Every now and then, I’ll gather with some friends to gossip, catch up, and make art. 🌜At this weekend’s art jam, while making beaded bracelets for each other and practicing live drawing with each other as models, I chatted with one of my friends about his experience with Baldur’s Gate 3 after I’d insisted he play it. He confessed that he’d downloaded it earlier in the week and had already racked up 70 hours in playtime, a number that I am not even close to reaching because of my many other responsibilities and the many other games I have to play.
Then he told me about his roommate, another of our friends, who’d misread the logo and thought Baldur’s Gate read Baldur’s Cafe. The wheels in my little rat brain started turning. I’ve already been fixated on the though🧔t of Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC an🌃d what it could look like, assuming we turned away from the hard-to-implement higher-level cap and focused on smaller one-shot style adventures, maybe ev🎉en playing with genre. Any chance to adventure further with these characters is alright by me, especially because they’re all so compelling in their own ways. I wrote ‘Baldur’s Cafe’ in my notes app, a reminder to myself to meditate on what a restaurant sim game with BG3’s characters would look like.
I’ve Accepted I’llꦡ Never Get Jaheira As A Companion In Baldur’s Gate 3🥃
She keeps getting herself killed and it is no lonꦺger my problem
I can’t help it – 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I love a restaurant management sim. I grew up playing hours and hours of Diner Dash, and imagining Karlach cheerfully sprinting a꧑round, picking up plates, setting them on fire by accident and freaking out makes me extraordinarily happy. Astarion could easily, and single-handedly, run one of those burger places where the whole shtick is that staff are really mean to you for no reason. Gale is perfect for front-of-house duties, because he’s perfectly polite and unassuming. Lae’zel would run that kitchen like it’s the military, though I do think she would take it, like most things, far too seriously and threaten all the chefs with bodily harm if they gummed up her carefully optimised system.
But I also imagine a Coffee Talk-type game, where I get to serve drinks to characters while slowly learning about their lives. The main drive for me when it comes to Baldur’s Gate 3, after all, is getting to know these wonderfully written, intensely complex characters and understanding how their pasts have brought them to me. S𒉰ure, I also don’t want my brain to get eaten by a worm, but mostly, I just want to hang out with my friends around a fire and be merry. Getting to chat with those same characters, but over a coffee in a cozy cafe with no threat of death or danger would make me just as happy. Just like in Coffee Talk, making them the drinks they need would progress their storylines and let them open up to you slowly, telling you about their pasts and what they want to happen in their futures.
Ba𝐆ldur’s Cafe is a nonsense idea, but it makes perfect sense that I would want to transplant the game’s characters into other genres – they’re such great characters that I can’t get enough of them. I dꦉread finishing up my first playthrough, knowing that will be the end of my time with them, but I guess I can always just run through a second time, and a third, focusing on different characters each time. But that’s a time-consuming exercise, so with all those many other games to play, maybe I’ll just imagine them serving dishes and messing it up for now.