Not gonna lie, that last picture kinda shot down any interest I had for the game. ..And not just because I loathe the stupid virgin/chad thing.
But I guess different taste for different people? Or the game is actually pretty good, but some of the fanbase is rather inane.
If you're really turned off because someone made a shitty meme, it's worth noting that pretty much the entire rest of the cRPG community sees the Larian fanbase as rather inane too. And I say this as someone that got into cRPGs with DOS2.
I have met many people in the PoE community especially who absolutely refuse to credit DOS2 as being part of the cRPG resurrection at all, let alone contributing much more to the cause than PoE did, which is where the DOS2 VS PoE2 animosity came from back in the day - and now the goalposts have been shifted to the Pathfinder games.
A lot of the flaws of PoE2 and its ultimate failure are now even generally attributed to resources being diverted in an attempt to chase after DOS2's popularity (full voice acting being the big one), at the cost of resources that could have been spent improving the actual game (namely fleshing out the actual companions, the vast majority of the companion quests could be done in less than 10 minutes after you start them, and the dev team were straight up quoted in an interview saying they weren't any meatier because they were expensive to create). This belief has become stronger in the wake of the Pathfinder games releasing afterwards and being overall much better experiences, while not pursuing those design decisions at the expense of the rest of the experience.
Originally Posted by Fox of Embers
I hope BG3 will have mounts. Not because I overly care about them, but it is a good old tradition that Paladins have their special mount and I want to use that at least once.. =P
I would be surprised if BG3 had mounts in any capacity. DnD 5E doesn't officially support it as far as I'm aware (while Pathfinder does), and I'm not sure Larian will go out of their way to introduce that system while opening themselves up for the potential for a lot more bugs. (As in, what happens if you begin a cutscene while mounted? If something happens to you during the cutscene while you're mounted, will it change to account for that mount being there, such as someone physically trying to punch you?)
