#and ok i looked at the halsin and astarion romance but i did not like how it felt so no

[astarionsbite]

I have at this point had to reject everyone in my camp besides karlach and jaheira, *including the squid*

[andrewknightley]

OK SO I FINISHED BG3 thoughts and stuff under the cut (spoilers obvs) . Pals and mutuals that played feel free to comment it with me, and also wyll enjoyers pls do interact fkfkdk

SPOILER about the ending

-Ok so i was playing a good tav dwarf paladin romancing wyll, got my team of wyll/lae'zel/karlach, but lae'zel felt like the real main character of this story and honestly its what she deserves.

-got orpheus and turned him into a mind flayer sorry bro. and then the emperor gets angry and fights with the baddies. like gosh this guy sucks

-saved the day yadda yadda and lae'zel went away to guide her kind and LOOK SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER i was so sad but i knew it was what she wanted but IT PAINS ME

-then gale leaves me to become a god, and then astarion gets attacked by the sun and runs away and im like wow this ending is such a downer everyone is leaving me

-AND THEN. KARLACH.......

-Ok so i cried like a baby like. i fucked up i dont know what i did wrogn i cant believe karlach is gonna die im SOBBING

-But wyll is like "WE CAN LIVE ALL FIGHTING DEMONS IN HELL" and got the coolest shit ever of these 3 going on adventures like you dont know HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS ENDING!!! im so happy aaah TOT

-then there is the epilogue and it's the cutest thing i can hug shadow heart and halsin and karlach :_) tried with astarion but i dont know if its impossible or i had him too low (every companion loves me but he finds me acceptable fgoihdgfjiodgio) anyways i wanted to hug all my friends

-gale is a god and like good for him but im like ??? damn we dont see his mission or anything he does this all off screen?? i wanted to see his struggles and stuff idk i wanted to see the FEELINGS

-anyways idk if i got a bug or something but when i get to talk with people about what i am doing is just me and karlach and 0 mention of wyll idk why TOT let me talk about my romantic companion pls

-also i had like 2 options to talk with romanced wyll and way more conver with astarion wich again i didnt even have very high on his love for me (i do love him and my chara frienenemy status tho) but why only 2 options for wyll i wanna talk with him moreeee at the end

-he did blow me a kiss it was the cutest thing tho

-Again idk if i got a bug but i never get anyone commenting on my relationship with wyll and i know the companions gossip about karlach and probs other charas >-<

-i heard a friend who had to kill karlach to get to see her gale ending so i tried in another save to see what happened (it was awful btw) and that was the only way to get an extra scene of wyll telling me to go for mizora and having other people aknowledge him in the epilogue (just with jaheira it lets me say wyll, with astarion and shadow heart they gave me answer like "oh im with my lover" and such instead of by name)

-i am a big fan of wyll but not so much of wyll missions, like they are fun to play but gosh i wanted the cool FEELINGS moments like lae'zel, shadow heart, astarion and karlach had, i feel he is straight up a classic hero tale and i want to see this man overwhelming with feelings of all the stuff he suffered. also more stuff with the dad idk i couldnt even tell him im with his son that could had been cool

-gale also feels like ???? he didnt have a proper mission and was like off screen wich is a bit weird to me ??

-my fav chara is wyll and then second lae'zel who is perfect 0 notes on her 100% increible. Then Do Not Make Me Choose for the other origin companions i cant. I love them so much. I didn't like astarion at first and i was like "really this is the man all my friends and everyone is obsessed about??" but then act 3 arrived and i was like Ah. I Get It Now. I would say my less fav is gale but because i didnt bring him anywhere so next game im def paying him more attention.

-anyways i could have some notes but in general i fucking loved this game so much TOT

[osterby]

Baldur's Gate 3, via Osmosis

So I think I played the first Baldur's Gate game for like an hour at a friend's house back in college, and all I remember about it was how delighted I was by the miniature giant hamster. I didn't even know there was a second game until I started hearing people get excited about the third one. That's about the sum of my knowledge of this franchise.

So without more ado, here's what my tumblr dash has taught me about these blorbos (I got @malaloba to huck the screenshots at me, so I didn't spoil myself on the names)

I want to say this one is Shadowheart, but that's too on the nose. She's probably .... Mythrin... Mithras... Mithotyn... Nope, I haven't got it.

