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Ghislaine of YOSPOS
Apr 19, 2020

Bum the Sad posted:

lol what which romances are those

if you choose the option that ends the game with haarlep you see about a second and a half of piv

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exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Worth it imho.

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

Did an honor mode run with some friends, Bernard almost got us at 5th level.

i'm definitely just skipping or barrelmancing bernard this run. insanely difficult fight.

Docjowles
Apr 9, 2009

I always just do the dialog that turns him friendly and call it good enough. There are things you can do to make it easier on yourself though like using the elevator or sussur blooms.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:

if you choose the option that ends the game with haarlep you see about a second and a half of piv
LOL l guess they updated those animations....

quote:


So this is pretty embarrassing. Our completely OP party just got a “game over” last night in possibly the stupidest way conceivable.

To set the stage, we are all Gith. Light Cleric (me), EK Thrower, TB Monk, and EB Warlock. We know the game inside and out, and go into the House of Hope quite confident in ourselves and our game knowledge.

Except we’re regarded and like to meme and joke around. Our one buddy hasn’t slept with Haarlep, and didn’t know you even could, since we usually just kill everything.

So we’re giggling and vote on the funny dialogue options, and decide if would be even funnier if we got his Monk killed by the Incubus and give over his body AND soul. We figure it’ll just get him killed, and we can resurrect him after and have a good laugh. Note that 2 of our characters aren’t even in the room.

NOPE. We all sit in at our PC’s in shock as we realize you just get a game over immediately. Which makes no god drat sense. Like what the hell even is that? Has to be the stupidest, most preventable way to lose.

Morale of the story, don’t sleep with Haarlep and/or troll your friends.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/18junt6/haarlep_ended_honor_run/

Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Apr 7, 2024

Janissary Hop
Sep 2, 2012



Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan
lol :pwn:

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



exquisite tea posted:

People say that all the time but I don't really get it, there are only like two romances where you can even see the digital penetration.

it's because we've been inhabiting a deeply sanitized popular culture for the past decade, so the mere act of, like, acknowledging that sex exists and people enjoy it is seen as eroticism

Janissary Hop
Sep 2, 2012

BG3 was the first big CRPG for a ton of people who have little exposure to the genre or even video games in general. The game pales in comparison to stuff you can find just on Steam, but for those people running into like the Minthara sex scene is probably going to be a wtf moment.

DeadlyMuffin
Jul 3, 2007

Vermain posted:

it's because we've been inhabiting a deeply sanitized popular culture for the past decade, so the mere act of, like, acknowledging that sex exists and people enjoy it is seen as eroticism

Truly there is no difference between acknowledging that sex exists and people enjoy it, and showing penetration in a video game.

It's a horny game, and that's fine.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



DeadlyMuffin posted:

Truly there is no difference between acknowledging that sex exists and people enjoy it, and showing penetration in a video game.

It's a horny game, and that's fine.

you had a sex scene just as long in mass effect 1 back in 2007 and no one back then or now would accuse it of being in the nebulous category of "horny game". it's solely because BG3 is open about sex and sexuality in its dialogue in a way that is vanishingly rare in modern media in general and video games in particular

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Docjowles posted:

I always just do the dialog that turns him friendly and call it good enough. There are things you can do to make it easier on yourself though like using the elevator or sussur blooms.

hrm .. mayhaps. pretty risky on a solo run though, and doesn't really give much of a reward.

found out whispering promise works with potion heals. self-blessing barbarian is very powerful in early.

LifeLynx
Feb 27, 2001

Dang so this is like looking over his shoulder in real-time
Grimey Drawer
Shadowheart has Produce Flame and Gale has the Lantern equipped and I'm still taking damage from the shadow curse. Is there a fix for this?

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

LifeLynx posted:

Shadowheart has Produce Flame and Gale has the Lantern equipped and I'm still taking damage from the shadow curse. Is there a fix for this?

is gale actually holding the lantern? there's a little torch icon you need to click below your melee/ranged weapon icons.

also, if it's the lantern from last light, see if you have an unexpected ability while holding it.

LifeLynx
Feb 27, 2001

Dang so this is like looking over his shoulder in real-time
Grimey Drawer
Oops, wrong lantern. I had the one from Moonrise Towers equipped. That's a Shadow Lantern, not Moon.

Servetus
Apr 1, 2010

Vermain posted:

you had a sex scene just as long in mass effect 1 back in 2007 and no one back then or now would accuse it of being in the nebulous category of "horny game". it's solely because BG3 is open about sex and sexuality in its dialogue in a way that is vanishingly rare in modern media in general and video games in particular

Didn't Fox News try to start a moral panic over Mass Effect 1?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzF173GqTU&t=160s
https://www.ign.com/articles/mass-effect-2-developers-cut-jacks-same-sex-romance-seemingly-in-part-due-to-fox-news

Squibbles
Aug 24, 2000

Mwaha ha HA ha!
I thought bg3 got a rep for being horny because there was a bug at launch were people could be romanced way faster than intended. They supposedly toned it down but, not having played it before the patch I don't know how different it was. Other than apparently the sex speed runs got ruined?

