'd just be legends) KEEP UP THE GOOD GODDAMN WORK!

  • @-The-Stranger-
    @-The-Stranger- Год назад +358

    First Battletech, then Starfield, now BG3. I'd rather own my principles, than a video game that knows less about human biology than the very children they try to indoctrinate.

    • @bronco5334
      @bronco5334 Год назад +95

      Agreed. At least in Cyberpunk it fits in with the setting; it's consistent with both the posthumanism "how many artificial parts before the Man of Theseus stops being a human?" theme AND the "oppressive corporatocracy dystopia in california" setting.

    • @secretagenttau2233
      @secretagenttau2233 Год назад +2

      Starfield isnt trying to indoctrinate anyone either.

    • @SystemHasFailed1989
      @SystemHasFailed1989 Год назад +70

      This, Larian deserves just as much scrutiny and their pozzed beliefs make this not even good sale buy, but just outright ignored.

    • @Rasengan9000ttt
      @Rasengan9000ttt Год назад +14

      @@SystemHasFailed1989 Well here's the thing. Maybe Az chose the wrong game to complain about pronouns. Starfeild was late to the party. And honestly I hate the confusing body type system more then the pronouns.

    • @zyaggho9185
      @zyaggho9185 Год назад

      Ok what’s the deal with battletech and starfield. Are you that upset over pronoun picking?

  • @bluelick7578
    @bluelick7578 Год назад +9

    Admittingly, they did have some right leaning messages, but they were kind of hidden.
    A city quartermaster calling out that the only good defense for anyone's sovereignty is to be armed and willing to use. Not to depend on giant metal guardian answering to 1 man.
    Based flaming fist quartermaster.

    • @krasmasov6852
      @krasmasov6852 Год назад

      That's not a right wing message. Marx outright championed the arming of the working class.

    • @realdaddydagoth69
      @realdaddydagoth69 Год назад +4

      @@krasmasov6852 marx's people boils down to the state's army. he was championing being militant rather than individual self-defense. there's a big difference

    • @krasmasov6852
      @krasmasov6852 Год назад

      @@realdaddydagoth69 Communism involves the abolition of the state, so what are you talking about? lmao

    • @realdaddydagoth69
      @realdaddydagoth69 Год назад +4

      @@krasmasov6852 the thing that comes after the abolition of the state is also the state, just called differently. you don't have to call something the state for it to be a state

  • @ryang2573
    @ryang2573 Год назад +189

    Remember when RPGs were about telling some interesting story and you never had to worry whether the game you picked up would be pushing some sort of agenda?

    • @CodeeXD
      @CodeeXD Год назад +5

      What agenda are they pushing exactly?

    • @jesperjohansson6959
      @jesperjohansson6959 Год назад

      Of all the agendas to worry about, being able to make a chick with a dick isn't one of them... And having options like that in a game where there's sex scenes is just good.

    • @Throbingkcoc
      @Throbingkcoc Год назад

      ​@@CodeeXDThe narrative that more then 8% of the population are homosaxaphones and more then 3% are transgender. That narrative.

    • @manfrombritain6816
      @manfrombritain6816 Год назад +52

      @@CodeeXD the "everyone is a glib, self-interested, LGBT hedonist" agenda

    • @Coyote191-ov5kg
      @Coyote191-ov5kg Год назад +21

      I only played Act 1. It definitely appears they are catering to that weird guy at the table who used DnD to fulfill his weird pr0n induced fantasies with all of the weird things they included...
      I could go back and forth on whether including pronouns is actually pushing an agenda. Motivation matters. Same for using them in a personal capacity.
      Including them though - is enabling the normalization of something that causes great suffering to the vulnerable among us. Increasingly those vulnerable being targeted are children.

  • @Kilthan2050
    @Kilthan2050 Год назад +11

    Well, I wasn’t taken in by the bait and switch because i hold to the rule of “NO PREORDERS”.

  • @devilmansanchez
    @devilmansanchez Год назад +13

    The horniness in this game is embarrassing. It feels like absolute perverts wrote it, is too much. Having played BG 1, 2, Icelandale, and other RPG games I was not expecting that at all, I just realized how absurd the horniness was when the gay vampire bit me in the neck for blood. I offered blood but I had in mind to let him bite my arm, not for him to get on top of me wtf.

  • @flamekaizer8476
    @flamekaizer8476 Год назад +101

    4:57 I've been saying for years that the purpose of a silent protagonist is not for immersion, but for variety. A silent protagonist in these games allows for a greater variety of dialogue choices to be available because the cost of voicing them isn't there. Baldur's gate and Vampire Bloodlines are the only two games I know of that take proper advantage of the fact that your character doesn't say anything, so technically they can say everything. So yeah, fuck the people saying that a silent protag is a bad idea, it's perfect for RPGS

    • @defectiveindustries
      @defectiveindustries Год назад +21

      Exactly. We're all in our own homes reading our lines in our own voice, not some other schmucks

    • @Calvin_OBlenis
      @Calvin_OBlenis Год назад +18

      The Fallout 4 voice really doesn't fit a lot of characters you can make. Like if you make an old person.

    • @odinsrensen7460
      @odinsrensen7460 Год назад

      All characters should be silent. That way they all can have more dialogue.
      SILENCE, CHARACTERS!

    • @Tyler_W
      @Tyler_W Год назад +3

      I don't dislike voiced protagonists, but I greatly enjoy the benefits of a voiceless one.

    • @kalackninja
      @kalackninja Год назад

      i don't know? i think having a voice actor for the main character of planescape torment would have only increased the dialoged options

  • @ZombieLicorice
    @ZombieLicorice Год назад +8

    This game let me role play a paladin so hard. took the stance: demons and undead get the hammer. "What about the vampire companion"? Killed him. "What about Raphael"? tried to kill him several times, eventually succeeded. "What about withers?" .... I'm working on it

  • @mylifeisacomplexpastiche7901
    @mylifeisacomplexpastiche7901 Год назад +17

    The Warrior kicks ass, the Wizard casts spells, the Cleric keeps them all alive and the Bard is “sleeping off a hangover” because the player is busy working overtime.

  • @BestWayKilla
    @BestWayKilla Год назад +65

    I don't think I've ever had more fun in a game sending shitheads plummeting to their deaths, either via AOE attacks and arrows or just a good ol' fashioned shove. There needs to be a mod that inserts the Wilhelm and Goofy scream sound effects whenever you do send someone off a cliff.

    • @gonwyte8534
      @gonwyte8534 Год назад +7

      Pereonally I think yhe Howie Scream os better thsn the Willheim scream on account it sounds like it vibrated its way through a time-distorting wormhole connected to the ninth-circlr of hell

    • @GrampsD63
      @GrampsD63 Год назад +4

      Yeah nothing like a good solid shove into a chasm to brighten your day

    • @MAGAMAN
      @MAGAMAN Год назад +3

      I had fun in Rimworld sending any non straight characters on suicide missions. The most fun I ever had in a game.

    • @funkyweapon1981
      @funkyweapon1981 Год назад +2

      I killed one of the goblin warchiefs that way! The dude that was trying to raise a dead Ilithid. Just pushed him off the scaffolding like he was Jim Cornette and I was one of the Road Warriors! 80's pro-wrestling fans will know what I'm talkin' about!

