The co-creator of the Dragon Age franchise has commented on the reaction to one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s main female characters, saying fans “always treated male characters with more forgiveness”.
lae’zel is perfect - well written, well voiced, a bit tanky, adds tension. there’s nothing to forgive. boy gamers are notoriously sexist. this is their problem, not larian’s.
She’s a very well written abrasive, abusive, xenophobic, domineering space Nazi. Which, I mean, yeah cool I just don’t want to be around her. In fairness I hate Astarion more and find Shadowheart obnoxious to the point that I rerolled cleric just to not have her around. I’m 50-50 on Vampire Twink vs. Emo Priestess being more annoying to talk to, but at least twinky does his job well and provides some useful burst damage. My cleric does a much better job as a healer and support caster.
Forgiving of what? Her dommy mommy sex scenes?
Her adversarial nature? My dudes, she is actually quite tame for a gith and if you play deeper into her story line, you’ll discover that and also get her to stop being a bitch to everyone she’s first meeting. Can’t blame her for being an asshole when she takes orders and worships an evil lich (whom she doesn’t even know is an evil lich) that raised her and others of her kind to be unquestioning killing machines.
Forgiving of what? Her dommy mommy sex scenes?
Not if you’re my little boss halfling. She’s a fighter with points in intimidation. Lae’zel tried the dom thing on me, and I said “That’s not how thing is going to work, you’re going to submit to me”.
I’m just confused how everyone has got so far, met so many people, and read so much backstory!
For a start my inventories are such a mess that I have no idea if any of it is important, I’ve never bothered to try out any other characters beside my main party because I don’t want to move equipment around it’s hard enough getting my main party members wearing the best thing they’re carrying and I’m sure I’m missing out on things because they get lost in my inventory without being read or accidentally sold before I need them - having things lost in second characters inventories while they loiter in the camp would be super annoying.
Heh well apparently not, but then I’d killed the goblin leader before I found a third party member so maybe I’m just unlucky
my god, i had to literally plan an assault on the goblin camp, took me a few days to accomplish even hahaha. wow, took out leader with just your avatar and a friendly. teach me your ways lol
Oh look, a click bait IGN article! And no one was shocked
No it wouldn’t have mattered. She’s a single minded, xenophobic , zealot asshole. That wasn’t my jam for the first play through. I barely tolerate shadowheart, but she got heals and sacred weapon. I’m a devotion paladin and I will smite their god(s)!