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Good news, sex% runs are back baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVUwo2ZqZeY

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Squibbles posted:

I thought bg3 got a rep for being horny because there was a bug at launch were people could be romanced way faster than intended. They supposedly toned it down but, not having played it before the patch I don't know how different it was. Other than apparently the sex speed runs got ruined?

it was almost entirely due to a combination of customizable genitals and the halsin bearfucking meme getting bandied about on twitter pre-release until people were convinced it was an eroge and not, like, a fairly modest episode of lexx

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022


"As in, you're giving me sore eyes"

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


I like how an upshot of getting the fake eye is you can keep a normal looking eye as a freak

SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003

My wife's half elf paladin got the ersatz eye and then later on took the ascended brainworm and she's a little sad now because her character looks absolutely demonically hosed up. I feel like the half-illithid hammer hits certain races way harder than others. Dragonborn don't seem to get affected all that much, whereas her half elf looks positively necrotic.

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

it makes you so god awful ugly, i only used it on my first run. what's the point of all that power if you can't look good wielding it?

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

Zodium posted:

it makes you so god awful ugly, i only used it on my first run. what's the point of all that power if you can't look good wielding it?

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

"It's okay. There are other Terminators! Just give us this one!"
Hell Gem
I don't care about who wins the argument but you are severely misremembering Mass Effect and the way it was talked about lol it was one of the major reasons people started joking that Bioware is a dating sim developer (among other comments that were way less chill).

Squibbles posted:

I thought bg3 got a rep for being horny because there was a bug at launch were people could be romanced way faster than intended. They supposedly toned it down but, not having played it before the patch I don't know how different it was. Other than apparently the sex speed runs got ruined?
I think it was specifically Gale would always get flagged as romanced and his reputation has arguably never recovered.

feller
Jul 5, 2006


Zodium posted:

hrm .. mayhaps. pretty risky on a solo run though, and doesn't really give much of a reward.

found out whispering promise works with potion heals. self-blessing barbarian is very powerful in early.

what’s risky about being nice to Bernard? Also it’s the same xp either way I think

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

mycot posted:

I think it was specifically Gale would always get flagged as romanced and his reputation has arguably never recovered.

Gale, Wyll and Halsin all still try and hump my leg if I talk to them more than twice in camp.




Also Lae'zel has a flirty banter line with Karlach. Well, at least as flirty as Lae'zel gets in party banter.

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Lae’zel is dtf whoever in her vicinity she thinks has the biggest dick. Just like my sister in law.

McCloud
Oct 27, 2005


Harleep got the last laugh lmao

rojay
Sep 2, 2000

Vermain posted:

it was almost entirely due to a combination of customizable genitals and the halsin bearfucking meme getting bandied about on twitter pre-release until people were convinced it was an eroge and not, like, a fairly modest episode of lexx

Nah, it was because it's a horny game and Gale and to a lesser extent Wyll were loving creeps.

Not sure if you were serious about Mass Effect, but friend you should go back and read some of the stuff that was written about that game at the time. We've come a long way.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



rojay posted:

Nah, it was because it's a horny game and Gale and to a lesser extent Wyll were loving creeps.

Not sure if you were serious about Mass Effect, but friend you should go back and read some of the stuff that was written about that game at the time. We've come a long way.

the game being declared a Horny Game was in the discourse well before release, with every major puff piece pre-release mentioning the "yes, you can gently caress the bear" thing. again, it's not any hornier than a particularly tame lexx episode, especially outside of act 1 where you get the S&M drow and lae'zel wanting to bang

the discourse on ME1 centered on the sex scenes as pornographic rewards, either positive or negative, but the game never had the identity of somehow being uniquely erotically charged outside of that

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

"It's okay. There are other Terminators! Just give us this one!"
Hell Gem
You're blocking out years of alien fucker jokes and Tali sweatposting and frankly that's a blessed existence.

edit: I have yet to see anyone write a paper on what Lae'Zel's feet smell like so maybe Mass Effect really is the hornier game?

mycot fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Apr 8, 2024

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



i'm around 87% certain the tali sweat epistle was a mass effect 2 era innovation

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
Does anyone have the bg3 butthole chart on hand?

e; My Dragonborn fighter has a circumcised penis and I was told by someone that Dragonborn would have uncut penises universally. I vehemently disagree and also dragon dick cheese is a product of dragon enslavement and cutting of the foreskin is symbolic of cutting the chains of servitude.

MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Apr 8, 2024

feller
Jul 5, 2006


What

Lt. Lizard
Apr 28, 2013
Never go full horny.

Ornery and Hornery
Oct 22, 2020

ALWAYS GO FULL HORNY

Eau de MacGowan
May 12, 2009

BRASIL HEXA
2026 tá logo aí
minthara's full horny slaughter women and children > gobble cock > reverse cowgirl > god told me to skin you alive has left my opinions on full horny REELING

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


It's a glorious time to be a Gamer.

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BlazetheInferno
Jun 6, 2015

Yyyyyup, instant game over if it's your main character. I'm guessing that extends to any player's Main Character in a co-op run, since while I haven't tested it, I'm assuming that a character who surrenders body and mind/soul can't be resurrected.

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