  • @auraguard0212
    @auraguard0212 Год назад +300

    Larian: "We decided that freedom in character creation is cringe... BUT you can have some pronouns no one will use."
    The devs who made the character creator: 😐
    The preorderers: 😐
    The normies who bought the game: "There was a character creator?"
    The media: _clueless_

    • @Ramsey276one
      @Ramsey276one Год назад +2

      EXCELLENT

    • @25xxfrostxx
      @25xxfrostxx Год назад +63

      No, the Devs were pretty open. When the initial preorder access to act 1 went live, they made a concerted effort to let the world know that the largest majority of created characters for the first few weeks were white males. Then tried to insinuate things. Then people told them to shut up and make games and they got quieter.

    • @mrbigglezworth42
      @mrbigglezworth42 Год назад +1

      The media knew about it....and lied. As they are wont to do.

    • @Ozzystrayroo
      @Ozzystrayroo Год назад +8

      Truly why took that freedom away from players. Who tf cares what people do in their single player game??

    • @punishedwhispers1218
      @punishedwhispers1218 Год назад +18

      No character creation. Just like 5th edition DnD.

  • @malefic5254
    @malefic5254 Год назад +128

    I promise you that the bait and swtich here was most likely a demand from Wizards of the Coast. That company is balls deep in the pronoun garbage and making unsellabe adventure books as a result.

    • @amorencinteroph3428
      @amorencinteroph3428 Год назад +44

      It is rather difficult to tell how much is the fault of Larian's writing team, and how much of it is Wizards, yeah.

    • @Xplora213
      @Xplora213 Год назад

      I do wonder if they are essentially the vanguard of guilting leftists into buying their crap. 8% of the USA identifies as far left. That’s still 25 million people. Enough to keep a book publisher alive.

    • @anelbegic2780
      @anelbegic2780 Год назад

      ​​@@amorencinteroph3428
      I wish we actually knew because Larien is set in belgium, a progressive as fuck country for now, and WOTC are now "sanitizing" DnD to no end so...

    • @someonesvagabond
      @someonesvagabond Год назад +3

      @@amorencinteroph3428 I'd say it's WoTC more, played DOS2 and I can barely remember if there was anything even similar to this.

    • @punishedwhispers1218
      @punishedwhispers1218 Год назад +4

      My guy everything after 3.5 was unplayable garbage, why are you surprised?

  • @nobalkain624
    @nobalkain624 Год назад +69

    So glad to see SOMEONE being willing to call out the BS of they pulled. I am sure its a Good Game, but that doesnt mean they just get a Pass on what they got wrong.

    • @geoDB.
      @geoDB. Год назад +14

      Synthetic Man

    • @nobalkain624
      @nobalkain624 Год назад +13

      ​ @geoDB. He is the only other one, but lets be honest, Synth craps on just about any Modern Game 😆

    • @johnrex7108
      @johnrex7108 Год назад +6

      @@nobalkain624 He's not wrong.

    • @nobalkain624
      @nobalkain624 Год назад +3

      ​ @johnrex7108 Agreed.

  • @jvstice56
    @jvstice56 Год назад +83

    Agreed on all fronts. I'm having a very hard time connecting with my party except for 2, and _both_ of them have some varying form of "Angered otherworldly beings" syndrome. With friends, it's more enjoyable as you don't have to worry about the douches you're allied with bitch and moan about being a hero or a villain.
    To Larion: Less horny, more sanity next time.

    • @Mowglibaloo2
      @Mowglibaloo2 Год назад

      ​@@gregpenismith1248the devs watch way too much porn

    • @Bourikii2992
      @Bourikii2992 Год назад

      There are like 4 companions that are horny and all of them have reasons that make sense.
      Gale literally was fucking the goddess of all magic. He's a fuck boy.
      Karlach couldn't even be physically touched for like a year.
      Astarion is initially horny and then realizes that being raped for 200 years has messed with his idea of sexuality.
      Laezel is a gythanki and sex for them is purely for primal pleasure and it doesn't even lead to pregnancy as we know it.
      Also literally all of these characters grow and change throughout the game. Laezel starts to understand monogamy and mutual feelings over carnal desire. Astarion doesn't want to be a sex toy and even avoids it eventually. Gale basically just wants companionship he's been alone for years dealing with his hubris.
      That's 4 of 10 companions.

    • @honeybadger6275
      @honeybadger6275 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah, I think I'll just stick with owlcat's crpgs.

  • @ThatsSpectacular
    @ThatsSpectacular Год назад +105

    This is your reminder that the Japanese phrase zettai ryoiki refers to the exposed skin between thigh-high stockings and a miniskirt. The direct translation is “absolute territory.” The Japanese are right about this.

    • @KonekoneFukkatsu
      @KonekoneFukkatsu Год назад +3

      Well, if you don't have one, it's particularly effervescent orange tang time.

    • @ThatsSpectacular
      @ThatsSpectacular Год назад

      @@KonekoneFukkatsu I’m all about energy drinks but Tang is the 90s.

    • @KonekoneFukkatsu
      @KonekoneFukkatsu Год назад +3

      @@ThatsSpectacular Maybe so, but if you suddenly find yourself without an AT Field and the person you happen to love most shows up (or if you're that edgy and hardcore, then just a bunch of blue-haired girls with red eyes) at that precise instant, it don't matter what energy drink you're about; your ass is orange tang, sir.

    • @ThatsSpectacular
      @ThatsSpectacular Год назад +4

      @@KonekoneFukkatsu I don’t know what any of that means, but I sure do cherish women.

    • @KonekoneFukkatsu
      @KonekoneFukkatsu Год назад +4

      @@ThatsSpectacular Ah, alas, I fear my Eva references were either too obtuse, or otherwise, you don't know that "Absolute Territory" (Zettai Ryouiki) is what the "A.T." in "A.T. Field" (a term used in Evangelion) stands for, presumably as you've only ever seen it used in context of the skin between thigh-highs and the end of a skirt.

  • @BuildTheWallAlready
    @BuildTheWallAlready Год назад +38

    You have turned me on to so many killer bands I had no idea existed. Thank you.

  • @FlawlessP401
    @FlawlessP401 Год назад +172

    Tbh i wanna see "heteronormativity mod" where people mod out all the virtue signalling reprogramming shit.
    Would be sweet if i could give gale one sympathetic response to his chest bomb without him trying to fck me.

    • @WickedParanoid
      @WickedParanoid Год назад +25

      That would probably mean rewriting half the script, which is just too much work.

    • @inducedapathy1296
      @inducedapathy1296 Год назад +42

      You have to find banned mod hosts for that kind of thing as anything potentially considered against the conformity of authority is outright banned straight away. It's easier for them than burning books sadly. The cult knows it's not popular but does it anyway to feign normalcy.

    • @DarkCT
      @DarkCT Год назад +8

      wouldn't happen unless it was hosted somewhere not in a major modding source.

    • @Pers0n97
      @Pers0n97 Год назад +22

      @ZoomerStasi Why? What exactly makes you think talking about how coopted by SJW modnexus is is SOMEHOW something Razor wouldn't tell you?

