#I still havent finished bg3 though

[broadsiderenegade]

Is this a weird RPG opinion?

In big RPGs, cRPGS, jRPGs, action adventure RPGs, I kind of love the parts where your just exploring, surviving and questing. I love the little stories and encounters, party banter and aimlessness of a good Act 1. BG3 comes to mind first, but across the board, I loathe when you reach the big city. My excitement wanes when you get "locked in" to where I assume most people get excited, when the main plot starts to overtake all the rest, and kicks into gear. I could probably play an endless amount of "lets check out that cave" and "that farms on fire from a bandit attack!" But I've left some games unfinished that I initially became obsessed with as somehow finding the deus ex machina and saving the world just doesn't compel me the same way as being nobodies surviving and trying to do a little good along the way. Obviously from a design perspective it makes sense without a Star Citizen budget that games must end, but I do wonder if there will ever be something that could meet that need longterm (without the kind of monetization that plagues the average live service, as that is what it would probably end up being).

[kirkwallguy]

if anyone's been wanting to try out some older bioware games or the owlcat crpgs, humble bundle is doing a massive sale.

£11 for both pathfinders and ALL the infinity engine bioware games. then £23 if you want rogue trader as well.

[pyomatic]

doodles of my tav after playing too much bg3 :3

[nucleqr]

yet another screenshot dump

[weaveandwood]

So you love BG3, are there any other media things you have obsessed over throughout the years in the same way?

Oh man, time for a stroll down memory lane. I have been obsessed with so many things, though BG3 feels extra special to me because not only am I old enough/confident now to be unabashedly unashamed in the depths of my obsession with Gale the game, it's reignited my creativity after almost a decade of depression-induced not-being-creative-ness (she's a writer, y'all!)

One of my first obsessions was Sailor Moon, and it will always be an obsession tbh. The romance between Usagi and Mamoru and the whole teenage girl builds enough self confidence to save the world over and over again storyline is chefs kiss. I'm such a sucker for a good romantic plot. It also takes me back to a time when I was in middle school getting ready watching it on TV while eating toast for breakfast in the morning before walking to school or taking the bus - there's such a strong sensory memory there. My husband and I watched the entire anime over last summer, and it was so fun to watch him experience it for the first time since it was so formative for me, even though I couldn't watch the later seasons until much later in my life because it was WORK to find that stuff before 2007.

My BIGGEST media obsession besides BG3 was Avatar: The Last Airbender. I loved it. I was part of the original Zutara crew (Zuko x Katara) while the show was still airing. Part of the OG Zutara Week on DeviantArt (wow havent been on that site in years either). I was even part of a fan project to redo the end of the series where Zuko ended up with Katara (I believe they even got Dante Basco to record some lines or at least that was the plan), but it never ended up getting finished due to drama or people just not finishing their parts, I can't remember. I'm still a Zutara truther to this day, I think it was much more of a compelling ship than Katara and Aang and still do (something something the redemptive power of love). I drew so much fanart, it was such a fun time in my life, I miss it. I even made some online friendships transition to real life friendships from that fandom.

[esa-marie]

I like making spotify playlists so heres a masterlist.

I'm still updating a ton of these and if you have any suggestions for characters/ prompts i would love to hear it

Fandom:

Shirt music with success of upon people || Flesh Cousin || Regretevator

Mostly compiled of songs that are utter nonsense, or fit the idea of a disconnect between your mind and your body.

Toxic construction Yaoi || Mannequin mark and Wallter || Regretevator

Songs that are pining, but also sad. bc divorce.

I just love to dance || Big Mama || ROTTMNT

Big Mama talks about dancing a lot in rottmnt. I threw in lots of girl disco and some more evil-vibed songs, ofc. (I love her sm im a #1 big mama defender)

FUCK YES! || Karlach || BG3

Karlach's story means so much to me. lots of songs to do with fire/ inevitability/ general badassery.

Fate spins along as it should || Withers || BG3

This one is the most WIP bc im sourcing a lot of the songs from old 13th century manuscripts, which is harder than it sounds.

Various White Knight Chronicles Playlists ( Cisna , Ceasar , Eldore , Yulie , Leonard , Kara , Setti/Grazel ). Since the fandom is actually incredibly small I might make a separate post for their playlists.

OC and others under cut!