She looks grouchy, and like she has a very good reason to be grouchy, and I would assume she's a combat class from her armour, but that's all I've got.

Gale (or Halsin) I know this one! He's the one who turns into a bear in The Cutscene that broke the internet for a few days. That means he'd be a Druid, right? I think he cross classes or something, though.

I hope the furries are having a great time drawing him as an anthro bear with a very large weenie.

Astarion! This vampire twink was all over my dash long before the game was released. Apparently he has a tragic backstory and is a jerk about it in a way that is either annoying or endearing, depending on the player's opinion of vampire twinks. His main role in the game, however, seems to be comically failing to pick locks. This means he's a Thief. Apparently the thing with the bear just had Astarion as the player character, and he isn't canonically dating the bear guy. Oh well.

Halsin (or Gale) The Other One who is Not a Bear. I would have said Bard for his class, but he's glowing a bit much for that here, so maybe a caster? I feel like he's more popular in areas of Tumblr that don't cross my dash.

Karlach or Karlak or something (not Karkat, that's a Homestuck thing).

Lesbians love her! She is large and angry and apparently really easy to romance just by approving of her chopping things with her axe. I think she was a child soldier? I see a lot of jokes about her crappy ex. I think her ex is actually her god and not her ex, though. Anyway, she seems like a prototypical Barbarian, good for her.

EDIT: I just remembered that she has PLAGUE, and is on a quest to Stop Having Plague. This is apparently her ex's fault

Laz'el. Lae'zel. La'zael. Something along those lines. I've seen treatises on her backstory and characterization, and she sounds like a really interesting character. Grew up in a cult of some kind, got dead or something, got abandoned by a crappy god (who might have also gotten dead or something), and is now wandering around trying to figure out how to exist in a world that isn't a cult. Apparently Other Players don't like her and dont't get what's up with her, which is a sore point for her fans (It's very possible that I'm mixing up portions of her backstory and fan reception with Karlach's) Her nose weirds me out (some uncanny valley thing between a skeleton lack-of-nose and a nose-nose), but I think she's pretty neat.

Ok, so if the blue lady at the top of this post isn't Shadowheart, then this one is Shadowheart. When I first saw the name Shadowheart, I thought it was someone's OC, and then I thought it was a generic name for the player character. From what I can gather, she's Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way with the stupid scraped off. She seems to be younger than most the other characters; she and the red tiefling are the kiddos of the group (Astarion doesn't count, because vampire). I think she grew up all sheltered in a weird little cult, too. Did ALL these characters grow up in weird cults? Is that a theme? Did I hear one backstory and apply it to a dozen different characters?

I happen to know for sure that this guy's name is Wyll. Good for me.

I don't know beans about him but I suspect he might be my favourite character when I do finally get around to playing, just from how his peronality is conveyed in fanart.

I get the impression he's the Only Sane Man to all these characters who grew up in cults and divorced dead gods and got vampire'd and whatnot, but he also has horns in like half the fanart and screenshots and is clearly Haunted (metaphorically, figuratively, literally, probably all of the above), so who knows.

As for the second figure here, I know the premise of the game is you've all got brainworms, who are in leage with a mindflayer con man who you can bone but who is also running some sleezy marketing scam, so maybe that's the brainworm made manifest?

I also see a lot of talk about character called Dark Urge, and the fan art doesn't look like that, but if Dark Urge is a manifested brainworm, then it could take various forms.

[khaire-traveler]

Ok, I will try not to talk too much about this on here, since this blog isn't really about this type of content, but I need to nerd out to someone, none of my friends are into this, and this is my main blog, so here we go:

***BALDUR'S GATE 3 SPOILERS AHEAD; READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION***

This is mostly just me needing out and gushing, though, lol.

Ok, ok, so for the past five days, I have been fucking binge playing this game. I literally spent the first day I got it sitting around for, like, seven hours (don't be me, and make sure to get up for breaks if you're gonna do the same thing). I was - and still am - absolutely hooked.