    • @zab6124
      @zab6124 Год назад +6

      why are you trying to bait in a youtube comment section?

  • @Blah81150
    @Blah81150 Год назад +123

    I got about half way through the game and put it down because of my entire party trying to bang me incessantly.

    • @Pers0n97
      @Pers0n97 Год назад +39

      It is really THAT intrusive yeah.

    • @SoulTransient
      @SoulTransient Год назад +4

      Early access origin characters were wau cooler except karlach

    • @Pers0n97
      @Pers0n97 Год назад +10

      @@YeniuOjiakThat's... probably the biggest lie I've heard about that game wtf.
      Not only the third act is by far the longest, the most full of content, side and main quest, the act with the most and the best bosses, but it's also the one with the most payoff for all the stuff you did trough the 2 previous acts.
      Hell, if you wanted to shit on the game, at least do it properly instead of lying and just say that the act 3 is optimized like shit and full of bugs, that would at least be close to the truth.

    • @dragonforks93
      @dragonforks93 Год назад +25

      Once you get past the Goblin Camp the entire party comes down with a case of the horny, at least Dragon Age Origins let you build up to or just flat out ignore the romance.

    • @unknownsword9042
      @unknownsword9042 Год назад +3

      Or maybe their view of a story paying off is different than yours? Omg someone with a different opinion about story quality.....they must be lying. Only your opinion is valid and correct!

  • @DominickRoselli
    @DominickRoselli Год назад +48

    Wow. A nuanced and intelligent review of this game that doesn't hate on the good parts and doesn't downplay the bad. Get this man a medal- he deserves it.

    • @TheRageaholic
      @TheRageaholic  Год назад +20

      Glad you enjoyed it! Godspeed!

    • @DominickRoselli
      @DominickRoselli Год назад +5

      @@TheRageaholic Godspeed to you as well sir. Keep up the good work.

  • @tjl4688
    @tjl4688 Год назад +8

    Ironically the Bard is considered the best class in 5E.
    >Charisma based caster
    >full 9th level caster
    >ability to choose spells from all spell lists
    >access to shields or martial weapons via subclasses
    >better skill monkey than the rogue

  • @tsitzel4949
    @tsitzel4949 Год назад +34

    Yeah the worst parts of the game single handedly is the wokeness and horniness. The character creator is cancer on the eyes you hit randomize and 99% of the time you will get Frankenstein’s monster. Pink hair bearded females, long purple haired men with vulvas, and weird genetic abominations so hideous they should have the aberrant tag. I literally avoid talking to male characters out of sheer fear of accidentally seeing some man booty. How about instead of giving me worthless ass pronouns let me pick my sexuality to avoid being sexually harassed by every important character in the game. Barring that the game is amazing granted I haven’t seen the endings yet.

    • @brendancoulter5761
      @brendancoulter5761 Год назад +3

      Dont forget the Mary Sue DMPC Demigod lesbian angle who you have to save or else be lectured for the rest of the game for how evil you are.

  • @ProfDragonite
    @ProfDragonite Год назад +9

    Well, if I wasn't worried about that KOTOR remake before, I've basically given up on it now.

  • @arsenelupin9697
    @arsenelupin9697 Год назад +88

    Body type one or two? - No more money for you.

    • @Cra2zedGob7lin996
      @Cra2zedGob7lin996 Год назад +4

      Did you played elden Ring then it was in it too the Overton window has been pushed too much to The left it's so unreal.

    • @LordTyph
      @LordTyph 11 месяцев назад

      Palworld at least only did it to mock the whole thing, the devs straight up said they did it because 'westerners like to make ugly characters'.

  • @Taranchule
    @Taranchule Год назад +158

    God, can you imagine a game with this level of production but with Grognard sensibilities? No pronouns or seducing goblins or more tieflings than you can shake a stick at. Just gold, glory and righteous questing.
    What makes me sad is "imagine" is likely all I've ever be able to do...

    • @nebohtes
      @nebohtes Год назад +9

      My brothers were the kings of the grand narrative -- they've run games where more jaws hit the table than dice when the party realized what they'd just done... but 100% of my best days as a character were serial runs, taking down scores. Rune Quest to DnD, Shadowrun to Cyberpunk -- fuckin' Car Wars to Dauntless -- give me an objective scenario, a hot lead on some loot, or Tuesday's McGuffin to pinch, let me see my party, and let's concoct some chicanery. Saving the world is for Star Wars and Indiana Jones -- I want to *live* as a fast talkin' rogue whose plans sometimes work and who fumbles a lot in a fake world, not save it.

    • @Ultrox007
      @Ultrox007 Год назад +4

      While there are games that achieve that ideal, they don't have the production and graphics level. Gameplay's there though.. That's something... Man, now I'm sad.

    • @chadmagnus5850
      @chadmagnus5850 Год назад +6

      Fine. More gobbo shortstacks and demon babes for me then.

    • @Ultrox007
      @Ultrox007 Год назад

      @@chadmagnus5850 the only good non-human is a dead non-human.

    • @mordorderly1473
      @mordorderly1473 Год назад +3

      I guess only Leftists and Liberals are capable of creating art. Good to know you admit it. :^)

  • @mrfivegold
    @mrfivegold Год назад +19

    For the record, in OG DnD, the Bard was the ultimate hybrid class, that you had to roll specific stats to get to use.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Год назад

      And take very specific multiclass path.

    • @mrfivegold
      @mrfivegold Год назад

      @@oz_jones still, Bard's used to be kick ass.

  • @vasudeanguy8523
    @vasudeanguy8523 Год назад +7

    Well I am glad I am not the only one who hated Astarion. From the word go I wanted him to take a flying leap into the Abyss and see how quickly his "smolder" gets him while he is being torn to shreds by every demon in there. Not because he was a bisexual vampire, but because that seemed to be his only personality trait.

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus Год назад +1

      That and his life had REALLY sucked. Which would be more meaningful if that wasn't the running theme--EVERYONE had a shit life.

    • @krasmasov6852
      @krasmasov6852 Год назад

      His central personality trait is being jaded that he was a slave for two centuries. Has nothing to do with his sexuality whatsoever.

    • @krasmasov6852
      @krasmasov6852 Год назад

      @@BWMagusYeah, it's almost like conflict is what makes stories interesting or something.

  • @fenixiliusstrife1253
    @fenixiliusstrife1253 Год назад +27

    BG3 started off as strong as BG2 did, but it definitely tripped at the end. BG2 is still the superior Baldur's Gate. If BG2 was given the modern visual and combat treatment it would far outshine BG3.
    The NPC companions were far superior and their romances deep and varied among them. The side areas and quest were much more interesting and felt more important. There was little to no storyless side content. Everywhere had something goin on. And the main character was actually someone so significant, the entire plot of BG3 literally revolves around them. In BG1 and 2 YOU are the king on the board, the thing every baddie wants to be and wants to exploit for what you have. The story forms around you, not the events of others.
    Too bad wotc completed neutered the character and the best romance companion in BG in books. So many better ways to make it canon.
    Oh well me and my true love Viconia have our own ending. Fucking WoTC.

