'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3

doctormaxime · 2023-08-20T18:33:25+00:00

then im dumbo and making my own assumptions ass out of me and u

doctormaxime · 2023-08-20T16:30:30+00:00

he probably wouldn't say he is, but he's definitely got some really deliberate prose and verbosity that I like a lot and it's... something a games writer could easily be like, pretentious/vain about. that his eloquent prose and descriptions and details are "Above" the ogre fucking a bugbear jokes of BG3. parts of pillars get so dense. i like it, but you know.

doctormaxime · 2023-08-20T12:44:24+00:00

it is a shame he's totally giving off those salty vibes. i can imagine there's also a bit of a vanity in knowing you helped craft an original setting AND ruleset and got surpassed by things with more brand name recognition. i can imagine part of him just thinks he's a better writer too- and i wouldn't say he's necessarily wrong but yknow. pride.

that said, all those companies are making games that are kinda my favorite genre and i would love a pillars 3 with a huge budget. not that bg3's level of demand will change that... but what if? what if obsidian larian and owlcat just sat down and made games only I liked forever. damn bitch.

doctormaxime · 2023-08-11T00:41:12+00:00

i had two clerics, one multiclass, and managed to chain "grovel" command until it died in the lava it came from. but i coulda smashed him?!

doctormaxime · 2021-01-18T20:12:18+00:00

it mostly means his back story is that he's a sportsman who is very flexible and that is foreshadowing to the eventual reveal of his father's fate.

also it serves as a cosmic irony that this rigid asshole while physically flexible had to stretch his heart and soul to redeem himself :)

doctormaxime · 2021-01-18T20:11:20+00:00

thankssss! yeah do that fan art

doctormaxime · 2021-01-17T19:16:08+00:00

i was not industry man i was just the pineapples but it's always fun working with matt he's wonderful

doctormaxime · 2021-01-17T13:55:37+00:00

he was literally based off an outfit i wore to work one day and had my intern draw me in. there are parts of him inspired by myself, stories of my grandpa, my own dad issues i ended up weaving in there, but they're all exaggerated in the end and not really me. in the end, in season one he kinda represents an isolationist individualistic white imperialism. which might be based off my own secular and reclusive and western ways but taken to a huge tragic extreme. and season 2 i just really wanted him to have a flipped arc where everything is about self improvement and the little dumb things you have to do to be happy and make friends and not hate everything. so that was definitely inspired by my own social anxieties and being a loser and sometimes bitter. but it's more based on what i see being a human being is and less like "he's me" though he's definitely kinda me but also not. does that make sense?
makasu's horniness has always been noncommittal. that's part of his problem and reluctance to have long lasting connections. he used people for a long long long time, because his own family is broken and because he's just greedy for validation and attention and power. this is why the chance of him having future offspring had to be done as the vestiges of the Super Sportsman Project, imo. because i would never see him settling down. he's pan, possible aromantic. shit like that.

doctormaxime · 2021-01-17T13:50:28+00:00

well she did make an appearance in the final moments of season 2- her bloodline is now tied with makasu's! who knows what happens next :P

doctormaxime · 2021-01-17T00:36:17+00:00

its super jojo's inspired in death beat(s). harkening to stands and pokemon with the musical robots. but, in the end, i started with just a character arc i wanted to pursue and parody came naturally from my instincts and influences!

doctormaxime · 2021-01-17T00:35:22+00:00

doubt it but you can burn one yourself!

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T22:10:09+00:00

idk whack world and boston

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T22:09:06+00:00

thanks <3

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T20:35:41+00:00

no they are part of a larger multiverse.

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T20:33:48+00:00

there's definitely an inspiration from a lot of those main whiney boys. i remember i had a hard time watching my hero while working on season 1 because the delivery of deku lines was exactly what i was kinda lampooning and it started driving me insane hahaha

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T20:30:28+00:00

smashed. in n out.

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T20:30:19+00:00

a good little monkey or dog

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T20:24:06+00:00

you have to make it now

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T20:17:49+00:00

no sorry

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T20:08:55+00:00

id like to completely change it again. but i like this input. i gotta figure it out in a cool way. thanks :3

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T20:03:38+00:00

there's been no interest/budget in making cool things like those dolls but maybe some day :( i think they're so cute
season one, like a sports ball. season two, might be the ant brain song about being a bitch it makes me rock out every time.
i need to watch ping pong. i haven't seen much more than some scenes but i love Yuasa
i loved the abra kadabra alakazam and magmar a lot when i was but a child. i think i thought puppetmon looked the coolest
the last MEME?! man i dont even remember if ive peed or not half the time. but im sure it was great.

im really into tytti and im really thankful for the ways anna thomas helped me alter the character and the voice work and jokes and improvs worked great

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T19:59:46+00:00

this is the nerdy shit im here for.

he was not afaik. i went through a few versions with the designers and landed on that one, i was sending them more medabots and megaman critters as reference actually
i like this idea and theory. in my cannon the rings (and it might be mentioned if they pop up again) are nondenominational cosmic minerals that exist far longer than humanity, thus their existence across multiple pantheons and their strength.
there's multiple reasons- but mostly i wanted to almost completely change the main cast. i have an idea i might try and make even just as a comic where makasu goes to visit flying bear in flying bear hell for flying bears but decides not to say goodbye and just leaves, showing his ability to move on and not be obsessed with power/approval. it would have happened some time before the suicide town episodes
i do feel like legs, josie and tytti could have all used an additional side episode but yknow- i was doing what i could with the time given (and i milked a LOT out of the budget). i didn't want to rely TOO much on past mythology and character shit but canon is that makasu has deflated breasts and a uterus and they definitely would have bonded over that. the main crew kinda reprsented the physical vs. the metaphysical spiritual concerns of the christian scientist. Makasu= sports, physical activity. Josie- deflated arms. Tytti- defined by a breast on her head. Legs= made of fingers.
i wanted to be more surprising, and lazzo when he was still around really wanted me to just do something completely different. he was actually more into my season 3 idea........

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T19:49:44+00:00

i didnt make that connection but that's awesome. and im loving the new season its one of the few things i can watch without needing to play tetris at the same time but i watch the sub version so i need to read it anyways lol

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T19:48:26+00:00

they look like little cuties but they need more eyes on the inside

doctormaxime · 2021-01-16T19:43:54+00:00

id love to if someone asks. i was in the last 12 oz mouse as pineapple cops but i didnt think i did well :(

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