I LOVE this game!!! It's the first DnD based game I've played, especially of this quality (even though my laptop runs it like shit and the lag is killer ☠️). I'm playing on Explorer, so it's been fairly easy and very story-focused. I find the lore so intriguing, and I'm so interested in seeing where the story goes! I haven't seen anything past the camp party after saving Halsin, though, so no spoilers please. 🙏

So, I started off with one playthrough, but I came in with the knowledge that you are able to romance the characters and such. I REALLY wanted to romance Astarion (as most people I see talking about the game lmfao), but my bitch ass just could not get his approval, no matter how hard I tried. It got to the point where he actually made fun of me after we saved Halsin and had the camp party. 😭 I honestly suspect he might've glitched out somehow, since I had read online that people have had similar issues with earning the trust and approval of companions. This definitely bummed me out, but I was still enjoying the game a lot.

Along with that, in my original playthrough, I literally forgot to seek out Lae'zel. I had planned on doing it, but I just didn't know where to go, and by the time I had met Gale, I honestly forgot about finding her because I had to get offline at that point. 💀 I felt really bad about it, and I only went to go look for her after saving Halsin because I was reminded of her, and she had already broken out of the cage and killed the two tieflings who trapped her. I felt so bad that I just left her there on her own all that time. ☠️

After realizing that I wouldn't be able to recruit her until a bit later, I just decided to restart my playthrough on different save files. I figured I'd also at least get a proper chance with Astarion as well (love him so much; he is my meow meow 💕), and all while still playing as the character I took quite literally two hours to make (I was very indecisive about them lol).

So far, the new playthrough has been going very well, and I'm actually pretty happy that I restarted, since I had also apparently missed the scene of Astarion sharing his vampiric nature as well as some very key information from, and about, Lae'zel. I'm only about seven hours in right now, but I feel like I've somehow gotten more done in this playthrough than I did in my original which had something like fifteen hours. I've explored places I didn't even realize existed, picked up a ridiculous amount of loot, and even acquired all the companion characters that I know of in the First Act. It's been extremely successful! Not to mention things with Astarion are going very well. 🥰

Anyway, I've been enjoying this game a lot! This is my first ever time playing it; I didn't have Early Access and hadn't even heard of it until my friend told me about it this past Sunday lol. I'm honestly really glad that I got this game, despite the price of it and the price I had to pay for a new storage drive for my laptop in order to run it. It was certainly lots of money spent, but it was definitely money well spent.

I feel like my perspective on the world around me has changed slightly from playing this game (in a positive way). I feel a lot more curious about things than before, and I'm more inclined to take spontaneous risks which has always been a struggle for me beforehand. I also kind of feel like I can talk to other people a lot easier as well, as strange as that sounds. I play a Bard in the game, so my character has high charisma and stops to talk to other characters a lot, and I'm not really sure why, but seeing my character interact so easily with others has kind of inspired me in a way and helped to make social situations a lot more comfortable for me (I have social anxiety, so talking to people has always been pretty tough). As unusual as it may sound, this game has already changed me in such positive ways as a person, and I can't wait to see what other lessons it may have to teach. ☺️

All of that said, I couldn't recommend Baldur's Gate 3 more! It's genuinely one of those games that I think anyone can pretty much enjoy, and I also appreciate how inclusive it is with gender stuff and queer relationships. The other characters even refer to me with the correct pronouns, despite me never needing to enter my pronouns in! It's a very impressive game, and the graphics are absolutely gorgeous (especially when your laptop isn't absolute shit like mine lmao). Frankly, it's just great!

Of course, being so new, it does have its problems. I've personally experienced lots of lag issues - dialogue and animations won't be in sync, characters taking a long time to go from one location to another, environments not loading in very quickly, etc. I've also had the game crash on me a few times, but I honestly believe it's more related to my laptop than it is to the game, and for the most part, it hasn't caused me too much grief.

Despite its flaws, I personally believe this game is very much worth a play. It's loads of fun, and the characters are pretty charming and entertaining. The storyline is interesting with lots of twists and turns, and if you ever get bored of the mainline quest, there are literally endless sidequests for you to enjoy. Exploration is highly encouraged, and as you explore the realm, your map actually reveals the locations you've been to. Fast travel is also a super great feature, although there are some locations I wish that were on there that aren't, sadly.

Ok, I've...talked a lot, so I'm going to stop now. 😂 Thank you to anyone who actually read all this, and I hope you have fun playing or watching someone else play, if you plan on doing either! Take care. 🧡🪽

[ellaria]

I did it. I finally finished my first solo BG3 playthrough.

