Baldur's Gate 3

This encounter was contrasted with the player’s first encounter with Morrigan, the much-loved Dragon Age character. “It does everything right to make you like the character, before showing you her darker side,” Clark said of Morrigan's introduction in Dragon Age: Origins. “I don't think they did this with Lae'zel.” Gaider dismissed this suggestion, saying “it truly does not matter”.

That's the best part. Why would you like a character male or female that is openly hostile to you? You wouldn't. That's the point. She isn't your friend (at least towards the beginning), you simply share a common goal with this githyanki. I wouldn't be more forgiving if she was a guy. She's still being an asshole to me. But it works especially for evil playthroughs as the relationship works totally fine as something that's just transactional in nature.

You know who I couldn't forgive? Alistair. All he needed to do was shut his damn jackass mouth for 10min. Really hard for me not to see him in Gale everytime I talk to him.

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.

Lae'zel was my favorite origin character and who I ended up romancing and sticking with through my playthrough.

I wouldn't have expected that going into it, but I found her writing to be probably the most complex and interesting arc out of everyone.

Whereas Shadowheart, who I went into it thinking would be the one I'd want to romance, was insufferable by halfway though and I was regularly wishing she had less relevance to the core plot.

I'm glad Lae'zel wasn't male, and honestly I find the suggestion annoying given that the entire plot around the Githyanki is extremely focused on the matriarchal nature of the society.

More Amazons in our media, please.

Mostly kept away from news about BG3 story because I'm playing it and don't want to be spoiled. Had no idea that there might be "backlash" against Lae'zel. Though I'm not going to read much stock in an article that's just a bunch of tweets compiled together.

Had plenty of RPG characters not to be to my taste in other games, but my complaints usually only come in if there's too many of them within a single game. I kinda want to know there's a range of characters to explore with, shows breadth. Certainly if it were a full palette of whiny brats then I'd probably bounce off the game.

My only complaint so far (and I know there's been posts in this area) is just how fucking horny people seem to be. I'm trying to buddy up with party members and they're taking it as me coming on to them. I feel like I'm walking on egg shells when picking some responses in fear it'll get me shoved into the sex pen with them. I'm also surprised at how fast relationships develop. I'm still in act one and have had 3 or 4 people in my camp express their wishes to bed me. Dudes, we've just met and yer boi has a fucked up STD like wriggler in my eye.

Nah, assholes are assholes, her personality is just so confrontational that I don’t want to deal with it. I don’t think gender has anything do with not wanting every conversation to be a small fight full of insults.

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.

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)!

My problem with Lae'zel is that she shares too many major story beats with Shadowheart. But individually they are good characters and we aren't spoiled for choice with 6.5 origin characters and a few more plot relevant companions. Her story works well for a Gith and it's good that we have a Gith companion option with how relevant the illithid are to the plot.

Well........I don't think so?

People love Morrigan from DA:O and she's pretty much a jackass. Made me want to pull my hair out at times, but there's a charm in that making a bad girl go soft in the end.

We shouldn't just slap or imply a "sexist" label when people don't like a character or not, although there's always going to be a variance.

Is there a good example or reason they say this or are they just guessing?

Bruh, ~~Bae~~ Lae’zel is what I’d expect if they gave Morrigan from DAO a superiority complex.

Still in Act 1 so I got more to explore, but she is by far my favorite character of the bunch so far along with Astarion.

People don't like lae'zel?? She's by far my favorite. Please more strong women who want to fuck me.

My woman friend who I got to play a little co-op was also immediately like "she's hot. I like her", and found shadow heart to be a little whiney.

Forgive her for what? Perfectly complementing my Lolth-sworn drow's vibe? She's the shouty armored one and I'm the one who wears a dress to a fight and is scarier when I'm quiet, and together we're cutting a bloody swathe across the Sword Coast and looking great doing it.

She's a hell of a fighter. So what if she worships a lich and wants to step on my testicals because I'm good in battle. We all have our quirks.

The only reason why I don't use Lae'zel is because Karlach exists and she's a goddess (who also fills a similar party niche)

I don't like her, but I used her a lot. I hate Astarian so much that he's never in my party. A lot of the npcs have unlikable elements