    • @TheGamernews1
      @TheGamernews1 Год назад +7

      ⁠​⁠@@ArchedgarThey did Victoria dirty in BG3.

    • @balazsvarga1823
      @balazsvarga1823 Год назад +5

      Rumoredly it was WoTC that did Viconia dirty with a novel, and Larian was obliged to follow it.

    • @TheGamernews1
      @TheGamernews1 Год назад +3

      @@balazsvarga1823 I really wish they didn’t her character arch got completely thrown to the dumpster bin in BG3.

    • @mr.battle20
      @mr.battle20 Год назад +1

      I don't want them to touch Baldur's Gate 2, because all they'd do is "update it for a modern audience" (read: RUIN THE WHOLE DAMN THING).
      Beamdog sorta did that a decade ago with their remaster. Thankfully their additions can be largely ignored and their offering of Siege of Dragonspear consigned to the dustbin of history where it belongs.

  • @shawy83
    @shawy83 Год назад +17

    I wanted baldurs gate, didn't get it, I kept my money.

  • @SamuraiInTheShadows
    @SamuraiInTheShadows Год назад +32

    I wonder how many games of this age with genuinely amazing effort being put into their gameplay and mechanics are going to be tainted with random woke ideology being inserted into it. At least most woke games are just actual trash but when a solid game arrives and it has starts preaching harder than a Jehovah’s Witness at your door, it just sours your opinion of the entire game.

    • @halcionjoy7
      @halcionjoy7 Год назад +22

      It's going to date certain games really hard once people come back to their senses.

    • @Armameteus
      @Armameteus Год назад +14

      @@halcionjoy7 _If._ Big, huge, massive, enormous, colossal *_IF._* Because, if history is to be believed, humanity has a penchant for making the same stupid mistakes over and over and *over* again and/or - worse - instantiating them as the norm forevermore, never even allowing for a moment's reprieve from the nonsense in between repeats of history.
      *_IF._*

    • @kalackninja
      @kalackninja Год назад +1

      @@Armameteus no its when, the if part is if it swings back to being work again after returning to "conservative" for a decade or so

    • @ANPC-pi9vu
      @ANPC-pi9vu Год назад +1

      Tbh, I don't really see any woke preaching in this game. They gave the players some options to be that if they want, but don't force it or insert it into the storylines.
      I mean, ffs, Astarion is racist against Gnomes, for example. Lol

    • @JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia
      @JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia Год назад

      Blame "Sweet Baby", a company whose whole purpose is to "ensure modern games correctly represent the world we live in today".
      They are the responsibles of Spider Man games being agenda pushing junk.
      Also they are not funded by a certain old hungarian man, whatsoever.

  • @boogieboo5085
    @boogieboo5085 Год назад +5

    I've been saying since Baldur's Gate 3 first hit early access: It's Divinity in a D&D skin suit.

    • @honeybadger6275
      @honeybadger6275 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah I didn't like divinity os 1& 2 so I doubt I'll bother with this game.

  • @RogueFox2185
    @RogueFox2185 Год назад +22

    I let the Vampire Hunter have Asterion, when you learn of his fate by the time you see him again it’s just pure catharsis.

    • @ANPC-pi9vu
      @ANPC-pi9vu Год назад +1

      Why do you hate Astarion so much that this is cathartic? Honestly curious as someone who enjoys his character.

    • @RogueFox2185
      @RogueFox2185 Год назад +2

      @@ANPC-pi9vu To provide some context when I first started the game I did not like Asterion, his snobbish attitude and the fact he tried drinking my blood when my character slept made me feel he was gonna be a liability in the long run.
      After a third playthrough, it took some time but I did warm up to him a bit as to where I can tolerate him now, that’s probably never gonna happen with Gale though.

    • @ANPC-pi9vu
      @ANPC-pi9vu Год назад +2

      @@RogueFox2185
      Astarion has a pretty cool story if you are a good influence on him. I wish the devs put as much into friendships as into romances, though, as I think it's easier to miss stuff with him if not in a romance.
      Spoiler below
      One player uploaded from a playthrough where they let Astarion face his master without their input and he chose not to Ascend and freed the spawn, giving the Gur a speech about how they deserve the same chance he's had. Others had to intervene to stop him from Ascending and had it go horribly. It's interesting how much the player can influence him if they take their time to get to know him and encourage him to be a better person.

  • @MsGhoulz
    @MsGhoulz Год назад +71

    Think the biggest downside is the lack of companions and that you're not able to customize hirelings.
    No one wants to be stuck with a flaccid vampire and emo cleric for the 100th time in a row. The others are a bit one dimensional.

    • @Rasengan9000ttt
      @Rasengan9000ttt Год назад +6

      Yeah, thats why Co-Op is the best. Everyone gets to be there own character and makes the experiences more unique..

    • @NicBoffin
      @NicBoffin Год назад +20

      The hirelings being pre-determined forms and classes - especially when they're all basically Wither's puppets anyway - is inexcusable.
      Smells to me like the hirelings were the personal PCs of some of the staff that were forced on us.

    • @geoDB.
      @geoDB. Год назад +1

      When you start game launch it four times and a join your own games as multilayer and you get to customise all of them

    • @Ozzystrayroo
      @Ozzystrayroo Год назад

      And one of the only dwarf hireling is an effing troonsformer or dwarfchick with a beard. Also none of them are designed visually attractive...what a shame.

    • @knightofberenike9633
      @knightofberenike9633 Год назад

      @@NicBoffin I legit thought the hireling system was gonna be like Dragon's Dogma's Pawns and be either randomly generated or letting us hire other people's Player Characters. Finding out it was just boring archetypes sucked ass.

  • @purebloodstevetungate5418
    @purebloodstevetungate5418 Год назад +33

    You had me at dong customization.

    • @moosechuckle
      @moosechuckle Год назад +3

      Bet you loved cyberpunk?
      No shame, I liked it too.

    • @davidfrancisco3502
      @davidfrancisco3502 Год назад

      A slider for dong and boobs size is all the costumization you need not that woke body type pronoun cancer.

    • @RezaQin
      @RezaQin Год назад

      You can't really customize it though. Just dong, slit, or hairy dong.

  • @azurespectrum1985
    @azurespectrum1985 Год назад +126

    This game is proof that people who play videogames are vastly more intelligent and opinionated than the industry gives the general public credit for. I honestly cannot believe this game exists, let alone is as popular as it is. Not that it is unearned, rather the trends of current videogames contrasts its unparallel quality.

    • @drsatanrx
      @drsatanrx Год назад +22

      Ehhhh if you read the forums at all from people playing the game who weren't playing dnd, there are a LOT of window licking tards complaining about the game not holding their hand and explaining things to them.

    • @arsenelupin9697
      @arsenelupin9697 Год назад +15

      Yeah, supporting these "people" is truly intelligent......

    • @richter6699
      @richter6699 Год назад +18

      It's literally just Divinity OS 3
      Let's not get ahead of ourselves

    • @StillWeRide
      @StillWeRide Год назад +29

      Goddamn I'm so sick of the larian circlejerk. This game is not that good. Act 3 is shit. It's just further proof how easy it is to hype the masses.

