JohnToday after *sixty hours* of playing Baldur’s Gate 3 I finally arrived at (the outside of) Baldur’s Gate.
Nat Buckley@semanticist I’m on my second playthrough, I am obsessed. What sort of character are your role playing?
@natbuckley Human warlock, playing it as a good character, recently shacked up with Shadowheart. Bit gutted that I fucked up act two and didn’t do *anything* toward removing the curse, I missed the one guy that starts pointing you in the right direction and just assumed it would resolve as part of the main quest. Had to look it up after to figure out what I did wrong!
@semanticist oh wow! Yes, this game lets you make choices (or have accidents) that don’t necessarily make things fun or more interesting. On my first run I killed Shadowheart as one thing led to another with Lae’zel, and didn’t meet Astarion until the end of act 2 when I looked up why I still haven’t met the guy so prominently featured on the loading screen… I simply missed that area lol
@natbuckley Yeah, I nearly missed Lae’zel in a similar way - first time out I missed the place where you find her in a a cage, and had to look up what happens next out of fear I’d missed her forever! (You get her elsewhere in act 1. I suspect there’s fallbacks for most companions. They put a lot of time and effort into that side of the game!)
@semanticist huh, that’s interesting! I keep discovering new things on this run that happened slightly differently the first time because I did something unusual… very fun to be surprised even when making similar narrative decisions
@semanticist accepting that I’ll be doing more playthroughs let me get over trying to experience everything - not that I think that’s even possible
@natbuckley Yes, exactly this. Im also watching a YouTuber do his first play through, and after *40* twice weekly videos which are regularly hitting an hour and are edit down slightly, not just a recorded livestream … he’s just reached the githyanki crèche.
He’s trying to do everything, which makes it interesting to watch to see what stuff I missed or did differently. But I still think I could play through again myself!
@semanticist maybe you should! Could also be fun trying different approaches etc. my first character was a goody two shoes, this time I’m playing the Dark Urge character and it’s led me some paths I wouldn’t have considered otherwise
@natbuckley Still need to finish this run through first!