The little head bop he gives you if you say 'Are you asking me to marry you?' So fuckin' adorable

Look at this lighting. Absolutely(hah) beautiful.

Look at how tenderly he holds your hand with both of his UGHHH

Again, with the look of utter devotion.

I love this kiss so much. How he holds Tav's head while Tav holds his shoulder. Beautiful.

Get it girl. You've earned this ♥♥♥

omfg Tara you are not getting the deets on their sex life lolol

Shut the fuck up Tara, I swear to the gods if you harm his beard I'll be helping him shave you!

Adorable.

Leaving Tara in this one for a little chuckle.

Whoa there Astarion, that was a lot of complements with no barb, are you ok?

there it is lol

Oh I'm just so happy for him, he does seem so much happier. I'm just so misty eyed over them all.

Listen, this was actually my second attempt at this playthrough and in the first attempt I was romancing Halsin. I have feelings and thoughts ok

Ohhhh he's a silly sentimental drunk lol

oh my gosh the way he sounded like he was about to cry nooooooo

Oooooo 'Some one you love' eh Karlach? You and Wyll sure have gotten close ;)

Shadowheart my girl you look soo good AND you asked me for a hug???

omfg and then she makes a jab at my weight xD wtf girl

uhhh ok...

I love this guy

Don't blame me girl, I let the gods pick our dinners.

Of course he gave an interview lol

Is this Alfira? It has to be Alfira!!♥ (I'm reading the letters, it was!)

Oh sweet sweet Dammon

oh this is adorable! Please let me reply!!!

The gang's all here!!!

pfft everyone but Gale gave me money.

I love it. My friends and allies. Also what a good well wish, 'problems worth solving'.

Well, that's it. I did it. I think the last big game I completed was I guess FFXIV Endwalker. But before that it was ME: Andromeda. There are so so so many games I've started and when I was almost to the end I quit. It's so refreshing and nice to finish a game.

[themadchemist]

Finished my first BG3 playthrough the other day and man I LOVE this game!!!

I love how how there are so many different ways to handle certain situations and fights. It's probably the first time I played a game like this and it was so much fun!!!

I was actually really worried about all the different options and stuff but after spending 110 hours on this game, it wasn't really that bad, on the contrary, it was amazing!

I'm going to start my 2nd playthrough tonight, this time with a Drow Paladin/Warlock (my first was a High Elf Archfey Warlock and I have to say, Eldritch Blast is busted lol)

Here's my elf girl who looks more like a lotr elf than I wanted to lol

And my Drow boy for my 2nd run whom I've already fallen madly in love with

Spoilers under the cut, mostly for the companions' stories.

First of all, the main story. It honestly wasn't THAT great. Like it's not bad or anything, just nothing too special imo. Just goes from finds a cure, fight the 3 bad guys then fight the big gross thing. The 3 chosen were a bit interesting (ok, maybe just Gortash, mainly because he's so pretty lol) like I honestly considered allying with him but 1. I couldn't do this to my girl Karlach 2. I really wanted his robe and I doubt I could've gotten it without killing him XD (I ended up not using it at all but still).

As for the companions' stories, they were GREAT. Astarion, Shadowheart and Wyll were the best imo, Lae'zel has actually really grown, Gale's was good but not as good as the others tbh (and somehow he still managed to grow on me so much that I considered going for him instead of Astarion. I obviously didn't but damn Gale, go easy on me, my poor heart can't take it). Karlach and Halsin's stories were the weakest imo but maybe that's just me being salty about their endings...

For romance, I went with Astarion and Halsin and they're just so sweet 😭😭😭 Halsin has that gentle giant energy and he's just so easygoing. Definitely the kind of guy I'd go for irl lol. And Astarion. Man, he's AMAZING!!! I'm really happy with how his story turned out, a bit disappointed with his good ending, especially when there seems to be a way in d&d to cure his condition, but I'm happy with his story all the same. Like, he's kinda still his "magnificent basterd" self but he also grows so much throughout the story, he becomes softer, more sincere and most importantly, he's actually free and learning to be himself again, to genuinely love and care and to open up and show vulnerability and just ughhhhhh I love him so much and I honestly wish Cazador's death was even worse. He deserved much worse for what he did (and because his fight was soooooooo annoying).

