On a scale, what is your woke rating for BG3?

[sick duck]

I would rate it a 4.

[MartFassage]

like a 4/10 yeah

[Banelord]

one of teh definition of being woke, is being a privileged member of the elite trying to show that you understand problems of minorities and the oppresed, and failing miserably. because neither teh minorities nor the opresed want this.

[ajxx]

5 out of 10, enough to be noticed but not enough to make the game unplayable or immersion breaking

[MartFassage]

Originally posted by ajxx:

5 out of 10, enough to be noticed but not enough to make the game unplayable or immersion breaking

yeah this is the amount of wokeism i find bearable, it's nothing awful like saints row remake, all of it is mostly believable

[Banelord]

ah if scale is to 10 id say 3. tolerable

[FoxFox]

Originally posted by Jada Maru:

No one in such a society (and no one sane in modern society for that matter) is going to imply someone is evil for not letting total strangers *take over their home* as is implied at the beginning of Act 3. The guy doesn't want his home literally taken over by squatters so they turn him into a mustache twirling villain eager to bomb orphans. I guarantee you the person who wrote that questline doesn't allow strangers to squat in *their* house.

Or, and hear me out here, they are using the squatters as a plot device to give you an opportunity/excuse to figure out something's fishy with the dude so that you can actually find those explosives.

Just because squatters are occupying your house does not mean you can not also be a bad guy.

[Jada Maru]

Originally posted by FoxFox:

Originally posted by Jada Maru:

No one in such a society (and no one sane in modern society for that matter) is going to imply someone is evil for not letting total strangers *take over their home* as is implied at the beginning of Act 3. The guy doesn't want his home literally taken over by squatters so they turn him into a mustache twirling villain eager to bomb orphans. I guarantee you the person who wrote that questline doesn't allow strangers to squat in *their* house.

Or, and hear me out here, they are using the squatters as a plot device to give you an opportunity/excuse to figure out something's fishy with the dude so that you can actually find those explosives.

Just because squatters are occupying your house does not mean you can not also be a bad guy.

The dialog is implying that the guy is an evil refugee-hating meanie for not wanting the people in his house before you ever find out about what's going on in the basement.

As I recall, I believe there was a mind reading option for the man that gave away that he was hiding a secret. So the whole thing with the squatters was the writer just wanting to politic about the situation.

There's also a very big difference between how the player responses are written. The "refugees welcome!" options are written to sound lofty and noble, and the option objecting to the takeover of property (again in a feudalistic society) is written as mean and angry.

Consider these options, copied verbatim from the game:

"Baldur's Gate is the most diverse city in all of Faerun. We should take them in with pride!"

vs

"Out with these interlopers, I say!"

They just wrote the responses as a caricature of someone who is anti-refugee. No nuance, no "Supplies in the city are dwindling, there's a limit to how many people we can help.", nothing like that.

Edit: Act 3 spoilers ahead:

But even more importantly, the whole time I'm actually thinking "Wait a minute, the war is obviously coming to a head *in Baldur's Gate* where there's a giant nearly out of control elder brain about to take over -- why are we encouraging MORE people to come here and get killed again?"

Even Jaheira tells her family to get *out* of the city.

Did the writers of this game forget that?

[Cypher]

Mild spoiler....

[easytarget]

How long do you think users like sick duck will farm steam points with troll threads?

[Toblm]

Originally posted by sick duck:

I would rate it a 4.

On a scale of yes to no.
No.

[Tyresia2]

When it's not woke, it's a 0. But when it's woke, it's a 15/10 because it really makes you VOMIT.

The problem is that it is woke for 40% of the time in Act 1, 60% in Act 2, and 95% in Act 3.

On average, I'd say it's woke a total of 9 out of 10. It smells VERY heavily of "DEI consultants who forcefully rewrote the majority of content"

[Mick Savage]

Considering the bear sex scene has become an internet meme I'm giving it a 9\10

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Tyresia2:

When it's not woke, it's a 0. But when it's woke, it's a 15/10 because it really makes you VOMIT.

The problem is that it is woke for 40% of the time in Act 1, 60% in Act 2, and 95% in Act 3.

On average, I'd say it's woke a total of 9 out of 10. It smells VERY heavily of "DEI consultants who forcefully rewrote the majority of content"

Wtf even is woke in this context 🤣

Man I must not know cuz 95% of act 3? Surely you just exaggerating.

Originally posted by Mick Salvage:

Considering the bear sex scene has become an internet meme I'm giving it a 9\10

12/10 honestly

[GriffinPilgrim]

For goodness sake, necro posters, this thread is a year old. There's plenty of newer threads where you can whine about all the scary non-straight people.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by GriffinPilgrim:

For goodness sake, necro posters, this thread is a year old. There's plenty of newer threads where you can whine about all the scary non-straight people.

Undead bridal at your service, we put the romance on necromancy! How can we raise your dead today?