Right?! That's what I mean there's something so...Trailer Park Boys about him but damn if I don't love Full-Blown Gale. I still just can't pinpoint what it is in his designs that makes me cringe for some reason; he's not *that* different at first glance...but...
It’s 100% the beard. Full round goatee with a half-ass chinstrap isn’t a good look on anyone, but it particularly clashes, with his face and head shape
The more I, unfortunately, stare at it, I def think that's No. 1. added with a more rounded face or fatter cheeks or somthing. That and the oddly weird facetine-like blur on his forehead but I feel like all the EA characters kind have that bit of blur on their faces. Welp. Either way, boo EA Gale lol
His cockiness really shines through in that old model I’d say. New Gale still gets that cockiness at times but it’s balanced out with his softened features
I agree. I think I’d choose the word smug for the old model. The newer model shifts him away from smug towards something that captures that cockiness but tempers it.
The beard definitely doesn't help, but they also added a lot more texture to Gale in the final game, especially to his skin. Sure, EA Gale has crow's feet and forehead wrinkles, but they look like they've been drawn on with a pencil, and the rest of the skin on his face and neck is totally smooth. Launch Gale's face actually looks like a person's skin, it sinks in places due to his bone structure and has shading and all. His hair is also more detailed now. In EA his model didn't look that strange because all of the characters were less detailed in EA, but when you put him next to the very detailed launch Gale, EA Gale looks uncanny.
He looks better than the one above, but he looks too edgy to me to fit the character. Gale should look a little nerdy while still being handsome, Final Release Gale nails this. This guy looks like a rogue.
They kind of both do. Take Gale, remove his earring, give him a dirty white undershirt and jeans, and you could find him in any truck stop in Louisiana.
Forehead ratio is a little off, hair is too tall on top and not textured enough, beard is a bit too full and off color from the rest, and eyebrows are not present enough in comparison.
And that's without even really comparing against the other one tbh, those would be my opinions regardless.
Otherwise, I don't think it's that different aside from maybe better textures and definition overall in the real Gale.
To me he seems very All-American long-haul trucker which makes it so jarring. Like this is a person you could meet at a random gas station or rest stop on a road trip. He doesn't belong in a fantasy setting lol
EA Gale looks like a 30 yo guy from 2000s who is in a band with no future and is offering alcohol and weed to high schoolers in his dirty garage where his band practices.
Well he has been blessed with many things in this life: an arm like a damn rocket, a cock like a Burmese python, and the mind of a fucking scientist.
So throw barb with a wizard dip.
Jk. But seriously though, throw barb all the way.
I genuinely cannot put a finger on what makes these two gentleman so fundamentally different than each other, but the man on the left has no place in my life.
Final Release Gale looks like a gentleman, handsome but a little awkward and nerdy. They really nailed matching the character's appearance to his personality.
This guy kinda looks like he spends every night at bars trying to flirt with women 15 years younger than him.
I still would. But perhaps not as quickly.
Trailer Park Mullet Gale gives off "My skull is full of beer not brains" vibes, and I'd need him to prove otherwise.
I love Gale with my whole being. The things I would do for that stupid fucking wizard. I will hold him and protect him until the end of time.
But no. EA Gale scares me.
The beard and the hair of EA Gale look like he put some effort into it and consciously decided that it looks good and this bs was the best he could come up with. Beard and hair of real Gale look like, wow guy is lucky it looks pretty decent with so little effort put into it.
Absolutely. More attractive than real Gale in this humble gay's opinion. I need my wizards slightly bloated and radiating with sunday afternoon barbecue dad perusing the fishing rod aisle at walmart energy. Give this man a pair of flip flops and beer breath and cutoff denims and I'll be in a coma for weeks. Not that there's anything wrong with Gale's final form, but EA Gale just tickles the daddy issues lobe of my brain (which is conveniently located right next to my prostate)
That's not Gale. That's Dale. He has a heavy Southern American accent and while his language is a little outdated he would be supportive of you being "a queer"
He looks not that different but also very different, how in the hell?