Gale is another one that really broke my heart at one point and I was so ready to fist fight Mystra for him 😭😭😭 like at the end of act 2, he was actually ready to die and it was pure torture to see him like that and just 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Shadowheart was another one that I really enjoyed, I went from just liking her to wanting to punch her to absolutely loving her. Like in act1 it was fine, funny at times but she really got on my nerves in act2, especially in the gauntlet of shar, like I get that this is where she's supposed to achieve her goal and become a dark justiciar but going Lady Shar this and Lady Shar that at everything started to really annoy me at a certain point but all that annoyance got thrown out of the window when she freed the Nightsong and turned her back on Shar. Like, that must've taken a lot of courage and honestly I was impressed. And then the whole thing with her parents... Damn, Shar really is evil. I chose to free them even though it meant she would live with the pain of Shar's curse for the rest of her life. Like, this was one of the few times that I broke the rp and chose as myself. Overall, her story was amazing (fuck that fight with the mother superior though. All that darkness was pure hell for my party of casters).

Wyll's story really surprised me ngl. I was expecting the boring heroic guy but he turned out to be so much more. The whole thing with Karlach and then his father. This time I chose to sell his soul to Zariel for help to rescue his father but I wonder if I can still rescue his father even after I break his contract. And he gets free bonus points for the fact that his story ended in fighting a dragon. Dragons are always a good addition to any story lol.

Karlach's story had so much potential but it felt like it was cut short. There were a couple of ways to solve her engine's problem, like the gnomes in the steel watch foundry who were working with infernal iron and maybe Dammon. Idk, it was all a bit disappointing honestly. Like she died in my playthrough and no one noticed until she was gone and damn I feel like I'm going to cry again just thinking about it 😭😭😭 overall, best girl deserved so much better.

Speaking of Dammon, him, Rolan and Alfira are my children, my babies, I reloaded the fight with Marcus like 9 times just to save Isobel, not for her though I didn't care about her at the time, but for them. I'd defend them with my life. Like I can't describe the fear I felt when I learned that Rolan left the inn, like my reckless son better be safe or I'm quitting the game. And then the rage I felt when I found him in the wizard's tower but his face looked bruised, like whoever did this to him, their days were numbered. No one hurts my baby like that. And then I saw Dammon and Alfira around the city and I was so happy they were safe and building good lives for themselves.

Back to the companions, I was surprised that you couldn't talk to the tiefling refugees as Halsin. I don't understand why tbh. He took them in and let them stay at the grove, sure he left for a while and left Kagha in charge which led to the whole problem but it's not like he was to blame for that, he wasn't there and he stopped the ritual as soon as he got back. Unless I missed something, I really don't understand. Also, he's another character that suffered from a short story, one that felt more like a side quest even and after that, he was just there... But I'm glad I had a chance to have my big cuddly bear elf man who loves ducks and honey around (also his lines after the romance are just perfect. I love him so much).

And lastly, Lae'zel. I don't really have that much to say about her since I've only used her a couple of times for her personal quest. Although, I admit I didn't expect her to make such little fuss about opposing Vlaakith. Although that was probably all for nothing since I accidentally doomed her people to following a false queen by siding with the Emperor. In my defense, the Emperor was protecting me the entire time, I barely knew anything about Orpheus and the Emperor, despite the concealed truths here and there, wasn't entirely bad. He didn't stab me in the back in the end or force me to do anything bad AND if it weren't for the Emperor someone from the party would've had to become a mind flayer so idk... I wish there was a way to keep the Emperor and rescue Orpheus but oh well... Also, the idea that Balduran was fighting to protect the city even though no one really knew that was cool. (also, I made the mistake of making my Guardian really pretty so I couldn't bring myself to betray him even after he showed his true colors. I blame the option to hug him for this. I only wish he could've kept that look around me...)

All in all, I really enjoyed the game. Act 2 was probably my favorite. Will start my 2nd run tonight, excited to see the Drow reactivity they talked about since the elf was just there, just some person lol

[arrowpunk]

Ok so I finished BG3 yesterday..... Vague thoughts and spoilers beneath the cut

So like!! Act 1!!! Really well done and great!! Loved it!!

