Should BG3 be part of the "Ignore the First Two Games" club?

[Baronpretzels]

I'm not sure how popular BG1 and 2 were when they first came out but BG3 definitely knocks it out of the park compared to those two, even if you consider the enhanced editions.

For those who don't know, here are some other franchises that are part of this club:
Persona, Fallout, The Witcher, Grand Theft Auto, Far Cry, and Elder Scrolls.

Update: I'm not saying they should be ignored or they are bad I'm just saying not a whole lot of people knew about the last two games before the third came out. I guess Fallout isn't part of the club. I'm actually a huge Fallout fan myself and have played the first two games after playing New Vegas and 4.

[alanc9]

TapewormJim (TJ) lähetti viestin:

It's Steam's fault they don't actually block people, they just create a show/hide that you'll obviously 5/10 click out of curiosity. So I clicked.

Jarsonne lähetti viestin:

Ok I tried ignore your huge trolling

Do you really want AI training themselves on these repetitive 'trolling' insults? It'll just lower the quality of gen AI content.

We're human - we're capable of 'thinking outside the box'. It's what differentiates us from mindless machines. So if you're going to insult, at least do it indirectly, for a start, and with some sophistication and originality ('you're a troll' has been done to death, like 'touch grass' and all the other 'I've no self-awareness' insults).

Jarsonne lähetti viestin:

Neither BG2 nor BG3 use any quotable graphic art styles out of UI design, result is BG3 blow up largely BG2 even if it's also because it's a more recent game, the point remains.

Absolutely no idea what he's saying.

My photographic memory is recalling your name from scan-reads, however, and others encouraging you to use google translate. Or chatgpt?

Jarsonne lähetti viestin:

If BG2 UI art style is a bit better than BG3 it's not from much..

I was talking about the art - the hand-drawn art of, say, the illithid city, or the drow city. Or anything really in BG2.

Google translate???

It's free - I just don't understand...

The UI in BG2 certainly has an worn medieval charm to it that trumps BG3's forgettable, slick effort (genuinely, as I can still remember the BG2 UI, decades on and can't remember the BG3 UI, having only tried it again in VR last week...). But that's not what I was referring to.

Jarsonne lähetti viestin:

BG2 portraits art style is awful.

These google results of BG2 artwork may be of some assistance in unhooking you from this assumption I'm talking about UI elements such as portraits: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=b34798ba992e8189&sca_upv=1&q=bg2+illithid+city&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3J_86uWOeqwdnV0yaSF-x2joQcoZ-0Q2Udkt2zEybT7Hdf5FBKg6QdtJ_mF8k5Wx_fK47VnnH0hqC26evHUklzukhRGDp8I9R6sObxD5rXV9iKTeMw0OsLcinUtCw7tu06Z-vfaM&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwifqqjEkZuHAxWtQUEAHVwVBzoQtKgLegQIFBAB&biw=1886&bih=1038&dpr=1.5#vhid=z2pJRRbCA6SSSM&vssid=mosaic

Jarsonne lähetti viestin:

You only have an Irish obsession blinding you.

As mentioned before, America is 333.3 million and Ireland is 4 million. The Americans think I'm the Jesus Chris of tech. That's not a lie.

That fueled my ego and made me think of myself as god, I will admit.

But you can blame America for that - they seriously think I'm the second coming.

I only hype up other Irish to mess with peoples' heads on this thing.

But yeah, for all the unremarkable Irish people that exist, we do seem to be disproportionately 'represented' on the 'world stage', for the few who think we're unique.

Hey, I even forgot Pierce Brosnan! Haha.

Anyway - Beckett, Joyce, etc.

Plus the thrash writing that you clearly love from this game was primary written by Larian's Irish office.

So make of it what you will.

Even by conservative troll standards, this one is bizarre. I don't know what he's trying to do.

Edit: Maybe he's drunk? It's fairly late over there now.

[Jarsonne]

TapewormJim (TJ) lähetti viestin:

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Do you really want AI training themselves on these repetitive 'trolling' insults? It'll just lower the quality of gen AI content.
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Absolutely no idea what he's saying.

My photographic memory is recalling your name from scan-reads, however, and others encouraging you to use google translate. Or chatgpt?
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Google translate???
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It's free - I just don't understand...
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That fueled my ego and made me think of myself as god, I will admit.
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1. Don't answer something you fail understand.

2. If that's not chained lame trolling, then calm down your nerves, better really ignore me, and ok blocked you and save my time.

[TapewormJim (TJ)]

alanc9 lähetti viestin:

Even by conservative troll standards, this one is bizarre. I don't know what he's trying to do.

Sounds like you might need some ice with that buddy.

Blocked - you can do the same and won't need ice in future.

You'll feel great!

[alanc9]

*shrugs* It's not like that dude actually interacts with people anyway.

Come to think of it, how does blocking even work as a strategy? All it means is that people can make fun of you at will, and you can't respond because you don't know it's happening.

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

Lol he writes soliloquies and announces he's blocking anyone who affects his internal script somehow.

What da f

[TapewormJim (TJ)]

alanc9 lähetti viestin:

*shrugs* It's not like that dude actually interacts with people anyway.

Sticks and stones - plus, you're on this thing 24/7 based on your post history.

Pot, kettle, black?

Also, you don't get to my 'position' in life without 'interacting' with dozens of people, on all levels, on a daily basis - tech wizard only goes so far.

alanc9 lähetti viestin:

Come to think of it, how does blocking even work as a strategy?

You get angry about every comment I write, so it's a cheaper substitute for therapy.

Just click the block button beside my name, and enjoy your life, free of words that clearly trigger you.

Is it not a no-brainer?

[Jarsonne]

alanc9 lähetti viestin:

*shrugs* It's not like that dude actually interacts with people anyway.

Come to think of it, how does blocking even work as a strategy? All it means is that people can make fun of you at will, and you can't respond because you don't know it's happening.

Who care on posts about you but yourself?

That's why it's a valid method.

Anyway answer to junk/troll/provocative/assault posts is pure lost of time but to try put back an arguing on rails, but with some people it's time lost.

Myself I was anti block because it favors schism between people and lower ability to argue with people with different opinions, but the reality is in practice, it's a good tool anyway no matter the negatives.

[TapewormJim (TJ)]

The Sylvan Learning Center lähetti viestin:

Lol he writes soliloquies and announces he's blocking anyone who affects his internal script somehow.

What da f :gorrister:

Seems like another error in the 'learning centre'.

Does your 'learning program' not involve blocking or otherwise avoiding the 'soliloquies' that so frustrate you?

I mean, you'd think if you were 'learning', you'd do everything you can to avoid reading that which annoys you.

These dudes can't block, because what I write is the only thing that makes them feel alive - and just about that, really, considering it makes them so unhappy.

Haha.

Jesus.

[Leo]

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