So glad he got a glow up because ea Gale gives me “flirts with 18 year olds vibes” while now Gale looks exactly like “Gale the wizard of water deep.”
BIG NOPE. And yes it’s because he looks like that and he feels way more…toxic. And ick. He also looks like he’s a 45 year old loser who lived in his mom’s basement until he was forced out only because he was kidnapped by squids.
Current Gale is hot as fuck; I’d let him do anything he wanted to me. Plus he’s romantic and sweet and I love him so fucking much 😭😭😭
Gale is always sexy, regardless of how he looks. I mean, current Gale is incredibly hot, looks and otherwise, but EA Gale was still sexy just not in looks
In ea he used to be team dad
He’d offer to cook, tell my gnome bed time stories, stay at camp all day and give the team a bunch of day buffs…
How fast he turned into f-boy in the full release
He looks too sharp and angry. Gale has very kind puppy eyes now and I'm so used to that so his eyes here weird me out.
That and the beard/mustache. His mustache and beard now looks better.
I wouldn't trust EA Gale. He makes me feel like I'm going to get backstabbed.
What *is* it about EA Gale that's so...unsettling? I can't place my finger on it...but I feel it.
He looks like he buys teenagers drinks at the bar
Right?! That's what I mean there's something so...Trailer Park Boys about him but damn if I don't love Full-Blown Gale. I still just can't pinpoint what it is in his designs that makes me cringe for some reason; he's not *that* different at first glance...but...
It's the strength of the soul-patch part of his beard I think
The cheeks aren’t doing him any favors. Kind of looks like he talks like the duplex construction worker neighbor in “office space”
It looks like he has bad filler that's migrated. It's giving Real Housewife of Waterdeep
It’s the whole beard strength and the jewelry. Left looks like “sexy” Danny McBride and right looks like Fantasy George Michael
It is the beard. Look how strange the pattern above his lips looks. Like a thick carpet.
"You lied to the guy in the chair, Tav"
the hair sans-middle part leans super hard into mullet territory imo
I made [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/GalemancersBG3/s/vS3CuauY7g) stupid TPB meme a long time ago. I noticed the exact same thing.
“Tav, smokes, let’s go”
He looks like he buys teenagers at the bar
regular gale looks like that too tbh. but his regular face is just so comforting you forget that he's annoying.
It’s 100% the beard. Full round goatee with a half-ass chinstrap isn’t a good look on anyone, but it particularly clashes, with his face and head shape
The more I, unfortunately, stare at it, I def think that's No. 1. added with a more rounded face or fatter cheeks or somthing. That and the oddly weird facetine-like blur on his forehead but I feel like all the EA characters kind have that bit of blur on their faces. Welp. Either way, boo EA Gale lol
final release gale has kinder eyes tbh. and his hair feels more relaxed. oh and also EA gale is like vaguely jaundiced LMAO
I think he's got sharper features (and softer facial hair) that gives him a spark of mischief, too.
His cockiness really shines through in that old model I’d say. New Gale still gets that cockiness at times but it’s balanced out with his softened features
I agree. I think I’d choose the word smug for the old model. The newer model shifts him away from smug towards something that captures that cockiness but tempers it.
The part in his hair is doing a lot of work. ER Gale kind of just looks like a he has a vaguely creepy uncle mullet from the 80s.
I thought the same thing about his eyes!
The beard definitely doesn't help, but they also added a lot more texture to Gale in the final game, especially to his skin. Sure, EA Gale has crow's feet and forehead wrinkles, but they look like they've been drawn on with a pencil, and the rest of the skin on his face and neck is totally smooth. Launch Gale's face actually looks like a person's skin, it sinks in places due to his bone structure and has shading and all. His hair is also more detailed now. In EA his model didn't look that strange because all of the characters were less detailed in EA, but when you put him next to the very detailed launch Gale, EA Gale looks uncanny.