OC

'What is it?' 'Home.' || Zael Stormveil || BG3 tav

Zael is my first tav when I started playing BG3. Im developing her more as I play, and started a tag for her on this blog

Was I sweet once? || Anatasios || BG3 Durge

Even though I havent finished my Zael run, I started a Durge run. Still more WIP than other playlists, and is about resist!Durge

Comin' atcha live from Avalonia! :3 || Elliot || LBP OC

Elliot, also known as console kitty, is a tv celebrity in avalonia! Ill spare you the rest of their lore for now, but their playlist is full of silly goofy songs, and songs about not feeling good enough, for whatever reason :)

Spidersona [Spider: Null] || Eve || Project Eden

My spidersona universe (Project:Eden) uses a different titling scheme than my other playlists. Anyway, Eve was a computer program who was ejected into reality. She now has to figure out how to be a human, and what being a human really is.

The Lizard || Lilith || Project Eden

Eve's best friend, who knew her when she was just a program on a laboratory computer. She has a corruption arc :3 (dw she gets better. Kinda.) gentle songs, and some not-so gentle songs

Doc Ock || 'Ock || Project Eden

A scientist who was employed at the same facility Eve was created. calculating, colhearted, cynical. at least for now (enemies to lovers??? P). Science songs and love songs, ofc

The Goblin || Goby || Project Eden

His tagline is "Imitations Limitations"-- a fish man cyborg amalgamation that was trying desperately to mimic the structures of pre-awakened Eve. But, that didn't go well, for him or the scientists. Not nonsense, but definitely songs that teeter on insane.

You said you know a guy? || Vance || Rottmnt OC

Vance is a scavenger, they go above the hidden city and 'scavenge' for things to sell below. Energy is his name, an he lives up to it.

You dont know me. || The Ghosts Official Playlist

I have several WIP projects, and Pastries and a Poltergeist is one of them. The ghost inhabits this old, run down, 70s house and is trying to get Maya to move out. but she wont. Melancholy 70s

I need this. || Maya Dufour's Official Playlist

Recent college graduate, she's about to find out why this house was insanely cheap. Stubborn. WIP.

This is a story about beginnings || The Librarian's Official playlist.

Ill spare the story for The Dead World for now, but The librarians playlist is a lot of epic orchestral and some medival songs sprinkled in.

Squash and Stretch || Cross || AVA/AVM OC

Living in-between a sketched figure and a stick figure, Cross is ever stuck in limbo. lots of video game songs/ songs to pick them up.

GameDev!Donnie || TMNT SONA Official Playlist

Gamedev is stuck in the world of video games for now. He doesnt mind a ton, although he misses his brothers sometimes. Filled with upbeat/happy video game songs

Monsters? That's Outrageous! || Gwen || Doors OC

WIP, but songs relating to the timeloop shes stuck in or the game itself.

Got it!! || Tracey || White Knight Chronicles OC

Songs for when your not the main character but still trying to be useful.

Technically I have more OC playlists but I think that's good for now ahjhkdbSAhkadk

Other

GET SHIT DONE (via killer video game soundtracks)

Over 40 hours of video game music (as soon as i finish a game it gets shoved into this playlist. I might reduce it in the future but I like the absurdity of how big it is)

She blinded me... WITH SCIENCE!!! || Silly songs about science

Specifically songs referring to science. This started as a Donatello playlist but then i fully committed to the bit. This is also technically my most popular playlist for some reason lmao.

A New Ghost Town

WIP playlist for a fanfic I may never make (each song is supposed to be representative of a chapter/ the chapter titles) (if you wanna know its dp and Gravity falls crossover)

Again, you'll see more playlists than this on my account (shared) But heres the tip of the iceberg :)

[deathpowerphantomjester5110]

cyberpunk 2077 was a fucking awesome game i wish i could play it for the first time again

i could replay it-- idk what id do, maybe a corpo V?? that could be interesting, the last one i played was a street kid

i just cant imagine how much different i could make it. i probs should wait another year or two so i have more time to forget things and let it gestate more. i still havent finished my bg3 playthru w my friend alesha tho so that comes first ofc

i ALSO bought assassins creed odyssey a couple weeks ago bc it was massively on sale

but aaaaahhhh the world of cyberpunk is so cool i wanna submerge myself in it again. hopefully they fix the damn radio again though bc they fucked it up like halfway throuhg my playthrough with a stupid DUMB update!!!!! oh well

anyway. much thoughts

[kossithmercar]

I am so excited to finish the game and unblock bg3 spoilers and fully experience ur blog

awww thank you for your excitement anon! i am excited for you to go through my blog fully!!

i do have to be honest here, though, for the most part most of what I tag are mild spoilers and the like and I use the tag liberally because the game is still only two months old and people (like me for example)(for your consideration i havent finished act one)(i just like screaming into the void whoops) haven't finished their first playthroughs yet. i personality dont care if I am spoiled because I enjoy spoilering myself so that i can see how the storylines build up throughout the story, but i know a lot of people mind spoilers. so, when it comes to the bg3 spoilers tag, the MAJORITY of that is just me being precautions and tagging people's wonderful art and gifs. and some theorizing i do because I enjoy putting my thoughts down.