Act 2 was also good! It felt kinda lacking in some ways I think mostly because you can get a lot of really good cutscenes at camp in Act 1 and then it just kinda drops off drastically in Act 2, which was kinda sad but like it's a huge game so I understand. Dame Aylin and Isobel felt... Kinda. Bland. And like look I'm sorry ok. I'm a lesbian and they just... Didn't do it for me. I'm happy for all the people that enjoyed them! Their character designs are really neat! I think Aylin 100% should have been butcher though. Like she did not need to have long hair. And their storyline just felt really bland and like it had very little thought put into it. Like you have all these other really neat well written romances in the game and then you give the canon lesbian couple "it was love at first sight, I know that sounds sus but just trust me it was True Love at first sight" Like babe no wonder your dad didn't like her??? I could've written something more compelling than that at 14.

I really enjoyed what we got of Act 3! But it definitely... Felt rushed and incomplete. Like it was maybe half done. I knew Karlach's ending was gonna disappoint so I was already prepared for that. What I didn't realize was that like... Almost Every characters ending was gonna disappoint or just. Not Be There. Like wtf was that??? You spend over 100 hours playing this game investing in every companion character and their personal quest. And you just! Don't get much of anything after the final battle! A little scene on the dock where some of them talk to you some don't say basically anything and then Karlach dies or goes back to Avernus with Wyll, Astarion runs away because he starts burning in the sunlight and some other character makes a depressing comment about how that's probably the last you'll see of him??? Which??? Wtf???? You only get any closure on that if you romanced him. Which!!! WTF???? And then you get like short ending dialog with whoever you romanced and the credits roll. And the only thing post credits is a short scene of Withers mocking the dead 3. Like. No epilogue. No closure for the characters you spent so much time with. Nothing. You don't get anything with half of them unless you romanced them! Nothing with Shadowheart! You don't get to find out how things turned out for Gale with whatever choice he made regarding the crown! Nothing for Halsin, Jaheira, or Minsc! Like... Fuck man you don't even get to see the dog one last time or anything : ( or Yenna!

Like Karlach's whole everything felt really unfinished and kinda ridiculous because it sure seemed like there was so much there set up for you to be able to continue her quest line and fix her engine that the game/NPCs/companions/you just don't acknowledge which is frustrating.

But like over all I enjoyed the game, I had a lot of fun playing it! It just mostly felt unfinished and rushed in the end and so for a game as big as it was the actual ending felt incredibly lackluster which was disappointing. I still enjoyed the game and don't think I wasted my time playing it. But yeah. That's all

[showyoumyfavoriteobsession]

loaded the cazador fight back up this evening to get a taste of ascended astarion (pun intended)

not sure i really have anything insightful to say tbh, other than i was a little surprised that halsin and lae'zel just had their standard -1 disapproval (as far as i could tell) despite both being pretty outspoken against the ascension during the scene. i also didn't put together that we would have to fight the gur right after, so that fight took me by surprise lol

i explored the options for the night after a little bit and liked that you can push back on astarion for a bunch of different reasons. i got in one fight where i called him out for acting like cazador and he basically broke up with me on the spot, and then reloaded and went through with becoming a vampire.

i was a little too eager on my playthrough to finish astarion's quest, so i did the cazador fight relatively early in act 3 (before getting the orphic hammer or fighting either orin or gortash). i'm not sure i'll have the patience to play all the way through to the end again just to see the ascended epilogue - i may just look it up. i guess i could try to rush the end by just going straight for the netherstones and then right to the brain and ignore all the other quests just for the sake of getting to the end, but that would probably still take 4+ hours. i'm playing on the easiest difficulty and have gotten pretty decent at combat (haven't had a single tpk on this run), but i have learned that everything in this game just. takes a while even under the best circumstances.

and ok. not for nothing. the romance scene you can get for that night was really hot but it would have been better if the animations were fixed:

it was better in some shots than others (the actual biting scene for the morning was fine, plus since i loaded an old save this is a couple hotfixes behind and maybe it's fixed now) but tbh it was kind of irritating to see what were clearly animations for a shorter player character. let my big buff tiefling be seduce-able!

[prismatic-starstuff]

Well, I honestly haven't played the finished version either, but my friend is playing it with their partner so I usually get their reactions, but the overhaul has caused some really funny bits of miscommunication, because sometimes they were telling me about something and I was like "??? Huh. That doesn't sound right." And I only found out that they just rewrote that guy nearly from scratch earlier today. Or, for example, I was really surprised that my friend seemed to be getting along really fine with most companions, and then I found that they made getting trust points like WAY easier.

