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Baldur’s Gate 3 Has Caused Quite the Hubbub – Cold Take

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This week on Cold Take, Frost examines the ongoing discourse surrounding Baldur’s Gate 3. Check out the rest of the series here.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Has Caused Quite the Hubbub – Transcript

Iā€™m starting to think we just like our fiery emotions. Redfall was terrible and everyoneā€™s upset. Baldurā€™s Gate 3 is amazing and everyoneā€™s upset.

Thereā€™s been a lot of spicy discourse over Baldurā€™s Gate 3, and at the behest of my chief I went digging to see if there was anything of substance for a Cold Take. I inspected the scene of the crime at the website formerly known as ā€œTwitter.com.ā€ I watched the IGN video to the point where I now see Destin Legarie in my dreams. I saw videos about that video and videos about those videos, and Iā€™m here to end that cycle because, honestly, the only thing that kept popping up, as my IQ slowly depleted, is that Twitter is a horrible public platform for nuanced conversation and todayā€™s gaming discourse is screaming over each other, loudly misinterpreting what the other person said instead of asking them directly what they meant. Who coulda known? The real takeaway is weā€™ve skipped over conversation and gone straight to grandstanding, so I thought Iā€™d have a crack at it tooā€“I do love me a good soapbox. Currently, the two camps are split. In one corner thereā€™s people thinking BG3 is the current pinnacle of classic RPGs that no other game has a chance of a shot of a hope of touching for a while. The other corner takes offense to this statement and believes BG3 is where the standard should have been all along, anyone not trying to match Baldurā€™s Gate 3 is scared and lazy.



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Sebastian Ruiz
Sebastian Ruiz joined The Escapist in June 2021, but has been failing his way up the video game industry for years. He went from being a voice actor, whose most notable credit is Felicia Day mistaking him for Matt Mercer in the game Vaporum, to a video editor with a ten-year Smite addiction, to a content creator for the aforementioned Hi-Rez MOBA, before focusing his attention on game development and getting into freelance QA. With a lack of direction, Sebastian sought out The Escapist as a place to work with like-minded individuals and fuel his ambitions. While he enjoys dabbling in all kinds of games to expand his horizons, even the worst roguelikes can get his attention.