[thebearemoji]

Karlach baldurs gate really just. Wormed her way in to my heart and forced me to obsess over her. Haven't cared about a character this much in a while. I don't see many characters in media that I recognize elements of myself in. Usually theres some key barrier stopping me from fully adopting a character as "like me". Tbh a lot of times with female characters its because they feel too... female to be like me. Ive never been good at being a girl, though I do still consider myself one. But karlach doesn't have a single feminine detail about her. she's covered in scars and tattoos and piercings the most fascinating little details I can just get lost looking at her and none of them are things society expects from women. And she's also gorgeous and the game knows it and acknowledges it. Anyone can date her, even though she's thr furthest thing from Lady like, tall and tough as nails. Arguably the strongest of all the party characters.

So i think because i have less of that barrier there are times I'm like. Hey she's kind of like me. And the game celebrates her so much as just. This beacon of hope and compassion even in spite of all the pain she's been through. The fact that she has masculine elements to her appearance doesn't prevent her from being so wonderfully soft and vulnerable and kind emotionally. If she were just any old thug head barbarian in her personality, I wouldn't be writing this. Then she'd just be a stereotype in the other direction. But as it stands Karlach is peerless in my experience.

I havent finished the game yet but god if there was an ending for "everyone dies but karlach lives" life is strange style id mash that button in an instant. I am emotionally compromised over every character in bg3, but karlach... 1 in a million blorbo right there.

[fagcrush]

hiii im one of ur moots. i do still love bg3 and im sorry ur struggling tonight with people abandoning it. tbh i havent even finished the game bc im rly enjoying savoring and taking my time with it. bg3 is so expansive and so long that i think itll be enjoyed by ppl forever 🤍

I thought that about Taz to but now when I talk about it I don't even get a like and ppl don't reply to me talking about it in discord

Thank you though that helps a bit

[yozh1]

i think im in gamer hell. ive been playing persona 3 reload and now divinity original sin 2 goes on sale. yeah expect my ass in the next decade or something.

still havent finished bg3 (im on act 3 though)

[hangingfromchandeliers]

is baldur's gate worth the money 👀👀 im super debating it

because its in early access right now it honestly kinda depends on whether you’re okay with paying for an unfinished and sometimes buggy version of the game. only act 1 is available now and that gives you around 30-40 hours of game time for one playthrough. sometimes there’s weird bugs but honestly im not someone who’s too bothered by that. they’re never gamebreaking, just a bit funny. if you’re someone who’s bothered by that i really recommend waiting till the full game is out. also i gotta say now that ive played the ea version it is killing me that i have to wait half a year at least (and at this point i wouldnt be surprised if its a 2022 release) till 1.0 comes out. loading screen times can be a bit of a drag too, but they said they’re working on improving those. also in my currently 45 hours of playtime ive only had 2 crashes, though the frequency of those might depend on your pc

HOWEVER, the ea version is SUPER replayable. im only on my second playthrough and i played a warlock tiefling both times and it still feels refreshing. i havent even tried out any other races or classes yet and i cant wait to do that. you can even play the game as one of your companions; you can just talk to people as one of your companions and it gives you new dialogue options, like if you play as astarion you can bare your teeth at people to intimidate them, while the pc can’t do that in conversation. though the combat is my favourite part of this game!! if you’ve played dos2 you’ll know what you’re getting into. it feels SO rewarding and encourages you to think outside the box!! i was playing shadowlands (I KNOW..) before bg3 came out and bg3 made me realise that i deserve better in a video game JHHJDHJ also if you do seriously consider buying it id recommend looking up some gameplay videos on youtube so you can get a feel for it. you can also just watch a bunch of astarion videos like i did and let yourself be queerbaited into spending the full price on an early access game by the limp wristed bisexual vampire ❤️ if you liked dragon age origins, you’ll really enjoy bg3 for the writing and the characters, while if you liked any of the divinity games you’ll love the combat. the story is a bit over the top and has a bit of a... michael bay flare to it LMAO but honestly i like that the game doesnt take itself too seriously. the game is seriously so funny as a result of that and there’s been a bunch of moments that made me laugh out loud. i would recommend it, but if you’d have any problems with the things i mentioned earlier then buying the finished version might be the better move! if you do end up buying it or if you have any other questions about it do let me know!!!