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Nah if you ignore any sexual advances early on, you might never see M rated content. My first play through I ignored everyone's invitation at the party because my 9yr old was watching. Then never again did any opportunity ever present itself, lol.

Other than the two monsters banging in the barn house it’s all been pretty avoidable

Feeb wrote:

lol that was pretty funny. My companion told me to not open it but to hell with that. I was actually surprised, didn't think it was that...

I thought it was another couple of ogres to fight. Yikes.

Feeb wrote:

For me it was a fight. I tried to join though. lmao

Well horny vamp boi was all like “oooh I love the ogre sex!”

105 hours in. Act 2 complete. To Baldur’s Gate!

Patch #3 is live. You can finally change your character’s appearance!

I can change my genitals too! That's the best part!

Just picked this up today. Not sure I have ever spent this much time in a character creator. I haven't even gotten to the game yet. I keep over thinking and changing my mind. And then spending 30 minutes making something. Then changing it and spending another 30 doing something else. The indecision is killing me.

Archer wrote:

Ha! Same thing happened to me. Legit took me 3 hours to create my character. It was ridiculous lol. But thankfully they’ve now released an update that puts a magic mirror in your camp so you can change your character’s appearance in game.

Heavyd814life wrote:

And now I have to make a guardian. Here we go again. Another 3 hours of this crap, lol.

Uh oh. Archer getting in deep! This one will consume you. Watch out.

Archer wrote:

Dude, I've spent 8 hours with the game, and only have about 40 minutes of actual play time, haha.

Feeb wrote:

For real! This game is a beast! Easily the most time I’ve ever spent on a single playthrough of a game.

I started my 3rd playthrough. Still so much I have not done.

This game is amazing so far. Its like Baldurs gate meets dragon age origins meets divinity original sin 2.

Also a question, no spoilers please. What was with me making a guarding? I'm only just over 4 hours in, so not that far. But it just dawned on me that I made them. And have yet to encounter them. I figured it would be right after the intro.

Archer wrote:


The guardian just becomes a character you interact with in the game. A sort of guide but also major character.

Huge update just came out for this. Over 1000 fixes/changes to the game. That is an insanely large patch/update.

Glad I waited!

I still haven't decided which class to roll. I was originally going with a Lock, then a Sorc, then a Bard ... gotta just make a decision and commit. Yet, this is still behind on the backlog, gotta get through a couple more before I get set on this.

I played through the first chapter / act but was able to get out then. I’m afraid if I go back there goes my life. Love the freedom it gives you.

MrBean wrote:

You can multiclass and you can also respec in game so you don’t have to commit to your initial class.

Feeb wrote:

I lost a month and a half of my life to this game. Zero regrets!

Archer wrote:

Damn, I need to check the patch notes to see what they fixed/changed.

About to lose my entire weekend to this game. I have nothing to do/going on this weekend. So I'll most likely sit around and play this for 10 hours both days, lol. And still probably not get out of act 1.

Archer wrote:

This is the way.

Been a long time since a game has me taking hours to make a decision. And reloading saves to test the waters of all the choices to see which one I feel is more correct for my character. And even after hours, I still don't feel like any of them are the choice they would make. So I guess its just pick one and move on time.

Just don’t get trashed and bang a drow.

The acting in this game is unreal. I don't want to just say its voice acting. Because its far more than that. Its on another level in this game. These all must be real actors, and not just your typical run of the mill voice actors. Because they are all bringing something to their delivery you just don't get from a standard voice actor in a video game. Its very impressive.

And sure enough, looking some of them up, they don't just do voice acting. They act in movies/tv shows and plays as well.

Archer wrote:

Yeah man, the voice work is exceptional. I think the quality of the facial animations/expressions helps make the performances so believable and takes it to a whole new level.

All NPCs were mocapped. So that's why

That must have taken forever. To mocap that many people.

I just remembered that when this game first came out on PC, everyone was talking about how it was nothing but sex and nudity everywhere. It became a meme. And all the jokes about sex starved gaming nerds. Yet, I'm at the end of act 2 and I've yet to see a single second of any of that stuff. Granted I'm not going out of my way to see it either. Which makes me think all those people went out of there way to find it. No one has hit on me or tried to fudge me. Its been very pg-13.

Probably the most annoying thing about Western RPGs, the sex garbage and the over abundance of marketing about it. Mass Effect, Witcher, Cyberpunk

Was that really a thing? Weird. Because yeah you definitely have a choice in how your relationships with other characters evolve. And if you are seeing a bunch of sex/nudity then you are 100% looking for it. At least that was my experience. But @Archer you should have had a couple of people hit on you for sure or at least had interactions where your choices could lead down the “more than companions” path.

For me there was only 1 character I had any interest in romancing and it was a slow burn and it was handled really tastefully, imo. That’s so wild that people were saying it was just sex and nudity everywhere lol. I’ll have to look that up because that wasn’t my experience at all.

Heavyd814life wrote:

For a while it was. It was the most content you would find about the game. Articles, youtube videos, memes on twitter and reddit. You don't see it anymore unless you look for it. But upon the PC versions release in August it was everywhere. It was hard to miss. I was not looking up stuff for the game, but I was made aware of it everywhere I went online.

As for being hit on and the romance stuff, I tend to not do that stuff unless I have to for a trophy to get the plat. Otherwise I pretty much ignore that stuff. And all the stuff for that in this game, save one character, is platonic stuff you can get out of the way early and doesn't lead to any romance dialogue from what I can tell. And I messed up being able to go on a date with karlach because somehow the game thinks I like shadowheart, who I actually can't stand. That may be from giving her the flower for the trophy. But there has been no romantic conversations between us. Nor have we spent time together. So I'll do that in my second playthrough for that trophy. I also never talk to or use the vampire guy, because I assumed he was evil and was going to save using him for my evil playthrough. But I also thought that about karlach and that wasn't the case there.

I’ve only encountered one moment that wasn’t expected or worked for- the barn scene. I thought they were fighting. I got a BJ from a drow too. Had to slaughter all my friends for that one.

Feeb wrote:

That must be from the Drow chick that is a leader in the goblin camp? I just straight up murdered all of them when I got there. Didn't talk to any of them. It just felt like the right thing to do.

Yeah