Larian may screw up BG3

[neuronfly]

All of Larian's games' stories are full of comedy and humor. They don't have what it takes to make serious stories like BG1 and 2. If they turn BG3 into a comedy and humor game like DOS1 then its going to be a colossal disaster. They will get a lot of hate for that. I think Larian may screw it up.

[neuronfly]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Liero:

and to add im pretty sure A WHOLE LOT of people here who jump on the bandwagon saying that DOS 2 is all sunshine and rainbows with lots of humor havent even finish the game nor look closely at the world.

mass genocide, bloodied streets, civilians slaughtered for no reason. whatmate

DOS1 is comedy. DOS2 is serious. It seems the staff that worked on DOS1 didn't work on DOS2. DOS2 is made by entirely different team.

[Divolg]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dragon:

BG games don't have serious stories. They ludicrously silly & asinine, even more so than Larian games. Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFzWbbNO_Ic

No, they aren't. BG games were not "ludicrously silly and asinine", and certainly not "even more so than Larian games". Care to produce more evidence other than ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Mincs quotes, a ingame few references and a one or two joke items?
Heck, you very next post describes a ton of examples from D:OS2, and there is even more of that stuff in the game. How the Hell can you say that even BG1 (much less BG2) comes even close to that level of silliness, much less being "even more so".

[Army Pea]

Don’t feed trolls.

That’s how they breed

[Lendeklede]

I'm curious as to who they'll choose as composer. Bring back Michael Hoenig i say.

[Sogreth]

BG had it's fair share of "silliness" in their games.

And OP hasn't really played DOS2 if they think it's just full of humor. DOS had a lot of it, but DOS2 was much more dark. There is a race that eats human flesh and can relive their last memories.

[sick duck]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von NGNS-SWE ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡:

you start BG2 in a torture chamber, and basically ends in hell itself.
if you gonna claim the game isnt dark- I dont know what to tell you, because there are a few jokes in between?!

BG2 ends in the beautiful and heavenly looking city of suldanessellar which is home to the tree of life and is traditionally quite peaceful and tranquil which the child of Bhaal had rescued from hell.

[Sly Boots]

I'm currently playing Baldurs Gate II: Enhanced Edition. Last time I played the original version was years ago, it was actually my second PC-game (first one was Gothic) and the game which brought me to PC-gaming ... Guys trust me, this game is dark and brutal. It may not show its cruelty visually because of the retro-graphics-style, but there is hardcore stuff going on there. Want some examples?

- the main villain is a psycho who used his best friend as a guinea pig. Jon put this poor bastard in a glas-tank to research the enhancement of human life or some stuff like that. Then he forgot about his friend, which means, that the dude was leading a miserable half-dead-existence for decades or maybe even centuries. And there are more like him in Irenicus lab. The torture the MC and Imoen received wasn't so rough in comparison, hmm?
- The ruling mage-organisation in Atkathla captures mages, who dare to use their powers in their city, even if it just for self defense. The prisoners get lobotomised after some time. If the mage is a hot female she most likely gets ra.ped too.
- There is a serial-killer, who specialises on beggars. He basically skins his victims alive.
- There is illegal slave-trading, and they sell children,too.
- Some as.shole hides a magic sword in the sewers, but created a riddle, so that some witty guy can recover the sword. Sadly his riddle includes the magical brainwashing of a random civilian, who was forced to life the live of a degenerated freak for years or decades in the sewers. He wasn't to happy after I lifted the curse and the poor guy realised what happened to him.

What I wanted to say with this, is, that BGII is a dark and cruel game. Even Minsc is a tragic character, because he probably received some serious blows to the head, which damaged his brain and sanity (he has low Intelligence and Wisdom-stats for a reason, you know?). Luckily his disability didn't change his good and kind nature. This is the true awesomeness of Minsc. A guy who is basically fuc.ked for life, but is to good of a soul to break down.

[creocoder]

Ofcourse they will screw it up. DoS 1 and especially DoS 2 was unbalanced pease of challengeless crap even on Tactician difficulty. Broken role playing system, etc. Horrible childish atmosphere with idiotic jokes. BG 3 should be developed by Obsidian ONLY!

[Sogreth]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von creocoder:

Ofcourse they will screw it up. DoS 1 and especially DoS 2 was unbalanced pease of challengeless crap even on Tactician difficulty. Broken role playing system, etc. Horrible childish atmosphere with idiotic jokes. BG 3 should be developed by Obsidian ONLY!

Someone is mad about DOS and Larian.

Oh well. Tough luck, kiddo.

[Coldhands]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von creocoder:

Ofcourse they will screw it up. DoS 1 and especially DoS 2 was unbalanced pease of challengeless crap even on Tactician difficulty. Broken role playing system, etc. Horrible childish atmosphere with idiotic jokes. BG 3 should be developed by Obsidian ONLY!

We got an RPG tough guy here.

[strangecat]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dragon:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von neuronfly:

All of Larian's games' stories are full of comedy and humor. They don't have what it takes to make serious stories like BG1 and 2. .

BG games don't have serious stories. They ludicrously silly & asinine, even more so than Larian games. Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFzWbbNO_Ic

no BG2 was for adults not kids.
everything in the game was mature. It wasn't silly and you weren't some hero on a quest.
The characters were also adults in adult situations.

[Sogreth]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von strangecat:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dragon:

BG games don't have serious stories. They ludicrously silly & asinine, even more so than Larian games. Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFzWbbNO_Ic

no BG2 was for adults not kids.
everything in the game was mature. It wasn't silly and you weren't some hero on a quest.
The characters were also adults in adult situations.

I think probably like 80% of the BG fans out there were younger kids-teens when we played them, sooooo

It's also rated T for Teen. If it was for adults, it would be rated M

And there are LOTS of silly things in BG.

[sick duck]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sogreth:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von strangecat:

no BG2 was for adults not kids.
everything in the game was mature. It wasn't silly and you weren't some hero on a quest.
The characters were also adults in adult situations.

I think probably like 80% of the BG fans out there were younger kids-teens when we played them, sooooo

It's also rated T for Teen. If it was for adults, it would be rated M

And there are LOTS of silly things in BG.

Baldurs Gate was around the time that the likes of ultra violent cartoon characters like road runner, Wile-E-Coyote, Elmer Fudd and bugs bunny were considered an acceptable amount of violence for children under the age of 10.

[Tuco]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von creocoder:

Ofcourse they will screw it up. DoS 1 and especially DoS 2 was unbalanced pease of challengeless crap even on Tactician difficulty. Broken role playing system, etc. Horrible childish atmosphere with idiotic jokes. BG 3 should be developed by Obsidian ONLY!

This is especially ironic, given what they achieved with Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2.

[creocoder]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Tuco:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von creocoder:

Ofcourse they will screw it up. DoS 1 and especially DoS 2 was unbalanced pease of challengeless crap even on Tactician difficulty. Broken role playing system, etc. Horrible childish atmosphere with idiotic jokes. BG 3 should be developed by Obsidian ONLY!

This is especially ironic, given what they achieved with Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2.

What ironical? PoE 1 was great. PoE 2 was just masterpiece.