    • @anelbegic2780
      @anelbegic2780 Год назад +10

      ​@@StillWeRide When all you get is slop and then finally an old potato shows up on your plate, even if it's moldy you will eat it.

  • @Snyperwolf91
    @Snyperwolf91 Год назад +6

    In our TTRPG-sessions we dont call the bard , the so called bard .
    We call him the singing Money-slot . And we still argue if its truly his singing voice or the scream of tormented Lust.

  • @fl4shblade
    @fl4shblade Год назад +5

    what really grinds my gears is that in d&d there is no justification for trans anything to exist. there is magic to permanently turn you into the opposite sex if you wish to do so. hell, elminster aumar the primary wizard of the forgotten realms setting spent multiple years as a woman named elmara. everybody would look for a mage suitably powerful and the spell components to get polymorphed. nobody would even think about travelling the road to nowhere and getting stuck on it!
    the first baldur's gate had the cursed girdle of masculinity/feminity. an item that you could reach within the first 2 to 3 hours of gameplay.

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus Год назад

      Yup. But remember, the "trans community" isn't about trans people anymore, it's about the non-binary special snowflakes who want special treatment and to rape the English language to make them feel loved. They actually call trans people "transphobic" for not accepting their fictional designations and "life difficulties".

  • @Flint-Dibble-the-Don
    @Flint-Dibble-the-Don Год назад +13

    Wow, preorder screws the customer over again? Didn't see that coming.

  • @jackdaone6469
    @jackdaone6469 Год назад +119

    Sounds to me like I dodged a bit of a bullet in not getting this game.

    • @m777howitzer4
      @m777howitzer4 Год назад +21

      Do yourself a favor and don't buy a game until it's been out for at least 2 weeks.

    • @goofball1_134
      @goofball1_134 Год назад +34

      you dodged game of the year, yes.

    • @arsenelupin9697
      @arsenelupin9697 Год назад +17

      People always seem to forget that the high seas exist......

    • @SoulTransient
      @SoulTransient Год назад +7

      Its not too bad. Its just annoying. The game is enjoyable

    • @gimmeyourrights8292
      @gimmeyourrights8292 Год назад +59

      ​@@goofball1_134 Considering what Game of The Year means now, I'll take that as a compliment.

  • @GhostOfSnuffles
    @GhostOfSnuffles Год назад +52

    The people who pre-ordered the game then got blindsided by the gender fruit salad that was their MC's no-no-square after the fact deserve it.
    It's been said to never pre-order a billion times and people keep doing it so at this point not only can i no longer empathize with them i get a laugh every time the industry does it and gets away with it because obviously the customer *never* learns and keeps paying them to keep going.

  • @uroplatusfimbriatus2603
    @uroplatusfimbriatus2603 Год назад +15

    The joke about bards would have fallen flat if Wizardry had been rightfully placed at the head of the CRP pantheon.

    • @TMTVL
      @TMTVL Год назад +1

      And bards play magic bagpipes that make dudes explode.

  • @gallendugall8913
    @gallendugall8913 Год назад +63

    I will refute. You can roleplay as any variety of sociopath you want. If you want to be virtuous/decent/not-a-monster? That's not an option. You must be a sociopath. A zillion flavors of sociopath to chose from, but the only thing you're allowed to care about is short term gratification of base desires in a story where you are forced down a linear path towards the next "WiKid Kewl" scripted encounter.

    • @solisglacies3183
      @solisglacies3183 Год назад +3

      Well, I'd say that's actually appropriate for baldur's gate. The lands depicted in the Dnd modules and the previous games are like that.

    • @jgrif7891
      @jgrif7891 Год назад +9

      @@solisglacies3183 nobody remembers heroes for doing what everyone else did.

    • @Lynchy626
      @Lynchy626 Год назад +4

      I don’t think you played the game then tbh. You are almost *encouraged* to be a good person who avoids violence. I mean, shit. Technically there are only 2 mandatory fights in all of Act 2 as long as you avoid sequence breaking

    • @sirslam2414
      @sirslam2414 Год назад +7

      Thats just patently not true. You can routinely do the right thing. In act one alone you can save a child, a pregnant woman, decline payment for saving the grove, go easy on the kids for pick pocketing you, encourage Wyll's students and on and on. I dont think youve played the game lol.

    • @jgrif7891
      @jgrif7891 Год назад +19

      @@sirslam2414 *looks at San Francisco *
      Idk if going easy on the kids is the right thing

  • @LunaProtege
    @LunaProtege Год назад +6

    Something I've learned recently... Perhaps if one wants to replicate the tabletop experience, one may be better off playing tabletop; specifically with friends, and using an edition that isn't hot garbage.

  • @Mathmachine
    @Mathmachine Год назад +82

    This review is about a month behind because it took Razor just that long to get through the game. It's got a lot of content in case you weren't aware.

    • @inducedapathy1296
      @inducedapathy1296 Год назад +1

      what do you mean? my first play through I finished the game in act2 via elminster like in the intro. game would've been faster but I had wait till my kids went to college for the level up animation. best ending btw after purposefully dragging the game out to act3 in subsequent plays. game was maybe 5-10 hours with little combat following msq. you have to kinda go murderhobo to get some combat unfortunately.

    • @derigel7662
      @derigel7662 Год назад +7

      yea they had to add all the fluff for that trash ass ending where everything you did before did not matter in the slightest

    • @pauperslament3467
      @pauperslament3467 Год назад +6

      If content equals turn based arena fights and unrelenting mouth noices. Yeah... Much "content..."

    • @BofaDeezBees
      @BofaDeezBees Год назад +1

      ​@@m777howitzer4You entitled d1ck. People's lives don't revolve around you. His channel has a lot more going on than just game reviews. And all of them take time. Imagine complaining that a content creator you like doesn't upload "fast enough" for you. But as soon as they upload faster and the quality drops, you people stop watching. Grow up. Cope.

    • @derigel7662
      @derigel7662 Год назад

      @@m777howitzer4 who are you jabbing at???? we are all in agreeance?

  • @MrPlainsflyer
    @MrPlainsflyer Год назад +5

    The glory, the poise, the profanity! A thunderous tour de force of Razor's return to Reviews!

  • @ThePandaKen
    @ThePandaKen Год назад +21

    "My personal politics has german subtitles"
    he's literally me

  • @marcusclark1339
    @marcusclark1339 Год назад +16

    so true on the social politics, just gets in the way of the entire game, when the game is too afraid to hard railroad certain decisions cause "everyone has to be special everyone must be included" it really shows how little care it has to not stick to any principles
    didn't even know of that bait and switch character creator, that is just scummy design, i couldn't recommend it even before but that's icing on the cake
    the normies and casuals will of course downplay it as not a "big deal" as if they have to wait for it to be to call it out cause social conformity they view it as "being a hater, too mean, bigoted" to call out when companies preach to you and expect u to tow the line

    • @BofaDeezBees
      @BofaDeezBees Год назад +7

      Yup. Too many people who claim to hate this crap still support their favorite woke developers. Rockstar comes to mind.

    • @tjl4688
      @tjl4688 Год назад

      I don't think you've even played the game. BG3 absolutely has consequences for your choices.

