Everyone’s malding over spoilers and not realizing this isn’t an actual ending that’s coded into the game, it’s just a funny side effect of a spell that malfunctioned during the end boss.
They could have clarified that in the headline
But then they wouldn’t get so many clicks and reactions.
The people upset that they may have had the most secret ending spoiled for them in a headline aren’t going to click on that.
People can also apply the slightest semblance of critical thinking and realize most gaming journalism outfits, no matter their questionable quality, will realize they won’t last long if there are true spoilers in the titles. Therefore this isn’t really a spoiler.
Like they’re obviously going to phrase things in ways that get more engagement, which is why it’s a crucial skill on the internet today that readers need to think critically and not just accept headlines literally.
I’m not saying it’s right, but jfc man, you have to develop skills to engage with the internet you have, not the internet you wish you had. I really feel no sympathy for people who thought this was a spoiler. At least this is a cheap lesson in gullibility instead of a costly one.
If I understand, the argument is that someone who doesn’t want to be spoiled for endings should…look at a headline purported to be specifically about endings, and then read the article to see if it’s about endings, which they are not going to do because there is an extraordinarily high chance it’s exactly what it says it is in big letters, and any failure to voluntarily read spoilers they don’t want to be spoiled for is then a failure on the part of the player?
That feels like reaching. Would rather not be mean. I think people stranded on top of zombie infested buildings whose only method of escape is a single in-use helicopter have reached less.
This is just a justification to brush off anyone who opens their mouth at all, because were there a reader who did for some reason want to click on every headline they didn’t want to know about in order to make sure they shouldn’t have clicked on it, that would definitely still be something that is their fault once they saw anything they shouldn’t.
Even leaving aside why someone would do that, the OP made the conscious decision to post it like they did.
They could have tipped everyone off to the clickbait. They could have used a spoiler tag if they didn’t bother reading it or wanted to play into the clickbait. They chose to do neither. That has nothing to do with the journalistic integrity of online gaming mags. This was a personal mistake.
I have seen communities be shockingly good about respecting this. The Hades community especially is amazing and, though the game has been out now for so many years the sequel is nearing completion, they’d probably still just give you what bare advice they have to based on your current status and tell you to keep playing because “trust me.”
I don’t know why the bg3 community wants to pretend it’s impossible and out of their hands, while swearing it shouldn’t matter anyway. It very well is, and for a game this stunning, it absolutely does.
people being lied to get upset
You: “but think of their precious clicks”
I think it was implied by “rarest” being in quotes.
edit: at least, I knew immediately it was no such thing because of that, like every other time someone says something while doing air quotes with their fingers.
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In this language
if it had actually been the rarest anything, they probably wouldn’t have used quotes.
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That’s a matter of interpretation I suppose, and you’ll have to ask the person who wrote the article, I don’t speak for them.
The first line of the article literally says it’s a joke.
None of this is the end of the world.
It’s literally described in the very first sentence:
A Baldur’s Gate 3 player joked that their fiancée may have found the rarest possible ending for the game when Wild Magic turned everyone into dogs and cats for the final cutscenes.
“this player finds rare ending of the game”
describes ending
People who read about the ending of the game: BRO YOU GAVE SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING, WHAT THE FUCK! surprised pikachu
Spoiler tags for literal game endings would be nice even if they are in the titles
There’re no “spoilers” as it’s a malfunctioned spell during the end scene, nothing more. That said, anyone clicking through to an article with “rarest ending” in the title deserves whatever kick in the head they get from reading about an ending scene… 🙄🤌🏼
It’s not like it’s an ending that most people are going to stumble upon by accident.
I mean, the person who wrote the thing literally did stumble on it by accident xD
But I know what you meant to say. THIS ISN’T A SPOILER PEOPLE! They literally didn’t provide a video because it might SPOIL the ending!
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Don’t know if this counts as an ending proper rather than a funny and very rare unintended effect. I doubt the devs planned for it or even realized it could happen.
I still need to play this but all this coverage is sort of spoiling all the mystery
It really doesn’t, though. There are so many options that affect the story in very different ways, so pretty much no playthrough will be the same.
Unless you’ve forcibly seen most of them and you can pick out what moments go where because x action, or you have this one singular shred of information that happens to be the integral piece to draw together an entire arc.
Earlier this week, I was listening to music on YouTube and saw a thumbnail that told me exactly what was up with the tadpoles. Not even the title. I don’t remember what the title was. It was written on the thumbnail in giant glaring yellow letters.
If I am to play this game. I cannot have access to the internet in any conceivable way. I had thought this problem only extended to forums and news sights, places that were fairly obvious and thus easily avoided, but it’s the entire internet when you least expect it.
I’m a third of the way into act 2 and the only teammates whose important plot moments and/or multiple endings I don’t know are Wyll and Lae’zel, and that’s only because nobody likes them enough to be talking about them.
I have tried to avoid this shit at every turn. It’s still a great game. It’s fantastic. It would have been in my top 3 if I could have played the damn thing on my own. I fucking love picking things to shreds more than anything else and there are so many pressing unknowns and conflicting motivations that I’d be having the time of my life. You don’t understand. I could write a whole thesis on any one of them.
But I know the answers already. I’m kind of convinced the reason I’ve found myself so much more attached to side characters like Mol, Oliver, etc. over most of the main story npcs is because they weren’t important enough for anyone to ruin them for me.
Earlier this week, I was listening to music on YouTube and saw a thumbnail that told me exactly what was up with the tadpoles. Not even the title. I don’t remember what the title was. It was written on the thumbnail in giant glaring yellow letters.
I wanna find everyone who posts shit like that and str–
Wish them a very good timeI usually avoid that by not getting too hyped up about a game before I play it. It saved my playthroughs of Cyberpunk and Starfield, although Panam’s unwavering heterosexuality and my flatmate spoiling the end of Starfield kinda damaged my interest in both.
I avoid watching any videos about the hyped up new game, so youtube doesn’t recommend me any videos about the hyped up new game
Nothing is spoiled by this headline, it’s just a bug where your characters might not depolymorph after the last fight, and they’ll appear as animals in the ending cutscenes
God I wish the endings were as clever as this bug.
In reality the ending is pretty mediocre, and for some endings it’s literally just a few lines of dialogue and that’s it. Massive letdown.
Well felt like classic TTRPG “And life continued to move without you” to me and I liked it
I’m trying to remember an ending that wasn’t.
The >!redeemed!< Dark Urge ending had me perplexed: >!Don’t have kids or they’ll probably murder for Bhaal, toodles!!<
Well, my wife now has a new goal in life, replacing the search for the realm of naked men.
Thanks for the fucking spoiler.
Not really a spoiler. If you proc a wild magic surge on the last turn in the last fight, and it polymorphs your party into cats and dogs, they don’t depolymorph in the end cutscenes. It’s not a real ending, just a funny bug
Head canon and you won’t convince me otherwise
Reads only title. Makes assumptions. Bitches about something they didn’t read.
I think you want www.reddit.com or www.twitter.com
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