I'm also a little surprised that Raph isn't a romancable options tbh. Like come on, people can rail Minthara but I can't have the cambion?? No shade to Minthara, she's a cool character, I'm just saying that maybe some of us would rather take Raphael lol. But hey, I have faith in the modders XD.

Otherwise I think that, from what I've gotten second hand so far, the game is pretty impressive, I understand why they changed some things like the trust points, tho when I'll play it I'm pretty sure I'll install the mod that makes it a little more difficult again, simply because I'm used to it being that way from the early days of the EA. I also think the finished companion models look great. Karlach got such a glow-up oh my god. Gale looks really great as well (imho he always did but I know that that wasn't always the universal opinion). I think they made Astarion a little less airbrushed, which is good imo.

Most of my criticisms are just "details" - for example I am a little disappointed that they didn't add more body types. For a game that has so many options, to only offer you to be either a twunk or a gigachad, or an "average" woman or a bodybuilder woman...that's kinda...I don't know. I know it's a petty criticism to have, a lot of games will not even let you pick a body type, but these are just my two cents. I think the race options are pretty solid, tho I admit that I'm a little surprised since back in EA there were a lot of datamined dialogue options for Warforged so...what happened to that? I'm wondering if Larian has plans for any DLCs with more races or something, because it just seems odd that they'd just scrap it?

Like rn I guess it must sound like I don't like the finished version and that is absolutely not true - I really like it, I think it's great, I think it's incredible that it's being sold for 60 dollars because the game is LOADS of play time and a lot of replay value, I think the music is wonderful, I love the way they improved the animation, the voice acting is incredible, the new Dark Urge backstory is fantastic, etc etc. But I just have, you know, a few nitpicks, like what I described above. At this point I am actually literally not sure HOW MANY companions there actually are, because back in EA Larian said that the companions released during EA were the ones designed for an evil playthrough. Ok, but...if I am not wrong, the only added companions are Karlach and Halsin? And Minsc, I assume? Which is enough I suppose, I guess I just expected the number of good companions to equal the number of the evil playthrough ones. I have one more nitpick that one is actually a spoiler so I can't say it.

But anyway #modders_give_us_Raphael_romance_2k23 kjdfhkdhd

Yeah!!! I remember in EA, it seemed like getting and maintaining approval was honestly a bit of a nightmare; it definitely seems like it's been made easier in the finished product (and honestly, thank fuck ALSMAOXNSJX)

It always struck me as a bit weird that they would include romance options that aren't companions (like Minthara etc.) and just— completely avoid Raphael, I was 1000% sure as soon as I saw him that he'd at least have a spicy scene

I am... honestly surprised about the body types too? Like, the game has one of the most extensive and in-depth character creation systems I've seen, I'm not throwing any shade at it either; but considering how in-depth it is, it seems odd that there aren't more body types, like... they could've done it; the differing heights on the playable races were done super well, they could've easily included more body type/shape options imo. (I was wondering the same thing about DLC; there definitely seems to be some stuff that was datamined and isn't in the game so far so— ig either there's Quite a bit on the cutting room floor or there's DLC coming at some point)

Ooooooo I am. Very Curious about the spoiler one! I personally do not mind spoilers (in fact, I welcome them, I always end up spoiling myself on everything anyway ALDKALXNSN) so you can absolutely tell me if you'd like to, but! If you'd rather not then that's 100% valid too!

But yes! In general, I do have those thoughts in my mind, but the game seems to be absolutely incredible from what I've seen; the fact it's like $60 for a game that seems so huge and looks so beautiful is really amazing, it's been really amazing to watch the progress through the alpha versions to the full release; almost kinda sentimental in a way alsnalxnanx 😭🙏

(#LarianLetUsKissTheCambion 😔 ALAMALXNAXNA)

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(Alnith is my Tav- female outlander wood elf moon druid... who preferred wildshaping into a polar bear until owlbear became an option... yes she romanced Halsin (and Gale, thank you mods!) who I did not know existed when I created her)

Wyll, gardening: Hey, can you bring me the hoe? Minsc: Yeah, sure. A few minutes later Minsc: Here you go. Wyll: Minsc: Halsin: Why am I here?

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Alnith: I love you. Gale: How many people have you said that to? Alnith: Everyone. Gale: What? Alnith: I told everyone that I love you.