  • @Mike_S707
    @Mike_S707 Год назад +77

    I try to slaughter the whole party but Gale is like a freaking cockroach.

    • @Snyperwolf91
      @Snyperwolf91 Год назад +15

      The DSP of Faerun . You can call him DSG .

    • @CosmicFreedoms
      @CosmicFreedoms Год назад +11

      In Dark Urge playthroughs you can at least dis-arm him upon meeting

    • @6Sparx9
      @6Sparx9 Год назад +2

      Throw him off the cliffs by the harpies, unless they patched that

  • @klefthoofrobert787
    @klefthoofrobert787 Год назад +7

    I agree with your points but also also.
    All 4 of your women companion are melee and heavy armor wearing (except Karlach) and are barbarian,warrior, cleric and paladin
    And all 4 of your male companions are cloth/leather wearing nerds that sit in the back and cast spells in the form of: rogue, wizard, warlock and druid.
    Is it just me, or is it on purpose to not...god forbid...make women look sensitive or weak?

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus Год назад +4

      There's a shocking number of women in heavy armor in this game, in martial roles. I don't mind them existing, I'll grant some degree of leniency for the fantasy setting, but it did look ridiculous to see groups of guards made up entirely of small, ethnically diverse women in some piss-ant town.

    • @UltraDTA
      @UltraDTA Год назад +1

      Emasculating men is as much the goal.

  • @charleshill1906
    @charleshill1906 Год назад +36

    Gale's entire plotline can be boiled down to the feminist idea that men are intimidated by and feel inadequate around "strong women." But that's the entire aspect of the writing in this game. There's no nuance, mystery or even thought required because they spoon feed you the entire way. It's like everyone involved in the "writers" room never read a book in their life.

    • @ghostprojekt
      @ghostprojekt Год назад +11

      Gale was stupid enough to carry a piece of corrupted weave that got embedded into his chest and Mystra told him to GTFO because if he had continued then he would have created a magical nuke and killed everything (a point that is hammered home even harder if your avatar is Gale).
      How is that being intimidated?

    • @coltonwhite2518
      @coltonwhite2518 Год назад

      ​@@gregpenismith1248Just because you're pissy doesn't mean everyone else is an incel lol empty, half assed labels what a shock.

    • @sophiaperennis2360
      @sophiaperennis2360 Год назад +2

      @@gregpenismith1248 Imagine saying words like "incels" unorinically.

  • @Rasengan9000ttt
    @Rasengan9000ttt Год назад +10

    The penitrated by wood line was gold.

  • @sutoriimmortal2177
    @sutoriimmortal2177 Год назад +19

    Healing magic doing dick and Fireball as well as similar spells hitting like nukes? Yeah thats D&d to a T. Don't know how Barbarian somehow got inaccurate though. That's pretty much the absolute reverse in D&d thanks to crackhead strength and Reckless Attacks, you get surprised to NOT hit as a Barb table-side.

    • @iggytheincubus
      @iggytheincubus Год назад +2

      I'm putting that down to bad RNG on Razor's end. Karlach's been consistently putting out the hurt in my playthrough, especially once I kitted her out with shit that builds up stacks of Heat

    • @MrJoeyWheeler
      @MrJoeyWheeler Год назад +1

      @ZoomerStasi D&D 5e - Healing Word, heals 1d4 + spell Mod. Cure Wounds, 1d8 + spell mod. One extra die per spell level consumed. Potion of Healing 2d4+4, Greater 4d4+4, Superior 8d4+8, Supreme 10d4+20.
      My point being, he's correct; 5e healing IS low. It's usually quite manageable if you have items or features to boost it (i,e Life domain) but generally speaking, healing in 5e is something that's typically fairly weak and you're better off beefing up your AC or not letting enemies get close enough to attack, if you can. There's only 1 potent healing spell - Heal (70 hit points, flat) which is a 6th level slot so you don't even get it until you're level 9 in a spellcasting class that learns it.
      Similarly, Fireball does rather high damage for its level and only has a few rivals which are more situational. It can go poorly with a low dice roll but typically Fireball is very potent.

    • @brendancoulter5761
      @brendancoulter5761 Год назад

      Allot of people dont get how you are supposed to play barbs. Reckless attack all the time every time, they enemy should die before you do.

  • @Sorain1
    @Sorain1 Год назад +3

    Oh wow. The Summoner gag scene, my lord is that a reference I did not expect to see. A name I've not thought of in a long time.

  • @Vorpal_Wit
    @Vorpal_Wit Год назад +8

    Let the anointed also never forget Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

  • @Pers0n97
    @Pers0n97 Год назад +36

    Romance mechanics are great.
    The problem is that Larian totally failed on every possible level when it comes to make theirs.
    First of all the player should ALWAYS (with some rare exception) be the one engaging the romance.
    YOU should be the one that make the move to get that ass, not the other way around.
    Then there is the fact that romance should take time to archive. You should work your way up to it and make the right moves to get in your target good grace, something that is somehow totally absent from BG3. Every character will try to bang you as long as talk to them a couple of times.
    Then there is the obvious case of "let's pretend heteronormativy is a made up concept" which I don't think I even need to explain why it's bad.
    And lat but not least, they forgot that the default state of a relationship with a companion should be that small thing we call "friendship", or "platonic relationship".
    FOR SOME REASONS the blue haired weirdos in charge of Larian romances totally forgot that being good friend with people is something people do, especially with characters they do like and enjoy the company of. Instead they thought the only choices you have is kicking them in the nutts when they try to shove them in your face or just suck it up (both literally and figuratively).
    It's pretty insane to see how awful on every level the romance writing has been in that game, it's so bad that I feel like we need to find the name of the people in charge of that debacle and make sure Larian get rid of them, because just as sure as a bad apple will spoil the whole basket, an awful farleft weirdo will destroy your company and I'll be pretty sad to see this company die (or worst, get completely corrupted like so many others before them).

    • @BofaDeezBees
      @BofaDeezBees Год назад +21

      They're already corrupted man. Just like Rockstar, Bethesda and everyone else. People who complain about woke crap in games, but then praise RDR2 as a masterpiece are blind. And GTA6 will be even worse.
      Not trying to blackpill you. But don't get your heart broken by these people. Support creators who only care about game quality and rich storytelling without an agenda...until they eventually do. Then stop supporting them as well.

    • @Armameteus
      @Armameteus Год назад +1

      @@BofaDeezBees It really is like that. Eventually the corruption will come and the company will sell out in the dirtiest, most degenerate, most insulting way. And those of us with taste, principals and a grasp on reality will be left to rot. Every time.
      While I know it to be the truth, with each betrayal it yet still gets harder and harder to trust again.

    • @Pers0n97
      @Pers0n97 Год назад +3

      @@BofaDeezBees Oh don't worry, I'm old enough to be jaded as fuck and I fully expect them to be already lost.
      Usually when you see stuff that bad visible on the end product it means that the rot has spread far and deep already...
      I just wish it wouldn't be so and would like to believe they still have time to dodge the iceberg, but deep down I know. It's already too late.

