I touched horns with Karlach over the weekend, and after this crowning achievement I let my controller fall to the floor and left this masterful RPG behind. Except I didn’t, I kept soldiering through the Shadow-Cursed Lands in search of Thorm’s offspring, keen to make my coming journey into Moonrise Towers that much easier. Before that thought, I had to tell everyone in camp that I totally hit that as I gestured boastfully in 💎the red devil’s general direct♓ion.
Most of them were happy for me, while others asked me not to get too distracted with a blossoming romance when the entire realm still hung in the balance. Excuse me - I can hang with my girlfriend and still save the day. Or so I thought, because then I talked to Gale.
Unlike my previous character, at least I didn’t have to break 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shadowheart’s, well, uh, heart. She is too precious to play second fiddle 🌳to my crimson dalliance.
I don’t remember ever flirting with Gale during my thirty hours with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3 thus far. I was lovely and warm when we interacted, and even let him teach me how to tap into the weave on a particularly chilly evening, but as the game prompted me to take things further, I turned him down because I knew my heart 🐎belongs elsewhere. It didn’t feel right to lead him on or suggest we’d ever go beyond 🍬a somewhat flirtatious friendship. But that doesn’t mean his feelings didn’t matter.
Gale was in pieces over my new relationship with Karlach, and felt betrayed because I didn’t have the decency to tell him our potential romance was now in tatters. I could feel the hurt in his voice, and quickly decided to let him down gently and make it obvious I still wanted him in my life, even just as friends. I noticed one of the dialogue options is to ask him to leave, so things don’t get too awkward, but I could never imagine doing that, nor do I know if🌠 it’s at all possible to eliminate him from your party for something so minꦜiscule.
After the atmosphere returne☂d to normal, I cracked a few jokes and pried into his backstory to hopefully smooth things over, roleplaying naturally as my character because I🅰 wanted this fictional wizard to feel better. Then I went and asked Karlach for a kiss to cheer myself up for good measure.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is an interconnected machine of myriad moving parts that operate without you ever noticing, characters developing in their own distinct ways whether you decide to pursue their personal quests or not. It is fascinating to see Shadowheart grow colder and more withdrawn as I hesitate to deal with her religious trauma, or Lae’zel grow vulnerable after learning that the deity she has spent her entire life trying ⭕to please is nothing but a false prophet who has spent centuries taking advantage of her own people. Astarion gets pissy upon learning I dared interact with Raphael without his permission, while Gale now lingers on the periphery with a magical bomb sitting alongside his freshly broken heart.
I felt guilty enough for accidentally playing my party against each other in emotional꧃ battles, let alone making these decisions consciously and applying them to the wider world. You’re free to become a monster in Baldur’s Gate 3, the Dark Urge especially engineered to spice up a normal playthrough with sudden dances with the dark. But even without forcing these choices onto the player, you c🦩an still choose to murder the majority of characters in its world or solve problems by spilling blood instead of speaking words. But, at least right now, I don’t think I can bring myself to ever do such a thing. I’m already anxious about how certain narrative arcs will play out or if I’ll make the wrong decisions and turn allies against me.
Maybe after I’ve finished my first playthrough and understand the lay of the land a bit more, or can account for certain variables to emerge as a consequence to my evil doings. Wait, I still have party members I know I won’t use much despite unlocking them, so make that the third playthrough. See, I’m already bargaining with myself in awkward ways to avoid having to paint myself as the bad guy, especially in a game like this where you aren’t just making a mean comment every now and then, you are actively m🅠urdering people who get in your way or leaving party members to perish if you fundamentally disagree with them.
As a righteous character I can deal with morally grey compromises, and have a few times already, but wiping that all away in service of villainy just doesn’t sit right with me. Yes, I’m aware none of these characters are real and n🦩one of these stories actually matter, but I am a big softie who just wants all of my fantasy friends to be happy and not commit acts of homicide that aren’t completely necessary. I’m pure of heart to a fault, and time will tell if a mindset like this will cost me in the hours to come.