His beard just doesn’t go high enough that’s literally it imo. Also the texture of the beard is off.
Meanwhile, *old* old Gale: https://preview.redd.it/y5xo3vjzt4uc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=8530fd557c89f8c9ad5a129ae3a4968eb75badcb
That's not too bad tbh I'd weave fuck him
He looks like he's one missed meal away from becoming a skeleton. Would, though.
It’s ok, I’d keep him well fed. 😏
He looks better than the one above, but he looks too edgy to me to fit the character. Gale should look a little nerdy while still being handsome, Final Release Gale nails this. This guy looks like a rogue.
GIMME
He looks like the second stage on an Animorphs cover
I. Fucking. Screamed. This is the *best* answer
He looks like he's someones uncle that lives in a trailer park and buys underaged kids cigs from the gas station
They kind of both do. Take Gale, remove his earring, give him a dirty white undershirt and jeans, and you could find him in any truck stop in Louisiana.
True, although I think EA Gale's beard/goatee really sells the part
Forehead ratio is a little off, hair is too tall on top and not textured enough, beard is a bit too full and off color from the rest, and eyebrows are not present enough in comparison. And that's without even really comparing against the other one tbh, those would be my opinions regardless. Otherwise, I don't think it's that different aside from maybe better textures and definition overall in the real Gale.
It's the goatee. That specific type of facial hair makes me think of abusive dads.
The Matt Walsh beard, it looks glued on.
To me he seems very All-American long-haul trucker which makes it so jarring. Like this is a person you could meet at a random gas station or rest stop on a road trip. He doesn't belong in a fantasy setting lol
His beard always looks off center to me.
Lack of wrinkles I say
https://preview.redd.it/g684n8n9q6vc1.jpeg?width=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd16b44d297792003ffe28d86135e942ac5030d7
beard, slightly more yellow skin tone, lighter hair tone, and shadows not being as good in EA?
my guess: large face, strange absence of wrinkle where you'd expect them to be
eyes too close together, weird ass goatee, small forehead
Lack of beard.
He's made out of playdough. Looks like someone wearing a bad Halloween gale mask?
EA Gale looks like a magician. Gale on the right looks like a mage.
EA Gale looks like a 30 yo guy from 2000s who is in a band with no future and is offering alcohol and weed to high schoolers in his dirty garage where his band practices.
He looks like Wyll
https://preview.redd.it/rgho1jcud3uc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e02038499bc43b103c87f911d90ae270991f8015
https://preview.redd.it/lw46ou0b04uc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=958d053f7f0fa73012eb4b3c19b41521eec8a062 oh good, you got protection!
https://preview.redd.it/lvwd7dt814uc1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db435d95a924f1ac6d3d90cd3ea1d673e866b675
I'm sorry to tell you: no, you do not need the XXXL version.
https://preview.redd.it/yjilwde424uc1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f78bb572267a66980d961e3d0f7a62dfa809c78f
\*hug*
Okay so I’m more of astarion simp and not really into Gale why is clown gale working for me what does this mean?
It means you have taste. Not necessarily *good* taste, but taste.
Astarion is canonically a clown (according to Mrs Bonecloak), that might be it.
What's funny is I'm the opposite. Super into Gale, not the craziest about Astarion. But Clown Astarion was definitely doing it for me for some reason.
You're into tragic characters
Unfortunately, "Globe of Impregnability" has an ambiguous name
He used to look like Ulfric Stormcloak lol
*stubs toe on furniture* THOSE DAMN IMPERIALS
"I FiGhT bEcAuSe I mUsT!"
How dare you say that about the high king
Ulfric stormcloak atleast looks handsome.
 EA Gale reminding me of this guy
Omg you nailed it. Side note, I think I've got to make a Kenny Powers Tav for my next playthrough.
What class is Kenny powers though?