    • @Bourikii2992
      @Bourikii2992 Год назад

      Your first point is already full retard.

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus Год назад

      "For some reason". Come on man, this is clearly written by chronic Tinder residents, or whatever equivalent they have in Belgium. Of course they consider fucking to come before friendship, because that's literally how they date; "You're hot, we've gotten along for 10 minutes, let's hang out and bang a few times, and maybe, if we're lucky, romance will blossom. If not, I'll ghost you and find someone else and try again." This, to me, is way more degenerate than the bisexual thing or the bear fucking, because it's rampant.

  • @TimPortantno
    @TimPortantno Год назад +7

    I like that you can *try* to romance every character, but realistically they shouldn't all reciprocate(also the romances being so fast was a "bug they patched").

  • @PunxsutawneyDave
    @PunxsutawneyDave Год назад +3

    Terran "I'm not even trying to find a picture to represent what he just said" Gell

  • @falsehero2001
    @falsehero2001 Год назад +16

    "Baldur's Gate 3 is a game that I recommend you purchase...on the Pirate Bay." -Razorfist probably

  • @TheCarpenterUnion
    @TheCarpenterUnion Год назад +4

    This has been my experience in the first 4 hours. Getting hard to keep my eyes open with it.
    Thankfully I didn't pay for it, and thanks to you I no longer have to waste time on it, so cheers!

  • @devilord3271
    @devilord3271 Год назад +11

    That bait and switch you talk about kinda reminds me of what Happened with Sonic Mania, pre orders included a copy of Sonic 1 two weeks before release, and people didn't know the game would have Denuvo until the game release, and people couldn't get refunds because that copy of Sonic 1 counted as owning the game for 2 weeks

  • @stevekramerf242
    @stevekramerf242 Год назад +4

    Bonus points for the "Summoner Geeks"-clip.

  • @freechair4890
    @freechair4890 Год назад +98

    The “every character is bisexual” thing is likely largely because it’s easier to write one set of responses regardless of gender than to do different dialogue for each.

    • @marchmelloow
      @marchmelloow Год назад +68

      Or they could have just made each character have their own sexuality, like humans do, and gate you from romancing characters if you are not to their preference. Having everyone be bisexual devalues the characters by making it seem like they're all easy.

    • @Seority
      @Seority Год назад +7

      While true, one could say that since this is a story, an RPG, the characters are what they are in *your* character's story. That's how I take it anyway. 🤷‍♀

    • @anelbegic2780
      @anelbegic2780 Год назад

      Not untrue but I hate the trend all the same honestly. If everyone is bi, then nobody is games industry.
      For an industry so willing to chase modern ideology, the one thing they managed to gleam from it mostly seems to be is that sexuality is a myth unless you are a eunich or nun maybe.

    • @CodeeXD
      @CodeeXD Год назад

      ​@@marchmelloow cry me a fucking river

    • @Mowglibaloo2
      @Mowglibaloo2 Год назад +18

      ​​@@Seorityare they actually characters then? I remember a time when games and writers would at least try to make normal characters with unique values and internally consistent motivations...

  • @vonfaustien3957
    @vonfaustien3957 Год назад +32

    So what does balders gate 3 actually have to do with 1 and 2 because it looks like they just pulled a dark alience and slapped Balders gate on a game completely unrelated to the baalspawn story to cash in on the nerd cred the old bioware classics got

    • @jgmaurer31
      @jgmaurer31 Год назад +25

      Do you really want to know? Because if you know you might be a bit pissed. Let's just say that I think WOTC has done a great job of pissing on the legacy of BG in the recent past and I think Larian has done a fine job of continuing the pissing match.
      Alternatively - Nothing we did in the original BG's mattered. At all.

    • @vonfaustien3957
      @vonfaustien3957 Год назад +11

      ​@@jgmaurer31I mean can it really be worse than siege of dragonspire or whatever beamdogs Turd they dumped on the enhanced edition was called

    • @RoKBottomStudios
      @RoKBottomStudios Год назад +2

      ​@@jgmaurer31consider it a soft reboot cause it's been years since the last BG.

    • @jgmaurer31
      @jgmaurer31 Год назад +11

      @@RoKBottomStudios Except you can't?
      Have you READ the official stance of what happened to Charname in current DND lore? Everything Charname did was undone.
      Nevermind what the game did to several returning characters.

    • @HeiligerGrimmnir
      @HeiligerGrimmnir Год назад +1

      ​@@jgmaurer31I guess you missed the whole part about the Tribunal, the female BBEG, all that, or are you to act 3 yet

  • @bvdemier1
    @bvdemier1 Год назад +3

    "Who knew they had slav jank in Belgium?"
    Hey, we have been welcoming jank since Ceasar walking in here. All jank is welcome here.

  • @patiencedvrx
    @patiencedvrx Год назад +6

    I knew I wasn't crazy when I was damn sure the genital customization and pronoun selection weren't in the early access version

  • @MM3Soapgoblin
    @MM3Soapgoblin Год назад +35

    The character customization was just a huge let down in general. There are literally more penis options than face options.

    • @tjl4688
      @tjl4688 Год назад

      No there aren't.

    • @Bran_Flakesx7
      @Bran_Flakesx7 Год назад +13

      @@tjl4688 if you count "vulva" options, per race, this is accurate. There literally are more options for customizing your shmeat than your face

    • @Albus_Rex
      @Albus_Rex Год назад +5

      Should have had the presets, and then an advanced slider option to fine tune them more to your liking. Let me put my honey select skills to use, Larion!

    • @ANPC-pi9vu
      @ANPC-pi9vu Год назад +1

      Someone pointed out to me once that the limited faces and body types was due to the cinematic animations potentially having issues, especially when two characters kiss or otherwise closely interact. This makes some sense but I prefer camera tricks to hide the jank over less customizable appearance.

  • @discatmatt
    @discatmatt Год назад +182

    I keep being told this game is pretty excellent but for me, nothing stands up to the originals. AD&D > 5th edition.

    • @discatmatt
      @discatmatt Год назад +16

      @ZoomerStasi Yeah, 3.5 was also fun!

    • @jaffarebellion292
      @jaffarebellion292 Год назад +5

      Pathfinder 2E is pretty good, pronouns notwithstanding. I'd even argue it's what 5E should've been.

    • @gallendugall8913
      @gallendugall8913 Год назад +17

      The fifth edition rules are so fricking bland.

    • @kvltovpersonality6290
      @kvltovpersonality6290 Год назад +10

      @@jaffarebellion292 I find the combat to be the big selling point of P2E. The 3-action system is genius. Everything else (i.e. pronouns) is unfortunately reflective of the time period it was conceived

    • @jaffarebellion292
      @jaffarebellion292 Год назад +9

      @@gallendugall8913 They're also poorly written and really vague, often relying on the DM to scratch his head and just sort of figure it out.

  • @admiralsnackbar2811
    @admiralsnackbar2811 Год назад +11

    BG3 + Mods could put Hasbro's D&D Virtual Table Top in the grave before it's even born.

    • @greensmurf221
      @greensmurf221 Год назад +2

      That's fine by me.