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the Squad cleaning up Wyll: Pick up the nearest piece of trash and throw it away. Karlach, to Astarion: Aight, which bin do you wanna go in—

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Gale: You know I think my life has value. Wyll: Who are you and what have you done with Gale?!

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Halsin, texting group chat: What flavour of ice cream do you guys want? I’m at the store so be quick! Minsc: Moose Tracks is good! Astarion: What the fuck is that!? Minsc: Gasp How dare you insult moo- Astarion: No. No no not that. What the hell. Why do you spell flavor like flavour. It’s like you have flavor but then this guy shows up and is like “Oui Oui Would you like chocolate flaVOUR or vanilla flaVOUR. Halsin and Minsc: what? Astarion: I don’t get it why add the EXTRA u when it’s PERFECTLY FINE AS IT IS!? Halsin: You done now? Astarion: Yeah ok. Halsin and Minsc: … Astarion: …Can I have the Mint Chocolate chip flavour?

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Astarion: ARE YOU- Alnith: Fucking. Astarion: KIDDING ME?! YOU- Alnith: Fucking. Astarion: IDIOT! Halsin: …What was that? Alnith: Gale banned Astarion from swearing, so I’m helping them out.

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Dammon: What's the scariest horror movie you've ever watched? Astarion: IT. Karlach: Annabelle. Shadowheart: Paranormal Activity. Halsin: High School Musical. All throughout high school I was scared that everyone was gonna randomly get up and start singing and dancing, and I would be the only one who doesn't know the words.

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Astarion: Oh no! I’m doomed! Gale: Seriously? All you have to do is not insult Alnith at their own memorial service. Astarion: Exactly! It’s impossible!

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Alnith: Hey Dammon, I’ve got an idea for how to solve this. Dammon, pulling out a shotgun: Yeah? Alnith: Wh- No! That’s not the idea, Dammon!

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Alnith: Make her pussy wet not her eyes. Minsc: Make his dick hard not his life. Halsin: Break her bed not her heart. Astarion: Play with her boobs not her feelings. Shadowheart: Get on his dick not his nerves. Gale: Always salt your pasta while boiling it.

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Jaheira, looking at the squad: Okay, so I need to become a therapist faster.

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Alnith: I once went on holiday and pretended to be twins. It was amazing fun. I invented this mad, glamorous sibling and went around really annoying everybody. And d'you know, I could get away with anything when I was my crazy twin Alnith. Minsc: But you're Alnith. Alnith: Kinda stuck. It’s a long story.

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Jaheira: Why shouldn't you put a toaster in a bathtub full of water? Karlach: Because your toast would get soggy!

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Alnith: Hugs Astarion from behind Alnith: Tucks Astarion's hair behind their ear Alnith, whispering: Eat all the frosted animal crackers again and they'll never find your body.

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Alnith: I woke up and chose VIOLENCE. I WILL COMMIT ARSON AND BURN EVERYTHING TO THE GROUND!!! I AM ANGRY- Gale: Awwww, you’re so adorable! Give me a hug~ Alnith: Wh-What? nO, yOURE SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED OF ME! TREMBLE BEFORE MY WRATH- Halsin, recording: This is so cute.

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Dammon: Are you drunk? Gale: Only on the spirit of Christmas! Wyll: And the spirit of whisky.

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Alnith: And have you learnt anything this Christmas, Halsin? Halsin: …Not really. Alnith: Nothing? Halsin: Tell you one thing I have learnt—Christmas; ultimately, commercial holiday. Who's the real winner at Christmas? Amazon. they have drones now! Tiny little dystopian slaves delivering iPads and headphones. I ordered a toaster; It was on the doorstep five hours later! Do we need that? It was 4.99! For a toaster! I mean, someone's being exploited there.

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Minsc: Not gonna lie, I'm kind of afraid of Astarion… Gale: As you should be. Minsc: No, for real, they're kind of- Gale: As. You. Should. Be.

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Karlach: You fuckers don’t know about my knife stick. It’s a knife taped to a stick and it’s the ultimate weapon. Jaheira: Spear. Karlach: BLOCKED.

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Wyll: It doesn’t have a bone. Minsc: Then why is it called a boner?

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Karlach: This is a judgement free zone. Pulls out a knife the size of their forearm Karlach: And I mean it.