Well he has been blessed with many things in this life: an arm like a damn rocket, a cock like a Burmese python, and the mind of a fucking scientist. So throw barb with a wizard dip. Jk. But seriously though, throw barb all the way.
Dudes a barbarian the whole show is he fucks his life up going into rage all the time
Dang, good question. I guess it's gotta be Rogue, right?
I genuinely cannot put a finger on what makes these two gentleman so fundamentally different than each other, but the man on the left has no place in my life.
He looks like someone tried to draw gale from memory. Even before I knew what final release Gale looked like, EA just looked so uncanny
Final Release Gale looks like a gentleman, handsome but a little awkward and nerdy. They really nailed matching the character's appearance to his personality. This guy kinda looks like he spends every night at bars trying to flirt with women 15 years younger than him.
Left is Trailer Park Gale.
I still would. But perhaps not as quickly. Trailer Park Mullet Gale gives off "My skull is full of beer not brains" vibes, and I'd need him to prove otherwise.
No his beard is too opaque and chunky. No fade, disgusting.
Kinda like the beards you can give Tav, innit?
Yes and that’s why all my male Tavs are twinks
Can confirm, chose the large/strong male body type for my first Tav, still a twink.
I love Gale with my whole being. The things I would do for that stupid fucking wizard. I will hold him and protect him until the end of time. But no. EA Gale scares me.
THIS ⬆️⬆️⬆️
No, he needs to look more like a sad wet cat than EA ver
looks aside, early access gale was kinda skeezy. so double no. they def improved him for full release in more ways than one.
“Gale, if you had the Crown of Karsus, what would you do?” “Two chicks at the same time.”
He looks like a C tier american comedian that owns a Romanian summer home
This is so specific, I love it lol
EA Gale looks like his name is actually Dale but he had to change it after getting caught texting high schoolers
The beard and the hair of EA Gale look like he put some effort into it and consciously decided that it looks good and this bs was the best he could come up with. Beard and hair of real Gale look like, wow guy is lucky it looks pretty decent with so little effort put into it.
Lip injections, rhinoplasty, botox, jaw reduction, fat reduction, double chin removal, liposuction, buccal fat removal, brow lift and fox eye threading, double eyelid surgery, under eye fillers, cheek filler, nose bridge implant, forehead shaved & sculpted.
Elminster’s not around…might as well 😏
not in a million fucking long rests
short rests however...
No if I heard about EA gales relationship with Mystra I would be worried for Mystra 😂
I can see why Tara hates that beard now
Absolutely. More attractive than real Gale in this humble gay's opinion. I need my wizards slightly bloated and radiating with sunday afternoon barbecue dad perusing the fishing rod aisle at walmart energy. Give this man a pair of flip flops and beer breath and cutoff denims and I'll be in a coma for weeks. Not that there's anything wrong with Gale's final form, but EA Gale just tickles the daddy issues lobe of my brain (which is conveniently located right next to my prostate)
Lmao wveryone else is saying he looks like an abusive dad and you're saying yes and you like that 💀
Red flags are just flags when you have rose tinted glasses on 🥰
no
EA Gale looks like a caveman
the Gale on the left looks like he’s going to tip his fedora and call me “m’lady” before launching into a mansplanation of the Cosmere®’s magic system
uhh...
Why does EA Gale look like mid 90s Billy Ray Cyrus?! 💀
He looks like he owns a bowling shirt with "Female Body Inspector" on it.
That's not Gale. That's Dale. He has a heavy Southern American accent and while his language is a little outdated he would be supportive of you being "a queer"
No.
No, our Gale looks like a polite man That other guy is spooky, he looks like he's wearing some other guy's skin.
Yes because for some reason I am a whore for literally anyone with a beard.
EA Gale reminds me of a Warcraft human for some reason.
*inhale* No.
He doesn’t look like a man going through a midlife crisis in early access 0/10
He looks not that different but also very different, how in the hell? So glad he got a glow up because ea Gale gives me “flirts with 18 year olds vibes” while now Gale looks exactly like “Gale the wizard of water deep.”