    • @mortemtyrannus8813
      @mortemtyrannus8813 Год назад +2

      @ZoomerStasi This is why Based Mods became a thing. Need the Moonman DOOM wad? How about a mostly-white Fallout 4 or Starfield? Or just want to remove the tr00n flag from your kid's copy of A Hat In Time?

  • @foxhound6364
    @foxhound6364 Год назад +3

    I just dislike BG3 because of how absolutely disrespectful the devs were to the original games. They clearly just wanted to make a D&D game and jumped on a popular old D&D series. The fact that the writers didn’t even play through the original games is incredibly evident. The way they retconned the main villain from the first game to be the absolute opposite of how he was in the other games is particularly insulting. They really couldn’t even be bothered to read a wiki summary of his character traits and motivations, and somehow ended up with a character that literally couldn’t be further from how he was in those games. It would be like a new author writing Harry Potter 8, and Voldemort shows up, but when he does, Ron goes on about how Voldemort was always a mindless Dumbledore fanatic that was his greatest ally and dedicated his life to serving him. That is as oblivious and disrespectful this game is to the originals.

  • @HER0333
    @HER0333 Год назад +4

    This is the coolest Razorfist intro ever !!❤

  • @FantasyLord19
    @FantasyLord19 9 месяцев назад +1

    “Count Twinkula” I haven’t had such a good laugh for a while, thank you 😂

  • @erolmerten1736
    @erolmerten1736 Год назад +67

    I'll pass. Even if it weren't overtly woke it would still be rife with modern writing, with all its quippy insincerity and "strong female characters".

    • @BofaDeezBees
      @BofaDeezBees Год назад +26

      I miss when writers wrote women with nuance. But seeing as how most of today's modern writers are women with 0 nuance, it makes sense.

    • @punishedwhispers1218
      @punishedwhispers1218 Год назад +2

      The female character writing isn't bad honestly, but the game is

    • @malevolent7650
      @malevolent7650 Год назад +11

      I detest 'modern' writing. There's no good, there's no evil, only bland amorphous gray. The bad guys aren't bad, they're just misunderstood. The good guys aren't really good, they're just hiding behind a facade. Wit takes too much effort so we'll just throw around 'fuck' a few times. Baldur's Gate 3 is absolute garbage in this respect.

    • @tjl4688
      @tjl4688 Год назад

      @@malevolent7650 There's very clear good and evil in BG3.

    • @jamesr123
      @jamesr123 Год назад +1

      It's not terrible with its quippyness, though I hate three of the characters because of it. Otherwise, most characters are not written as if they walked in off the internet. The strong female thing is fair. Early on, the warrior, barbarian and cleric (partially strength class) are women. Two casters and a rogue are men.

  • @Montrovantis
    @Montrovantis Год назад +11

    Larian was one of my favorite studios. They will never see another cent from me. There is nothing they can do to change this.

    • @randomguy6679
      @randomguy6679 Год назад

      That’s a little harsh, don’t you think?

    • @Montrovantis
      @Montrovantis Год назад +2

      @@randomguy6679 not even slightly. There is no room for woke fools in the world I want to live in. My vote doesn't count, but for now my dollar does.

    • @randomguy6679
      @randomguy6679 Год назад +2

      @@Montrovantis Then your gonna live in a pretty tiny world man.

  • @Asalieri2
    @Asalieri2 Год назад +4

    the cool thing about the oversexualized characters and options to be 'non-binary' in the game is... I can ignore them. Thanks Larian for giving me the option to!
    ...I didn't even wait to get him in camp to kill Astarion. Glad I could get a few gold selling his underwear to my druid fence

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus Год назад

      But it'd be nice to have a party of developed characters who aren't horny fucks or nostalgia bait to travel with.

    • @krasmasov6852
      @krasmasov6852 Год назад

      @@BWMagus The companion characters are extremely developed. What in the world are you talking about?

  • @Animekirk
    @Animekirk Год назад +7

    I played about 5 hours of this and could not continue. The combat abilities, the statistical growth, the game systems in general, were so shallow and boring and restrained, it sapped my will to play.
    On a whim i started playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and boy am i glad i did. SOOOO much more fun. The graphics might be less technically impressive but it lets you be like 7 different kinds of god and the story changes based on which source of power you opt to go for. The level of mechanical depth is very satisfying and overall i find it infinitely more enjoyable than BG3.
    So if like me, you tried bg3 and were disappointed or underwhelmed, give wrath of the righteous a try.

    • @synapse913
      @synapse913 Год назад +2

      WOTR is excellent, but it can be such a slog at times.

  • @morganestill
    @morganestill Год назад +12

    LOVE the use of “Gate of the Gods” by New Horizon! Such an amazing song and incredible band.

  • @lordlongstroke5989
    @lordlongstroke5989 Год назад +24

    No man should ever complain about losing money in a pre-order. Everyone knows giving them the money before the product is risky... stop crying when your foolishly spent money is wasted.

    • @RFNY315
      @RFNY315 Год назад

      Mk1 switch. Lol

    • @Armameteus
      @Armameteus Год назад +9

      Hell, we're in a time where people will buy a game at launch, with the ability to read reviews, look up gameplay footage, etc. and _still_ whine about how "it's not what I expected" and scream "I paid money for this! I demand it be changed to suit my preferences!"
      Pre-ordering is, universally, an act of stupidity. The backlash that ensues when one's own stupidity bites them in the ass is an act of entitlement.

    • @kalackninja
      @kalackninja Год назад

      @@Armameteus this actually hurt to read, i actively try to know as little as i can if i really want to play or watch something and sometimes i get burnt but i never get so upset to blame anything other than myself. People out there can be helpless. Mother truckers wont even read the description of the game.

  • @KdogPrime
    @KdogPrime Год назад +3

    A good rant with one lesson attached: Never preorder a video game.
    Never pay for a product upfront unless you can be assured of getting either exactly what you expected and asked for, a no-questions asked refund. It isn't relevant in the slightest what they tempt you with, whether it be a cool gun, a boatload of in-game currency, or a fancy hat. It's just digital tat. None of it matters. What matters is the gameplay, and if it's worth your investment of time and money.

  • @zipscool
    @zipscool Год назад +6

    I think what's always rankled me with a lot of RPGs, particularly recent ones, is that there's no real bro-tier friendship options for any of the main party members. A lot of the time, it's either bone-zone or no-zone. There's no middle ground at all. What if I liked Ghale but didn't want to ruin his arsehole? Where's my option to just go on an awesome bender and conduct a drunken heist for magical artefacts and have a grand old time? What if I want to raise all kinds of hell with Astarion but don't want to wake up the next morn in Sodomy Ave? Why can't I go on a wee murder spree with Lae'zel in the countryside and just laugh about it without tearing our clothes off like all that blood we've coated ourselves in was full of aphrodisiac instead of dark-age STDs? The only thing that comes close to what I'm on about that springs to mind is shooting bottles with Garrus in Mass fucking Effect 3. A post-ME *Bioware* title of all fucking things!

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus Год назад +2

      Indeed, Mass Effect 1-3 did a pretty good job of letting you be buds without fucking in MOST cases. Which is how it should be; write FRIENDSHIPS that you can CHOOSE to turn into relationships. Not the other way around.