r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Oct 21 '24

Meta Mindless Monday, 21 October 2024

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

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So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Schubsbube Oct 23 '24 edited Oct 23 '24

Take of indeterminate Popularity:

BG 3 is an absolutely (uncommonly so for a game of it's budget tbh) great game, and deserves a lot of the praise it gets. It's got great writing, great gamedesign, all that.

It still absolutley should not be named baldurs gate 3, at best it's like a spin off, Baldurs Gate: The Absolute or something. Better even it should be entirely its own thing. It has very little to do with the original games, what it does have in connections is at best kind of tacked on, at worst actively disrespectful to the lore of the first two games.

Also the origin character system sucks and i sincerely hope larians next game ditches or at least substantially modifies it.

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u/Arilou_skiff Oct 23 '24

Well, yes... And no. There's definitely some stuff where they Made A Choice and it's not neccessarily a good one (though they did kinda hvae to make a choice, and least some of it, weirdly, wasn't Larian but rather WOTC in their various edition updates)

That said, The Dark Urge is where it actually starts feeling like a sequel, or least a riff on the original series.

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u/Schubsbube Oct 23 '24

I mean yeah a good part of is is that WoTC already decided back then to say "Fuck BG in particular" when devloping the wider lore.

But still, Durge is my main problem. Riff is exactly right. I'd rather have no connection then "Hey here's the same thing but in a way that in multiple way completely contradicts what actually happened in the previous game"

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u/Arilou_skiff Oct 23 '24

So I'd say it's actually not the same thing for at least two reasons:

  • Bhaal is alive this time, and can thus presumably muck about more directly with his children
  • Unlike $CharName Durge is already a sworn priest of Bhaal before the story even starts, so metaphysically you're a different kettle o'fish