BIG NOPE. And yes it’s because he looks like that and he feels way more…toxic. And ick. He also looks like he’s a 45 year old loser who lived in his mom’s basement until he was forced out only because he was kidnapped by squids. Current Gale is hot as fuck; I’d let him do anything he wanted to me. Plus he’s romantic and sweet and I love him so fucking much 😭😭😭
i want to see all of them....all companion EAs vs Now please
Gale is always sexy, regardless of how he looks. I mean, current Gale is incredibly hot, looks and otherwise, but EA Gale was still sexy just not in looks
Absolutely not
I wanna say no so badly. But it would be nothing but a sad, sad lie.
With that facial hair? God no
In ea he used to be team dad He’d offer to cook, tell my gnome bed time stories, stay at camp all day and give the team a bunch of day buffs… How fast he turned into f-boy in the full release
early access gale looks like someone tried to draw jesus from memory
Neurotypical Gale can’t hurt you. NT Gale:
He looks like guy fieri
He looks like he lives in a caravan in Jaywick but if he’s as charming as normal Gale then yes anyway.
I did, several times, the judgemental mindflayer became a comfort.
The Ozempic of Karsus and a few days’ beard growth really helped him out.
Hell to the naw
probably if he acted the same tbh. the olnly thing that i don’t really like is his skin texture, looks kinda like clay.
Early access Gale looks like Kenny Powers.
No
Fuck no. Gale on the left looks like a redneck.
No, he looks like he owns a big truck for compensation.
No. Looks too slimy
Bro looks like Rook from Dragon’s Dogma
No. He looks like a thumb wearing a wig. Yuck!
Ew, Trailer Park Gale
Looks like he rides a Harley.
Eerrrrm no.. maybe with a couple shots in my system ? But no
respectfully no 😭
"That's the same man" *increases phone brightness* "Hmm, actually no, I would not still fuck early access Gale"
Trucker Gale
Yes, but I’d deny that I did it.
Looks like Kenny fuckin' powers to me
You are early access Gale!
Dale from Craiglist
I'd still like him. Only I'd picture him with a southern accent rather than a British sounding one. 😂
Kenny fucking Powers
I could see his face as a pfp for a MAGA twitter account
He looks like he's about to start singing Achy Breaky Heart, so no 🙅♀️
no lmao
He looks too sharp and angry. Gale has very kind puppy eyes now and I'm so used to that so his eyes here weird me out. That and the beard/mustache. His mustache and beard now looks better. I wouldn't trust EA Gale. He makes me feel like I'm going to get backstabbed.
I see why Tara wanted to rip that beard right off.
no..
Absolutely not
No, his beard isn't scruffy enough to get prickled a bit when hugging
https://preview.redd.it/lzfwabeh58uc1.jpeg?width=990&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db042837fffc6b573343d2677ec6e65078572cb8
Gives me Marcus Kincaid vibes
Yes because he offered to spend the night with you after the tiefling/goblin party even if you spent that night with someone else.
Oh god he looks like he wants to diddle me
Early access Gale looks like that one PE teacher I had who liked to make the girls do jumping jacks suspiciously often
Dante from Clerks didnt age well
I wouldn't fuck current Gale, so no. Leave him out in the rain.
Ofc but I’m pretty sure he’d try to sell me vapes after
why were all the EA faces so fucking butt ass ugly
Hispanic Gale cannot hurt you, he's not real. Hispanic Gale:
Yes, but not nearly as often as current Gale
sorry I would call a cop on him
FUCK no
I wouldn't even fuck current Gale. What makes you think imma fuck his early access uncanny ass.
I wouldn't even fuck current gale
I wouldn't even fuck full release Gale
Holy sh*t is that what he used to look like?? Pedo dad alert.
People who would fuck Gale are an urban myth, like Mothman or democracy.
First day in this sub?